If MoCo reports 152 positives or less combined tomorrow and Thursday, it will drop under the 50/100K trigger which - if held for 7 days - will automatically lift the mask mandate under the current health order.
MoCo posted 73 positives. Need 79 or less tomorrow to hit the trigger.
MoCo 77 positives. Trigger is reached. Mask mandate ends automatically in 7 days if the next 7 days is also under 50 positives/100k pop.
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Viral interference is a well-known (but poorly understood) phenomenon. Interference from rhinovirus is generally thought to have ended the swine flu epidemic in 2009. thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…
This great short article from @m_soond explains the viral interference theory of flu vanishing when COV2 became epidemic. medium.com/illumination-c…
The burden estimates are the best measure of flu for many reasons explained by CDC: cdc.gov/flu/about/burd…
Given hypertesting and the any-cause-of-death-after-positive-test definition, we have the opposite problem of overascertainment for COVID.
They do have the statistically modeled COVID pediatric deaths, 332 through May: cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…
But the footnote explains they didn't run the usual flu statistical model, but rather used the death cert count as a floor and ran the model on other deaths.
"Tonight, I’m announcing we will increase the average pace of shipment across the country of free monoclonal antibody treatments by another 50 percent."
INCREASE.
Less than a week later he CUT allocations to southern states by 50%.
The Biden COVID plan posted on the White House website on September 9 is even more clear. Said the 50% increase would be *in September*. It's still there!
Temporal equity is one heck of a euphemism for denying lifesaving treatment needed *now* in the south to stockpile it for *potential* winter use in the north.
Especially when Congress has already appropriated $$$ to buy as much more as needed.
This explains the mystery of the CDC "science brief" that contained no science supporting the mask guidance and excluded the CDC's own most relevant study, which found no significant effect of student mask mandates.
CDC aided and abetted teachers unions (ineffectively!) trying to minimize their members' already microscopic post-vax COVID risk over the social/emotional health and language/communication development of children.
Ample! is one link, refs endpoint-driven ecological studies from last summer (fall/winter data showed no mask effect so none ever updated) and mechanistic stuff with mannequins assuming a larger article size than respiratory aerosols. And hairdressers!
Keep cloth-masking kids, because the Bangladesh study found no reduction in symptoms in villages with adults given cloth masks, and a small reduction (only in age 50+) in villages with adults given surgical masks. This is an argument *for* child-masking?