Addison County's daily new cases finally dropped from 53/100,000 to 29. It seems that our gift from Victory Baptist Ministries (110 cases of COVID-19 at last count) is finally abating. Now if we can get back to our prior level of about 3...
CoVID-19
If we haven't already, liable to cross 400k deaths in the US today. Which is weird, since it went away the day after the election.
www.npr.org
Tracking the coronavirus around the U.S.: See how your state is doing
View NPR's maps and graphics to see where COVID-19 is hitting hardest in the U.S., which state outbreaks are under control and where cases are still spreading.
www.npr.org
On another note. I wonder how long it will take them to sanitize the White House after the maskless mouthbreathers vacate the premises?
In that case, I'd be much more worried about the drug resistant syphilis.
Early last year, I remember thinking how ludicrous it sounded when some health professionals claimed that 500K+ Americans could die during this pandemic. Now that, it appears, is a reality.If we haven't already, liable to cross 400k deaths in the US today. Which is weird, since it went away the day after the election.
Tracking the coronavirus around the U.S.: See how your state is doing
View NPR's maps and graphics to see where COVID-19 is hitting hardest in the U.S., which state outbreaks are under control and where cases are still spreading.
Clearly I grossly overestimated our capability and willingness, as a whole, to tackle such an episode. What an illuminating year this has been.
Maybe they can just inject some bleach?
Illuminati you say?
If we haven't already, liable to cross 400k deaths in the US today. Which is weird, since it went away the day after the election.
Tracking the coronavirus around the U.S.: See how your state is doing
View NPR's maps and graphics to see where COVID-19 is hitting hardest in the U.S., which state outbreaks are under control and where cases are still spreading.
Well and truly past (by nearly 3x9/11)
It shouldn't be too shocking, considering alcohol and cigarette related deaths are more than that.....every year.
Don't tread on us.
Honestly this is the time for out of the box thinking. One of the reasons why Californian Condors are almost exctinct is that they used to rely on washed up marine mammals. We could improve air quality and help an endangered species.
The amount of plastic and other pollutants inside the average Murican might not do the birds too much good though.
This shit has been going on for a year. I remember when quarter million death estimates seemed like an unimaginable tragedy. 400,000+ later and it is treated on par with the cost of milk going up $0.10.
It hits overproportional old folks and minorities, so whatever....
"It's an overblown flu, you're young, you'll be fine if you get it."
First task for Biden’s CDC director: Fix everything Trump broke
In wide-ranging interview, she also cautioned not to panic over coronavirus variants.
arstechnica.com
My wife never ended up getting sick after being coughed on, so apparently masks work. Huh, who knew? She got her second dose on Wednesday morning and only had muscle aches that started about 12 hours after. Of all the people that got their second dose on Wednesday the symptoms ranged from nothing to 24 hours of flu like symptoms. Nothing that kept anyone from going in the next day. The interesting thing (I think) is that as far as she can tell from talking with people the only ones who had symptoms were the ones that got the Moderna shot. Nobody who got the Pfizer had any symptoms. Is that what the Monkey consensus is as well @eric strt6, @Toshi, @scrublover? I wouldn't hesitate to get either one, but an interesting observation.
News piece last night seemed to suggest the current SA mutation might have changed sufficiently to make it more likely that people can become re-infected more easily...yay :/
I saw this news piece the other day. It will be interesting to see how this plays out for people who have "recovered". https://abc7.com/how-does-covid-affect-the-lungs-x-ray-in-symptoms/9811546/
Pretty good article. I normally don't read the comments, but I couldn't help it. Glad I did, actually, of I'd have never seen this little nugget...First task for Biden’s CDC director: Fix everything Trump broke
In wide-ranging interview, she also cautioned not to panic over coronavirus variants.
Teh Financée has now had both of her Pfizer shots (got the booster yesterday) and so far has had no symptoms beyond a soreness in her arm. Good friend who just turned 70 a month ago has had two of the Moderna shots, and I think he experienced some flu-like symptoms. He's also, you know... 70. That said, dude skis 60-80 days a year, does a few thousand miles on the road and mountain bikes every season, and walks about 3 miles a day with his wife and doggo. It's not like he's a feeble old man.
I got Pfizer. Mid 102s fever and frank shaking chills around 18 hours after shot 2, for what that’s worth. Still would 100% take it again were I to go back in time.
not saying I was doing the helicopter but that I was outright shaking, not just wee tiny shakelets
Just got some information about possibly participating in a COVID vaccine trial study. This wouldn't be one of the currently EUA vaccines, the trial is blind and would last for 2-1/4 years, there's a 50/50 chance I would be given the vaccine or a placebo but I wouldn't know until the end of 2023. I could choose to be "unblinded" from the study prior to that, but that doesn't seem helpful in any way to the study and disingenuous if I were to sign up for the trial with the thought that I might unblind myself for reasons. I could also choose to receive an EUA vaccine in that time, but there is no known info about possible side effects of mix-n-matching multiple vaccinations, plus it would skew the data of the study. Again, seems a bit disingenuous and maybe dangerous to go into it knowing I would get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine when it became available to me. I am signed up to get whatever it is I'd get the first week of March, but have that time to think about it essentially... I'm not committed to it yet.
What would y'all do?
What would y'all do?
‘Packed us together like sardines’: Guard deployed to Capitol struggles to contain Covid
Hundreds of Guard members who poured into Washington after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol have tested positive for Covid-19 or are quarantining in nearby hotels.
www.politico.com
I would 100% sign up and if you get offered Pfizer or Moderna then ask to be unblinded (and don't thus double dose). Trial participants are volunteers, and you should look out for your best interests. Even if you're in the placebo group you still will provide them data on baseline side effect incidence and infection rate until/if you drop out.
/me dropped out of the Moderna trial to get Pfizer, having been unblinded and confirmed to be in the placebo arm
If I get unblinded and turn out to be in the vaccine group, does that mean I am basically out of the study? i.e. I still provided them valuable info up until I chose to be unblinded, but then just wouldn't continue providing more data?
No issues with continuing on in the study once unblinded at that point. Several of my co-workers are in that boat, unblinded from Moderna when they were offered Pfizer shots, still in that Moderna study. All it means for them is that they'll have a few more in-person follow-up visits until 24 months +/- another tickling of the brain at those instances and blood draws.
Pfizer Vaccination for me
Shot one: tenderness at injections site for 48 hours.
Shot two: nothing not even any soreness
Shot one: tenderness at injections site for 48 hours.
Shot two: nothing not even any soreness
maybe they forgot to activate your microchip?
It's not compatible with the Alien DNA that the Mossad injected into me in 1980
I want the one that gives you a throbbing uncomfortable erection lasting longer than 93 days.
Looks like you got erected nipples instead?