Re: backwards and irresponsible savages, benighted with superstition and idolatry
TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2021
Your Moment Of Zen
by Atrios at 15:30
Have yet to see an African nation post the same fatality rates as the Putinsphere Pact nations, much less adjusted for GDP.
Also, posted this article previously but read it so fast I completely missed that footnote.
Go New Mexico!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/white-house-governors-call-johnson-and-johnson-vaccine-pause
“Look, if I could just be frank for the sake of time — the questions we’re receiving over the last few hours on this are significant,” Sununu told the federal officials, according to CNN. “It’s very easy for a governor to pause, and of course we’ll do that if it’s a CDC and FDA recommendation, but it’s very hard as governors to go out and explain that we’re pausing based on something that is, as according to Dr. Fauci, a one-in-a-million occurrence.”
Sununu added that the ability of governors to reinstill confidence in vaccines after the J&J news makes it “100 times harder than the pause in the first place,” according to CNN.
They should be pissed.
Vaccine policy
According to the tabloid Iltalehti, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare THL is to issue new recommendations on Wednesday on the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, particularly concerning age limits and booster doses.
Up to now, Finland has given the AstraZeneca vaccine only to people 65 years of age and older because of the rare risk of blood clots in younger age groups.
The paper pointed out that Yle reported on Monday that there may soon be a surplus of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Helsinki, but that these doses would remain in storage if THL does not revise its policy.
A similar risk of blood clots has also been found in use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Johnson & Johnson announced on Tuesday that it will delay deliveries of its vaccines to European countries.
Deliveries of 2.4 million doses of this vaccine to Finland were scheduled to begin early this month.
Finnish officials expect deliveries of all other types of vaccine to increase by the final week of this month. It is still uncertain when Finland may achieve herd immunity. Some health officials have estimated that it may reached in late August or early September.
THL’s chief physician Hanna Nohynek told Iltalehti that this will depend on vaccine coverage, what mutated viruses are in the population, and whether the vaccines are effective.
I had the misfortune of briefly being a patient of Michael Sharpe. His technique of using CBT to treat CFS felt like faith healing, where any lack of improvement was treated as a personal failing of the patient.
Now he’s trying to use the same “treatment” for long covid.
A nice deconstruction of a “masks don’t work” junk paper that someone was flinging around on Twitter.
https://www.amgenbiotechexperience.com/seeing-not-necessarily-believing
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2C10MU
It added that Brussels would rather focus on COVID-19 vaccines using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, such as Pfizer’s and Moderna’s.
Okay, these are two vaccines that have the most promise for developing nations and rural or “underserved” areas in wealthy countries: is this going to impact production scaling for them?
Still, Ertl has some doubts about these hypotheses. “Adenoviruses are extremely common and we have more than 50 serotypes that can infect humans,” she notes to Ars. “Most humans get adenoviruses over and over and over.” In all of her research and literature searches, she found no references of these blood clots after natural adenovirus infection. “So that makes me wonder about this particular explanation… Why on Earth does this only happen after you give it as a vaccine, but not after a natural infection?”
I think that headline can be a bit misleading the way it’s worded. These types of viruses are indeed very common. However up until now they haven’t been commonly used as a “vaccine ingredient”.
From the article:
In guess you could argue that they are a common vaccine ingredient, just not in distributed vaccines?
But using “common” instead of “very common” in the headline would both change the meaning (and I missed the “very” when I first read it) and make it more accurate.
First Moderna! Beginning of the end.
Like has been mentioned repeatedly here. Mixed feelings about going back. Saw some pictures of friends of mine gathering last night. A mix of fully vaccinated and those who don’t care, and I worry won’t get it. Going back is going to be weird.
After a pandemic-stricken year in which no Giants supporter entered Oracle Park, 7,390 were on hand for Friday’s home opener to celebrate the return of Giants baseball and a slight sense of normalcy. A capacity crowd, at 22 percent, would be about 8,900, but it is difficult to reach that number because if smaller parties occupy the socially distanced pods, the number naturally falls.
After the buzz for opening weekend wore off, though, the fans fell off. About half of that total was announced for Monday night’s game against the Reds, a noticeably sparser 3,662 to see the Giants fall.
As an employee at an in-person event organization in the Bay Area, definitely something I’ll be keeping my eyes on. It looks like a huge factor in attendance planning that most people have missed with all their social-distancing plans.
I think a lot of people are calculating, “We’d expect 60% capacity for this event normally, social distancing limits us to 30% capacity, so we should get 30%.” That may well not be the case.
Today I scored a vaccine appointment. It will be Moderna, and the first shot’s two weeks from now, at my local pharmacy (which is where I’d hoped to go.)
The delay is a mixed blessing: on one hand, I’m a little run-down at the moment, so I have a chance to build myself back up before the injection. But the wait has me impatient… I want to just get it done, not stew about it for fourteen days.
Mr. linkey and I just got our first shots today!
We had to drive an hour away, but totally worth it just to get it done. And everyone there was simultaneously efficient, kind, and grateful. In and out in about 20 minutes, including the 15 minute wait after.
So far no adverse effects (knock on wood). Just an overwhelming sense of relief that the end of this may be in sight.
Good luck to you all, wherever you are in the process. 
