Two percent of US children under the age of five have received at least one dose of covid vaccine. This was not unexpected. In general, the percentage of people getting vaccinated has decreased as the age group decreases. A higher percentage of adults have been vaccinated than teenagers. The rate for teenagers exceeds that of children between the ages of five and 11. And the five to 11 age group has a higher vaccination rate than the under-twos.
Beijing has apparently ended the vaccine mandate for entry into public spaces before it really started. A person still needs to present evidence of a recent negative covid test and a non-feverish body temperature. Getting vaccinated is by "informal, voluntary consent."
The formal name of long covid is evidently "post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2" or just PASC. There is no medical definition of long covid yet, and that's probably a good thing. The CDC looks at covid symptoms lasting at least four weeks after the original infection. WHO looks at symptoms within three months from the onset of covid and its symptoms. The lingering symptoms or effects should last for at least two months. Over 50 different symptoms have been reported as being associated with long covid. Rushing a medical definition runs the danger of overlooking something important or otherwise overlooking large groups of patients. If you had Latin along your educational path, you may have recognized that "sequelae" is plural. There could well be multiple syndromes present and/or multiple specific causes.
The CDC says that there is no evidence yet that BA.4 and BA.5 are more severe than earlier Omicrons. Still, hospitalizations are rising. If hospitals get over-crowded, care of other disorders might suffer.
And now to arrange materials for my class, all except the wool roving. The cat with an appetite for wool is sitting in my workspace, something that will be corrected before I log onto Zoom.
I thwarted the cat's every attempt to get wool. As for the sheep, it somewhat sucks, but I did learn some things. While the wet felting class I took last month was fine in Zoom, this would have been much better in person. Here's what passes for a sheep.
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It's a better sheep from the front than it is from the side, as you said earlier it's the armature rather than the felting that's the challenge. I've never done it because I'm certain that I would nail the felting but not the bit where it's supposed to resemble something.
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