Coronavirus practical issues
I thought it might be nice to have a thread to talk about practical concerns. I'll start :). What should a solo traveler do, if they are camped somewhere they don't know anybody, and get seriously ...
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pnichols wrote:Naio wrote:
The numbers are based in fact, but the facts are incomplete.
All we really know is that a lot of people have died, and that people with very mild cold symptoms are infectious and kill other people.
So if you get a cold, stay home for 14 days.
And it will help your neighbors if you stay home as much as possible even when you don't have a cold. If we can all just sort of hibernate for a bit, this thing will die down. Not completely, but enough for the medical system to catch up.
Well stated, Naio!
I'm scratching my head and wondering if the nasty "flu something" that the DW and myself picked up in Arizona in January (and lived through) wasn't in fact a very, very, early U.S. instance of Covid-19.
As I stated earlier in a post - we both got our high-powered geezer flu shots last fall, and do every fall. So I wonder what strain of "regular of flu" that we caught is new this year that was not included in these flu shots? :h
i.e. Has anyone heard of how effective last fall's flu shots are turning out to be during this year's "regular flu" season?
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I was hoping that, too. Maybe we have already had it!
But I spoke with a friend who is in biomedical research and she said no.
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Edit: This year's flu vaccine was only 45% effective. They have to make a guess, a year in advance, of which strains will be most common, and include those in the vaccine. Out of 4 strains that are common this year, 2 of them are well covered by the vaccine and 2 not so much.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6907a1.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm, scroll way down to "Influenza Virus Characterization"
