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Is this your first infection? What kind of mask were you wearing?
Hide Ya Wives, Hide Ya Kids: Worldwide Coronavirus Pandemic!
calibeebee
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This is my first infection. 3 vaccine doses also. The 2 regular ones and the booster. #pfizergang.
I wear a single grey n95 mask like this
But like I said, she got so close I could smell the stale cigarette smoke from her breath THROUGH my mask.
I wear a single grey n95 mask like this
But like I said, she got so close I could smell the stale cigarette smoke from her breath THROUGH my mask.
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Informative podcast featuring epidemiologist Dr. Teresa Chapple that discusses outdoor transmission, among other things
We speak with epidemiologist Dr. Theresa Chapple about how seemingly everyone became convinced that you can't catch COVID outdoors, common misconceptions about the pandemic driven by an overwhelming focus on individual risk assessment, and lessons from her work in the field during the first two years of COVID.
TL;DR: Lower risk does not mean no risk. Outdoors is better than indoors, but there are risks with both depending on the circumstances. Healthy kids and young adults are at lower risk of severe disease and death, but they are still hospitalized and can die. Any mask is better than no mask, but not all masks are equal and it's optimal to wear a high quality snug-fitting respirator mask over your mouth and nose.
We speak with epidemiologist Dr. Theresa Chapple about how seemingly everyone became convinced that you can't catch COVID outdoors, common misconceptions about the pandemic driven by an overwhelming focus on individual risk assessment, and lessons from her work in the field during the first two years of COVID.
TL;DR: Lower risk does not mean no risk. Outdoors is better than indoors, but there are risks with both depending on the circumstances. Healthy kids and young adults are at lower risk of severe disease and death, but they are still hospitalized and can die. Any mask is better than no mask, but not all masks are equal and it's optimal to wear a high quality snug-fitting respirator mask over your mouth and nose.
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This is my first infection. 3 vaccine doses also. The 2 regular ones and the booster. #pfizergang.
I wear a single grey n95 mask like this
But like I said, she got so close I could smell the stale cigarette smoke from her breath THROUGH my mask.
N95 or KN95?
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The mask pictured resembles a KN95 because N95 do not have earloops. My biggest worry is that MOST masks that are sold as KN95 are fake, meaning they do not even meet the basic labeling requirements. If the manufacturer isn't even putting the correct stamp on the outside that would indicate it meets the requirements, how else are they cutting corners?
calibeebee
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green rhino123
it says kn95
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forget it this was posted but
Leonhardt and his morning column has gone the way of Monica Gandhi and Eric Feigl-Ding. lost the forest... topol and wachter have done a good job most of the time (although topol has had some lapses in his analysis but at least he's not off the cliff like the others).
Leonhardt and his morning column has gone the way of Monica Gandhi and Eric Feigl-Ding. lost the forest... topol and wachter have done a good job most of the time (although topol has had some lapses in his analysis but at least he's not off the cliff like the others).
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Will have to read the whole NYT piece. A little confused since the substack didnt deny the title of the article wasn’t incorrect unless I misread it?
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I think it was just that they didn't correct for age. The age-adjusted death rate is still not higher for white Americans.
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Yes, when you analyze statistics like these you are supposed to adjust for risk factors and the biggest risk factor for COVID death is age. There are more elderly white people, so it would be misleading if you didn’t adjust for age as a risk factor.
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US drops COVID testing requirement for international flyers
The CDC is not longer requiring pre-departure COVID testing for U.S.-bound air travelers.
www.usatoday.com
Idk how to feel about this especially since I have an international trip in 2 weeks.
MakeNTGreatAgain
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bruh people don't careUS drops COVID testing requirement for international flyers
The CDC is not longer requiring pre-departure COVID testing for U.S.-bound air travelers.www.usatoday.com
Idk how to feel about this especially since I have an international trip in 2 weeks.
had a coworker come to a work even straight after arriving from LAX then turns out she had covid but 5 days later flew to chicago LMAO
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TBH, I can't believe it's taken them so long. SMH when I go somewhere that's pretending to have COVID protocols in place and they ask if you've traveled internationally in the last 2 weeks, as if that matters when there's so much virus circulating in the US. Be better off asking if you've dined indoors.US drops COVID testing requirement for international flyers
The CDC is not longer requiring pre-departure COVID testing for U.S.-bound air travelers.www.usatoday.com
Idk how to feel about this especially since I have an international trip in 2 weeks.
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Thoughts?
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So he's saying it's the mouth-breathers who refuse to mask or get vaccinated that are at most risk of dying? Makes perfect sense!
In all honesty, even if the correlation is real it doesn't help us in any particular way because nobody knows who has that gene and even if we did it likely wouldn't change behavior. All noise, IMO.
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This is the problem with current attitudes.
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it's the right move. It's minimally effective since there is so much local spread already.US drops COVID testing requirement for international flyers
The CDC is not longer requiring pre-departure COVID testing for U.S.-bound air travelers.www.usatoday.com
Idk how to feel about this especially since I have an international trip in 2 weeks.
It's a huge burden if you do test positive abroad, and I would think many people have found ways to cheat the test anyway. The only thing it's doing is getting random pharmacies in foreign countries an extra $30-200 per person.
edit: "Entering the United States by air requires a negative coronavirus test. Some people who can’t provide one are using a workaround: flying to Canada or Mexico, then entering via a land border."
Testing Positive and Using the ‘Backdoor’ to Get Into the U.S.
Entering the United States by air requires a negative coronavirus test. Some people who can’t provide one are using a workaround: flying to Canada or Mexico, then entering via a land border.
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This is the problem with current attitudes.
It was already hard enough to convince people to take precautions for a couple months when the fatality rate was 1 in 200. How are we going to convince people when it's more like 1 in 5000 and we're talking years, not months, of precautions?
That said, it's crazy that 400 people are dying every day still (this is higher than a year ago). True, this is with nearly every covid restriction lifted, so I take it as a positive sign that we may have turned the corner, but we're not out of the woods yet.
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Can someone explain why they’re not recommending the 2nd booster for everyone yet? I can’t seem to get a clear answer on that.
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The benefits of a second booster are not as clear for young healthy adults as the first. I’m in no hurry to get one based on the data I’ve seen so far. It’s the same “original recipe” based on the Wuhan strain, so it’s not like it’s really doing much to help protect you against new variants.
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That walmart shareholder event doesn't seem to be worse than people filling up arenas and stadiums again for sporting events or stuff like coachella / edc. Big social gatherings been back.
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Ah aight, makes sense. Appreciate it
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Yeah man, people don't give a damn.
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I might get one.
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I measured CO2 levels on a plane: It showed me when I was most likely exposed to COVID
Air travel amid COVID outbreaks can be unnerving but a carbon dioxide detector can help gauge risks. Here's what a CO2 detector showed on a flight.
