Anecdotes. It’s rare, but it definitely happens. And it is avoidable. And it breaks my heart.
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Hmm…given vaccination rates; I’m going to say that a lot of people are lying.
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It’s like a headline from the “upside down world” version of The Onion.
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I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that unregistered people/independents were the least likely to be vaccinated, for a variety of reasons. People who can’t find the time to vote are also less likely to find the time to get vaccinated. People who distrust the government are less likely to vote or get vaccinated, etc.
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Might boil down to this:
I haven’t had time to read it, but that’s what I gathered from tweets of some people whose judgement I think I can trust.
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There is no way of convincing them with this kind of argumentation.
The burden is on them to explain why vaccination could be “bad” given that the kids are going to get an uncontrolled full infection with SARS-CoV-2 with nearly absolute certainly at a point in their life. With the bonus of possible mutations, and a much higher possibility to pass it on to more vulnerable people.
The vaccination is much safer even without this additional giveaways. And it isn’t a “full” infection, it just presents a part of the virus “ID card” to the Immune system so it can be controlled.
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Gett’r done! (Vaccinations, that is.)
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There is relatively little statistical (as opposed to anecdotal) evidence for this:
(Dr. Ladhani is a senior doctor at St. George’s Hospital in London, which is one of the UK’s specialist centres for paediatric infectious diseases).
If you want to see US data, in Tennessee the infection hospitalization rate for people aged 0-20 hasn’t really changed since February:
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Strange goings on with the Ontario 
“Science Table” advisory panel.
Dr. Peter Juni, also a Science Table epidemiologist, is sending reassuring messages about the modelling and pending school re-opening; he’s a voice I certainly respect in all of this. The column (below) by Bruce Arthur, The Star’s consistently sensible and eloquent COVID reporter, was not positive about Dr. Fisman’s resignation. That column reveals that my wife and I are not alone at looking at the rising COVID numbers and feeling a sense of blind panic at the idea of sending our kids off to high school this year.
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Sympathize, but I would counsel strongly against blind panic in any situation. It leads to bad decisions, especially when (like now) there is no “good” or “right” decision, you can only try to make the least bad one.
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Looks like it took less than a day on the job for Hochul to have drama with folks in her previous congressional district hahah
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With every day and every new report, I feel more and more that this is very much a long-term thing, something that will not “end” or “go away” in the conventional sense. Perhaps the best we can do is to make serious illness and death a rarity through widespread vaccination and better treatment.
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I haven’t seen this in quite a while, but I am now getting parents refusing to have their kids tested for covid because if positive, it would mean that either the kid has to be out of school, or the parents will have to miss work. Or both. Yeah, this is not going to end any time soon.
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let’s hope that’s true. last year, kids got to stay home, now they are being put in close spaces together - and in many states, with no masking or any other protection.
i do take some issue with “rate” in that tweet. it’s not clear what that means. it could mean “risk per kid” but i think it does not. i think it means growth rate. which doesn’t really tell us much about risk. that would only mean the time that it takes for something to spread.
absolute numbers oto are absolutely meaningful as each digit means a real child, now hospitalized.
packing kids together in schools without protections is a bad bad idea. that was the core of my point, and it still stands
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This might be the saddest kind of unvaxxed. Not willfully, just didn’t think it was important enough to adjust his schedule for. Damn, that sucks.
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“ Findings from lab tests on blood samples from 600 of these volunteers, published as a pre-print by The Lancet medical journal, suggest:
- 40% have a sub-optimal antibody response after two doses of either the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccine
- Of those, 11% fail to generate any detectable antibodies four weeks after two vaccine doses - many were patients with vasculitis on the drug rituximab
But 60% had antibody levels comparable to healthy young people and all of them had optimal levels of another type of immune cell response - T cells - that can clear coronavirus infection from the body.”
Seriously consider getting that third shot if you’re in this group.
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