COVID-19 (coronavirus disease)/SARS-CoV-2 virus

It's the avacados

 

Went to a funeral for a mother and son who died of Covid yesterday. Get you vaccine and wear your damn masks please.

 

Moderna to begin trial of new COVID vaccine to address virus variant first found in South Africa

 

It's brutal. Sorry to hear of that. I wonder how many of us now know someone who has died? Probably a great many of us, if about one in every 600 Americans died from it so far.

By the way, on Moderna, my understanding is that by this summer, their main shot will incorporate genetic info from five different variants. I also learned from biotech pal that, pre-COVID, a main business direction was going to be revolutionizing how to make flu shots. Interesting. (The may we make them now is pretty slow and involves too much guesswork.)

 

Getting my second dose tomorrow. Need to prepare for the next 2 days in case I'm gonna get racked by possible side-effects.

 

Nah, is a no for me dawg. After they baby powder caused cancer

 

The lawyers say it caused cancer. According to Cancer.org every controlled study on the subject has shown either no difference or negligible (not statistically significant) differences between talc baby powder users and non users when it comes to a myriad of cancers.

 

As expected, third vaccine on the way :

 

Approved for EU. 4m doses now. 20m end of March. 100m end of June.

Virtually 100% protection against hospitalization and death.

 

Did my bday party this weekend. Not one mask to be seen...

 

Spoke to soon...

 

Who is this "soon" that you spoke to and of what relevance is it?

 

Did you take that picture with a potato?

 

Not sure why it's blurry. But we had someone take it. Maybe the camera focused too much on the skyline.

 

Odds are most of your crew has already had covid so I'm sure you'll be fine. Talked to a Dr the other day and they're saying post covid immunity is lasting up to 8 months.

 

Dude, I owe you a dinner. You were such a great friend during Harvey.

 

No worries bro. We'll meet up again for a game soon i bet.

 

Mildly political so....spoiler....

Spoiler

Looks like the Governor's announcement went about as expected politically. The political view of all this has continued to fascinate me. This one is a small sample but even polling of knowing someone who died from covid is met with political bias

https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/imdk8zumh5/econTabReport.pdf

More questions polled at the link

I posted this in the other vaccine thread, but as of today we are up to roughly 52.5% of the entire American 65+ population having 1 shot. That breaks down to 63% for 75+ and 45% for 65-74. Those percentages seem to have been increasing by roughly 1% a day. Over 65 is roughly 85% of all deaths.

I don't know what targets people have in mind for the at risk population but we are reaching them rapidly.

 

more good news on the vaccine front