Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:
This year's summer COVID surge shows that (predictably) the change in the CDC's isolation guidelines is a disaster. Hearing about so many instances of people returning to work/school unmasked 24 hours after testing positive.
Most people are infectious with COVID for at least 10 days. 24 hours was never going to cut it. And while the CDC did try to mitigate this by adding that you should mask for a few days after returning, predictably no-one is even doing this.
Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:
We all warned the CDC that this is how loosening COVID isolation guidelines would play out. It's important for the CDC guidelines to be strong and science-based because when it comes to corporations, it's always a race to the bottom. Bad guidelines become worse in practice.
Sepideh
@luckytran The pharmacist was happy with someone who I know for wearing his mask when he went to pick up his Paxlovid, which would suggest that some people who are in the contagious phase of COVID are not wearing masks to the pharmacy to pick up their meds. 🤦🏻♀️
Jennifer Morency :mastodon:
@sepdroid @luckytran Last week a fellow pharmacy customer actually thanked me for wearing a mask. Sadly, none of the pharmacy employees mask anymore. (I'm immunosuppressed, so I'll probably be masking for the rest of my life.)
Sakshi 🌴🥥
Just wanted to mention to you all that, over the past few weeks, my post-Covid brain fog is finally clearing. From an infection contracted about 2.5 years ago. Not at all minimizing Covid but I truly thought that I'd be stuck in this confusion for life. And somehow, it is clearing. Wish I could give you a reason.
Absent a cure, there is hope. ❤️
clacke
@evannakita @luckytran Even if you have the difference in average between vaccinated and unvaccinated, that's a range of how long you're infectious, and then a range of how much the vaccination helped you on top of that.
Of course we make risk calculations based on averages, so it's helpful to know. But in the absence of that, I'll take the same precautions whether I'm recently vaccinated or not.
Evannakita
@luckytran Would you happen to have numbers on how much the duration of infectiousness can be influenced by vaccination? I seem to recall that there’s a substantial difference—and so is this graph based on an unvaccinated sample?
Alistair K
@luckytran I think that I understand the long tails indicating a long period of infectiousness. Could you help me to understand what the left-hand side means? The bits that confuse me are the "symptom onset" label, the staggering of the delta-omicron-ancestral bars (I guess that their positions must be referring to something) and the vertical axis.
clacke
@libroraptor I think those horizontal bars per strain are the time ranges where symptoms are usually noticeable, and their vertical position is a pure layout decision?
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