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China has a lot of people , currently does not allow in the MRNA vaccines, so the VE is much lower there. But what they have better than anywhere else is controls to try to limit spread into and within their country. If the west achieves local herd immunity we will need to see what controls we...

The Chinese covid vaccines are not working well against delta, and many countries that had no other choice are suffering the consequences. The MRNA vaccines do much better against delta and North America and UK / Europe are fortunate to have created them and made use of them. US has an...

Thirty plus years ago I was flying into Toronto, Canada on business. They had a customs form to fill out before arrival. There were five yes or no questions asked on it. I never lie so I filled it out as honestly as I could. On arrival, the custom officer as asked me about my yes answer to the...

Pfizer vs Moderna: ( Moderna from the studies referenced is better vs Delta than Pfizer ) https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-may-be-superior-pfizer-against-delta-breakthrough-odds-rise-with-time-2021-08-09/

Third shot Pfizer side effects seem to be same as second shot. (Israel self reporting data , not study data ) https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-vaccine-israel-int-idUSKBN2F90LH

When I was in the Great Lakes Navy training camp going through boot camp at age 17, I remember thinking, “They can not make me do anything if I do not want to, I have free will”. I then glanced over to a barbed wire area that was within our bootcamp. It was the brig, run by marines, and there...

NYT paywall.. but you can still listen to podcast without creating account. Podcast interview of American Airlines CEO on their decision to not require vaccination of employees. ( They do incentives only). ( United, Delta, Frontier and others are requiring vaccination )...

Oh, and to further peace and harmony here , here are our two fur babies this morning.

On a personal note my Covid cough from my mid June bout with covid ( fully vaccinated) seems to have finally disappeared ( or at least is no longer often enough for me to be aware of it). Glad it is gone. Telling someone that, “ Yeah, I had covid19 but am fine now “ then coughing does not...

CDC has a chart showing expected % cases being vaccinated depending on percent pop vaccinated and how effective the vaccine being administered is. Iceland’s VE ( vaccine effectiveness ) is 60%.

Chicken pox was about 4 millions cases per year and killed around 100 per year before vaccine was available. https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/182/2/383/2190935

There is a vaccine ( improved) for shingles. You may want to consider getting it, if you are in the recommended age group.

A fairly long slide set, but goes over the likelihood of getting a disease under control. It is 15 years old, so it is a bit old. For example it describes herd immunity relationship to R0 and Re, as well as the various R numbers of various diseases in different geographical locations and the...

https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-airlines-e8eef8e8f11d4924b81768484e5401a1 United Airlines is requiring employees to vaccinate. Looks like mandatory vaccination in corporations is gathering steam ( or in this case I should say it is starting to take off)

Pretty good Q&A in San Jose Mercury News Press: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/06/q-a-what-we-know-about-covids-delta-plus-variant-boosters-and-the-end-of-the-surge Elsewhere, in San Fransisco, they are allowing J&J vaccinated citizens to get MRNA vaccines as a booster because of concern...

American Hospital Association is recommending mandatory covid vaccination for healthcare workers. (As are many other organizations in the healthcare industry) https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2021/07/AHAPolicyStatementonMandatoryCOVIDVaccines_2021-07-21.pdf US is so fortunate to...

I cannot remember if it has been posted here recently, but the largest LTC company is making it mandatory for staff to be vaccinated. https://www.mcknights.com/news/breaking-genesis-biggest-u-s-nursing-home-chain-mandates-staff-covid-19-vaccinations/

Pfizer has one ( covid therapeutic) in the works too. Here is a paper from about a week ago on it: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261232v1

Covid transmission seems to occur presymptomatic alot. That is One reason it is harder to contain compared to other illnesses. Even with Delta’s shorter time until symptomatic it seems to find new hosts effectively and better than the original.

Actually I usually qualify things that I assume or are anecdotal in my text. I try to make sure they do not overly influence how I present other data. I assume it does cause a selection bias in what I look for. But I actually find facts that refute my assumptions, research, and anecdotal...