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Covid Follies ?


On yahoo!news, I just read an article that was originally printed in The Telegraph (London) on 12/1/21. This particular article drew my attention because it suggests that a number of things being done to fight Covid could be “folly.”

The subject of the article, Dr. Elad Maor, now has the omicron variant of Covid. He is a forty-seven year old cardiologist from Israel who just returned home after a short trip to London where he attended a large medical conference (1250 attendees). From the info in The Telegraph, Dr. Maor arrived in London on 11/19, spent four nights at a hotel, attended the  medical conference for three days, and returned home on 11/23.

In his own words he wore a mask the entire time while in London, except while attending the medical meetings and while eating. He thinks he contracted the virus in London, and is suspicious that he picked up the virus because many of those in London were not wearing their masks properly.

What is interesting to me is that his stringent mask-wearing obviously did not protect him … ? folly #1.

Dr. Maor was triple vaccinated with Pfizer/BioNTech … two shots and a booster. Obviously the vaccine plus the booster did not protect him  from Covid … ? folly #2. (In fairness, since he is apparently feeling better, the vaccines possibly did prevent him from becoming seriously ill.)

The third possible Covid folly has to do with testing. Dr. Maor was tested on 11/20 in London. He was again tested before flying home, and he had a third negative test on arrival in Israel on 11/23. He subsequently felt ill on 11/27, and had a positive test that day. If indeed, he caught Covid while in London, how is it that his Covid test was negative both before his flight back home and again after he arrived in Tel Aviv?

Could it be that instead of his blaming his Covid on non-mask wearers on the London tube, that he actually contracted Covid after he returned home to Israel? If the latter were actually the case, then the ? follies would actually be pseudo-follies. I guess we will soon know if he actually contracted Covid while in London, as there could possibly be a lot of British cardiologists (60% of 1250) soon in quarantine!

12/14/21

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