Went to two grocery stores in the last couple of days. One still required masks the other didn't. I went with the flow but I should really keep wearing mine because we are heading into cold season.
29th day since last locally spread infection in the state but Brisbane just reported a troubling community case with no known source.
My son in Brissy tells me you are now in for a little 3 day lockdown, IIRC?
Just Brisbane. The unknown source case cluster is expanding. I think they are going to have trouble with contact tracing since it was out in the community for so long before being detected. With luck it will get tamped down.
One of the exposure sites was a respiratory health clinic. Reading between the lines it looks like someone went to the clinic and they made them get tested. Supposed to work the other way around, but it is really hard for people to keep getting tested for mild symptoms when, as far as you know, there isn't any covid out in the community.
Of course it is the variant that first showed up in Britain. Effin' contagious. I was more or less on board with the slow vaccine rollout here, at first. But now I think it was a big mistake. One of the cases in Brisbane is a nurse who hadn't been vaccinated. The economic and social cost of the delay is huge.
Went to two grocery stores in the last couple of days. One still required masks the other didn't. I went with the flow but I should really keep wearing mine because we are heading into cold season.
29th day since last locally spread infection in the state but Brisbane just reported a troubling community case with no known source.
My son in Brissy tells me you are now in for a little 3 day lockdown, IIRC?
Went to two grocery stores in the last couple of days. One still required masks the other didn't. I went with the flow but I should really keep wearing mine because we are heading into cold season.
29th day since last locally spread infection in the state but Brisbane just reported a troubling community case with no known source.
i think the question is about efficacy not necessarily about safety (62% vs 79% for example)
if you have a minute check this out
AZ is about to find itself in big trouble for deliberately spiking the stats. Their efficacy is the lowest at 62% and the (largely unwarranted) rumblings about blood clots weren't helping. I suspect they spiked the numbers to boost their falling vaccination uptake - many were refusing the AZ vacc in quite a number of countries, including a significant contingent of health care workers. 62% efficacy against the original Covid 19 sample quite frankly is barely a stop gap. Recent reports suggest AZ doesn't work well at all against the South African variant. U.S. Health Body Questions AstraZeneca's COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data When NIAID makes the unusal move of making a public statement and comes out against your methods, you have a big problem.
I suspect they are going to get punished - and thus, so will their stock. I'd short them.
Federal health officials are casting doubts about AstraZeneca’s vaccine data just hours after the company announced that its shot is safe and effective, leading the drugmaker to promise updated data within two days.
i think the question is about efficacy not necessarily about safety (62% vs 79% for example)
Federal health officials are casting doubts about AstraZenecaâs vaccine data just hours after the company announced that its shot is safe and effective, leading the drugmaker to promise updated data within two days.
Excellent! 
