outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

real life is irrelevant for them, it doesn't matter what actually happens or what anything means

Skydad's coming down soon enough to save them.

Lots of one-year-on pieces going about but this one is a cut above.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/how-the-west-lost-covid-19.html

yeah that was very good

holy hell, look at the shrinkage in hospitalizations and deaths in the elder populations in the US in the last two months:

https://i.ibb.co/XLJ2S0W/scrnli-3-15-2021-10-29-05-PM.png

https://i.ibb.co/JH1dF0w/scrnli-3-15-2021-10-30-00-PM.png

https://i.ibb.co/YbqngDr/COVID-19-NET-Image.png

The Moderna trial for children from 6 months to under 12 has been registered. It's phase 2/3, testing 3 different dose levels, for 750 participants: https://t.co/YaszjPCAgo

— Hilda Bastian, PhD (@hildabast) March 15, 2021

Put it in my veins (no, literally, please).

it's intramuscular not intravenous!!

lol

Lol, this is why I went to law school.

BREAKING: European Medicines Agency says Astrazeneca is "is a safe and efficient vaccine...not associated with increased risk of blood clots."

— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) March 18, 2021

cool, but now millions of people think it's unsafe and won't use it, yay

It's all a subterfuge to pull the rug from under the anti-vaxxers, you see. A Napoleon-tier strategy.

Btw any news regarding AZ's effectiveness for people over 65?

it causes over-65s to enjoy Dane Cook

NEW: Biden admin. is working to finalize plans to send roughly 2.5M doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Mexico and 1.5M doses to Canada, White House says. https://t.co/k12xwhsxXW

— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) March 18, 2021

Apparently it's a 'loan'.

how do you give back a vaccine

Hey! It worked for FDR as "lend-lease" for sending war materials to UK in 1940.

Btw any news regarding AZ's effectiveness for people over 65?

nice!

Sorry, I meant: have there been any additional studies on this? That those three ok'd it is excellent news, of course.

Public Health England had a preprint based on real world data

According to a pre-print study from PHE, which involved more than 7.5 million people aged 70 and over in England:

Infections in the over 70s fall from around three weeks after one dose of both vaccines.

Protection against symptomatic COVID in those over 70, four weeks after the first jab, ranged between 57-61% for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 60-73% for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
The vaccines are more than 80% effective at preventing hospitalisations in over 80s around three to four weeks after one dose.

As well as the protection against symptomatic disease, over 80s who had received a Pfizer jab had an additional 43% lower risk of emergency hospitalisation and an additional 51% lower risk of death

Over 80s who had been given the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine were found to have a 37% lower risk of emergency hospital admission, but there is insufficient follow-up data to assess its impact on death

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.

and that's just after the first dose? not bad

ass grass or vax nobody bides for free

Heh, I’ve been thinking of making that joke but was holding back for some reason.

How are you feeling post-covid btw? I suppose it's been several weeks now.

Fine, mostly. I am okay with my attenuated sense of smell, but my daughter is more irritated by hers, says it messes with her sense of taste. Also went to the dentist today for the first time since the pandemic but that is for another thread I think.

Ah, anosmia sounds immensely irritating indeed. My understanding is that it usually sorts itself out after a (long) while.

Good news

The majority of people who have had COVID-19 are protected from getting it again for at least six months, a study showed, but older people are more prone to reinfection than younger people https://t.co/HdZoDqZlVP

— Reuters (@Reuters) March 18, 2021

This is, uh, concerning.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/michigan-covid-19-coronavirus-outbreak/618332

It is, but I think a silver lining to it is that a much lower percentage of "hospitalizations" now are patients in critical care or on ventilators
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/05/16/tracking-michigan-covid-19-hospitalization-data-trends/

utah opening up vaccine to everyone next tuesday, 3/24.

uh wednesday lol

anosmia
Just did the smell test with some pure essential oils. Barely anything.

That sucks. I hear you can slowly retrain your sense of smell, but I have no idea how you'd go about achieving that.

Oddly, michigan relaxed a number of restrictions on businesses exactly two weeks ago. Also the former state HHS director resigned unexpectedly a few weeks before this was announced and got a large payout and had to sign an NDA which caused enough ruckus that whitmer had to waive the disclosure agreement.

Also it's been really nice weather and I watched hundreds of students - all maskless - wandering by my home office window on st. patrick's day. There were also the angry shitty parents wanting to reinstate high school sports and which led to a major outbreak between a couple of schools.

OUR KIDS GOTTA PLAY BASEBALL AND RUB EACH OTHERS' GENITALS TOGETHER IT'S OUR PATRIOTIC DUTY

LA county actually has new guidelines on the whole rubbing thing

.@CAPublicHealth update on youth sports: https://t.co/Yrf04Pv251 @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/1PTPjMSBvf

— Claudia Peschiutta (@ReporterClaudia) March 19, 2021

modern NBA-style basketball is very low contact and high social distancing so that should be fine

call fouls if players get within 6 feet of each other

Shot block is a flagrant 2

Typical cave-shaming! You'll hear from our lawyers!

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/24/dna-from-neanderthals-affects-vulnerability-to-covid-19?

Here’s Miami Beach tonight, 10 minutes after new 8 p.m. city-wide curfew.

City also declared a State of Emergency today in light of larger than expected #SpringBreak crowds. @CBSMiami pic.twitter.com/D6aCjgE2cf

— Brooke Shafer (@BrookeShaferTV) March 21, 2021

State of emergency curfew imposed due to spring break crowds.

crowd is actually all reporters tweeting how busy it is

(joeks, bro)

in London there was a march complaining at lockdown, similarly thousands of people about, most not wearing masks. the state of this country now.

Drove into London (Ontario) for a movie this afternoon, and there was a big slowdown downtown. First "Freedom Rally" I've yet encountered in my sedate corner of the world. One sign said something about "Communism is the real virus." Having spent the last year basically doing everything I'm supposed to, makes you feel quite hopeless. I've been very sympathetic to small business during this time, and do what I can to support them--that part I get. The defiantly crowding together and not wearing masks, no.

https://london.ctvnews.ca/hundreds-across-southwestern-ontario-gather-to-protest-provincial-lockdowns-1.5355639