Opinion: Experts say the growing COVID-19 undercount is creating a false sense of security. Individuals can, however, reduce their risk.
Attendees wear required masks Friday during a rally for U.S. House candidate Jessica Cisneros at the Second Baptist Church. The COVID-19 undercount has led many people to drop their guard.My worst fear after testing positive for COVID-19 a second time two weeks ago is that I had inadvertently infected family members, friends and even some community leaders.
Only two days before my positive test — and as of Saturday I have tested positive for 11 consecutive days — I arrived at the Twig Book Shop at the Pearl to moderate a conversation with Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff about his new pandemic memoir,One of our son’s close friends and a few of her friends had tested positive after attending a local club concert.
If there is one thing we have learned about this persistent coronavirus in its ever-mutating variations, it’s that vaccines and boosters are largely effective in preventing serious disease and hospitalization, but they do not entirely block transmission of the virus. People responded with appreciation rather than anger or blame. None of them, as it turned out, would test positive. My wife, Monika, moved upstairs to a guest bedroom and since then I have isolated at home, kept my distance from family and contented myself with a daily outdoor walk, masked, with our dog.
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