Maybe, but I think that’s unlikely (you are more likely to get a bigger immune response sooner after the first one, than much later after your system may have forgotten some things). Still, the alternative isn’t so hot right now either, and there’s good reasons biologically to think it would work well with a delayed second dose.
So which is it going to be - the experimental group in the UK with a single dose, or the control group in the US where half as many people get vaccinated? There’s no time to run another 6 month phase 3 trial - everyone will have gotten a vaccine or the virus by then.
Rules for thee. Canadian politician tells everyone to stay home, fakes photos showing him doing homey things, actually vacationing for weeks in the Caribbean.
Ontario’s finance minister, shared a Christmas Eve clip of himself in a sweater, sipping eggnog in front of a fireplace, and thanking Canadians for avoiding nonessential travel during the holidays. Other posts on his Twitter account also suggested that he was homebound in snowy Ontario, including a Dec. 17 photo of himself pouring Canadian maple syrup over pancakes and one about visiting local businesses on Christmas Eve.
If only our politicians were thrown out of office for their blatant disregard for their own policies… I guess Newsom has a recall petition, but I’m not holding out much hope for it.
Fascinating article on how horseshoe crab blood is used to "detect toxins in everyday medical products: saline drips, flu shots, heart stents. The crab blood has been the worldwide testing-standard for decades, saving countless lives from infection by screening everything from insulin shots to breast implants.
And now the coronavirus vaccine."
It’s a good reason to keep our waters clean, regulate coastal development, and reduce pollution.
They tested people before they got each shot and were able to find a few dozen cases of people who had no symptoms but tested positive at their shot 2 (anyone who reported possible symptoms in the interim period would have been tested right away). Looks like about 2/3 fewer asymptomatic cases in the vaccine group, and possibly that falls even more after the second dose.
Horseshoe crabs are very interesting creatures. They use, among other things, copper-based blood for oxygen transport rather than iron-based like most creatures. They also have some weird immune system things, as mentioned in your article.
“The figure underscores the need for individuals to continue to protect themselves for weeks after being inoculated, as the body takes time to develop effective antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19.”
"…This is why the second dose of the vaccine, given 21 days after the first, is critical: It strengthens the immune system’s response to the virus, bringing it to 95% effectiveness and ensuring that immunity lasts. This level of immunity is only reached about a week after the second dose — or 28 days after the first.
Anyone who is infected a few days before getting the vaccine’s first dose or in the weeks before full effectiveness is reached is still in danger of developing symptoms. (Even when the vaccine reaches its top potential, there remains a 5% chance of this.)"
"Another matter to note is that studies have not yet determined whether the vaccine allows a person to carry the disease and spread it, without getting sick: It is possible that while one’s body would be largely protected from the virus after vaccination, mucous layers in the nasal passages, beyond the reach of antibodies, could still harbor multiplying virus particles.
While these would not harm the carrier — as any virus that enters deeper into the body would swiftly be destroyed by the trained immune system — they could still be expelled through the nose and mouth and infect others."
Yes, it bears repeating that it takes about two weeks to develop your immune response from the vaccine so you are very much at risk for the first two weeks and still somewhat at risk until two weeks after the second shot.
Hopefully there weren’t illegal orders to delete records and a commission similar to 9/11 commission can develop some lessons-learned in a retrospective so we can avoid similar tragedies in the future.
In a statement to The Times, a White House spokesperson said that the conversation with Kushner “never happened.”
Nor do they cite any sources (the Business Insider rag cites the NYT, who cites no one), so par for the course for a hit job. So, fake news from the NYT to make Trump look bad, or a fake denial, or both?
The hatred at the NY Times for Trump is akin to that we witness here from Bend3r, though perhaps even more intense.
Last evening on the PBS NewsHour their old liberal news reader, Judy Whatshername, interviewed a NY Times “expert”. The idiot openly criticized President Trump because of his failure to receive, on camera, an inoculation against COVID-19 in order to set a good example as other leaders have done.
Only a few days ago Judy mentioned this same matter while interviewing Dr. Fauci. He correctly responded that the President is not a candidate for any vaccine at present and must wait. Do you think Judy might have mentioned that to the NY Times jackass know-nothing? Of course the answer is “no”. Nothing whatsoever positive or exculpatory regarding President Trump is permitted to be aired on the PBS NewsHour. They are frauds. The NY Times guy was either a fraud or just plain stupid.
I switched channels right after that incident. Judy and a NY Times “expert”: what a couple of dopes, with their hated hanging thick in the studio.
our family payment did too. Quicker but I’m bummed that I filed my 2019 return (2018 income was lower) I wonder if they would have used 2018 like they did last time.
The Trump administration has had almost a year to design and implement effective plans. At the end of Trump’s term, it’s not only getting worse, it’s the worst ever, and extremely bad. Would anyone have predicted ten months ago that the pandemic in the US would be much worse at the end of the year while better in most other nations?
Well, yes, health professionals predicted that without adequate preventive measures and good leadership it would get much worse. Especially when you have the nation’s leader claiming alternately it’s a hoax, don’t wear masks, and that he’s handled it better than anyone else possibly could. A lot of dead and sick people would disagree with that.
How not to speed up vaccine rollouts, the UK / NHS edition.
Retired doctors and nurses answering the call to enlist complained they were ordered to show 21 documents including proof they had been on courses to combat racism and terrorism. They also had to prove they had competence in fire safety, conflict resolution, human rights and data security. They branded the system ‘ridiculous’ and ‘impossible’, while doctors’ leaders demanded a re-think.
Yes, the left wing media has frequently mentioned this to make Trump seem weak or unwilling to get the vaccine. For example, here is the AP.
[Trump] hasn’t said when he will be inoculated… ”It will be enormously damaging to public trust in the vaccine if President Trump isn’t visibly enthusiastic, including getting his shot on national television,” [some leftist jerk public health prof] argued. “It simply isn’t good enough to have Vice President Pence as a proxy.”
This might be a reasonable critique if Trump hadn’t already gotten the virus and presumably has much better immunity at this point than he would get from the vaccine. First, why waste a vaccine dose on someone who doesn’t need it, when we have lots of people who do? Second, due to the monoclonal antibody treatment he received, the surgeon general said Trump shouldn’t get the vaccine for at least 3 months due to how those might interact.
But the left is more about scoring cheap political points in this pandemic than “following the science”, despite their rhetoric, and this is just one more example of that.
Correct. That is precisely the aspect Dr. Fauci mentioned when Judy Whatshername asked him about this. Not finding the hoped-for path to criticize and impugn President Trump, a disappointed Judy dropped the matter like a hot potato and quickly moved on to question Dr. Fauci about different matters.
For others:
Dr. Fauci was, of course, correct. If you have received monoclonal antibodies, be very cautious about submitting to vaccination too soon thereafter.