COVID: “Trust me. It’s mild”
HUMAN: “But I’ve heard it’s a vascular endotheliopathy affecting every blood vessel & every organ in your body, possibly for life”.
NYT reports 11.4K U.S. COVID deaths this month.
Pediatric hospitalizations are surging. Cases of all respiratory viruses surging. #COVID is rising again too. It’s time we #BringBackMasks
#COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver
The flu virtually disappeared for the last 2 years — but health officials are predicting that it could come roaring back this winter, alongside potential COVID spikes, threatening to cause a long-feared “twindemic.”
What level of indoor air ventilation is equivalent to an N95 for protection from SARS-CoV-2 virus infection?
12 air changes per hour (ACH) = N95 mask for far-field protection
Did you know that in January 2020, the CDC originally warned hospitals to use airborne precautions for Covid plus that they were investigating to see if Covid floated in the air & remained infectious as long as TB and Measles?
“Average COVID-19 mortality per million was 288.54 in countries without face mask policies and 48.40 in countries with face mask policies.” source
The Pandemic is Not Over: Tell Biden and Congress to Support Layered Protections and to #bringbackmasks sign the letter
CDC now says that healthcare workers no longer need to wear masks if community transmission rates are not high. (Transmission rates are high in 73% of US counties). Does it really make sense to drop masks in hosps in places with “substantial” transmission?
Schools are open, Covid rules are lifted, more workers are going to the office. But our country’s childcare system never recovered. I wrote about the pandemic’s toll on the industry, and hopes for childcare reform after being cut from reconciliation.
“Just die.” —CDC to nursing home patients.
CDC says some nursing homes and hospitals no longer need to require universal masking – CBS News
It’s absolutely disgusting and sickening that the @CDCDirector says it is okay to not mask in nursing homes & hospitals. I don’t care if cases are “not high”—people barely test & plus those hospitals and nursing homes are places you do NOT want to take chances. C’mon @CDCgov!
Masks are now optional in US hospitals. At 4:14PM on a Friday afternoon, a CDC official’s email announcing that @CDCgov is making healthcare facilities even more dangerous for chronically ill, disabled, immunocompromised, and older Americans hit my inbox.
Unvaccinated people were 10.5 times more likely to be hospitalized than people who had been fully vaccinated and boosted
Association of SARS-CoV-2 Infection With New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Among Pediatric Patients From 2020 to 2021 | Infectious Diseases | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2796649
Canada Drops Vaccine Mandate
Effective Oct. 1, international travelers will not have to be vaccinated to enter the country, and masks will no longer be required on flights…
A report shows what steps can be taken to prevent a new pandemic
Here’s how Karl Lauterbach, Germany’s Federal Health Minister, defended his decision to mandate masks in schools.
It’s quite simple: We don’t know the long-term damage to kids from a single covid infection let alone repeated infections, but what we do know isn’t encouraging.