The Coronavirus Thread

[Cunt]

I guess as long as they are 'sophisticated', no-one will mind.

[Joe]

Sounds like crowderbation to me.

[Tero]

No third shot for you? You are not a liberal! You might be a trumpster.

Pfizer and BioNTech said they have submitted early stage clinical trial data to the FDA as part of their U.S. application seeking authorization of a Covid-19 vaccine booster shot.

[JimC]

Second shot coming up for me next Sunday...

[Cunt]

When is it due to be approved? Surely that would get some folks off the fence...

[Tero]

Not soon. The feds want to vaccinatecthevidiots first:
"In a phase one trial, a booster dose generated "significantly higher neutralizing antibodies" against the original coronavirus strain as well as the beta and delta variants, the companies said.
Federal health officials aren't recommending booster doses for the general public at this time."

May see the third shot go to insurance plans, not the gov't. Pfizer will be happy to make more vaccine.

[JimC]

When is it due to be approved? Surely that would get some folks off the fence...

I've already said that all the shots being given here in Australia have been approved by our medical authorities. It is not an issue here.

[Seabass]

When is it due to be approved? Surely that would get some folks off the fence...

I've already said that all the shots being given here in Australia have been approved by our medical authorities. It is not an issue here.

You first have to get an alt-right youtube personality to say it on air, then he will accept the information.

[pErvinalia]

US could see 200,000 Covid cases a day again: ‘Unvaccinated are sitting ducks’

Director of National Institutes of Health pleads with Americans to get their shots as Delta variant ravages the country

The US could soon see Covid-19 cases return to 200,000 a day, a level not seen since among the pandemic’s worst days in January and February, the director of the National Institutes of Health warned on Sunday.

While the US currently is seeing an average of about 129,000 new infections a day – a 700% increase from the beginning of July – that number could jump in the next couple of weeks, Dr Francis Collins said on Fox News Sunday.

“I will be surprised if we don’t cross 200,000 cases a day in the next couple of weeks, and that’s heartbreaking considering we never thought we would be back in that space again,” Collins said.

Collins pleaded anew for unvaccinated Americans to get their shots, calling them “sitting ducks” for a Delta variant that is ravaging the country and showing little sign of letting up.

FFS. The trouble is once again many Americans think this is normal for the rest of the world.

Data that Scot trusts. Surprisingly coincides with his bias against the US.

[Cunt]

When is it due to be approved? Surely that would get some folks off the fence...

I've already said that all the shots being given here in Australia have been approved by our medical authorities. It is not an issue here.

As long as the heavily enforced lockdowns, and other 'encouragements' work on the aussies, that's good.

I meant in the US though, as I think aussies are so smart (and NOT republican) that they will all agree to the vaccine, as soon as they can.

The US has a few groups who are resistant.

[Tero]

I can't see there is much trend yet. The two low bars are always the weekend as there is nobody compiling data till Mon. It sort of looks like it will top at 200 000 cases per day. Hard to say what schools will do, most have started. But this time more kids are infected than teachers and staff.

[JimC]

When is it due to be approved? Surely that would get some folks off the fence...

I've already said that all the shots being given here in Australia have been approved by our medical authorities. It is not an issue here.

As long as the heavily enforced lockdowns, and other 'encouragements' work on the aussies, that's good.

I meant in the US though, as I think aussies are so smart (and NOT republican) that they will all agree to the vaccine, as soon as they can.

The US has a few groups who are resistant.

Latest surveys showed that around 80% of Aussies are happy to be vaccinated, around 13% hesitant, but not ruling it out, and only 7% are die-hard anti-vaxxers.

And they may indeed die hard...

[Scot Dutchy]

Did they get anything right in the UK or was it too much Chumocracy?

Thousands could have isolated for no reason due to Covid app error, says source

Whitehall whistleblower says Matt Hancock was told of mistake where people were classed as close contacts for five days, not two, before he resigned

Many thousands of people may have isolated unnecessarily because a government error meant they were “pinged” by the Covid app for a “close contact” in the prior five days rather than two days, a Whitehall whistleblower has told the Guardian.

As the isolation rules for double vaccinated people were relaxed on Monday, it has emerged that users were never told the app could notify of contact with an infected person as far back as five days before the positive test.

Official guidance for the NHS Covid app defined close contact as occurring two days before the infected person had symptoms, while the official NHS test-and-trace service has always used two days as its definition.

The Whitehall source said that the error had been flagged in a submission to Matt Hancock, the then health secretary, shortly before he resigned at the end of June but it had never been publicly admitted.

Around a month later, Sajid Javid, the new health secretary, said he would be updating the app so that people without symptoms would only have their contacts searched for two days prior to their positive test, rather than five days. He said this was being “updated based on public health advice to look back at contacts two days prior to a positive test”.

[L'Emmerdeur]

'Keep yer nasty 5G magnetic microchips outta me!!!'

'"Tainted" Blood: Covid Skeptics Request Blood Transfusions From Unvaccinated Donors'

The nation’s roiling tensions over vaccination against covid-19 have spilled into an unexpected arena: lifesaving blood transfusions.

With nearly 60% of the eligible U.S. population fully vaccinated, most of the nation’s blood supply is now coming from donors who have been inoculated, experts said. That’s led some patients who are skeptical of the shots to demand transfusions only from the unvaccinated, an option blood centers insist is neither medically sound nor operationally feasible.

“We are definitely aware of patients who have refused blood products from vaccinated donors,” said Dr. Julie Katz Karp, who directs the blood bank and transfusion medicine program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia.

Emily Osment, an American Red Cross spokesperson, said her organization has fielded questions from clients worried that vaccinated blood would be “tainted,” capable of transmitting components from the covid vaccines. Red Cross officials said they’ve had to reassure clients that a covid vaccine, which is injected into muscle or the layer of skin below, doesn’t circulate in the blood.

“While the antibodies that are produced by the stimulated immune system in response to vaccination are found throughout the bloodstream, the actual vaccine components are not,” Jessa Merrill, the Red Cross director of biomedical communications, said in an email.

So far, such demands have been rare, industry officials said. Dr. Louis Katz, chief medical officer for ImpactLife, an Iowa-based blood center, said he’s heard from “a small handful” of patients asking for blood from unvaccinated donors. And the resounding answer from centers and hospitals, he added, has been “no.”

“I know of no one who has acceded to such a request, which would be an operational can of worms for a medically unjustifiable request,” Katz wrote in an email.

[Sean Hayden]

We're going to find out how bad delta is for kids as it's spreading through the schools rapidly now. 150 cases in our district yesterday. This time last year we had ~10.