Hmm. I would rather not go to Paris.
Chuck, question for you:
We often see statistics comparing rates of cases and infections between vaxxed and not-vaxxed, as well as similar comparisons for hospitalizations and deaths. Generally these favor vaxxed people by a factor of 4-10 somewhere.
Is there a similar comparison metric for long Covid that demonstrates a lower incidence of long Covid in the vaxxed population either per 100k people, or per Covid case? I was in a discussion the other day and realized I didn't have a good metric for this. Have you encountered one?
Any Omicron news your can share with us yet? It sounds like it's been in the US for a couple of weeks now based on the case in Minn who got infected (in theory) from attending a convention in NY Nov 19-21.
Is it time to run out and buy more toilet paper.
Is it possible to be infected by multiple variants at once?
NE Ohio currently has higher rates of infection and hospitalization than last year. Not good.Do not hoard TP! There is no reason to worry at this time. Move along, nothing to see here.
In all honesty, I am not sure what to think. We are seeing a very slow rise, but it is way less than last year after thanksgiving.
It both significantly reduces the effects and the likelihood of getting it in the first place. Nothing is guaranteed, however.Wife has all 3 shots. Pfizer
Over 6 weeks ago she got the booster.
Yesterday she was sent home for testing positive for covid.
Told by her doctor she is contagious.
So, is the vaccine actually stopping the spread and from you contracting it?
Doesn't seem so in this case.
Or is it just a medicine to lessen the effects if you contract it?
If the latter, why mandates?
Vaccines train your body to recognize and fight a virus and thus speeding up the response from your immune system. They don't form a barricade against the virus. As your body fights it, the virus is still replicating and shedding. Hopefully, the body fights it off before the virus causes illness, but that isn't always the case. Because the process of the immune system is sped up by the vaccine, less replication and less viral shedding occurs. This means it is less likely to be spread and less likely to develop into severe disease. The risk isn't eliminated, but reduced. As they say "The dose makes the poison," so let's do our part to make the viral doses as small as possible.Wife has all 3 shots. Pfizer
Over 6 weeks ago she got the booster.
Yesterday she was sent home for testing positive for covid.
Told by her doctor she is contagious.
So, is the vaccine actually stopping the spread and from you contracting it?
Doesn't seem so in this case.
Or is it just a medicine to lessen the effects if you contract it?
If the latter, why mandates?
Do not hoard TP! There is no reason to worry at this time. Move along, nothing to see here.
"Now, we all need to stay calm, there is no reason to panic, but... "
How long (or how short) is considered adequate testing duration for a new vaccine to get an Emergency Use approval?
Are we there *yet*?
Maryland is definitely going into a winter spike. Will it be as bad as last year? Time will tell. I am hoping the vaccine keeps the numbers down.
Maryland is definitely going into a winter spike. Will it be as bad as last year? Time will tell. I am hoping the vaccine keeps the numbers down.
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My son had "something" the week before Thanksgiving week, not Covid (per BINAX test under my watchful eye experienced with these types of tests) that was probably influenza. Not bad enough to get him formally flu tested (places here don't want you coming in if you are coughing etc). But we kept the kid home from school for much of the week until he improved rather than just packing him full of cough medicine and putting him on the bus...In the last 4 weeks, locally, we have seen more Influenza A than we had all last year. I have my opinion as to why and that is that we have ditched the masks And social distancing.
Hopefully it is not as large.
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