dturm
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Vaccination news:
Our granddaughter got her COVID vaccination last weekend - no reactions at all. She is a health care worker (laboratory tech) at Christ Advocate hospital in the Chicago area. Reassuring news.
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MEXICOWANDERER
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She earns a "Thank You" for her choice of profession from me. ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/smile.gif "smile")
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pianotuna
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A new and ugly milestone. 331 million with 331 thousand dead.
Regards, Don
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MEXICOWANDERER
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I agree. But now we have a light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully it isn't a locomotive.
I have no idea what the states are like but Mexico is suppressing metrics on destination contaigion in winter party haunts for youngsters.
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MEXICOWANDERER
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Transmissibility of South African Variant?
Are reported doubling of viral loading exaggerated?
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dturm wrote:Vaccination news:
Our granddaughter got her COVID vaccination last weekend - no reactions at all. She is a health care worker (laboratory tech) at Christ Advocate hospital in the Chicago area. Reassuring news.
last week I along with 4 other trade guys got the Covid vaccination. We are employed by Health Care.
The only things to report was some mild lightheadedness for the first 1 HR. (you must sit for 15 minutes after recieving the shot) Some of the guys had some muscle aches the first night but nothing over the top and was gone the next day.(I had none)
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monkey44
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Ahhhhhhh nothing like first hand experience, vs promotional data. Great that HCW will share that. Hope you all have a great holiday, and a less stressful 2021.
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Deb and Ed M
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
News from England indicates a new strain on virus "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, and race faster than a speeding locomotive".
I keep hearing the news programs talking about "closing borders" - but this new variant has apparently been around since September. To think it's not here in the USA is folly, IMO. I DID read that the vaccine makers *think* the vaccines will work against the new variant; but are testing to make sure of that.
All I can say is "God Bless the researchers" - they have developed the vaccines at unprecedented speed.
Now I just have to figure out where a Snowbird currently in FL fits into the vaccination schedule
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Here is a preprint of a mathematical analysis on this new variant.
Estimated transmissibility and severity of novel SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern 202012/01 in England
Status: report | First online: 23-12-2020 | Last update: 23-12-2020
This is a genetic analysis of the new variant.
Preliminary genomic characterisation of an emergent SARS-CoV-2 lineage in the UK defined by a novel set of spike mutations
Virological.org
Quote:....... lead us to hypothesise that the unusual genetic divergence of lineage B.1.1.7 may have resulted, at least in part, from virus evolution with a chronically-infected individual. Although such infections are rare, and onward transmission from them presumably even rarer, they are not improbable given the ongoing large number of new infections.
Although we speculate here that chronic infection played a role in the origins of the B.1.1.7 variant, this remains a hypothesis and we cannot yet infer the precise nature of this event.
Virus mutations occur when the virus is replicating within an infected person. Choosing not to be vaccinated leaves one open as a possible incubator for a more deadly variant of this virus.
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edited 12/25/20 08:55am by BCSnob *
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MEXICOWANDERER
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Here is today's news about the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine in a cut and paste format...
The UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme could get a speed boost, with the country’s drugs regulator expected to make a decision on a shot from Oxford University/AstraZeneca in the next few days.
If the vaccine becomes available the UK will be able to step up its vaccination programme as large swathes of the country face draconian “Tier 4” restrictions due to the emergence of as more infectious variant.
Latest figures show that there were nearly 40,000 cases recorded yesterday, the highest since mass testing began, although it’s thought infection rates were higher during the first wave of the virus in spring when tests were not readily available.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) began a fast-track rolling review of the vaccine in November and reports point towards a decision between Christmas and New Year.
The UK has ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine, which is based on an adenovirus vector and is easy to handle than rivals from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna.
AZ’s vaccine, dubbed AZD1222, is stored at normal refrigerator temperatures while the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna shots need to be kept at around -70C and -20C respectively to maintain the integrity of their RNA structure.
According to health secretary Matt Hancock, the full dossier of trial evidence is now with the regulator, which is poised to make a decision in the coming days.
AZ’s vaccine is safe and effective, according to the data publicly available so far, although it seems that giving a half-dose shot first following a second full dose is more effective.
Just how this will be viewed by regulators is unclear, as are the plans to distribute the vaccine.
With two full doses, efficacy is around 62%, according to findings released towards the end of last month based on data from nearly 9,000 patients in the UK and Brazil.
Efficacy rose to around 90% in just over 2,700 patients given the low dose-high dose formulation, which was stumbled on by mistake because of a manufacturing error.
Quite what the MHRA will make of this is not clear, nor is it known whether the regulator has more up-to-date figures than those announced at the end of November.
Professor Sir John Bell, the government’s life sciences tsar and Regius Chair of Medicine at the University of Oxford, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday: “We are getting to be about prime time now.
“I would expect some news pretty shortly, I doubt we will make Christmas now but just after Christmas I would expect.
“And I have no concerns whatsoever, the data looks better than ever.”
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