Infodemics & Unflattened Curves
#7 As the top health authorities in Washington hash out what booster shots to recommend, travel bans were instated as yesterday's new China lockdown reached the wires.
In the news this week: (The links below are not exhaustive, but arranged in a sequence designed for the reader to take in a low cognitive-load *shallow dive*. Recommendation: slow down in **FACES** and Infodemic sections.) Delta rages worldwide. Case categorization changes on the horizon. Teachers & healthcare workers resign in sizeable numbers. Attention readers: Tracing COVID is going subscriber-only! More at the bottom of the news. Please tell contact tracers you know to apply for a comp. rate.
In this issue:
Testing 🧪
Tracing ✔️
Isolation Alternatives (Masking, Ventilating & Travel Quarantines) 😷
Unflattened Curve
Infodemic
**FACES**
Beyond the Scope
Testing 🧪
Sep. 13 Why At-Home Rapid Covid Tests Cost So Much, Even After Biden’s Push for Lower Prices (Kaiser Health News) - Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.) said of the test companies, "'their profit is far higher making 1,000 $30 tests than 30,000 $1 tests' — in other words, they can make the same amount of money for many fewer tests."
Sep. 10 …
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