outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

btw the untested single dose rollout seems like exactly the kind of big physics brain idea that comes from dominic cummings types.

people have advocated for *running trials* to see whether it's a good idea (e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine-doses.html), but the UK attitude seems to be let's just do it and be legends.

Let's just muddle through, what?

until it's over we'll have to, somehow

Oh great thank you mainstream press.

California nurse tests positive over a week after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine: ABC https://t.co/wTZNqtTBmD pic.twitter.com/xwceAlccW6

— Reuters (@Reuters) December 30, 2020

More on that 52%

1/ The MHRA has approved a longer gap between doses for both the AstraZeneca vaccine and the Pfizer vaccine. The latter has concerned some people. Specifically many are citing a figure of 52% for protection after the first dose.

Here is why this 52% figure isn't useful [1/n] pic.twitter.com/ZdFJNMtRxd

— Theo Sanderson (@theosanderson) December 30, 2020

Nearly 4000 dead over the last 24h in the US… jfc

holiday reporting is going to be unevenly distributed, so i'm hoping the 4000 is just offsetting a lower-than-usual day

but yes. it is grim

grim should be dictionary.com word of the year for 2020

In less than ten months, covid-19 has killed more than one of every thousand US residents -- 338,500 dead out of a population of about 335,000,000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYy6YY0EC94

this is as depressing as it sounds from the URL. this was new to me: "Keep in mind that, in 1947, New York City vaccinated 5 million people against smallpox in two weeks." https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/americas-vaccine-rollout-disaster.html

also can we arrest this person

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/30/951736164/some-500-coronavirus-vaccine-doses-intentionally-destroyed-hospital-says

"accidentally" my ass

jebus. so thievery or apocalypto?

the email from my hospital's chief medical officer today said that out of ~9k people offered the vaccine by email, ~8% declined and ~40% had not responded

_lol we're all quite literally gonna die_


And going to gift the world a vaccine-resistant strain, seemingly (because the selection potential to create one will be huge with vaccinated people eating out to help out beside infectious people)

xp I expect email may not be the best way of inviting elderly patients? where I am there's pleas on local Facebook groups from the practice to pass the information on to elderly family, friends and neighbours... takeup seems great so far but comms are really rushed, presumably due to short notice of obtaining vaccine supplies...

Just received this email cancelling my 2nd dose of the Pfizer vaccine. On the basis of UK government guidance yesterday. This means that the vaccine is not being delivered as licensed. I DID NOT consent to receive an off-label drug with NO evidence of benefit with a single dose. pic.twitter.com/ZDtIjm1z8W

— Dr Katrina Farrell (@farrell_katrina) December 31, 2020

what a shitshow

So near yet so far

Kinda feel the government won't go through with it, given some of the reaction...but hey ho, let's see what they do.

This might be the most insane and reckless thing these idiots have tried yet

What are they trying to achieve by this approach? Give out more first doses to more people?

i think so, yeah

xp I expect email may not be the best way of inviting elderly patients? where I am there's pleas on local Facebook groups from the practice to pass the information on to elderly family, friends and neighbours... takeup seems great so far but comms are really rushed, presumably due to short notice of obtaining vaccine supplies...

― kinder, Thursday, December 31, 2020 9:37 AM (thirty-nine minutes ago)

these aren’t patients, they’re employees

Just more failed state bs from dimwits high on their own supply. It’s a gamble but if it pays off by Jove we’ll be laughing

people will refuse to get vaxed and simultaneously complain that things won't return to normal.

it's sort of like...

we offered you the ability to restore to some semblance of interactive activity by wearing a mask. you refused.
we asked you to quarantine for a month like everybody else was doing. you refused.
we're now giving you a vaccine - you refused.

you just want things to go back to normal with zero effort on your part is what it boils down to, if you're one of these people.

i had to listen to some idiots whining that "they're gonna make us get vaxed to go to Yankee Stadium again. that just ain't right mannnn"

they should require fans get vaccinated against the sickness that is sitting through another ALCS, I would take that one

the lady sitting next to him called it a 'racket' to make money, then said she was a teacher not long after.

god help us

I checked: God is on a cig break.

p much we are all living in a low-security lunatic asylum

what if God smelled like a bus

just a bum like one of us

If anti-vaxxers make this shit drag on for another year, we're gonna start seeing some violent reactions to their pisspants baby tantrums.

Sorry kevin, I misunderstood!

some of us (*looks at myself*) are very bad at responding to emails in general though!

Israel has vaccinated over 10% of its population already.

Honestly of all the things the us has screwed up this year, the vaccine rollout is the most depressing. Almost a year to prepare.

I’ve posted this before, but this was written in May

https://newrepublic.com/article/157704/coronavirus-vaccine-united-states-health-care

“The U.S. simply does not have anything resembling the infrastructure necessary to ensure that everyone gets anything, including food or water or shelter, let alone something that requires access to a health care worker. To the extent that we have ever aspired to this sort of capability, those traditions have long eroded, worn down by our debased politics. We do not have a National Health Service–style system, which was able to produce a (poorly handled but nevertheless extant) list of patients who were at high risk for the coronavirus. My mother in Britain, who has received immunotherapy for lung cancer for the past two years, was on this list. She received a text from the government telling her to stay inside for 12 weeks, plus a phone call and two letters, which also advised her of government resources for food and help for the extremely vulnerable and suggested that she spend time with the windows open or sitting on her doorstep.”

“and one dose of a two-dose vaccine.”

Feel like one of the outcomes of this is going to be US culture becoming like I dunno Mexico or Russia, where *everyone* (not just the “don’t tread on me” types) assumes everything the government says is a malicious or incompetent lie.

“and one dose of a two-dose vaccine.”

Oh come on, that second dose will be forthcoming, for those that live long enough

Feel like one of the outcomes of this is going to be US culture becoming like I dunno Mexico or Russia, where *everyone* (not just the “don’t tread on me” types) assumes everything the government says is a malicious or incompetent lie.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, December 31, 2020 12:18 PM (thirty-nine seconds ago)

this is sort of the point of the last 40 years of the conservative movement!

TS: say you’re going to do something stupid and then doing it, vs saying you’re going to do something good and then fucking up completely through lack of interest and malice.

this is sort of the point of the last 40 years of the conservative movement!

The hospital in my parents town in the panhandle was desperately calling random people in the county offering to give them the vaccine. Only 1/3 of nurses took it

— kai (@alaskan214) December 31, 2020

here is the said nhs coronavirus advice - ibuprofen and honey and, yes, opening a window.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/how-to-treat-symptoms-at-home/

that's roughly what my GP recommends for literally every ailment i've ever seen him about and it usually works tbf