I've had four students report in with COVID so far today.
As for me, I had to cancel my third class and go home and sleep for four hours, although I am back on campus now for tonight's workshop.
We'll see how many students show up.
(I can never remember the difference between endemic and epidemic, so the title to this post may be entirely wrong.)
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Endemic means regularly occuring within an area, so yeah, maybe that's what's happening with Covid? Ugh.
Hope Dr. Skull feels better quickly!
Thank you!
The epidemic is endemic.
It is! I was talking to my workshop students about why we weren't sitting in pushed-together tables, as is our wont in that class, and I said, "Just more distance between everyone seems good, until this round of COVID blows through campus," and my smartest student said, "And until the next round does."
That's where we are now. Though I hear the new vaccine should be out soon?
Endemic means that they're expecting a certain number of baseline cases throughout the population, and the case counts are in line with expectations. Epidemic means an increase in cases above what's normally expected in the population.
Since I'm not an epidemiologist, I don't have a leg to stand on with my opinions... but I think that with all the data that is no longer being collected or publicized, we can't know "endemic" vs. "epidemic." I also think that the move towards "endemic" is part of normalizing covid19 and stepping down taking it seriously, which I also have problems with. I would probably be more okay with normalizing it and taking it less seriously if it weren't for long covid.
I am still so mad at conservatives and liberal anti-vax types over all this. I believe that it didn't have to be this way.
Walgreens is scheduling appointments now!
Of course, you won't need to get one for another couple of months...
"Endemic means that they're expecting a certain number of baseline cases throughout the population, and the case counts are in line with expectations. Epidemic means an increase in cases above what's normally expected in the population."
Thank you! This is a very clear and useful explanation.
Hard agree with the rest of your comment, also.
1) I think any time we hear "rise in hospitalizations" or "surge in cases" we can infer that its an epidemic wave on top of an endemic baseline
2) I agree the govt could have done a lot more (air quality! Next gen vaccines for durable immunity!) and there could have been fewer deaths (see also: New Zealand) but the endemic-ness and everyone more or less giving up WAS inevitable in the long run (see also: New Zealand).
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