Also, from a medical economics standpoint, elective surgeries generate the income that keeps everything else going. ICUās for all their insane billing consistently lose money, pediatrics always loses money, EDās lose money, trauma surgery loses money. Elective surgeries and pharmacy keep everything going. When UVA shut down elective surgeries, all the HCWās either took furloughs or pay cuts to keep going. Itās a huge deal when that happens, it says things are exceptionally bad.
Shit, thatās new. Had not previously seen the data on a mutated spike. If it is sufficiently different to get around the vaccine, itās a problem. The mRNA based vaccines can be adapted as quickly as the new sequence can be identified, but it would bode ill for any rapid progress if it can adapt that quickly. Canāt say if it is related, but identifying this so soon after initiation of a wide spread vaccine program is concerning.
When Tom Cruise is wrapping up a movie, there is always a PR story. This is one of them.
Pediatricians and the PromoVac program to gently overcome vaccine hesitancy, and adapting it to C-19.
Behheh, I would be too likely to yell āWhat, are you nuts?!ā
Logistics. Something the military is good at. And has the resources.
As to what went wrong: āamount of manufactured vaccineā does not equal ādoses that are ready to be releasedā. There are quality control and sterility tests inbetween, and that takes time.
We tried that with Trump supporters. It didnāt work at all.
yeah, i hear that part. but civilians are supposed to be in charge of the military so when the military is operating domestically, headed up by military personnelā¦ it seems profoundly anti-democratic.
fema generally responds to national disasters ( supported by the national guard when needed ) and the usps proves its domestic shipping logistics power every day. thereās also lots a ton of existing agencies already work directly with hospitals and university ā the cdc and hhs for instance. so, thereās plenty of civilian agencies you could put at the top.
i wonder if it was a democrat who started this ball rolling if things would be playing out differently. and itās surprising ( well, not really ) that the party of ājade helm is coming to git usā would be so happy with the army taking charge.
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As to what went wrong: āamount of manufactured vaccineā does not equal ādoses that are ready to be releasedā. There are quality control and sterility tests inbetween, and that takes time.
while true, my understanding was that according to pfizer it was all ready to go. it was just that basically nobody picked it up. the army is falling on the sword becauseā¦ trump sure isnāt going to.
Shit. Canāt imagine that fuckers idea of law is any less public spirited than their attitude to public health.
Would not like to be judged by them.
Hooray for capitalism.
This is not an āaccidentā. This is not āunfortunateā. This was utterly predictable and completely deliberate.
Indeed. Not only was it predictable, it was predicted in the Spring by many observers and prison system officials did basically nothing except let a few white collar criminals out of jail and left the rest to rot.
Great, death by nepotism. /s
The mutations weāve seen previously have been along the base/midsection of Spike (strengthening it against flopping over), while the vaccines work at the binding surface. (The mRNA vaccine causes cells to produce viral antigens, which the helper and killer cells pick up and then target the Covid-infected cells by recognizing the spike surfaces).
I have not yet heard the mechanics of this variant, but they in the UK say it does not make people sicker, although it is more infectious. This fits with previously observed mutations this year. My guess, with about 50-75% confidence right now, is that itās another base structure variant, which would mean the vaccines will still work. The investigations should give us more info within a few days.
Pretty much
