& @Wanderfound:
Thread worth reading:
Bottom line: read carefully, think about it twice.
tl;dr: Don’t panic!
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If I am reading properly, this patient is suspected of having contracted a different strain the second time around, which is not really “reinfection,” but does complicate the vaccine development in that we need to consider a multivalent vaccine, which is more complicated. Not horrific, but a possible additional factor to consider.
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What’s more horrific to me are the unrealistic expectations still being set with the public. They started with comparisons to other conditions (like the flu). Based on the stats here, many adults don’t consider the flu dangerous enough to get vaccinated against it:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/coverage-1819estimates.htm
Vaccination coverage varied by state, ranging from 46.0%–81.1% among children and from 33.9%–56.3% among adults
There are CDC reports that up to 11% of the US population gets the flu every year. I doubt there would be similar figures for COVID-19 cases with a vaccine as effective as a flu shot. Those expectations get worse when the administration (or supporters) promote “magic pill” beliefs that a single vaccine will be the cure.
I hope new, competent leaders will be able to reason with folks who want a medical solution that lets them return to life as it was before coronavirus (without any restrictions on their behavior). Otherwise, they’ll continue to undermine the efforts to get the virus under control. Their acting out against medical advice might escalate when they see more reports that crush their hopes for a quick ending to the pandemic.
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Well that’s gonna mess up his lung capacity
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We are so complacent about the flu, it’s an old adversary. Too many people don’t realize how dangerous it is. Particularly to the young or the elderly. A friend of mine, 60+ said she never gets it. I was aghast. Her excuse? She doesnt get sick often. I pointed out her husband does and played the community responsibility angle. She ended up getting one.
The flu can still be dangerous even with a vaccine. Our daughter had hers (and we had ours) but we still ended up at the hospital watching her struggle to breathe.
Frankly the flue vaccine should be free and offered at every pharmacy everywhere.
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For those that don’t know or care, Gergiev has always been a Putin lackey. Now his theater is a petri dish.
[quote] Here’s the latest from our mole at the sickening Mariinsky:
The entire ballet corps were put on sick leave/ quarantine on August 14 retroactive to August 10. They are due back at work today.
There are sick people in the orchestra who are listed as being on vacation. The musicians are told to keep silent about Covid. One complained to the theatre doctor that he felt really ill and was told to go back to rehearsals.
One doctor’s clinic in St Petersburg lists 38 positive cases from Mariinsky alone.[/quote]
https://slippedisc.com/2020/08/gergievs-mariinsky-is-sickening-for-worse/
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Interesting that apparently the Jamaican government made the positive result public, not Usain Bolt himself (of course he knew that he took the test, but apparently he found out on social media that the result was positive).
I’m not sure that could happen in the U.S.? (Well, I mean anything can happen, of course — but wouldn’t health-care privacy laws prevent that here? If so, that would be interesting in terms of contact tracing. Like, if an official agent contacted me (I live in the U.S.) because I had been around someone who tested positive, would I be told who it was, or would I just be asked if I had been at a certain place at a certain time?
@anon29537550 (or anyone familiar w/ contact tracing in the U.S.) do you know how that works?
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Hopefully they’ll find the assailant.
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HIPPA would make this absolutely not happen here. The fines involved would be ruinous, even before you got the civil suits.
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I’m just amazed the Jamaican government allowed a test taken by Bolt to be positive in the first place. Let alone that they let the result out.
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It CAN happen in the US, but it is a crime. The way our software systems work, they can monitor logins to see which patients’ records are accessed by whom, and if you don’t have a reason to be looking in on those records, you end up in a world of trouble.
That’s not publishing or sharing, mind you, just accessing them at all.
Hospitals monitor high-profile patients’ records access closely. They have even made honeypot, basically empty sets of records under celebrity names just to catch folks surfing for celebs.
That said, there are people who end up doing things very bad for themselves. You can find accounts of it online.
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It’s a Publix. There’s gonna be tape, as long as their cameras were operating properly.
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On the plus side for humanity, one less Facebook and Twitter account spamming GOP/GRU murder lies.
So, the idea that a biotech company is responsible for the virus is not completely without merit:
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