I wish I could say more. But I don´t know what´s going on.
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Pima County feeling their oats…
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Thank you for providing such a thorough perspective from Brazil. I don’t get much news from South America at all, much less from it’s most populous country.
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i’m so curious how this is going to work out.
just like people were touting mask exemptions due to asthma, there’s already a strong contingent claiming they can’t take the vaccine because allergies.
there are already doctors out there who will write you scripts for pretty much any drug you want, i can’t help but imagine that fake exemptions and fake paper are going to become a profitable industry soon.
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FTR, @DukeTrout : 2.7 million dose administered, 31 complications, of those 9 deaths. That’s the figures.
OTH, the public communication is still difficult to terrible. Media is a real problem, as are politician’s statements.
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This. Very much this.
@BakaNeko, your post are often a glimpse into another world, especially the ones in Brazilian português with or without your translation. When I have the time to process them, they usually lead to checking other news sources on Brazil.
Generally, this topic is the only one I keep opening on BB BBS nearly daily. Not much energy, and not much to contribute, to others. I check some national and international news on a regular basis, but the articles highlighted here help me to find relevant stuff I sometimes overlook.
One sad thing: I definitely don’t have the energy right now to read longer, more thoughtful pieces (like featured during the last year by, e.g., Ed Young or Kai Kupferschmidt. Even less so to distill some of the contents and highlight them here.
Sometimes, this happens here, and I am really grateful for that.
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It kinda looks like the new stage is there right now
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Anxiety was also common among younger adults, with two thirds of people under the age of 35 saying they or someone they knew had dealt with symptoms of anxiety.
I wonder if they have data on parents.
(Similar age group, at least among non-academics.)
TBH, I think parents are the ones who feel the immediate effects strongest.
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Not to single out Brazil, of course
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In my Nordic layman’s opinion, having already gotten AZ first shot, I think the whole thing was a ludicrous overreaction.
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I’m astounded by how short the mRNA sequence actually is for the Moderna Vaccine:
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So then the question is, how does that compare statistically to the control group. I’ve seen clinical studies halted due to complications, but usually they start right back up when it becomes clear that the control group has the same or higher rate.
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Seen this sort of statistical argument used in antivaxxer “literature” for years. Without citing at least population data, that is an utterly worthless statistic. Might suggest a real if very rare issue, might indicate nothing at all, impossible to interpret based on that though.
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Right? If the rate of complication is higher than the control or the demographic-matched population in general, then you have to weigh the benefit of the therapy against that risk. But there have been studies halted due to complications where they did the analysis and found the therapy group had a lower complication rate than the control in areas that aren’t in the therapeutic profile.
It may be normal to have 31 blood-related complications in that many people. It may be normal to have more complications in that many people.
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This was exactly the finding in the “deaths associated with HPV vaccine” scare of a few years back. When age-matched statistics were analyzed it turned out there was a slight decrease in deaths after getting the vaccine. (Since the deaths were overwhelmingly traffic accident and often drunk driving related, there has always been the suspicion that the statistics actually say something about parents who get their teens vaccinated, but that is unprovable.)
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When I read this interview, I didn’t understand what he was talking about. By my accounts, we are in the third wave.
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But look at Portugal, just look at them. What do they did to revert this world trend?
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