I went to the website because of your post - thanks! Unfortunately, they only have my 2nd jab registered, not my 1st one. I let them know, but the auto-response said it would take a long time to get on it as they’re backed up. Oh well, at least I have my card with the correct info on it.
A few days ago, I emailed my state legislators to urge them to drop the “religious belief” exemption for vaccines. (For the record, I’m religious.) I’ve heard from two out of three. Both said they agree with me that the exemption should be eliminated. Both said most of the feedback from constituents is in pro-exemption. I’m glad I took 2 minutes to send the email since there’s such a big push from deniers.
Had I not emailed, I wouldn’t have known about a state anti-vaxx bill that’s pretty ridiculous:
No state agency or political subdivision of the state may take any other action that would result in an individual being required to submit to vaccination or immunization for COVID-19 despite his or her religious, philosophical, or personal objections including, but not limited to, requiring vaccination or immunization for COVID-19 as a condition of employment, access to education, travel, entry to a public place, or contracting with a state agency or political subdivision.
Could a state really prohibit all that? I think it’s stalled in committee and hope it stays that way.
I kept getting reminders to get my second shot. Once I found the site and saw that my second shot wasn’t reported, I called the pharmacy. They said that somehow they did not report the second shot, and reported it immediately. You may want to call your pharmacy to ensure the dose was recorded.
Hey…so any theories as to why delta isn’t the dominant strain in New Hampshire? Back in in early July I’d read that delta only accounted for 3% of analyzed cases but that wasn’t so strange because delta wasn’t the dominant strain yet, though it was 30-40% of cases in many places.
Now delta is by far the dominant strain.
Except these are New Hampshire’s case numbers as of now -
- Number of B.1.1.7 variant (Alpha; UK) cases: 1,252
- Number of B.1.351 variant (Beta; South Africa) cases: 2
- Number of P.1 variant (Gamma; Brazil) cases: 203
- Number of B.1.617.2 variant (Delta; India) cases: 321
- Number of MIS-C cases: 1-24 (per CDC)
Why hasn’t delta overshot alpha like in most places? That article from July I’d read noted that delta first appeared in NH in May’s testing so it’s been here a while.
Good idea; I’ll do it tomorrow. Thanks!
My boss got a note that the girl who sat next to his son in school had covid, but his son didn’t catch it. He credits the school’s masking requirements.
Best wishes.
So far. Every day is a new potential superspreader event.
That was months ago. His kid might catch covid at school in the future, but certainly didn’t from that exposure.
Just got back his test results. Negative, thank goodness.
So, I guess if they were in Texas, the son would have had covid. Thanks Abbott!
Our Collections manager and his wife (who works for a company that reports to us) have tested positive for COVID. I think they’d been vaccinated, but I’m not sure.
80% of Pennsylvanians 18 and older have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Yay, PA!!
Are those numbers for the total cases so far? If so, it’d make sense that the total number of Alpha cases would be higher because it’s been infecting people over a year longer than the Delta variant. What percentage of new cases are from the Delta variant?
We’re scheduled to have an Open House later next month. I told my wife, and she was like ‘You’re having an open house during COVID?’ We had a staff meeting/training session today. The first thing one of the account executives said was that a member said to her ‘You’re having an open house during COVID?’
So it’s going to be postponed, probably until Spring anyway.
As far as I can tell just the last 1-2 weeks. It can’t be cumulative because over 100k have had covid so far.
But are they sequencing every case to determine which variant it is? I assumed the numbers were cumulative, and are a subset of the total. It’s impossible to tell the significance of those numbers without knowing what the the time frame is/what they are exactly.
Yeah, this occurred to me about 10 minutes later. I do know, however, that at least two of our public universities are sequencing a lot of cases for the state. I’ll see if I can track down any numbers that might make some sense of it this weekend.
Email from the president:
Good afternoon:
I have just completed a meeting with our Board of Directors regarding COVID protocols for the foreseeable future. After a very good and healthy discussion during which the members were thoughtful about different perspectives on the issue of vaccinations (which included some serious debate), the following rules will apply effectively immediately after a vote of 10-1:
- Anyone not vaccinated will be required to be tested weekly and results must be submitted to me as soon as available each week. I will be keeping track of your reports and file them in a secure location accessible only to me and Mr. Foster.
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Use of Sick Time to go get the tests is approved. Although the actual test generally does not take long, testing may not be done on Friday afternoons or Monday mornings as a way of extending the weekend.
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For the vaccinated among us, please send a scan of your vaccination card. Again, this will be filed securely.
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Our mask protocol will remain in place and 6 foot social distancing is required.
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Hand washing, desk and accessory cleaning will continue, and appropriate hygiene will remain a requirement.
In addition to this aforementioned items, consideration was given to mandating vaccinations. All but one person believed that vaccinations are right thing to do. The debate was whether we could mandate it. Legally we can and more than half were prepared to require it. Ultimately, however, the Board reached the conclusions noted above.
In addition, we will be postponing our Open House until a later time to be determined. Everyone agreed that it was strange to have a COVID party!
If you have questions, please let me know or come see me.
Thanks for your help,
Wow, that’s much clearer than the guidance we’re getting about our office reopening next week. We can’t even get a straight answer to “when you say per CDC guidelines even vaccinated people must always wear a mask when ‘in close contact with others’ what does that many when it comes to offices that are big enough allow people to sit well over six feet apart?” Our leadership just gives us puzzled looks and shrugs and claims they’re still waiting on answers from the university…which is a big part of why no one from my center and at least one other center are going back yet.
I was told by my supervisor that I can work from home until my newly ordered laptop arrives because I can’t bring a desktop to and from the office several times a week. The IT person thinks it might be on back-order until December given it needs to have a high end video card for video editing.
Oh, darn, it’s sure too bad my computer has to be replaced now per university policy because it’s out of warranty as of this month.
I had to go to my old workplace today, which just happens to be a food stamp office. The doors are open, masks are not required and I was the only one wearing one. They are still not seeing clients in person, but are allowing them to come inside and scream at them instead of making them do it outside like they did up until last month.
I didn’t stay long.