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Jess swan, kate strelo, raile grimm, rebecca hatherly, margaret downs, alice, reuben ivaly ches and me. Biggest question from listeners: What are we doing? Should we be doing holidays? Is january going to be an absolute shit show of hospitalizations? We've seen about a 30 % increase in the last 14 day average. Even hospitalizations, which were static for a while have now started to inch up. And i think that's likely due to this kind of flue activity that we're seeing. So since i mentioned thanksgiving is oftentimes a big kick off for flue season, think

You’re six to ten times LESS likely to catch COVID-19 if you’re vaccinated, and thus less likely to infect others. Great! But what about breakthrough cases? Who’s at risk for them? How many folks haven’t gotten vaccinated? Should pregnant people get the ol’ jab, what might happen with transmission rates in 2022, yearly booster questions, the ethics of vaccine distribution, myocarditis, Long COVID, quarantine fatigue and essentially whether the holidays are a good idea.

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