They aren’t designed that way, but there does appear to be a correlation.
Cdc guidelines are something like 5 days from onset of symptoms and 5 more days of masking. I got sick on Saturday, pozzed on Sunday, and went to my daughter’s gymnastics meet the following Sunday. I’m not gonna shame anyone wanting to do more but my understanding is you can keep testing positive long after you’re contagious.
MrsWookie and I both consistently got fainter lines on home tests as we got better.
Just mask up and social distance, assuming you’re asymptomatic.
I had students coming into school testing positive with COVID and they just masked up and went to school. To be fair, they were asymptomatic at the time.
Day 11: Finally got my negative rapid test. That was an obnoxious week and a half.
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Christmas (or other non-denominational holiday of your choosing) miracle!
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My dad went to rent a portable oxygen generator for Christmas and couldn’t find one anywhere as they are all at the hospitals for the current Covid outbreak.
There is still limited evidence on how capable JN.1 is of getting round the immunity offered by vaccines, the WHO says.
Great, mum just messaged that she is positive. My sister in law said they will come anyway. Her kids have a “cold” as well and I get to make the decision for myself. I had my 2nd infection in October. It was like the first time: 3 days of misery, shivering no will to do anything. Not sure if I am still immune.
Do NOT walk into a known germ factory. It’s amazing we have learned nothing from the pandemic, people just soldering on, infecting others. All in the name of family.
Grandma got infected by her nephew…
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Grandpa says there’s no such thing as covid,
But as for me and Grandma, we believe.
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The Royal College of Nursing has warned of an increase risk of Covid among hospital staff and patients due to the NHS’s failure to follow World Health Organization advice about infection control during a current spike in cases.
The most recent figures showed one in 24 people in England and Scotland had Covid on 13 December, up from one in 55 two weeks before.
On Tuesday, the WHO expressed concern about a new subvariant of Omicron, labelled JN.1, after its rapid spread in the Americas, western Pacific and European regions. To tackle the increase, the WHO advised that all health facilities “implement universal masking” and give health workers “respirators and other PPE”.
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I went to NYC today to take my niece to a show. Her, my sister, and I were in the vast vast vast minority of masked people. And the entire city was disgustingly packed with people. I’d estimate less than 1% of people masking in crowds. If this newest variant (or any future one) is bad it’s gonna rack up huge numbers.
I’m seeing ~81% vax rate for USA, so it seems like it should be unlikely that the dumbest fifth of people ever reached 80%? Study probably done in an area with higher base rates I guess.
I think it’s saying time to 80% so both subsets got there.
(And presumably the faster group got to >>80 while the other group stalled out).
And yes for the average to be just over 80, your assumption is likely correct. Or the “less smart” group is >>>> the “more smart” group.
I’d also assume that this strongly correlated with continuing to get the update boosters.
Idiocracy in reverse?
I’m at the point in my life where I dismiss anyone who uses IQ scores seriously as probably dumb. Smarter people are going to be more likely to seek a free and effective COVID vaccine pretty much by definition. That’s basically just begging the question imo. Don’t need your military aptitude scores lol.
There’s no way we have an 80% vax rate in the USA
Would you believe 80% of adults who were alive on January 1, 2020 have received at least one shot?
Is one shot enough to qualify? I could believe that though I would have definitely snap taken the under. Two shots were required to be considered “fully vaxxed” IIRC and that has to be way lower.