Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #100

[Cool Cats]

Good News

Nowhere left for Covid to go to mutate into a deadly variant, says Oxford vaccine creator

Dame Sarah Gilbert said Covid-19 will eventually become like other seasonal coronaviruses which cause the common cold

Covid is unlikely to mutate into a much deadlier variant because there “aren’t many places for the virus to go”, the lead scientist behind the Oxford vaccine has said.

Dame Sarah Gilbert said that viruses tended to become less virulent over time as they spread through a population which was becoming more immune.

Although Dame Sarah said some genetic drift was to be expected, she said Covid-19 would eventually become like other seasonal coronaviruses which cause the common cold and respiratory infections.

Speaking on a Royal Society of Medicine webinar about variants on Wednesday, Dame Sarah said: “The virus can’t completely mutate because its spike protein has to interact with the ACE2 receptor on the surface of the human cell, in order to get inside that cell.

“If it changes its spike protein so much that it can’t interact with that receptor, then it’s not going to be able to get inside the cell. So there aren’t very many places for the virus to go to have something that will evade immunity but still be a really infectious virus.”

 

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More Good News I Hope

COVID cluster outbreaks could signal pandemic is nearing the end

Upticks in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in central southeastern states such as West Virginia and Kentucky are considered signs that the pandemic is on its way out and shifting toward endemicity.

As more people gain immunity to the coronavirus, through either vaccination or infection, the virus has fewer opportunities to spread and mutate into variants that are better at infecting people. The pandemic’s demotion to the endemic level at which the virus circulates globally at manageable levels is likely around the corner, infectious disease experts say, but the delta variant is still ripping through states such as West Virginia and Kentucky, where immunogenicity is low.

“Delta speeds up that approach to endemicity,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, an expert in infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. She pointed to California as an example of recently declining case rates due to a steady uptick in vaccinations over the summer as well as natural exposure of unvaccinated people to the virus.

The delta variant “leaves immunity in its wake,” Gandhi said. “So you get all this immunity, then you get it down to a low circulating level, and then that is a way to live.”

 

[Cool Cats]

• COVID-19 Vaccination
• What to expect if you get a breakthrough COVID-19 infection

How sick will I get with a breakthrough infection?

You might feel like you have a little sore throat and a runny nose and not initially realize you have COVID-19. Or you could feel similar to if you had the flu. COVID-19 symptoms like losing your taste and smell can also happen with breakthrough infections. But rarely do vaccinated people get very sick and die.

Getting vaccinated is the best way to slow the spread of COVID-19 and to prevent infection by Delta and other variants.

What should I do if I get a breakthrough infection?

Although your risk of getting infected after vaccination is low, if you have symptoms that are consistent with COVID-19, you should isolate yourself from others and get tested, says the CDC. Preliminary evidence suggests that fully vaccinated people can spread the virus if infected with the Delta variant. And this means precautionary measures remain important. These include both testing and masking up in indoor public places where there’s substantial or high COVID transmission.

Will I get ‘long COVID’ with a breakthrough infection?

Recently, a British study of more than 1.2 million found that the odds of having symptoms for 28 days or more were approximately cut in half for vaccinated people versus unvaccinated participants. Although the reasons for long COVID remain largely unknown, experts say your best defense against COVID-19, and in turn, long COVID, remains getting vaccinated.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

YAY!

Nowhere left for Covid to go to mutate into a deadly variant, says Oxford vaccine creator

 

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Wrong Thread

 

[jjenny]

It is truly puzzling why first responders and police officers are not getting vaccinated in large numbers-and dying. So sad for them and so sad for us the public

I am not puzzled. They tend to be republican males, a group most resistant to being vaccinated (as shown by polls).

 

[musicaljoke]

Hairdressers in parts of the UK are reporting clients having new allergic reactions, like rashes and burns, to hair dye after contracting coronavirus.

Scientists at Imperial College London are now researching how the disease could be reprogramming our immune system, in a similar way to other illnesses.

Salons report new allergic reactions to hair dye.

 

[GRT]

I am not puzzled. They tend to be republican males, a group most resistant to being vaccinated (as shown by polls).

I think that's probably accurate--for some odd reason--but the Kaiser Foundation released data just yesterday that shows blacks, in general, are the least vaccinated group. Or rather, the most "vaccine-resistant," as they call it. Unfortunately, blacks also have the highest death rate from the virus, and I'm not sure why that is.

It's also interesting that Asians have the highest vax rates.

 

[GRT]

Hairdressers in parts of the UK are reporting clients having new allergic reactions, like rashes and burns, to hair dye after contracting coronavirus.

Scientists at Imperial College London are now researching how the disease could be reprogramming our immune system, in a similar way to other illnesses.

Salons report new allergic reactions to hair dye.

Another bad side effect!

 

[musicaljoke]

Another bad side effect!

Yeh, that's true. It's odd, isn't it. This disease has many mysterious facets.

 

[MimosaMornings]

No, Vaccinated People Are Not ‘Just as Likely’ to Spread the Coronavirus as Unvaccinated People — The Atlantic

 

[MimosaMornings]

Army Officer: I Took All the Other Vaccines but I Won’t Get COVID Jab Because ‘Freedom’ — The Daily Beast

“A lieutenant colonel who says he will resign from the Army rather than get the COVID-19 vaccine declared on Fox News Wednesday night that while he has taken all the other vaccinations required by the military, he won’t get the coronavirus shot because of “freedom.”

First, and foremost, I am incapable of subjecting myself to the unlawful, unethical, immoral and tyrannical order to sit still and allow a serum to be injected into my flesh against my will and better judgment,” Hague wrote, adding that he was also resigning due to what he views as “an ideologically Marxist takeover of the United States government at their upper echelons.”

 

[Cool Cats]

What is it that makes this guy's Covid vaccine the outlier? He had to get a laundry list of vaccines to keep his service job but now the Covid vaccine ties into his freedom?

Army Officer Admits Having All Vaccines But Not COVID-19 Shot Because Of 'Freedom'

“I don’t want the COVID vaccine and I don’t plan on getting it. But I’ve had all of the other Army vaccines. I’ve had eight anthrax shots. I’ve had the smallpox vaccination. I’ve had them all,” Hague said.

“So it’s really not about whether or not I’ll get the shot. This is really about the freedom of the American people,” he continued. “The right to choose your own medical procedures. The right to decide what’s gonna be injected into your body and what’s not. That’s a natural human right that we can’t take away from people. And I swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution which affords those rights to the Americans.”

Posted before I saw yours @MimosaMornings - need my coffee, my AM Java!

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Cut off your nose to spite your face.

Army Officer: I Took All the Other Vaccines but I Won’t Get COVID Jab Because ‘Freedom’ — The Daily Beast

 

[Teche]

• COVID-19 Vaccination
• What to expect if you get a breakthrough COVID-19 infection

How sick will I get with a breakthrough infection?

You might feel like you have a little sore throat and a runny nose and not initially realize you have COVID-19. Or you could feel similar to if you had the flu. COVID-19 symptoms like losing your taste and smell can also happen with breakthrough infections. But rarely do vaccinated people get very sick and die.

Getting vaccinated is the best way to slow the spread of COVID-19 and to prevent infection by Delta and other variants.

What should I do if I get a breakthrough infection?

Although your risk of getting infected after vaccination is low, if you have symptoms that are consistent with COVID-19, you should isolate yourself from others and get tested, says the CDC. Preliminary evidence suggests that fully vaccinated people can spread the virus if infected with the Delta variant. And this means precautionary measures remain important. These include both testing and masking up in indoor public places where there’s substantial or high COVID transmission.

Will I get ‘long COVID’ with a breakthrough infection?

Recently, a British study of more than 1.2 million found that the odds of having symptoms for 28 days or more were approximately cut in half for vaccinated people versus unvaccinated participants. Although the reasons for long COVID remain largely unknown, experts say your best defense against COVID-19, and in turn, long COVID, remains getting vaccinated.

Unfortunately, Louisiana has quite a few deaths of fully vaccinated deaths. I was shocked to see our state department’s Covid dashboard. I'm sure that these deaths are in the elderly who have health challenges. Louisiana administered Moderna and Pfizer.

 

[ilovewings]

Moderna chief executive sees pandemic over in a year - newspaper (yahoo.com)

Sigh- another year is a loooong time to live with this pandemic

 

[weepingangel]

Dbm

 

[Turkeytrot]

Florida students no longer required to quarantine after direct exposure to COVID

Yeah...that's a great plan..

 

[Hazelnutty]

Florida students no longer required to quarantine after direct exposure to COVID

Yeah...that's a great plan..

Craziness! Ugh. Why do they not value others' health & well-being +++++ life?

Jmo

 

[ilovewings]

Florida students no longer required to quarantine after direct exposure to COVID

Yeah...that's a great plan..

It's a great plan if you want a bunch of sick kids--- Oy Vay!!!!