Today is my daughters sports day. I am not allowed to attend since restrictions increased this week. It's a huge loss, I treasure this type of event. And it's especially stupid because covid (awesomely) doesn't affect children and I am less likely to get it because I am white.
TIL that the CDC stopped recording breakthrough infections in May unless they have severe symptoms. This means that we don't really have any good data on the prevalence of breakthroughs.
TIL that the CDC stopped recording breakthrough infections in May unless they have severe symptoms. This means that we don't really have any good data on the prevalence of breakthroughs.
Oh right, they're never reported on that in the UK, just that if you're vaccinated you might still get the disease, but you're less likely to get sick enough to have to go to hospital. And a significant minority of people that are vaccinated still end up in hospital due to covid, but they haven't broken it down to individual cases yet.
Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the United States now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the vaccines have been and an indication that daily deaths — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the shots.
apnews.com
particularly notable:
And CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Tuesday that the vaccine is so effective that “nearly every death, especially among adults, due to COVID-19, is, at this point, entirely preventable.” She called such deaths “particularly tragic.”
As the density of human and domestic animal populations increases, the threat of localized epidemics and global pandemics grows. Although effective vaccines have been developed for a number of threatening pathogens, manufacturing and disseminating vaccines in the face of a rapidly spreading...
They seem to start having effectiveness data.
They say Soberana is 62% after 2 doses (but they're planning to give 3 doses).
And one of their other vaccines, Abdala, is claimed 92,5% effective. But I don't know, if they don't have a nice song to promote it ...
They're late to start vaccination but were also late with outbreaks, so not bad.
As the density of human and domestic animal populations increases, the threat of localized epidemics and global pandemics grows. Although effective vaccines have been developed for a number of threatening pathogens, manufacturing and disseminating vaccines in the face of a rapidly spreading...
I guess I should read it before critizing, but I don't have time now. It sounds worrying. I mean up to now you measure carefully at the start of the trials just what dose of vaccine you have to give each person so that they get immunity but no side effects. Then you conclude how many milligrams in which dose, and how many days apart.
And now you will just rely on natural spread and let each person get any dose of vaccines at random contagion, or not at all before getting the disease ? Yes if it works at all it's going to be much cheaper, but it's also not going to be able to guarantee anything ever...
And at least to me the most reassuring property of a vaccine is that it doesn't self replicate. If it does, it's going to be very hard to control. I mean replication itself takes resources from the human body. Even if a replicating vaccine had no other side effects, it could just use up too many cells replicating too much. I guess I should read it. But it seems to be only a computer simulation.
Oh right, they're never reported on that in the UK, just that if you're vaccinated you might still get the disease, but you're less likely to get sick enough to have to go to hospital. And a significant minority of people that are vaccinated still end up in hospital due to covid, but they haven't broken it down to individual cases yet.
Public Health England published a report some weeks ago with a study about contagion from breakthrough infections in England. Within the limited study they concluded vaccinated people who are infected and get symptoms can infect others, just around half so often as unvaccinated. Yet no word on what do unknowingly infected vaccinated people. They might be or not spreaders. So the data must be there. The reasearchers had to cross some datasets through, so maybe it's not easily available to the public.
I posted the link in this thread.
Über 1,5 Millionen einzelne Nebenwirkungen nach Corona-Impfungen wurden bislang an die Europäische Arzneimittelagentur (EMA) gemeldet. In der „Datenbank zur Erfassung der Verdachtsfälle auf Nebenwirkungen von Arzneimitteln“ fällt zudem auf, dass über 50 Prozent aller Meldungen als „ernst“...
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