I don’t know why they’re insisting on the eight-week gap if there are expiring doses that people are eager to take. Yes, the delay may make the vaccine slightly more effective, but the priority should be getting people vaccinated in the first place.
Because when you don't get vaccinated, you are imposing disease on others. And that keeps this pandemic raging on and on. Not only does that mean more death and pain, it also means a hobbled economy, disrupted school for kids, businesses going under due to decreased traffic, inability to get proper medical care for other diseases/issues, and so on. Your "personal decision" causes everyone else to suffer.
would you say the same thing to people who refuse to wear masks and distance?
I think it’s a difficult call. I want the best protection for my son and although it’s probably up for debate most research now says 8 weeks is the optimum time and that’s what he’s scheduled for. Second dose on Friday I think! I would support sharing vaccinations with anyone as long as it didn’t leave us short. London needs to step up and get the shots according to regional data! Only 60% of people have had first dose and 42% had second. In my town 84% have had first dose and 73% second dose, which I know will increase on Friday!!
Yes, personally I would.
I think getting as many people vaccinated as soon as possible should be the overriding priority.
Yes, but as we all know masks and distancing can only reduce spread they will never stop the virus. The vaccine is way, way, way more effective at preventing spread. We only mask and distance in public. When I get home from work and my kids get home from school I take my mask off and I hug my kids. We don’t wear masks at home and distance from each other. So if one of us got infected without knowing we spread to each other. If we are all vaccinated the chances of us infecting each other goes way down. Masks and distancing are good tools to slow spread, especially now during a surge in cases, but they are no substitute for vaccination.
The frustrating thing is that it’s one thing to say, “I am going to wait to take a vaccine.” It’s another to live without other precautions, go on vacation, work on site, not tell friends so that they can take extra precautions when around you, etc. while you are waiting. There is no option to be unvaccinated and be safe from Covid. People just assume the bad thing won’t happen to them. Some guess very wrong.
I totally agree that getting as many people vaccinated as possible is absolutely the aim. However, if the article you posted is correct, we appear to have a surplus of vaccinations so why not wait till the optimum gap. If you mean use those doses to decrease gap till 6 weeks (for example) to avoid wastage then I agree wholeheartedly. Need to persuade more to have first dose!
How many months until the virus will getting low enough soon?
Because a more vaccinated population offers far more overall protection than whatever small advantage there is to spacing out the doses. We’re talking an extra month of unnecessary delay, during which young people are mixing without masks or distancing. The policy made sense when there weren’t enough doses to go around; it no longer does.
Crazy how fast it is "eating" into the northeast.
On the map if cases get above 7 per 100,000 you go Orange. Right now that’s only 7 states left.
Yes, since the beginning of the pandemic, unvaccinated people who refuse to wear masks and social distance are imposing their disease on others and ensuring that this pandemic continues.
For sure the worst states have much higher spread right now. However, things are fluid so the current really bad states may enter a decline as the currently good states ramp up. I bet nobody ever thought that South Dakota would have the lowest level of community spread at any time during the pandemic! If it stays that way I think we can say that natural immunity does work against Delta.
Yeah, who knows what happens. We will have to see how cases move elsewhere. It’s possible every state has similar case ramp up, but it’s not a guarantee. When the alpha wave came through in Mar/Apr cases spiked in Michigan and most of the Northeast but not in places like Texas and the middle of the country that seem to be spiking with this wave. So while it’s possible every other state ramps up and it’s just a timing difference it’s also possible they don’t ramp up as much. We are also being told that the vaccines still work very well at stopping symptomatic spread so the more people vaccinated the lower the peak in cases. If every state ramps up similar to “the big 4“ today then that’s very bad news for the vaccines and probably means the efficacy is failing faster than we thought
