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Texas Lt. Gov. falsely implies Black people to blame for Covid surge​


CNN's Laura Coates and Dr. Cedric Dark discuss Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who in a recent interview on Fox News claimed that African Americans were to blame for the ever-increasing wave of coronavirus cases.
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so 60% of patients in hospital with severe covid in israel in the moment are fully vaxed. and here is a nice article by a statistician that shows why that does not meian the vaccines are uneffctive but rather shows how effective they still are
www.covid-datascience.com

Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?

A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine effectivenss wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not...
www.covid-datascience.com www.covid-datascience.com
 
Jan said:
so 60% of patients in hospital with severe covid in israel in the moment are fully vaxed. and here is a nice article by a statistician that shows why that does not meian the vaccines are uneffctive but rather shows how effective they still are
www.covid-datascience.com

Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?

A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine effectivenss wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not...
www.covid-datascience.com www.covid-datascience.com
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I've been following this.
I've also talked to a colleague who's husband is a hospital doc and he is confirming the same thing. Most of the people they are seeing are unvaxed, but there is a growing number of older, at risk people that are getting breakthrough infections. I have also been reading about re-infection--which they are saying can't happen. But I'm really not sure about that either. With all these new variants, it would surprise me if people could only get sick once.

My dad, who is immunocompromised, got a booster, but I've told my parents that they really need to be careful even though we have a statewide mask mandate back in place.

Here's the trends they are seeing in Israel:
"The vaccinated patients are older, unhealthy, often they were bedridden before infection, immobile and already requiring nursing care," said Noa Eliakim-Raz, head of the coronavirus ward at Rabin Medical Centre in Petach Tikva.


In contrast, "the unvaccinated COVID patients we see are young, healthy, working people and their condition deteriorates rapidly," she said. "Suddenly they're being put on oxygen or on a respirator."

Israel's Health Ministry raised new alarm this week with a report showing the effectiveness against severe disease of the Pfizer vaccine, developed with Germany's BioNTech, appeared to have dropped from more than 90% to 55% in people age 65 and up who received their second jab in January.

Disease experts say it is not clear how representative the figures are, but agree it is concerning given evidence that overall vaccine protection against infection is waning.

They cannot say whether that is due to the amount of time that has passed since inoculation, the ability of the highly contagious Delta variant to evade protection, the age and underlying health of the people vaccinated, or a combination of all of these factors.


Health officials in the UK and United States, two other nations with high vaccination rates and a spike in Delta infections, have reported similar trends. In the UK, about 35% of the people hospitalized with a Delta case in recent weeks had received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. Nearly three-quarters of U.S. breakthrough infections that led to hospitalization or death were among people age 65 or older, according to federal data.

www.reuters.com

Israeli doctors find severe COVID-19 breakthrough cases mostly in older, sicker patients

In Israel's COVID-19 wards, doctors are learning which vaccinated patients are most vulnerable to severe illness, amid growing concerns about instances in which the shots provide less protection against the worst forms of the disease.
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ayayrawn said:
Curious to see if some people actually get the vax now that it's approved or if the goalposts will just move again (not holding my breath)
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I just yesterday got into an argument with my (non-vaccinated) mother about this. "I don't trust the mRNA vaccines!" "well, johnson and johnson isn't an mRNA machine, let's go get you one" "no, i have allergies!" "....to penicillin and codeine, neither of which are in any vaccine, let's go" "no, the pharma industry is making money off this!" "I don't give a shit mom, advil isn't free and i still take it when i have a headache, let them make money I just don't want a dead mother"

So uh anyway. How was your weekend.
 
ayayrawn said:
Curious to see if some people actually get the vax now that it's approved or if the goalposts will just move again (not holding my breath)
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What I heard NBC report is that 3 out of 10 individuals who are unvaccinated will now get the vaccine that it has been approved.

For 7 out of 10 individuals not currently vaccinated, this approval means nothing.
 
Max Sterling said:
Just more proof that it's a conspiracy!
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In that story I saw on NBC this morning, they showed some lady screaming that you are no longer human after getting the vaccine.

Lot's of nut jobs who believe conspiracies about the vaccine and all the disinformation. Their minds will not be changed by this approval. They will still refuse to get the vaccine.

The 3 out of 10 will probably get the vaccine but not have urgency. The expect to vaccinate them now that the vaccine is approved and easies their worries about is it safe. Not to mention now that the vaccine is approved they can target these people with advertising. But the ceiling of getting people vaccinated from approval and advertising is 3 out of 10. That's the best case scenario.
 
Whenever I see people tweet out stuff like "me and 5 colleagues went to lunch, all fully vaxxed, wearing masks and 6 feet apart and 100% of us tested positive today" I'm really curious what point they're trying to get across. Are you trying to sway people to get vaxxed or convince a hesitant person their vaccine was worth it, because your anecdotal situation does neither.
 
ayayrawn said:
Whenever I see people tweet out stuff like "me and 5 colleagues went to lunch, all fully vaxxed, wearing masks and 6 feet apart and 100% of us tested positive today" I'm really curious what point they're trying to get across. Are you trying to sway people to get vaxxed or convince a hesitant person their vaccine was worth it, because your anecdotal situation does neither.
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I had a coworker do this recently; their partner works on the COVID floor of a hospital and he recently posted in slack "my partner's COVID patients are 66% likely to be vaccinated." When I pointed out that's purely anecdotal and doesn't really map to the statistics he replied "Just pointing out that she’s around a lot of fully vaxed people that are now pretty sick in the hospital." Sometimes people just want to say stuff just to say it, I guess.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
One of my co-workers has COVID.

She was fully vaccinated and started to feel under the weather late last week. Over the weekend she lost her sense of smell and taste. She was like, yup, this has to be covid. Sure enough she tested positive this morning.
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I hope she recovers quickly. Are they asking everyone in your office to get tested?

I ordered a fancy home instant results test through work, haven't gotten the actual test strips yet... just the device -_-

Real-time COVID-19 testing | Cue

Cue’s FDA Emergency Use Authorized COVID-19 Test delivers highly sensitive and specific results in about 20 minutes directly to a mobile smart device.
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Max Sterling said:
I hope she recovers quickly. Are they asking everyone in your office to get tested?

I ordered a fancy home instant results test through work, haven't gotten the actual test strips yet... just the device -_-

Real-time COVID-19 testing | Cue

Cue’s FDA Emergency Use Authorized COVID-19 Test delivers highly sensitive and specific results in about 20 minutes directly to a mobile smart device.
www.cuehealth.com www.cuehealth.com
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No, as we are all still working remotely. No ones back in the office yet.
 
Major cities saw a decline in rent when people started working remotely and left the cities.

However, now that people are starting to come back to the cities rent are starting to soar and quickly pass pre-covid levels.

For example, much of wall street expects their employees back in the office starting in September. This means many people are being forced to move back into NYC now. And this has resulted in a huge surge in rent in the last couple weeks. Same is true in Miami.

In CA where tech workers are still working remotely rent remains down 20%.
 
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