Posted on 01/10/2024 11:49:05 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The new year is kicking off with a spike in respiratory illnesses across the U.S., including COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus. Considering all the circulating illnesses right now, it might be time for masking to make a comeback, experts say.
"We're certainly in the winter peak of respiratory viruses," Dr. Albert Ko, professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Yale School of Public Health, tells TODAY.com. A post-holiday COVID spike alongside upticks of the usual winter illnesses, like flu and RSV, make this surge "very much expected," he adds.
Amid this rise in the spread of illnesses, mask mandates are already back in some health care settings, including hospital systems in Los Angeles County and New York City. And many of us should probably follow suit, Ko says.
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Halloween 6:00-8:00 p.m. as you go door to door?
yES. When trying to impress someone or having relations with someone you don't want to know.
If you're immuno-compromised due to chemo or whatever, it probably is a good idea, especially if you find yourself in crowded environments or around little kids, which are basically little germ monsters. In most situations, no, especially not in your car all alone or out jogging (which I've seen more than once).
Doesn’t everyone wear a mask, figuratively speaking?
Well, my scratchy throat at Christmas time got progressively worse and full blown at New Years. I’m lucky that it’s just congestion and coughing but I never realized it was RSV until I was able to talk to the doc on the 2nd of January. She put me on antibiotics and the doctor I talked to the other day put me on steroids. I tested negative for Covid, ran no fever but the saddest thing is I gave it to my Hub who spent 3 days in the hospital with RSV. He’s a double lung transplant patient and that could have been deadly for him. Thank God and His Grace that he made it through. I will stay home until I’m completely well and can get the RSV vaccine.
God Bless
Most masks don’t stop virus particles.
Halloween.
Didn’t know we had a surge, I’m not wearing a mask anywhere, if they require I won’t go
If she works for the MSM, than her diaper should do the trick.
If you EVER see me wearing a mask, IT MEANS I’M THERE TO ROB YOU!
If you can smell a fart through your mask then it does nothing against Covid virions. The ‘mask’ is a sign of submission and compliance to authority. Nothing more.
I remember when libtards ordered their weak subjects to wear masks in their own house
Wear it when participating in a “kill the Jews” protest on a college campus.
When robbing the bank!
In proximity to any politician.
God Bless
Thank you so much. I appreciate it....you as well.
Literally LOL re Fauci mustache mask.
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