Covid might be over before East Lansing’s downtown mask mandate ends. Dr. Marty Makary a surgeon and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health argued in a recent Wall Street Journal editorial that it will be “mostly gone” by April. City council this week extended the ban to May 16.
I’d planned to log on to the council meeting to object, but why bother. The decision had been made.
If I’d participated, I’d have … Read more →
As for Covid-19 locally, so far so good for our area following the George Floyd protests and the Harper’s outbreak.
This chart comes from the Ingham County Health Department and in the aftermath of both the protests and the bar outbreak, there hasn’t been a serious spike in hospitalizations or ICU usage.
Locally, we’re seeing a lot more tests, more incidences but steady hospitalizations.
http://www.hd.ingham.org/Portals/HD/Home/Documents/cd/coronavirus/ICHDCOVIDstats.pdf
It’s well known that viruses tend to burn out after awhile and hopefully, that’s what our local data … Read more →
