Virus in US

[oldschool]

9 hours ago, MadMax said:

I get my activation nanites Thursday.

 

I got chipped yesterday!

[Starkiller]

https://news.yahoo.com/news/israel-logs-indian-covid-19-070003471.html
 

Israel has registered eight cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India and believes that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is at least partially effective against it, an Israeli health official said on Tuesday.

 

An initial seven cases of the Indian variant were detected in Israel last week among people arriving from abroad and who have since undergone preliminary testing, the Health Ministry said.

 

"The impression is that the Pfizer vaccine has efficacy against it, albeit a reduced efficacy," the ministry's director-general, Hezi Levy, told Kan public radio, saying the number of cases of the variant in Israel now stood at eight.

[MadMax]

1 hour ago, oldschool said:

 

I got chipped yesterday!

 

Arm sore from the chip settling in?

[Jamalisms]

Got my second dose on Sunday. Mild body aches but pretty extreme fatigue yesterday. I slept more than half the day and feel pretty good today.

[wiscotitansfan]

7 hours ago, Starkiller said:

Not too long ago, we called it “going postal”

What's it's called now? Getting pulled over?

[abenjami]

13 hours ago, OILERMAN said:

I got my first shot 

 

Let me guess.....

 

 

[Starkiller]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/poll-shows-jj-pause-has-not-increased-vaccine-hesitancy/
 

About 88 percent of Americans support the pause of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, and the pause did not increase vaccine hesitancy, according to fresh data from the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus poll.
 

In the latest poll, the market research firm Ipsos first asked if people had heard of the pause. An impressive 91 percent of respondents said they had. Of those who said they were aware of the pause, 88 percent responded “Yes” to the question: “Do you believe the FDA and CDC are being responsible by recommending a pause on the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine?”
 

The total of 70 percent in the “likely/already had” category is basically unchanged from recent polls. In the poll conducted between April 2 and 5, a total of 71 percent of respondents fell into that category, while the total was 69 percent during the poll conducted between March 19 and 22. The same lack of change was seen in the “not likely” category, which also wobbled between an insignificantly different 29 percent and 30 percent in the two previous polls.

 

Moreover, the numbers are significantly better than the peak of vaccine resistance seen in a late September poll. That’s when only 37 percent said they were likely to get vaccinated and 63 percent said they were not likely to get vaccinated.

 

The same results were found in a focus group of vaccine-hesitant Trump voters, according to a report by The Washington Post. Frank Luntz, a longtime GOP communications expert, held the focus group over Zoom on Sunday, involving 17 conservative participants. Throughout the pandemic, Republicans and conservatives have been among the most consistent groups to tell pollsters that they are unwilling or hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine. In a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll, a total of 35 percent of Republicans surveyed said they would definitely not get vaccinate or only get vaccinated if vaccination was required.

 

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause is not changing their thinking one way or the other, according to the focus group. The group largely shrugged off the pause and questioned why the CDC and FDA halted use for a potential side effect that is so rare, the Post reported. “A lot of people might want to take the Johnson & Johnson vaccine versus the others, because it’s one shot versus two,” said a focus-group participant identified as Cathy from Pennsylvania. An epidemiologist who helped convene the focus group further noted to the Post that “we didn’t see folks really concerned with the pause in the J&J vaccine.”

[Rogue]

7 minutes ago, Starkiller said:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/04/poll-shows-jj-pause-has-not-increased-vaccine-hesitancy/
 

About 88 percent of Americans support the pause of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, and the pause did not increase vaccine hesitancy, according to fresh data from the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus poll.
 

In the latest poll, the market research firm Ipsos first asked if people had heard of the pause. An impressive 91 percent of respondents said they had. Of those who said they were aware of the pause, 88 percent responded “Yes” to the question: “Do you believe the FDA and CDC are being responsible by recommending a pause on the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine?”
 

The total of 70 percent in the “likely/already had” category is basically unchanged from recent polls. In the poll conducted between April 2 and 5, a total of 71 percent of respondents fell into that category, while the total was 69 percent during the poll conducted between March 19 and 22. The same lack of change was seen in the “not likely” category, which also wobbled between an insignificantly different 29 percent and 30 percent in the two previous polls.

 

Moreover, the numbers are significantly better than the peak of vaccine resistance seen in a late September poll. That’s when only 37 percent said they were likely to get vaccinated and 63 percent said they were not likely to get vaccinated.

 

The same results were found in a focus group of vaccine-hesitant Trump voters, according to a report by The Washington Post. Frank Luntz, a longtime GOP communications expert, held the focus group over Zoom on Sunday, involving 17 conservative participants. Throughout the pandemic, Republicans and conservatives have been among the most consistent groups to tell pollsters that they are unwilling or hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine. In a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll, a total of 35 percent of Republicans surveyed said they would definitely not get vaccinate or only get vaccinated if vaccination was required.

 

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause is not changing their thinking one way or the other, according to the focus group. The group largely shrugged off the pause and questioned why the CDC and FDA halted use for a potential side effect that is so rare, the Post reported. “A lot of people might want to take the Johnson & Johnson vaccine versus the others, because it’s one shot versus two,” said a focus-group participant identified as Cathy from Pennsylvania. An epidemiologist who helped convene the focus group further noted to the Post that “we didn’t see folks really concerned with the pause in the J&J vaccine.”

The "pause" isn't going to change anyone's minds, or at least the bulk of them.  

Those that think this is some kind of experiment, which is significant, aren't going to get it anyways.

Well, okay, fine.  Let them Ted Nugent it out.  Maybe they'll not die.  I mean, they've got the money of Ted Nugent, right?  

[Starkiller]

https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20210421/Antibody-response-induced-by-mRNA-vaccination-differs-from-natural-SARS-CoV-2-infection.aspx
 

There was a difference between the antibodies elicited by natural infection compared to that from the vaccine. Since the vaccine does not have the nucleocapsid protein, there are no antibodies against this in the vaccine-induced antibodies. However, antibodies against nucleocapsid were seen in natural infection, suggesting this could be a biomarker for natural infection.

 

Further testing revealed that vaccines elicit more antibodies against the spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) compared to the antibodies seen in natural infection. All individuals had antibodies to seasonal flu, and cold and the levels were the same for all irrespective of whether they had COVID-19.

 

Natural infection produces antibodies to the nucleocapsid and all fragments of the spike protein. The highest antibody levels were against the nucleocapsid, full-length spike protein, and the S2 subunit. Antibody levels against RBD were weak and could be a mechanism for new virus variants to evolve

[Starkiller]

Some crazy stories in here...

Edited April 22, 2021 by Starkiller

[ChemEngr79]

11 hours ago, Starkiller said:

Some crazy stories in here...

 

My dad sounds like some of the cases in there. Luckily, he hasn't gotten it...yet.

 

He is 72 and a hard no on getting a vaccine...

 

 

I keep feeling like this is increasingly apt:

 

 

Sadly, my dad was a high school science teacher for decades, but the right wing echo chamber has captured him in recent years...

[IsntLifeFunny]

12 hours ago, Starkiller said:

Some crazy stories in here...

Thanks for the link. I needed to read this to help restore some faith in humanity. There are a lot of good people out there working their asses off trying to keep people alive on a daily basis. They’ve basically been military medics for the past year. 

[pamo9]

That thread is just so full of STUPID it's hard to wrap your head around it.

[Starkiller]

https://amp.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article250862594.html
 

An unvaccinated health care worker brought COVID-19 into an Eastern Kentucky nursing home, propagating an outbreak that infected dozens of vaccinated and unvaccinated residents last month, a new study confirms.
 

In this nursing home at that time, more than 90% of the 83 residents had received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, compared with only 53% of the 116 health care personnel, the study found. And of the 26 residents who tested positive, 18 were fully vaccinated. Only four of the 20 vaccinated staff tested positive. Six residents were hospitalized, including two who were vaccinated.

 

Still, though they tested positive, vaccinated people “were significantly less likely to experience symptoms or require hospitalization,” authors of the study wrote. Unvaccinated residents and staff were at least three times more likely to become infected. People with two doses of the vaccine, even when they did test positive, were 87% less likely to show symptoms, compared to those without a vaccine, which “demonstrates a strong protective effect of vaccination,” they said.

[rns90]

Got the first dose of Pfizer today.  Got some slight fatigue and the arm started getting stiff and achy but outside of that I feel fine.