FitzTheRuke
Legend
Kitakyushu! Hey, I've been there! Nice place. IIRC that's where I had some really, really good scallops.
D&D and the rising pandemic
Kitakyushu! Hey, I've been there! Nice place. IIRC that's where I had some really, really good scallops.
Eltab
Lord of the Hidden Layer
If this drug pans out - or whatever does pan out - it is not going to be an 'orphan drug'; it will be going to mass market. It won't stay highly-expensive.
And as a matter of setting expectations, 'people can buy it off the shelf like you do aspirin' is far better than 'here are an obstacle course's worth of hoops you have to jump through to get some.'
Um. Insulin. 'Nuff said.
Garthanos
Arcadian Knight
The US sad excuse for a medical system sucks...
niklinna
satisfied?
And epi-pens.
Zardnaar
Legend
Well they're prepping us here for larger numbers as numbers keep rising.
94 cases yesterday we've been told to expect hundreds soon.
PM basically admitted they changed course because people weren't following the rules in lockdown anyway. Aucklands gonna spend 11 weeks minimum in lockdown and it's there 4th one.
Joke here is once Covid hits the Capital expect shorter lockdowns. Politicians will still want their lattes.
94 cases yesterday we've been told to expect hundreds soon.
PM basically admitted they changed course because people weren't following the rules in lockdown anyway. Aucklands gonna spend 11 weeks minimum in lockdown and it's there 4th one.
Joke here is once Covid hits the Capital expect shorter lockdowns. Politicians will still want their lattes.
Ryujin
Legend
Got my digital proof of vaccination yesterday in Ontario, Canada. The Provincial Government routinely under estimates the server load that their websites are going to receive (the site for scheduling vaccinations was continually crashing when it was launched) and this was no exception. Monday was the first day that requests were open to all, rather than scheduled by birth month. On Monday I got in the queue behind roughly 20K other people and when I had my turn, after about 20 minutes of waiting, I filled in all of my information and then after another 5 minute wait, was unceremoniously kicked off the server. On retry I found a queue of more than 200K, with a listing that the server was "paused." Yesterday it took literally 2 minutes to complete the process.
We are expecting booster shots for J&J and Moderna vaccines to be authorized for at least the elderly and high-risk in the near future (possibly today), and possibly that your booster won't need to be the same type of vaccine as your original shot.
I've seen a preprint of a small study that at least suggests that mix-and-matching booster with your original vaccination is effective, though it noted that it was small enough to not be able to compare regimens. They couldn't say whether a person who got Pfizer for an initial vaccination would be better off with another vaccine for their booster, just that any other vaccine would give benefits.
Update: The FDA did give authorization for mix-and-match booster shots today. This means they find it safe and effective. The CDC will meet tomorrow about their guidance as to who should be seeking boosters, and when.
I've seen a preprint of a small study that at least suggests that mix-and-matching booster with your original vaccination is effective, though it noted that it was small enough to not be able to compare regimens. They couldn't say whether a person who got Pfizer for an initial vaccination would be better off with another vaccine for their booster, just that any other vaccine would give benefits.
Update: The FDA did give authorization for mix-and-match booster shots today. This means they find it safe and effective. The CDC will meet tomorrow about their guidance as to who should be seeking boosters, and when.
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Zardnaar
Legend
Is Delta less deadly than last year's strains? Sample size might be to small here but iirc we had around 1500 cases and 23 deaths.
Delt I think we're around 2000 cases and deaths are now 28 and I think some of them were in smaller leaks so Delta killed maybe 2-3 people.
Doomsday scenario was 80k dead here but I had severe doubts on that. Proportionally 5-10k seemed more likely.
Deltas different though plus vaccines. Looking at excess deaths from last year we had 400 less. Skipped flu season 2020/2021.
Delt I think we're around 2000 cases and deaths are now 28 and I think some of them were in smaller leaks so Delta killed maybe 2-3 people.
Doomsday scenario was 80k dead here but I had severe doubts on that. Proportionally 5-10k seemed more likely.
Deltas different though plus vaccines. Looking at excess deaths from last year we had 400 less. Skipped flu season 2020/2021.
Delta is known to be more transmittable, which means it can affect more people, and thus cause more deaths. Last I read, the statistics are still out on whether it's more likely to kill once someone contracts it. Part of the reason it's harder to tell is because the death rate is highly dependent on rates of vaccination and availability of health services (i.e. ventilators, ICU beds, etc), not just the virus itself.
