![]() Masks are still required at indoor train stations and on board subways, commuter rail, buses, and paratransit vehicles. The message from public transit authorities in New York is predictably bewildering: The answer is that none of us know and this is reflected in the conflicting information we are now bombarded with. Signs in libraries, dry cleaners and supermarkets have banal messages such as "please consider wearing masks to help protect our employees." Most medical care facilities still require them. Airlines just announced, to great celebration, that mask requirements would be dropped, but yesterday the CDC announced that masks should still be worn while flying. What's the average person supposed to do? If the message on masks was disjointed two years ago, it is utterly incoherent now. And in a previous life, I spent 10 years doing antiviral research in the pharmaceutical industry and now write about Covid professionally. Now I find myself staring at a box of N95s wondering what to do. The virus has behaved like something from a Michael Crichton book.īut I sure wore them on two different occasions: 1) before my second vaccination and 2) a year later when the previously unimaginable Omicron variant blazed through the world, infecting people who were and were not vaccinated, as well as those who had and had not caught Covid before. "Follow the science" has become "good luck guessing what's next." The fault lies squarely on the spikes of SARS-CoV-2. What's the best advice that the CDC could give Americans about the current phase of Covid? I haven't the wildest idea. Some will argue that "partly" is too generous. It is fair to say that whatever damage was done to its reputation was at least partly self-inflicted. Although I am loath to defend the agency (both because of its complicity in the opioid OD crisis and failure to deliver a coherent message during much of the pandemic) I need to cut them a break here.Įarly in the pandemic, the CDC did not look good it flip-flopped regularly, changing its advice both when the science changed but also when it didn't. Many have complained that the story (and advice) from the CDC keeps changing. ![]() The only certainty after two-plus years of Covid is uncertainty. Classic herd immunity as we know it is nothing but a pipe dream. Anthony Fauci, a formerly optimistic proponent of HI, told us that it was now pretty much out of the question. Love him or hate him, there can be little doubt that Fauci has it right this time. Read more in the weekly update on COVID-19 vaccination figures.Remember the early days of Covid when experts were excitedly talking about herd immunity (HI) and how things would get back to normal when this was reached? How long has it been since the term was used? The answer is five days. Vaccination coverage for the repeat vaccination among people over 60 has now reached 61.0%. | 16:00 Vaccination figures for autumn round of COVID-19 repeat vaccinationįrom 19 September 2022 to, more than 4.2 million repeat vaccinations against COVID-19 were administered. Read more on the page: Weekly coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 figures As a result, the figures may not reflect the total number of admissions for last week. Due to a technical malfunction on Tuesday 2 May, the hospital admission figures from Monday last week and two weeks ago were compared, rather than from Tuesday as usual. There were 9 ICU admissions last week, and 9 in the week before. The number of new ICU admissions of patients with SARS-CoV-2 remained low. The number of new hospital admissions of patients with SARS-CoV-2 increased slightly (+14%) compared to the week before. The percentage of Infection Radar participants who tested positive for COVID-19 remained the same (+0.3%). In the Infection Radar survey last week, the percentage of participants who reported possible symptoms of COVID-19 stabilised compared to the week before that (from 2.6% to 2.4%). In the first half of week 19 (8 – 10 May), the average viral load continued to decrease (-31%). In week 18 (17 - ), sewage surveillance showed that the national average viral load decreased very slightly (-5%) compared to the week before. | 16:30 Weekly update on the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2:
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