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Dog trainer just came to our house, rang doorbell, no mask. I open the door a crack and say âare you vaccinatedâ, he was clearly taken aback and stammered ânoâ. I said âcan you put on a mask before coming in?â and he reluctantly did. Not a great introduction!
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This turned out to be fairly prescient from a year ago. Remember that period where red states were like âweâre moving past covidâ?
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Being vaxxed makes all of this so much easier. Nature of my work, but I still donât generally talk to people inside, but even outside âIâm vaxxed-youâre vaxxedâ has made interacting with people so much easier.
California âfreeâ today
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Really disappointed that they did it state wide instead of county by county based on vaccination rates. Should have applied more pressure on the Trumpy counties.
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Some of the new rules are pretty silly:
Unvaccinated workers might become eligible for N95 masks
Under the same proposal being considered by the state safety standards board, California would require employers to provide respirators â such as N95 masks that filter out tiny particles from the air â to employees not yet fully vaccinated if workers request them.
N95s are far more plentiful now than they were in the early months of the pandemic.
Yes Iâm sure the unvaccinated in CA will be all over that.
Most businesses arenât required to check customersâ vaccine status
Most businesses and venues are not obligated by the state to check customersâ vaccination status.
As a result, businesses can choose to allow an unmasked customer to enter a store, and the fact that the customer is unmasked is effectively a âself-attestationâ that the person is vaccinated.
Businesses also have the option of implementing some kind of vaccine verification system to determine whether the customer needs to wear a mask. They can also require all patrons to wear a mask.
Canât see anything get contentious there.
Vaccinated people can still wear masks if they want
No one can be banned from wearing a mask as a condition of entry into a business or as a condition of participating in an activity, the California Department of Public Health said.
Crazy this needs to be said.
Yeah, we wonât see it in LA, but stories of stores with âMasks Prohibitedâ signs in some areas wonât be shocking.
Well this is a bit of a tease:
We withdrew frozen serum specimens from the All of Us biorepository and prepared for serologic testing, starting with specimens collected in approximately 2-week intervals from March 18, 2020 moving backwards in time until there was a week with no positive specimens or January 2, 2020, whichever came first.
How accurate are antibody tests at differentiating, say, a COVID-19 antibody from a different coronavirus antibody? Is it easy to differentiate?
lol they would have just ignored it
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I managed to snag a second dose appointment on the 26th. Going the AZ/Pfizer route.
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Was at lab today to get blood drawn for some tests I need. Young guy comes in with no mask on and says âIâm having difficulty breathing and think I have a fever, they told me to go to the ER.â Can you imagine having difficulty breathing and a fever and walking into a place without a mask? (Never mind this place doesnât have an ER.)
Going to depend on the assay youâre using, but thereâs definite cross reactivity with the easily available antibody testing in the USA.
Whatâs the current general consensus for long haul covid for kids?
Come back later, itâs definitely rare at a minimum. Actual risk unknown
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So if he said, âyesâ, then you would have let him in sans mask?