and New York City's health department took to Twitter, writing,"To help slow the spread, all New Yorkers should wear a high-quality mask, such as an N95, KN95 or KF94 in all public indoor settings and around crowds outside.". But going back to wearing masks might be a tough sell.
"We still sell masks everyday," said Michal Rubio, a pharmacist at Bowen Pharmacy."There will be a divide. There will be some resistance and there will be some people follow along." Research shows COVID variant BA.5 appears to be more transmissible than earlier strains and much more vaccine-resistant. But hospitals appear to be holding steady for now.
"We've seen increases over the last several weeks of rates of people that have COVID that are in our hospital, but very few of them are in the intensive care unit and it has not led to a significant disruption of our hospital operations at this point," said Dr. David Hirschwerk, medical director at North Shore University Hospital.
said the city ended the color-coded COVID system because it didn't fit with the city's strategies, including how it addresses new subvariants.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
DaveCarlinTV So why are you showing surgical masks 😷 and not the masks meant to be worn?
DaveCarlinTV Who cares... get your cold and move on.
DaveCarlinTV Never ending.....😑
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