Covid-19 remained a bigger killer than the flu last winter, despite hopes the pandemic virus would eventually blend into the background with other respiratory germs that cause seasonal epidemics, a US study showed.
Patients hospitalized for Covid had a 35% higher risk of dying within 30 days than influenza patients, Ziyad Al-Aly and colleagues at the clinical epidemiology center of the Veterans Affairs St Louis Health Care System in Missouri found. Covid posed a 60% higher mortality risk than flu in hospitalized patients during the 2022-2023 season, the same researchers showed last year.

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[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of the reasons I'm honestly happy my job still has us all wearing masks

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't want you to dox yourself but how the hell is that happening? I'm in florida so even the libs abandoned precautions in early 2021. I thought the rest of the country had as well by now.

[–] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know some people who work in stay in facilities for elderly folks and they have to wear masks still.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Im honestly shocked, thats wonderful to hear though!

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Healthcare because we have iso rooms and still get covid patients (so yeah definite exposure risk). Still I'd rather be masked up and now if I was around someone with an illness than just rolling the dice at a rando store

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Oh, wow. Yeah, that's pretty fortunate. I keep hearing horror stories from immunocompromised folks trying to get treatment and finding that their providers have lost their damn minds.

[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So jealous, there's probably like ten people in my store still masking. My manager and supervisors both were sick last week, and didnt have grace to stay, or mask while at the store. Thankfully my mask keeps me safe but this shit is never going away. We saw a better way, wearing masks to prevent spreading illnesses and the westoids only made up bullshit about how it was moderately uncomfortable.

Death to america (and Canada).

[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

saw a better way, wearing masks to prevent spreading illnesses and the westoids only made up bullshit about how it was moderately uncomfortable.

They claimed that its "not in our values" to wear a mask, which is pretty amazing that they don't realize what they're saying. They try to sidestep what they're implying by claiming mask don't work, but the reality is, Thinking about or caring about others isn't in our values. And they're right. Rugged individualism is antisocial. And capitalism is the sociopaths economic system fr. Liberal society conditions antisocial behaviors and creates antisocial people, calling them Individualistic just hides the reality.