All 3 vaccines were 100% effective at preventing death and hospitalization after a period of time. They are on average around 90% effective at preventing any illness. If the level of community spread gets low enough and the number of people vaccinated or naturally infected is high enough there‘s a Good chance the virus has nowhere to spread and drops to a very low number. If that occurs we can always ramp up testing and tracing if there’s an outbreak.
Seems a bit of unfortunate timing and possibly, only speculating, not stringent enough protocols in place for a long term care facility. They don't mention in that article if any residents completed a second dose and only that most had their first dose less than 4 weeks ago, so the possibility of an outbreak among 200+ elderly in a convalescent setting is still unfortunately high. working in the same industry, this is terrible to see, going to be a long road for the LTC industry before many protocols relax.This happened to here, with vaccinated residents.
COVID-19 outbreak declared at Kelowna long-term care facility despite vaccinations | Globalnews.ca
The Interior Health Authority said two staff members and ten residents have tested positive for COVID-19.globalnews.ca
Of course monitoring to see how severe it is for them, if severe at all... but an important reminder that even if vaccinated you can still get it, especially if it hasn’t even been 2-3 weeks post vaccination.
I can say the same about you. We definitely have disagreements but when I disagree with you I at least feel like I'm having a rational debate. I think we have a ton of common ground when it comes to vaccine rollout!Despite our disagreements on various issues in the past related to Covid, you come across as an intelligent and rational person who has digested the information out there and drawn conclusions. We disagreed on many of the conclusions, but the point is you were not just blindly following talking heads or political pundits. Unfortunately that isn’t true of everyone. I think it would go a long way towards reaching herd immunity if Donald Trump came out publicly and told his supporters they should get vaccinated as soon as they are eligible and he confirm that he was vaccinated as well. We have no idea how many people are vaccine hesitant or resistant due to politics (polling suggests it’s an issue) but even if only a single person changes their mind due to his actions that‘s still one person closer to herd immunity. If he loves this country like he says he does he should do it for the good of the country. I was no fan of his during his term as President but I’d give him a lot of props for being the bigger man and doing something to help the country now.
It was President Trump who decided not to attend the inauguration of President Biden.
Say whattttt?!!! I'm worried about that part now.....
To be fair given the way he left, either they asked and he declined or they didn't want to bother asking in the first place. He chose not to promote the vaccine publicly already being all sneaky and chose not to stand with other former presidents at the inauguration.
Accidents, health issues like heart disease or cancer, poverty etc all happened prior and will continue after. Nothing new
I think they filmed that at the same time as the inauguration but it would have been possible to “photoshop” him in because I don’t think Carter was there live at the time of the inauguration either. I think it was a missed opportunity for unity but it’s impossible to know if he was asked to participate and declined or if they just excluded him.
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Essential refers to society not the individual. Some jobs are essential for society to function at all, others are not.
My job is essential to me for income too, but I have no problem with nurses or firefighters getting the vaccine before me. This isn’t about punishing the people who aren’t classified as essential.
It hit 70 here in PA yesterday. I went to Rite Aid in shorts and a t-shirt to get my vaccine. We still have snow on the ground from the last storm 3 weeks ago when my original appointment got cancelled. The only thing good about a March snowstorm is it doesn’t last too long as temps go back up. Good luck
A week or so ago, I ran the numbers to show that once somebody is vaccinated (based on how effective vaccines are in preventing severe illness and death), the risk of dying from COVID in the following year will literally be completely inconsequential to the risk of dying from any cause over the following year and that is based on the level of community spread over the past year. It will be even more inconsequential when the vaccines also reduce community spread significantly.
Yeah, being a neighbor to your south, I noticed a hiccup in CO case counts recently, which coupled with a snow storm is disappointing. Crossing my fingers the meteorologists are just looking for clicks, but we never know.
