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First I've heard of that....not sure how relevant or important it is.... anyways I'm still for a vaccine shot...just about everyone I know has had theirs...
While officials in many states have lauded the technology’s potential to help slow coronavirus spread, it’s unclear how successful those programs have been.
Washington officials say they believe the exposure app is a useful tool, though it’s hard to know for sure. “The way WA Notify works is that no news is good news,” Teresa McCallion, a state health spokesperson said in an email.
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That's weird. It was behind a paywall when I first saw a reference to it and tried to read it, but now I can open it without a problem.Originally posted by gh View PostComment
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Last year, when I was getting my annual flu shot during my check-up, I asked my doctor if he expected there to be a lot less cases of the flu this year due to social distancing and mask wearing, and he answered "yes". Well, the jury is in and it turns out he was right.
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Hopefully the drastic reduction in flu cases caused (or will soon cause) a strain or two of it to go extinct.Originally posted by jazzcyclist View PostComment
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Headline - Why is China giving travelers anal tests for COVID-19?
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Based on the headline I'd guess that China doesn't want travelers . . .Originally posted by tandfman View Post
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How many people can you piss off before the Olympics.....Originally posted by bad hammy View Post
China subjects some travelers to anal swabs, angering foreign governments.
Benjamin Cowling, a public health professor at the University of Hong Kong, said in an interview that even if someone did test positive on an anal swab but not a respiratory one, he or she would likely not be very contagious.
“The value of detecting people with the virus is to stop transmission,” Professor Cowling said. “If someone has got an infection but they’re not contagious to anyone else, we didn’t need to detect that person.”
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said this week that the government would make “science-based adjustments” to its containment policies.
Professor Cowling said he did not know what the scientific rationale was behind the existing policies. “I presume there’s some evidence leading to this decision, but I haven’t seen that evidence,” he said.
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Draghi makes a stand with vaccine embargo
Latest surge in infections means fighting Covid-19 is Italian leader’s top priority
It did not take Mario Draghi long to make a mark in Europe as Italian prime minister.
At his first EU summit as premier at the end of last month, the former head of the European Central Bank made a forceful intervention about the slow pace of Europe’s vaccination drive and the need to get tough with pharmaceutical companies over their failure to deliver promised doses.
Seven days later, the Italian government confirmed that, with Brussels’ approval, it had blocked a consignment of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine destined for Australia under an EU-wide export authorisation scheme that has been criticised by other countries. The company has fallen way short of its promised deliveries to the EU in the first three months of 2021.
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meanwhile, in mouths....
Covid tongue? Why new Covid-19 symptoms keep popping up.
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What's causing vaccine delays in some Asian countries?
In the Asian region, vaccination programmes are steadily progressing in places like India which says it has administered around 14 million doses since January.
In others countries however, vaccine programmes are either yet to begin or are still at a very early stage. The reasons for this have been varied - ranging from an abundance of caution to high levels of vaccine scepticism.
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Yahoo News/YouGov poll: One year into pandemic, a quarter of Americans say someone close to them has died from COVID-19
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80+ million Americans claiming they were close to one of the 500,000+ Americans who have died is probably a bit of an exaggeration, I think.Originally posted by TN1965 View Post
I guess it depends on how you define close. But I doubt that there are not many who have 160 people that are close to them.Comment
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I doubt the actual survey question was worded with "close to". It appears they asked about knowing somebody who died from COVID-19, and the 23% includes (but isn't limited to) those who said a family member or close friend.Originally posted by Tuariki View PostComment
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I've had two aunt's who died of Covid-19 and both lived in distant states. My answer would have been yes.Originally posted by 18.99s View PostComment
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