A better COVID metric

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Apr 22

RE: Hospital staff off work for COVID rising.  Joanna Frketich, The Hamilton Spectator 7 Apr 22.

RE: Fourth COVID shot questions answered.  Joanna Freketich, The Hamilton Spectator 7 Apr 22.

Never mind the viral loading in wastewater, the best tell of the rising prevalence of COVID is the number of hospital staff booking off sick!

It’s funny, but hospital staff are subject to mandatory vaccination and have access to the best masks and protective clothing, but they’re still booking off sick - just when they’re needed most.  Far be it from me to suggest motives, but it came to be that our sympathies for “front-line” workers means they aren’t manning the front line when the attack is on, and the news is all about the pressure the few left working are under.

Anyhow, the efficacy of the booster and the fourth dose is being cast in doubt by this new metric of prevalence, i.e. hospital staff booked off sick..  Masks and vaccines aren’t working for hospital staff.  A fourth dose is running into the law of diminishing returns.  The “science table” claims five million Ontarians have had COVID, and the rates are 100,000 a day actually, which destroys the case for masks vaccines, lockdowns, and any other protective measures.  Yet the therapeutics are still hard to come by because they weren’t favored by the American authorities.

Any doctor huffing and puffing about masking now is talking through his hat.  Calls for fourth booster needs a shot of reality.

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