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Since the mass vaccination drive kicked off last December, Israel has inoculated more than 5.3 million out of its 9 million citizens [~ 58%]. Although the country hasn't reached herd immunity yet, the number of people who have been vaccinated was enough to let the country function and keep its public offices and private businesses open.

asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 δ carriers, formerly known as "silent spreaders"

The Delta variant is believed to be more resilient to the vaccine but recent research shows that it still prevented symptoms in 88 percent of cases. It also helped to keep patients from hospitalisation in 96 percent of cases.
Yet, oddly enough, the Israeli government is not in a rush to bring those jabs to Israel. At the beginning of the month, Bennett vowed that the country will have enough vaccines for all of its citizens but during a weekly meeting with his ministers he said only 200,000 of them will be brought on 1 August.

most ignorant, litigious nation on planet REPORTS: "community transmission"--formerly known as (FKA) "positivity productivity" FKA "super spreading" FKA "droplets" FKA "communicable disease"--has entered the room. The CDC is recommending masks for vaccinated people in high transmission areas. What does that mean?

What is high transmissibility?
Community transmission is calculated using two metrics: how many new cases per 100,000 persons have occurred in the last seven days, and the percentage of positive diagnostic and screening nucleic acid amplification tests in the last seven days. Counties are categorized as having low, moderate, substantial, or high transmissibility.
[...]
Just under half of all U.S. counties, 46.43%, are currently identified as having high COVID transmission, according to the CDC, an increase of over 17% from seven days ago.

NEW! dashboard

You can enter your state, county or metro area to find out what the transmissibility is like where you live by going to this site.

CENSUS number of Counties and Statistically Equivalent Entities, a/o Jan 1990: 3,006 or 3,141
wikiwtf number of counties, a/o Jan 2020: 3,143

by Cat on Wed Jul 28th, 2021 at 11:21:47 AM EST
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Alaska health care officials worried about steep rise in Covid-19 hospitalizations

Alaska's rise in coronavirus patients comes as much of the United States experiences increases. This latest rise in cases is being largely driven by the highly contagious delta variant ["]working its way["] through the unvaccinated.

by Cat on Thu Jul 29th, 2021 at 04:52:24 PM EST
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Served "rare": Over 25% of cases in Los Angeles are fully vaccinated people, reports Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer.

by Cat on Fri Jul 30th, 2021 at 02:44:00 PM EST
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Vaccination is not a panacea. Still have to mask and practice personal protection protocols.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Aug 12th, 2021 at 01:17:57 AM EST
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I'm never going to stop being mad that we have these borderline miracle vaccines and we're wasting them. The CDC mask burning party. The absurd waffling here in Europe.

Just mandate the vaccines and keep mask mandates in place. The vast majority of anti-vaxxers are over-privileged whiny babies. They'll buckle the moment they face real pressure.

We as a society are already gambling that the vaccines will solve most of the problem for us and no one really gets to opt out of the let-it-run-rampant-and-hope-for-the-best strategy. Unless you're in semi-conductors and have workable Mandarin.

by generic on Thu Aug 12th, 2021 at 08:34:58 AM EST
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And of course even with the best possible vaccination rates you're looking at this:

by generic on Thu Aug 12th, 2021 at 08:37:15 AM EST
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What we need is a cheap, patent-free, virus-sterilizing one-shot (nasal) vaccine (or dozen) that can be administered to most people on the globe within six months.

And a cheap, patent-free, over-the-counter antiviral treatment (or two) for those cases where people are infected anyway.

Then, and only then Covid would go the way of the smallpox. Maybe.

by pelgus on Thu Aug 12th, 2021 at 12:03:39 PM EST
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SARS-CoV-2 (4.00 / 2)

is going the way of common influenza, an endemic mutating pestilence, whose etiology and the morbidity associated with chronic respiratory infection is well-respected. Likewise, expect seasonal vaccine formula adjustments and administration to the usual suspects--the very old and the very young bracing doctor recommended advice to everyone aged between.

General confidence in a stable, predictable standard of treatment to alievate COVID-19 symptoms--as with other viraly or bacterial respiratory diseases-- would be nice, though.

by Cat on Mon Aug 16th, 2021 at 05:34:13 PM EST
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