I would too or NY. Tampa too I believe has non stop to SJU - or at least they did pre-pandemic. I'd be better off visiting family in Tampa first then flying down there. Though that could cost more. I haven't checked lately tbh.
Yes, our knowledge can change, but you seemed to imply something with the vaccines that we were missing. I did ask what you meant by that and am now very curious. Or were you not talking about vaccines?
That's why I like charts. It's much easier to visualize patterns.
The headline and article are written in a way that makes it seem like the new variants (specifically UK) are making younger people sicker than the original or that it has a higher fatality rate. If you read carefully it basically confirms what was expected. The variant is more contagious so more people (as a raw number) who are unvaccinated will get infected given equivalent mitigation. This will lead to more hospitalizations among young people (and potentially more deaths) but neither is at a higher rate per infection.It seems younger people are being hospitalized more overall with the new variants and those variants are driving the cases up in most of those states. This may actually be a good thing long term for vaccine hesitancy. If we can expose as false the narrative that young and healthy people face no risk from Covid that may mean more get the vaccine. I don’t want to see more people hospitalized and seriously ill, but the silver lining is it may help encourage others to be vaccinated.
More young people are getting hospitalized as a 'stickier,' more infectious coronavirus strain becomes dominant
What used to be a mysterious new variant first detected in the UK is now the leading coronavirus strain in the US. And unlike the original novel coronavirus, B.1.1.7 is hitting young people particularly hard.www.cnn.com
But you know as well as I do that the going narrative is Covid is no big deal for anyone who is young and healthy. The fact that young and healthy people are ending up in the hospital is proof that’s simply not true and never was. The focus for months before vaccines was deaths. Young and healthy are not dying so Covid is no risk. Silly, but that’s the way a lot of people think. Now that the old and “unhealthy” are vaccinated at a high level and out of the mix for hospitalization the percent of young people hospitalized is going way up. Overall hospitalizations are still down, but the point is that some additional focus, like the attached article, will shed light on the fact that people who are young and healthy can and are still ending up in the hospital.
Once you're infected, that's a good distinction to understand. Since you're no worse off than had you been infected before with an earlier version. Not great, but also not worse.
Now, where have I heard that before...
Ah, yes, there it is! Trust me, I will continue to as you say "oversimplify and make a bigger deal out of this than you should" because of comments like these.
Because people with health insurance don't care. They know that it's a risk they can take.
Well, we know they are young, but we don't know they were otherwise healthy before being hospitalized for Covid. Certainly, it can't be assumed that they were all dealing with a chronic ailment, but it is likely that many of them who end up admitted to a hospital could be dealing with one of a number of ailments that have been identified as contributing to a severe case vs a mild case.
www.cdc.gov
Most people with health insurance still have a co-pay. If you have a high deductible plan you are going to hit the annual cap with 1 night stay. If you have straight 80/20 or 70/30 for hospitalization where you pay 20 to 30% you may be getting a bill over $10K.
But they don't know that. A lot of people ignorantly think health insurance absolves them.
