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Post by Tero » Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:48 pm

If you move to Texas to work at the Tesla plant, does Musk give you an abortion travel allowance?

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Post by laklak » Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:55 pm

If you work for Elon you don't have time to fuck.
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Post by Tero » Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:43 pm

Pretty much all the new cases in our county recover:
Hospitalizations for COVID-19 patients:

44 with 26 from Lancaster County (2 on ventilators) and 18 from other communities (3 on ventilators). Note: The hospitalization number includes patients who no longer test positive for COVID-19 but continue to be hospitalized.

Those people have been in hospital for weeks.

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Post by laklak » Sat Mar 05, 2022 1:50 pm

Long covid scares me, looks pretty ugly. I'll get boosted when we get back down to Florida.
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Post by macdoc » Sun Mar 06, 2022 6:38 am

BA2 scares me too. You might be able to get some over the counter antivirals too ...those, a booster and some RAT kits is pretty good defense.
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Post by macdoc » Fri Mar 11, 2022 12:07 pm

New omicron variant is one of the most infectious diseases ever known

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A new strain of omicron coronavirus, believed to be among the most infectious diseases known to mankind, is predicted to cause another nationwide surge of cases during autumn.
But new studies have confirmed vaccines and antiviral medicines seem to be as effective against the BA.2 “stealth” omicron variant as the original BA.1 strain.
The reassuring studies came as health authorities look to expand the vaccination booster program ahead of an expected national autumn wave from the more contagious BA.2 variant.

Less than two thirds of adult Australians have had a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine with authorities predicting the BA.2 sub-variant of omicron is about to cause another surge in cases. Jono Searle/Getty Images
The wave is coming earlier than was predicted putting pressure on authorities and businesses to gear up for a period of high worker and student absenteeism and demands for rapid testing.
The BA.2 variant is “fitter” than the original BA.1 omicron variant and is already dominant in the UK, Denmark, Hong Kong and India, with Australia predicted to follow the UK path, where the BA.2 variant is now being seen in 80 per cent of cases.


Virologists and modellers had observed the BA.2 variant is very different to the earlier omicron variant that saw a massive spike in case in January, suggesting that it may escape from vaccines and other antiviral treatments.
In Denmark, there are some BA.2 cases where people who were infected with the original omicron variant have been reinfected.
But the UK Health Security Agency reported Thursday studies confirming “vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease was similar for BA.1 and BA.2 sublineages of omicron”.
At the same time a Japanese study released in The New England Journal of Medicine showed antiviral therapies, including Pfizer’s Paxlovid pill, remained effective against the BA.2 omicron variant.

 
The lab study also suggested a number of monoclonal antibody combinations neutralised the BA.2 variant, but required greater dosages.

“The bottom line is we have antibodies that appear to be more effective against BA.2 compared with BA.1 or BA.1.1 (another omicron subvariant),” Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine and the University of Tokyo told Science Daily.
“That’s good news, but we don’t know whether what we found in the lab translates into clinical settings,” Dr Kawaoka said.
In Victoria, where the BA.2 variant is now appearing in 20 per cent of cases, the state government announced more than 20 Bunnings stores in outer metro and regional areas would host pop-up vaccination sites.
Popular shopping markets such as the CBD Queen Victoria market and festivals such as the Swan Hill Food and Wine festival are also being targeted with vaccination clinics as the state seeks to lift booster shots above the current 62 per cent coverage of adults.
UNSW modeller Dr James Wood is predicting the more contagious BA.2 omicron variant will gradually take over from its sibling BA.1, driving a new wave of cases which he predicts will reach between 20,000 to 30,000 in NSW in April, peaking in May. The state reported 14,304 cases on Friday.
NSW is also upping its vaccination campaigns after booster rates stalled at 56 per cent of the adult population.

Dr Wood said other states are expected to follow the same pattern suggesting a national wave similar in size to what NSW was seeing in mid- to late-January.
South Australian epidemiologist Professor Adrian Esterman warned the BA.2 variant could be as contagious as any known disease.
“Omicron BA.2 is about 1.4 times more infectious than BA.1. The basic reproduction number (R0) for BA.1 is about 8.2, making R0 for BA.2 about 12,” Professor Esterman said.
“This makes it pretty close to measles, the most contagious disease we know about.”

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While there is no evidence the BA.2 variant causes greater disease Melbourne University epidemiologist Professor Nancy Baxter cautioned it would cause higher levels of hospitalisation and acute sickness.
“If 10 per cent of people get quite ill, it could be a larger number if you have 10 times as many people who are getting it. That 10 per cent becomes 10 times as many people,” she said.
The BA.2 virus is known as a stealth virus because, unlike the earlier omicron variant, it is not identified by normal PCR testing and needs to be sequenced in labs to be identified.
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Post by Hermit » Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:30 pm

Sean Hayden wrote:
Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:59 pm
It's not really chewing through here thankfully.
Glad to hear that the current 7-day rolling average of 1260 Covid deaths in the US is the new normal. Previous lows were 816 in November and 225 in July.

Lows for Texas are 115 now, 47 last December and 21 in July.
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Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Mar 11, 2022 3:31 pm

The vaccination rate where I live is over 60%, and more than 70% in the surrounding area. Our infection rate has been less than 1 since January. It is about .6 atm. The largest county next door --about 5 million people (that they know about) -- has an infection rate even lower than that, and the smaller surrounding counties are at even lower levels of spread.

Thankfully then for those of us who took this seriously the entire time, and who are fully vaccinated, which my family is --and boosted-- we don't live today like something is chewing through our community.

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No, that's not the trendy --and in my opinion sensationalist horseshit-- opinion that Americans are numb to covid deaths either. We had little success getting people on board with taking the virus seriously. It was politicized from the beginning, and decades of anti-intellectualism, anti-science, anti-medicine conspiracy mongering exploded in our faces.

For many of us covid has been no less eye-opening than Trump's presidency regarding the rot.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Mar 11, 2022 3:45 pm

Scotland has seen a rise in hospitalisation. Higher now that the first Omicron spike over xmas and new year. Critical admissions and deaths seem to bouncing along the low-to-very-low line thank goodness. Mortality has dropped right off. Speculation among experts that relatively high infection rate could be due to waning vaccine protection, possibly, as Scotland rolled out it programs pretty quickly and efficiently. Perhaps also the infectiousness of the now dominant BA2 strain, maybe. Compliance with behavioural measure still much higher than England, even though there only advisory now. Scotland still supports people financially to stay at home if they test positive. The highest rate of infection atm is among primary-aged children - the dirty little tikes!
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Post by laklak » Fri Mar 11, 2022 4:38 pm

Our numbers are still falling, haven't seen a BA2 increase.
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Post by macdoc » Fri Mar 11, 2022 8:06 pm

You beleive any stats coming from Florida ???

https://www.newsy.com/stories/doctors-w ... ant-surge/

China just locked down a big city
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Post by laklak » Fri Mar 11, 2022 8:22 pm

Sure, I live there, I see it first hand.

"Possible surge".
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:12 pm

Hermit wrote:
Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:30 pm
Sean Hayden wrote:
Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:59 pm
It's not really chewing through here thankfully.
Glad to hear that the current 7-day rolling average of 1260 Covid deaths in the US is the new normal. Previous lows were 816 in November and 225 in July.

Lows for Texas are 115 now, 47 last December and 21 in July.
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Post by laklak » Sat Mar 12, 2022 12:07 am

The VAST majority of deaths are in the 65+ age group. They're short timers anyway.
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Post by macdoc » Sat Mar 12, 2022 12:31 am

That matters how??

US only has 21% BA2 penetration ....keep those rose coloured glasses on.
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