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.
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
Me working retail and being one of the only people that masks :yea:
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.