COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (3 Viewers)

The Fly is closing again for Mardi Gras. I would still prefer the city allow outdoor activity rather than drive everyone indoors or to JP but Latoya is gonna Latoya.

I guess it doesn't really matter since the weather will be terrible.




I'm glad the weather will be terrible. Hopefully it makes more people stay home than if it was going to be a beautiful day in late FEB.
 
A public health doctor told me this messaging is not necessarily about 2 masks per se but to get people that don't wear a mask to at least wear one, or pull the one they do wear above their chin.

FWIW I am Team Bandana and will remain so - don't @ me - though I carry a few surgical ones just in case, after I was denied boarding on SWA (after flying 3 prior times with no issues wearing a bandana).
Along those same lines....one of my first thoughts was "great....now I get to see 2 masks below everyone's nose".
 
This articlele should be free if not a subscriber. The Atlantic is making COVID coverage freely available.

The article discusses what may be a likely scenario, and that’s not reaching herd immunity. How we may have to live with and deal with COVID continually in society.
A number of signs now point to a future in which the transmission of this virus cannot be contained through herd immunity. COVID-19 will likely continue to circulate, to evolve, and to reinfect. In that case, the goal of vaccination needs to be different.

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The role of COVID-19 vaccines may ultimately be more akin to that of the flu shot: reducing hospitalizations and deaths by mitigating the disease’s severity. The COVID-19 vaccines as a whole are excellent at preventing severe disease, and this level of protection so far seems to hold even against a new coronavirus variant found in South Africa that is causing reinfections. This, rather than herd immunity, is a more achievable goal for the vaccines.
 
Along those same lines....one of my first thoughts was "great....now I get to see 2 masks below everyone's nose".

I wonder when South Park will do a parody on double maskers castigating single maskers, but midway through the show somebody wears a 3rd mask and then they start trying to out mask each other to be more self righteous.
 

I believe this study was to see if it helped after one had already gotten the virus.

Agree, that's a poorly worded article. Almost like it is trying to dissuade people from taking Vitamin C and Zinc, which are both proven to help make your immune system stronger.

If you don't normally take vitamin C or zinc and get coivd and suddenly start taking them, it's not going to help. It's more about being a prophylaxis than a treatment.
 
Agree, that's a poorly worded article. Almost like it is trying to dissuade people from taking Vitamin C and Zinc, which are both proven to help make your immune system stronger.

If you don't normally take vitamin C or zinc and get coivd and suddenly start taking them, it's not going to help. It's more about being a prophylaxis than a treatment.
I even have questions about that. How could taking things that strengthen your immune system not help even after getting it? Seems the people doing these articles are just looking for a reason to disprove things.
 
I even have questions about that. How could taking things that strengthen your immune system not help even after getting it? Seems the people doing these articles are just looking for a reason to disprove things.
I don't know about C but a vitamin D deficiency can take 6 to 8 weeks to correct. It's likely that most vitamins and minerals have a ramp-up time that exceeds the incubation period.
 
I don't know about C but a vitamin D deficiency can take 6 to 8 weeks to correct. It's likely that most vitamins and minerals have a ramp-up time that exceeds the incubation period.
This prompted me to research.Scurvy is caused by vitamin C deficiency. A full recovery can take up to 3 months or longer.
 
I don't know about C but a vitamin D deficiency can take 6 to 8 weeks to correct. It's likely that most vitamins and minerals have a ramp-up time that exceeds the incubation period.
But what about long haul covid people....I still say regardless of when you start taking it a vitamin regimen is probably a good idea.
 
But what about long haul covid people....I still say regardless of when you start taking it a vitamin regimen is probably a good idea.
Most of the treatments after 7 days focus on reducing immune response though. Doubt it matters at all.
 

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