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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of March 1
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
My city has now a curfew - 20h to 5h every day - and my state has a lockdown, preventing many business from working starting last Friday and going untill next Wednesday. Our ICUs are overflowing.
I helped my girlfriend take her grandmother to ICU with suspicion of COVID and now I'm quarantined with her and cannot go back to my house.
It doesn't seem her grandmother has COVID, but the old lady is literally 100 years old so everything about her requires extra care.
I just wanna go home.
Texas becomes biggest US state to lift COVID-19 mask mandate
In addition to lifting the mask mandate:
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So infuriating. "Personal responsibility" aka "every person for themselves". Unless you're rich. Again glad I don't live in Texas.
There's enough people with mild illness ending up with long COVID that I'm not super thrilled about the idea that as long as you're vaccinated, you're fine. We don't have enough data yet to know if mild cases after vaccination are less likely to result in long COVID or not.
Much of the world is seeing coronavirus cases fall. But Brazil’s outbreak is worse than ever.
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The FDA approved the Quidel QuickVue At-Home COVID-19 Test.
It sounds like it could be a good thing, since you can get results in 10 minutes! But it's nerfed. It's prescription only and it is only authorized for use "within the first six days of symptom onset."
So, useless for screening.
The EU being too slow is shaping how countries are responding. Denmark and Austria to agree partnership with Israel on Covid-19 vaccines (alt link)
Single dose of AstraZeneca or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine cuts hospitalization risk by more than 80%, study shows
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As the pandemic reaches a new worst in Brazil,
a new, albeit highly limited aid package has been passed to deal with it
(When the article was written it was still to be voted on, but now the bill has been passed.)
I think the austerity talk in this article should basically show what the stimulus talks in the US would have looked like if there were no federal midterms like in Brazil and the Republicans still had their 2016 trifecta in Congress.
British Columbia accelerates timeline for first vaccine doses, rolls out appointment system for seniors over 80
Wirecutter: Where to Buy N95s, KN95s, and Surgical-Style Masks You Can Trust
How to Administer RNA – And How to Do It Again
Swiss government to offer free tests for all