COVID(4) Device Drivers Manual (vax) COVID(4)

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coronavirus disease caused by SARS-CoV-2

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The covid family of diseases, attached to humanity via a spike protein bus in the year 2019 as covid19, is a contagious respiratory and neurological disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

covid is spread human-to-human mainly through small droplets and aerosols, especially in crowds, closed spaces, and close contact. Some approaches to mitigate transmission:

Several vaccines have been developed, tested in large-scale randomized clinical trials, and approved by regulatory bodies to immunize populations against SARS-CoV-2:

The approved covid vaccines are some of the safest and most efficacious vaccines in history, with almost all of them preventing essentially 100% of severe cases of the disease and hospitalization, and preventing the vast majority of mild cases, according to randomized clinical trials.

Key Things to Know About COVID-19 Vaccines, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/keythingstoknow.html, United States CDC — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, March 13, 2021.

Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/safety-of-vaccines.html, United States CDC — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, March 25, 2021.

Possible Side Effects After Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/after.html, United States CDC — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, March 16, 2021.

Zeynep Tufekci, 5 Pandemic Mistakes We Keep Repeating, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/how-public-health-messaging-backfired/618147/, February 26, 2021.

2020 was a sordid year.

The covid man page was written by Taylor R Campbell ⟨riastradh@NetBSD.org⟩, sourced from many thousands of hours of furiously doomscrolling epidemiology Twitter to pass the time during the pandemic.

The covid vaccines may cause muscle pain, redness, swelling, tiredness, headache, chills, fever, and/or nausea. (Sure beats catching the plague, though!)

covid is technically caused by a virus, not a bug.
March 397th, 2020 NetBSD 9.1_STABLE