Schnorkles posted:

In general, I think most professional virologists, immunologists, etc. would recommend that the correct strategy is not to get in an arms race between our immune systems and a virus, but that appears to be what we're doing.

CottonWolf posted:

Have an EAVE II report.

https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/severity-of-omicron-variant-of-concern-and-vaccine-effectiveness-

It's been submitted to medRxiv, but I suspect that it's still rolling through the internal processes there. My experience is that medRxiv submissions can take multiple days to go live after you submit them, and half the time they then email you back saying that they won't put it up until you extend your ethics section.

Schnorkles posted:

In general, I think most professional virologists, immunologists, etc. would recommend that the correct strategy is not to get in an arms race between our immune systems and a virus, but that appears to be what we're doing.

Stereotype posted:

a million people infected a day yields 10k deaths a day at a 1% ifr so it’s pretty scary that the news is predicting that absolutely catastrophic scenario as if it is both acceptable and inescapable.

Golli posted:

It's a big drug, some people say its the biggest ever. You wouldn't believe how big. Many people are saying it.

(what does "big drug" mean in pharma-insider land?)

Schnorkles posted:

In general, I think most professional virologists, immunologists, etc. would recommend that the correct strategy is not to get in an arms race between our immune systems and a virus, but that appears to be what we're doing.

Animal-Mother posted:

My friend from India got the useless Astrazeneca vaccine and was kind of freaking out about how to explain the situation to the nice folks at CVS. I told him to just say he's un-vaccinated, since he essentially is. And he's not in an American database anywhere, as far as they're concerned, he's fully eligible for mRNA shot number one.

Golli posted:

It's a big drug, some people say its the biggest ever. You wouldn't believe how big. Many people are saying it.

(what does "big drug" mean in pharma-insider land?)

Stereotype posted:

a million people infected a day yields 10k deaths a day at a 1% ifr so it’s pretty scary that the news is predicting that absolutely catastrophic scenario as if it is both acceptable and inescapable.

E Depois do Adeus posted:

Google Butt posted:

so let me get this straight, antivaxxers on their death beds are going to be prescribed a pill that might actually do what they thought the vaccine would do? lol

Cup Runneth Over posted:

10% positivity rate is your answer right there

Schnorkles posted:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1473678437978148867

Thoguh posted:

They always seem to undercount the positivity rate too - my county health department has it's own COVID page and right now says we are at about 20% positivity rate for the last week, but if I go to the state page that has information by county it says we are at like 12% in my county for the last week. So 10% is probably a very optomistic count for the actual number.

Blitter posted:

Haha, remember Tom Peacock?

https://twitter.com/PeacockFlu/status/1473427698341060609

"(yet)"

TheLemonOfIchabod posted:

Got my illicit Moderna "booster" (a full shot) August 14 (first two Pfizer doses in March). Getting an actual Moderna booster tomorrow. Anyone see anything wrong with this?

Golli posted:

that's a 14 day positivity rate on the graph, so it hasnt caught up yet.

Grey Fox posted:

WarEternal posted:

This post was a while back but, I had a bout of 2 weeks of not being able to taste when I had bad pneumonia a few years ago.

I thought this would be well-trod ground by now but... Not being able to taste does not enable you to eat whatever you want, unbothered. It makes everything you eat an extremely loving unpleasant experience. I can't really do justice to describing it but it has nothing to do with lacking flavor and more the fact that it's just not at all what you expect putting something in your mouth and chewing it to be like. Everything is gross.

I can't even imagine what the people whose experience is, instead of no taste, everything has some vile flavor on top of it. Must be loving horrible.

Not being able to taste is a lot worse than you expect if it's never happened to you. None of it is really related to the fact that things don't "taste good". For instance, everything tasting like minute rice would be far preferable to the reality which is just a blank where taste should be.

Maybe it would be like if your vision was suddenly transformed into seeing everything in wireframe instead of your expectation of seeing everything in black and white.

Goreld posted:

The whole thing is a PR stunt, the same way that bragging about ventilator numbers is. You could build infinite hospitals and that wouldn’t solve a pandemic. Unless you put every person in one hospital each, I guess that would work.

Thoguh posted:

I’m sure Texas A&M fans will take this

https://twitter.com/rossdellenger/status/1473715507144675340?s=21

Shifty Pony posted:

I would like to get off Mr. Biden's Mild Ride.

T-Paine posted:

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1473680506579476487

Lastgirl posted:

if this is true then biden essentially condemned people to die

Hadlock posted:

Aren't the people most likely to get omicron first those taking zero precautions and have already had covid at least once? Presumably their natural immunity + the fact that they didn't die the first time sort of selects for people who will have non hospitalized covid this time around

The whole "it's mild" reeks to high hell of "don't cause a panic and run on the banks"

Also, I'm increasingly less confident in the biden administration's ability to lead through any other crisis that comes up. They're more concerned about electability in their actions than providing actual help; if you're not going to do anything while in power, might as well give up on doing things based on future elections

Goobish posted:

Yeah you must have missed the epic Winter of Death speech last Friday. Was pretty cool if you like blaming everyone else for things and also giving them Death.

Failed Imagineer posted:

Great to see a graph where the number is going down at last



Oh.