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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]22207 is seeing quite the spike in covid cases.  Nottingham is now leading the pack for the past seven days, and my kid said there were a lot of kids out today who were there last week.  Williamsburg just got a bunch of new cases today that will hit the dashboard in the next day or two.  Mask optional seems to be working out brilliantly![/quote]

Who cares.  It’s still low level transmission.  The whole point is the individuals in question and the community can handle these cases.  We’re not in total covid panic avoidance anymore.  And if you are, mask up with a good mask and call yourself the smartest one in the room and feel smug when others get covid.  [/quote]

Ten days of missed instruction even if you are asymptomatic is not nothing.[/quote]

It's ten calendar days so less days of missed instruction but agreed that sucks and is THE thing that hangs over my head as a parent at this point in time.

The dashboard actually has so much good news but leave it to people to focus on bad news.  1 case at Wakefield in past 7 days is amazing.
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Articles like these have just become noise to me. There might be some connection, limited sample sizes, needs further study - all of these things just can’t make me worry anymore.

Probably a bad time for me to be posting this new paper out explaining covid's effects on T cells, then.  [url]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-022-00919-x[/url]

I'm no expert, but I think this is showing that the covid virus acts even more destructively against the body's existing immunity system than was was previously understood.  We knew that the virus had an aging effect on the body's T cells.  This paper shows that in total, covid attacks stem cells, invades and infects CD4+ T-cells, and exhausts CD8 + T-cells.  With severe infections, "infected T lymphocytes not only lost the ability to control viral infection but may also carry viruses to other parts of the body through blood circulation."  I think that previously the only other diseases we knew about that acted in this way were, like, HIV and MERS?

I think the cases studied were severe infections, so I'm not saying that every Omicron infection has this devastating effect.  But if covid does a lot of this in severe cases, wouldn't it do some of this in mild cases?  Any doctors on here have a better understanding of this?

Anyhow, nothing to worry about, carry on with the great unmasking.[/quote][/quote]

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