SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Big corporations would be against whistleblower protections, regardless of what industry they are in, or if their products were currently of public focus.

 

The next variant: The new BA.2 omicron subvariant is already circulating in half of U.S. states

• The omicron subvariant, known as BA.2, is 1.5 times more transmissible than the original omicron strain, according to Danish scientists.
• The U.K. Health Security Agency on Friday said BA.2 has a “substantial” growth advantage over the original omicron, known as BA.1.
• Nearly half of U.S. states have confirmed the presence of BA.2 with at least 127 known cases nationwide as of Friday.

Bob Wilson

 

lol ... remember guys, moronic was supposed to give us "a winter of death" but it came and went like a bum looking for free dollars

 

been a lot of deaths here

 

Now I guess we're saying 'went' whenever a variant is overtaken by an even-more-transmissible variant.

 

new book out:

thevaccine

 

If you can't cure a disease, write a book. Wait, Pfizer isn't looking for a cure, are they?
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i'm sure lots of companies would love to find one, but it is probably more difficult than what everybody has come up with so far.
medically, prevention is probably easier and more important than cures

 

I don’t care because there would not be enough time to read it.

I prefer credible, empirical reports for the best approach. In contrast, Republicans should use FOX and other ‘skeptical’ sources.

Bob Wilson

 

They have an antiviral available under an EUA. For your cure, antivirals are probably the closest.
Pfizer Receives U.S. FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Novel COVID-19 Oral Antiviral Treatment | Pfizer

 

I just asked my wife and she said there are 3 or 4 treatments. I searched and further found this:


COVID-19 Therapeutics | HHS/ASPR


REVVL V+ 5G ?

 

That is good news. Just initially, like the first vaccines, there are likely to be supply chain challenges. Regardless, the vaccines appear to be effective in reducing the severity and risk of hospitalization and death.

Bob Wilson

 

Source: The Power of Boosters - The New York Times



Source_2: COVID-19 Incidence and Death Rates Among Unvaccinated and Fully Vaccinated Adults with and Without Booster Doses During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Emergence — 25 U.S. Jurisdictions, April 4–December 25, 2021 | MMWR

COVID-19 Incidence and Death Rates Among Unvaccinated and Fully Vaccinated Adults with and Without Booster Doses During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Emergence — 25 U.S. Jurisdictions, April 4–December 25, 2021

Weekly / January 28, 2022 / 71(4);132–138

. . .
During April 4–December 25, 2021, a total of 6,812,040 COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated persons and 2,866,517 cases among fully vaccinated persons were reported among persons aged ≥18 years in 25 U.S. jurisdictions; 94,640 and 22,567 COVID-19–associated deaths among unvaccinated and fully vaccinated persons, respectively, were reported by December 4 (Table 1). Average weekly, age-standardized rates of cases and deaths (events per 100,000 population) were higher during periods of Delta predominance and Omicron emergence than during pre-Delta and Delta emergence periods and were consistently higher in all periods among unvaccinated persons (range = 64.0–725.6 [cases] and 1.5–11.4 [deaths]) than among fully vaccinated persons (range = 7.4–230.9 and 0.1–0.7).
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Bob Wilson

 

who needs vaccines?
africa-may-have-reached-the-pandemics-holy-grail

 

Bisco - we pray you haven't joined the death cult - passing on stories like this ....

Tongue & cheek aside,
The Amish have done this as well ... but they didn't even do 5% vax. Time to duck back behind the couch.
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prevention is not profitable.

being a quarterly jab provider, heavily invested in importing of PPE though... very very profitable.

if only there was a pill you could take every single day, that would prevent SYMPTOMS of infection, that the govt forced everyone to take in order to be employed.... think how enticing that proposition would be.

it'll never happen though.

;-)

 

Bob,

That data is out of date as it was for a period before Omicron took over. We need equivalent data to see the effectiveness of the existing vaccines on Omicron patients.

JeffD

 

When your population's median age is 18 years, it probably weathers most infectious diseases well.

The Amish will see whooping cough, measles, and even polio more often than the rest of the population. If they did reach a herd immunity, and the evidence is antedotal, they paid a price for it in deaths.

Closed but Not Protected: Excess Deaths Among the Amish and Mennonites During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Death and religion: ‘Excess deaths’ sweep through Amish and Mennonite communities during COVID-19 pandemic | WVU Today | West Virginia University

 

Interesting .... it would follow then that the Africans would also have issues with whooping cough measles polio. Not a good tradeoff.