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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man4/man4.vax/covid.4 b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.vax/covid.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..62875034 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man4/man4.vax/covid.4 @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: covid.4,v 1.1 2021/04/01 00:03:01 riastradh Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2021 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS +.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED +.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR +.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE +.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd March 397th, 2020 +.Dt COVID 4 vax +.Os +.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" +.Sh NAME +.Nm covid +.Nd coronavirus disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 +.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd covid19 at sarscov2 b11 7 +.Cd covid19 at sarscov2 b11 207 +.Cd covid19 at sarscov2 b11 351 +.Cd covid19 at sarscov2 b11 427 +.Cd covid19 at sarscov2 b11 429 +.Cd covid19 at sarscov2 b11 525 +.Cd covid19 at sarscov2 p 1 +.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +family of diseases, attached to humanity via a spike protein bus in +the year 2019 as +.Nm covid19 , +is a contagious respiratory and neurological disease caused by the +coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. +.Pp +.Nm +is spread human-to-human mainly through small droplets and aerosols, +especially in crowds, closed spaces, and close contact. +Some approaches to mitigate transmission: +.Bl -bullet +.It +Good ventilation with fresh air, and high-efficiency particulate air +filtration (HEPA), can mitigate accumulation of aerosols in indoor +settings, for activities that can't be moved outdoors. +.It +Widespread use of paper or cloth facial masks covering mouth and nose +is an effective population-wide mitigation reducing dispersal of +droplets and aerosols from carriers, many of whom are asymptomatic or +presymptomatic. +.It +Wearing European FFP2 masks, American N95 masks, or Chinese KN95 masks, +if appropriately fitted to the face, reduces individual risk of +contracting +.Nm . +(However, a mask with an output vent to facilitate exhaling should be +worn only with another paper or cloth mask over it, to avoid spreading +exhaled virus particles if the wearer is a carrier.) +.El +.Pp +Several vaccines have been developed, tested in large-scale randomized +clinical trials, and approved by regulatory bodies to immunize +populations against SARS-CoV-2: +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Moderna (United States) +.It +Pfizer-BioNTech (multinational) +.It +Sputnik V (Russia) +.It +Oxford-AstraZeneca (multinational) +.It +Novavax (United Kingdom and South Africa) +.It +BBIBP-CorV (multinational) +.It +CoronaVac (Brazil) +.It +Johnson & Johnson, a.k.a. Janssen (multinational) +.It +Covaxin (India) +.It +Convidecia (multinational) +.El +.Pp +The approved +.Nm +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. +.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Rs +.%Q United States CDC \(em Centers for Disease Control and Prevention +.%T Key Things to Know About COVID-19 Vaccines +.%D March 13, 2021 +.%U https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/keythingstoknow.html +.Re +.Rs +.%Q United States CDC \(em Centers for Disease Control and Prevention +.%T Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines +.%D March 25, 2021 +.%U https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/safety-of-vaccines.html +.Re +.Rs +.%Q United States CDC \(em Centers for Disease Control and Prevention +.%T Possible Side Effects After Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine +.%D March 16, 2021 +.%U https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/after.html +.Re +.Rs +.%A Zeynep Tufekci +.%T 5 Pandemic Mistakes We Keep Repeating +.%D February 26, 2021 +.%I The Atlantic +.%U https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/how-public-health-messaging-backfired/618147/ +.Re +.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" +.Sh HISTORY +2020 was a sordid year. +.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +man page was written by +.An Taylor R Campbell Aq riastradh@NetBSD.org , +sourced from many thousands of hours of furiously doomscrolling +epidemiology Twitter to pass the time during the pandemic. +.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" +.Sh CAVEATS +The +.Nm +vaccines may cause muscle pain, redness, swelling, tiredness, headache, +chills, fever, and/or nausea. +(Sure beats catching the plague, though!) +.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" +.Sh BUGS +.Nm +is technically caused by a virus, not a bug. |