I thought current thinking is that it takes a single super spreader event to kick start it.
I mean, thereâs a lot of unknowns but COVID could certainly fly under everyoneâs radar for a while. In the early stages how would you know it was a new thing and not just a bad cold going around? Itâs the sort of thing no one really notices until itâs too late.
Lots of electrons being wasted on what is a lot of preliminary info of unknown quality. Donât we have a containment thread about the oranges of Covid? (Maybe the orange is the hunter gear?).
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Certainly seems possible that the âalphaâ variant was just the one we happened to discover first. Could have been previous unknown variants with lower transmissibility, less severe symptoms, etc.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/18/cdc-data-delay-delta-variant/
TFW you forget youâre on the record until itâs too late:
âWhat is very concerning is that weâre not seeing the data come out,â said Tom Frieden, a former CDC director who served under President Barack Obama. âIt needs to come out. What you can criticize CDC for, validly, is why arenât you talking about the studies youâre doing of breakthroughs? Even like, whatâs the methodology. Where are they being done? What are the results so far?â
There has been such a long lag time, Frieden added, that some wonder if the CDC is hiding results. âAnd these are the people who are potentially friendly to CDC, so you know youâre in trouble when even your friends are suspicious of your motives,â he said, adding he was not talking about himself.
I assume before restrictions those were happening daily in cities on the coasts which should have been the first place it started. A few months would be plenty of time for it to spread around with zero restrictions that we should have seen hospitals start to fill up and people wondering wtf was going on.
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Yeah thats the only thing that makes sense to me, there was a previous variant that was much less contagious and deadly.
I remember everyone thought they got it during that really bad flu season in nov/dec 2019 but afaik nobody tested positive for antibodies on this forum, me and mom included.
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I havenât read the linked article, but I assume bats are fucking deer. Nature really is amazing.
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Not sure where in our hellscape this is, but feels like the unraveling might be approaching.
Guess tweets arenât showing up, but it is protesters taking over/shutting down a same day COVID testing center.
EDIT: oh wow actually not America, we won one!
https://mobile.twitter.com/angry_staffer/status/1427991137910919177?s=21
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So mom is under the impression she canât get her booster until after 8 months has passed from her last vaccine shot. All i see online is that people with compromised immune systems can get it. Weâre 6 months out and I still have to go to work in person now. Weâve already had several people out with covid.
Got the COVID update. Weâre at 101% staff capacity. We actually have more than enough beds, but not enough people to keep up with normal standard of care.
How long after getting my initial COVID-19 vaccines can I get an additional dose?
CDC recommends the additional dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine be administered at least four weeks after a second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
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Got the text this morning I have been waiting for nervously for a while. They are floating my wife from her normal ICU post into Covid hell. She tried to refuse and they gave her the option to quit or do it. She has 10 weeks left on her nursing contract. I told her to do what she needed to do and I would support her regardless.
She has worked bedside as a trauma/ICU nurse for 13 years now. She had bad shifts before Covid but she genuinely liked her work and felt a calling for it. The idea of going to some easier nursing post was never even discussed. Now she says she has nightmares, wakes up shaking and cries at work some.
All that to say that I imagine this is something every bedside Covid nurse and doctor has or is going through right now. I feel terrible for all of you in this thread who have lived through this first hand. Itâs a mass casualty event in the ranks of our health care workers as well and it largely is going ignored in favor of news stories about dipshits and their FREEDUMBS.
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https://twitter.com/orlandosentinel/status/1427935381719330823
(I guess I have to screenshot every tweet now?)
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âWe are prepared to offer booster shots for all Americans beginning the week of September 20 and starting 8 months after an individualâs second dose,â US health officials, including CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and FDA Acting Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock, said in the statement.
âAt that time, the individuals who were fully vaccinated earliest in the vaccination rollout, including many health care providers, nursing home residents, and other seniors, will likely be eligible for a booster. We would also begin efforts to deliver booster shots directly to residents of long-term care facilities at that time, given the distribution of vaccines to this population early in the vaccine rollout and the continued increased risk that COVID-19 poses to them,â the statement said.
I meant the booster shot not the 2nd dose.
