~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

[chakoo]

12 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

seems bad

 

 

 

[CayceG]

23 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

seems bad

 

 

 

 

This dude is Seth Abramson, but for Covid. 

 

Covid's Cassandra: The Swift, Complicated Rise of Eric Feigl-Ding

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The scientist has gained popularity as Covid's excitable play-by-play announcer. But some experts want to pull his plug.

 

 

 

 

 

[CitizenVectron]

There's also concern over the Brazil variant infecting people who have already had the original virus. A region in Brazil which is believed to have been 70%+ infected in the first wave is now experiencing massive death with the new variant, at levels that imply it's ignoring original immunity.

[CayceG]

11 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

There's also concern over the Brazil variant infecting people who have already had the original virus. A region in Brazil which is believed to have been 70%+ infected in the first wave is now experiencing massive death with the new variant, at levels that imply it's ignoring original immunity.

 

 

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

15 minutes ago, CayceG said:

 

 

This dude is Seth Abramson, but for Covid. 

 

Covid's Cassandra: The Swift, Complicated Rise of Eric Feigl-Ding

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The scientist has gained popularity as Covid's excitable play-by-play announcer. But some experts want to pull his plug.

 

 

 

 

 

TIL!

[Littleronin]

28 minutes ago, CayceG said:

 

 

 

Damn card always pops up at exactly the right moment. "Hey, hey, we are starting to get this under control. As long as..." Rest of group, "Don't say it you stupid fuck!" **Draw two cards, Epidemic shows up**

[CayceG]

Here's a thread from a real virologist:

 

 

 

[mclumber1]

10 minutes ago, CayceG said:

Here's a thread from a real virologist:

 

 

 

 

Video of how Brazilians were transmitting the more contagious variant of coronavirus:

 

[Littleronin]

 

Missouri state lawmaker charged with selling fake stem cell treatments and claiming they are a cure for Covid-19

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A newly elected Missouri state representative and assistant physician faces charges for allegedly running a fraud scheme in her three clinics and providing prescription drugs illegally, according to federal prosecutors.

At this point, why not. I mean this seems like the next logical step of crazy that follows a guy that suggested putting bleach or UV inside the body. 

[Remarkableriots]

CDC director says schools can safely reopen without vaccinating teachers

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Teachers do not need to get vaccinated against Covid-19 before schools can safely reopen, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

 

[Brian]

81-person French orgy broken up for violating COVID-19 curfew

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An 81-person orgy at a French warehouse was broken up by police last Friday for violating a coronavirus curfew, a report said. The sex party in Collegien — about 20 miles...

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Fuck this fucking fuck

 

 

 

[AbsolutSurgen]

17 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

1. Brian Lilley is like a Tucker Carlson of Canada and deserves no respect.

2. They haven't received firm numbers for the shipments, that is why the column is blank...the article even talks about that. This is like saying "I forgot my wallet at home, let me run and get it and I'll come back to buy gas" and then a headline of "man disappears, no commitment to purchase gas, Shell in potential peril?!"

1.  It was the picture of a document from the federal government

2.  That is the problem.  An efficient provincial distribution system needs to be able to plan.  Since the federal government is not able to provide shipment numbers to the province, they will need to stockpile doses to protect for the second doses.  It slows down the vaccination process.  And when the doses do finally arrive, people will criticize the provincial governments for not jabbing people fast enough.

[AbsolutSurgen]

100 cheeseburgers, mood lights and exotic dancers: Search warrant details alleged pandemic penthouse party

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In the early hours of Saturday morning, as Vancouver police officers stood outside what they suspected was a makeshift nightclub housed in the penthouse of a downtown apartment building, a delivery driver allegedly showed up with a McDonald's bag.

Police claim there were 100 cheeseburgers inside — a detail that would become part of the rationale for investigators to return to the suite with a search warrant 24 hours later.

"I believe this shows that the number of people inside [the penthouse] was so large that they required an unusually large order of 100 cheeseburgers," wrote Const. Regie Gnanaseelan, the officer who swore the information to obtain the warrant, which was obtained by CBC News.

 

[CitizenVectron]

5 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

100 cheeseburgers, mood lights and exotic dancers: Search warrant details alleged pandemic penthouse party

 

 

I mean I could eat like 5 or 6, so it might have been 20-25 people.  

[Joe]

I just signed up my mom and me for an appointment and a lib friend of mine is literally telling me what a bad person I am for getting an appointment because I'm white and upper middle class. Never-mind that I am obese and I have asthma, I guess.

[CitizenVectron]

5 minutes ago, Joe said:

I just signed up my mom and I for an appointment and a lib friend of mine is literally telling me what a bad person I am for getting an appointment because I'm white and upper middle class. Never-mind that I am obese and I have asthma, I guess.

 

Tell them new research shows that you can transmit immunity through sex, and you are only getting it in order to pass it on to dozens of elderly people through some sensual horizontal vaccination. 

[Joe]

Pointless virtue signaling in the name of "equity." It's not equitable if no one gets vaccinated, what the fuck.

[marioandsonic]

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations - Statistics and Research

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In our Data Explorer you can see our COVID-19 vaccination data — you can also visualize the latest data on confirmed cases, deaths, and testing.

 

According to this, the US has now vaccinated at least 10% of the population.  And that was after the first vaccines came out less than two months ago.  I'd like to think we'll reach 20% in a shorter time than that, thanks to improved distribution and new vaccines which should be getting approved soon.

 

What percentage do we need to reach to get to herd immunity?  Isn't it like 70%?

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

25 minutes ago, Joe said:

I just signed up my mom and me for an appointment and a lib friend of mine is literally telling me what a bad person I am for getting an appointment because I'm white and upper middle class. Never-mind that I am obese and I have asthma, I guess.

Blaming individuals instead of systems is peak lib brain

[BloodyHell]

31 minutes ago, Joe said:

I just signed up my mom and me for an appointment and a lib friend of mine is literally telling me what a bad person I am for getting an appointment because I'm white and upper middle class. Never-mind that I am obese and I have asthma, I guess.

The left has been eating its own for years. California's best politician was forced forced out over a shitty picture. Meanwhile we have green, Boobert, Cruz, etc destroying the country while the left fights amongst its own. Defund the police, but act like cops.

 

A bunch of people on the left want perfect to be the enemy of good.

[Joe]

1 minute ago, BloodyHell said:

The left has been eating its own for years. California's best politician was forced forced out over a shitty picture. Meanwhile we have green, Boobert, Cruz, etc destroying the country while the left fights amongst its own. Defund the police, but act like cops.

 

A bunch of people on the left want perfect to be the enemy of good.

 

He's actually not a leftist at all; he basically hates them. He's the most textbook lib that ever libbed.

 

This is what he said to me:

 

"(This is why Bernie will never get his policies through ha—people are shit and also people THINK other people are shitty) — so good luck with anyone self sacrificing at all"

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, marioandsonic said:

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations - Statistics and Research

OURWORLDINDATA.ORG

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In our Data Explorer you can see our COVID-19 vaccination data — you can also visualize the latest data on confirmed cases, deaths, and testing.

 

According to this, the US has now vaccinated at least 10% of the population.  And that was after the first vaccines came out less than two months ago.  I'd like to think we'll reach 20% in a shorter time than that, thanks to improved distribution and new vaccines which should be getting approved soon.

 

What percentage do we need to reach to get to herd immunity?  Isn't it like 70%?

I think we actually only have around 4% who have received both doses.

 

And nobody actually knows the percentage needed for herd immunity to really kick in, but you don’t even have to wait for full on herd immunity to kick in to see noticeable improvements in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

[BloodyHell]

10 minutes ago, Joe said:

 

He's actually not a leftist at all; he basically hates them. He's the most textbook lib that ever libbed.

 

This is what he said to me:

 

"(This is why Bernie will never get his policies through ha—people are shit and also people THINK other people are shitty) — so good luck with anyone self sacrificing at all"

So he's either a hypocrite, or just trying to make you as miserable as he is.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

39 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

I think we actually only have around 4% who have received both doses.

 

And nobody actually knows the percentage needed for herd immunity to really kick in, but you don’t even have to wait for full on herd immunity to kick in to see noticeable improvements in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

Yeah there's not a set % but estimates from Fauci and others I have read say somewhere between 70-85% so good luck with us getting there 

[AbsolutSurgen]

1 hour ago, sblfilms said:

I think we actually only have around 4% who have received both doses.

 

And nobody actually knows the percentage needed for herd immunity to really kick in, but you don’t even have to wait for full on herd immunity to kick in to see noticeable improvements in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

According to ourworldindata it is just under 2% who have received both doses.

[AbsolutSurgen]

Canada Could Get Vaccine Delivery Boost Through Global Sharing Program

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OTTAWA — Canada could get more than one million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of March through a global vaccine sharing initiative known as COVAX.

But as with most things COVID-19, vaccine-related deliveries are mired in the uncertainty of regulatory reviews and potential production delays.

The COVAX Facility, co-ordinated by the World Health Organization and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, pools funds from wealthier countries to buy vaccines for themselves and for 92 low- and middle-income nations that can’t afford to buy on their own.

Trudeau has received criticism for the decision of Canada to receive doses from this program, which is ridiculous.  The whole point of the COVAX program was that the contributing nations would get half of the doses procured -- it probably would have received very little funding without it.  Given that Canada will be vaccinating high-risk individuals for the better part of the next 6-months, there is no rational reason to turn them down.

[AbsolutSurgen]

Adults 20 to 49 may have driven 72% of US COVID-19 surges

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Adults 20 to 49 years old may have kindled 72.2% of US COVID-19 resurgences starting in late summer 2020, with those 35 to 49 especially contributing, a study published yesterday in Science suggests.

A team led by researchers from Imperial College London analyzed age-specific cell phone mobility data of more than 10 million Americans and linked them to age-specific COVID-19 death data starting on Mar 15, 2020.

Data from 42 US states, Washington, DC, and New York City showed that the number of visits to places such as supermarkets and restaurants began to rebound across all age-groups in August after a significant initial reduction due to public health interventions such as lockdowns in the spring. COVID-19 infections and deaths followed a similar pattern in both the United States and Europe.

Among all locations assessed, until mid-August, the 35- to 49-year age-group was estimated to have contributed to 41.1% of virus transmission, compared with 2.1% in those aged 0 to 9 years, 4.0% in those 10 to 19, 34.7% in those 20 to 34, 15.3% in those 50 to 64, 2.5% in those 65 to 79, and 0.3% in those 80 and older. The number of coronavirus deaths did not rise significantly after school reopenings in the fall.

The proportion of different age-groups among COVID-19 deaths stayed relatively constant over time, in contrast with the large shifts in their relative proportion of cases.

"Based on the combined mobility and death data, we find the reconstructed fluctuations in age-specific reproduction numbers had only a relatively modest impact on the contribution of age groups to onward spread over time, and no evidence that young adults aged 20-34 were the primary source of resurgent COVID-19 in the US over summer 2020," the authors wrote. 

But by October 2020, the 20- to 49-year age-group was the only one with a reproduction number—or number of secondary people infected per case—above 1, which is the level it takes for an outbreak to expand. The estimated contribution to spread by age-groups by that time was 72.2% for adults 20 to 49 years, versus less than 5% from children 0 to 9 and less than 10% from teens 10 to 19.

Targeted interventions to stem spread, deaths

Over time, COVID-19 transmission rates varied widely across the United States, with higher rates attributed to the 20- to 49-year age-group and those aged 20 to 34 in the southern, southwestern, and western regions of the country.

"We find adults aged 20-49 are a main driver of the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States and are the only age groups contributing disproportionally to onward spread, relative to their population size," lead author Melodie Monod, MSc, said in an Imperial College London news release. "While children and teens contribute more to COVID19 spread since school closure mandates have been lifted in fall 2020, we find these dynamics have not changed substantially since school re-opening."

The authors called for targeting interventions such as transmission-reducing vaccines to people 20 to 49 years as a strategy to reduce the likelihood of future COVID-19 surges and related deaths in areas not yet affected by highly transmissible new coronavirus variants. "Adults aged 20-49 naturally have most contacts to other adults aged 20 and above," the authors wrote in the study, adding that the age-group is both more vulnerable to the virus and more mobile than younger people.

 

[marioandsonic]

As usual, everything is millenials' fault

[Joe]

5 minutes ago, marioandsonic said:

As usual, everything is millenials' fault

 

Seems like more Gen X turds to me, jaja.

[Spork3245]

5 minutes ago, Joe said:

jaja.

We know you’re white now. Knock it off.

[Joe]

1 minute ago, Spork3245 said:

We know you’re white now. Knock it off.

 

George Zimmerman would like a word.

[Spork3245]

Just now, Joe said:

 

George Zimmerman would like a word.

You know him? You fake latinos stick together, I see!

[AbsolutSurgen]

1 hour ago, marioandsonic said:

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations - Statistics and Research

OURWORLDINDATA.ORG

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In our Data Explorer you can see our COVID-19 vaccination data — you can also visualize the latest data on confirmed cases, deaths, and testing.

 

According to this, the US has now vaccinated at least 10% of the population.  And that was after the first vaccines came out less than two months ago.  I'd like to think we'll reach 20% in a shorter time than that, thanks to improved distribution and new vaccines which should be getting approved soon.

 

What percentage do we need to reach to get to herd immunity?  Isn't it like 70%?

I think the chart you were looking at shows total doses.  According to that site, ~8% of US population has received at least one dose.

[CitizenVectron]

49 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Canada Could Get Vaccine Delivery Boost Through Global Sharing Program

Trudeau has received criticism for the decision of Canada to receive doses from this program, which is ridiculous.  The whole point of the COVAX program was that the contributing nations would get half of the doses procured -- it probably would have received very little funding without it.  Given that Canada will be vaccinating high-risk individuals for the better part of the next 6-months, there is no rational reason to turn them down.

 

Yeah there is definitely valid criticism of Canada's vaccine procurement/rollout, but this isn't one of them. Many of the headlines were "Canada only G8 nation to use it," when an alternate headline could be "Canada one of many G20 nations to use it." And the reason we are using it, is because we've also put a bunch of money into it, allowing it to distribute vaccines to other countries.