If your not-yet-vaccinated-but-eligible family members want Thanksgiving with your not-quite-yet-vaccinate-eligible children, remind them they have *just over 1 week left* to get a J&J shot in time for it to generate antibodies!
Shots in arms by Nov 10th or no turkey on Nov 25! pic.twitter.com/bbAx11Jvv7
— Dr Ellie Murray, ScD (@EpiEllie) October 27, 2021
Rates of Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths have sunk significantly in the US since a wave driven by the highly contagious Delta variant peaked in September. https://t.co/gqXMg6ltkn
— CNN (@CNN) October 28, 2021
On Sept 20, the US #Covid19 death toll topped 675,000, making it more deadly than the 1918 Spanish Flu in this country.
In the not-quite 6 weeks since, nearly 66,000 people in the US have died.
66,000 deaths in less than 6 weeks.
This is a disaster that could have been averted. pic.twitter.com/2Z30l7asSH— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 28, 2021
So far about 14.4M Covid booster shots have been administered in the U.S. 5.54M of them, or nearly 40%, have gone to people under the age of 65. https://t.co/kF9saQTdaM pic.twitter.com/gVjLw4lGAR
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 28, 2021
I’ll never give another interview to a Newsweek reporter for putting this fearmongering, anti-vaccine crap on its cover https://t.co/J4Vw8UgwP8
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) October 29, 2021
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Call for rich nations to airlift millions of surplus Covid vaccines https://t.co/Yl0HRuTJ7R
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 29, 2021
More than 160 former world leaders and global figures have called on the UK and other rich countries to immediately airlift millions of surplus Covid vaccines to less developed nations.
They say it would be unethical for doses to be wasted while thousands are dying with the virus every day…
While more than six billion Covid vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, they say 70% of these were administered by only a few countries and just 2% of people in low-income countries have received a jab.
The letter says that between them the US, EU, UK and Canada will have 240 million unused vaccines by the end of this month, which could be airlifted immediately to countries most in need.
Millions more vaccines should be transferred each month, totalling 1.1 billion in the next four months, it adds.
If this is achieved, it says the World Health Organization’s target for 70% of all adults to be vaccinated by spring next year can be met.
“Without a detailed plan, 100 million vaccine doses will have passed their use-by date at the end of the year,” the letter says.
“If we do not act quickly, that figure could exceed 200 million by the end of January 2022.”…
S.Korea eases curbs in first step toward 'living with COVID-19' https://t.co/tJlhrssZZF pic.twitter.com/66FY2DptKo
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 29, 2021
Japan looks likely to keep its borders shut for some time to come despite a plunge in virus cases. That's a hardship for many businesses that had come to rely on foreign tourism. https://t.co/h1FEIPI5eO
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 29, 2021
Malaysia to buy Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 https://t.co/8HOQe6qIsG pic.twitter.com/JrN19mLhts
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 29, 2021
Indonesia calls for vaccine equity after Covid toll https://t.co/vf8IQPQNBr
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 29, 2021
The island nation of Tonga has reported its first-ever case of COVID-19 after a traveler from New Zealand tested positive. Tonga is among the few remaining nations in the world that have avoided outbreaks of the virus. By @nickgbperry. https://t.co/tzlWmK811s
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 29, 2021
⚡ Russia on Friday confirmed 39,849 Covid-19 infections as well as a new record of 1,163 deaths https://t.co/IVyT7oPQwL
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 29, 2021
The international pollster published the results as Moscow and five Russian regions went into a partial lockdown Thursday, two days ahead of nationwide weeklong restrictions.https://t.co/P6Dvk9reQK
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 28, 2021
Even as a new lockdown begins, Conspiracy theories and fatalism are hampering a faltering vaccination push, reports @felix_lighthttps://t.co/0onybyDIqo
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 28, 2021
The German Hospital Association has warned that Germany has entered a "critical pandemic situation" as COVID-19 patients swamp hospitals.https://t.co/vbUryjCTYl
— DW News (@dwnews) October 28, 2021
All countries to be removed from UK's travel red list https://t.co/00TeoBZedm
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 29, 2021
No crowd surfing, orderly queues: Ireland lays down new COVID-19 rules https://t.co/dIKd6Sa8BG pic.twitter.com/Etgt6AFCPP
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 29, 2021
African health officials and the U.N. are warning of a looming syringe shortage for low- and middle-income countries around the world as the supply of COVID-19 doses rise. The shortage would affect up to 2.2 billion auto-disposable syringes. https://t.co/bKQV7Q1cGe
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 28, 2021
U.S. CDC extends conditional sailing order for cruises to January next year https://t.co/IhZMkDOHMs pic.twitter.com/JJhfhl0omf
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 26, 2021
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#COVID19 cases continue to decrease, but the overall level of community transmission is still high.
The 7-day average of daily new cases is 68,793, a 7.4% decrease from the previous week.
Get vaccinated as soon as you can!
More: https://t.co/FeTyQ7VQeP pic.twitter.com/PTn5ByMeSM
— CDC (@CDCgov) October 28, 2021
All three vaccines administered in the U.S. substantially reduced rates of cases and deaths, with some differences.
“The No. 1 take-home message is that these vaccines are still working,” said Dr. David Dowdy of Johns Hopkins University. https://t.co/lJWhgJucpI
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 28, 2021
Moderna mRNA vaccine provided strong protection against #DeltaVariant in a California prison outbreak. A report in the New England Journal of Medicine highlights vaccination's benefits based on outcomes at the prison known as the Sierra Conservation Center https://t.co/1SCYZdWiUN
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 28, 2021
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Dozens of recall elections are underway across the U.S. ahead of next week’s election. The efforts, largely led by those opposed to pandemic-related restrictions, illustrate the ongoing tension that has upended school board and city council meetings. https://t.co/EqMArtv1Ts
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 28, 2021
Unvaccinated workers say if their employer gave them the choice of getting a #COVID19 vaccine, doing weekly testing, or leaving their job, 11% would likely get the vaccine. (1% of all adults)
If no testing option were offered, that share rises to 17%. https://t.co/Mv4XH2mdVx pic.twitter.com/1huHwBy7wo— KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) (@KFF) October 28, 2021
Perspective: “I’m a Florida school board member. This is how protesters come after me.”
https://t.co/47dbDiDX6j— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 24, 2021
No, it's not a parody. My son is turning 12 tomorrow and he's going to get his vaccine that day. Nothing in this world is 100% effective, but we'll be very relieved. When the vaccine for younger kids comes out (soon!), his 8-year old twin sisters will get it too. pic.twitter.com/pp4QPDGL4x
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) October 28, 2021
What is wrong w/ people?
like srsly, what the fuk is wrong w/ people that they would ever produce a cover like this?
American children HAVE BEEN GETTING VACCINATED NONSTOP FOR CLOSE TO A CENTURY
but “many parents” have doubts abt Covid shot so we get this idiocy? https://t.co/5B5UNVKQBV
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 29, 2021
Anti-Vax firefighter protesting just interviewed on local news. Said he had a medical condition he should get an exemption for. Asked can't he just get a doctors note and guy responds "yes but it is really hard to get a doctor to sign one. They all want me to get the shot." pic.twitter.com/FuGOLLmyKr
— Kid Phantasm (@cbbruuno) October 28, 2021
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
Monroe County website: 224 new cases yesterday cases and NYSDOH says 232 new cases yesterday.
satby
??? telling the fool at work “who couldn’t wear a mask” to get a note from the doctor is how I got her in a mask last year. She’s since quit ??, but at least she got vaccinated when she was eligible.
Central Planning
My bigco just required everyone to be vaccinated or have a medical/religious exemption.
Predictably, crazy people are losing their shit… they don’t trust the company with vax status, just a step closer to totalitarianism, vaccines don’t work, vaxed shed more, and on and on
They don’t get that they are not entitled to their job, and they most certainly have a choice if they don’t want to get the shot.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 6,060 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, tfor a cumulative reported total of 2,460,829 cases. It also reports 95 deaths as of midnight, for an adjusted cumulative total of 28,769 deaths – 1.17% of the cumulative reported total, 1.20% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.95.
492 confirmed cases are in ICU, 208 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 7,297 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,361,919 patients recovered – 96.0% of the cumulative reported total.
11 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,763 clusters. 460 clusters are currently active; 5,303 clusters are now inactive.
6,047 new cases today are local infections. 13 new cases today are imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 147,242 doses of vaccine on 28th October: 18,493 first doses, 123,182 second doses, and 5,567 booster doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 49,581,855 doses administered: 25,431,328 first doses, 24,165,940 second doses, and 152,036 booster doses. 77.9% of the population have received their first dose, while 74.0% are now fully vaccinated.
Matt McIrvin
I’m dismayed by the extent to which media coverage of child COVID vaccination is focusing on parental fears while burying or erasing discussion of whether those fears are justified or not. I was hoping somewhere around half of parents would vaccinate their kids, and now I’m thinking it’s going to be a very low fraction because these news stories are just transmitting anxiety about the vaccine.
They say risk to kids from COVID infection is “low” and then give the impression, without saying it but implying it in a “many people are saying” way, that it’s lower than the risk from getting vaccinated, which is just nuts–unless there’s basically no community spread in your neighborhood, and there is community spread everywhere.
Chris T.
@Matt McIrvin: Some say … that on a full moon, the vaccinated turn into werewolves!
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Media has been antivax-curious for the last few weeks. I think the big city media people are feeling safe from Covid now.
Baud
@Chris T.:
But their hair was perfect.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Chris T.:
And that they spent all of last week fantasizing about feeding Tucker Carlson into a ham slicer.
All we know is … they’re a lot less likely to be felled by COVID-19.
satby
@Baud: but only in London. Over here, they’re a hot mess.
New Deal democrat
Well, cases turned *up* today nationwide, and yesterday was revised upwards as well.
The good news is that the nationwide upturn was entirely due to a CA data dump. And when the 800 pound gorilla has a dump, it’s going to smell everything up.
The bad news is that the confirmed uptrend has spread to several other States. CO, NM, and UT have been joined by MN and ND, and by slight upturns in IA, KS, and NJ. This may finally be the beginning of a winter wave.
lee
My wife and I got our 3rd shot of Pfizer yesterday. No we are not officially eligible but we are 6 months past our 2nd shot and have travel plans. CVS didn’t bat an eye at us signing up. The person giving us the shot asked us two questions “Do you have your card?” & ‘Which arm?”
My wife, as usual, feels fine today. I, as usual, feel a bit puny.
lowtechcyclist
Just a reminder that the Washington Post Co. sold Newsweek about a decade ago, and while it still tries to dress up as respectable, it’s basically a garbage publication nowadays. Whatever the faults of the MSM are (and they are many), I don’t think Newsweek’s coverage of anything would be an example.
Kay
@Matt McIrvin:
Child vaccination of all kinds have dropped:
If “orders for shots” = unvaxxed kids an 18% drop is big.
debbie
@Matt McIrvin:
Some clown in the Ohio legislature tried to introduce a bill ending mandates on ANY vaccines for children. ??♀️
mrmoshpotato
Fuck you, Newsweek.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie:
Obama’s WTF?
YY_Sima Qian
On 10/28 China reported 48 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic) & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 19 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 136 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic suspect cases in the region.
Xi’an in Shaanxi Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 26 active domestic confirmed cases in the region.
Gansu Province reported 12 new domestic confirmed cases (7 mild, 2 moderate & 3 serious). There currently are 75 active domestic confirmed cases (including 12 serious & 1 critical) in the province.
Hebei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 3 active confirmed & 3 active asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hunan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Zunyi in Guizhou Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 2 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
Beijing Municipality reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases (1 mild & 1 moderate), both traced close contacts. There currently are 27 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 1 community remains at High Risk & 1 community is currently at Medium Risk.
Rizhao in Shandong Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all traced close contacts. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed & 7 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 residential compound is currently at Medium Risk.
Zigong in Sichuan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city.
Qinghai Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
At Tianmen in Hubei Province there currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases (1 mild & 1 moderate) in the city.
Heihe in Heilongjiang Province reported 9 new domestic confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic), of the 6 new domestic positive cases 5 are traced close contacts & 1 is found at fever clinic. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 2 units in 2 separate residential buildings have been elevated to Medium Risk.
Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed cases (at Longchuan County, already under centralized quarantine). There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed & 27 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the prefecture.
At Fujian Province 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case remaining in the province, at Xiamen.
At Henan Province there currently are 5 active domestic confirmed cases remaining, all at Shangqiu.
Imported Cases
On 10/28, China reported 16 new imported confirmed cases (5 previously asymptomatic), 20 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:
Overall in China, 22 confirmed cases recovered (19 imported), 13 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (12 imported) & 8 were reclassified as confirmed cases (5 imported), & 837 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 801 active confirmed cases in the country (375 imported), 38 in serious condition (1 imported), 408 active asymptomatic cases (366 imported), 3 suspect cases (2 imported). 42,199 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 10/28, 2,254.252M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 3.332M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 10/29 Hong Kong reported 5 new positive cases, all imported (all had been fully vaccinated).
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kay: Oh great, now we’ll get a bunch of measles outbreaks along with COVID.
mrmoshpotato
@Central Planning: Fling them into the Sun. Say it’s your religious right.
mrmoshpotato
@Chris T.:
You and twenty million other vaccinated guys.
Kay
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I think we need to wait and see how if the anti-vaxx group of people has gone up, or if this is just a blip.
They’re recruiting anti-vaxxers with the covid vaccine hysteria. There will be more of them.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Ahwooooo vaccinated in London!
Kalakal
@debbie: We have a collection of elected imbeciles here in Florida who are spouting similar sociopathic garbage eg
“Sen. Keith Perry, R-Gainesville, filed a bill that would ban local governments from enacting mask mandates or requiring vaccines. Any vaccine. It’s very broadly written. It says, “A county or municipality, directly or indirectly, may not require that any citizen of the United States submit to any medical procedure or receive any medical treatment.” Any medical procedure? OK then, an end to all drug testing.”
Personally I love the way they all have “concerns” about “experimental/untested” vaccines because of something something genetics but are all for infusions of antibodies harvested from mice spleens and fused with myeloma cells or even yummier harvesting ascitic fluid from deliberately induced tumors in the peritonea of mice ( lets not even mention recombinant CRISPR tecniques). Natures way indeed
I really loathe these people
trnc
What’s the point of these polls anymore? It’s pretty clear that most of the people who claim they’ll quite their job over a vaccination requirement don’t follow through. I’m not surprised that some media outlets continue to beat that dead horse, but KFF?
trnc
@debbie:
I’m frankly surprised it took this long for one of them to get around to that. Of course, people who vote him in will be SHOCKED that the gov’t doesn’t help them more when their kids start coming down with every disease on the planet.
Soprano2
@Kay: I hope they aren’t successful with that. I think parents are much more concerned with diseases like measles and polio, and it will be a lot harder to persuade them not to vaccinate against diseases like that. I’m hoping that this is mostly about missed appointments due to Covid, and that there will be a catch-up period this year and next.
Soprano2
@trnc: Our paper had an op-ed by Vicky Hartzler (R-MO-Crazy) that claimed that millions of people are quitting their jobs over Covid vaccine mandates. There is absolutely no evidence of this being true, but they printed it anyway.
Matt McIrvin
@trnc: It’s very similar to people threatening to leave the country if political candidates they don’t like get elected. Some people do, but it’s a relatively small fraction and they tend to be the most comfortable segment of society who would have been in a good position to emigrate anyway.
Ohio Mom
@Kalakal: Are your descriptions of how anti-viral drugs are made with mice spleen cells accurate? If so, I am impressed beyond words that someone could think that up and know it would work.
Soprano2
I see that once again my area is making the news for embarrassing things. It’s the only way anyone even notices that we’re here. Now Nixa is known for two things – being the home of fictional character Jason Bourne, and trying to recall a good mayor because some MAGA’s are butthurt over his mask mandate last year. They think “the whole community” should have been involved in the decision. These people really do not understand the concept of representative government.
Kalakal
@Ohio Mom: It’s a basically accurate overview of how you produce monoclonal antibodies. The technology behind the production process is incredible. The basic theory dates back to 1908, it won the Nobel prize and at least 2 more Nobels have been awarded since. The process really began in the late 70s but has developed astoundingly in the last decade or so.
smith
I noted from LGM last night that DeSantis is predictably whining that he’s not getting nearly enough credit for valiantly defeating Delta in FL. Pay no attention to the more than 21,000 dead of covid there since July 1, by far the most in the nation, even when you adjust for population. That’s more than 2.5 times the number of Delta deaths in CA. And forget that most other states are also seeing declines in infection rates, only without so many dead people. And of course, the whining will probably work, and Politico will award him another medal.
Kalakal
@Soprano2:
so very true.
Kalakal
@smith: DeSantis is the guy that steals your car and then expects you to thank him because you’re spending less on gas
smith
@Kalakal: Yeah, I think it’s his chutzpah I resent more than anything else.
Matt McIrvin
@Kalakal: He’s Zapp Brannigan bragging about how he defeated the killbots by sending wave after wave of his own men at them until they reached their preset kill limit and shut down.
Sloane Ranger
Thursday in the UK, we had 39,842 new cases. This is a decrease in the rolling 7-day average of 9.8%. New cases by nation,
England – 33,903 (down 3599)
Northern Ireland – 1122 (down 169)
Scotland – 2153 (down 413)
Wales – 2664 (up 82).
Deaths – There were 165 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. The rolling 7-day average is up by 16.2%. 124 deaths were in England, 9 in Northern Ireland, 20 in Scotland and 12 in Wales.
Testing – 916,286 tests took place on Wednesday, 27 October. The rolling 7-day average is down by 8.3%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on this date was 877,520. We should start seeing an increase in testing from Monday, when English children return to school after half-term.
Hospitalisations – As of 27 October, 8914 people were in hospital and 945 were on ventilators. As of 24 October, the rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was up by 10%.
Vaccinations – As of 27 October, 49,838,202 people had had 1 shot of a vaccine, 45,627,499 had had 2 and 6,995,982 had had a booster shot. In percentage terms this means that 86.7% of eligible people had had 1 shot, 79.3% have had 2 and 12.2% had had their booster.
Emmyelle
“Balanced” journalism:
Mathematics strongly believe that two plus two is four.
But not everyone agrees.
Fuck these people. They gave us Trump.
Kalakal
@Matt McIrvin:
“Men, you’re lucky men. Soon, you’ll all be fighting for your planet. many of you will be dying for your planet. A few of you will be put through a fine mesh screen for your planet. They will be the luckiest of all.”
The Moar You Know
Newsweek has taken a hard right/Trumpist turn very recently. Wonder what that’s all about?
Emmyelle
I just will not understand why people are not terrified of COVID. Yes, I know a few people who got sick, pre-vaccine, and seem relatively ok. But I know more people who, a year later, still feel tired and a little less mentally sharp, and have strange new body aches. And then there are the nightmare stories of people who are more or less disabled. And then there are the seven hundred thousand, seven hundred thousand, and counting, who are DEAD.
And I’d love to go to a concert, or a conference, or a baseball game, without testing before durning and after, and without my glasses getting fogged up because of a mask, and without worrying about hugging someone.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 2,732 new COVID-19 cases reported today. The test positivity rate is 7.7%. There were 24 new deaths reported but note that Register Offices are generally closed at weekends. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 60 up three from yesterday while hospitalisations are 926, up one.
There were about 4,800 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Thursday) with about 40% of these being first vaccinations. 92.0% of 16+ adults are now vaccinated with their first dose and 85.8% are fully vaccinated. 75.2% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination and 53.5% of 12-15 year olds have now received their first vaccination.
There were about 28,500 booster vaccinations carried out yesterday in Scotland with a total of about 628,000 boosters to date.
On a personal note I’m just back from getting my COVID-19 booster vaccination, a half-dose of Moderna mRNA vaccine (my original vaccination was two doses of AstraZeneca about 11 weeks apart). This was a two-fer with a flu vaccination in the other arm in the same session. Both arms are slightly sore, the Moderna shot being a little more painful. I’ll hit it with some prophylactic paracetamol after I’ve had some lunch. The vaccination centre out by the airport was busy dispensing booster shots and I had to wait for over an hour to get serviced.
The Moar You Know
We had three people at the workplace decide that the vaccination thing was the hill they were going to die on. Two are gone.
The guy who lawyered up and was going to sue us because the government won’t take his religious exemption, and we can’t give him work that’s not in a government facility, is in the hospital with the COVID and “not doing well”. I hope he dies. Not kidding. Had enough of these people. He certainly didn’t care if he infected all his co-workers and they died (and he did infect his coworkers, but thankfully they were all vaccinated) so fuck him.
Matt McIrvin
@Emmyelle: We had a society-wide freakout for ten years and permanent policy changes for 20 and counting because of a terrorist attack that killed as many people as COVID currently kills in the US every two days.
Matt McIrvin
@The Moar You Know: I see this as basically equivalent to saying the Second Amendment gives you the right to start spraying automatic weapons fire in a shopping mall. If you’re so scared, you can stay home, or wear one of those bulletproof vests that are supposedly so great!
smith
@Matt McIrvin: I think the Republicans’ ability to hype up so many rage monkeys in recent years is also a long-term manifestation of 9/11 psychosis .
Emmyelle
@The Moar You Know: if my young adult kid had said something like that six months ago, I would have expressed my disappointment with her and said something like “I know it’s frustrating, but..”
well, six months, one variant, and a gazillion dead people later, I’m with you.
Cermet
@Central Planning: Yet the company has their social security number, birthday, full name, address, and often family contact information but sure, they don’t trust the company for an irrelevant vaccination status – LOL. What a dumb fracker these people be.
Thor Heyerdahl
@The Moar You Know: comments on Twitter from the link above note the opinion editor at Newsweek is
https://twitter.com/lawbibliophile/status/1454000551922835463?t=txY6VTW6Ko2Nx9AhMtEW6A&s=19
Peale
@Soprano2: I hope so, too. But people are really bad about getting back on track with stuff like that. Because their kids didn’t get rubella two weeks after missing the shot, they’ll just assume that its not urgent to get the shot.
Taken4Granite
@Emmyelle: We have been seeing “Opinions Differ Regarding Shape of Earth” type headlines since at least the Bush 43 administration, so this is not a new thing. But it’s still frustrating. Too many journimalists pay no attention to facts.
Bill Arnold
CNN headline fail, Jason Hanna. The COVID-19 Delta wave peaked in certain pro-disease Southern Pathocracies[1], but so far hasn’t taken root in more Northern states as they entered their indoor season, because their populations are more vaccinated, and take NPIs more seriously, including masking, distancing and limiting social gatherings indoors (sometimes limiting to the vaccinated).
[1] Ruled by psychopaths.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Greece: still bad. Daily new cases are fluctuating between 2,000 and 4,000 (3,643 new cases today). Deaths are also climbing. Almost 90 percent of the 392 people in ICUs on ventilators are unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated.
They’re offering booster shots to people over 50 who had their shots over six months ago, as well as younger people with underlying health conditions. I’m nearly in the former category (second Pfizer shot was in early May), but because I got both shots in the US, my records can’t be added to the Greek system to prepare for eligibility for the booster. I’m actually still listed in the Greek IKA health system as unvaccinated and eligible.
There is a procedure for people who got their first shot overseas to get their records updated for eligibility for their second shot. It doesn’t work for the booster.
sab
@debbie: Not OT. And some people even among the jackalariat think term limits improves the quality of our legislators.
Chris T.
@Ohio Mom: It’s not just mouse spleens. It’s also Chinese hamster ovaries.
The boldface in the second paragraph here is mine. See this article in Nature.
rikyrah
@lee:
Yeah for the booster????
rikyrah
@Emmyelle:
I know that’s right??