Is MoCo going to "high" on CDC Covid Data Tracker?
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Anonymous
DP, but it really isn’t when you compare covid death rates to other causes in similar populations (i.e., the elderly). |
Anonymous
Right— it’s good we finally got rid of silly mask mandates. |
Anonymous
Extremely high risk. I called and asked and was denied and I am high risk and have now been sick for several weeks. |
Anonymous
Sorry if public health professionals don't think it is their job to dictate people's sex lives. They are motivated by saving lives. |
Anonymous
Sounds like you’re not as high-risk as you think you are. And there’s Paxlovid, which is still highly effective. Part of the issue is that some people, like those on immunosuppressants, can’t take paxlovid. In any event, the people getting monoclonal antibodies at infusion centers do not have severe illness and do not meet inpatient criteria. |
Anonymous
No, it isn't. |
Anonymous
400 healthy kids dying each day would be a lot. But that isn’t who is dying. It is overwhelmingly the elderly, who die in large numbers from a variety of causes. 400 elderly deaths is not a lot. |
Anonymous
| those people could have lived for years. And thousands suffer from long covid. And doctors now hate the populace in general. They have every right for that. You say Target customers do not wear masks? I believe you. We tried Costco for the first time in 2 yrs and it was packed with unmasked people, so we had to turn mid-air and flee for the exit. So glad every single person had KN95 at Whole Foods yesterday. You people. |
Anonymous
right now, the covid strain is really no worse than a cold for *most* people. If you have that much fear, it's good you went back home. |
Anonymous
| Howard County has been in the "high" zone for most of the summer, so it was only a matter of time. |
Anonymous
There herein lies the problem. When you claim a situation is dire (i.e., that we’re in the highest community risk category), and people can clearly see the situation is obviously not bad, then the health metrics and public health officials lose all credibility. The current metrics may have made sense before Omicron, but they don’t make sense with BA5. The baseline level of covid cases has changed with this variant, and our metrics and expectations should change accordingly. |
Anonymous
Boomer remover, let nature do it's work |
Anonymous
My humble opinion is that available metrics should include tracking symptoms, including what "mild" COVID looks like. Without more than anecdotal evidence, individuals and even government officials can't make informed decisions. To be clear, I'm not talking about school closings or mandates. I'm talking about policies like whether to continue with five days of isolation or individual decisions on whether to mask in certain situations. It's easy to be "done with COVID" and to "move on," whatever that means, if you think COVID is the sniffles. What about the 30-50-year-olds who were incredibly sick for five days to a week or more, unable to work, and who struggled with fatigue weeks or months before it subsided? That's mild illness from a medical perspective, but if too many people are sick with that "mild" illness simultaneously, there will be severe disruptions in all areas of our lives. |
Anonymous
Howard county was "high" a lot earlier because they dropped their mask mandate a lot earlier, and non masking MoCo residents flooded over there. Once MoCo dropped the mask mandate, it was only a matter of time before MoCo went to the 'high" level as well. Especially with all the traveling this summer; every single.ftiend I have who has flown has come back with Covid. And, it's hard to tell who will have a severe case and who will not. |