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What does society owe immunocompromised people?

February 16, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Atlantic The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo By Ed Yong February 16, 2022 Two years later, COVID-19 is still all around us, everywhere, and millions of people like Landon are walking around with a compromised immune system. A significant proportion of them don’t respond to COVID vaccines, so despite being vaccinated, many … [Read more…]

Posted in: Pandemic, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: AIDS, antibodies, COVID-19, Immunocompromised, immunosuppressants, lupus, mask mandates, rheumatoid arthritis, vaccination, Vaccines

Paper Cards and Digital Codes Target Vaccination Chaos

January 25, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

On IEEE Spectrum is an essay describing an initiative by MIT and others to help with the rollout of the vaccines for COVID. It appears both low tech and reasonably data safe for immediate use.

Posted in: Pandemic, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Boost19, COVID-19, eligibility, IDEO, MIT Media Lab, PathCheck Foundation, patient privacy, QR codes, second dose, second vaccine dose, vaccination, vaccination card, vaccine rollout

EPIDEMIC WELL UNDER CONTROL, IT IS REPORTED

July 12, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The newspaper article below seems too familiar to our current state in July 2020: San Diego Union and Daily Bee 29 October 1918 EPIDEMIC WELL UNDER CONTROL, IT IS REPORTED Health Board Renews Request For Wearing Masks and Suggests Precautions. Two deaths and 40 new cases summed up the course of the Spanish influenza epidemic … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Pandemic Tagged: 1918, face masks, gauze masks, masks, Spanish Influenza, vaccination, vaccine

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