. (Tribune News Service) Andrea Kanerva sat on the edge of the bed with her hair pulled up, exposing the ties of her blue hospital gown. Fuzzy green socks with white treads covered her feet. She spoke deliberately, breathing deeply as the lines on the monitor behind her danced up and down, graphing fluctuations in Kanerva s pulse, blood-oxygen level and respiratory rate. Kanerva, who lives in Hamburg Township and works as a service adviser for Briarwood Ford in Saline, is part of Michigan s third wave of novel coronavirus patients hospitalized at the height of a surge that for weeks has led the nation.
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Covid-19 reinfections still seem rare, but the U.S. lacks good data
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Reinfections from Covid-19 continue to seem rare, and are not responsible for the current, stubbornly high case counts in the United States, according to scientists and the latest findings.
At least, that’s what researchers are left to conclude. Experts say the country and individual states don’t have strong systems to determine how frequently people are getting reinfected another consequence of the nation’s limited surveillance network. They’re calling for better data collection and analysis around second cases of Covid-19.
The main factors driving coronavirus transmission in the United States are a mix of the old easing restrictions, people coming into close contact with others and the new, like the more transmissible variants, experts say. And Caitlin Rivers, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said she thought that rein
For those now fully immunized against COVID-19, the rules haven’t changed - yet
Janet Hanson hasn’t had anyone inside her home outside of maintenance workers for almost a year.
Because of the pandemic, the 86-year-old who lives in the Friendship Village senior citizen complex in Kalamazoo can’t travel to see her daughter in Arizona. Hanson saw her son only in outdoor venues until it got too cold, and now they’re limited to phone calls. Her social life these days are limited to outdoor walks with several neighbors, all fully masked.
But on Friday, Hanson got her second dose of the Moderna vaccine. In two weeks, she will be considered 95% protected against COVID-19.