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    Corona Virus Disease/(SARS-CoV-2) II

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    8 minutes ago, Bosco-d-gama said:

    I hope that we can learn from the experience but.............. who knows. Everything has gotten so idiotic. If I can ask a favor......   when you say ‘the odds of dying are very low’ qualify the statement by adding that with the best modern medicine can give those odds are low. And when the medical systems get overwhelmed they do not work their best. And they are becoming very fragile in many places right this minute. I am very concerned about the next several months.

    Right again.  I've read we should expect a surge through January and the first couple of weeks in February.  After that, hopefully it begins to ratchet down, especially due to administration of the vaccines to the most vulnerable.  If we can keep them out of hospitals, things should begin to open up.

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    Corona Virus Disease/(SARS-CoV-2) II

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    45 minutes ago, Bosco-d-gama said:

    The media generally had and sustained and groomed a hostile relationship with the Prex from the outset of the covid19 outbreak. Rather than working to evolve a cohesive public health response all parties (Prex included) bantered and polarized every nuanced issue. Consequently covid19 became politicized and this clearly has greatly exacerbated the pandemic. The media intentionally chose to look for and exploit weaknesses and the Prex was/is a political novice (AKA an easy target). There are no winners when there could have been, and should have been, winners. Everyone loses, even the upcoming administration that now must deal with the covid19 conflagration. Stooping to play in the stupid sandbox is what happened........  and absolutely everyone gleefully participated.

    Right.  It seems to have started early, when the President downplayed it and said it will all blow over in a few weeks.  IIRC.

     

    He was called to task on that attitude, and everything offered to challenge him was shot down as fake reporting and part of a bigger plan to destroy him, politically.  

     

    The science hasn't been very precise in a number of respects, and this just fueled the disbelief.  

     

    To this day, there remain many who cling to their beliefs it was politicized and overplayed.  Full hospitals mean little to them.  The odds of dying from it are very low.  

     

    I will just be glad when things start returning to normal.  I'm optimistic that by early summer, things will be much better.

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    Corona Virus Disease/(SARS-CoV-2) II

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    Shortly after the first wave of vaccines went out, however, distribution hit bumps. More than a dozen states found they'd be receiving significantly fewer doses than anticipated—half or less of the expected volume—in the second week of vaccine distribution. States, naturally, asked the feds, and HHS's Azar identified the "core issue" as "Pfizer's ability to manufacture" vaccine fast enough around "production challenges."

     

    However, Pfizer in a statement pointed a finger squarely at the US federal government for the snafu.

     

    "Pfizer is not having any production issues with our COVID-19 vaccine, and no shipments containing the vaccine are on hold or delayed," the company said on December 17. "This week, we successfully shipped all 2.9 million doses that we were asked to ship by the U.S. Government to the locations specified by them. We have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse but, as of now, we have not received any shipment instructions for additional doses."

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    Wow!!!

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    Just now, MyOwn said:

    Going digital has absolutely screwed everyone....Couldn't do this with tubes, it would take to many tubes to store all this data.

    Tubes color the sound.

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    Corona Virus Disease/(SARS-CoV-2) II

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    2 minutes ago, Marvel said:

    It's amazing to me that people will refuse to get a vaccination.

    Feel free to go first.

     

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    In April 1955 more than 200 000 children in five Western and mid-Western USA states received a polio vaccine in which the process of inactivating the live virus proved to be defective. Within days there were reports of paralysis and within a month the first mass vaccination programme against polio had to be abandoned. Subsequent investigations revealed that the vaccine, manufactured by the California-based family firm of Cutter Laboratories, had caused 40 000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children with varying degrees of paralysis and killing 10.

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