Hey guys! If you’re in the United States, FREE rapid COVID-19 tests are available to be ordered via USPS. Easy form to fill out, doesn’t take very long. FYI it is 4 tests PER household. Be sure to order your tests and pass this tweet along!
•Limit of one order per residential address
•One order includes 4 individual rapid antigen COVID-19 tests
•Orders will ship free starting in late January
Just fill out your name, shipping address, and email. That’s it!
NOTE: If you live in an apartment, if you enter your apartment number in the second address line the website doesn't recognize it and treats the building address as a SINGLE household = ERROR. Include your apartment number in the FIRST address line instead to work around it.
It MAY allow you to put your apartment number in the second line. If you do this make sure the numbers and unit are together.
Example. 1312D ✅ 1312 D ❌
If the above is not working for you, instead of putting just your apartment number put APT then followed by your apartment number in the APT field. Hope this helps!
If you are still having difficulties, you use this link to register your address or household to make sure you have your COVID-19 tests delivered. You can also check your address using this USPS lookup tool. tools.usps.com/zip-code-looku…
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Wisconsin’s first case of Omicron was detected on December 4th, 2021 and became the dominant variant over Delta within four weeks so Omicron IS included in this analysis.
•dataportal.slh.wisc.edu
•tmj4.com/news/coronavir…
⚫️ Vaccine effectiveness versus hospitalization continues to remain strong now that Omicron is dominant in New York State
While I cannot sit and write 3000, here’s a few: Vaccines work. The COVID-19 vaccines are extremely effective at preventing serious illness, hospitalization, AND death.
While I cannot sit and write 3000, here’s a few: Vaccines work. The COVID-19 vaccines are extremely effective at preventing serious illness, hospitalization, AND death.
Just a heads up. Regarding “Deltacron” or the “new variant” out of Cyprus. Please be aware those sequences being reported by media outlets right now appear to be due to contamination. It is NOT a new variant.
Per @PeacockFlu “they do not cluster on a phylogenetic tree and have a whole artic primer sequencing amplicon of Omicron in an otherwise Delta backbone.”
When processing several COVID samples at the same time, procedural failures can occur, and contaminations between samples with different variants occur. As @wanderer_jasnah says, it is PCR recombination due to contamination. Usually computational analysis can detect these flaws.
A new analysis out of the CDC shows just how extremely effective COVID-19 vaccines are against COVID-19 associated hospitalization and death. Among 1,228,664 fully vaccinated individuals across the United States, 185 (0.015%) had severe illness and 36 (0.0033%) died. 🧵
Using data from 465 facilities in a large U.S. health care database, this study assessed the frequency of and risk factors for developing a severe COVID-19 outcome after completing a primary COVID-19 vaccination series, defined as receipt of 2 doses of an mRNA vaccine (BNT162b2
[Pfizer-BioNTech] or mRNA-1273 [Moderna]) or a single dose of JNJ-78436735 [Janssen (Johnson & Johnson)] ≥14 days before illness onset. Severe COVID-19 outcomes were defined as hospitalization with a diagnosis of acute respiratory failure, need for noninvasive ventilation (NIV),