Omicron's effect on older people
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Publsihed today @PNASNews
Mask wearing significantly reduces #SARSCoV2 community transmission. Analysis of the effect in 92 regions, 6 continents pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
by @g_leech_ and colleagues
Amen to this whole article, but especially this paragraph. If we want to do robust, reproducible, large-scale science, academia needs to start treating software engineers as critical and equal partners in the process, and build career paths to match. nature.com/articles/d4158…
Omicron's lethality rate among seniors was worse than Delta
nytimes.com/2022/05/31/hea…
The waning of vaccinations, lack of adequate booster uptake in this high-risk age group were contributory factors