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Last Mask Standing
A newsletter for everyone who still cares about COVID and needs to know they're not alone.
By Alanna Shaikh · Launched 5 months ago
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Welcome to Last Mask Standing
Last mask standing. It’s personal, it’s professional, it kind of hurts to write. This is a newsletter for the one person in the room still wearing a mask. The person who knows we’ll see a next wave and their vaccine protection is likely to wane. The parents of the only masked…
Feb 22, 2021
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Masks I've Bought and Liked
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Apr 27
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It's Reinfection Time
This is an extra post because I felt like it was urgent. If you have ever considered forwarding one of my newsletters, please forward this one. Here is my now ritual disclaimer. I’m still not an epidemiologist. And I really underestimated the severity of COVID when it first…
Jun 23
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So, that new CDC COVID guidance...
Looked at from a public health standpoint, the CDC’s new screw-it-just-spread-COVID guidance doesn’t actually make health or science sense. They are simply not the guidelines that will protect the greatest number of people from getting COVID. But was it reasonable to expect that…
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