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NFL chief medical officer pushes back on Aaron Rodgers' claim that some COVID-19 protocols are 'not based in science' — USA TODAY

“Allen Sills, the NFL's chief medical officer, pushed back on the notion put forth by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers that the league's COVID-19 protocols, established in conjunction with the NFL Players Association, are based on anything other than science and data.

“We've been very consistent,” Sills told reporters during a conference call on Wednesday. “First of all, these are things that we decided collectively with the players association (NFLPA). They're always based on science. The science that at best we understand for public health, but also our own data. We are constantly looking at our own data in every way possible, to see where we might still be vulnerable and what parts of our protocols we think are particularly effective. So, we're very comfortable with what we've put in place being driven by our data and is working.”


“Rodgers said during a Nov. 5 appearance on "The Pat McAfee Show" that he didn’t believe the NFL's COVID-19 rules were based on science.

“Some of the rules to me are not based in science at all,” said Rodgers, two days after he tested positive for COVID-19 and began a mandatory 10-day quarantine that would force him to miss one game. “They are based purely in trying to out and shame people, like needing to wear a mask at a podium when everyone in the room is vaccinated and wearing a mask makes no sense to me.”

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Perhaps Aaron could do commercials for Ivermectin- !!!!!
 
ilovewings said:
I guess you just never know how the vaccine can affect you. I really didnt
want to get the booster for that reason, but obviously it would be foolish
not to get it. i hope both you and hubby feel better soon. I tried to get the
shot at CVS but there were 40 people ahead of me --Rite Aid had a lot less people.
waiting. Take care.
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Obviously, I meant that my "arm" was still very sore :oops: I don't feel unwell, but I also don't feel like I want to do much. We will both probably go to bed very early and hope we're both feeling better in the morning. We had appointments for our Pfizer boosters at Meijer - very smooth process.
 
ilovewings said:
I've thought about schools, but school has been in session now since August, so why the surge now? There have been lots of college football games, like at U of M with over 109,000 people in the stadium- that was in August, and that did NOT result in a surge.
Go figure!!!!
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supposedly hockey (indoor) is particularly bad because there is a lot of close contact, not much ventilation because it is cold from the ice, and lots of travel teams FWIW.
 
MimosaMornings said:
NFL chief medical officer pushes back on Aaron Rodgers' claim that some COVID-19 protocols are 'not based in science' — USA TODAY

“Allen Sills, the NFL's chief medical officer, pushed back on the notion put forth by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers that the league's COVID-19 protocols, established in conjunction with the NFL Players Association, are based on anything other than science and data.

“We've been very consistent,” Sills told reporters during a conference call on Wednesday. “First of all, these are things that we decided collectively with the players association (NFLPA). They're always based on science. The science that at best we understand for public health, but also our own data. We are constantly looking at our own data in every way possible, to see where we might still be vulnerable and what
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acutename said:
supposedly hockey (indoor) is particularly bad because there is a lot of close contact, not much ventilation because it is cold from the ice, and lots of travel teams FWIW.
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that makes lots of sense: I can see more teams having some problems as the season goes on
 
A covid-19 patient’s family was choosing her gravestone. Then she awoke after weeks on a ventilator. — The Washington Post

“Bettina was in Maine to help Andrew and his family care for his father, who was battling stage-four cancer, Andrew said. But in early September, Andrew, his wife, his father and Bettina all contracted the coronavirus. Andrew, who had not been vaccinated, said being sick was “brutal,” but he, his wife and his father recovered.”

“Bettina, who also had not been vaccinated, did not recover. “She was planning on getting vaccinated before she left Florida, but she ran out of time,” Andrew said. “She was going to get vaccinated up here, but she came down with covid.”

(She’s had Covid for six months? She was on a ventilator for the month of October so unless she had been in the hospital for six months she could have gotten the shot starting in February with her age and health conditions!)

“After about a week of being in the hospital, Bettina was put on a ventilator and fell into a coma that lasted more than a month. Doctors told Andrew’s family that Bettina’s lungs “were destroyed,” he said. And because Bettina was reaching her 70s, had diabetes and had undergone a recent quadruple-bypass surgery, doctors “thought there was no chance of survival at that point.”

Oh geez, none of them were vaccinated.
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Hospitalizations rising among fully vaccinated in U.S., Fauci says (nbcnews.com)

"What we’re starting to see now is an uptick in hospitalizations among people who’ve been vaccinated but not boosted."

As cases of Covid-19 rise throughout the U.S., health officials warn that an increasing number of fully vaccinated people are being hospitalized or going to the emergency room. The concern about waning immunity against severe Covid infection comes as the Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine booster shot for all adults 18 and older.

“What we’re starting to see now is an uptick in hospitalizations among people who’ve been vaccinated but not boosted,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, said Tuesday in an interview. “It’s a significant proportion, but not the majority by any means.”...
 
Higher vitamin D status linked with better COVID-19 outcomes, reveals CRN

“This growing body of research does not indicate that vitamin D is a substitute for vaccines, mask wearing, social distancing or other behaviors to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus,” says Luke Huber, vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs at CRN.

“But the data does suggest that vitamin D levels may play a role, in combination with other therapies, in strengthening the immune system to resist the virus.”

Higher vitamin D status linked with better COVID-19 outcomes, reveals CRN
 
Europe on 'red alert' for Christmas lockdown: Austria sees record cases despite Covid apartheid | Daily Mail Online


Europe is facing a second consecutive Christmas under lockdown with record-breaking coronavirus cases in nations across the continent sparking 'red alert' warnings.

The WHO said today Europe was the only region in the world where deaths had increased - with fatalities spiking by five percent this week.

Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said 'the alarm signals are all red' as he imposed tough restrictions, ordering people to work at home for at least four days a week.

In Austria, Covid cases have continued rising after two million unvaccinated people were ordered to stay in their homes on Monday.

Germany has seen a record-breaking number of cases, with 68,366 new infections on Thursday - a colossal 40 percent rise on the same day last week.

'We are currently heading toward a serious emergency,' the director of Berlin's Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, said. 'We are going to have a really terrible Christmas if we don't take countermeasures now.'

Now the country is considering following Vienna by imposing a 'lockdown for the unvaccinated', with Italy and Greece also considering a similar health apartheid.
 
I’m not surprised especially after the way he treated the Steelers.

Bucs receiver Antonio Brown obtained a fake COVID-19 vaccination card so he could avoid NFL protocols, according to his former live-in chef.

Brown’s girlfriend, model Cydney Moreau, told Los Angeles chef Steven Ruiz in a text message July 2 that Brown was willing to pay $500 if he could get a Johnson & Johnson vaccination card.

“Can you get the COVID cards?” Moreau texted Ruiz on July 2, according to a screen grab he provided to the Tampa Bay Times.

“I can try,” Ruiz responded.

“JNJ shot. Ab said he would give you $500,” Moreau texted.

The text exchange between Moreau and Ruiz does not refer to Brown by name. The wide receiver is often called A.B. by friends, coaches and teammates.

Bucs’ Antonio Brown accused of obtaining fake vaccine card

Tampa statement
 
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ilovewings said:
I have a question--Does anyone know how long it takes the booster
to become effective?? I heard somewhere it was 2weeks, but tonight
on evening news they said protection kicks in immediately
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Our pharmacist who gave my husband the Pfizer vaccine booster said two weeks. The hospital where I got my Moderna booster told me two weeks for the booster shot to be fully effective.
 
Booster Shots, Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines

Meanwhile, a study from Israel concluded that a third booster shot of the mRNA vaccines appeared to significantly restore protective effects.

“We found that 7–13 days after the booster shot there is a 48–68 percent reduction in the odds of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection, and that 14–20 days after the booster the marginal effectiveness increases to 70–84 percent,” the researchers from Maccabi Healthcare Services reported.

EBM to clean up links
 
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