Those COVID payments, rental assistance and loan forgivenesses really helped people.
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WTF!?! I mean, masking in all patient care settings is simply a smart policy, even if COVID was well and truly gone. Gah, so dumb.
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The Government of Japan has announced that they are relaxing the guidelines on the wearing of masks. From March 13, the wearing of masks (regardless of whether indoors or outdoors) will be a matter of âpersonal discretion.â If public opinion surveys are any indication, a good 50-60% of the population will continue to wear masks, but I imagine that the summer heat and humidity will bring that number down quite a bit.
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She should bring it up with this guy:
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Damn. Positive self-test result. Going to get a PCR tomorrow.
This morning, in a meeting, our head of department said that it felt awkward when last week, the mask mandate dropped in our workplace, âwhich was like the literal small Gallic villageâ.
Yeah. About this, bossâŠ
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At 75 sheâs in a very high risk group.
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GTA - Greater Toronto Area
Wastewater is about the only semi-reliable indicator left here. That said, we shall see if our recent drop in hospitalization and death rates is sticky. I think the warm weather has helped. Our Sunday trip into Toronto saw about 25% of people masking, and at our local 
Cultural Center and MSS Regional Office itâs about 90%.
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Lucky that you still have that data. Our county wastewater monitoring appears to have been discontinued as of Jan 1, so we have no reliable local indicators left. Hospitalizations fell by 40% here last week, but the same weekâs death rate shows thatâs because about half of them died.
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From that Seattle Times article:
Rates of newly diagnosed diabetes, high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol were higher in the 90 days after COVID infection than the period before, according to a study of almost 24,000 patients during the period of omicronâs dominance from researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and vaccination appeared to help reduce these risks.
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Through the omicron era, new diabetes diagnoses were nearly three times as common among unvaccinated people after infection than during the pre-infection period. High blood pressure, cholesterol and elevated levels of other blood fats were almost twice as common after infection among the unvaccinated. Among vaccinated people who got COVID, the risk of diabetes remained about the same before and after the infection, while the risk for other diseases decreased.
So thatâs a bit more hopeful, for those of us whoâve been able/willing to receive vaccinations, at leastâŠ
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Although anecdotal, we have seen a dramatic increase in newly diagnosed diabetes in my practice. Canât say anyone has tried to corrolate with covid cases, but it is not a stretch to see a connection.
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Iâm sorry to hear that, and really hope there isnât a connection. Given Big Pharmaâs track record, I get the feeling their reaction to this news will beâŠdifferent. Those companies can prove me wrong by promoting development of cures more than treatments, though.
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We really are on the verge of a functional artificial pancreas. Itâs just a software question, and reliability question, at this point. Still, it sucks for the kids to suddenly have their whole future changed.
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