MCPS covid cases

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McKnight announced that if 5% of staff/students test positive MCPS/health department will think about closing the individual school.

Makes some sense to me, but it puts a lot of faith in testing. Only half of families have consented to testing in schools. Lots of families won't bother consenting or getting testing in clinics. I assume a tested 5% really represents a much higher actual number of infected individuals.

Also, Hogan just tested positive....

Was this just announced? That would be a surprisingly great policy outcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


The trolls were out in full force yesterday, it seems.

Omicron and Delta (to a lesser extent), both partially evade our vaccines and boosters, designed for the original strain.
This means that vaccine immunity wanes faster than we'd expect when infected with these variants.
For Delta, multiple studies have shown vaccine immunity to wane significantly by the 5th-6th month.
For Omicron, we don't have enough data, but some scientists believe vaccine immunity wanes significantly by the 3rd month, if that.

Therefore, what we need to consider is HOW RECENT our last shot was. It's not enough to have two doses. It's not enough to have a booster. What matters is that your booster is extremely recent.
This is even more important if the recipient is not healthy to begin with, or is elderly.

The UK has allowed boosters to be given 3 months away from the second shot.
Denmark allows a 4.5 months wait between the second shot and the booster.
I encourage anyone with a booster done more than 6 months ago to get another one, by hook or by crook.

Pfizer and Moderna are working on redesigned boosters, but they won't be ready until March, at the very earliest, and they need to be authorized, which the Biden administration is not ready to encourage right now, since it's still hammering away at the messaging that unvaccinated people need to get the already available vaccines.

DC became positive with Delta 2 months after last shot.
The numbers are completely bogus.
The vaccine is only lessening symptoms.
It's not giving immunity.
They need to go out there with open honesty about what people should expect because the PR campaign is all over the place and giving people more reason to be distrustful rather than less. It's a disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


The trolls were out in full force yesterday, it seems.

Omicron and Delta (to a lesser extent), both partially evade our vaccines and boosters, designed for the original strain.
This means that vaccine immunity wanes faster than we'd expect when infected with these variants.
For Delta, multiple studies have shown vaccine immunity to wane significantly by the 5th-6th month.
For Omicron, we don't have enough data, but some scientists believe vaccine immunity wanes significantly by the 3rd month, if that.

Therefore, what we need to consider is HOW RECENT our last shot was. It's not enough to have two doses. It's not enough to have a booster. What matters is that your booster is extremely recent.
This is even more important if the recipient is not healthy to begin with, or is elderly.

The UK has allowed boosters to be given 3 months away from the second shot.
Denmark allows a 4.5 months wait between the second shot and the booster.
I encourage anyone with a booster done more than 6 months ago to get another one, by hook or by crook.

Pfizer and Moderna are working on redesigned boosters, but they won't be ready until March, at the very earliest, and they need to be authorized, which the Biden administration is not ready to encourage right now, since it's still hammering away at the messaging that unvaccinated people need to get the already available vaccines.

DC became positive with Delta 2 months after last shot.
The numbers are completely bogus.
The vaccine is only lessening symptoms.
It's not giving immunity.
They need to go out there with open honesty about what people should expect because the PR campaign is all over the place and giving people more reason to be distrustful rather than less. It's a disaster.

Nobody said any vaccine is 100% effective in preventing infections. Also the current vaccines were designed based on the original strain. They are known to be less effective against delta and even less effective against omicron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


The trolls were out in full force yesterday, it seems.

Omicron and Delta (to a lesser extent), both partially evade our vaccines and boosters, designed for the original strain.
This means that vaccine immunity wanes faster than we'd expect when infected with these variants.
For Delta, multiple studies have shown vaccine immunity to wane significantly by the 5th-6th month.
For Omicron, we don't have enough data, but some scientists believe vaccine immunity wanes significantly by the 3rd month, if that.

Therefore, what we need to consider is HOW RECENT our last shot was. It's not enough to have two doses. It's not enough to have a booster. What matters is that your booster is extremely recent.
This is even more important if the recipient is not healthy to begin with, or is elderly.

The UK has allowed boosters to be given 3 months away from the second shot.
Denmark allows a 4.5 months wait between the second shot and the booster.
I encourage anyone with a booster done more than 6 months ago to get another one, by hook or by crook.

Pfizer and Moderna are working on redesigned boosters, but they won't be ready until March, at the very earliest, and they need to be authorized, which the Biden administration is not ready to encourage right now, since it's still hammering away at the messaging that unvaccinated people need to get the already available vaccines.

DC became positive with Delta 2 months after last shot.
The numbers are completely bogus.
The vaccine is only lessening symptoms.
It's not giving immunity.
They need to go out there with open honesty about what people should expect because the PR campaign is all over the place and giving people more reason to be distrustful rather than less. It's a disaster.

Nobody said any vaccine is 100% effective in preventing infections. Also the current vaccines were designed based on the original strain. They are known to be less effective against delta and even less effective against omicron.

Newsflash: The flu shot and the covid19 shot don't currently match the strains going around the DMV.

Just in case anyone was still holding out hope that either did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Newsflash: The flu shot and the covid19 shot don't currently match the strains going around the DMV.

Just in case anyone was still holding out hope that either did.

Why are people spreading disinformation? Are they trying to discourage vaccination? Are they trying to create panic?

[Anonymous]

The vaccine isn't meant to 100% prevent infection. It'd be great if it did that, but even the flu vaccine doesn't do that. What it does is GREATLY increase the chance at survival and significantly lessen the chance that you'll be hospitalized and/or have severe symptoms that may cause long term issues. I don't understand why this is confusing for people. Being vaccinated is still a much better option than being unvaccinated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Newsflash: The flu shot and the covid19 shot don't currently match the strains going around the DMV.

Just in case anyone was still holding out hope that either did.

Why are people spreading disinformation? Are they trying to discourage vaccination? Are they trying to create panic?

And just like every year with the flu shot, even if you do get either virus, your illness will be much milder and less prone to complications than if you hadn’t gotten the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Newsflash: The flu shot and the covid19 shot don't currently match the strains going around the DMV.

Just in case anyone was still holding out hope that either did.

Why are people spreading disinformation? Are they trying to discourage vaccination? Are they trying to create panic?

Maybe you could view it as a reminder that nothing if foolproof and other mitigation and responsible behavior is needed. Now I think some of this is a failure in public messaging because people hear the vaccine is 95% effective and think that gives them permission to go to parties and crowded football games. But people should educate themselves on the limitations of just vaccinating and nothing else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Newsflash: The flu shot and the covid19 shot don't currently match the strains going around the DMV.

Just in case anyone was still holding out hope that either did.

Why are people spreading disinformation? Are they trying to discourage vaccination? Are they trying to create panic?

Maybe you could view it as a reminder that nothing if foolproof and other mitigation and responsible behavior is needed. Now I think some of this is a failure in public messaging because people hear the vaccine is 95% effective and think that gives them permission to go to parties and crowded football games. But people should educate themselves on the limitations of just vaccinating and nothing else.

Permission is not needed. Those activities are allowed.

[Anonymous]

20 new cases at MBHS. OMG!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Newsflash: The flu shot and the covid19 shot don't currently match the strains going around the DMV.

Just in case anyone was still holding out hope that either did.

Why are people spreading disinformation? Are they trying to discourage vaccination? Are they trying to create panic?

Maybe you could view it as a reminder that nothing if foolproof and other mitigation and responsible behavior is needed. Now I think some of this is a failure in public messaging because people hear the vaccine is 95% effective and think that gives them permission to go to parties and crowded football games. But people should educate themselves on the limitations of just vaccinating and nothing else.

Right. They might get something akin to cold.

It really seems like people have lost perspective on that. I don't remember calls to isolate or mask during past cold/flu seasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20 new cases at MBHS. OMG!

In a school with 3200 kids and a few hundred staff members? If that is sustained it might get to the 5% threshold, but just barely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vaccine isn't meant to 100% prevent infection. It'd be great if it did that, but even the flu vaccine doesn't do that. What it does is GREATLY increase the chance at survival and significantly lessen the chance that you'll be hospitalized and/or have severe symptoms that may cause long term issues. I don't understand why this is confusing for people. Being vaccinated is still a much better option than being unvaccinated.

YES x1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20 new cases at MBHS. OMG!

In a school with 3200 kids and a few hundred staff members? If that is sustained it might get to the 5% threshold, but just barely.

They are symptomatic. Considering asymptomatic ones and symptomatic but not tested I would guess that it may be around 100 cases in one day. That is OMG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20 new cases at MBHS. OMG!

25 announced at Wheaton HS today.