Return W/S/S

One to One Health’s COVID Services has offered expert “translation” of the scientific literature into every day work, school, and sports behaviors for more than a year now. Critical reading of the publications is necessary to avoid scare-mongering, oversimplification, and frank misinterpretation of scientific data, data that can be lost in translation to click-bait and headlines.
Interpretation of recent scientific news is the focus of this week’s RETURN.

Each week we are asked to make predictions about where the pandemic is going, what behaviors are lower risk in the current environment, and what is going to happen next week, next month, next season. Truth be told, we read and listen to a lot of experts and do our best to keep you advised so you can stay in school, go to work, and stay healthy AND productive during this pandemic. Maybe it’s not complicated, just complex, and we will sort through it as the focus of this week’s RETURN.

If you’re not two weeks after full vaccination, keep up your skills, make time to get vaccinated, and avoid getting COVID-19. The accumulating data on the benefits of vaccination and a little pat on the back to keep up the good work with mitigation are the focus of this week’s RETURN.

Reported across multiple sources, the numbers and percentages are going down, and currently seem oddly plateaued to me, and people are starting to ask, “when can we change what we are doing?”
Given that these statistics occur while those of us never infected or infected last year are following mitigation strategies, our answer is “not yet, not until more of us are vaccinated.” Vaccination is, again, the focus of this week’s RETURN.