Coronavirus (COVID-19 Outbreak) (61 Viewers)

DAiDEViL

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Feb 21, 2015
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It seems we're on our way to get ass fucked (again). Two weeks ago we had like 150 cases per day and now it's 1500. We're already red listed in many countries. New measures are coming quite shortly so a lot of things are gonna get closed down earlier, etc.

Yay.
But hey,


You are still allowed to post on tuz!
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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It seems we're on our way to get ass fucked (again). Two weeks ago we had like 150 cases per day and now it's 1500. We're already red listed in many countries. New measures are coming quite shortly so a lot of things are gonna get closed down earlier, etc.

Yay.
Ride that Covid rollercoaster like a hooker on meth.
 

Quetzalcoatl

It ain't hard to tell
Aug 22, 2007
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Quetzalcoatl

It ain't hard to tell
Aug 22, 2007
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"The lambda variant is alarming experts who fear, more generally, a return to lockdown era COVID-19 conditions"

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"The takeaway here is not that vaccines are somehow ineffective — indeed, if you get COVID-19, you are almost certainly likely to become less sick if you are vaccinated — but rather that lambda's very existence is a red flag."

What are they really saying though? If the vaccines are still protecting against sickness, why would there be "a return to lockdown era COVID-19 conditions"?
 

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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"The lambda variant is alarming experts who fear, more generally, a return to lockdown era COVID-19 conditions"

...

"The takeaway here is not that vaccines are somehow ineffective — indeed, if you get COVID-19, you are almost certainly likely to become less sick if you are vaccinated — but rather that lambda's very existence is a red flag."

What are they really saying though? If the vaccines are still protecting against sickness, why would there be "a return to lockdown era COVID-19 conditions"?
Yeah. It’s confusing. I think at one point they clarify that the lambda has more potential to evade vaccines than any previous variant detected yet, and the worry is that another mutation may eventually evade the vaccines entirely, including in terms of causing serious illness.
 

Dostoevsky

Tzu
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Quetzalcoatl

It ain't hard to tell
Aug 22, 2007
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Yeah. It’s confusing. I think at one point they clarify that the lambda has more potential to evade vaccines than any previous variant detected yet, and the worry is that another mutation may eventually evade the vaccines entirely, including in terms of causing serious illness.
I wonder what we will have to do then. I suppose keep updating the vaccines to keep up with the variants?

I also wish we knew how much protection against variants have people who have recovered from earlier strains. But probably that's not important to know, because vaccines are the only way out.
 

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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I wonder what we will have to do then. I suppose keep updating the vaccines to keep up with the variants?

I also wish we knew how much protection against variants have people who have recovered from earlier strains. But probably that's not important to know, because vaccines are the only way out.
Yeah, it’s a little bizarre that they have done so little research into protections against variants that antibodies from already recovering give people. You’d think it would be an important detail in the fight against Covid and could have allowed a more pinpointed vaccination strategy. It’s clear from the number of infections happening with delta that recovering from earlier variants doesn’t give everyone protection against catching it again or even getting very sick, but I’d imagine they would help for at least some people.

Oh well, vaccine boosters til our balls turn blue and fall off! :weee:
 

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