Looks so far like the vaxxes pretty much work.
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This is a huge thing. I suspect the right wing machine will try to portray this as a bad thing. It is not. It is one of those rare, unalloyed good things. Yay!!
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This, however, is a very bad thing.
COVID burden shifts to younger Americans with older generations vaccinated - ABC News (go.com)
The very end of this graph demonstrates the effectiveness of the vaccine (old folks are not being severely affected nearly as much) as well as the scariness of the new variants, with young people being more severely affected.
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Yes, but OTOH, as noted above by @vermes82, vaccines are working against variants in Uusimaa, soâŚhope lives!
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Same happened in Germany. For some reason, this does not get through, and everyone and their dog wants to end contact restrictions, wants to do away with restrictions for fully vaccinated people, wants to open up shops, outdoor dining or even restaurants altogether, etc.
Talked to two teachers today. One was describing how his students post pics on Instagram, hosting cocktail parties. And told me yeah, sure, canât blame them, would have done the same at their age, back in the day we told the authorities literally to piss off if they arrived at our parties.
The other one told me his students (age group 15-25, itâs a Berufsschule) donât want to get vaccinated. Like: 90 % of them are violently opposed to taking the jab. Claiming all sorts of worries. Impotence, among them.
This, together, makes me doubt weâre on a good way. Even though a lot of good news come in, like thr BioNtech / Pfizer application for younger people.
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Iâd probably clarify that âyoung peopleâ is all relative, as the hospitalization rate for the 0-4 and 5-17 cohorts in that chart is thankfully still quite low. At first glance I didnât even see the lines for those groups.
How much of the discrepancy between the oldest and middle-tier cohorts can be explained by the fact that older folks got their vaccines earlier, and also have a higher rate of full vaccination? New variants that affect younger people may be part of the story, but this kinda looks to me more or less like the results you would expect when the oldest people are the ones prioritized in the initial vaccine rollout.
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They donât clarify this, and unless you sort out vaccinated vs unvaxxed I donât think you can. The fact that the 18-64 peaked and dropped might represent vaccine impact, but the peak is in raw numbers, not percentages, which says to me that the new variants might be more effective at putting young folks in the hospital. Interpretations will vary, though.
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Thatâs a bummer. One worries about even those dogs that are kept and how they will deal with the stress of their owners being gone again after having been used to them being home most of the time for more than a year.
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Got my dose 2 of Pfizer on Tuesday. First dose was pretty uneventful. My arm hurt for a few days but was otherwise fine. I was warned repeatedly that the second dose is the doozy. I wasnât disappointed.
Tuesday night before bed, felt fine other than minor aches. Later, I couldnât sleep. Constant tossing and turning from worsening aches, and I was extremely cold when I generally sleep really hot. Wednesday I felt awful from lack of sleep, body aches got much worse, chills got worse. Slept ok because I made sure to add extra layers. Thursday I felt freezing cold (for most of the day) and boiling hot (in the evening). Actually slept ok.
Today, Friday, I feel perfectly fine (well maybe not fine, but pretty much what I consider ânormalâ).
What a ride.
Still, beats getting COVID.
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Huzzah!
We celebrate Maccination day for our pod (poor Ratel kit excepted) tomorrow with two weeks post my wifeâs second.
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oh sure, keep shifting those goal posts biden.
( oh wait. thatâs a good thing? nevermind. )
ive got my second pfizer dose scheduled for this weekend. very happy!
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Hooray!
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Pets are like children. Youâre not supposed to be able to give them back.
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