Keep reading for the other 4 things you must remember. And when I say we all need to do everything we can do to avoid getting Delta, in addition to getting vaccinated including boosters when indicated , we need to protect each other by wearing masks.
Masks work. This is science. This was proven many years ago — the wearing of surgical masks has prevented many patients from getting infections from their surgeons and the surgical teams. Would you allow your surgeon to operate on you without a mask? Masks are not a political debate. They work. They prevent the spread of respiratory viruses from person to person. Many of us treated many sick patients in the ED, inside, in close proximity and managed to not get COVID because we were wearing masks.
Much of the spread of COVID has been in social settings and in households when people are in close contact, indoors, without masks. I would not go to an indoor concert, comedy club, restaurant, or bar right now. If your self-test has a positive result, stay home or isolate for 10 days, wear a mask if you have contact with others, and call your healthcare provider.
If you have any questions about your self-test result, call your healthcare provider or public health department. Follow the public health fundamentals and help end this pandemic, no matter where you live—get vaccinated or boosted ASAP; if you live in an area with low vaccination rates, wear an N95 face mask , don't travel, social distance, avoid large crowds, don't go indoors with people you're not sheltering with especially in bars , practice good hand hygiene, and to protect your life and the lives of others, don't visit any of these 35 Places You're Most Likely to Catch COVID.
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And even if you are double vaccinated, even if you're a boosted so long, as there is a high level of transmission of the virus around you in the community, you are still at risk. So I'm going to give it at least a few more months, a couple more months. And hopefully in that time, more people in my community will be vaccinated and that will reduce my risk in the long run.
So how do we minimize hospitalizations and deaths? And then beyond that you have of an individualized tailored, personal clinical approach, which you can decide with your doctor, what are the things you want to do to protect yourself?
Follow the public health fundamentals and help end this pandemic, no matter where you live—get vaccinated ASAP; if you live in an area with low vaccination rates, wear an N95 face mask , don't travel, social distance, avoid large crowds, don't go indoors with people you're not sheltering with especially in bars , practice good hand hygiene, and to protect your life and the lives of others, don't visit any of these 35 Places You're Most Likely to Catch COVID.
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Eat This, Not That! Health talked with Dr. Wes Ulm, MD, Ph. Fast-forward a year, and the optimism is much more guarded and cautious, as another year of false dawns gives way to grizzled girding for yet another winter battle in the medical trenches against a relentless foe.
What happened? In short, the Delta variant did. The COVID vaccines, as promising as they were and still are, were found to wane significantly in their immune protection after several months and to be leaky, i. This allows the virulent Delta variety and its many mutated sub-variants to spread even in fully vaccinated communities. That's why you need to be extra careful. Unfortunately—and I say this as a concert and festival-loving musician myself—this includes assemblages like indoor concerts and choir performances, especially if held inside close quarters.
Being fully vaccinated and wearing a mask oneself do provide a valuable layer of protection, but again it's worth reiterating that for the aggressive delta variant, even vaccinated individuals can carry and transmit high titers measurable quantities of viral particles of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID For delta in particular, recent immunization confers strong but nonetheless somewhat patchy protection, and that immunity shield begins noticeably subsiding by around 3 months and especially at the six-month mark.
So particularly if you're a few months out from your shots or unvaccinated, have one or more serious comorbidities for a COVID bout notably high blood pressure, obesity, or chronic respiratory disease , or in areas with poor ventilation, take precautions and, as much as possible in that kind of atmosphere, social-distance and wear a good mask, even if stopping short of an N respirator.
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