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Corona Virus spreading ... US official says no need to worry

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Seems like a prudent thing for you.

While I happily got my first dose of the Moderna vaccine in January and was fully vaccinated in February, I have long maintained that vaccinations are an INDIVIDUAL CHOICE and should not be mandated. I'm one of those "at risk" people taking immunosuppressive meds and I'm immunocompromised, so for ME, it was an easy choice.

If someone has NO RISK FACTORS then there really is very little compelling health reason for them to get the vaccine. There may be family, travel, work or social reasons, but given that we don't know the long term effects of the vaccine, it is certainly logical that healthy people may choose to wait to get vaccinated, or forego the vaccine completely.

My hope is that:
1 - Ivermectin is proven to work. Either from the Uof Minnesota clinical study, or from experience on the ground in India. That would make for a cheap treatment in early onset Covid.​
2 - The drug from Israel is proven to work. Small initial trials show it very effective in late stage/serious cases of Covid.​

Having multiple drugs available as treatments may prove to be far better than having a vaccine.
Have not been tested but believe I may have had it, I service 10 facilities here in the Central Valley, every one of them told me a least 75% of the work force had got it and I interact directly with the workforce. Am I that lucky? There was a couple weeks a few months ago where I felt especially run down had some stomach issues along with congestion and cleared in about 10 days. Never had a temperature or anything other than a minor inconvenience. At that time I was working 10 hour days, 7 days per week. Did I or or not, I don't know. Like you said its a case by case individual decision each person should make for themselves.
 

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Has the USA hit herd immunity? Or very close to doing so?

40% of the total population of the USA is now fully vaccinated. And while the vaccinations are slowing down, it is known that people who recovered from Covid are also basically immune to catching covid again. Estimates say that roughly 1/2 of all unvaccinated people have, or have recovered from Covid. Even using a lower range, that means that that we are nearly at 70% of the US population that should have some fairly high levels of immunity, which should mean that the US is at, or nearly at, herd immunity.

As for some of the other nations, I totally discount Chile as they used the SinoVac vaccine from China, which is showing to be roughly 50% effective. Barhain bought a bunch of the SinoVac, realized that it sucked, started to give away the SinoVac doses to small poor island nations and replaced it with Pfizer's vaccine. I can't find reliable data on what % of their population has been dosed with Pfizer vs what % had SinoVac.

From the folks at ZeroHedge:

The Global Race Towards Full Vaccination

Scientists initially estimated that 60 to 70 percent of a population would have to acquire resistance to Covid-19 in order for herd immunity to take effect, a threshold that has been revised upwards since the start of the year with 80 to 85 percent quoted in some cases.​
As Statista's Niall McCarthy notes, the race towards full vaccination is well underway and Israel has the highest share of its population fully jabbed, according to Our World in Data.​
Infographic: The Race Towards Full Vaccination | Statista
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Despite the ever-higher immunity threshold discussed by scientists, Israel's Covid-19 case count started to tumble when 40 percent of its population received at least one jab and now 59.3 percent of its inhabitants are fully vaccinated. The country's reproduction rate has been around 0.5 in recent weeks and it appears to be on track to emerge from the pandemic, suggesting that initial herd immunity estimates carried some accuracy.​
With 45.4 percent of its inhabitants fully vaccinated, Bahrain comes second on the list.​
In the United States, 40.2 percent of people have been fully vaccinated (though do not forget that almost half of unvaccinated Americans have natural immunity from prior infection).
In this case, full vaccination refers to all doses prescribed by the vaccination protocol with data only available for countries reporting the breakdown of their doses.
As Scott Morefield wrote recently, Blue-state lockdown-lovers drunk on their own power like Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer who insist on a 70 percent vaccination rate in order to ease up on mandates and restrictions are ignoring the science completely in order to hold their people hostage to an unobtainable, unnecessary goal.
Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital debunked the desire among some health officials, sometimes referred to as "zero COVID," that COVID-19 can be eradicated completely.​
Well, unfortunately, we have this perception now that's being created by some public health leaders that we need to reach total eradication. We're not gonna get to total absolute risk elimination. That is a false goal and quite honestly it’s being used now to manipulate the public. We heard today again from our public health leaders that if we get to 70% vaccination, then we can start seeing restrictions removed. That’s dishonest. Most of the country is at herd immunity. Other parts will get there later this month. San Francisco had 12 cases yesterday, most asymptomatic. What do you call that? I call that herd immunity. And I think what's happening is our public health leaders are dismissing natural immunity from prior infection, which changes the path to get to more population immunity. It invokes mandates, it means kids may have to get it and it demonizes those that are hesitant rather than respecting their decision.​
Indeed, you don't have to have a medical degree to know that the formula for herd immunity has always been vaccinated plus natural immunity, but then again, when have Democrats ever been good at math?​
 

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First, I did not write the math quotation you extracted, it was part of the article on covid vaccinations and herd immunity.

Second, the world is well aware of the liberal bias in our universities, it explains so many of the ills in our society today but is, never the less, off topic in this covid thread. Please stay on topic. This is not the debate area.
 

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Indiana University has backed off of its demand that students be vaccinated.
 

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I read this item this morning.

As I said, the COVID vaccine may have long term damaging effects especially to the very young.

Also, I have warned about fertility. Is this how the gubmit might control population growth?

“We made a big mistake. We didn’t realize it until now,” said Byram Bridle, a viral immunologist and associate professor at University of Guelph, Ontario, in an interview with Alex Pierson last Thursday, in which he warned listeners that his message was “scary.”
“We thought the spike protein was a great target antigen, we never knew the spike protein itself was a toxin and was a pathogenic protein. So by vaccinating people we are inadvertently inoculating them with a toxin,” Bridle said on the show, which is not easily found in a Google search but went viral on the internet this weekend.
Bridle, a vaccine researcher who was awarded a $230,000 government grant last year for research on COVID vaccine development, said that he and a group of international scientists filed a request for information from the Japanese regulatory agency to get access to what’s called the “biodistribution study.”
“It’s the first time ever scientists have been privy to seeing where these messenger RNA [mRNA] vaccines go after vaccination,” said Bridle. “Is it a safe assumption that it stays in the shoulder muscle? The short answer is: absolutely not. It’s very disconcerting.”
Vaccine researchers had assumed that novel mRNA COVID vaccines would behave like “traditional” vaccines and the vaccine spike protein — responsible for infection and its most severe symptoms — would remain mostly in the vaccination site at the shoulder muscle. Instead, the Japanese data showed that the infamous spike protein of the coronavirus gets into the blood where it circulates for several days post-vaccination and then accumulated in organs and tissues including the spleen, bone marrow, the liver, adrenal glands, and in “quite high concentrations” in the ovaries.
“We have known for a long time that the spike protein is a pathogenic protein. It is a toxin. It can cause damage in our body if it gets into circulation,” Bridle said.
The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is what allows it to infect human cells. Vaccine manufacturers chose to target the unique protein, making cells in the vaccinated person manufacture the protein which would then, in theory, evoke an immune response to the protein, preventing it from infecting cells.
A large number of studies has shown that the most severe effects of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, such as blood clotting and bleeding, are due to the effects of the spike protein of the virus itself
“What has been discovered by the scientific community is the spike protein on its own is almost entirely responsible for the damage to the cardiovascular system, if it gets into circulation,” Bridle told listeners.
Lab animals injected with purified spike protein into their bloodstream developed cardiovascular problems, and the spike protein was also demonstrated to cross the blood brain barrier and cause damage to the brain.
A grave mistake, according to Bridle, was the belief that the spike protein would not escape into the blood circulation. “Now, we have clear-cut evidence that the vaccines that make the cells in our deltoid muscles manufacture this protein — that the vaccine itself, plus the protein — gets into blood circulation,” he said.
Bridle cited the recent publication of a peer-reviewed study which detected spike protein in the blood plasma of three of 13 young healthcare workers that had received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. In one of the workers, the spike protein circulated for 29 days.
The article also discussed prior concerns of the spike protein:
Pediatric rheumatologist J. Patrick Whelan had warned a vaccine advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration of the potential for the spike protein in COVID vaccines to cause microvascular damage causing damage to the liver, heart, and brain in “ways that were not assessed in the safety trials.”
While Whelan did not dispute the value of a coronavirus vaccine that worked to stop transmission of the disease (which no COVID vaccine in circulation has been demonstrated to do), he said, “it would be vastly worse if hundreds of millions of people were to suffer long-lasting or even permanent damage to their brain or heart microvasculature as a result of failing to appreciate in the short-term an unintended effect of full-length spike protein-based vaccines on other organs.”
Vaccine-associated spike protein in blood circulation could explain myriad reported adverse events from COVID vaccines, including the 4,000 deaths to date, and nearly 15,000 hospitalizations, reported to the U.S. government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as of May 21, 2021. Because it is a passive reporting system, these reports are likely only the tip of an iceberg of adverse events since a Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare study found that less than one percent of side-effects that physicians should report in patients following vaccination are in fact reported to VAERS.
 

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The VAERS data quoted in your article is grossly incorrect and overstated by miles.

VAERS data is self reported, it then is checked, and in the cases of death, checked in great detail. Reports of deaths AFTER taking the vaccine do no mean the vaccine was a cause or even a contributing factor to the death.

It is false to say that COVID vaccines have caused 966 deaths, because the VAERS database is not designed to give this information. For example, in the dataset published by The Epoch Times, one of the people who died after getting a vaccine had also been injured in a car crash between getting the jab and the date of their death, but the case was still included in the dataset. So take VAERS data and start digging for truth, don't take it as a conclusion.
 
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OHIO — Today, Wednesday, June 2, serves as a milestone on the hardship road that is the COVID-19 pandemic. At midnight on Tuesday, the Ohio Department of Health and Governor Mike DeWine’s administration lifted all orders pertaining to masks, social distancing, and capacity limits, indoors and out.
During a recent address, DeWine lauded the efforts of all Ohioans, saying residents showed “grit, determination, and such great compassion” in the face of the pandemic, and the efforts on the part of the ODH and the State to curb its spread. He then announced the lifting of orders supporters deemed necessary, and opponents — including many members of Ohio’s General Assembly — described as draconian.
“The tide of this pandemic is finally turning in our favor,” DeWine said. “It’s time to end the health orders. It’s been a year. You’ve followed the protocols. You’ve done what we’ve asked you to do. You’ve bravely fought this virus.”
While the orders are now lifted in general, some restrictions remain in place. Long term care and assisted living facilities are still subject to pared down mandates. Additionally, Ohio businesses and schools may still require masks for some, if not all.
A key component to when and how private and public businesses and agencies might implement orders of their own is what medical professionals have described as the single greatest weapon against the virus: vaccination.
That scientific belief wasn’t lost on DeWine. In announcing the lifting of the orders, he emphasized the need for vaccinations, a sentiment Putnam County Health Commissioner Kim Rieman echoed.
“The mandates are lifted, the social distancing and the masking mandate,” she said on Tuesday. “However, CDC guidance is still that unvaccinated people should wear a mask. People need to evaluate who they’re going to be around, and their own vaccination status, and make the decision that best protects them and their loved ones.”
When the vaccine first arrived in Putnam County just before Christmas of last year, Rieman said county residents’ lined up for inoculation, creating wait lists, and the need for mass vaccination clinics. Now, she said, those numbers have dwindled. Once in the top five in the State for percentage of population vaccinated, Putnam County has since fallen into the bottom third.
“Putnam County, like a lot of other counties in Ohio, is seeing a slow down,” Rieman said. “We are really wanting to keep up what we were doing, because we know there are a lot of individuals out there who could receive the vaccine who are just choosing not to.”
Although clearly an advocate for vaccination, Rieman said there are purely selfish reasons why everyone should pursue vaccination.
” One of the things we want to make clear, even though the mask mandate is lifted — along with social distancing and occupancy limits — the thing that does still stand is if you are in contact with a confirmed case of COVID, the quarantine will still be implemented. We don’t want people to think there’s no need to do this anymore, and that there’s no need to get vaccinated. There still is a very important need to get vaccinated. If someone comes in contact with a confirmed case, they will still have to quarantine for those ten days. Unless they’re vaccinated. If they are vaccinated, they can continue doing what they’ve been doing, unless they show symptoms.”
Rieman asserted the quarantine mandate is in effect for all unvaccinated individuals, even those who have already contracted the virus.
“Even though we’ve been living with this for a year, this is still a relatively new virus,” Rieman said. “We just don’t know enough at this point. We can’t take chances.”
 

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The VAERS data quoted in your article is grossly incorrect and overstated by miles.

VAERS data is self reported, it then is checked, and in the cases of death, checked in great detail. Reports of deaths AFTER taking the vaccine do no mean the vaccine was a cause or even a contributing factor to the death.

It is false to say that COVID vaccines have caused 966 deaths, because the VAERS database is not designed to give this information. For example, in the dataset published by The Epoch Times, one of the people who died after getting a vaccine had also been injured in a car crash between getting the jab and the date of their death, but the case was still included in the dataset. So take VAERS data and start digging for truth, don't take it as a conclusion.
Miss application of COD during the pandemic has been universal. A GSW victim with COVID died of Covid. Same with the biker who died after hitting a utility pole. So yes the stats are suspect. But the fears concerning "Spiked Proteins" are justified.

Or have people forgotten, with this vaccine, WE WERE THE TEST GROUP!

Conspiracists, and I am not one, have long suggested an honest fear of mass immunization being used to cover mass sterilizations of a population. There is less doubt today in the theory COVID=19 was invented. Is it possible with COVID-19 we were also the "test group?"

One plus one, generally equals two.

Proof? hardly. Yet cause for concern? Hell yes.

This thread is about Vaccine passports. Using fear and a deadly disease to limit individual rights. Why not just put a bar code on each of us?
A least it would be safer for our health.
 

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Me too also. So when the authorities tell me I must have one to travel in or out of the USA there's going to be a problem.

Not a dilemma. A PROBLEM!

A barcode tattoo on my neck would be worse that a yoke. The Yoke I could remove and hit somebody hard.

The yoke would be on them.


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Me too also. So when the authorities tell me I must have one to travel in or out of the USA there's going to be a problem.

Not a dilemma. A PROBLEM!

A barcode tattoo on my neck would be worse that a yoke. The Yoke I could remove and hit somebody hard.

The yoke would be on them.


LOL
Fine. Then don’t plan to travel.
The yoke is now on you.
 

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Fine. Then don’t plan to travel.
Anywhere in the USA is not an issue for travel.

But international travel may become an issue at some point in the future, or not. I deal with several foreigners, some got vaccinated simply to make travel easier. But it really didn't.

My Russian fencer, Dasha, is vaccinated, but still had to take a Covid test. So the vaccination didn't make anything easier. When I checked her onto a flight about 2 weeks ago they asked to see her test results, but didn't care if she had been vaccinated or not.
 

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If you had Covid then you do not need to be vaccinated.




No point vaccinating those who’ve had COVID-19: Findings of Cleveland Clinic study​

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D.Jun 8 2021
Scientists from the Cleveland Clinic, USA, have recently evaluated the effectiveness of coronavirus disease 2019 COVID-19) vaccination among individuals with or without a history of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.

The study findings reveal that individuals with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection do not get additional benefits from vaccination, indicating that COVID-19 vaccines should be prioritized to individuals without prior infection. The study is currently available on the medRxiv* preprint server.

Study: Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals. Image Credit: Orpheus FX / Shutterstock
Study: Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals. Image Credit: Orpheus FX / Shutterstock

Background​

In the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided emergency use authorization for two mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, which have shown high efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease in clinical trials. However, the ability to vaccinate a large part of the global population is limited by vaccine supply.

In order to ensure fair access to vaccines throughout the world, the COVID-19 vaccines Global Access (COVAX) initiative was launched. In many countries, especially those with low socioeconomic status, there is a serious shortage of vaccines. Thus, in order to get the maximum vaccine benefits, the most vulnerable population should be prioritized for the vaccination.

Currently, most countries prioritize vaccination for healthcare and other frontline workers, elderly people, and people with comorbidities.

To further narrow down the prioritization criteria, the scientists in the current study have evaluated the necessity of COVID-19 vaccines for individuals who were previously infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Explanation of “previously infected” analyzed as a time-independent covariate and “vaccinated” treated as a time-dependent covariate.

Explanation of “previously infected” analyzed as a time-independent covariate and “vaccinated” treated as a time-dependent covariate.

Study design​

The study was conducted on 52,238 employees in the Cleveland Clinic. A positive RT-PCR test was considered to define SARS-CoV-2 infection. The participants received two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at an interval of 28 days. A participant was considered vaccinated after 14 days of receiving the 2nd vaccine dose. Similarly, a participant who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 at least 42 days before the vaccination initiation was considered previously infected.

Important observations​

Of all enrolled participants, 5% had previous SARS-CoV-2 infection. Compared to 59% of non-infected participants, only 47% of previously infected participants were vaccinated by the end of the study. About 63% of all vaccinated participants received the Moderna vaccine.

The analysis of cumulative COVID-19 incidence revealed that during the course of the study, SARS-CoV-2 infection occurred almost exclusively in participants who were not previously infected and were not vaccinated.

Interestingly, no significant difference in COVID-19 incidence was observed between previously infected and currently unvaccinated participants, previously infected and currently vaccinated participants, and previously uninfected and currently vaccinated participants.

The participants from these three groups exhibited a significantly lower incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to previously uninfected and currently unvaccinated participants.

Specifically, of all infections during the study period, 99.3% occurred in participants who were not infected previously and remained unvaccinated. In contrast, only 0.7% of infections occurred in participants who were not previously infected but were currently vaccinated.

Importantly, not a single incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection was observed in previously infected participants with or without vaccination.

Simon-Makuch plot showing the cumulative incidence of COVID-19 among subjects previously infected and not previously infected with COVID-19, who did and did not receive the vaccine. Curves for the unvaccinated are based on data for those who did not receive the vaccine during the duration of the study, and for those waiting to receive the vaccine. Day zero was Dec 16, 2020, the day vaccination was started in our institution. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. Seven subjects who had been vaccinated earlier as participants in clinical trials were considered vaccinated throughout the duration of the study. Twelve subjects who received their first dose in the first week of the vaccination campaign managed to get their second dose three weeks later, and were thus considered vaccinated earlier than 42 days since the start of the vaccination campaign

Simon-Makuch plot showing the cumulative incidence of COVID-19 among subjects previously infected and not previously infected with COVID-19, who did and did not receive the vaccine. Curves for the unvaccinated are based on data for those who did not receive the vaccine during the duration of the study, and for those waiting to receive the vaccine. Day zero was Dec 16, 2020, the day vaccination was started in our institution. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. Seven subjects who had been vaccinated earlier as participants in clinical trials were considered vaccinated throughout the duration of the study. Twelve subjects who received their first dose in the first week of the vaccination campaign managed to get their second dose three weeks later, and were thus considered vaccinated earlier than 42 days since the start of the vaccination campaign

With further statistical analysis, it was observed that the COVID-19 vaccination significantly reduced the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in previously uninfected participants but not in previously infected participants.

Although the study did not directly estimate the duration of protection from natural infection, it was observed that previously infected participants remained protected against COVID-19 for at least 10 months after the symptom onset or a positive test result.

Study significance​

The study findings reveal that individuals who previously had symptomatic COVID-19 are less likely to get additional benefits from vaccination.

In contrast, individuals without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection can get the maximum benefits from vaccination. Thus, based on the study findings, COVID-19 vaccines should be prioritized to naïve individuals without a history of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
 

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Every year my doctor insists I get the flu shot of the day. Says schedule it to your convenience.

I always get the flu symptoms, so for me it is a matter of scheduling the time I want to be ill.

I had COVID-19 and do not want to enjoy those symptoms again.
I will not accept a vaccination.
 

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I had COVID-19 and do not want to enjoy those symptoms again.
I will not accept a vaccination.
I had the Moderna jabs and didn’t have any side effects other than a sore arm after the first shot.

Might have had some mild chills at night after the second dose; I woke up with the blanket kicked off so it’s possible the chills were unrelated to the vaccine.

But, based on the Cleveland Clinic research, there is NO REASON anyone who recovered from Covid would need to be vaccinated. So if you have had Covid and recovered then the vaccine is of no benefit to you based on their sample/research.
 

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I would have never guessed this could happen, This is why I waited. now I'm waiting longer
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I would have never guessed this could happen, This is why I waited. now I'm waiting longerView attachment 137885
For what it is worth, this is limited to fairly YOUNG men. It has NOT been noted in the more mature populations (age 50+); not sure it has been found in the 40+ age bracket either.

Also, it should be noted that one of the long term side effects of covid is a condition of a thickening of the heart muscles. So get covid and you stand to have the same outcome.

In both cases, the disease or the vaccine, this side effect is RARE

Israel’s Health Ministry found found 275 cases of heart inflammation among the more than 5 million people in the country who received a vaccine between December 2020 and May. An Israeli study found “a probable link” between receiving the second dose of the Pfizer jab “and the appearance of myocarditis among men aged 16 to 30,” the ministry said.​
 

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In more covid news. IVERMECTIN may have just won a few more supporters, but perhaps only tepid support.

Clinical observation, not an actual study, but better controls than many of the so-called studies that have come out of South America, Africa and the Middle East. People treated with Ivermectin were 40% less likely to enter Intensive Care wards. And were 35% less likely to get severe Covid.

So not a cure. But certainly it helps your odds.

The story is much longer than this, but here are the most pertinent portions of the article related to Ivermectin...



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From a preliminary analysis of the clinical evolution of 2000 patients who entered the ivermectin program from its beginnings until May 10 of this year, and of 12,600 patients who were diagnosed during the same period but who did not participate in that monitored intervention, it was evidenced that in people over 40 years of age the frequency of admission to intensive care was close to 40% lower in those who received ivermectin, while the development of severe forms of the disease (defined from admission to intensive care or the death of patients) was a 35% less frequent in treated subjects than in those who did not participate in the program.
"We believe that these data are encouraging and invite us to continue on the path begun in January (this year); however, we want to highlight that these results are preliminary," Kohan said.
"Likewise, since it is not a clinical study, but the monitoring of an intervention program, it is necessary that evidence emerges from clinical trials before recommending the use of this drug outside the monitored intervention framework that is being carried out in the province; in particular, we strongly discourage self-medication by people," he warned.
 

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"The judge agreed with Houston Methodist Hospital. Hughes admonished Bridges' analogy that her threat of termination in this case was like "forced medical experimentation during the Holocaust."
Judge Hughes called that claim "reprehensible" and said Bridges was not being coerced."

"Methodist is trying to do their business of saving lives without giving them ... COVID-19," Hughes wrote in the dismissal of the lawsuit.
"It is a choice made to keep staff, patients, and their families safer. Bridges can freely choose to accept or refuse a COVID-19 vaccine; however if she refuses she will simply need to work somewhere else."

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Houston Methodist is a privately owned and run hospital. One thing that runs through my mind is this: If I had to admit a loved one to a hospital right now, would I choose a hospital where all the employees had been vaccinated over a hospital that had optional covid vaccines for its employees. I'm pretty sure I know which route I'd choose.
 

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Covid cases in the USA are flat and low :flagusa:

Covid cases in Canada are dropping and low :flagcan:

Covid cases in the UK are are DOUBLE the cases per million -vs- US/Canada and climbing rapidly :British_f

PM Boris Johnson extended the "lockdown" in the UK to July 19. The Indian variant (now called the DELTA because the W.H.O. didn't want variants identified by nation fearing it is politically incorrect) has taken over as the dominant version of the Covid disease.

Cases in England are up 50% over last week.

The Delta/Indian variant now accounts for approximately 97% of the Covid cases in the UK.
The Delta/Indian variant is only 10% of the cases in the USA at the moment.

The Delta/Indian variant carries a higher viral load for a longer duration which is 60+% more infectious leading to sicker people and that results in 84% greater chance of hospitalization versus the Alpha/Kent/UK variant, which is currently the dominant variation in North America.

The Delta/India variant seems to affect younger adults, the Alpha/Kent/Uk variant, which is prominent in North America, seems to have a greater adverse affect on older adults (age 55+).

We don't really know if the Delta/India variant also adversely affects the older adults since most older adults have been vaccinated in the UK. Here in the USA we will find out as there are large areas of the country where older adults have chosen not to be vaccinated.

There is a strong link between low cases and high vaccinations. There is also a strong case between low hospitalization and high vaccination. Vaccinations appear to be highly effective against all current variants of Covid19 and, in the rare instances when vaccinated people catch Covid19, they tend to be mild.
 
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This is an interesting reporting job on an Ivermectin study, possibly the most compelling that I have seen, because it is from a legitimate source. Much of the evidence for Ivermectin is simple retroactive, non-control group, non-placebo, analysis. This one is different. Dr John Campbell, who has given a daily Covid update for over a year, breaks it down in his typical easy to understand fashion.

The video starts with vaccine information on the new Novavax, you can skip ahead if you want to see the Ivermectin info. It certainly is not a cure for Covid. But it appears to be highly effective in reducing Covid in most patients.

 

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Plexiglas barriers/screens in supermarkets, retail stores and other locations may have actually increased the spread of covid because they reduced or interrupted ventilation airflow. As we know, Covid is not so much spread in droplets, but rather is airborne and drifts through the air. Ventilation and airflow dilute the disease concentrations and reduce the ability of the disease to have a high enough concentration to cause illness in most people.

And the Danish, apparently all mouth breathing MAGA supporters, have concluded in a large scale study that masks don't work. So now the English say to tear down the plastic barriers and the Danish say to take off the face diapers. Clearly there are risks to spreading Covid in crowded spaces with low ventilation. Social distancing and increasing airflow may be the secrets to defeating future viruses.

Perspex Screens Installed To Stop COVID May Have Actually Increased Its Spread, UK Govt Report Finds

A leaked Whitehall document seen by Politico suggests that perspex screens installed to stop the transmission of COVID-19 may actually have increased its spread.
Businesses and schools were told by the government to install the screens as a condition of re-opening after the first lockdown and they were widely used by ‘essential’ shops throughout the entire period.
Politico’s Alex Wickham writes that the perspex screens could be about to be scrapped given new information the government has received on their efficacy.
“Ministers are also being advised that those perspex screens that have appeared in some offices and restaurants are unlikely to have any benefit in terms of preventing transmission,” states the report.
“Problems include them not being positioned correctly, with the possibility that they actually increase the risk of transmission by blocking airflow. Therefore there is clear guidance to ministers that these perspex screens should be scrapped.”
Despite the report, government ministers say there is no plan to change advice on installing the screens in businesses.
What other COVID-19 measures put in place to fight the spread of the virus have been utterly useless or actually made it worse?
A study on the effectiveness of face masks involving 6,000 participants in Denmark found “there was no statistically significant difference between those who wore masks and those who did not when it came to being infected by Covid-19.”
 

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We've come a long way, baby!


“We couldn’t find a significant reason to keep doing this,” DeWine said.

The changes come as Ohio reached a new milestone in the fight against COVID-19, with more than 57% of Ohio’s adults vaccinated against the virus. Nearly 47% of Ohio’s entire population has received their vaccine.
 

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Couple bits of news.

CANADA remains closed along the US border.



Data from US blood donors shows that 49.1% had seroprevalence of Covid in March which indicates the US had a high level of infection, and consequently is moving rapidly toward herd immunity, with vaccines accelerating the movement toward herd.

Covid has a 0.339% fatality rate for those infected.


UK is getting hit by the Delta variant, currently only 11% of US cases, but that variant is growing exponentially.

UK virus cases surge even as 8 in 10 have received shots

The UK recorded the most coronavirus cases in a day since mid-February, amid warnings the current wave of infections driven by the highly transmissible delta variant may still be weeks from peaking.
More than 11,000 new cases of the disease were reported on Thursday, along with 19 deaths, according to the Department Health. A study by Public Health England showed infection rates increasing across all age groups, but are highest among people aged 20 to 29. Separately, the government said eight in 10 adults have now had their first vaccine dose.
The data illustrates how the delta variant, first identified in India, upended the government’s plan to lift remaining pandemic restrictions this month. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a four-week delay on Monday to allow more adults to receive a second dose of the vaccine, which data show significantly increases protection against the new strain.
“It is important to take up the offer of the vaccine to protect yourself and others," PHE Medical Director Yvonne Doyle said in an emailed statement. “Case rates have increased across all age groups and regions around England, and we are seeing further increases in hospitalizations."
Research from Imperial College London published Thursday found the prevalence of Covid-19 in England is increasing exponentially, driven by younger age groups that haven’t been vaccinated.
The current infection surge will “definitely" lead to more hospital admissions and deaths, England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty. . .
 

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Just got this emailed to me from a trade union I am affiliated with. Its now official, you can be arrested for not wearing a mask if you are not vaccinated.
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m1west

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Take a look at the enforcement, you are an imminent danger and a menace to society if you are not masked and not vaccinated. Punishable by fine, imprisonment or both. Signed by a bureaucrat. So something that is scientifically proven to not be effective is now mandatory or you go to jail.
 
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