Aristides

Most of the new recommendations will come from public health professionals because they are the ones getting the real world experience. There is nothing in it for manufacturers to change anything from their trial data.

Germany has approved AstraZeneca for over 65.

0.2% of what?

Smallpox killed 100 million people in the last 100 years before it was eliminated by vaccines. It had been around for at least 4000 years.

World wide the death rate of those infected Is 2.2%. John’s Hopkins. Saying there is an over 99% survival rate is like saying you survived the Afghan war just because you were alive when it happened, even though you never went near the place. You can’t recover from something you never had.

It's only over 99% if you figure every person in the world has been infected. Get real.

It should be understood that most new initiatives will likely come from public health doctors based on real world experience. Once the vaccines are out the manufacturers priority will be ass covering. There is nothing in it for them to increase the interval between doses.

The more a virus circulates, the greater chance of more variants. It’s just too bad we can’t vaccinate much quicker.

How would I know?

Shingles can be much more than a nasty rash. I have a friend who lost his flying career when it got into his eyes. It didn't blind him but he could no longer pass a physical. How do you know you are otherwise healthy and how do you leave others alone? You unknowingly infect a health care worker in the grocery store and they unknowingly take it into a LTC or hospital. That's how this works.

Interesting that they are being built by Fincantieri in Italy. It is also based on the FREMM which we rejected. It is also intended for fleet air defence, not an all rounder.

Covid has killed five times as many people as influenza in a really bad year. Believe whatever you want but you should start getting it from the horses mouth instead of its ass.

It isn't just about deaths, hospitalizations increase exponentially with age. Someone between 50 and 65 is twice as likely to be hospitalized as someone between 40 and 50 and they are twice as likely to be hospitalized as someone between 30 and 40, and so on. This virus may also have long term effects. It screws with all kinds of organs including the brain. The lasting "brain fog" is well documented. Will those people be more vulnerable to things like Alzheimers and strokes in the future. We don't know. Someone who has had Chickenpox as a child can have Shingles which is much worse get them when they are older. Anyone who takes this lightly is playing roulette.

The only boundary the old and vulnerable reach from this virus is death. There is no herd immunity for them unless it comes from a vaccine. Professionals are concerned about new variants and their resistance to vaccines. So far the vaccines we have are working well, who knows about the future. There are no guarantees here.

We did better than some and worse than others. As far as protecting the elderly goes, the best thing we can do for them is not get infected ourselves. All those people in LTC's didn't go out and get Covid, it was delivered to them by people who had been infected by someone else during their daily lives.

Except the first people vaccinated were the elderly and vulnerable, the people who make up most of the hospitalizations and deaths by far, so if the vaccines are effective you should see a marked decrease starting two or three weeks after vaccinations started.

We know cases go down when the days get warmer and longer, they do with other viruses as well. The upsurge in late fall was predicted and happened. The introduction of vaccines and the resulting huge drop in hospitalizations and deaths happened in January and February, not the summer. False cause fallacy my ass.

They started on the 4th of January. By the end of February over 20 million had one dose and 796,000 had both doses. Total doses don't tell the story because the first to be vaccinated were the elderly and most vulnerable. That's why hospitalizations and deaths would be way down.

Na, I think it should be the other way around.

We also sell arms to KSA.

The UK's high vaccination rate is because of the AstraZeneca vaccine because they are manufacturing it themselves. Daily hospitalizations have gone from over 4000 to about 1000 since the middle of January. Total hospitalizations have been cut in half.

There is on the AstraZeneca as well. It is similar to the others on the British variant but not good against the South African. Of course its SA efficacy is academic if one of the other strains gets you first

It's the most inexpensive vaccine out there and it is open source. Not much money is being made from it. It has crushed hospitalizations in the UK. They are a quarter of what they were a month and a half ago.

New Zealand and Australia did a lot of things right. Arguably more than any other western countries. They are also island countries in the South Pacific. They don't share a 5000km land border with the biggest Covid disaster country on the planet.

I should hope so. Some of them should have been in jail some time ago, like the guy who repeatedly used his condo as a night club.