Prefacing this with the statement that I’m not educated enough to know if this is a good study but I’m assuming it’s decent since I think Nature is a respected journal:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06629-2
Seems like mRNA vaccines provide better protection against variants than a previous infection.
This Canadian has had enough of the trucker protest (NSFW language).
rut roh, China? By my count they have a higher 7DMA than they have since February 2020.
According to my GF absolutely nobody wants to get tested in China, ever. Getting pozzed means you won’t be able to leave your house for weeks, along with anyone you’ve had close contact with. So people let themselves get extremely sick before reporting to a treatment facility. Doctors cannot treat people with fevers to prevent cases from slipping through the cracks.
A population with mediocre vaccination and little prior infection to Covid facing a brutally inflexible control regime and a mild, fast-spreading variant seems like a dam that will break at some point.
Eagles fans living up to their reputation even in Canada, I see :)
I was just listening to an interview on The Press Box podcast with Jason Gay, a WSJ reporter. He had been in Beijing covering the Olympics before flying back to LA just in time to cover the Superbowl.
The Beijing experience:
The LA experience
Why aren’t the Chinese better vaccinated?
Well my youngest got COVID. Good news is was super mild I guess, at least initially, only did it as a formality to return to school, only had symptoms for a day. Hopefully no long-term effects.
All rapids were negative fwiw just PCR poz
They’re well-vaccinated, but the vaccine isn’t great compared with mRNA vaccines.
This was pretty widely reported prior to Omicron, and more nowadays it looks like best possible case is that it has Omicron efficacy near mRNA (likely lower), which is obviously nowhere near good enough to prevent a huge spike.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/16/why-im-not-ready-to-unmask
One Morro lesson seems particularly relevant to where we are now in the pandemic: He often said that late in a game, when both teams are tired, some players get sloppy while others somehow concentrate even more, focus more, push more — and win.
You’re damn right. We’re passionate, intelligent, don’t tolerate bullshit, and are quick to call assholes out on their shit.
I’m not sure if this has been posted here yet, but I don’t think it has. Moderna plans to have boosters ready in August, which will either be Omicron specific, OG, or bivalent with both. It’ll depend on trials between now and then.
They also say their fastest timeline on the pan-respiratory vaccine against flu, rsv, and covid would be August 2023.
This is from a Reuters interview with their CEO.
This guy let out what I’ve kept bottled up for 2 years. Everything I’ve wanted to say to the anti-maskers turned anti-vaxxers. Good for him.
And yes, I am an Eagles fan too.
The European Medicines Agency says the vaccines seem to have similar efficacy vs. BA.2 as they do against original Omicron, per Reuters.
I got this in my inbox as a news clipping from my brokerage, I can’t find the original article.
sounds like fda turned off warp speed, 18 months away is much closer to precovid process. btw, imho, if the ceo is talking about specific vaccines, they are all ready with production and just waiting for go aheads.
Well, the COVID vaccines are already approved. I don’t see why they’d get “warp speed” treatment for flu and RSV.
They’ve already proven they can combine vaccines, that the flu shot matches the market leaders, and that their covid vaccine is the market leaders in terms of antibody response. I’m not sure where they’re at on RSV results wise but I think they’re in phase 2.
So basically they have all the pieces, they just need to prove that it all works together and they’re extremely confident.
Please let this book crash and burn.
https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Invasion-Administration-Covid-19-Preventing-ebook/dp/B09HCDSLDP
So sick of media outlets publishing preprints as though they’re fact.
Just infuriating to see that shit on CNN’s home page