I’d take the plane. You’re probably more likely to encounter riskier situations at random gas stations along the way with people not wearing masks, while on an airplane, ventilation is good and enforcement is excellent. Wearing a mask and vaccinated, I’d have no worries on a plane.
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Or pull out an old 22 throwback and just claim to be weirdly dense.
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Some really good info in here imo
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Interesting take on the JJ vs mRNA vaccines.
Interesting that she points out that JJ was up against some variants not around during the earlier trials. But telling folks 95 and 70 are equal seems a hard distinction to make.
Journalists perspective.
https://twitter.com/maggiekb1/status/1367870071993929735?s=21
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the take can also be that it’s probably a lie that mrna vaccine is 90% effective in a multi-variant scenario, because it wasn’t tested as such.
fwiw, my ER doc inlaw told me to get JJ over moderna if given the choice (i’m not eligible yet, so that is a weeks away hypothetical)
Right, for all we know JJ is more effective in the current environment than Moderna and Pfizer.
oh yeah and detroit mayor is still a fucking idiot who should lose office for declining more doses. open up eligibility wider if you have more. give people a choice of jj or mrna. wtf?
How much of whatever disparity exists is attributable to 2 doses vs 1? It may be exactly true, but it’s an interesting lens to imagine that the different vaccines are all functionally the same, it’s just that you get a bonus dose if you pick Moderna or Pfizer, and you don’t if you pick J&J. And the bonus dose only adds some extra protection against minor illness.
No time like the present to gain a bunch of fucking weight.
Why in the world would they say that?
because it might be better and one-shot. the advice was “obviously take any, don’t wait for jj”.
I don’t get how you could look at the totality of evidence and suggest it might be better. I suppose might could do a lot of work there, but the evidence clearly supports Moderna and Pfizer imo.
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well, the clinical trial also seemed more realistic to me. 40k participated vs 30k. seems like brazil was a tougher healthcare environment, if you consider access to hospitals etc. seasonality may also introduce some bias.
one-shot is a pretty big plus for me. i’m one of those people who will probably need to travel to family as soon as i get jabbed
40k vs 30k is irrelevant.
I don’t see how ‘access to hospitals’ is going to do anything. Presumably people with easier access to testing would make efficacy numbers more challenging in more developed nations. I’m also guessing that you don’t live in a place like Brazil wrt health care access.
As for the last bit, that’s not a good idea. There’s a delay in efficacy with the 1 vaccines too.
fyi testing capability is super good right now. Just got an email telling me to do more rapid covid tests on patients that might be admitted so they can get beds faster.
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Trip report from the LA Forum: In and out in like 25 minutes including the 15 they make you wait after, never got out of the car. Very impressed with the whole system - they could scale that up to just about any level - just need a parking lot, some attendants and some nurses. The covid testing part of the parking lot had like 3 cars waiting. The attendants were throwing the football around. So that’s a ton more space right there.
One reason it moved so well is they basically check nothing except your driver’s license. They never scanned my QR code to make sure I had an appt. The woman who checked me in saw my university employer card and commented on it. But I don’t think she was going to check. I’m fairly convinced anyone could just drive up, say they have an appt and they work in Education and Childcare, and get a shot. Which isn’t a bad thing imo - just get people through as fast as possible.
No symptoms so far.
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Always good to keep a close eye on the enemy (radar is off)
Does make you wonder how US citizens will convince (prove to) other nations they have had ‘a’ vaccine, should they want to travel