Faust is wondering if the WH correspondence dinner will be a superspreader. Faust is making it hard to just access his articles. The opening paragraphs are below.
We’ve definitely moved the goal posts. At this point, the U.S. and many European countries have done so. “Living with the virus” now means no masks, no distancing, and no precautions. This includes events like the WH correspondents’ dinner. We’re accepting a relatively high level of deaths – estimates run from 320 per day on the low end to 460 on the high end. I think the variance is due to states’ haphazard ways of reporting or not reporting. Some states rarely report more than once a week.
I don’t get it. Never will. Some of our health experts do not either. Others, like Gotlieb (sp), are suddenly quiet.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has certainly taken most daily media attention away from Covid-19 for the past two months now.
As for the WH correspondents dinner, I would hope all servers will be wearing masks. You can’t expect the guests to eat their dinner with masks certainly as well as any speakers. Not much more can be done imo.
Well, I do hope that they all take a rapid test before entering the ball room.
A journalist colleague of mine at Stat News attended a large gathering at Fenway Park last night in the corporate suites. They did the right thing: Prior to entering the corporate suites and function room they all had to take a rapid test. It’s not foolproof. But, it does help.
I sure hope they do. Do we know if masks will be required?
School numbers ci fu he to increase. I’ll post tomorrow. I’m just heartsick that we have now turned a blind eye on the dangers of Covid to our kids.
Ci fu he=Continue. My guess is there is a hidden message in that typo
Massachusetts numbers are stubbornly high (3,341 today) and rising steadily; hospitalizations, too. Also cases have begun to seep into the elderly groups – suggesting waning immunity. The latter is really worrisome.
Agree. From young to older, it is worrisome……but not enough seem to be worried.
Practically no-one seems worried about the vulnerable, which is, well, disconcerting.
I think Eric Topol is right about Puerto Rico being a possible bellwether of sorts. Deaths there will likely peak at half the Alpha and Delta waves. That’s still a considerable amount of deaths. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1519849475031769089
New York state reports 9,342 new coronavirus cases today, the biggest one-day increase since January.
The embers, if you will, just kept things going and once the mutation arrived (and the virus mutated further from that mutation) that started a fire. It’s NOT nearly as crazy a fire as we had – thank goodness – but it’s a fire nonetheless.
I want to see the peak of this bump/ripple/wave (depending on which state you’re in) soon. I had hoped the peak would be this week. But, I’m not yet seeing it peak.
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Faust is wondering if the WH correspondence dinner will be a superspreader. Faust is making it hard to just access his articles. The opening paragraphs are below.
https://imgur.com/a/TnG9F1Q
We’ve definitely moved the goal posts. At this point, the U.S. and many European countries have done so. “Living with the virus” now means no masks, no distancing, and no precautions. This includes events like the WH correspondents’ dinner. We’re accepting a relatively high level of deaths – estimates run from 320 per day on the low end to 460 on the high end. I think the variance is due to states’ haphazard ways of reporting or not reporting. Some states rarely report more than once a week.
I don’t get it. Never will. Some of our health experts do not either. Others, like Gotlieb (sp), are suddenly quiet.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has certainly taken most daily media attention away from Covid-19 for the past two months now.
As for the WH correspondents dinner, I would hope all servers will be wearing masks. You can’t expect the guests to eat their dinner with masks certainly as well as any speakers. Not much more can be done imo.
Well, I do hope that they all take a rapid test before entering the ball room.
A journalist colleague of mine at Stat News attended a large gathering at Fenway Park last night in the corporate suites. They did the right thing: Prior to entering the corporate suites and function room they all had to take a rapid test. It’s not foolproof. But, it does help.
I sure hope they do. Do we know if masks will be required?
School numbers ci fu he to increase. I’ll post tomorrow. I’m just heartsick that we have now turned a blind eye on the dangers of Covid to our kids.
Ci fu he=Continue. My guess is there is a hidden message in that typo
Massachusetts numbers are stubbornly high (3,341 today) and rising steadily; hospitalizations, too. Also cases have begun to seep into the elderly groups – suggesting waning immunity. The latter is really worrisome.
Agree. From young to older, it is worrisome……but not enough seem to be worried.
Practically no-one seems worried about the vulnerable, which is, well, disconcerting.
I think Eric Topol is right about Puerto Rico being a possible bellwether of sorts. Deaths there will likely peak at half the Alpha and Delta waves. That’s still a considerable amount of deaths. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1519849475031769089
New York state reports 9,342 new coronavirus cases today, the biggest one-day increase since January.
The embers, if you will, just kept things going and once the mutation arrived (and the virus mutated further from that mutation) that started a fire. It’s NOT nearly as crazy a fire as we had – thank goodness – but it’s a fire nonetheless.
I want to see the peak of this bump/ripple/wave (depending on which state you’re in) soon. I had hoped the peak would be this week. But, I’m not yet seeing it peak.
C-19
4-29
ready