Chucktshoes
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I’m sure this was discussed many times in my absence so I apologize for not reading nearly a years’ worth of thread if this is too well worn.
I think folks need to legitimately prepare for this never going away.
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I’m sure this was discussed many times in my absence so I apologize for not reading nearly a years’ worth of thread if this is too well worn.
I think folks need to legitimately prepare for this never going away.
Yeah, most virologists think that it's going to take us about 7 years before everything gets settled into us having a seasonal Covid variant, much like what we have with the flu.
dhodo
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So far, at least, don't the vaccines seem promising that, in spite of that, they may continue to be more effective than flu vaccines if they create COVID boosters?
Turbo
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For sure. One way to think of it is that the Spanish Flu (in a form that mutated over the century) is still with us to this day, but it's basically your H1N1 flu.
Back at school | Pandemic continues, but life goes on at Wenatchee and Eastmont highs
WENATCHEE — You can’t see them smiling beneath the masks, but students at Wenatchee and Eastmont high schools are glad to be back in school, even if it’s only part-time.
Researchers find worrying new coronavirus variant in New York City
Two separate teams of researchers have found a worrying new coronavirus variant in New York City that carries mutations that help it evade the body's natural immune response -- as well as the effects of monoclonal antibody treatments.
www.cnn.com
Leave it to the Germans to say what all of us are thinking.
From coronamüde (tired of Covid-19) to Coronafrisur (corona hairstyle), a German project is documenting the huge number of new words coined in the last year as the language races to keep up with lives radically changed by the pandemic.
It includes feelings many can relate to, such as overzoomed (stressed by too many video calls), Coronaangst (when you have anxiety about the virus) and Impfneid (envy of those who have been vaccinated).
Other new words reveal the often strange reality of life under restrictions: Kuschelkontakt (cuddle contact) for the specific person you meet for cuddles and Abstandsbier (distance beer) for when you drink with friends at a safe distance.
Covidiot, a term used in the UK, also appears in the German list. More specific is Maskentrottel (mask idiot), for someone who wears their face covering under their nose.
But the words also tell a story of connection and community. For example, Einkaufshelfer can be used to describe someone who helps others with their shopping.
Möhrs says CoronaFußgruß (corona foot greeting) is her personal favourite because it rhymes and because it shows a human desire for connection, despite our enforced physical distance.
www.theguardian.com
From coronamüde (tired of Covid-19) to Coronafrisur (corona hairstyle), a German project is documenting the huge number of new words coined in the last year as the language races to keep up with lives radically changed by the pandemic.
It includes feelings many can relate to, such as overzoomed (stressed by too many video calls), Coronaangst (when you have anxiety about the virus) and Impfneid (envy of those who have been vaccinated).
Other new words reveal the often strange reality of life under restrictions: Kuschelkontakt (cuddle contact) for the specific person you meet for cuddles and Abstandsbier (distance beer) for when you drink with friends at a safe distance.
Covidiot, a term used in the UK, also appears in the German list. More specific is Maskentrottel (mask idiot), for someone who wears their face covering under their nose.
But the words also tell a story of connection and community. For example, Einkaufshelfer can be used to describe someone who helps others with their shopping.
Möhrs says CoronaFußgruß (corona foot greeting) is her personal favourite because it rhymes and because it shows a human desire for connection, despite our enforced physical distance.
Coronaangst ridden? Overzoomed? Covid inspires 1,200 new German words
Linguist who compiled list of words says they help tell story of life during pandemic
www.theguardian.com
C.D.C. Traces Covid Outbreaks in Gyms, Urging Stricter Precautions
Coronavirus cases at fitness centers in Chicago and Honolulu were linked to carelessness about masks and symptoms, federal health officials found.
Experts worry variant-fueled Covid-19 surge may be weeks away but cases will likely fall again by summer
Coronavirus infections across the US are still on the way down, and more Americans are getting vaccinated -- but variants could cause complications soon.
www.cnn.com
Traumatized and tired, nurses are quitting due to the pandemic
America's nurses are running on empty almost one year into the pandemic. They've reused PPE, canceled PTO and worked extended shifts for employers they don't always feel value their safety. It's driven many nurses to quit.
www.cnn.com
An interactive map of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. — Apple News Spotlight
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Chucktshoes
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That’s good they resisted the urge to open them. Taking your action figures out of the packaging ruins the collector value.Back at school | Pandemic continues, but life goes on at Wenatchee and Eastmont highs
WENATCHEE — You can’t see them smiling beneath the masks, but students at Wenatchee and Eastmont high schools are glad to be back in school, even if it’s only part-time.www.wenatcheeworld.com
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Dtknuckles
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Especially the ones with the high standardized test scores. Now if they are involved in extracurricular activities also you handle them with gloves.
Bad math causes distrust. This is why people become "anti science".
The CDC reported that life expectancy in the U.S. declined by one year in 2020. People understood this to mean that Covid-19 had shaved off a year from how long each of us will live on average. That is, after all, how people tend to think of life expectancy. The New York Times characterized the report as “the first full picture of the pandemic’s effect on American expected life spans.”
But wait. Analysts estimate that, on average, a death from Covid-19 robs its victim of around 12 years of life. Approximately 400,000 Americans died Covid-19 in 2020, meaning about 4.8 million years of life collectively vanished. Spread that ghastly number across the U.S. population of 330 million and it comes out to 0.014 years of life lost per person. That’s 5.3 days. There were other excess deaths in 2020, so maybe the answer is seven days lost per person.
No matter how you look at it, the result is a far cry from what the CDC announced.
It’s not that the agency made a math mistake. I checked the calculations myself, and even went over them with one of the CDC analysts. The error was more problematic in my view: The CDC relied on an assumption it had to know was wrong.
The CDC’s life expectancy calculations are, in fact, life expectancy projections (the technical term for the measure is period life expectancy). The calculation is based on a crucial assumption: that for the year you are studying (2019 compared to 2020 in this case) the risk of death, in every age group, will stay as it was in that year for everyone born during it.
So to project the life expectancy of people born in 2020, the CDC assumed that newborns will face the risk of dying that newborns did in 2020. Then when they turn 1, they face the risk of dying that 1-year-olds did in 2020. Then on to them being 2 years old, and so on.
Locking people into 2020 for their entire life spans, from birth to death, may sound like the plot of a dystopian reboot of “Groundhog Day.” But that’s the calculation. The results: The CDC’s report boils down to a finding that bears no relation to any realistic scenario.
www.statnews.com
The CDC assumed that the risk from dying of Covid is going to be the same for everyone going forward. That's not the truth. Covid is more likely to effect you as you age, not in early life, and it's also something that caused mass devastation, but for only a short time--much like the Spanish flu that eventually became our H1N1 flu. Later in the article it points out that often pandemics and wars can really mess up life span projections. So, no, Covid did not shave one year of life off of us. The CDC released bad math based on faulty assumptions.
The CDC reported that life expectancy in the U.S. declined by one year in 2020. People understood this to mean that Covid-19 had shaved off a year from how long each of us will live on average. That is, after all, how people tend to think of life expectancy. The New York Times characterized the report as “the first full picture of the pandemic’s effect on American expected life spans.”
But wait. Analysts estimate that, on average, a death from Covid-19 robs its victim of around 12 years of life. Approximately 400,000 Americans died Covid-19 in 2020, meaning about 4.8 million years of life collectively vanished. Spread that ghastly number across the U.S. population of 330 million and it comes out to 0.014 years of life lost per person. That’s 5.3 days. There were other excess deaths in 2020, so maybe the answer is seven days lost per person.
No matter how you look at it, the result is a far cry from what the CDC announced.
It’s not that the agency made a math mistake. I checked the calculations myself, and even went over them with one of the CDC analysts. The error was more problematic in my view: The CDC relied on an assumption it had to know was wrong.
The CDC’s life expectancy calculations are, in fact, life expectancy projections (the technical term for the measure is period life expectancy). The calculation is based on a crucial assumption: that for the year you are studying (2019 compared to 2020 in this case) the risk of death, in every age group, will stay as it was in that year for everyone born during it.
So to project the life expectancy of people born in 2020, the CDC assumed that newborns will face the risk of dying that newborns did in 2020. Then when they turn 1, they face the risk of dying that 1-year-olds did in 2020. Then on to them being 2 years old, and so on.
Locking people into 2020 for their entire life spans, from birth to death, may sound like the plot of a dystopian reboot of “Groundhog Day.” But that’s the calculation. The results: The CDC’s report boils down to a finding that bears no relation to any realistic scenario.
CDC estimated a one-year decline in life expectancy in 2020. Not so — try five days
The CDC estimated a one-year decline in life expectancy in 2020. Not so — try five days.
www.statnews.com
The CDC assumed that the risk from dying of Covid is going to be the same for everyone going forward. That's not the truth. Covid is more likely to effect you as you age, not in early life, and it's also something that caused mass devastation, but for only a short time--much like the Spanish flu that eventually became our H1N1 flu. Later in the article it points out that often pandemics and wars can really mess up life span projections. So, no, Covid did not shave one year of life off of us. The CDC released bad math based on faulty assumptions.
Last Sundays episode of John Oliver was all about conditions in meat packing plants. And how it's actually much worse that we actually thought.
My friend's dad died of Covid yesterday. Sigh. This sucks.
My husband is group 1C for vaccinating, but it looks like late April at the earliest. Blargh.
My husband is group 1C for vaccinating, but it looks like late April at the earliest. Blargh.
I'm so sorry to hear this. This is awful.
Turbo
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Leave it to the Germans to say what all of us are thinking.
From coronamüde (tired of Covid-19) to Coronafrisur (corona hairstyle), a German project is documenting the huge number of new words coined in the last year as the language races to keep up with lives radically changed by the pandemic.
It includes feelings many can relate to, such as overzoomed (stressed by too many video calls), Coronaangst (when you have anxiety about the virus) and Impfneid (envy of those who have been vaccinated).
Other new words reveal the often strange reality of life under restrictions: Kuschelkontakt (cuddle contact) for the specific person you meet for cuddles and Abstandsbier (distance beer) for when you drink with friends at a safe distance.
Covidiot, a term used in the UK, also appears in the German list. More specific is Maskentrottel (mask idiot), for someone who wears their face covering under their nose.
But the words also tell a story of connection and community. For example, Einkaufshelfer can be used to describe someone who helps others with their shopping.
Möhrs says CoronaFußgruß (corona foot greeting) is her personal favourite because it rhymes and because it shows a human desire for connection, despite our enforced physical distance.
Coronaangst ridden? Overzoomed? Covid inspires 1,200 new German words
Linguist who compiled list of words says they help tell story of life during pandemic
I was telling my wife about this yesterday and she got a kick out of it because her dad's german originally.
So today she sends me a partial photo of one of her patient files and I can clearly see "Maskentrottel" written on it.
Djxfactor511
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My wife got her 2nd dose on Saturday and she's been down and out since about the 12hr mark post-vaccine.