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“[M]y professional bias influences my priorities: Ensure the vulnerable around
us (like grandparents) do not end up in the hospital with
COVID-19 (or flu or
RSV). This means we are
going to do everything in our power to break transmission chains before
gathering for the holidays.”
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“[A] new report published in The Lancet describing 41 early cases in the
outbreak indicate that the earliest identified person sickened had no
epidemiological links to the [Wuhan animal] market.”
(Added November 2022: This was the first thing I posted about the plague, and
the first thing that really made me think it might be something that would
affect my family.)
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“If there is any reason for hope in the growing epidemic of long
COVID, it is that some academic medical centers are taking
these patients seriously and tailoring treatment to them. Medicine’s history
with hard-to-identify chronic illnesses, particularly those that mainly affect
women, has not been a good one.”
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“[T]he modeling estimated that COVID-19 vaccination [in the
United States] prevented 3.25 million deaths…. Averted hospitalizations
were estimated at 18.6 million…. For infections, the model estimated a
dodge of 119.85 million.”
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“No longer needing to sing at high frequencies that could be heard over the
highway’s rumble, the sparrows’ songs became more expansive, occupying more of
the soundscape’s ‘acoustic bandwidth.’ Even those with quiet voices became
audible; in those first months, ‘you could hear four times as many birds as you
could before,’ says [Professor Elizabeth] Derryberry.”