My sixers got knocked out of the bubble early, hopefully they last longer this year...actually I’m hoping no need for another NBA playoff bubble at all. Maybe even have some fans in the stands for the playoffs. NFL announced they were selecting some healthcare workers who are fully vaccinated to go to the Super Bowl. NBA could open playoff games to fully vaccinated fans if everyone has access to the shot by May. It could work.
They have a higher risk of respiratory issues and deaths.
Exactly. It may not be Down per se but other conditions that often come with it.
Yeah, that’s rough. In all honesty, this is due to lobbying. There are enough foundations for Down or Diabetes that were able to get in on enough Zoom calls that their constituents got on the list. That’s how (and no offense to them) garbage collectors moved into the same group as teachers in my state. Sewage treatment workers, as well. Not that they aren’t essential.
It’s definitely happening. I would hope that if someone made multiple appointments and then got the shot they would cancel the extra appointments. Some people don’t care.
Well, to be fair, we are actually sitting at just over 1.2 million doses administered with a population of only 38 million for the whole country...it’s not great, but we are expected to receive continuous doses per our agreements with all of the manufacturers (with a reduced Pfizer schedule that is supposedly being “caught up“ in later shipments as they retool their plant in Belgium) and the party line was always that our vaccinations would really start in earnest around April.
That is the appeal for states that use VAMS, which makes that much harder. If you can just book with a hospital using MyChart, you can indeed book multiple appointments. You’d probably have to lie to survey questions but I doubt you’d be turned away. They want vaccine into arms. But there’s bad juju in that...
There is another problem—look at administration state by state. Both administrations have been critical of the fact that most states have administered roughly half of their doses, saying “hurry up you fools!” In response, look at North Dakota. They’ve administered 80% of their doses, which was celebrated. I mentioned perhaps a week back in this thread that I presumed most states were using 50% of doses to save the other 50% for vital dose 2. Now the Biden Administration has admitted that, yes, that should be the case after initially being critical of states for “under-administering.” For states that have been holding on to dose 2, no harm is done. What do we think is going to happen in February in states like ND? They need to dramatically slow down or halt first doses now so they’ll have enough 2nd doses. And yet no one has told them to.
If it is as effective against the strain first discovered in S. Africa as a flu shot typically is, that’s good enough for now. Preventing severe illness is particularly significant. This is a more traditional protein subunit vaccine that works like the meningococcal vaccine.Novavax Covid vaccine showed that its almost 90% effective in their UK phase 3 trial. The US trial is not expected to be done any time soon, but another potential weapon against Covid worldwide. It did seem to be less effective in S Africa due to the variant there, but none of the vaccine group had a serious infection.
Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine shown to be nearly 90% effective in UK clinical trial, provided a range of immunity against new variants
The Novavax vaccine candidate also appears to have mixed levels of effectiveness against coronavirus variants.news.yahoo.com
The novavax phase 3 trial in the US started in December. They say they are expecting to announce results in Q1 at some point. It’s possible if JnJ doesn‘t work out next week or AstraZenneca later in the quarter this one may help pick up the slack in Q2. Just another good option for once it gets to the approval phase.
