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11-26-2022, 08:45 AM #22501
The hand washing is interesting statistically-speaking. The study looked at self-reported levels of hand washing and found correlation to moderate levels but no strong evidence for an increase at higher levels. Probably at least partly reflects diminishing returns, but it's also probable that moderate or greater hand washing correlated with good hygiene and better practices in other respects--including prevention of airborne transmission.
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11-26-2022, 09:51 AM #22502
Or unreliability of self-report combined with high risk occupations (vs being OCD) that drive high HH rates like HCP or serving tables. I look at epic shit tons of observer based hand hygiene data and my level of trust in it... varies. But the reliability of good HH to prevent infection is one of the strongest known for individual human preventative action.
probable that moderate or greater hand washing correlated with good hygiene and better practices in other respects--including prevention of airborne transmission.Originally Posted by blurred
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11-26-2022, 10:47 AM #22503
Cover your cough and keep your distance from hacking people predates COVID, too. Unfortunately, so does the overzealous crusade against miasma as an allegedly superstitious belief, hence my skepticism. The higher level of washing also had a lower effectiveness (assuming we discount the higher P-value), hence "diminishing returns" as one cause. But the issues are apt to be "all of the above."
The self-reporting has problems both with accuracy and self-selection. These days it's probably more overlaid than before with personal risk assessment, too: people who take precautions because they perceive a higher risk will (if they're right) be more susceptible to start with, so studying masking and vaccines with backward-looking data gets an extra layer of confounding.
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11-26-2022, 11:36 AM #22504
Interesting post Summit, was unaware of asymptomatic influenza but I have observation bias as all I see in clinical setting is obviously symptomatic.
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11-26-2022, 05:23 PM #22505Registered User
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Well a little over a year later and here we are again, upon initial testing we think the 5 year old brought it home this time. Hopefully my employer lets me burn covid days caring for a loved one, or all 4 of them. Otherwise i might come home to one or more fewer children than when i started .
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11-26-2022, 05:59 PM #22506
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11-26-2022, 06:44 PM #22507
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11-28-2022, 02:38 AM #22508
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11-28-2022, 06:54 AM #22509Registered User
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Well, I tested positive today. Felt pretty good in the morning and by noon I knew something was up. Good thing we get sick days here in Germany. I’m gonna miss opening day at the ski hill though. First time I missed one since 1997
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11-28-2022, 07:25 AM #22510yelgatgab
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First tgiving back with family since ‘19. Fifteen people in one house. Good times and no COVID, but the youngest picked up Coxsackie and looks like the rest of us are in for a cold, all thanks to my brother’s snotty little vectors. :shrug:
Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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11-28-2022, 12:20 PM #22511Registered User
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Anyone got long Covid ?
https://www.brookings.edu/research/n...w-82HaYfw49wYE
I got this link from a writer i skied with who has been bed ridden for 11 monthsLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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11-28-2022, 02:27 PM #22512
To Vaccinate or Not---The Rat Flu Odyssey Continues
It’ll be interesting to see results if/when brookings updates that #. Have a friend that works there and travels for work extensively to many nations. Haven’t seen a mask on that persons face in a long time from their travel photos.
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11-29-2022, 12:25 PM #22513it just depends
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Well my card is finally up. Travelled over Thanksgiving to see family. Drove 14 hrs both ways w/ wife/2 kids/dog. Wife started feeling something Thanksgiving morning but has tested negative 3x including this morning. We drove back home Sunday. Yesterday (Mon) afternoon I got progressively worse chills/aches/cough/tired. Last night kinda hit me like a ton of bricks. Slept for almost 12 hrs but woke up feeling shitty still. Positive at-home test this morning. Scheduled a PCR for noon for both of us.
Feel like garbage. Hope I bounce back quickly.
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11-29-2022, 12:32 PM #22514
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11-29-2022, 12:57 PM #22515Registered User
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11-29-2022, 01:54 PM #22516
Ya, what's the point now? Up until this summer, it was required for travel to Canada. You either needed a negative within 72 hours or a positive result between 10 and 180 days. Therefore the positive PCR had value. My wife had one that she used for precisely that purpose. That's in the past.
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11-29-2022, 02:36 PM #22517
Only thing a PCR is good for is detecting sooner than a rapid test. If you're already + then ya, no point..
They still have free drive up PCR test place around the corner from here. I keep wondering WHY????Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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11-29-2022, 07:24 PM #22518
Is our gov still tracking positive pcr tests?
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11-30-2022, 12:04 PM #22519j'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
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11-30-2022, 12:09 PM #22520
My county and state sure are. Or at least, when I did get a positive PCR test (not quite sure why I took the test when I was already testing positive on rapid tests, maybe curiosity) I started getting many emails and notifications from the local and state public health agencies. No idea if it was "tracked" beyond that.
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11-30-2022, 12:54 PM #22521
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11-30-2022, 01:13 PM #22522"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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11-30-2022, 02:16 PM #22523
PCRs are tracked in aggregate by PH. State PH depts and CDC use them to calculate community levels and transmissions.
Are you notified about a positive test if you get a lab test? Yes... whether it is COVID, Flu, RSV, pseudomonas, you must be notified by a healthcare system/provider/lab.
Nobody is doing contact tracing anymore though (which was a fucking useless waste in *this* pandemic)Originally Posted by blurred
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11-30-2022, 02:19 PM #22524
Thanks for responses about gov PH test tracking.
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11-30-2022, 03:02 PM #22525
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