I met my new PCP virtually last week. For a health guidelines, he explained he uses recommendations from the United States. However, on a few, he will default to guidelines of other countries that test better and have fewer people to contradict each other. I was very impressed. It is the same reason I enjoy your views, Joshua, and of course always enjoyed the views of Mac’s family.
Our public health officials are asleep at the wheel, at least many of them. They react very slowly, and then they message poorly.
Part of the problem is the rather incredible decentralization of public health. Massachusetts, for example, has hundreds of public health departments. Every town wants its own department, and sometimes neighborhoods within cities want their own. That’s not a good thing. For public health you need some semblance of consistency and centralization. Autonomy is good for MANY things, but not public health.
There’s one FDA for a reason. You wouldn’t want to have dozens or hundreds of FDAs.
Makes perfect sense to me
Another 2,850 reported Covid deaths yesterday nationwide. The fact that deaths are stubbornly high and not declining as much as they should by now (given the case decrease) suggests that some of the case decrease is not real. It’s because many folks now have access to free rapid antigen tests at home, like myself. Their positive cases go unreported, unless they take a PCR test later, say, in hospital. My daughter’s boyfriend, sick with Covid (fever, coughing, nausea, the works) also used 2 free rapid antigen tests to determine his status. He will not be reported as a case, despite being one.
Every person I know with a mild case uses a home test and does not report. Remember also, that school children are doing the same. They test at home, stay home and the majority of cases remain unreported.
Color me silly, but how do we better justify removing masks than take steps that knowingly cut the case numbers?
C-19 for 2-25 is ready.
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Your no-hype southeastern New England weather blog!
Thanks TK.
How are you feeling today?
I currently do have some health issues but as far as my vaccine, still no side effects.
Thanks for asking Vicki. 🙂
Oh no. I’m sorry you are not feeling well otherwise
We have known this since fall. I’ve posted the information from the UK, Canada, Hong Kong, and others here often. What is wrong with our health folks?
https://www.sbsun.com/2022/02/23/cdc-now-says-8-weeks-between-covid-vaccine-shots-optimal-for-some/
I met my new PCP virtually last week. For a health guidelines, he explained he uses recommendations from the United States. However, on a few, he will default to guidelines of other countries that test better and have fewer people to contradict each other. I was very impressed. It is the same reason I enjoy your views, Joshua, and of course always enjoyed the views of Mac’s family.
Our public health officials are asleep at the wheel, at least many of them. They react very slowly, and then they message poorly.
Part of the problem is the rather incredible decentralization of public health. Massachusetts, for example, has hundreds of public health departments. Every town wants its own department, and sometimes neighborhoods within cities want their own. That’s not a good thing. For public health you need some semblance of consistency and centralization. Autonomy is good for MANY things, but not public health.
There’s one FDA for a reason. You wouldn’t want to have dozens or hundreds of FDAs.
Makes perfect sense to me
Another 2,850 reported Covid deaths yesterday nationwide. The fact that deaths are stubbornly high and not declining as much as they should by now (given the case decrease) suggests that some of the case decrease is not real. It’s because many folks now have access to free rapid antigen tests at home, like myself. Their positive cases go unreported, unless they take a PCR test later, say, in hospital. My daughter’s boyfriend, sick with Covid (fever, coughing, nausea, the works) also used 2 free rapid antigen tests to determine his status. He will not be reported as a case, despite being one.
Every person I know with a mild case uses a home test and does not report. Remember also, that school children are doing the same. They test at home, stay home and the majority of cases remain unreported.
Color me silly, but how do we better justify removing masks than take steps that knowingly cut the case numbers?
C-19 for 2-25 is ready.