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Won't get any argument from me there. It is indeed your choice to make. And using better protection is certainly a good choice.
COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (9 Viewers)
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During the Pandemic, N95 masks weren't readily availabe, especially during the height of it.
But if one person was wearing a regular mask, if the odds were 50% in your favor and the seond person was wearing a regular mask, i would assume the percentage is much higher than if only one was wearing a mask.
But if one person was wearing a regular mask, if the odds were 50% in your favor and the seond person was wearing a regular mask, i would assume the percentage is much higher than if only one was wearing a mask.
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Indeed on both counts.
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thats somthing anti makers seem to ignore.
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State legislators and law enforcement are reinstating dormant laws that criminalize mask-wearing to penalize pro-Palestinian protesters who conceal their faces, raising concerns among covid-cautious Americans.
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are poised to overturn Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) recent veto of legislation to criminalize masking.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said earlier this month she supports legislative efforts to ban masks on the subway, citing an incident where masked protesters on a train shouted, “Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist. This is your chance to get out.”
Student protesters in Ohio, Texas and Florida have been threatened with arrest for covering their faces. Decades-old laws against masking — often crafted in response to the hooded terror of the Ku Klux Klan — are on the books in at least 18 states and D.C., according to the International Center for Not-For-Profit Law.
Lawmakers in some areas passed legislation to create health exemptions during the coronavirus pandemic while other authorities vowed not to enforce the statutes.
Immunocompromised Americans and civil libertarians who have long criticized mask bans as a cudgel against protesters of police shootings, economic inequality and environmental injustice say the bans are being revived because covid is no longer treated as a public health emergency.
Coronavirus levels in wastewater are reaching high levels across much of the Sun Belt and Florida, early indications of a summer covid wave, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Lawmakers eager to reinstate pre-pandemic mask restrictions say legislation would not target medically vulnerable people and others trying to avoid respiratory viruses. But critics say such an approach would be impractical and sets mask wearers up for further ostracization and harassment by police and fellow citizens.
The day after the North Carolina House passed its anti-masking bill in June in response to pro-Palestinian protests at the University of North Carolina, Shari Stuart said a man confronted her for wearing a surgical mask when she walked into an auto service center in the Raleigh area to get an oil change.
After she tried to explain that she has Stage 4 breast cancer and a weakened immune system, Stuart said the man called her a “f---ing liberal” and insisted masks were now illegal. He later coughed on her and said he hoped the cancer would kill her…….
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are poised to overturn Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) recent veto of legislation to criminalize masking.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said earlier this month she supports legislative efforts to ban masks on the subway, citing an incident where masked protesters on a train shouted, “Raise your hands if you’re a Zionist. This is your chance to get out.”
Student protesters in Ohio, Texas and Florida have been threatened with arrest for covering their faces. Decades-old laws against masking — often crafted in response to the hooded terror of the Ku Klux Klan — are on the books in at least 18 states and D.C., according to the International Center for Not-For-Profit Law.
Lawmakers in some areas passed legislation to create health exemptions during the coronavirus pandemic while other authorities vowed not to enforce the statutes.
Immunocompromised Americans and civil libertarians who have long criticized mask bans as a cudgel against protesters of police shootings, economic inequality and environmental injustice say the bans are being revived because covid is no longer treated as a public health emergency.
Coronavirus levels in wastewater are reaching high levels across much of the Sun Belt and Florida, early indications of a summer covid wave, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Lawmakers eager to reinstate pre-pandemic mask restrictions say legislation would not target medically vulnerable people and others trying to avoid respiratory viruses. But critics say such an approach would be impractical and sets mask wearers up for further ostracization and harassment by police and fellow citizens.
The day after the North Carolina House passed its anti-masking bill in June in response to pro-Palestinian protests at the University of North Carolina, Shari Stuart said a man confronted her for wearing a surgical mask when she walked into an auto service center in the Raleigh area to get an oil change.
After she tried to explain that she has Stage 4 breast cancer and a weakened immune system, Stuart said the man called her a “f---ing liberal” and insisted masks were now illegal. He later coughed on her and said he hoped the cancer would kill her…….
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People are ultimately stupid. Smfh.
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That says all that you need to know about people of that ilk.
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I'm not sure I'd classify them as people.
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I would be hard pressed to go the kinder gentler route. I would probably say something along the lines of “we left because of people like you and it looks like a good decision.”.
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leaving for your safety is never the easy way out, it's the smart way out.. most doctors would stand fast and do whatever they can in any kind of pandemic , risking their lives to save others. but when it comes to personal safety because of potential violence of you and your family BECAUSE you want to save lives, then i wouldn't blame them one bit for leaving.
speak the truth, even if they don't want to hear it..
speak the truth, even if they don't want to hear it..
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Covid is surging across the US, with levels of the virus on track to exceed last summer’s wave nationally and approaching the peak of last winter’s wave in the west, according to wastewater data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Yet vaccination and antiviral uptake, plagued by inequitable access, have remained low, and other precautions like mask-wearing are being met with increasing resistance.
“A lot of people right now are getting Covid all over the country,” said Dr Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. “There are still hospitalizations, and there’s still a few hundred deaths every week in the US – and that’s a tragedy.”
The rise is being driven by a trio of variants, called Flirt because of shared mutations, that seem to be more immune-evasive and transmissible. And much of the US has been locked in heatwaves, with many Americans staying indoors to avoid the heat – which can lead to more spread of the virus.
Nationally, emergency room visits for Covid increased by 15.7% in the past week. Rising hospitalization rates are now higher than last summer at this time, although it can be difficult to make comparisons now that significantly fewer hospitals are required to report rates of Covid than in previous years.
Deaths are also increasing after reaching the lowest point of the pandemic. Nearly 400 people died in the week ending 12 June, the last week for which full data was available. Covid remains the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States.
“Any hospitalization or death could be completely prevented based on the tools that we have,” Chin-Hong said.
Yet compared to other surges, “it just feels like a very different time right now”, said David Grabowski, professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School. “It’s pretty rare to go into a building and see people masked” – even in hospitals and nursing homes.
The summer surge comes as some federal and state policies have pulled away from efforts that can stop the spread of the virus, experts say.
North Carolina recently signed into law restrictions on wearing face masks in public, and officials in New York City and Los Angeles have considered the same.
In May, the CDC loosened its guidelines for Covid isolation, recommending patients stay home until they are fever-free for 24 hours and symptoms are resolving – even if they’re still positive for the virus, during which time they are likely contagious.
While the US government once covered the costs of Covid vaccination, those costs shifted to the private market in 2023. A bridge program offering vaccines to uninsured people is ending next month, weeks before the updated booster will be available – which will likely exacerbate gaps in access to the lifesaving vaccines.
Only 22.5% of adults and 14.4% of children are up to date on Covid vaccines – and the rate is even lower (13.3%) among pregnant people, despite the risks of severe illness, complications and long Covid because of Covid infection during pregnancy.…….
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Yet vaccination and antiviral uptake, plagued by inequitable access, have remained low, and other precautions like mask-wearing are being met with increasing resistance.
“A lot of people right now are getting Covid all over the country,” said Dr Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. “There are still hospitalizations, and there’s still a few hundred deaths every week in the US – and that’s a tragedy.”
The rise is being driven by a trio of variants, called Flirt because of shared mutations, that seem to be more immune-evasive and transmissible. And much of the US has been locked in heatwaves, with many Americans staying indoors to avoid the heat – which can lead to more spread of the virus.
Nationally, emergency room visits for Covid increased by 15.7% in the past week. Rising hospitalization rates are now higher than last summer at this time, although it can be difficult to make comparisons now that significantly fewer hospitals are required to report rates of Covid than in previous years.
Deaths are also increasing after reaching the lowest point of the pandemic. Nearly 400 people died in the week ending 12 June, the last week for which full data was available. Covid remains the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States.
“Any hospitalization or death could be completely prevented based on the tools that we have,” Chin-Hong said.
Yet compared to other surges, “it just feels like a very different time right now”, said David Grabowski, professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School. “It’s pretty rare to go into a building and see people masked” – even in hospitals and nursing homes.
The summer surge comes as some federal and state policies have pulled away from efforts that can stop the spread of the virus, experts say.
North Carolina recently signed into law restrictions on wearing face masks in public, and officials in New York City and Los Angeles have considered the same.
In May, the CDC loosened its guidelines for Covid isolation, recommending patients stay home until they are fever-free for 24 hours and symptoms are resolving – even if they’re still positive for the virus, during which time they are likely contagious.
While the US government once covered the costs of Covid vaccination, those costs shifted to the private market in 2023. A bridge program offering vaccines to uninsured people is ending next month, weeks before the updated booster will be available – which will likely exacerbate gaps in access to the lifesaving vaccines.
Only 22.5% of adults and 14.4% of children are up to date on Covid vaccines – and the rate is even lower (13.3%) among pregnant people, despite the risks of severe illness, complications and long Covid because of Covid infection during pregnancy.…….
Covid surges in US as unequal access plagues vaccination and treatment rates
Data shows overall resistance to masks, but lower Paxlovid prescription and vaccination rates for people of color
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Yeah, my parents were supposed to come visit but had to cancel cuz they both got COVID. They’re doing ok now, but still, at their age in their 70s, that’s a little scary. Mom was ok, mild case, Dad had fever for a day, but not too bad otherwise.Covid is surging across the US, with levels of the virus on track to exceed last summer’s wave nationally and approaching the peak of last winter’s wave in the west, according to wastewater data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Yet vaccination and antiviral uptake, plagued by inequitable access, have remained low, and other precautions like mask-wearing are being met with increasing resistance.
“A lot of people right now are getting Covid all over the country,” said Dr Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. “There are still hospitalizations, and there’s still a few hundred deaths every week in the US – and that’s a tragedy.”
The rise is being driven by a trio of variants, called Flirt because of shared mutations, that seem to be more immune-evasive and transmissible. And much of the US has been locked in heatwaves, with many Americans staying indoors to avoid the heat – which can lead to more spread of the virus.
Nationally, emergency room visits for Covid increased by 15.7% in the past week. Rising hospitalization rates are now higher than last summer at this time, although it can be difficult to make comparisons now that significantly fewer hospitals are required to report rates of Covid than in previous years.
Deaths are also increasing after reaching the lowest point of the pandemic. Nearly 400 people died in the week ending 12 June, the last week for which full data was available. Covid remains the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States.
“Any hospitalization or death could be completely prevented based on the tools that we have,” Chin-Hong said.
Yet compared to other surges, “it just feels like a very different time right now”, said David Grabowski, professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School. “It’s pretty rare to go into a building and see people masked” – even in hospitals and nursing homes.
The summer surge comes as some federal and state policies have pulled away from efforts that can stop the spread of the virus, experts say.
North Carolina recently signed into law restrictions on wearing face masks in public, and officials in New York City and Los Angeles have considered the same.
In May, the CDC loosened its guidelines for Covid isolation, recommending patients stay home until they are fever-free for 24 hours and symptoms are resolving – even if they’re still positive for the virus, during which time they are likely contagious.
While the US government once covered the costs of Covid vaccination, those costs shifted to the private market in 2023. A bridge program offering vaccines to uninsured people is ending next month, weeks before the updated booster will be available – which will likely exacerbate gaps in access to the lifesaving vaccines.
Only 22.5% of adults and 14.4% of children are up to date on Covid vaccines – and the rate is even lower (13.3%) among pregnant people, despite the risks of severe illness, complications and long Covid because of Covid infection during pregnancy.…….
Covid surges in US as unequal access plagues vaccination and treatment rates
Data shows overall resistance to masks, but lower Paxlovid prescription and vaccination rates for people of color
it's the flu . warm weather will kill it.Covid is surging across the US, with levels of the virus on track to exceed last summer’s wave nationally and approaching the peak of last winter’s wave in the west, according to wastewater data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Yet vaccination and antiviral uptake, plagued by inequitable access, have remained low, and other precautions like mask-wearing are being met with increasing resistance.
“A lot of people right now are getting Covid all over the country,” said Dr Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. “There are still hospitalizations, and there’s still a few hundred deaths every week in the US – and that’s a tragedy.”
The rise is being driven by a trio of variants, called Flirt because of shared mutations, that seem to be more immune-evasive and transmissible. And much of the US has been locked in heatwaves, with many Americans staying indoors to avoid the heat – which can lead to more spread of the virus.
Nationally, emergency room visits for Covid increased by 15.7% in the past week. Rising hospitalization rates are now higher than last summer at this time, although it can be difficult to make comparisons now that significantly fewer hospitals are required to report rates of Covid than in previous years.
Deaths are also increasing after reaching the lowest point of the pandemic. Nearly 400 people died in the week ending 12 June, the last week for which full data was available. Covid remains the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States.
“Any hospitalization or death could be completely prevented based on the tools that we have,” Chin-Hong said.
Yet compared to other surges, “it just feels like a very different time right now”, said David Grabowski, professor of healthcare policy at Harvard Medical School. “It’s pretty rare to go into a building and see people masked” – even in hospitals and nursing homes.
The summer surge comes as some federal and state policies have pulled away from efforts that can stop the spread of the virus, experts say.
North Carolina recently signed into law restrictions on wearing face masks in public, and officials in New York City and Los Angeles have considered the same.
In May, the CDC loosened its guidelines for Covid isolation, recommending patients stay home until they are fever-free for 24 hours and symptoms are resolving – even if they’re still positive for the virus, during which time they are likely contagious.
While the US government once covered the costs of Covid vaccination, those costs shifted to the private market in 2023. A bridge program offering vaccines to uninsured people is ending next month, weeks before the updated booster will be available – which will likely exacerbate gaps in access to the lifesaving vaccines.
Only 22.5% of adults and 14.4% of children are up to date on Covid vaccines – and the rate is even lower (13.3%) among pregnant people, despite the risks of severe illness, complications and long Covid because of Covid infection during pregnancy.…….
Covid surges in US as unequal access plagues vaccination and treatment rates
Data shows overall resistance to masks, but lower Paxlovid prescription and vaccination rates for people of color
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that sounds familiar.. it'll be gone by Easter.. smh
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