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Posted:
Apr 3, 2021 - 9:42am
miamizsun wrote:
steeler wrote:
Moderna is 90 percent protection from hospitalization and all the other vaccines are 100 percent? Or is that noting that it is 90 percent after 1st shot? Wondering why — if it is the case — that it is 10 percent less protection from hospitalization?
Moderna is 90 percent protection from hospitalization and all the other vaccines are 100 percent? Or is that noting that it is 90 percent after 1st shot? Wondering why â if it is the case â that it is 10 percent less protection from hospitalization?
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Posted:
Apr 2, 2021 - 9:03am
miamizsun wrote:
please have a look at this
Moderna is 90 percent protection from hospitalization and all the other vaccines are 100 percent? Or is that noting that it is 90 percent after 1st shot? Wondering why â if it is the case â that it is 10 percent less protection from hospitalization?
i think it is likely that the australia will get it together
Some of it isn't their fault - like the slow production of A-Z in Europe and the EU keeping the company from shipping it to Australia. But they could have responded on the fly and ramped up orders of Pfizer. And there was something odd going on with the slow start of A-Z production in Australia. I believe the federal government saw this coming for months and started feeding out the story that they were waiting to see how the vaccines performed abroad. Also they had to abandon one of their pre-buy vaccines when it didn't pan out but apparently didn't seek a replacement to hedge their bets.
If nothing else, they should have been forthcoming on what was actually going on and how the status was progressing. And I was initially on board with the idea that we weren't in any rush because cases are so low here. But the highly transmissive variants changed all that. Very difficult and costly to keep under control unless they shut the border completely. I also believe that the best think Australia can do is to vaccinate citizens abroad, who might otherwise be ineligible and are in high risk situations. Then allowing them to fly home wouldn't be as big an issue.
It's interesting how some people react as though these organizations betrayed them personally and so will never trust them again. Science requires some active participation, but that doesn't include demanding concrete answers to unknowns. All of this advice was "best available" and should have been understood as fluid, but as soon as an updated best practices was issued, people got out their pitchforks. And suddenly became experts. Throw in some deliberate obfuscation from our leaders, some admittedly disingenuous strategizing by NHS, CDC et al, and peoples' trust was destroyed. But the science was always comforting to me. Well sometimes alarming, but the changing strategies made me feel like we had a chance to head this off. It gives us a head fake this way, we go that way. But no, it faked right, we went right, then got mad that we were caught flat-footed.
tl;dr: I don't understand the point of this Twitter feed.
Mass vaccinations in the midst of a pandemic (not before an outbreak) creates an arms race with an evolving virus, while destroying herd immunity. Months of social distancing among young people, compromising their immune systems. In general, experimenting with our immune system, and its evolution, along with that of the virus.
Well that'll learn you for leaving the country. First world problems, I suppose if you can afford international travel money is no object to you. Hopefully their facilities are better equipped than the ones we have at our southern border. Oh and as always of course all of the leaders, dignitaries and well connected will have to follow this exact protocol.
I've got a little more than a week for my round 2. Looking forward to having it done - cases here are trending up and people are being stupid.
First shot tomorrow, finish 4/28. Not that anything will change...
woohoo!
We aren't changing much. I can't believe how full the restaurants are. There is a potential trip for us on the horizon, but we'll be nutty about being cautious, and still won't be dining out or being around any people.
