Universal Vaccine Eligibility Is Almost Here
Will it translate into availability for everyone?
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CDC Director Fears 'Impending Doom' If U.S. Opens Too Quickly
"Just please hold on a little while longer," said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, warning of a possible fourth surge. U.S. coronavirus cases are up 10% over the previous week.
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I never took a flu vaccine but I am surprised at the way we accept anything that comes from people who not only are out to get rid of us but rehearse killing us constantly in our face.
How to heal the 'mass trauma' of Covid-19
When the pandemic is over, how should we process the memories of what happened? Ed Prideaux discovers counter-intuitive answers from the science of trauma.
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12 people are behind most of the anti-vaxxer disinformation you see on social media
The "Disinformation Dozen" are spreading anti-vaccination content throughout the internet.
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The Curious Case of Florida’s Pandemic Response
Liberals predicted that Florida would get destroyed by its laissez-faire approach to COVID-19. Conservatives said the state was the future of the economy. What if they were both wrong?
Covid: The London bus trip that saved maybe a million lives
A conversation on a bus led to the setting up of the Recovery trial, leading to treatments for Covid.
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Opinion | I Got My Covid Vaccine. Now Can I Hug My Mom? (Published 2021)
Three experts respond to questions from readers about what they can do after getting vaccinated.
The US is about to reach a surprise milestone: too many vaccines, not enough takers
The challenge will be convincing enough outliers to get vaccinated so that America can return to normality.
The saga of mishaps and miscommunications overshadowing AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine
The NIH's pushback on AstraZeneca's data is the latest in a seemingly endless saga of missteps and misfortunes surrounding its Covid-19 vaccine.
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A DNA Sequencing Revolution Helped Us Fight Covid. What Else Can It Do? (Published 2021)
Ultrafast and ultracheap sequencing could reshape the future of health care.
What we know (and don’t know) about long-haul Covid
For almost a year now, reporter Cynthia Mulligan has been staying in touch with people who caught Covid-19 early and survived, only to see their debilitating symptoms linger. What do their symptoms and experiences have in common? Not much, except for two things: None of them has fully recovered...
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Canada’s vaccine rollout is slow, and very confusing. Here are some answers.
Canada's Covid-19 vaccine rollout has been slow and very confusing. But at least two million doses are expected every week for the next month.
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Covid and grief: What happens when we can’t say goodbye?
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have lost loved ones to this pandemic. And most of them lost them without being able to say goodbye or to properly mourn them. Grief over a death is challenging at any time, but how are we coping without the two parts of the process that can offer us comfort....
thebigstorypodcast.ca
How a family doctor helped Canadians understand COVID-19
Dr. Jennifer Kwan is just one of dozens of ordinary Canadians who decided early in the pandemic to help people understand Covid-19.
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It will be very close tho. We have about 170 million people protected with antibodies from either vaccinations or recovered. Once we hit the 250 million mark, cases will decline rapidly. We are essentially 80 million away from seeing number and deaths decline sharply.We on the uptick again! Who didn't see this coming? 4th wave is underway and the Northeast is leading the charge (New York and New Jersey, followed by Texas and Florida).
The Covid Tracking Project stopped collecting data on March 7th and I am not just getting around to making adjustments. As of now, I do not have a source for hospitalization and testing data. I used the Covid Tracking Project to initialize most of my python scripts, so I am missing 22 days' worth of data. As of now, 100% of my data is coming from John Hopkins.
If American's can just do the right thing for 30 more days then the covid pandemic would be over.
The vaccines are working and people who has been vaccinated have very little to worry about. We are only at 170 million people with antibodies through vaccines and recovery.
We need to hit that 200 plus quickly to stop another surge
We’ll see. This surge seems to be from the new strain.
It is from the new strain and they still don’t have a clue how a vaccine is going to act with the new strain I agree with the CDC director I don’t feel too good about this
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This is why we will never get rid if it. There will always be a 30-35% carrier pidgeon part of the population that won't die, but will gleefully spread the shit.
The problem is the vaccines may work to well and drastically drop the number of cases and close to zero deaths. Cases may drop as low as 6000 a day.
The problem with that would be if a strain the vaccine does not protect against is floating around. It can easily become the dominant strain with only 6009 cases a day
Wait...I thought they knew this already???
I believe the first set of numbers saying that the vaccines were ~95% effective were with Pfizer and Moderna's internal testing.
The 90% was with the government doing the analysis.
That alongside state's local governments being in a rush to ease up on restrictions and open everything back up.
It's the rule of six pack! Britons head to parks to enjoy a drink
Large crowds gathered at the Arboretum in Nottingham city centre, where revellers enjoyed packs of beer in the warm weather - leaving behind empty cans, bottles and boxes on the grass.
It's the rule of six pack! Britons head to parks to enjoy a drink
Large crowds gathered at the Arboretum in Nottingham city centre, where revellers enjoyed packs of beer in the warm weather - leaving behind empty cans, bottles and boxes on the grass.
This is why some members of humanity gets on my last nerve. If this virus goes super saiyan you all know where it came fromIt's the rule of six pack! Britons head to parks to enjoy a drink
Large crowds gathered at the Arboretum in Nottingham city centre, where revellers enjoyed packs of beer in the warm weather - leaving behind empty cans, bottles and boxes on the grass.www.dailymail.co.uk
It's the rule of six pack! Britons head to parks to enjoy a drink
Large crowds gathered at the Arboretum in Nottingham city centre, where revellers enjoyed packs of beer in the warm weather - leaving behind empty cans, bottles and boxes on the grass.
This is why some members of humanity gets on my last nerve. If this virus goes super saiyan you all know where it came from
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COVID-19 restrictions: B.C. temporarily halting indoor dining at restaurants, indoor fitness activities for adults
As COVID-19 cases surge in B.C., the province's top health officials have announced new measures meant to curb the spread of the disease.
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COVID-19 cases in B.C. higher than 'the worst point of the 2nd wave,' premier says
B.C.'s COVID-19 cases are 'higher today than the worst point of the second wave,' the premier said in an update Monday.
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COVID-19: Alleged Vancouver penthouse party host arrested again, charged with disobeying court order | Globalnews.ca
Mo Movassaghi was arrested at his Vancouver penthouse Saturday and has since been charged with disobeying a court order and two counts of possessing a controlled substance.
globalnews.ca
Apology issued after newspaper editorial compares COVID-19 restrictions to Holocaust | Globalnews.ca
Glacier Media says in a statement that the March 24 editorial published in Moose Jaw Today did not meet editorial standards.
globalnews.ca
Can You Get COVID After Being Fully Vaccinated? Chicago's Top Doc Answer is simply a astounding:Yes you can
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The answer is yes, but what are the odds?
Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady sought to answer that question during a Facebook Live Thursday, noting that while infection post-vaccination is possible, it's also rare.
"If you have been vaccinated, you can get COVID," Arwady said. "It does not happen very often."
While the vaccine itself cannot give you the virus, it is also not 100% effective at preventing the virus entirely, though those who receive the vaccine are far less likely to be hospitalized or die from it, data shows.
"In the trials, it's about a one in 20 chance that if you get exposed to COVID you still could get COVID even if you were fully vaccinated," Arwady said. "The good news is that... we see all three of these vaccines amazingly protective against the severe outcomes of COVID, almost 100% protective against getting hospitalized or dying from COVID. But it is possible, it doesn't happen very often, but it is possible to get COVID and that is part of why we continue recommending while we still have a lot of COVID around that when you're in public spaces, etc., you wear that mask and if you are interacting with someone who has not yet been vaccinated and is at high risk you should absolutely keep wearing that mask."
In clinical trials, Moderna's vaccine reported 94.1% effectiveness at preventing COVID-19 in people who received both doses. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was said to be 95% effective.
The FDA said Johnson and Johnson’s single-shot vaccine was 85% protective against the most severe COVID-19 illness, according to a study that spanned three continents. It also showed protection against COVID-19 related hospitalization and death, beginning 28 days after vaccination.
For a complete breakdown of the three vaccines, click here.
Arwady said the risk of contracting COVID after vaccination will decrease as more people get vaccinated, however.
"As our case numbers go down, as we really sort of get past COVID, the chance that you will be exposed to COVID will be even lower and this won't be as much of a concern, but we call it a breakthrough case when we have examples of people who are fully vaccinated," Arwady said.
In Chicago, Arwady said there have been few reported cases so far. Of the more than 1 million vaccinations in the city, there were an estimated 23 post-vaccination infections reported.
"Most of those people were actually asymptomatic," Arwady said. "They didn't have symptoms, we were testing them because they work in a hospital or they're at a long-term care facility."
The Illinois Department of Public Health told NBC 5 earlier this month it is also tracking cases of individuals who have been vaccinated and test positive for COVID-19. According to IDPH, of the more than 1.6 million people who are fully vaccinated, 217 reported a positive test more than two weeks after their last vaccine dose.
Ariel Silver of Northbrook, a sales manager for a medical device company, said she received her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine in mid-January and tested positive for COVID-19 in early March.
“Having been fully vaccinated for six weeks and then to get a positive COVID test, I was shocked,” Silver said.
Silver said her two young daughters tested positive in late February, and soon after she started feeling sick.
“It hit me hard," she said. "I’ve read that if someone vaccinated gets COVID, it’s usual very mild symptoms. But for two days my symptoms were not mild at all. I was in bed, very ill."
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the vaccine will help keep people from getting seriously ill, but those who are fully vaccinated should still take proper health precautions, particularly in public places, as "we’re still learning how vaccines will affect the spread of COVID-19."
“We shouldn’t be surprised about some people still getting infected, especially if they have high risk exposures, like a household exposure, but what we shouldn’t expect are severe infections because we know the vaccines were highly protective against from any hospitalizations,” said Dr. Jonathan Pinsky, a medical director and infectious disease control and prevention specialist at Edward Hospital.
Health experts have also expressed concern about new and emerging variants of the virus. Though studies have shown the current vaccines provide protection against known variants so far, they may not be as effective against the new strains.
The variant from South Africa, for example, reduced Pfizer-BioNTech's antibody protection by two-thirds, according to a February study. Moderna's neutralizing antibodies dropped six-fold with the South Africa variant, CNBC reported.
But boosters and new versions of vaccines that target the variants are already being explored.
Pfizer-BioNTech is testing a third booster shot of its vaccine on fully vaccinated people.
"The flexibility of our proprietary mRNA vaccine platform allows us to technically develop booster vaccines within weeks, if needed," Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech, said in a release.
Moderna is also testing a potential third dose of its current vaccine, and a possible booster shot specifically targeting the South Africa variant.
Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky said during an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box" earlier this month that the company is well-positioned to adapt its vaccine for variants, and is working on developing software that will "help address some of these new and emerging variants."
Still, Arwady stressed the importance of getting the vaccine.
"Nobody [who is vaccinated] has been hospitalized or died or gotten seriously ill, but it is a small piece of this and I don't want people to freak out about this," she said. "The vaccine continues to work just as it has looked and is expected to work. And again if everybody's vaccinated, not a big concern."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...wn/ar-BB1eYkxY
Upper Darby,Pennsylvania Pharmacy Receives ‘No Explanation Why’ It Stop Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine After Administering 1st Shots
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CBS News Philadelphia
Upper Darby Pharmacy Receives ‘No Explanation Why’ It Stop Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine After Administering 1st Shots
Dan Koob reports.
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Folks willing to die for just a lil' semblance of da lives they once knew/"normalcy" or da economy. But not I, said da cat.
but but posts to fearmonger vaccines...... you first started with making every thread you could find.... I took notice because you never posted in this sticky..... your cracker threads gained no traction with little to no attention.... so now you post them here.... never anything good..... while I .... and many others posted stories from all angles.... the good and the bad.... you sully this thread EVERY time you post in it.... cracker...... you will forever be known as.......
Few Facts, Millions Of Clicks: Fearmongering Vaccine Stories Go Viral Online
A doctor fills syringes with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine this week at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse in San Gabriel, Calif.
The odds of dying after getting a COVID-19 vaccine are virtually nonexistent.
According to recent data from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, you're three times more likely to get struck by lightning.
But you might not know that from looking at your social media feed.
A new NPR analysis finds that articles connecting vaccines and death have been among the most highly engaged with content online this year, going viral in a way that could hinder people's ability to judge the true risk in getting a shot.
The findings also illustrate a broader trend in online misinformation: With social media platforms making more of an effort to take down patently false health claims, bad actors are turning to cherry-picked truths to drive misleading narratives.
Experts say these storylines are much harder for companies to moderate, though they can have the same net effect of creating a distorted and false view of the world.
"It's a really insidious problem," said Deen Freelon, a communications professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "The social media companies have taken a hard line against disinformation; they have not taken a similarly hard line against fallacies."
To date, the CDC's reporting system has not received evidence linking any deaths directly to vaccines.
And yet, on almost half of all the days so far in 2021, a story about someone dying after receiving a vaccine shot has been among the most popular vaccine-related articles on social media, according to data from the media intelligence company NewsWhip.
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Misleading Facts Fuel COVID-19 Misinformation, Evade Social Media Moderation : NPR
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You post nothing but but posts to fearmonger vaccines...... you first started with making every thread you could find.... I took notice because you never posted in this sticky..... your cracker threads gained no traction with little to no attention.....
.So you say my threads dont get no attention and gain any traction.?......Dude please.............One of my threads got so much traction that they had to lock it up.The Marvin Hagler Thread.Go look it up.You are lying SOB if you talking about you post from all angles.The only thing i see you post is fear mongering,and judgemental stuff.You being judgemental of people who dont see things from your angle.and why you responding to my threads anyway.if you clearly look you can see that i mention coincidental deaths.They just happen to be healhty then they get Covid vaccination they coincidentally dies.They are all coincidental deaths.So what. if they numbers are piling up.they still remain coincidental death's.
are you mentally challenged for responding to me.? am i really trolling.?...............bro go back and look at the thread i always said they are coincidental deaths,so what if they are piling up,it will always remain to be..........Covid19 vaccination coincidental deaths.Are you trolling or really mentally challenged?
13 days after getting a vaccine there's literally zero chance she died from vaccination this is the dumbest shit I have seen posted in this thread.
There's a number of things she could have caused her death over a 13 day period including natural causes smh.
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Take this you Crash Test Dummy.
Dozens in Central Florida contract COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated
So-called breakthrough cases pop up in Orlando area
ORLANDO, Fla. – They’re called COVID-19 breakthrough cases -- people who have been fully vaccinated yet still contract the virus more than 14 days after their second shot.
The cases are popping up around the country, including in Central Florida.
Hanna Rewerts, 27, is a physical therapist and has been tested for COVID-19 at least once a week since the pandemic started.
She says she got her first positive test just days ago.
“I was shocked, you know,” Rewerts told News 6. “Immediately I’m like, ‘This has to be a false-positive. This can’t be right.’”
But multiple tests confirmed it.
She said she was shocked because she is also fully vaccinated.
As a health care worker, Rewerts had her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in December 2020, according to her vaccine card. Her second dose was three weeks later in January.
More than two months after the second shot, she contracted the virus.
“So it’s just, it’s very odd,” Rewerts said.
Rewerts is among a growing number of people.
Earlier this month, the Minnesota Department of Health released a health advisory stating that along with the CDC, it is investigating COVID-19 infections among people who are “appropriately vaccinated,” also called vaccine breakthrough cases, according to the advisory.
News 6 checked and the Florida Department of Health in Volusia County has six documented breakthrough cases while Sumter County has six and Lake County has 26 cases, according to emails from each county’s spokesperson.
Dr. Timothy Hendrix is with Advent Health and said it is possible for someone who is fully vaccinated to still contract the virus.
“It is possible because no vaccine is perfect,” Hendrix said.
Hendrix stressed that both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are 95% effective, though.
“The good news is for that very small amount of people that might become infected, that less than 5%, the chances of severe disease is next to zero,” Hendrix said.
Breakthrough cases are not specific to COVID-19 and can happen with any vaccine, according to experts.
Rewerts said three of her family members who were also fully vaccinated contracted it as well.
“One of my family members actually went to the hospital,” Rewerts said. “I mean, that’s pretty severe enough to be concerned about the vaccine.”
Rewerts said the Florida Department of Health is testing to see whether she may have been infected by one of the COVID-19 variants that has made it to Florida.
She said for now, she and her family will continue social distancing and wearing masks.
“I don’t think the public is aware that it doesn’t mean you’re not getting the virus, and it doesn’t mean you’re not getting sick. There is still a chance,” Rewerts said.
Hendrix put it this way.
“The one thing you should know is every vaccine that’s been approved at this point, is highly effective at preventing the one major endpoint: hospitalization and death,” Hendrix said.
Researchers are still trying to figure out if people who are fully vaccinated and contract the virus can also spread it to other people, which is why they recend still wearing masks even after you’re vaccinated
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What you got to say about that,You desperate dummy.
I Came To Bring Pain HardCore To The Brain,Let's go inside my astral plane
Take this you Crash Test Dummy.
Dozens in Central Florida contract COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated
So-called breakthrough cases pop up in Orlando area
ORLANDO, Fla. – They’re called COVID-19 breakthrough cases -- people who have been fully vaccinated yet still contract the virus more than 14 days after their second shot.
The cases are popping up around the country, including in Central Florida.
Hanna Rewerts, 27, is a physical therapist and has been tested for COVID-19 at least once a week since the pandemic started.
She says she got her first positive test just days ago.
“I was shocked, you know,” Rewerts told News 6. “Immediately I’m like, ‘This has to be a false-positive. This can’t be right.’”
But multiple tests confirmed it.
She said she was shocked because she is also fully vaccinated.
As a health care worker, Rewerts had her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in December 2020, according to her vaccine card. Her second dose was three weeks later in January.
More than two months after the second shot, she contracted the virus.
“So it’s just, it’s very odd,” Rewerts said.
Rewerts is among a growing number of people.
Earlier this month, the Minnesota Department of Health released a health advisory stating that along with the CDC, it is investigating COVID-19 infections among people who are “appropriately vaccinated,” also called vaccine breakthrough cases, according to the advisory.
News 6 checked and the Florida Department of Health in Volusia County has six documented breakthrough cases while Sumter County has six and Lake County has 26 cases, according to emails from each county’s spokesperson.
Dr. Timothy Hendrix is with Advent Health and said it is possible for someone who is fully vaccinated to still contract the virus.
“It is possible because no vaccine is perfect,” Hendrix said.
Hendrix stressed that both Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are 95% effective, though.
“The good news is for that very small amount of people that might become infected, that less than 5%, the chances of severe disease is next to zero,” Hendrix said.
Breakthrough cases are not specific to COVID-19 and can happen with any vaccine, according to experts.
Rewerts said three of her family members who were also fully vaccinated contracted it as well.
“One of my family members actually went to the hospital,” Rewerts said. “I mean, that’s pretty severe enough to be concerned about the vaccine.”
Rewerts said the Florida Department of Health is testing to see whether she may have been infected by one of the COVID-19 variants that has made it to Florida.
She said for now, she and her family will continue social distancing and wearing masks.
“I don’t think the public is aware that it doesn’t mean you’re not getting the virus, and it doesn’t mean you’re not getting sick. There is still a chance,” Rewerts said.
Hendrix put it this way.
“The one thing you should know is every vaccine that’s been approved at this point, is highly effective at preventing the one major endpoint: hospitalization and death,” Hendrix said.
Researchers are still trying to figure out if people who are fully vaccinated and contract the virus can also spread it to other people, which is why they recend still wearing masks even after you’re vaccinated
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What you got to say about that,You desperate dummy.
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