Czech Republic ranks 7th of 27 EU member states in cases per 100,000 and multiple countries have passed the CR’s previous peak from last winter recently (Estonia, Croatia, Slovenia).
Schools are feeling the effect too. About half of one of my classes was missing today due to a few cases of covid. Mandatory testing for unvaccinated students will resume Monday (it will be the first round of mandatory testing since September). My ass is gonna be super guarded come December because I want to go home for Christmas. Being boosted and still getting COVID right before flying home is a freaking nightmare.
In a TikTok video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej outlined the ingredients for a bath she said will “detox the vaxx” for people who have given into Covid-19 vaccine mandates.
The ingredients in the bath are mostly not harmful, although the supposed benefits attached to them are entirely fictional. Baking soda and epsom salts, she falsely claims, will provide a “radiation detox” to remove radiation Madej falsely believes is activated by the vaccine. Bentonite clay will add a “major pull of poison,” she says, based on a mistaken idea in anti-vaccine communities that toxins can be removed from the body with certain therapies.
Then, recommends adding in one cup of borax, a cleaning agent that’s been banned as a food additive by the Food and Drug Administration, to “take nanotechnologies out of you.”
In reality, in addition to being potentially harmful as a skin and eye irritant, a borax “detox bath” will not remove the effects of the Covid vaccine from your body.
lol I was in the process of quoting the exact same segment. And this crackpot has “Dr.” in front of her name so folks will be more likely to believe her.
Latest figures on Thursday showed a record 16,364 new Covid cases over 24 hours, up a third on the previous week. Dutch vaccination rates are relatively high, with 82.4% of over-12s having two doses, that’s 73% of the total population.
Gulp. 73% not enough.
According to widespread reports in Dutch media, the caretaker government agreed late on Thursday that the three-week partial lockdown would start on Saturday evening:
Non-essential shops will have to shut at 18:00 (17:00 GMT) and supermarkets, cafes, restaurants and hotels at 20:00
Professional and amateur sport will continue, but behind closed doors
That includes the Netherlands’ football World Cup qualifier against Norway on 16 November
The 18:00 closure applies to casinos and saunas as well as hairdressers and sex workers
A maximum of four guests aged over 13 will be allowed at people’s homes
As many people should work from home as possible
Czech daily Covid infections have topped 10,000 for the third time this week; the government is set to announce tighter restrictions
I checked out the graphs of infections and deaths for Germany, you can see the discrepancy before and after vaccines were rolled out. Difficult to comprehend how many lives were saved in one country alone.
“In the UK, the proportion of the population who have antibodies due to vaccination or infection or both is very high, so essentially more people are protected,” said Prof Balloux.
Waning immunity may also be a bigger factor in Europe. Many European countries stuck to giving the two vaccine doses three weeks apart. The UK, controversially at the time, spaced them out further which could lead to a stronger and more durable immune response, say experts.
What is happening to people who have received a booster dose is also being closely monitored. Evidence suggests the levels of protective antibodies in their blood has shot back up. It is too soon though to tell if the declines in cases among the over 80s are due to extra protection from boosting or less Covid circulating due to half term school holidays.
Scheduled my booster for this evening. The cvs I called only has Moderna, so I’ll be triple vaxed Moderna. I didn’t bother to try anywhere else to get Pfizer.
“A lockdown for the unvaccinated means one cannot leave one’s home unless one is going to work, shopping (for essentials), stretching one’s legs – exactly what we all had to suffer through in 2020,” Schallenberg said earlier, according to Reuters.
However, questions have been raised about the feasibility of a lockdown which applies to only a part of the population. “We don’t live in a police state and we can’t and don’t want to check every street corner,” Schallenberg said.
Findings In this cross-sectional analysis of 26 823 adults from the population-based French CONSTANCES cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic, self-reported COVID-19 infection was associated with most persistent physical symptoms, whereas laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection was associated only with anosmia. Those associations were independent from self-rated health or depressive symptoms.
Meaning Findings suggest that persistent physical symptoms after COVID-19 infection should not be automatically ascribed to SARS-CoV-2; a complete medical evaluation may be needed to prevent erroneously attributing symptoms to the virus.
