Why the fuck didn’t J&J do some 2x trials as well?
Why was Nova’s trial so damn tiny?
Thanks CN. Chruchill I guess I’ll let your not fully deleted statement speak for itself.
Curious to see how UP’s experience with the pandemic compares to the world at large. Please take a couple seconds to answer these two questions.
Have you been vaccinated?
- Yes, with two shots
- Yes, with one shot
- No
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Have you had COVID?
- Yes, with confirmed test
- Probably, but didn’t take a test
- No, but I know someone who has
- No, and I don’t know anyone who has
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Only health workers and over 70/75’s getting the vaccination other than in US - just something that you may wanna take into account when calculating your comparison (min 10% UP posters IMO) if non-US citizens, like me vote in your poll
Indeed, many countries haven’t given any vaccinations yet
I don’t think anybody here will be surprised by this story. The good news is that even in this less-than-optimal environment they say no vaccine doses were wasted.
During a chaotic vaccine rollout, this might have been one of the wildest scenes yet: After a freezer failed at a nearby medical center, nurses, firefighters and volunteers scurried throughout the hospital in a mad-dash scramble to use as many doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as possible before they expired.
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At UW Medical Center — Northwest, word had spread on social media and in text chains like wildfire, bringing a throng of people, mostly too young and healthy to qualify in normal circumstances, to the clinic’s doors. Brackett said the hospital was doing its best to vaccinate those eligible in the state’s phased vaccine rollout, but that the main objective was to get it into arms and avoid waste.
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Curious to see how UP’s experience with the pandemic compares to the US at large
Like this post if you’re non-us and have had a jab
Got tested today. Shockingly easy process compared to what I had read about the process many months ago. Basically signed up online yesterday, got an appointment for a drive through test today. Drove up and handed them my drivers license, they handed me a tissue and told me to blow my nose. 30 seconds later a nurse came out and swabbed my nostrils with a q-tip. (My poor daughter got the super long probe 3 times the other day.)
I’m supposed to have the results tomorrow or Monday.
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I agree that whichever you can get first is the best play.
Fauci presumably had a choice and he went Moderna.
I suppose in a hypothetical world where I had a choice of getting either one equally quickly, that’s what I’d choose.
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Thats weird because Moderna takes longer, 28 days vs 21 between shots, and 14 days vs 7 post 2nd shot for immunity, plus it only protects people over 65 at 86% vs 94% for Pfizer. Wonder why he went with Moderna.
The sample sizes one these are small enough that using more than about 1 significant figure on the effectiveness is dubious. The error bars on the 86 vs 94 are large and overlapping. Right now, statistically it’s hard to tell the difference between Moderna and Pfizer.
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Which variant as all 4 have now been idenitfied in the US?
Will vaccines still work?
Studies are underway to check this and some early results suggest the Pfizer vaccine protects against the new variants.
Data on two new coronavirus vaccines that could be approved soon - one from Novavax and another from Janssen - appear to offer some protection against the variant.
Current vaccines were designed around earlier versions of coronavirus, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well.
Early results from Moderna suggest its vaccine is still effective against the South Africa variant.
Vaccines train the body to attack several parts of the virus, not just these sections of the spike protein.
Variants could emerge in the future that are more different again.
Even in the worst case scenario, vaccines could be redesigned and tweaked to be a better match - in a matter or weeks or months, if necessary, say experts.
Your own source is saying it’s inconclusive at this point.
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Just got jab #1 with the Moderna vaccine. Painless and quick. I’ll echo what the above poster said about being aware how fortunate we are getting it this early and it’s a perfect example of privilege. There is a certain irony about having to to travel to a super small town filled with poor whites that refuse to get it which leads to excess for situations like me.
Edit- this county voted like 90/10 for Trump.
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What better way to say “I love you”?
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Which county, if you don’t mind revealing?