Blackhawk posted:

New Zealand's R value currently appears to be about 0.8, which is pretty good when delta's R0 is something like 6. Still even at 0.8 it's going to take us a longarse time to get back down to zero cases. I'm hoping the current R value is still a bit juiced by inter-household transmission and will go down again once it's burnt through all of the existing case family members.

mod sassinator posted:

you have the luckiness of people experiencing their first lockdown in a long time and actually taking it seriously. i had to laugh watching some hiker youtuber from NZ who was posting videos all about "oh my gosh look at lockdown, haha zoom with friends... kick back and watch TV all day! this is awesome!" you've got about a month where people will put up with and do that willingly. hope you can get things under control in that time. that's the one shot you get basically

quote:

Washington — Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former head of the Food and Drug Administration and a member of Pfizer's board of directors, predicted Sunday that the drug company's COVID-19 vaccine could be available to children younger than 12 by early winter, a crucial development in the nation's vaccination efforts as kids return to the classrooms.

In an interview with "Face the Nation," Gottlieb said Pfizer will be in a position to file data with the FDA at some point next month, and then submit its application to expand its emergency use authorization for its vaccine in children 5 years and older as early as October.

"The agency will be in a position to make an authorization, I believe, at some point, late fall, probably early winter," Gottlieb told "Face the Nation. "And probably they're going to base their decision on what the circumstances around the country, what the urgency is to get to a vaccine for kids."

quote:

Fears are rising that a new strain of the Delta variant of Covid-19 has emerged among festival goers after an event attended by 53,000 revellers in Cornwall led to sharp spike in cases among younger people.

With this Bank Holiday weekend witnessing the highest number of music lovers flocking to festivals in 18 months, Public Health England (PHE) is understood to be investigating a possible new Delta strain that may have emerged from the Boardmasters festival in Newquay two weeks ago.

A senior official working on pandemic response in the south-west of England said many of the infections among young people in the region had been identified as coming directly from the festival in Newquay, which now has the highest rate of infection in England at more than 2,000 per 100,000 people.

The source told i: “It was traced because they can identify where it came from by genetic changes in the code.”

While it is being referred to among hospital staff in Devon and Cornwall as the “festival variant”, it is believed to be a new strain of Delta rather than an entirely new variant. Delta already has around a dozen different strains.

super sweet best pal posted:

The Cornwall corn army is no match for a COVID warrior.

mod sassinator posted:

gottleib, member of pfizer's board, is signaling winter for child vaccine availability: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-gottlieb-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-fda-children/

really pretty ridiculous no one can come out and say a solid date. just loving spill the beans, is it looking like december 1st? stringing people along with "we're going to file in october" means nothing

McNugget Buddy posted:

Maybe they're timing it out so kids get all get their shots on Christmas break

First day of Winter is 12/21

silicone thrills posted:

My last remaining lib friend flew to Spain for vacation this week Lmao.

He and his partner went to nola in March and got their j&j shots there. Not on purpose. Just coincidence.

He has insisted over and over to me that he is "being safe "

Safe. Safe. So safe. Safely

mod sassinator posted:

we might have our next delta variant right here: https://inews.co.uk/news/health/boardmasters-festival-new-delta-strain-cornwall-event-1172393

razorscooter posted:

inferis posted:

tough job working at the enumclaw tractor supply

Tzen posted:

then again,
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1432201185033863170

pancake rabbit posted:

been following the ida news today and i just realized that i had forgotten about the pandemic

like my brain is currently incapable of holding the reality of those two disasters happening at the same point in space and time

lol, and also lmao

piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing

Salt Fish posted:

What kind of paste do I eat for a hurricane?

pancake rabbit posted:

been following the ida news today and i just realized that i had forgotten about the pandemic

like my brain is currently incapable of holding the reality of those two disasters happening at the same point in space and time

lol, and also lmao

piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing

Salt Fish posted:

What kind of paste do I eat for a hurricane?

Tzen posted:

then again,
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1432201185033863170

Koirhor posted:

gonna put 5th wave on my schedule for Jan/Feb

Shiroc posted:

I keep trying to communicate to people how hosed up I am from my likely previous covid but they don't care. Even when I was directly dealing with it, it was the most sick I have ever felt and absolutely loving miserable. The lies about how vaccinated people won't get it and if they do it will just be a cold is a soothing reality that absolutely will not be abandoned until every single person gets it themselves because even seeing people near them getting sick is just considered the limited exception that you can't worry about.

Shiroc posted:

I keep trying to communicate to people how hosed up I am from my likely previous covid but they don't care. Even when I was directly dealing with it, it was the most sick I have ever felt and absolutely loving miserable. The lies about how vaccinated people won't get it and if they do it will just be a cold is a soothing reality that absolutely will not be abandoned until every single person gets it themselves because even seeing people near them getting sick is just considered the limited exception that you can't worry about.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

This thread is getting worse than the climate change thread lmao, God drat. It's going to be a rough winter.

Tzen posted:

it sucks that people don't give a gently caress, or even write off experiences of those they are close to
just all around hosed

lol esp when it's all baked in, just nothing to be done at this point, no one in power is going to do anything
just all around hosed

Lacrosse posted:

Cup Runneth Over posted:

This thread is getting worse than the climate change thread lmao, God drat. It's going to be a rough winter.

Hexigrammus posted:

It's kind of awesome, isn't it?

Blackhawk posted:

New Zealand's R value currently appears to be about 0.8, which is pretty good when delta's R0 is something like 6. Still even at 0.8 it's going to take us a longarse time to get back down to zero cases. I'm hoping the current R value is still a bit juiced by inter-household transmission and will go down again once it's burnt through all of the existing case family members.

Hexigrammus posted:

It's kind of awesome, isn't it?

Tzen posted:

lol esp when it's all baked in, just nothing to be done at this point, no one in power is going to do anything
just all around hosed

Delta-Wye posted:

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1367668000346828806

quite contrary! everyone in power is working very hard, very diligently, in service of virus.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

This thread is getting worse than the climate change thread lmao, God drat. It's going to be a rough winter.

mod sassinator posted:

gottleib, member of pfizer's board, is signaling winter for child vaccine availability: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-gottlieb-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-fda-children/

really pretty ridiculous no one can come out and say a solid date. just loving spill the beans, is it looking like december 1st? stringing people along with "we're going to file in october" means nothing

LionArcher posted:

nah. both threads are great and make me laugh a lot. I know winter will suck, so video game backlog, a weight loss goal and a ton of work to build my business here I come. spring will be here before we know it, and another million or so dead.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Oh my God I had no idea it was a quote

Chamale posted:

I'm being way too risky at outdoor events with double vaccinated people. Those are the events I can set up to not have to actively enact precautions while talking to people, but at the current case rate it's not entirely safe for a group of vaccinated people to eat at a picnic table together. Ugh.