Forbes November 26, 2024
Along with holiday travel, we might expect a bump in the numbers of illnesses due to COVID-19 and other respiratory infections. While cases are relatively low at the moment, Michael Hoerger, director of the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative , estimates through modeling that about 1 in 118 people in the U.S. are actively infectious with Covid. Travel will spread infections widely.
“If gathering with 10 people for the holiday, know there’s about an 8% chance at least one person would have Covid if no testing/isolation,” Hoerger tweeted.
Surviving a hospital stay is increasingly difficult, given staffing cuts and changes in practice patterns over recent years. I wrote about this some years ago (link) and felt a need to update this based...
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