NOT MY PRESIDENT!
Iām Canadian ldo.
Just donated blood at Childrenās Hospital Los Angeles. All the employees have been vaccinated, with most already receiving their second shots. Happy for them, happy for having a safer place to donate, and happy that CHLA has their shit together.
One of the guys said that he had no reaction to the first shot, but legit chills/fatigue for 24 hours after the second shot. He got Pfizer. He also works at UCLA where theyāre using Moderna and he says some co-workers there had even more severe reactions.
No, he is actually saying these things:
One of the Brazil variants is showing the best vaccine dodging capabilities to date
We donāt know this at all. Weāre a long way from knowing how any of these mutations will alter vaccine effectiveness.
I think the portion fo the US population that is willing to be vaccinated is going to end up close to 90 percent, tbh.
Vaccine denial in the abstract is easy. Vaccine denial when we are pushing 5,000 deaths a day and when everybody knows someone who has died of Covid is much tougher. Iām telling you, this is going to be an avalanche of people deciding that they want the vaccine after all. I donāt know anyone who themselves isnāt at most one degree separated from a Covid death at this point.
Iāll try to rephrase
One of the Brazil variants is indicating the best vaccine dodging capabilities to date
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One of the Brazil variants is already known to be escaping antibodies generated by first wave infections - vaccine generates antibodies specific to spike proteins at the time of design - other scientists are now checking the Japanese and UK scientists findings - this could well equate to āvaccine designed for first wave covidā having less efficacy than when the efficacy was originally tested.
Maybe we can put this to bed when Biden closes the border to South America for āsomeā reason. Too late for the UK variant as that was already rife in US, even though you took weeks to believe the same.
Thereās a reason a country with the most advanced geonome surveillance has barred entry (only) from South America - you donāt need to be a genius to work out why.
Itās great that we can redesign these vaccines within say 2 weeks but there are regulatory procedures to approve new vaccines, usually a few trials but thereās no time for that shite when covid mutates sooo quickly - alas weāll probably have to get used to taking untested vaccines IMHO, if we want to keep up with the speed of mutations
Maybe. Weāll see. I think for a depressing % of people it depends a lot on if proof of vaccination is required to do things they want to do.
Iāve know about a dozen people personally who are nurses or techs in ERs that have gone through COVID who arenāt getting vaccinated. Youāre being overly optimistic imo, although I hope youāre right.
Is part of the calculus though that theyāve already had Covid so they probably have some immunity anyway? I think thereās a big difference between somebody who already had Covid not taking the vaccine versus somebody who never had it. Thinking about it, the only person I know right now who is eligible for the vaccine and opted not to take it is someone who already had Covid and recovered from it.
No. Just have various concerns about safety and etc
I still wonder though if those concerns are trumping risk of Covid in their head because theyāve already had Covid, even if theyāre not verbalizing it.
I cannot emphasize this enough, they havenāt had covid.
We know that working in hospitals increases your risk of infection by a factor of three, but this risk is not evenly spread. Antibody tests carried out in many NHS hospitals over the summer showed it was not the ICU consultants or infectious āred zoneā clinical staff who had the highest rate of infection, but porters and cleaners working in those areas. Their risk of infection was double that of their clinical colleagues.
A sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the worldās largest inoculation drive.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme, which aims to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people against Covid.
No, we donāt know this at all. Itās spreading rapidly in an environment where almost no one has been vaccinated. It can be more virulent without the vaccines being less effective.
Ohā¦ Thatās depressing then.
There was an article about a nursing home near me where like 60% of the staff say they wonāt get vaxxed. I canāt believe thatās even an option for people who work in that job. I always assumed the flu shot was mandatory? Our society has a massive public health literacy problem.
Flu shot isnāt mandatory every where Iāve worked (note: it might be in some places). People are supposed to wear masks if they donāt, but this isnāt strictly enforced any where Iāve worked or trained.
Well hopefully some percent of the people opting out now will eventually get it after they see that the general population has been fine after receiving it. There seemed to be some āwait and seeā sentiment out there.