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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 30, 2022, 1:24 pm
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January 5, 2022
[center]COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont[/center]
🚨👉 As Vermont sets yet another Covid case
record, here’s what to take away from the data
HTML https://vtdigger.org/2022/01/04/as-vermont-sets-yet-another-covid-case-record-heres-what-to-take-away-from-the-data/
[move]Omicron is in full 😖 force in Vermont. [/move]
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SOURCES for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
HTML https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/85f43bd849e743cb957993a545d17170
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 30, 2022, 1:25 pm
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January 12, 2022
[center]COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont[/center]
🚨👉 Thousands of Covid-19 test results delayed in
Vermont as [color=teal]hospitalizations hit record high[/color]
HTML https://vtdigger.org/2022/01/11/thousands-of-covid-test-results-delayed-in-vermont-as-hospitalizations-hit-record-high/
[move]Omicron CONTINUES to be in full 😖 force in
Vermont. [/move]
👉 Covid, cold weather close schools across Vermont
HTML https://vtdigger.org/2022/01/10/covid-cold-weather-close-schools-across-vermont/
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SOURCES for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
HTML https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/85f43bd849e743cb957993a545d17170
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 30, 2022, 1:26 pm
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January 19, 2022
[center]COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont[/center]
[move]RUTLAND — Asked what it’s like to do her job right now
amid a staffing crisis and surging Covid-19 hospitalizations, a
nurse heading home from Rutland Regional Medical Center on
Monday was moved to tears.[/move]
😱👉 ‘There’s just not a light on the horizon’:
Vermont hospital staff swamped by record Covid-19
hospitalizations
HTML https://vtdigger.org/2022/01/18/theres-just-not-a-light-on-the-horizon-vermont-hospital-staff-swamped-by-record-covid-19-hospitalizations/
[move]Omicron CONTINUES to be in full 😖 force in
Vermont. [/move]
🤦‍♂️ 👉 Long-term care cases
spike [color=black]as Vermont sets new Covid hospitalization
record
HTML https://vtdigger.org/2022/01/18/long-term-care-cases-spike-as-vermont-sets-new-covid-hospitalization-record/
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SOURCES for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
HTML https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/85f43bd849e743cb957993a545d17170
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 30, 2022, 1:27 pm
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January 26, 2022
[center]COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont[/center]
👉 Officials tout [color=green]decline in Covid cases,
despite record hospitalizations and long-term care
outbreaks[/color]
HTML https://vtdigger.org/2022/01/25/officials-tout-covid-case-success-despite-record-hospitalizations-and-long-term-care-outbreaks/
👍 Vermont cheesemaker survives pandemic by furloughing
goats, selling closer to home
HTML https://vtdigger.org/2022/01/25/vermont-cheesemaker-survives-pandemic-by-furloughing-goats-selling-closer-to-home/
[move]The New case count is going
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/>down in Vermont... [b]HOWEVER, the weekly Death toll is
RISING
all across the ☠️ US.
🤦‍♂️ [/b][/move]
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SOURCES for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
HTML https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/85f43bd849e743cb957993a545d17170
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 30, 2022, 1:28 pm
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February 2, 2022
[center]COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont[/center]
👉 As Omicron surge [color=teal]eases, officials look to
a future of endemic Covid-19[/color]
HTML https://vtdigger.org/2022/02/01/as-omicron-surge-eases-officials-look-to-a-future-of-endemic-covid-19/
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HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3/3-020222135342-31221259.png[/center]
SOURCES for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
HTML https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/85f43bd849e743cb957993a545d17170
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 30, 2022, 1:29 pm
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February 8, 2022
Vermont is almost out of the COVID-19 "woods", so to speak. Of
course that is no consolation at all for the relatives and
friends of those who have died from this disease, but at least
the worst appears to be over.
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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 30, 2022, 1:29 pm
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February 9, 2022
[center]COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont[/center]
👉 As Omicron surge [color=teal]eases, officials look to
a future of endemic Covid-19[/color]
HTML https://vtdigger.org/2022/02/01/as-omicron-surge-eases-officials-look-to-a-future-of-endemic-covid-19/
[center]
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/4/3-090222123622.png[/center]
SOURCES for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
HTML https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/85f43bd849e743cb957993a545d17170
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 30, 2022, 1:30 pm
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February 16, 2022
[center]COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont[/center]
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SOURCES for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
HTML https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/85f43bd849e743cb957993a545d17170
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 30, 2022, 1:31 pm
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February 23, 2022
[center]COVID-19 WEEKLY UPDATE with Emphasis on Vermont[/center]
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SOURCES for the Stats: 🦉
COVID-19 Vermont Public Dashboard
HTML https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/85f43bd849e743cb957993a545d17170
COVID-19 Dashboard by CSSE at Johns Hopkins University
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
[center]ONE YEAR AGO TODAY:[/center]
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Re: COVID-19 🏴☠️ Pandemic
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 30, 2022, 1:32 pm
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March 1, 2022
​💡 SPOTLIGHT
We’re all Sweden now: How COVID fatigue brought us back to herd
immunity
Early in the pandemic, Swedish authorities were roundly
criticized for the lack of COVID-19 restrictions and for arguing
for a different cost-benefit calculation in trying to eliminate
the virus at all costs. Now, more and more countries are
dropping all restrictions even as Omicron continues to spread.
But is this really about herd immunity?
Since Denmark became the first European nation to drop all COVID
restrictions in late January, a slew of countries around the
world have followed suit — including Norway, Poland, Sweden,
Switzerland, the Dominican Republic and, most recently, the UK.
After almost two years of curfews and mask mandates, British
Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared Monday it was time to
“live with the coronavirus.”
And the list of others taking the same path is set to grow:
Italy and Spain recently lifted masking mandates for outdoor
spaces, while French authorities have announced indoor masking
will no longer be mandated starting next week. Meanwhile,
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer harkens “a dignified spring
awakening” with most restrictions to be lifted by March 5 —
while German Chancellor Olof Scholz hailed last Wednesday “a
very special day of the pandemic” after agreeing with 16 state
governors on a schedule to drop most restrictions in the coming
months.
But all of this rosy talk and rescinded restrictions also begs
the question of why this is a special time. Why, as the Omicron
variant is spreading far faster than previous versions, and when
it’s clear that no nation on Earth has come close to conquering
COVID, is it time to abandon containment efforts?
Indeed, public health experts are warning that lifting
restrictions risks repeating a wave of winter infections and
causing further mutations of the virus. But leaders around the
world aren’t listening this time, deciding — seemingly in unison
— that the era of lockdowns, closed borders and mask-wearing has
come to an end.
The justification? That the healthcare systems in most countries
are no longer overburdened — tipping the cost-benefit scales
towards the imperative of keeping the economy and society from
collapsing.
But let's remember that is the very justification Swedish state
epidemiologist Anders Tegnell gave for refusing lockdowns in the
first place — and for which he and Sweden were widely derided as
a wrong-headed and cynical policy. Tegnell was forced to repeat
ad nauseam in the Swedish and international press that this was
not, in fact, a concerted attempt at defeating the virus by
achieving “herd immunity” with a majority of the population
immunized via infection. Instead, this was the very same kind of
cost-benefit calculation based on the specific context of
Sweden, whose healthcare system was never overburdened and
population in favor of light restrictions.
So what do we make of the fact that Sweden’s strategy (held up
globally as a case of reckless defiance or some misguided sense
of northern exceptionalism) is now becoming the strategy of the
world? To be clear, this isn’t saying that Sweden didn’t make
mistakes: After all, the country’s Public Health Agency has
admitted that a central part of the strategy, i.e. protecting
the old, failed as nursing homes were under-equipped and
ill-prepared to follow health protocols. In addition, the
constantly evolving health and social distancing “guidelines”
issued by authorities eventually became too numerous and
confusing to be effective.
Rather, the point is that there’s something worrying about our
leaders rebranding what was only months ago agreed upon as a
dangerous “herd-immunity” approach as a joyful spring awakening.
Of course, we know from history that politicians have a special
talent for proclaiming lost wars a victory. Perhaps, as it’s by
now hard to see how anyone would score these last two years a
win, the narrative around COVID and restrictions had to change.
The real winner is what we’ve come to call “COVID fatigue,”
where the economic and health calculations are swept aside by
the simple fact that the virus has exhausted society.The
deepening cultural and political divide over everything from
lockdowns to vaccines stand as a sad testament to that we now
live in a global society where seemingly nothing — not even a
common enemy as lethal as this pandemic — can bring the herd
together.
— Carl-Johan Karlsson
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