More than 1,000 faculty members at Univ of Michigan have vowed to teach online today, or to help those who do, defying an order from president Mark Schlissel. Faculty members say they don’t want to teach in person because of risks of getting COVID-19.
insidehighered.com/covid-19-live-…
Here is a relevant thread.

Faculty members are among the professions whose future might be affected by Covid brain damage. Not sure how the university thinks it will fare with significant harm to tenured faculty.

To be clear, I think everyone should be concerned about long Covid. I am just amazed that it isn't on the agenda more widely.
Many newspapers and other news outlets continue to claim that everything is just fine because of vaccination. But people who are vaccinated get infected and get long covid.

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6 Jan
New Zealand is almost back at elimination!

Community transmission (top figure) declining
Dec 31: 49
Jan 1+2: 105
Jan 3: 27
Jan 4: 31
Jan 5: 17
Jan 6: 19

Traveler quarantine cases increasing, mostly Omicron going into quarantine facilities, up to 43!

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Very high vaccination, very high masking (including a lot of N95s), local restrictions based upon local conditions.
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2 Jan
Addition: the genetic combinations of Omicron and Delta that form when someone is infected by both can be expected to result in new variants with a wide range of properties.
Don’t think about the virus as what it is today but what it might become.

The virus has a very large space of possible options. Omicron has 60 mutations, another combination of 60 mutations will result in very different properties.
If we don’t want more possibilities there is one sure way that will prevent it: reducing the amount of virus that is transmitting. We are doing the opposite so far, there is more virus not less.
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1 Jan
In this New Year, the health of children, families, and teachers, is the first priority for everyone—children, parents, teachers, schools.

Schools are going to remote learning.

1/ New Jersey
2/ Maryland

Prince George's County

newsmax.com/newsfront/covi…
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31 Dec 21
5 Western "powers" account for 2/3(!) of total reported cases and the high case numbers also have high positivity so many cases are missed.
(565987+206243+189213+161688+126888)/1879375 = 0.67
These countries account for 7.2% of the global population.
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Facing leadership that kills

"How could public health reimagine ways to protect the population and reinvent itself amid a pandemic?

"Before covid only two things were known to influence the course of pandemic diseases—isolation and vaccination. 1/

WFPHA link.springer.com/article/10.105…
"We must now add murderous incompetence, culpable negligence, perfunctory conduct of government response, wantonly foolish ideology-driven reliance on organisations and individuals who conspicuously lacked the necessary attributes to perform their assigned tasks. 2/
"Abbasi equated the lethal results of political decisions during the pandemic to ‘social murder’.This describes what occurs when those in power force the population to live in conditions that increase,inevitably,their risk of avoidable and premature death. doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n3…
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