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Eight months in, California is containing COVID-19 as other states spike. Here’s why.

Nationwide, daily infections are up one-quarter in the last two weeks, and the country just reported its most in a single day since July. Lightly populated North Dakota is seeing 85 new cases a day per 100,000 residents over the last two weeks. California? Ten new cases per 100,000, up just 2 percent in two weeks.

The reasons why, health experts say, are made clear by a stroll through San Francisco. Pedestrians are masked and passing each other at acceptable social distances. Painted circles partition off small groups at one of the city’s most popular parks. Posters stapled to signposts once hawked live music; now, they advertise masks.

Every city could be San Francisco, and every state like California, these experts say. SARS-CoV-2 has proved to be a complex and mysterious virus, but eight months since it landed on our shores, the science seems clear on a simple way to contain it.

“If you social distance and you wear masks, you decrease the cases dramatically,” said Dr. John Swartzberg, an infectious disease expert and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley. “A culture that accepts the science and follows it is going to do better.”

We haven't touched on the topic of reinfections in a while, but its looking like people are getting sicker the second time around.

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1315756565882961922?s=21
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54512034
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/idaho-woman-in-the-hospital-after-being-infected-with-covid-for-the-second-time/277-ed4adab8-3b87-4722-abd3-d0ff37d74fb1

>...that means more money goes to the people who already have it.

So, it is like everything else.  There are also special private schools for "gifted" kids.  How many of these kids are truly gifted and how many are attending these schools to inflate their parents egos?  I am sure there are average or slightly above average students at the gifted schools and I am sure there are some dim kids in the schools for dyslexic children.

https://www.microcovid.org/

Worth spending a few minutes on.

What is the microCOVID project?

This is a project to quantitatively estimate the COVID risk to you from your ordinary daily activities. We trawled the scientific literature for data about the likelihood of getting COVID from different situations, and combined the data into a model that people can use. We estimate COVID risk in units of microCOVIDs, where 1 microCOVID = a one-in-a-million chance of getting COVID.

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Sorry Rupert.  How you doing?

This is interesting...
10,000 mink are dead in Covid-19 outbreaks at US fur farms after virus believed spread by humans

Dr. Keith Paulson with the UW-Madison Veterinary School Diagnostic Laboratory told CNN affiliate WISN that he noted "significant mortality in the mink" and that three workers there had recovered from the virus after displaying "mild to moderate clinical signs."

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Mink, which are closely related to weasels, otter and ferrets, appear to suffer similar symptoms to humans. Difficulty breathing and crusting around the eyes are usually seen, but the virus progresses rapidly, and most infected mink are dead by the next day, according to Taylor.
It's unclear what makes mink such a susceptible species, while others appear to be unaffected.