AK Renwick @Akrenwick@qoto.org

#Measles by the numbers:
The case count in the outbreak in & around Columbus, OH has reached 59.
— 100% are under 17 yo.
— 71% are aged 1 to 5.
— 23 have required hospitalization.
— 95% were unvaccinated.
— 5% had 1 shot.
— 0% was fully vaccinated.
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/columbus/viz/MeaslesPublicReport/MeaslesPublicReport?publish=yes

Important data from Denmark shows that the cohort of kids that were infants the year that RSV stopped circulating went on to have a lower total number RSV hospitalizations. In other words, COVID restrictions did not "delay the inevitable" surge in RSV cases. Quite the contrary: they *prevented* hospitalizations, in the sense that kids who experienced COVID restrictions are *less* represented in the RSV hospitalization data now. The bulk of hospitalizations are among kids who were not alive when we were holding back COVID.

tl;dr: there is no such thing as immunity debt, and no advantage in infecting your kid with RSV or any other respiratory virus.

h/t @lisa_iannattone

Ignoring the pandemic doesn't make it go away. All it does is disproportionately shift all of the burden of the pandemic on to the people who are the most vulnerable and have the fewest resources.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

No messing around during the tripledemic--wearing an N-99 mask today.

ode to joy

COVID-19 is robbing Latino community of a secret weapon behind their success: grandparents

COVID-19's death rate hit Latino seniors hardest, and that's threatening the community's long-heralded family structure.

#COVID

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-23/covid-19-struck-at-the-heart-of-latino-family-networks

I sat by an election denier on the airplane and he started poking me in the arm to be emphatic about his views on people stealing ballots secretly and the airplane was full and I couldn’t move anywhere so I started explaining the yellow fever in very great detail, all the way down to telling him about the bloody vomit that looks like coffee grounds and it worked. He stopped talking to me. The moral of this story is you can’t out-weird an academic; our toolset is too vast. #vastearlyamerica

Wow, not only have the MTA taken down the problematic "You Do You" anti-mask signs, they have now reinstated signs encouraging New Yorkers to mask up!

Thank you to high risk and disabled New Yorkers and groups like Mandate Masks NY and Brooklyn BCID for testifying at MTA meetings.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #NewYork #PublicTransport #BringBackMasks

“Americans have been trained for 100 years to think that the hospital is the best place to be, the safest place. But we have strong evidence that the outcomes are actually better at home.”
The hospital-at-home movement is just getting started
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/health/medicare-home-hospital.html?searchResultPosition=1 @paula_span@twitter.com

Why doesn’t the U.S. have at-home flu tests?

@brittanytrang explores: https://www.statnews.com/2022/11/22/why-doesnt-the-u-s-have-at-home-flu-tests/ #COVID19

Key points from the article:

You can catch Covid multiple times.

Reinfections are common, not rare.

Breakthrough infections are common.

Covid can kill you months after you recover.

It can cause brain damage.

It can cause blood clots and heart attacks.

It doesn’t spare children.

Vaccines help, but only some.

Masks work.

#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks

https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/you-may-be-early-but-youre-not-wrong

2. #Flu activity is crazy high for this time of year. It's key to remember that what's unusual here is the timing; many years flu activity hasn't even started to pick up at this point. This year flu season hit early. Not yet clear how long it will last or how severe it will be.

Post COVID recovery continues.
#PASC
I’m finding that if I push too hard I pay for it hours later. I’ll take any progress at this point. 😎

"The US continued to experience significantly higher COVID-19 and excess all-cause mortality compared with peer countries during 2021 and early 2022, a difference accounting for 150 000 to 470 000 deaths. This difference was muted in the 10 states with highest vaccination coverage; remaining gaps may be explained by greater vaccination uptake in peer countries, better vaccination targeting to older age groups, and differences in health and social infrastructure."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2798990

An explainer for why the US is not pursuing nasal vaccines. TLDR: there is no good explanation
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/health/covid-nasal-vaccines-warp-speed.html by @benjmueller@twitter.com
w/ @VirusesImmunity@twitter.com @florian_krammer@twitter.com