Not rare enough. I know COVID since I got it. It'll be back EVERY YEAR. I lost four months of full function this year and four months 2019-2020, only problem is that I cannot confirm the 2019 case because well, no one knew it then....Fully vaccinated person dies of Delta variant. This is probably a rare case... but still concerning.
80 year old already in the hospital. Wonder what they were in the hospital for? And did they get covid while in the hospital?Fully vaccinated person dies of Delta variant. This is probably a rare case... but still concerning.
Sense suppression is interesting with COVID because for me, it essentially gave something like morphine(although I've never taken it or fentanyl or anything else since pain is not a issue with me) to my entire body but then it leaves and then I feel the damage it did to my body. There was one "apex" day in which the virus likely was on its last legs and I felt like a champ that day. Then the next couple of weeks I was coughing a lot but no longer tested positive. Eventually, my muscle aches, headaches and misery from gum disease, etc all came back.Most early data was pointing to damaged receptors/cells in the nose/nerve endings in the nose. It's been a wild ride for me. There's a whole range that are just...gone. A lot of spices, fruits, body care products, ect I'm just absolutely blind to. Some things I'm basically blind to it unless I just jam my nose in there. Instead of being able to smell when I open a fresh can of coffee beans, I now have to take the can and stick my nose in there and it's so faint that it's basically an essence of coffee. There's a lot of things that fall in this range. And once I take a big whiff of it, I basically burn out whatever that smell is and it's gone for hours/days. Can't pick it back up. There's a couple weird things I consistently smell. I'm ultra sensitive to seafood now. To the point I almost can't go into the meat counter in a lot of grocery stores. I get about 40 feet from it and it's like someone took 3 day old shrimp that sat out in the sun and stuck it under my nose. Same thing with some artificial flavors. Artificial strawberry and watermelon are very strong. I also was at an artisan market that had essential oils and there was a vanilla scent there that sent my entire body tingling. It was so bizarre.
My sense of smell was by far my "best" sense before Covid. I could identify a wide range of bourbons by their nose, could recreate dishes based on seasoning between taste and smell, and now that's all gone. It feels silly to be depressed over it, but it really is a very significant change in quality of life. Not just for me, but also my family. My wife has anxiety in cooking/planning meals because I don't crave anything any more. I used to be a micro-meal eater. I'd space out 3-5 small snacks throughout the day and a modest, nice dinner. Now I can go an entire day and unless my stomach starts churning from raw hunger, I just don't eat. I crave nothing. Very little food is satisfying. I can't taste sweet or salty. I can sort of pick up richness in ice cream but most other flavors going on there are muted. There's absolutely no point in my spending money at a fancy restaurant or a number of cultural cuisines that rely on herbs/aromas to balance out the flavors. I used to love Thai food, but now I can't pick up cilantro or basil well. Same with green onions and peanuts. It's all just gone.
Mr. in-the-box follower spewing his usual nonsense.It still is an underlying racist conspiracy theory.
The evidence for a lab accident being the cause is low, and the evidence of it being an engineered virus in some fashion (de novo or some sort of gain of function work) is nonexistent.
The story is largely being pushed to absolve certain other peoples of their failures to properly respond to the pandemic. It's certainly not because the general public and those public officials are genuinely curious about BSL3/4 lab safety, and if we need to address that to prevent future accidents (if indeed, that was the what precipitated this whole affair).
It is important to try and understand where the virus originated, as these kinds of pandemics could happen again as we have greater encroachment on wild habitats (without any sort of future hypothetical lab accident); however the level of discourse is not conducive to actually figuring out what happened; the public discourse largely wants to assign blame.
Fully vaccinated person dies of Delta variant. This is probably a rare case... but still concerning.
I’m concerned but not enough for me to stop going back to living normal. I‘ll use mask if I feel the need but other than that, it’s going to be business as usual for me. I’m waiting on quarantine exemption rules clarification from the South Korean embassy in Atlanta so I can book my flight to Seoul and squeeze in a trip before my daughter starts college in the fall. But no one there can tell me the turnaround time on the quarantine exemption application approval so I can’t book my plane ticket yet. And I want to book now while the certain airfares are still cheap. Ugh, first world problems I guess.The new variant(s) surely is a concern of mine. That's why I am still follow the same protocols (mask, distance, and no big crowd) that I have been doing since the beginning of Covid.
I drove past a festival earlier tonight and it was packed as before Covid. Not for me so I kept driving.
Numerous countries in Asia are still fighting the variants of the virus.
Tell me you don't know how vaccines and immunity work without telling me you don't know how vaccines and immunity work.Imagine being told your vaccine is outdated a month after getting it, here come the boosters. Best defense is still to get healthy, suppliment with Vit D and avoid an inflammatory diet (sugar).
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Tell me you don't know how vaccines and immunity work without telling me you don't know how vaccines and immunity work.
The vaccine still provides some protection against variants, because immunity is not some binary thing of it works or it doesn't. It's a sliding scale.Until the entire world is vaccinated new variants will pop up yes ? How long will that take ? How many boosters are you willing to consume until places like India are fully vaccinated ?
Until the entire world is vaccinated new variants will pop up yes ? How long will that take ? How many boosters are you willing to consume until places like India are fully vaccinated ?
Until the entire world is vaccinated new variants will pop up yes ? How long will that take ? How many boosters are you willing to consume until places like India are fully vaccinated ?
Geopolitical conclusion rendered with zero proof or evidentiary basis, but somehow it's the other guy who's spewing nonsense...Mr. in-the-box follower spewing his usual nonsense.
There is nothing xenophobic about blaming a part of the totalitarian Chinese government's in fucking up the world because they fucked up protocol within the lab.
I think anyone with a basic brain can distinguish between the institution and the people. The common folk had no way to cause a lab leak.
People like Alina Chan are properly researching into the matter and not doing it for political brownie points.
Early reporting is pretty good (mid 70 percent efficacy) for the BioNTech vaccine (and by supposition, Moderna). The primary difference in this data is that the efficacy is weak after the first dose (in the 30s) so getting to 2 weeks after the second dose is very important.The Astra Zeneca vaccine is a two dose vaccine but it's not mRNA. How are the mRNA vaccines holding up against the Delta variant?
As Brainonska511 said, for now the best (mRNA) vaccines are still quite effective against the trickier variants; but it remains to be seen if that will hold. Encouragingly, both Pfizer and Moderna have said they can roll out boosters in a matter of weeks (i.e. a couple months with regulatory sign-off).
Why is a booster a big deal? I've had 6 Hep B shots, 4 Hep A, 5+ Tdap, at least 4 MMRs, etc.Until the entire world is vaccinated new variants will pop up yes ? How long will that take ? How many boosters are you willing to consume until places like India are fully vaccinated ?
What was my “geopolitical conclusion” when he broke out the R-word? Tell me.Geopolitical conclusion rendered with zero proof or evidentiary basis, but somehow it's the other guy who's spewing nonsense...
Early reporting is pretty good (mid 70 percent efficacy) for the BioNTech vaccine (and by supposition, Moderna). The primary difference in this data is that the efficacy is weak after the first dose (in the 30s) so getting to 2 weeks after the second dose is very important.
As Brainonska511 said, for now the best (mRNA) vaccines are still quite effective against the trickier variants; but it remains to be seen if that will hold. Encouragingly, both Pfizer and Moderna have said they can roll out boosters in a matter of weeks (i.e. a couple months with regulatory sign-off).
How many boosters are you willing to consume until places like India are fully vaccinated ?
Early reporting is pretty good (mid 70 percent efficacy) for the BioNTech vaccine (and by supposition, Moderna). The primary difference in this data is that the efficacy is weak after the first dose (in the 30s) so getting to 2 weeks after the second dose is very important.
If hospitalization is the endpoint UK recently said two doses of mRNA vaccine (BNT) were 96% effective against Delta. Oxford (AZ) adenovirus vaccine not far behind at 92%.
Really need the antibody levels pumped up from the booster and prior infection isn't a sufficient shield anymore.
This variant is going to explode across the unvaccinated population in the US in the coming weeks. Going to be a weird situation where high vax areas have little to no hospitalizations/deaths and low vax places are seeing another surge.
It's been happening. It just gets lost in the numbers. Rural hospitals are slammed right now. But when it's a 10 bed ICU vs a couple hundred it's just noise. Suffice it to say, those that know what is happening are concerned.
If hospitalization is the endpoint UK recently said two doses of mRNA vaccine (BNT) were 96% effective against Delta. Oxford (AZ) adenovirus vaccine not far behind at 92%.
Really need the antibody levels pumped up from the booster and prior infection isn't a sufficient shield anymore.
This variant is going to explode across the unvaccinated population in the US in the coming weeks. Going to be a weird situation where high vax areas have little to no hospitalizations/deaths and low vax places are seeing another surge.
Oh no it's going to explode !
Kind of like how it exploded in England and did.... Well almost nothing in terms of real world impact.
Oh no it's going to explode !
Kind of like how it exploded in England and did.... Well almost nothing in terms of real world impact.