Interesting, but I have said often to not hang your hat on a single study. The outcomes are not directly comparable to the US, as Brazil’s healthcare system may be even more borked than ours, but the mechanism of action makes some sense. Although as I was reading it, I kept coming back to “modifies cytokine response, decreases clotting, yes, like ibuprofen does?” There may be a different mechanism of action in play, but I get increasingly frustrated at the focus on treating, when we need to be preventing. Sigh… Get vaccinated. That is the single most effective way to stay out of the hospital. Plain and simple.
28 Likes
19 Likes
15 Likes
With almost 71% of the population now full vaccinated and new daily cases at around 300 nationwide, the Government of Japan today agreed to a framework to start providing third doses to anyone who wants one eight months after their second dose.
13 Likes
15 Likes
Remember that surgeon general in Florida?
Here he is confirming he’s a jerk and causing most people to ask… No really, you’re a doctor?
7 Likes
Not good…
Original article, and I’m not sure the Guardian is quite getting the emphasis right:
https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s1473309921006484
Although vaccines remain highly effective at preventing severe
disease and deaths from COVID-19, our findings suggest that
vaccination is not sufficient to prevent transmission of the
delta variant in household settings with prolonged exposures.
If I’m reading the paper correctly:
- if you’re infected then your vaccination status doesn’t affect your ability to transmit the virus to the rest of your household.
- However, if an infected person is in your household, then you’re a lot better off being vaccinated than not. Being vaccinated reduces infection risk by nearly half, but you’re still at substantial risk having an infected person in close contact at home.
This is personally au courant. An anti-vaxx sibling of a friend is in hospital, having gotten the virus from the sibling’s younger child. Reactions by all are understandably conflicted.
Luckily we can set up an isolation unit in our house if we need it… 
Here’s hoping we pass through vaccination approval for younger kids in Ontario.
18 Likes
20 Likes
"It is important to me to communicate clearly and effectively with people. I can’t do that when half of my face is covered.”
I do this all day every day. It can be done, it must be done. And you, sir, are a fuckwit snowflake trying to kill people.
28 Likes
26 Likes
While I would love to say I am shocked, honestly, if you are in that headspace it makes perfect sense. You are convinced beyond reachability that the vaccine is a hoax, the illness is very preferentially hitting those who are unvaccinated, therefore, the only logical conclusion is that it is a conspiracy to eliminate conservatives! Q.E.D. And no, I cannot claim credit for this. I have seen the argument in the wild, presented as a serious proof that “they” are out to get “us” (Republicans) and that eliminating Democrats is therefore self-defense. Guys, it is going to get very ugly soon, I fear.
21 Likes
Further to the need for expedited vaccination of snot-nosed rug rats…
I’ve been waiting for our numbers to tick up here, but so far, no uptick, no downtick, and a very slow drop in the overall provincial case rates, even two weeks after Thanksgiving weekend.
Of course, if we get another flood of refugees from the 
that could change 
…
13 Likes
17 Likes
13 Likes
10 Likes
We shall see. The predicted shortage of cops in Boston wound up being one guy, the vast majority of people will get the vaccine rather than upend their lives.
24 Likes
The company I work at enacted a vaccine mandate. One senior engineer threatened his boss that he would retire if this shot was forced on him. She calmly asked if he would need help with the retirement paperwork, which BTW usually takes 90 days and he needs to be done by Dec 8th or he gets canned.
People are quickly finding out that they are not as irreplaceable as they think they are.
24 Likes
Cyber-catholicism is now a thing thanks to the pandemic
7 Likes
3 Likes
Statistically less likely to molest your children to boot.
9 Likes
