This seems very surprising if true, but probably not true, certainly at the high end of that range.
A malaria vaccine would be an incredible accomplishment though.
Humidity is a known constraint on the spread of covid, so it could be true.
A malaria vaccine with a decent efficacy would be Nobel-prize material imo. My dad knew a guy who went to West Africa in the late 60s convinced he was going to find a cure lol, and the only real advance I know of is the recent genetic modification of mosquitos.
Ah. Google, it seems, is a fair-weather friend.
There is this.
Regardless 400,000 is a huge number.
On a related note we see a lot of “worst pandemic since 1918” and HIV says hold my beer.
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lol USA Today is fact checking comedian instagram posts now?
The need to put covid into a global perspective was brought up in spring, and just got laughed at by some posters.
I was accused of whatabouttery.
Sanjay was on a COVID special later that said some dangerous, incorrect stuff. It was a “state of the pandemic” type thing and he said something like:
“We know that about 80% of the spread of the virus comes from a few public settings, like indoor dining” (this is highly doubtful and disputed by other studies) “and we need to modify our behavior in those settings. Not shut them down, but social distance in them, and wear masks.”
Outrageous.
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On November 29, 15 days after he returned from Japan, he tested positive for the virus, and the next day the teacher did too. The latter had meanwhile spread the virus to a nephew and a student of his.
I think it was one student.
On a seperate note, there’s nothing at all new or rare about teacher catching covid out of school and turning up at school, requiring the school year to then quarantine for two weeks - it’s probably the most likely reason why.
It would be nice if these articles ever mention how much vaccine is expected in the next wave. I’ve read a bunch of these that all go with “will fall short by the end of the year”, and then never follow up with “well how much in the next batch after that and when will it come?” They act like 2020 is some deadline and if we don’t make it nothing matters after that.
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What % of people can look at this and tell you how many new cases there are today and how that compares to 30 days ago?
My state is like this too - their graphs are unreadable. My tinfoil suspicion has long been that it’s because they don’t want the public to easily digest that information.
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Yeah by far the most important number is the silly tiny yellow bar at the bottom! Instead, people see teal rise modestly and the line on top hover and increase modestly and get the impression things aren’t that bad.
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I’ve heard 2 people in the last month say they don’t need to wear masks because Fauci and WHO said so. Like yeah I get why the WHO thought what they were doing was best but treating everyone like an idiot and making up fake reasons to trick the idiots into not buying masks that healthcare workers needed does have consequences.
The key takeaway for me is that they are going to fall short of what they announced they thought they could produce a couple weeks ago. They don’t say why but it makes me fear producing billions of doses in 2021 may be unrealistic.
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Did you have any bouts of vertigo too?
I’ve been thinking this morning about the newest VG console launch, and I am not enthused. Obv, scalpers wont be a concern, but even without them, supply would have fallen far short of demand, and thats with less than a million of each console sold in a month. Now imagine the demand is 300 million (In the US alone)… supply might be short for months? years?
I get they aren’t the same thing, I really do, but we are about to have the most in demand product of all time. Supply might not catch up for a very very long time.
The whole argument is garbage. WHO could have said “yo we need to requisition x masks for healthcare personnel, but we’ll have more supply soon. In the meantime cover your fucking face with something”
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I think so but like what I get when I have a stuffed head. My level is off so to speak. I’ve been told I even walk with a slight lean. Dizziness only a couple of times when I’ve been really sick.
Likely just a few days away from crossing 300k US deaths, 350k by year end a certainty, drawing live to 400k. Got to have large gatherings to eat some Turkey on a Thursday in November though.
So that Gates Foundation thing about making the seven leading vaccines in advance was complete and utter bullshit Billionaireproganda?
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