Vaxed, boosted, Omicroned, and ready to go here!
There is no appetite for this, and while I do think it could do wonders for the medical system in this country, we probably are at the point where the numbers are going to fall off a cliff.
You can shut schools down, which I do think a two week pause or even one week pause would be a smart thing, but you would have to shut everything else that goes along with kids. My daughters play indoor soccer, and almost everyone I know plays indoor soccer/football at this facility. If you don't shut that down, what is the difference? If you don't shut down sporting activities, what is the purpose?
Omicron is a crazy variant, and it sweeping across most of the school aged population in the end may not be a bad thing. Take precaution, get vaccinated and boosted, and unfortunately get ready.
I'd say we're on wave 4, but who's counting? Talking about lockdowns seems pointless since it's never happening for Covid again.
Remember when folks on here were declaring the pandemic over?
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westofyou (01-12-2022)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/artic...F-16758335.phpHead of COVID response for UCSF's ER dept.: 'I have not intubated a single COVID patient during this Omicron surge'
On Saturday, in response to hospitals begging for relief from a massive staffing crisis, the California Department of Public Health announced that most hospitals and skilled nursing facilities can bring COVID-positive and exposed staff back to work without testing or quarantines. The staffers must be asymptomatic, are required to wear N95 masks and are encouraged to work with patients who are already COVID-positive as much as possible.
This news might come as a surprise to people who have been reading dire warnings about omicron and some public health officials’ pleas to cancel plans and stay home. Many public health officials have argued these measures are necessary to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed with COVID patients. Indeed, for the past few weeks, San Francisco hospitals have been in dire straits. But it’s not because people are sick — it’s because of staffing shortages driven by overly strict state quarantine rules, the director of COVID response at UCSF's emergency department said.
After reviewing the charts of every COVID-positive patient at UCSF hospitals on Jan. 4, Dr. Jeanne Noble, an associate professor of emergency medicine at UCSF, determined that 70% of them were in the hospital for other reasons.
Sea Ray (01-12-2022)
https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.co...abetes-in-kidsThe CDC's publishes an embarrassing study
The CDC is back with a new piece of propagan—- I mean, a new publication. It claims that kids (<18) with COVID are more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes in the next 30 days than kids without COVID or kids with other pre-pandemic respiratory viruses. It asserts this is a causal effect. COVID causes diabetes in kids...
In IQVIA, among kids with COVID19, a whopping 68 out of 80,000+ or 0.08% ended with diabetes; among kids without COVID19, it was 132 out of 400,000+ or 0.03% ended up with diabetes, and among kids with prior respiratory infection it was ~0.06%
The absolute risk of diabetes due to COVID (if you believed this is causal) appears to be an increase on par with a swiftly eaten bag of skittles...
As Marty Makary says, the CDC’s study would not pass a 7th grade science fair competition. It is certainly not serious scholarship. I have no idea if COVID19 causes more diabetes in kids than not having it; and the study gives me no better information to guide vaccination policies.
There is another side to this Dan and I'm presenting it here...
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