COVID-19 / Coronavirus Pandemic
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Nevertheless, even ignoring the situation he inherited from the previous President, in terms of the vaccine it’s no mean feat to have come as far as the US - or frankly any (admittedly more economically developed) country - has in the space of a year and a half...FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver says we're going to miss President Biden's goal of having 70% of adults vaccinated by July 4th. That said, he also says a Gallup poll said 76% of adults either plan to get vaccinated or already have done so, so we'll get there eventually.
A new preprint studying 14000 cases in England (2021-04-12 - 2021-06-04) claims AZ and BioNTech are still effective against hospitalization with Delta variant.Worse than with Alpha, but by little. Previous studies on symptoms and no data yet on deaths.
Alpha:
AZ : 1 dose 76% (61-85) 2 doses 86% (53-96)
BioNTech: 1 dose 83% (62-93) 2 doses 95% (78-99)
Delta:
AZ: 1 dose 71%(51 -83 ) 2 doses 92%(75-95)
BioNTech: 1 dose 94%(46-99) 2 doses 96%(86-99)
Alpha:
AZ : 1 dose 76% (61-85) 2 doses 86% (53-96)
BioNTech: 1 dose 83% (62-93) 2 doses 95% (78-99)
Delta:
AZ: 1 dose 71%(51 -83 ) 2 doses 92%(75-95)
BioNTech: 1 dose 94%(46-99) 2 doses 96%(86-99)
First case of postmortem study in a patient vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2
First case of postmortem study in a patient vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2
A previously symptomless 86-year-old man received the first dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. He died 4 weeks later from acute renal and respiratory failure. Although he did not present with any COVID-19-specific symptoms, he tested positive ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
JDTAY
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In the things that worry me personally department, COVID-19 cases in my county and my dad’s county have upticked slightly. The cause seems to be a high positivity rate in the last day of testing reported in both counties. In my county it’s 7% out of 150 tests, so like ten cases that day. In my dad’s county it’s 12% out of 50 tests, so like six cases. Obviously we’re dealing with such low numbers that this day could be an outlier, but it’s weird that it happened on the same day in adjacent counties. Hospitalizations in the state overall went back up too, by 26 to back over 500.
Here’s a link in case you also want to have fun with the numbers:
covid19.ncdhhs.gov
Here’s a link in case you also want to have fun with the numbers:
NCDHHS Releases Plan, Data Dashboard Updates for Next Phase of COVID-19 Response
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released its plan for the current stage of the pandemic, Moving Forward Together (Spanish). NCDHHS also announced upcoming changes to its COVID-19 Data Dashboard starting March 23.
covid19.ncdhhs.gov
mandatory vaccinations in Moscow. For service workers, not general populations. It's the first place I've heard of. Kind of odd that they require 60% of each staff vaccinated, if less than 60% want to, who and how decides which ones are forced to take the vaccine ? Weird.
yet
Seems like they are talking about Cancer or injecting us with telomeres to get longevity.
"We simply must do everything to carry out mass vaccinations in the shortest possible time and stop this terrible!!! disease, stop the deaths of thousands of people,'' - Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin
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levi
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They're floated the idea that all carers in a nursing home need to be vaccinated today. It's not in place yet though, so it seems Moscow will be first.
JDTAY
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Here's one headline after all the clicks:
As an American, I'd like to apologize in advance for when we get busted as the origin of COVID-19.
As an American, I'd like to apologize in advance for when we get busted as the origin of COVID-19.
TeDaDeS
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It's probably suppose to read like this:
China: Disease expert says "xxxx".
I read it as "China expert who is expert in the disease says COVID-19..."
or "expert in the disease who is from China says COVID-19..."
or even "someone who is expert in both China and the disease, says COVID-19..."
but I guess the only thing preventing me from interpreting it as "China disease" is that I find it nonsensical, not that I couldn't be the intended meaning.
But I'm no "English expert" and I always wonder at how a language with so little inflection manages to get more and more rid of prepositions, specially in headlines and maybe by non native speakers.
or "expert in the disease who is from China says COVID-19..."
or even "someone who is expert in both China and the disease, says COVID-19..."
but I guess the only thing preventing me from interpreting it as "China disease" is that I find it nonsensical, not that I couldn't be the intended meaning.
But I'm no "English expert" and I always wonder at how a language with so little inflection manages to get more and more rid of prepositions, specially in headlines and maybe by non native speakers.
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You’ll wonder a little more now; I’m getting rid of your definite articles... (they only make sense in this context if you’re referring to *the Covid-19 disease*, which I take it is not the interpretation you read?)
The way it will pan out is 99% of countries independent expert investigators will conclude that it originated some place, Wuhan, Palm Springs, doesn't matter. But Wuhan will blame Palm Springs and Palm Spring will blame Wuhan. This 1% alternate view will actually be quite popular, so blaming will be controversial and there won't be enough political momentum for nuclear war. Vive la difference!
Note that it's not the American PEOPLE, but the government (for example: surrounding all countries with their bases and submarines). Just like there are nice CHINESE PEOPLE, and a toxic government (sealing entire blocks off and starving people - you have seen those video clips right?).
Well, headlines is an art-form. You need to entice to click/read with just a few words. You may offend, lie or bend the truth, all for the clicks. consider: "Industry turning fish gay" for a derived article based on say this
levi
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There's a definite difference in interpreting an 'expert in the disease' and an 'expert in disease'. The former is about a specific disease while the latter would tend to refer to some kind of doctor or virologist, or some expert in pathogens and genetic disease and toxicities and all of the other ways people can get sick. But in a headline when you read it you need to infer a lot more hidden context to deduce what they mean, often reading the article itself to find out what it actually meant, in which case the headline has done it's job.
In this specific case, reading the first line of the article clears up what they meant when they wrote 'china disease' rather unfortunately:
Chinese became 'china' and epidemiologist became a person who is experienced in diseases that go on to to form epidemics, which became 'expert in diseases' which finally rather confusingly became just 'disease'.
Covid modelling that pushed back June 21 was based on out-of-date data
Government published figures to support pushing back ‘Freedom Day’ despite knowing estimates of vaccine effectiveness were incorrect
www.telegraph.co.uk
tsk tsk... using bad data for their benefit.
H.R.2316 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Fire Fauci Act
Summary of H.R.2316 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Fire Fauci Act
www.congress.gov
Is this an uh-oh moment? (your usefulness has expired)
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Put on your tinfoil hat and meditate on this piece of propaganda (that the experimental mRNA gene therapy is totally safe for pregnant wo^H^Hpeople):
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