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Same here in the US with Republicans. What’s puzzling about this outcome is for Republicans politicians not to comprehend that all these lies and misinformation are being lethal on their voters.
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Yeah, a life jacket for AfD and Pegida folk this...
Results The mean viral trajectories of alpha and delta infections resembled those of non-VOI/VOC infections. Vaccine breakthrough infections exhibited similar proliferation dynamics as infections in unvaccinated individuals (mean peak Ct: 20.5, 95% credible interval [19.0, 21.0] vs. 20.7 [19.8, 20.2], and mean proliferation time 3.2 days [2.5, 4.0] vs. 3.5 days [3.0, 4.0]); however, vaccinated individuals exhibited faster clearance (mean clearance time: 5.5 days [4.6, 6.6] vs. 7.5 days [6.8, 8.2]).
Conclusions Alpha, delta, and non-VOI/VOC infections feature similar viral trajectories. Acute infections in vaccinated and unvaccinated people feature similar proliferation and peak Ct, but vaccinated individuals cleared the infection more quickly. Viral concentrations do not fully explain the differences in infectiousness between SARS-CoV-2 variants, and mitigation measures are needed to limit transmission from vaccinated individuals.
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I don't know mate I just shared that tweet. Like i said, I hate the account, don't follow it, it just got rt'd onto my timeline
grandjoeblue
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Huge numbers are coming through from there. Doesn't look good, the vaccine may help to reduce the impact in developed nations but worrying for a lot of the developing world.
Martin Alvito
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In principle, mandates should have an impact. However, proving that they're causal would require controlling for alternative explanations, and I think that's hard with this dataset. If we had counts on the confounds such as remote work and kids' school situations, I'd be inclined to buy the argument. As it stands, I think the health director's conclusion is highly questionable based on what's being reported.
I know of some large companies that went out of their way to put aggressive ventilation and filtration systems into office spaces to get people back into the office, but they're in the minority. I don't know that the Target problem is something we can get some traction on.
Interesting thesis. I don't think the racial polemic helps. "This investment will save the United States government money in the end, as well as save lives" is about as strong as social justice arguments get.
To be honest, I would go so far as to say that I think that the polemic undermines the argument for the intended audience. Electoral realities are that an administration that chose to spend that money in that way without an overriding reason would find itself defending the policy against those who would (rightfully) argue that the United States isn't doing enough with policy and taxpayer revenue to improve its own citizens' health outcomes in the first place.
I wouldn't walk into the boardroom of a company with a spotty racial history with an idea like this and castigate them for their past treatment of minorities, and I doubt the author would either. I'd just tell them that doing the right thing is a good investment, and prove it. Dragging them through the mud just improves the odds that they'll tune out the rest of the argument. This is not a good use of the bully pulpit for this issue, and IMO undermines legitimate arguments such as the notion that FHA redlining and our property tax system have led to lasting wealth and infrastructure inequities.
Martin Alvito
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In principle, mandates should have an impact. However, proving that they're causal would require controlling for alternative explanations, and I think that's hard with this dataset. If we had counts on the confounds such as remote work and kids' school situations, I'd be inclined to buy the argument. As it stands, I think the health director's conclusion is highly questionable based on what's being reported.
I know of some large companies that went out of their way to put aggressive ventilation and filtration systems into office spaces to get people back into the office, but they're in the minority. I don't know that the Target problem is something we can get some traction on.
Interesting thesis. I don't think the racial polemic helps. "This investment will save the United States government money in the end, as well as save lives" is about as strong as social justice arguments get.
To be honest, I would go so far as to say that I think that the polemic undermines the argument for the intended audience. Electoral realities are that an administration that chose to spend that money in that way without an overriding reason would find itself defending the policy against those who would (rightfully) argue that the United States isn't doing enough with policy and taxpayer revenue to improve its own citizens' health outcomes in the first place.
I wouldn't walk into the boardroom of a company with a spotty racial history with an idea like this and castigate them for their past treatment of minorities, and I doubt the author would either. I'd just tell them that doing the right thing is a good investment, and prove it. Dragging them through the mud just improves the odds that they'll tune out the rest of the argument. This is not a good use of the bully pulpit for this issue, and IMO undermines legitimate arguments such as the notion that FHA redlining and our property tax system have led to lasting wealth and infrastructure inequities.
It is still early, things could change with more information and we still don’t have good data on severity of the resultant infections but this isn’t really what anyone would have wanted.
I am not sure who falls under the BAME so apologies if I offend anyone.
I had that LBC radio on the other day and they mentioned that a lot of Pakistanis are against the vaccine, due to them getting tricked into giving DNA to the States. I cant remember exactly what got said. Basically the States offered some kind of vaccine or something, but were checking to see if any of them were related to Bin Laden.
Absolute ignorance on my part but didnt polio do something to Africa too?
I know of three, one is a midwife & locum GP (fully vac'd + booster) but the pharmacist I know isnt going near it. So there seems to be more getting jabbed.
Martin Alvito
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This is more or less what I would expect with a coronavirus. Mutations are rapid enough that re-infections will be a thing.
The $64,000 question on the table right now is when/whether a variant will start defeating existing vaccines, and to what degree. If we're talking 30 days to have good data and another 100 days (according to Pfizer and Moderna) to rush an answer into mass production, and if if it turns out that variants can both end-run the vaccines and cause severe infection, we're going to have some significant windows where extreme precautions are necessary. That's a lot of ifs, though.
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And if that happens, it will happen regularly forever.
Is this new technology the only answer to this? Does it HAVE to be Pfizer and Moderna every few months? Will we ever find out or does having the most money make all the difference?
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