9 posts tagged with covid by DMelanogaster.
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COVID rebound? Am I contagious still? again? or not?

I have COVID. [more inside]
posted by DMelanogaster on Aug 23, 2024 - 8 answers

Covid Epidemiology Graph Interpretation Question

I am looking at this chart/graph of Covid deaths per 100,000 in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated people in New York City and there is something I don't understand: [more inside]
posted by DMelanogaster on Apr 18, 2022 - 6 answers

COVID: "low" transmission etc, is that daily or weekly cases?

from an article about CDC transmission categories: "A county's level of transmission is based on just two metrics: new Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people and the positivity rate, both measured over the last seven days. The basic idea is that these show how much virus is spreading around us, CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen said. [more inside]
posted by DMelanogaster on Apr 5, 2022 - 11 answers

How contagious might someone be who had Covid recently?

I doubt there's a definitive answer to this question, because, well, Covid, but... [more inside]
posted by DMelanogaster on Jan 11, 2022 - 13 answers

How can I track down first doses of Paxlovid in New York City?

I hope nobody I know gets Covid during this holiday season, but it certainly might happen, and they might be high-risk for severe disease. I've read that the first 4500 or so rounds of the newly approved antiviral drug from Pfizer, Paxlovid, is being shipped to New York City in the next few days. [more inside]
posted by DMelanogaster on Dec 25, 2021 - 4 answers

Should we (we= people or maybe old people) get Covid vaccine boosters?

So many opinions on this one. What are yours? [more inside]
posted by DMelanogaster on Sep 4, 2021 - 17 answers

Are there stats on % in US who have had Covid AND vaccine?

If we want to calculate what percentage of the population are immune to Covid at present, to see, for example, where we are in terms of "herd immunity" (or, just because it's interesting), how do we deal with the following issue: [more inside]
posted by DMelanogaster on May 18, 2021 - 8 answers

What claims can legitimately be made about the Covid vaccines?

Vaccines prevent severe illness, yay! But...(how to make sense of the numbers?) [more inside]
posted by DMelanogaster on Feb 21, 2021 - 18 answers

How accurate/useful are rapid Covid tests?

We're told not to use rapid Covid tests to decide that you are "negative" and are free to socialize without risk of spreading Covid to others. [more inside]
posted by DMelanogaster on Feb 1, 2021 - 22 answers

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