Friend of mine who works in a care facility in the UK is getting the jab tomorrow, first person I know personally getting vaccinated. Feels good to feel like it’s getting closer in some way.
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Sure? I was just saying that I wasn’t aware of any aggressive lockdown-style mitigation strategies in ND or SD, so it seems like herd immunity (for the level of social distancing that’s being taken there at this time) is the explanation for the decrease in cases. Which, as suzzer points out, doesn’t mean that there won’t be another outbreak later on when that level of social distancing decreases.
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As Caffeine said, you can’t really have herd immunity for a subset of people when they have contact to people outside of it.
As far as asymptomatic infections, most estimates I’ve seen are around 20% of infections. Here’s one link in Nature pointing to that number.
Also, there’s a majority of infections that result in mild symptoms. For one reason or another there’s no test and it isn’t a known case. Some smart people estimate that we are detecting about 1 in 3 infections right now. As per covid19-projections:
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Why some people with coronavirus have no symptoms and others get extremely ill is one of the pandemic’s biggest puzzles.
A study in Nature of more than 2,200 intensive care patients has identified specific genes that may hold the answer.
They make some people more susceptible to severe Covid-19 symptoms.
IME Filipino’s are getting nailed. Might be because there’s a lot of nurses are Filipino, but they seem way overrepresented to me.
Just came to post this, absolutely disgusting how selfish some people are
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I assume that he volunteered himself and his family to be given the deadly virus to get the herd-immunity ball rolling.
This is a sadly weak study. GWASes are always pretty easy to read too much into, but they didn’t even contrast the GWAS of critical patients with one from non-crtical patients.
I put 100% of the blame for this shit on Republicans and the right-wing news media. The masses are always going to be uninformed. If you tell them covid no big deal they’re going to act accordingly.
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Looks like peak tests.
Same source (Nature) as the poster I was replying to - most of the studies relating to Covid-19 are sadly weak at this early stage. A couple of reputable sources put it out there so I thought I’d pass on, for what it’s worth
The very first thing they teach in Risk Assumption 101 is that you cannot assume Risk for other people, especially if they are uninformed of the Risk.
My little rural county went down to 36 positives today but on only 100 tests. I haven’t heard any stories about testing limits but wtf is going on I wonder.
Because like half the country thought it would just go away on its own by now, so investing in it now heavily would have been a total waste. The rest of us knew we had no means to force it. Bill Gates was all talk. Fuck him for that, by the way.
Yes and no. I mean a sizeable portion of this country got the exact response from the government they wanted, and they’re the ones who voted for them. Democracy worked for them.
“There is no other way, we need to establish herd, and it only comes about allowing the non-high risk groups expose themselves to the virus. PERIOD," then-science adviser Paul Alexander wrote on July 4 to his boss, Health and Human Services assistant secretary for public affairs Michael Caputo, and six other senior officials.
From late May:
He says “the hydroxy” a lot, but I don’t think I’ve heard him call the virus “the corona.” I feel like there are other examples but I’m blanking right now. If that’s a thing, him calling it “the herd” would be a huge indicator that’s the strategy, full stop. (As if it isn’t obvious enough.)
This was definitely the strategy. Disgraceful.
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I know this is a few days old but all the airline mask bans are essentially indefinitely until at least Covid is over. So I agree it is not likely a lifetime ban.
In the early days of the virus, it was traced to a so-called “wet market” in Wuhan, Hubei province, and it was suggested that this was where it made the leap from animals to humans.
But experts now believe it may simply have been amplified there.
Research suggests that coronaviruses capable of infecting humans may have been circulating undetected in bats for decades.
The whole administration needs to be tried for murder.
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