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- Morning_star0
Ivermectin to be studied as possible treatment in UK
The Oxford team said they had selected Ivermectin for trial included because it was "readily available globally" and known to be relatively safe.
Over-50s with an underlying health condition or experiencing breathlessness can sign up to the Principle study if they have had Covid symptoms for up to 14 days.
- shapesalad0
some good points about the 'environment' we are creating for the virus to develop within.
TLDR: vaccinations not being 100% effective, is allowing infections to continue, combined with the fact the virus makes around 600k copies of itself in just one infected cell = a mutation will occur that slips past the hosts vaccine response, leading to a super charged virus.
- China dropped the magic lamp and let the genie out the bottle on this one.shapesalad
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- Haven't wartched, but don't 'super-charged' viruses tend to come with a cost to their negative impact?Nairn
- grafician0
"Scientist Finds Early Virus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted
By rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a researcher says he recovered 13 early coronavirus sequences that had disappeared from a database last year."
- grafician1
https://text.npr.org/1007145368
"Opinion: Vaccine Hesitancy In The U.S. Is A Peculiar Privilege"
"This ongoing COVID-19 vaccine distribution crisis has revealed the core drivers of inequity in global health: People in rich countries do not recognize the universality of health care problems and often see infectious disease outbreaks as problems for "other people in other countries." The major lesson of the pandemic — that infections do not respect national boundaries — is yet to be heeded.
So for the people who say, "I want to watch and wait," I would like to remind them that their vacillations are reckless and cruel. They upend the sacrifices we have all made together to end the pandemic. By not doing your part to reduce the risks, you increase the risks for all of us. And that's a very peculiar response to this catastrophic pandemic."
- Misspelled "dumb" but okgrafician
- But sure, this applies to any developed country with a bunch of ppl not caring about the vaccines - shamefully a lot of them!grafician
- btw is there anyone on this forum antivvaxxer?grafician
- I mean "privileged"grafician
- Is it a privilege in Romania too, or just the US? Seeing as you live in both places I figure you know.monospaced
- @mono you need to stop with your nationalism bs
and yes, there are anti vaxxers everywhere, that was the point I was makinggrafician - also by delaying further the vaccination process, we're opening the door to new virus variants that spread even faster!
At this point, it's getting uselessgrafician - also this response to this pandemic crisis is just an example on how bad we can collaborate on big worldwide issues, so forget fixing global warming or povertygrafician
- the responses from these shitty ppl will be: "it's not happening here!" and "don't be poor"grafician
- so yeah, try fixing worldwide pandemics, climate change and other big stuff with the US and Chyna not giving a fuckgrafician
- oh little buddy, this is NOT nationalismmonospaced
- it's commentary on your absolute obsession with all things AMERICA USA. You constantly post about the US issues, NEVER your own country'smonospaced
- So, once again. What is ROMANIA YOUR COUNTRY doing? Response to pandemic? Collaborate on worldwide issues? poverty, global warming?monospaced
- i_monk1
Fully vaxxed as of 5pm today.
- utopian0
Israel says it's facing a new COVID-19 outbreak fueled by the Delta variant, despite having the world's most vaccinated population
Israel is worried about the Delta coronavirus variant despite its widespread vaccinations.
Its leader described a recent surge as a "new outbreak" and announced new preventive measures.
About 70% of new infections were the Delta variant, the Israeli Health Ministry's director said.
- Since day one, lots doctors have said that planning the vaccine on a single spike protein was a mistake.There are no "waves", just variants.ApeRobot
- "Treatments" instead of "vaccines" could have been better solution.ApeRobot
- both is the ideal which is what is happening.fadein11
- Sure, so no need to rush for a vaccine if you're beyond 65 with no health issues right?ApeRobot
- couldn't find any numbers but it would appear to be break outs in schools and vaccines are nearly as effective against deltakingsteven
- as long as you don't end up in the ICU vaccines are still very importantBeeswax
- Bluejam15
- _me_0
Back into lockdown for at least a week *sigh*
- drgs0
https://www.worldometers.info/co…
Delta wave in UK: zero deaths
What is the fuss all about?- Not zero. Also hospitalisations up, cases doubling week on week ie exponential growth.BaskerviIle
- Even if minimal deaths (thanks to vaccinations), younger unvaxed population is at risk and more spread = more chance to evolve vaccine resistant variantsBaskerviIle
- Also, it's not binary 'fine or death' there's a big long-covid grey area in the middle. Look at recent studies of what covid does to the brain.BaskerviIle
- I think the most vulnerable population was killed in the 1st, 2nd wave. plus docs know how to treat the disease better than at the start.uan
- yuekit3
The other virus that worries Asia
"The death rate for Nipah virus is up to 75% and it has no vaccine..."
- "Across 11 different outbreaks of Nipah in Bangladesh from 2001 to 2011, 196 people were detected to have Nipah – 150 died."
200 cases in 10 years?drgs - Because it's not easily to spread between humans yet. The danger is with all this deforestation going on, wildlife trade etc...yuekit
- Sooner or later it will mutate and then the current situation will look extremely mild by comparison.yuekit
- That's batshit crazy!utopian
- Check out the tie-die bat tee shirts on the researchers!mort_
- "Across 11 different outbreaks of Nipah in Bangladesh from 2001 to 2011, 196 people were detected to have Nipah – 150 died."
- grafician2
"East Asia was hit by another coronavirus epidemic 20,000 years ago, new study shows"
"Over the past 20 years, people have faced a series of outbreaks caused by coronaviruses, including SARS, MERS, and Covid-19. But humans may have faced the disease millennia ago, new research suggests.
A team of researchers from Australia and the United States has found evidence of a coronavirus epidemic that broke out more than 20,000 years ago in East Asia, according to a study published in the Current Biology scientific journal on Thursday.
In the study, the researchers studied the genomes of more than 2,500 people from 26 different populations around the world. They pinpointed the earliest interaction of the human genome with coronaviruses, which left genetic imprints on the DNA of modern-day people in East Asia."
- Beeswax-1
- Krassy3
Government Pandemic Loans Plagued by Potential $260 Billion in Fraud
- utopian-1
4,115 Fully Vaccinated Have Been Hospitalized Or Died With Breakthrough Covid-19 Infections
Here is yet another reminder that Covid-19 vaccines are not like gigantic concrete full-body condoms. Concrete condoms, in general, are a bad idea, and fully vaccinated does not mean perfectly protected against Covid-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have already been 4,115 reported cases of fully vaccinated people being hospitalized or dying with Covid-19 coronavirus breakthrough infections.
That’s as of June 21, 2021. Nearly half (49 percent) of these cases have been female and a little over three-quarters (76 percent) have been 65 years and older. There were a total of 3,907 hospitalizations and 750 deaths among those who had breakthrough infections, although not all of the hospitalizations may have been due primarily to Covid-19.
- inteliboy2
^ why skip the actual data point.
" But consider the fact that over 150 million people in U.S. have already been fully vaccinated in U.S. Doing a quick calculation with your abacus and your fingers and toes will reveal that the 4,115 cases constitute less than 0.003% of all fully vaccinated people in the U.S.
Compare that with the measured effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccine, which has ranged from about 70 percent to 95 plus percent. That means that at least 5% of the time a vaccine won’t be able to prevent Covid-19 after exposure to the virus."
