https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/former-pm-netanyahu-contracts-coronavirus-1.10663923 posted:

Former PM Netanyahu Contracts Coronavirus
Netanyahu tests positive for COVID after attending a ceremony at the Israeli parliament
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“The pandemic is not over,” said Prof. Hagai Levine, chairman of the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians. “It is just wrong to go on with our lives and forget about COVID. My colleagues and I are definitely worried.”

HazCat posted:

Remember when official sources were saying covid wouldn't mutate fast enough for it to impact mitigation measures?

I remember (because I haven't had covid yet).

The Nastier Nate posted:

I gave up this week trying to get my son to wear a mask at school. I sent him in with one but with no teachers to enforce it he takes it off and doesn’t put it back on. At least he’s vaxxed.

Platystemon posted:

Auras have done well in studies that compared models but I can’t find the one I had in mind at the moment.

Here is a study about how you can just hand N95s to the public and they’re still way better than anything else.

Knitting Beetles posted:

The Netherlands had a lockdown in December to deal with Delta and rolled out boosters (Dec/Jan) at the same time. This probably slowed down BA1, we did have lots of cases eventually but mainly among the young who still had to go to school (or they'd go insane!).

With elections coming up pretty much all NPIs are gone since about two weeks. Masking is now only required for public transport, WFH is officially recommended as 50% maximum. The peak of the Delta wave for 60+ is now the baseline as we're starting the BA2 wave.

No one gives a poo poo because there's WAR.

Lacrosse posted:

If that dog got close enough to get brained with a brick I'd be worried it might have rabies, especially if it was aggressive.

Thoguh posted:

This is why I don't stress too much about if I have some stubble or about not being fit checked. I know I'm probably not wearing my Aura 100% perfectly but I am also not heading in to crowded spaces for hours at a time so I feel pretty decent knowing I'm still much better protected than anyone not wearing an N95. If I had to get on an airplane for a 4 hour flight or something I'd have much stronger concerns about my fit.

Anyone please feel free to quote this post when I get COVID.

Gio posted:

crowded spaces of maskless children with nothing but an n95, 40 hrs a week

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/philadelphia-vaccination-rate-children-covid-adults-20220309.html posted:

Philly health department admits the city is far less vaccinated against COVID-19 than it has been saying
It remains unclear how the city's errors in vaccination rates happened.
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Bettigole and her top deputies knew the publicly available vaccination rates were incorrect by Feb. 16, spokesperson James Garrow said. Yet they dropped the city’s indoor mask requirement last week before the rates were corrected. Vaccination rates, though, didn’t play a role in changing the rules, Garrow said.

“The reason we didn’t consider it was, as we said throughout the pandemic, the vaccine rate, we don’t have a goal percentage to get to,” he said. “From our perspective, the vaccine rates have nothing to do with our mandates because ... we want the mandates to be predicated on what’s actually happening to the virus on the ground.”
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Thoguh posted:

This is why I don't stress too much about if I have some stubble or about not being fit checked. I know I'm probably not wearing my Aura 100% perfectly but I am also not heading in to crowded spaces for hours at a time so I feel pretty decent knowing I'm still much better protected than anyone not wearing an N95. If I had to get on an airplane for a 4 hour flight or something I'd have much stronger concerns about my fit.

Anyone please feel free to quote this post when I get COVID.

Captain Magic posted:

I picked up what you were putting down without the edit but I thank you.

lol this is gonna be a tough loving ask to just tell them not to come see their grandbaby. I’ll probably email them first so I don’t immediately start yelling about rape-palace capitalism (though that does make them want to stop talking to me so idk)

bashosanchez posted:

Lmao

https://twitter.com/scotgov/status/1501587452678574085?t=2WANTkIgU82tRKU_ZucqLw&s=19

AppleNippleBOB posted:

Neat! https://twitter.com/ryanobles/status/1501641569950175237

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

keeping people from dying of an airborne disease - extremely divisive

Pingui posted:

Platystemon posted:

Biden’s tentacles are going to get you through your kid and there’s precious little you can do about it.

bashosanchez posted:

Lmao

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Pingui posted:

quote:

https://www.wcax.com/2022/03/09/how-students-are-dealing-with-middlebury-colleges-biggest-covid-outbreak/
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (WCAX) - Middlebury College is still in the throes of its biggest COVID outbreak to date, with 135 active cases. Compare that to 195 new cases announced in the entire state of Vermont on Wednesday.

When you look at positivity rates, the school’s is more than twice that of the state.

Our Melissa Cooney went to Middlebury to talk with students and the college about life on campus during this uptick in cases.

Navigating pandemic guidelines is second nature for college students.

“Our daily routines went on, we got tested, went to class, people quarantined,” said Brendan Maykeo, a Middlebury student.

But, like everywhere else, people are still getting sick.

“I honestly didn’t expect it to get this bad on campus,” student Sade Awodesu said.

Some 99% of the student body is vaccinated. The staff is 98% vaccinated.

The college PCR tests students weekly and antigen tests have been distributed during this surge, where the school has seen its highest case count since the start of the pandemic.

It’s important to note most students report very mild symptoms or none at all.

“What we’re really trying to focus on also is the severity of symptoms. That is really a more accurate and more relevant data point,” said Smita Ruzicka, the vice president of student affairs at Middlebury College.

The college says it is approaching a place where they can steer pandemic management into an endemic phase thanks to high vaccination rates and thorough protocols.

“It’s slowly shifting the mindset from sort of, again, a top-down restrictive, prescriptive set of policies to really a shift of thinking about personal responsibility, community responsibility and a shared sort of working toward, you know, sort of living with COVID. But we talk about it doesn’t mean that we let our guards down,” Ruzicka said.

The indoor mask mandate is still in place on campus but it’s not clear for how long.

“I’m just hoping that after this spike, the school will drop the mask mandate. I don’t think it’s needed any more,” said Brendan Maykeo, a Middlebury student.

“It’s difficult because everywhere else is lifting restrictions, but I also think we need to be sensitive and take care of our most vulnerable,” student Lauren Garcia Still said.

Ruzicka says the school takes a look at masking policies every day.

“Think we’re going to continue to assess that and continue to think about what are the benefits of continuing with an indoor mass policy. What are really, quite frankly, also the challenges of continuing that when the state is moving away,” Ruzicka said.

Cheesus posted:

In Vermont, we're somehow learning that....COVID isn't actually over?

I feel pretty stupid.

In watching the daily state dashboard with our county (#7 in population) being at the top of cases for the past week, it didn't occur to me that of course Middlebury College would be a prime culprit for outbreaks.

Pingui posted:

Tbf - to you - while schools are always driving the spread, it is seldom recorded.

Loucks posted:

Sure, it definitely wasnt a suggestion. Doesn’t sound like you actually needed one.

Pingui posted:

facetoucher cat posted:

Look at this flower

Nocturtle posted:

I thought Sotrovimab has already been made obsolete by BA2? This sounds like the local cases rediscovering the same escape mutations that BA2 already did. The Eli Lilly mabs is the new one to beat.

edit: actually it's interesting how they can observe resistance re-evolve multiple times in different patients. I don't know the development process for mAbs, but this feels like an issue that could have been identified in the lab through some sort of serial passage study. Probably would interfere with making money though.

facetoucher cat posted:

No worries

I said it more to reaffirm my thoughts that it's a good thing I don't own a deadly weapon. I'd love to go hunting again, meat is expensive. I'm a good gun owner by not owning one, isn't that what personal responsibility is all about or sumshit?

facetoucher cat posted:

No worries

I said it more to reaffirm my thoughts that it's a good thing I don't own a deadly weapon. I'd love to go hunting again, meat is expensive. I'm a good gun owner by not owning one, isn't that what personal responsibility is all about or sumshit?


Look at this flower

Shiroc posted:

I've gotten very familiar with the sad silence people react with when I start discussing material reality and break their everything is fine bubbles. I was getting groceries tonight and remembered by favorite Discworld quote:

I can't build the stories anymore and there is only screaming (inside my heart).

mystes posted:

Intermittent fasting has been pretty thoroughly shown not to do anything at this point.

I guess alternate day fasting might still do something.

hey it's a nice umbrella while it lasts

Pingui posted:

The key point is 4% developed a resistant strain, which makes the pump'n'dump mAbs strategy (of Florida fame) actively insane.

tenderjerk posted:

hyperventilating in my mask at my first day back at the office 👍

tenderjerk posted:

hyperventilating in my mask at my first day back at the office 👍