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Yesterday the CDC recommended indoor masking if there were 50 or more cases per 100,000. Today, 200 or more. COVID-19 remains deadly. The science hasn't changed. If anything, the not-yet-infected are much more vulnerable w/ Omicron than prior variants. @wideofthepost/1497349226057109515Permalink On twitter.com
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Standing in front of a person with Omicron makes you more, not less, likely to get sick than with Delta. (Partially equivalently), vaccine effectiveness went down, not up.Permalink On twitter.com
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Delta–Omicron and Omicron–Omicron infections remain a concern.Permalink On twitter.com
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Life after the Omicron wave is safer **only where** that means case numbers had gone down. The old metric accounted for this.Permalink On twitter.com
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By incorporating a hospitalization metric, the CDC is basically saying: don't worry about getting COVID if there's a hospital room available for you. Please only take this advice if getting hospitalized with COVID feels like something you want in your life.Permalink On twitter.com
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If we act like there are vulnerable people in the spaces we inhabit, and take steps to protect them, then … vulnerable people can inhabit public spaces in our society. That's the kind of normal I care about.Permalink On twitter.com
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For solid individual guidance, may I recommend…yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/riding-the-waves-a-framework-for?utm_source=urlOn twitter.com