Thread by @MonicaGandhi9

Covid Malaise - great article on what it feels like to be in a blue state at this point in the pandemic (@DLeonhardt has written plenty of red states having less vaccine uptake & more COVID hospitalizations since vax available). I call it "twilight zone"
nytimes.com/2021/12/10/bri…

It is important to assess the collateral damage of any interventions we put into place in public health to combat one disease on other conditions and @DLeonhardt does so here, also commenting "And school operations are still not back to normal. Students are sometimes..

"forbidden to sit or talk with one another during lunch — or to eat indoors. Masks make communication harder, especially for students with learning disabilities. Positive Covid tests/worker shortages can cause schools to close temporarily". In blue states, other problems ignored

Not COVID minimizing to "maximize people's health and well being" in other ways; it is actually good public health. One idea on strategy now after vax: use actual COVID hospitalization data (not COVID+ in nose on swab only in hospital) to form basis of public policy after vax