As long as there's so many expiring Pfizer shots getting tossed, I'll be getting a booster. Yeah, they should stick 'em in other arms but that ain't happening around here.
Same here; pretty much everyone who wants it has gotten it in these parts. Morons.
Wasting our time and energy trying to get a third shot to people when we really need to just get the two shots into the people who don't have it yet, including outside the USA
As long as there's so many expiring Pfizer shots getting tossed, I'll be getting a booster. Yeah, they should stick 'em in other arms but that ain't happening around here.
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Expertise. Isn't that or the lack of, how we discredit people who profess to be certain of things.
Isn't that the way Fauci has been propped up all this time ... Nobody knows more about these things than Fauci and anyone who questions Fauci is just plain wrong before they get started.
Is there one voice, one last word for all things Covid ? If so, who or what ? Who or what is the ultimate source to tell us what and what not to do ?
So the hundreds of millions of people who received those vaccines...all died? Or what?
The patent is currently assigned to (and was applied for by) Shanghai National Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology Co Ltd. So what?
Assuming the claim that the vaccines mentioned actually contain graphene oxide is even true (neither of us has any way to verify this) there is massive clinical evidence of their safety and efficacy. This is like waving a red flag about the deadly dangers of high-pressure air in car tires.
BTW the host (a black helicopter podcaster whose qualificationsâtaken from his LinkedIn profileâconsist of "Former Senior Investigator, and K-9 handler for US Fugitive Recovery and Extradition. Specializing in violent offenders.") knows about as much as you do about vaccines and biochemistry.
The quacks he cites as backing him up are all prominently mentioned in this article, BTW:
hopefully they'll get this vaxxed in the bud and keep on track
Wasting our time and energy trying to get a third shot to people when we really need to just get the two shots into the people who don't have it yet, including outside the USA
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released three studies on Wednesday that federal officials said provided evidence that booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines would be needed by all Americans in the coming months.
But some experts said the new research did not support the decision to recommend booster shots for all Americans.
Taken together, the studies show that although the vaccines remain highly effective against hospitalizations, the bulwark they provide against infection with the virus has weakened in the past few months.
Itâs unclear whether the decline in protection against infection is the result of waning immunity, a drop in precautions like wearing masks, or the rise of the highly contagious Delta variant â or a combination of all three. (...)
Together, the new studies indicate overall that vaccines have an effectiveness of roughly 55 percent against infections, 80 percent against symptomatic infection, and 90 percent or higher against hospitalization, noted Ellie Murray, an epidemiologist at Boston University.
âThose numbers are actually very good,â Dr. Murray said. âThe only group that these data would suggest boosters for, to me, is the immunocompromised.â (...)
Hope they snuff it out quickly. One thing Sydney has shown is that you can do half-arsed measures for 7 weeks then still have to lockdown hard but then have more cases and more deaths
Chances are not looking good. four confirmed cases with patient zero having had lots of community contact lately. Delta has changed the odds.
Hope they snuff it out quickly. One thing Sydney has shown is that you can do half-arsed measures for 7 weeks then still have to lockdown hard but then have more cases and more deaths
The summer surge in coronavirus cases in the United States, led by the domination of the more contagious Delta variant, is well into its second month, and the number of those hospitalized with Covid-19 has reached heights last seen during the overwhelming winter wave.
The number of those patients who are critically ill, requiring treatment in an intensive care unit, has risen, too. Data from the Department of Health and Human Services shows that the number of hospitals with very full I.C.U.s doubled in recent weeks. Now, one in five I.C.U.s have reached or exceeded 95 percentof beds occupied, a level experts say makes it difficult or impossible for health professionals to maintain standards of care for the very sick. (...)
Relaxed public health protocols, a steep slowdown in vaccinations and the Delta variant created what some experts call a perfect storm for the resurgence. Researchers say hospitalization rates are one of the most accurate indicators of how severe an areaâs Covid-19 outbreak is.
âCase counts are dependent on testing behavior, and there are all different potential biases that come with that, but death data is lagged,â said Lauren Ancel Meyers, director of the University of Texas at Austinâs Covid-19 Modeling Consortium, which has been tracking coronavirus data in the state since the pandemic began.
While that strain is familiar by now to health care providers, there are aspects of the current surge that are unprecedented. The patients Dr. De La Zerda sees are younger, he said â many under 40. And because these patients are not on mechanical ventilators, and instead on high-flow oxygen systems that allow them to speak, he often talks to them.
âEvery single patient regrets not getting the vaccine,â he said. âI donât have one that doesnât. They look really sick, and they look really young. You can see somebody now talking to you, and the next time you see them, theyâre dead.â (...)
The partnership between Aldevron (Fargo, N.D.) and Ginkgo Bioworks
(Boston) has resulted in an improvement in the manufacturing yield of
the vaccinia capping enzyme (VCE).
VCEs are often used in the production of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.
The new production protocol is more than 10 times more efficient than
the prior process, according to a statement from both firms. The gene
therapy company Aldevron will have exclusive rights to the protocol
conditions of the manufacturing process. Ginkgo Bioworks specializes in
synthetic biology.
