COVID at the second session of the ANA Summer Seminar
CaptHenway
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I was just talking with a friend of mine who was an instructor at the Medals class, and he just found out that both he and his co-instructor have tested positive for Covid since returning home. If you were in that class, or interacted closely with either of the Instructors, I would suggest that you take a home Covid test.
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
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Thanks for the heads up - the spread at summer seminar was insane!
perhaps this is the unspoken challenge also at the tpgs. they are touching things that literally thousands or tens of thousands of people are touching, sick and healthy alike. talk about risk exposure.
ty all for the recent but brief talk about c19 still out there going strong. i was feeling silly being one of the only people wearing masks to my usual places. between c19, monkey pox and X, i feel better keeping the many jars of sanitizer and masks around.
w/o getting political, threads deleted or locked, i also am concerned about more variants with the incubation period of this particular virus, it can easily creep up on us and spread before we know what has hit us.
i've never attended summer seminar, for no particular reason, though i bet i've missed out on a lot, i do send my regards to the folks out there risking a lot to keep society spinning, even with things like summer seminar, heck maybe especially things like summer seminar. we cannot hide in our caves forever, whatever the risk.
i don't know if they still have some but derry's link from THIS thread still has the page up and running for free testing kits. i got mine pretty swiftly all things considered.
I wonder if coins or currency can be fomites to help spread covid?
Just for the sake of this thread, let's allow it to die here except for a few bumps to the top. The message in the OP would be appreciated by those who wish to follow its advice, and this is an extremely volatile topic, which can easily lead to a closed/deleted thread. Keeping a discussion going with such possibilities to easily doom the thread does no one any favors in my opinion.
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Good to be aware of the issue. Show attendees take note. I work with the public, and this area has extremely low covid issues. Some still wear masks, but not many. I do not, have not had a problem throughout this pandemic. Lucky I guess. Cheers, RickO
Yes is the answer, but Id have to look up again how long it lives on surfaces.
Covid is still a thing. I was just talking to a dealer at Long Beach and it was mentioned that Covid was going around after a coin event (this one?) and someone in the coin community got Covid on June 4 and died on June 28.
There are 4.9 million cases of Covid in California since December.
The advice seems to be simply to take a test. I haven’t heard of testing being controversial.
It wouldn't have been summer seminar as it didn't start until the 17th. For those that haven't been to seminar how it spread isn't a big mystery - lots of people and small spaces. Also you have people who have spent a lot of money to go and spending days alone in a dorm room on your own for food, etc if you test positive will possibly change how one would react.
I agree the coin person who died wouldn't have been at the Summer Seminar but the spreading event could have been a different event that was being discussed. I was talking to the dealer when this conversation came up but I didn't hear a lot of it. The dealer is on the forums but doesn't participate much these days.
I'm not sure as that scenario hasn't happened to me. Did it happen to you?