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#58 Despite my 86-year-old parents' precautions, Icelandic healthcare workers took so long to test for COVID it's too late for them to benefit from Paxlovid
***LESSON LEARNED: TRAVEL WITH YOUR OWN COVID TESTS***
COVID hospitalizations last week rose about 12% in the United States, news reports show. COVID infections are knocking people out for weeks of bedrest and misery, my text messages and emails show.
Aug 01 COVID hospitalizations rise in Alabama, around the country (Birmingham News) - “Alabama reported 138 new hospital admissions due to confirmed COVID-19 in the week prior to July 15, the latest figures available. Those numbers represent a 45% increase in hospitalizations in the state.”
Contents:
Introduction
Layering Extremists
=>*Waning* Wall of Immunity
=>Revisiting Shane Crotty’s ‘Hybrid Immunity’
=>David Leonhardt and Leana Wen
Strategic, Intermittent Maskers
Expanding the Indoor Air Conversation
Economics and Lamborghinis
🗄️ From the Archives: Iceland Chases Herd Immunity
Introduction: Three months of COVID-zapping antibodies are conferred with a booster shot. Both my parents took one — at my emphatic encouragement — weeks …
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