…the staff are not wearing masks at a medical clinic??
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Veterinarian in edge of rural Florida.
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Anecdotally, my daycare teacher sister is dealing with her 3rd bout of covid in two years and has been sick (hit pretty hard each time). She is vaccinated and does not at all isolate from her husband and two small unvaccinated children, and they have all been negative and asymptomatic all three times. Weird.
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But also when I went to the gynecologist last month, I saw 2 nurses not wearing their masks properly and maybe a quarter of the office staff doing scheduling and checking folks in and out were wearing theirs. So it’s not just a veterinary issue.
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Yep, at my kid’s eye doctor appointment at an office that only handled kids, at the appointment last fall before there was a 12-5 vaccine they had a “masks required” sign on the door but the receptionist had to put hers back on as I walked up to the desk and two staff in the back working area (not a patient room but it had some shared equipment for them to use to assess lenses or whatever) didn’t have masks on and were chatting to each other. Like, y’all are by definition working with a population that cannot be vaccinated yet and you’re health care professionals, wtf.
Our pediatrician’s office has been pretty great overall, but they also had a diplomatically worded “If you’re antivax you should maybe go to a different practice” note in the paperwork to enroll with their practice as a patient back in 2015 so they have always had a good office culture from that perspective.
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I’ve been to the ER twice this fall and mask use was as mixed as at most businesses we’ve been in. Patient use was 10/10, masks always up when approaching patients, but in their workspaces the masks are sometimes down. Probably pulled down to drink and left down while they think. I think that you need a really strong culture of reminders to have humans keeping them on for 8-13h straight. Or an environment where you’re super focused and not drinking, eating etc (like an OR)
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The only person in a mask at my GP is the nurse practitioner. Not the front office staff, not the lab folks, not the doctor.
At the ER, most of the patients and all the medicals wore masks (properly except one guy who kept “falling asleep” in the waiting room and pulled his blanket over his head to hide the fact he was taking his mask off). The intake person had dicknose except for when she was wearing a chin warmer, and the cops on security mostly had no mask at all.
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Wow, it really is a different world out there. I guess it was naive of me to assume that even in regions where masking is poor it would at least happen in a medical capacity.
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New Orleans has reinstated their indoor mask mandate. Probably because they don’t want to cancel Mardi Gras again like last year and they’re about to be inundated with tourists. One article also made brief mention of the city distributing KN95 masks but I didn’t see details.
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Dammit. Moderna’s study group got expanded, Aka they’re extended too. End of April is the new guess.
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Christ on a cracker
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It took me reading this article to even find out. Parents of kids under 5 see no end in sight to the pandemic.
How the fuck is this a footnote to the rest of everyone?
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We are literally putting our entire god damn lives on hold it feels like 🤦
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Ugh, I was really wanting to believe the article from a couple weeks ago that said early 2022
…but there were people posting in my bumper group (14-16 month kids) that week who had just been called in for a fist KidCOVE shot so I wasn’t hopeful.
They are so totally a footnote.
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The FDA made them expand it, just like they did to Pfizer and it’s like why aren’t we adequately powering our studies from the beginning!? So tired.
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Florida has had just a hard time finding tests that federal regulators decided that a million tests that were past their expiration date can have the expiration date extended by three months.
This is not to be confused with the tests that were already used and sent for analysis that expired before they could be counted. God it’s such a cluster here.
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Yeah I’ve got some serious questions about who decided on study design 
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I am having a “…” Response to the “showed up” part of that. 
Yay to a request to be kind! Boo to the low key judgement of those staying home out of need or choosing not to work for wherever that is…
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On all the short staffing… I’m shook because it’s making me fully realize how much of work has always depended on people showing up sick… like man remember 2 years ago it was honestly pretty normal to go with the sniffles, cold, cough even?? and we’d be running around maskless too…. Insane!!
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