Finally, the CDC Asks People to Wear Masks
About fucking time (boldface mine): The Centers for Disease Control Prevention on Monday encouraged people to wear masks to help reduce the spread of respiratory illnesses this season as Covid, flu and...
View ArticleThe CDC EIS Meeting Was Not a ‘Superspreader Event’, It Was the New Normal
And that is, as the kids like say, problematic. So this happened (boldface mine): The staff dedicated to investigating disease outbreaks for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received a...
View ArticleCDC Meetings and the New Normal
Last week, in response to early reports of several COVID-19 cases at a CDC conference, some asshole with a blog noted (boldface added): But when a few people out of 2,000 get COVID, that’s not a...
View ArticleWe Seem to Have Given Up on COVID Prevalence
With the ending of the COVID public health emergency and the resulting change in reported CDC COVID-related data, it’s clear we’re flying blind here. At this point, the only meaningful data we have are...
View ArticleAt Least Ten Percent of Attendees Came Down with COVID at the CDC EIS Meeting
For those who missed it, in late April the CDC held a meeting in Atlanta that turned into a superspreader event. Initially, the number of infected was described as a few attendees, but later reports...
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Not “Everyone” Has Been Infected with COVID
Actually, it might be as high as thirty percent, at least through September 2022*. A subset of COVID minimizers are fond of saying things like ‘everyone has already had COVID’, but, according to CDC...
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The Diagnosis That Shall Not Be Explicitly Stated
It is, of course, long COVID. Last Friday, this appeared on the Twitterz: The more often you get COVID, the higher your risk of complications. So now that most people believe the pandemic is over–and...
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CDC Presentation: Long COVID Occurs at Non-Trivial Frequencies
While the obvious importance of Tuesday’s ACIP meeting was the approval of the new booster shot (for everyone), the presentation on long COVID should be a bombshell, though given the unwillingness of...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on New the CDC COVID Isolation Guidelines
If you haven’t heard by now, the CDC has changed its COVID isolation recommendations from isolating for five days before returning to work or school and can resume daily activities if they have been...
View ArticleAccording to the Republican Party Governing Blueprint, Project 2025, Public...
No mentions of demons however. Among the torrent of bullshit that is the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025–a blueprint for a second Trump administration–is this section on public health (pp. 453;...
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