Coronavirus is one mutation away from infecting millions

[hater]

Fourteen residents at a German nursing home have tested positive despite receiving two vaccine doses. Markus Söder has warned against lifting Germany's lockdown too soon. All the latest COVID news.
Local officials in the district of Osnabruck, Germany, said there was an outbreak of the UK variant of coronavirus at a nursing home in Belm.

The outbreak came despite all of its residents already receiving two doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, with their last shot on January 25.

[Ef-man]

Fourteen residents at a German nursing home have tested positive despite receiving two vaccine doses. Markus Söder has warned against lifting Germany's lockdown too soon. All the latest COVID news.
Local officials in the district of Osnabruck, Germany, said there was an outbreak of the UK variant of coronavirus at a nursing home in Belm.

The outbreak came despite all of its residents already receiving two doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, with their last shot on January 25.

Bigger question is if they die, get sick enough to go to a hospital, or they remain healthy otherwise.

PS. They should all continue wearing masks!

[ChumpDumper]

The outbreak came despite all of its residents already receiving two doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, with their last shot on January 25.

Wasn't long enough before they were exposed.

Calm down.

[SnakeBoy]

Fourteen residents at a German nursing home have tested positive despite receiving two vaccine doses. Markus Söder has warned against lifting Germany's lockdown too soon. All the latest COVID news.
Local officials in the district of Osnabruck, Germany, said there was an outbreak of the UK variant of coronavirus at a nursing home in Belm.

The outbreak came despite all of its residents already receiving two doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, with their last shot on January 25.

What are you freaking out about? I already told you vaccines won't prevent infection, most vaccines don't. Everybody will get infected. Vaccines are to reduce disease, who cares if people get the sniffles after getting vaccinated.

[pgardn]

What are you freaking out about? I already told you vaccines won't prevent infection, most vaccines don't. Everybody will get infected. Vaccines are to reduce disease, who cares if people get the sniffles after getting vaccinated.

Good luck with hater actually understanding.

[hater]

What are you freaking out about? I already told you vaccines won't prevent infection, most vaccines don't. Everybody will get infected. Vaccines are to reduce disease, who cares if people get the sniffles after getting vaccinated.

Settle down Nancy. Just posting interesting developments.

95% of humans already only get sniffles if at all from covid. Without vaccines

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The outbreak came despite all of its residents already receiving two doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, with their last shot on January 25.

Wasn't long enough before they were exposed.

Calm down.

Covid-19: Reports from Israel suggest one dose of Pfizer vaccine could be less effective than expected


https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n217

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the vaccines are 95% effective in "preventing serious illness and death",

but they don't prevent infection and some symptoms, up to a bad cold for a few days.

So we'll see what happens to the Israeli old people, vaccinated but infected

[hater]

The human body is said to be 95% effective in preventing covid major damage and death as well

[pgardn]

Settle down Nancy. Just posting interesting developments.

95% of humans already only get sniffles if at all from covid. Without vaccines

now take the 5% that are left, which is a very large number because this is a virus very capable of infecting large numbers of people, and reduce that another 90% or whatever.
then you get people back in school and the economy working again and you can even get back into the hospital to get your brain replaced.

Keep in mind we still don’t know the long-term effects of getting this thing. And having severe symptoms that did not go to the hospital. Most of these people are not on record.

I can’t wait till Joe Biden falls, it will be a great day for you.

[hater]

Damn damn damn damn damn

Professor Sir Ian Boyd, who teaches at the University of St Andrews' School of Biology, warned this week against the frequent lifting of lockdowns because "it simply fuels a new wave of disease" that can cause the virus to replicate more and mutate into new strains.

"There are a lot of reasons for taking pain now in order to create conditions for controlled release from [restrictions] a lot easier," he argued, adding, "Otherwise we risk just passing through phases of various levels of lockdown and release."

Boyd said that lockdowns "could go on for a long time," despite the UK's mass vaccination program. "My su ion is that we will experience a damped oscillation of control-release for a long time to come — perhaps several years."

[Winehole23]

My su ion is that US politicians can conceive of no tragedy worse than closing businesses temporarily in the public interest, a half million US COVID deaths since last February totally notwithstanding. My su ion is there will be no repeat in the US if it can be avoided by any means whatsoever. If 250,000 more Americans have die while standing in the shadow of the vaccine, so be it.

Also, it proved right off the bat that the USG could afford a superdole on the fly. Gotta nip that expectation in the bud.

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If 250,000 more Americans have die while standing in the shadow of the vaccine, so be it.

Also, it proved right off the bat that the USG could afford a superdole on the fly. Gotta nip that expectation in the bud.

In American civilization, the highest values belong to business and Capitalism, which excludes ethics, morality, human life, humanity, the environment.

All of them are irrelevant, even impediments, to making money, esp amassing (hoarded) Capital.

[hater]

UK selling their mandatory quarantine packages for 1,200 pounds

They now threaten to jail quarantine dodgers for 10 YEARS

[SnakeBoy]

UK selling their mandatory quarantine packages for 1,200 pounds

They now threaten to jail quarantine dodgers for 10 YEARS

At least they have finally figured out you can't control a pandemic without restricting travel. Maybe they can let Fauci in on the secret.

[Winehole23]

good news

if we can get more diagnoses on the front end, we can get more prompt, accurate quarantines.

What they're saying: "This is the first time that anyone has been able to take this gold-standard laboratory equipment…and put it in a [form] that anyone can just carry in their hand," Visby CEO Adam de la Zerda said.

• “The fact that it's single use means you don’t have to worry about an instrument and you have unlimited testing capacity," he added. Results take only 30 minutes.

State of play: The FDA authorized the PCR test for use in labs and hospitals a few months ago. This week, the agency said the test can be used in places like airports, schools and businesses, as long as they've received a waiver from the FDA requirement that tests be run by a laboratorian.

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[SnakeBoy]

lol experts

[boutons_deux]

Florida is failing on COVID-19 -- Marco Rubio says they should get to steal vaccines from other states

https://www.rawstory.com/florida-vac...is-marco-rubio

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The UK’s covid app made a serious difference during the winter surge

That's a big deal for exposure notifications, which have had a tough time proving how useful they are.

The study by a team of Oxford researchers modeled the impact of 1.5 million notifications that had been sent by the UK’s NHS app between October 1 and December 31, when almost 2 million people were infected with covid-19.

Their analysis showed that

each person who tested positive and used their app to alert others sent out an average of 4.4 notifications;

without this intervention, they projected that there would have been between 200,000 and 900,000 more cases.
The data show, as we have reported previously, that even modest use of such apps can have a significant impact:

“For each 1% increase in users,” said the researchers,

“We estimate the number of cases will drop by between 0.8% and 2.3%”

https://www.technologyreview.com/202...ng-app-succes/

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Lancet Study Finds

40 Percent of U.S. Covid-19 Deaths Could Have Been Avoided

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...necessary.html

Impeach Trash a 3rd time for his Trump-Made Pandemic of carnage of America's citizens and economy.

.4 x 500K = 200K avoidable pandemic deaths if Trash and his mafiya had done their jobs to protect America.

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Damn looks like South Africa variant provides zero immunity. Ppl getting infected immediately

Wtf

[SnakeBoy]

You can stop worrying about the SA variant Hater

[pgardn]

Sure thing.

The really pleasant surprise is that Moderna and Pfizer do show 90% efficacy against South African strains.
while still early, and still worrying is if they prevent more than just the more critical symptoms (asymptomatic carriers still possible after vaccine but probably not given current news)

still too early but looking good.

And if not, we can fix these vaccines so much easier than the flu vaccines.
Pretty amazing job on a virus we thought would be pretty easy to get a vaccine against when we first looked at its RNA sequence and then the e protein.