You mean Airdrop? The receiver has to be dumb enough to allow everyone to airdrop to their iDevice (default is Airdrop is off).
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Smacking forehead
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Sorry, Iâm driving right now. Who is this?
Hey, what on earth does âIMRBWSNâ mean?
âŚWho is this?
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so far as i understand the vaccines provide a wider immune response in most people than does exposure to covid itself.
so if youâre vaccinated, youâre much less likely to become sick and at least some what less likely to transfer covid to someone else ( versus people who have never been exposed and versus people whoâveâ been sick )
i wouldnât expect that to change at all. it just might be a matter of degree of how helpful the vaccines are
in a practical sense - and maybe more to your point? - it seems best to assume that omicron is at least as bad as all the rest until enough time has pased that thereâs solid data for the medical community to examine
even if itâs radically less harmful, the vaccines will still help keep people at the statistical edges from getting seriously ill.
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Someone asked why state medical boards arenât doing anything about covid disinformation from docs? Maybe this is why:
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Two of the worst counties in NY for infection rates are set to defy enforcing the renewed mask mandate.
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Not great news unfortunately.
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Or even 1.4 million if the excess death number is any indication.
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It never comes aloneâŚ
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Got the booster!
We did a mix-and-match, getting Pfizer after the two Moderna doses.
The person in scrubs that was doing the check-in tried to dissuade us from mixing. She said,âYou know youâre letting yourself be a science experiment, right?â
âWe all are,â I responded to the dicknoser.
She later decided to read the information sheet to us as we waited. In both English and broadly-Midwestern-accented Spanish. With the mask continuously slipping down to her chin, and her pulling it back up to under her nose.
Iâm still going to mask everywhere indoors, and anywhere outdoors where there are people nearby. Iâm looking forward to another winter without getting everyoneâs flu, cold, and respiratory viruses.
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This! I donât think Iâm ever going to want to be without masks in the winter again, even if/when we reach a point of whatever ânormalâ will be. Iâm starting to feel about masks like I did about baby wipes after I had a kid: how did I live without them before?
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Hereâs a more technical summary of the Oxford report and links to the report itself, plus the South African report from Wednesday December 8th. Both are studies of how the antibodies in blood of vaccinated or recovered individuals neutralize Omicron COVID-19.
As previously reported, this Oxford study measures the AstraZeneca vaccine to be essentially ineffective against Omicron COVID-19 (see diagram last page) and the Pfizer vaccine effectiveness greatly reduced. The Oxford study talks about the need for a multi-strain (multi-valent) vaccine in future, similar to how flu shots are manufactured.
The Oxford study cites the following one, led by South African scientists. This SA study addresses the Pfizer vaccineâs effectiveness only, which is estimated to be reduced 41-fold in tests; in practice this indicates a 22.5% (8.5 to 40.7% at 95% Confidence Interval) effectiveness against symptomatic Omicron COVID-19. The authors state this is still likely above the threshold sufficient to provide protection against severe illness.
Remember: âsevere illnessâ is discussed here in terms that reflect immediate impacts. This does not consider the very real potential for debilitating long-term effects.
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Thatâs just the one I had. My booster dose is scheduled for January. It must be Pfizer, which is now the most common vaccine here.
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