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Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates
How to Outlast the Pandemic with Grace
Working That Resiliency Muscle
The US has hit a quarter of a million deaths, a mind-numbingly terrible milestone. We try to picture how it’s more than all the deaths in World War I and Vietnam and Korea combined, but it’s just not fathomable. And the worst of it is, hospitalizations are rising so rapidly now — with no clear-cut way to turn them around — there is no clear picture of when this terrible tsunami will recede.
Regarding Thanksgiving: I’ve been thrilled at how many people have deliberately decided to dial the day down to immediate bubbled family.
It appears more and more people are using our science to make mindful decisions about Thanksgiving. Almost everyone I know has changed their plans somehow — inviting fewer people, eliminating travel, eating take-out or pot-luck, shortening the get-together, using more ventilation or outside gatherings, planning widely spaced tables and chairs, and masking around everybody at risk hopefully keep us all a little bit safer
Some people have found this Brown Med School calculator helpful. You put in the details of your gathering — eg numbers of guests, duration, indoors/outdoors, what % masked — and it will tell you whether it’s a high, low or medium risk activity.
What I…
