This story really bothered me the other day. It will be interesting to see what comes of it.New York Yankees say 8 vaccinated members tested positive for Covid-19. Here's how that could happen
The single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine was 72% effective against Covid-19 among US trial participants and 85% effective against severe Covid-19. But even if you get Covid-19 after being vaccinated, your symptoms will likely be far less severe.www.cnn.com
The science on this said that it was never going to eliminate risk 100%. It drastically reduces risk. What people tend to forget with statistics is that statistical probabilities cannot be used to predict the outcome of an individual in your cohort.
I guess it more bothered me that it's more ammo for the anti science idiots. It's good that 7 of the 8 are asymptomatic and who knows how much worse my boss could have been. I kind of wish they would stop reporting total case numbers now and focus more on hospitalizations and deaths. That's really the whole point of the vaccine anyway.
What the vaccinations seem to be really really good at is preventing severe cases, and that's what i hope my shot will give once i get it, but I think there might be no such thing as herd immunity for corona. Or as Christian Drosten, ine of germanys leading viroliogists said recently: this will go from pandemic to endemic, in the next 1,5 years (for germany) everyone wil get some immunity, either from vaccinations or from infections. So he suggests that basically everybody whl does not get vaccinated will get the virus and everybody should make their own risk assessment based on this.
Yep, yep, yep.
These recommendations read like those from the height of the pandemic, not when vaccines are widely available and things like surface infections have been proven to be an unfounded concern.
They weren't wearing masks where they could get away with it, but the CDC guidelines place enormous pressure on communities and businesses to stop requiring masks.
Yes I read that, it was for mixed (vax and not) and large (what does that mean?) groups of people. So yes like the grocery store or an airplane, but what about a 30 person restaurant? It's all very unclear so you just gotta use your "corona-sense".
I consider masking in restaurants and boutiques just respectful to employees. No need to make them try to clock whether I'm vaxxed or or a jerk. That said, I know the staffs at my local restaurants (literally on my block) well enough that as time goes on I'll be doing whatever they're most comfortable with.
So do the rest of us have to be restricted forever to compensate a minority? Not trying to be crass but literally what are we supposed to do? They don't want it. The CDC is not doing themselves any favors with their current messaging.
Yeah, I have mixed feelings about the new guidance for sure, especially when it comes to kids not yet eligible, but you're right - what can you do for the people that refuse to protect themselves at this point, and will be dishonest about it? There are no good solutions.
my sympathies lie only with the small part of the population that either cannot get the vaccine due a health condition, or those that find the vaccine is not effective for them because they are immunosuppressed and their body won't create the blueprint.
I've been reading a lot about the aerosol v droplet debate and, yep, we got it so wrong (and are continuing to do so).Was this already shared here?
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.www.wired.com
Explains a lot of the confusion and mixed messaging about masks through 2020, and makes a strong argument for wearing masks during flu seasons going forward.
Not forever, but maybe until the whole population is eligible for vaccination?
I know it feels this way in some places, but I just got my second dose Friday. I won't be fully vaccinated for 2 weeks, and I signed up for an appointment the day I was eligible. I know vaccines are easy to get in many places (moreso in places with low interest), but not everywhere, and many of the most vulnerable communities have the least access. It is too early to claim that everyone who wants it has it by now. A lot of younger people weren't even eligible until very recently. And no one under 16 is eligible yet. Children make up 20% of new cases (of course their proportion will naturally increase as adults are vaccinated).