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Nurse Jenny's avatar

Love the dashboard!

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Jeremy Faust, MD's avatar

Thanks! Please share widely!

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PJ's avatar

Wear an N95 mask everywhere, NOW!

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Jeremy Faust, MD's avatar

One thing I see a lot of is people wearing flimsy surgical masks. I think it’s better to wear an N95 sometimes than a flimsy surgical one more often. Plus the 3M Aura n95 is super comfy. (I take no $ from them).

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Elle's avatar

Hi there! Thanks for this and all of your other helpful info. I’m curious about how you think about risk with regard to being part of a chorus. I really miss choral singing, but I feel like it would be hard for me to take the risk now, given how much viral transmission can happen with a big group of people singing while standing right next to each other. I know ultimately it comes down to individual risk tolerance etc., but just wondering if you might share a bit about how you think about chorus in the Covid era. Thank you!

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Jeremy Faust, MD's avatar

As you say, it’s a matter of risk tolerance. Over time, the board of the chorus I run has gone from all masks + weekly testing to then just masks and tests sometimes, to basically nothing. But we’ve always maintained that we’d watch levels. If flu and Covid had been higher in November, I would’ve asked for masks and tests as we got closer to the concert if for no other reason than I don’t want the chorus to fall apart due to multiple simultaneous illnesses during concert week.

This year, everything went fine. We do rehearse in a very large space. I think that helps a lot. It would be easier to rehearse in a smaller space but I think small spaces + singing + high prevalence of a respiratory pathogen is a problem waiting to happen. So we use a much bigger volume space (a church sanctuary instead of a chorus room that we’d fit into).

I’m glad we never have January concerts. Would be tricky.

Anyway, it’s all a moving target and we are doing our best. So far, so good!

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Elle's avatar

Just saw this reply, thank you for sharing!

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Thea's avatar

I love graphs. I realize there are others who find graphs confusing. But they really help me conceptualize, in way the words do not.

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Jeremy Faust, MD's avatar

Me too! I didn’t label as aggressively as I could have but I often worry that too much labeling is distracting

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