Day: May 13, 2021💾

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Original Can of Worms vs Erie Canal (1895 vs. 1971 vs. 2020)

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I was looking at the old topographic map of Rochester and remarking about how closely the modern day Interstate 490 and 590 follow the path of the old Erie Canal. The original routing of the Can of Worms between 490/590 followed the curve exactly. It makes sense, the state already owned the routing of the Old Erie Canal so it made sense to run the arterial through it the most they could. On the west side of Rochester though they took a very different routing bulldozing through whole neighborhoods.

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Map: Santa Clara Reservoir

CDC dropping mask requirements for fully vaccinated people

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CDC dropping mask requirements for fully vaccinated people

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 no longer need to wear masks or physically distance, indoors or outdoors in most circumstances.

"We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy," CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a media briefing Thursday afternoon.

"Based on the continuing downward trajectory of cases, the scientific data on the performance of our vaccines, and our understanding of how the virus spreads," Walensky said, "that moment has come for those who are fully vaccinated."

NO MORE MUZZLE WEARING ! 😷

Most COVID-19 Infections and Hospitalizations are in Unvaccinated – Cleveland Clinic Newsroom

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Most COVID-19 Infections and Hospitalizations are in Unvaccinated – Cleveland Clinic Newsroom

Preliminary data from Cleveland Clinic suggests most people hospitalized for coronavirus aren’t fully vaccinated.

“From January first to around mid-April, we’ve had around 4,300 admissions to the hospital with COVID. Of those patients, 99% were not fully vaccinated,” said Eduardo Mireles, MD, Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit.

In addition to showing the majority of COVID-19 hospital admissions were in people who had not received a full vaccine series, another set of data looking at hospital employees shows a similar trend.

Researchers looked at nearly 2,000 hospital workers who had contracted COVID-19. They studied infections in the four months after the vaccine was offered. Results show 99.7% of infections in this group occurred among those who were unvaccinated.

They also found coronavirus MRNA vaccines to be more than 97% effective in protecting against COVID-19.