I mean, I would expect an eventual flu test to seek and be granted approval after demonstrating that it works.
I think the problem will be that at-home tests donāt work as well as PCR, so the FDA will not want to approve them.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1530571111758438400
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1530581565222289413
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1530582768886874114
Anyone have a good source on projected deaths weāre going to see from this spike in cases? Are we at (or close to) ājust like the fluā mortality levels.
Iām ignoring ālong COVIDā, whatever that may be.
Deaths seems to have flattened out at 400/day or so, despite the rise in cases. Donāt think anyone can say what the future will bring.
Thereās lots of dynamics going on. Vaccinations have taken hold and vaccinated people keep on getting their boosters, so theyāre less likely to die. And the 1 million people that have already died canāt die again.
So whatās that, like ~5x influenza in a normal year?
I think itās impossible to know the numbers right now; so many people getting mild cases that donāt get reported.
The northeast already seems to be on the backside of its current wave.
Iām not saying Czech Republic beat covid but Iām more worried about monkeypox at this point.
Pretty sure weāll get another wave starting around August just like last year though.
Surprisingly decent discussion of the variety of defenses the immune system has and how they might hold up against COVIDās ongoing mutations:
Itās the same as what the cdc says
I dunno about the US, but measles was like the front runner of anti-vaxxers in Israel prior to covid. Iām sure they are running it through their newly subscribed members now harder than ever.
(I will say that the majority of hardcore anti-vaxxers in Israel come from many airquotes left wing)
Does the military require vaccines?
This was true for all of America.
The OG anti-vaxxers in America were far-left, granola-eating vegans who got their fix from Natural News. In terms of conspiracies, they were once mocked like flat-earthers. Then COVID came and they gained legitimacy.
I still mock them. Were we supposed to stop doing that?
Robert Kennedy says āhiā.
I think Berkeley is the California home of the wealthy progressive anti-vax movement. And it is definitely not all hard right, still plenty of lefty anti-vax bozos. My kidās girlfriendās mother is a kooky holistic anti-vaxxer. Sheās really into something called Heart Math.
Thereās always been the crazy religious antivax people too
You might be thinking of Marin?