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Today is 10 days post exposure to #Covid at work. #Lucira #NAAT #MolecularTest shows a negative!

Because NAAT offers a 95 to 99% accurate result (as long as the sample was collected properly), I feel confident that this negative result is a true negative.

No symptom development. Rigorous #N95 use, plus nasal spray & mouthwash, works ✅

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Three days later and several more people are showing symptoms of #covid after being exposed to the confirmed positive case from Tuesday. 😵‍💫

Obviously, they’re still coming to work/school. Obviously, I’m keeping my #N95 on and using nasal spray and mouthwash multiple times per day. Hoping my 2x #Novavax is offering a little extra protection!

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#CovidDispatch from #NYC: I’m hearing anecdotes about recent/current #COVID infections, and symptoms that appear to characterize the newest #VariantSoup are respiratory in nature. Specifically:

Bad cough; “water in lungs” feeling; trouble taking deep breaths; lung congestion.

Since almost any symptom could be caused by #covid19 these days, stay alert and continue being #CovidSafe!

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Two days into my new job and I’ve already been exposed to #covid! Good thing I always wear an #N95 even outdoors when I am around other people.

Given the fact that nobody else in my workplace was wearing a #mask or #respirator, this should be a good litmus test of the efficacy of #PPE and the other precautions I take.

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC —

I’ve started collecting my own examples of “my kids are always sick” from #SocialMedia…it’s getting increasingly more common to see these kinds of posts dominating my feeds.

I think it’s important to keep sharing this kind of anecdote, esp when it seems like everyone is desperately embracing the #COVID “being over” nonsense.

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC — Someone I follow on Instagram posted this reel to their story; to be clear the OP is talking about “really bad allergies” and the person I follow is agreeing.

I do think that the pollen in NYC is really bad right now & agree that I never had allergies before I moved here…but can’t help wondering if anyone else still tests for #COVID 🫢

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Despite being vocal about how important it is to advocate for yourself (in the form of asking people to wear a #mask or #respirator in your personal space), actually doing so in real time can be intimidating. Especially when they’re both a stranger and a cisgender man 🥹

Luckily, there are still people who seem not to give a fuck and will do as you ask.

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC — At a Rite Aid waiting for a vaccine. Overhearing people talking about how “no allergy medicine works for them any more.” No #masks in sight. Nobody in the pharmacy is masked—and every single one of them is coughing, touching their faces, and wiping their noses with their bare hands. I guess we’ve learned absolutely nothing 🙃

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC — Most of my dispatches end up being about public transit and the egregious lack of #CovidSafety on subways/buses. It’s still relevant, though, since we’re still in a #pandemic!

Over the past month: many more ppl wearing masks on #MTA. Including MTA staff. Good; but why are we STILL wearing cloth masks in 2023???? 😟

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC — In the last 48 hrs, I’ve seen 4 ambulances parked outside residential buildings/houses. In 2 instances, they were loading people in on stretchers.

On the #MTA bus: out of ~25 passengers, at least 5 had loud, wet coughs and/or BIG sniffling. That sounds like 20% of people out in public w/active illnesses to me!

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC — Watching the #WeatherNation New York channel, and the meteorologist is actively coughing while trying to give the forecast. Her eyes are glassy and she may be a little pale (hard to tell w/ makeup and studio lights).

You can tell she’s trying to keep going through her spiel, but it’s not proving to be a very easy task.

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC — LOTS more masks are being worn on the subway (even saw one #FloMask !) over the past few days; still not many #N95. Some #KN95 and #KF94 though.

Almost everyone without a mask is coughing 😒 correlation?

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC — I've been seeing more masks worn outdoors (properly & improperly) over the past week; still very few #N95. Mostly ill-fitting surgical, but keep in mind that finding affordable #respirators is an #accessibility issue!

White ppl are donning cloth masks way more often than anyone else. They strike me as the faithful #NYT-reading type...

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC — Many with office-type jobs, and public school kids, are off from work today, which means there seem to be many out & about.

Went to the gym in an #N95, as always, to lift some weights. Much more crowded than usual. Several visibly sick people. #CO2 was at 2875 ppm. Two other people wearing masks—one #KN95 worn properly, one cloth fully under the nose 🤦🏼‍♀️ Ew.

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC — Streets seem emptier than usual, particularly around lunchtime. The couple school dismissals I’ve seen are smaller/less raucous (fewer kids). I suspect many are at home.

Midday A/C trains have been significantly emptier, and still not many masked. There may be fewer people who are walking around sick (coughing) in public, though!

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My sister texted me this tonight. One of her best friends got a negative PCR result, but a positive #RAT after their mom was confirmed PCR positive.

Another anecdote to suggest that #PCR tests aren’t picking up on #XBB #XBB15 and/or other dominant #variants as reliably, maybe? #Sars3 maybe? Fucking awesome /s

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC — More people out & about compared to beginning of this week. More kids on playgrounds, but also more kids WITH masks at school dismissals (surgical mostly, but better than nothing I suppose).

Midday C train has been packed with half+ maskless. Front/back cars tend to have fewer people (consistently) & more masked (inconsistently).

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Dispatch from #Brooklyn #NYC — I’ve been out of the house for a total of 4 hours today, and have seen three ambulances with lights on (parked, attending to people) and two (speeding past) with lights & sirens.

Streets seem emptier than usual, even during the usual school dismissal rush between 2:30 and 4 PM.

Rush hour C train was full-ish, many maskless.

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Sigh. So, as always, since the real number of cases is 10-30x higher due to underreporting…we’re looking at 4.64 million to 13.93 million new cases SINCE LAST WEEK

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