This is a blue state bug (for now at least)

[Anonymous]

50% after 6 months for infection

Still highly effective against hospitalization and death

They will be rolling out booster shots very soon

I am not willing to accept overrun hospitals as a norm. That’s insane

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:50% after 6 months for infection

Still highly effective against hospitalization and death

They will be rolling out booster shots very soon

I am not willing to accept overrun hospitals as a norm. That’s insane

Vaccines should keep things relatively in check as with the flu but there will be outbreaks from time to time just like with the flu. It's not uncommon for flu outbreaks to pressure hospitals as well.

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patients/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With The Pfizer vaccine under 50% effective now against delta infection it’s becoming more clear that this disease will spread seasonally permanently. People will be vaccinated from time to time but infection will continue and eventually become a normal part of life like the five or six other coronaviruses that have entered circulation over time. Better get used to occasionally getting sick.

Better mask up

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With The Pfizer vaccine under 50% effective now against delta infection it’s becoming more clear that this disease will spread seasonally permanently. People will be vaccinated from time to time but infection will continue and eventually become a normal part of life like the five or six other coronaviruses that have entered circulation over time. Better get used to occasionally getting sick.

Better mask up

There's a study from Qatar which also shows a difference in efficacy between Pfizer and Moderna, but that might be due more to the fact that the Pfizer people were vaccinated a few months before the Moderna people.

"However, there has been less time for waning of vaccine immunity for mRNA-1273, as this vaccine was incorporated into the national immunization campaign nearly three months after BNT162b."
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.11.21261885v1

This is why some medical professionals I know are getting a booster shot already.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no more beds in the pediatric hospitals in Mississippi. Large numbers of kids are on ventilators. But they still don’t want to wear masks in schools

"bUT kIdS DOnT GeT COviD! OpEN tHE sCHOoLS!!!!"

I'd say I'm praying for this country but if there is a God, he sure isn't listening to the self-defeating idiots of America anymore.

God has provided us with modern medicine. This is like Jonah who kept running away from what God was trying to tell him. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it.

[Anonymous]

Cool. We are doomed.

[twitter] https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1425578495225344007?s=21[/twitter]

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Anonymous wrote:Cool. We are doomed.

[Anonymous]

And they want to make it worse!!

I didn’t know if I should post this here, in “the GOP is broken” or “is the GOP a death cult” because it applies in all three. This is absolutely bat shirt crazy. Republicans are doing everything they possibly can to inflict misery, pain, medical debt and death on as many families as possible and it’s both unconscionable and unbelievable. They have come totally untethered from decency and I really feel for Democrats who live in those states.

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Anonymous wrote:Cool. We are doomed.

The actual numbers of vaccinations being given every day have been rising for the last months , so more people are still getting vaccinated.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/28/960901166/how-is-the-covid-19-vaccination-campaign-going-in-your-state

[Anonymous]

Once upon a time, the US educated its citizenry to the extent that a public high school education would yield productive members of society.

Sadly, those days appear to be deep in the rear view mirror.

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Anonymous wrote:And they want to make it worse!!

I didn’t know if I should post this here, in “the GOP is broken” or “is the GOP a death cult” because it applies in all three. This is absolutely bat shirt crazy. Republicans are doing everything they possibly can to inflict misery, pain, medical debt and death on as many families as possible and it’s both unconscionable and unbelievable. They have come totally untethered from decency and I really feel for Democrats who live in those states.

But the right gaslights authoritarianism from the left. UFB.

[Anonymous]

Healthcare systems in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Florida are on the verge of collapse.

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Anonymous wrote:Healthcare systems in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Florida are on the verge of collapse.

Middle Tennessee has zero available hospital beds. From the medical director of a hospital:

No beds.
There are no beds.
In Middle Tennessee right now it is impossible to find an empty, staffed ICU, ER, or med/surg bed. As an ER doc and a healthcare administrator, this past week has been one of the most exhausting and disheartening of my career.
The delta variant has burned through us with a ferocity that’s hard to describe. 6 weeks ago there were 200 Covid patients in hospitals in Tennessee. Today there are 2000. A 1000% increase. In 6 weeks. It has overwhelmed tired doctors, nurses and healthcare systems that were already stretched thin.
The vaccines? They’re good. No, they’re not perfect. And yes, we are seeing more breakthrough infections with the Delta variant. But there’s a reason 96% of physicians got it - the risk/benefit analysis overwhelmingly favors the vaccines. Get one.
There’s been a lot of talk about personal freedoms, and mandates, and government overreach, and such. And, someday when the sun is shining again, we can sit down and have some interesting conversations about all that. I might even agree with you on some of those points.
But I can’t do that today. Not today.
Because there are no beds.

https://www.facebook.com/geoff.lifferth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Healthcare systems in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Florida are on the verge of collapse.

This is so sad and preventable.

[Anonymous]

Infuriating - no vaccine? No treatment. Eff them.