DanMcQ
Moderator
Posts: 30,568
|
Post by DanMcQ on Dec 12, 2023 12:18:28 GMT -5
This time you might be right… JN.1 seems to be pretty evasive vs the XBB booster. Time to carry that mask with you for crowded spaces outside home. And yet despite such a seemingly high infection rate, mortality is not only far lower than any previous winter of the pandemic, it doesn't really even appear to be spiking relative to the past few months: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00Understanding why that should be the case is pretty crucial for grasping the underlying dynamics at play. That said, we're seeing some deathly ill people here...
|
|
hoyarooter
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 10,216
|
Post by hoyarooter on Dec 13, 2023 21:53:39 GMT -5
Boosters? We don't need no stinking boosters. This time you might be right… JN.1 seems to be pretty evasive vs the XBB booster. Time to carry that mask with you for crowded spaces outside home. With Daughter Rooter home for Thanksgiving and now Christmas, and she's running out constantly, we thought it was time to get boosted, so we did last month. But we still mask up indoors wherever we go anyway.
|
|
RusskyHoya
Diamond Hoya (over 2500 posts)
In Soviet Russia, Hoya Blue Bleeds You!
Posts: 4,612
|
Post by RusskyHoya on Dec 14, 2023 22:36:55 GMT -5
And yet despite such a seemingly high infection rate, mortality is not only far lower than any previous winter of the pandemic, it doesn't really even appear to be spiking relative to the past few months: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00Understanding why that should be the case is pretty crucial for grasping the underlying dynamics at play. That said, we're seeing some deathly ill people here... Would be surprising if you weren't! Flu/pneumonia was the 9th leading cause of death in the US in 2019, I would be shocked if the addition of a new, highly pesky and adaptive pathogen to the virome led to anything but an increase (even as it likely takes out many of the same people). Speaking of flu...as the proportion that is immunologically naive to Covid approaches zero, it's coming back with a vengeance to reclaim the victims that Covid would have taken in past years:
|
|
DanMcQ
Moderator
Posts: 30,568
|
COVID-19
Dec 21, 2023 7:55:49 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by DanMcQ on Dec 21, 2023 7:55:49 GMT -5
Worthwhile interview with 2 of my colleagues and friends about the current state of the pandemic.
|
|
RusskyHoya
Diamond Hoya (over 2500 posts)
In Soviet Russia, Hoya Blue Bleeds You!
Posts: 4,612
|
Post by RusskyHoya on Dec 29, 2023 8:13:00 GMT -5
|
|
SSHoya
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."
Posts: 18,338
|
Post by SSHoya on Jan 4, 2024 5:53:56 GMT -5
Proving once again the MAGA GOP is the pro-death party. Florida’s top health official called for a halt to using mRNA coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday, contending that the shots could contaminate patients’ DNA — a claim that has been roundly debunked by public health experts, federal officials and the vaccine companies. Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo’s announcement, released as a state bulletin, comes after months of back-and-forth with federal regulators who have repeatedly rebuked his rhetoric around vaccines. Public health experts warn of the dangers of casting doubt on proven lifesaving measures as respiratory viruses surge this winter. Polling has shown that Republicans remain disproportionately skeptical of the coronavirus vaccines, a position sometimes amplified by GOP politicians: 55 percent of Republican respondents vowed that they would “definitely not get” the vaccine compared with 12 percent of Democrats, according to November polling released by health policy researchers at KFF. Studies also suggest that differences in vaccination attitudes — and GOP voters’ lower uptake of the vaccine — have been linked to Republicans dying at higher rates than Democrats from the coronavirus after vaccines became widely available in April 2021. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/01/03/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-covid-vaccine/
|
|
hoyarooter
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 10,216
|
Post by hoyarooter on Jan 4, 2024 23:22:29 GMT -5
Proving once again the MAGA GOP is the pro-death party. Florida’s top health official called for a halt to using mRNA coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday, contending that the shots could contaminate patients’ DNA — a claim that has been roundly debunked by public health experts, federal officials and the vaccine companies. Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo’s announcement, released as a state bulletin, comes after months of back-and-forth with federal regulators who have repeatedly rebuked his rhetoric around vaccines. Public health experts warn of the dangers of casting doubt on proven lifesaving measures as respiratory viruses surge this winter. Polling has shown that Republicans remain disproportionately skeptical of the coronavirus vaccines, a position sometimes amplified by GOP politicians: 55 percent of Republican respondents vowed that they would “definitely not get” the vaccine compared with 12 percent of Democrats, according to November polling released by health policy researchers at KFF. Studies also suggest that differences in vaccination attitudes — and GOP voters’ lower uptake of the vaccine — have been linked to Republicans dying at higher rates than Democrats from the coronavirus after vaccines became widely available in April 2021. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/01/03/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-covid-vaccine/It's hard to believe this clown really has a medical degree. He must have attended Trump Medical School.
|
|
SSHoya
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."
Posts: 18,338
|
COVID-19
Jan 5, 2024 5:50:48 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by SSHoya on Jan 5, 2024 5:50:48 GMT -5
Proving once again the MAGA GOP is the pro-death party. Florida’s top health official called for a halt to using mRNA coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday, contending that the shots could contaminate patients’ DNA — a claim that has been roundly debunked by public health experts, federal officials and the vaccine companies. Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo’s announcement, released as a state bulletin, comes after months of back-and-forth with federal regulators who have repeatedly rebuked his rhetoric around vaccines. Public health experts warn of the dangers of casting doubt on proven lifesaving measures as respiratory viruses surge this winter. Polling has shown that Republicans remain disproportionately skeptical of the coronavirus vaccines, a position sometimes amplified by GOP politicians: 55 percent of Republican respondents vowed that they would “definitely not get” the vaccine compared with 12 percent of Democrats, according to November polling released by health policy researchers at KFF. Studies also suggest that differences in vaccination attitudes — and GOP voters’ lower uptake of the vaccine — have been linked to Republicans dying at higher rates than Democrats from the coronavirus after vaccines became widely available in April 2021. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/01/03/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-covid-vaccine/It's hard to believe this clown really has a medical degree. He must have attended Trump Medical School. Sadly, Harvard Medical School. Ladapo, a Harvard-trained physician and researcher who had not specialized in infectious disease, gained national attention writing columns in the Wall Street Journal that raised questions about public health interventions throughout the pandemic.
|
|
hoyarooter
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 10,216
|
Post by hoyarooter on Jan 5, 2024 19:37:04 GMT -5
It's hard to believe this clown really has a medical degree. He must have attended Trump Medical School. Sadly, Harvard Medical School. Ladapo, a Harvard-trained physician and researcher who had not specialized in infectious disease, gained national attention writing columns in the Wall Street Journal that raised questions about public health interventions throughout the pandemic. He must have been a DEI admission [ducks and runs]
|
|
DanMcQ
Moderator
Posts: 30,568
|
COVID-19
Jan 14, 2024 9:55:50 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by DanMcQ on Jan 14, 2024 9:55:50 GMT -5
Related to the anti-COVID vaccine nuts, we’re seeing a resurgence in measles in children again.
|
|
hoyarooter
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 10,216
|
Post by hoyarooter on Jan 17, 2024 20:35:16 GMT -5
Related to the anti-COVID vaccine nuts, we’re seeing a resurgence in measles in children again. Dan, I assume the Birmingham referenced here is Alabama and not England?
|
|
DanMcQ
Moderator
Posts: 30,568
|
COVID-19
Jan 17, 2024 20:51:23 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by DanMcQ on Jan 17, 2024 20:51:23 GMT -5
Related to the anti-COVID vaccine nuts, we’re seeing a resurgence in measles in children again. Dan, I assume the Birmingham referenced here is Alabama and not England? Correct.
|
|
hoyarooter
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 10,216
|
Post by hoyarooter on Jan 17, 2024 21:10:11 GMT -5
Dan, I assume the Birmingham referenced here is Alabama and not England? Correct. Truly shameful. Again, I wonder where we would be with polio and smallpox in this country if the anti-vaxers had been out in force back then.
|
|
DanMcQ
Moderator
Posts: 30,568
|
Post by DanMcQ on Jan 17, 2024 22:16:01 GMT -5
Truly shameful. Again, I wonder where we would be with polio and smallpox in this country if the anti-vaxers had been out in force back then. It’s sadly no surprise with morons like this on the loose…
|
|
C86
Century (over 100 posts)
Posts: 230
|
Post by C86 on Jan 17, 2024 22:59:44 GMT -5
My wife was a pediatric resident in the early 90s. When a case of measles showed up in the Emergency room, the attending brought the residents down to see it, telling them it would be the last case of measles they would ever see.
|
|
DanMcQ
Moderator
Posts: 30,568
|
COVID-19
Jan 19, 2024 8:24:09 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by DanMcQ on Jan 19, 2024 8:24:09 GMT -5
|
|
tashoya
Blue & Gray (over 10,000 posts)
Posts: 12,322
|
Post by tashoya on Jan 19, 2024 8:40:53 GMT -5
Now, about that whole secession thing...
|
|
DanMcQ
Moderator
Posts: 30,568
|
Post by DanMcQ on Jan 19, 2024 15:19:28 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by WilsonBlvdHoya on Jan 19, 2024 16:31:47 GMT -5
Maybe the UK authorities can rename this outbreak/strain the "RFKJr variant".....
|
|
DanMcQ
Moderator
Posts: 30,568
|
COVID-19
Jan 20, 2024 11:46:53 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by DanMcQ on Jan 20, 2024 11:46:53 GMT -5
|
|