Biden’s administration is certainly not perfect and I know Slavitt left, but man, it’s so nice that there were/are people in leadership positions that actually understand things and acknowledge nuance to decision making. What a contrast to the Trump admin.
It’s horrifying to see so much of the world surging at once.
Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Russia, Indonesia, Morocco, Cuba, the Philippines, Iran, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Algeria, Mexico–all are dealing with arguably the worst spikes in the whole pandemic, despite wildly varying vaccination rates and degrees of previous outbreaks.
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Maybe things are different there. Some stores put in mask mandates, but they are like 75 percent followed. Stores with no mandates like 1/3 maybe. Restaurants packed with kids under 12. You aren’t part of a negligible portion of the population, but I didn’t say that, I said in the minority and I think that is definitely true. Maybe like 20 percent of Americans.
This will continue to be true as long as the vaccines stay highly effective against hospitalization. If that slips significantly, then you’ll see a lot of vaccinated older people in the hospital, because older people are significantly more likely to be vaccinated and, absent a very effective vaccine, really vulnerable to COVID.
What isn’t at all clear is how much good giving a third jab to healthy people will do. Pfizer submitted Phase 1 data on boosters on Monday and yet you’re crowing about morgues being overcrowded because the FDA isn’t rubber-stamping vaccine safety studies. And we both know you’ll be the very first person in here yelling at incompetent govt officials if we find there’s any negative health consequence to getting these boosters.
To be clear, boosters could definitely be a bad idea. Certainly giving boosters to young people while kids are unvaccinated and developing countries are starved for vaccine seems like a hard-to-defend choice. But it sounds like the administration has already made that decision. Criticize it as fiercely as you like, but having the FDA do some hollow deliberations is not going to accomplish anything.
And I absolutely will not be critical of the FDA if some side effect of the vaccines crops up. It’s a crisis, bad things happen even if you do the right thing.
My fully vaxxed 16 year old woke up congested with a runny nose. I’m being good, holding them out of school, and getting them tested. Of course finding a place to test is a headache and I’m now 18th in line at an urgent care. There should be a simple and obvious procedure for what to do and where to go if your kid seems like they have a cold. It’s also frustrating that to know how many people would say “fuck it” and send their kid to school.
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early on i was under the impression that runny nose or sneezing wasn’t a symptom of corona. has this changed with delta?
i’m not terribly congested but my partner was.
I don’t know how to reconcile this data with the sequencing data from the CDC. Right now, it’s reporting that Delta makes up 98.8% of sequenced cases, and that percentage has been steadily increasing.
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Not sure if this asshole had been posted yet:
Maybe we need an 'Assholes that have covid" thread.
It can be but it’s far less specific than cough fever and etc
It’s on the daily health check questionnaire from the school. And the school and every teacher is telling the kids and families “please err on the side of caution and do not come in if there is anything slightly off”. I get it.
The frustrating part is that the only way to be sure it’s OK is to get tested. I am now back home watching the virtual urgent care waiting list. We are now somehow only 16 on the list. So in fits and starts I’m burning half a day getting my kid tested. Again, I understand how this is prudent and cautious, but this is definitely not the way to incentivise prudence and caution.
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Meanwhile in Myrtle Beach:
https://twitter.com/jenberryhawes/status/1427665178691313664?s=21
https://twitter.com/postandcourier/status/1427661507978940421?s=21
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It’s incredibly frustrating. This is the testing site we went to near our house over the weekend (did I just doxx myself?). Seems fitting that there’s a cemetery next door (video in the link):
Our wait was something like 3.5-4 hours. We got in line before noon and as we neared the parking lot, there was a sign saying they were closing at 1:30 and it was a two hour wait from there. We got lucky that they cut off the line maybe 8-10 cars behind us. It would be nice if they’d put that sign further back in the line so people know, rather than letting people wait for a couple hours only to get turned away.
On the bright side, our test results got to us the next morning. Also, nobody had a pee emergency.
NOTE: We got tested because we got a close contact notification from my daughter’s high school Saturday morning. Monday morning, we got one for my son. Fortunately, the contact date was supposedly the same day, so we figured we didn’t need to test again. One of my daughter’s teachers is out with COVID and we suspect one of my son’s is, too (she sent an e-mail saying her family is ill and she’s be out 10 days to take care of them).
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" UPDATE: August 17
Dan Mandis, talk host of SuperTalk WTN shared on social media, “Update from Phil’s family: Phil remains in grave condition. Please continue to pray!!”"
Continue to pray! Its been doing wonders!
Can’t wait for him to be upgraded from grave condition to just plain grave.
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Only a matter of time before the GoFundMe.
But where can I send money for Phil?
You can send it to me. I cant guarantee he will get it, but Ill gladly take it.
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39.7% of Georgians fully vaccinated, gjge.