Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #96

[LadyL]

As Parents Forbid Covid Shots, Defiant Teenagers Seek Ways to Get Them

 

[jjenny]

Well today my husband and I went to Costco without masks on. As we were checking out at self serve, one of the employees helped us with our stuff.: he was not masked either. Very few customers had masks -- This employee was pretty close to us as we chatted and I kept thinking "HE IS BREATHING ON ME!!!" Yikes!!! I have not been in this situation since before last March. It is just weird and it is a tad scary but I keep thinking there has to be an upside to being fully vaccinated!!! Here in Oakland County Michigan we have a very low rate of positives and 56 percent vaccinated.

Delta infects fully vaccinated, both in Israel and in UK. I am not taking my mask off.
"The ability of the Delta variant to spread fast and deep has surprised many. It is the most infectious variant so far, especially among the nonvaccinated segments of the population. But it also hits the vaccinated, including the doubled-jabbed who, according to U.K. data, made up as much as 20% of those infected with Delta."
Sydney Lockdown Shows Delta Adds Urgency to Nations’ Covid Response - Bloomberg

 

[tabitha111]

A friend of mine passed away suddenly here at our Retirement home. She was only 61. She had Parkinson's and had been declining this past week. Not Covid related...here is what is, I rode up to her apartment with the coroner and he told me that he was attending an average of two Covid deaths per day still. He advised me that even though I am fully vaxxed to be cautious. His words " its still very much out there"

 

[LadyL]

Why are people still dying alone in our hospitals?

 

[LadyL]

Covid-19: A coronavirus-linked threat to children in India

 

[SouthAussie]

There was a party in Sydney (just before lockdown). Unknown to anyone, the Delta variant attended the party.

24 people at the party were unvaccinated.
6 people at the party (health workers) were fully vaccinated.
One person at the party (aged care worker) was partially vaccinated, with her first dose.

Guess which 24 people contracted the Delta virus? A 100% hit rate of unvaccinated people.
None of the vaccinated people (even the partially vaccinated person) caught the virus.

West Hoxton, NSW superspreader party becomes case study in effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines

Vaccinated health workers at West Hoxton birthday party didn't contract COVID-19, NSW Health reveals - ABC News

 

[GRT]

This is an interesting article about an Australian scientist who was working in the Wuhan Lab when the virus started circulating in China.

She doesn't think the virus leaked out of the lab, but that it probably jumped from a bat to humans--and she explains how it could take quite a while to find the bat host because it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

The Last–And Only–Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out

 

[GRT]

There was a party in Sydney (just before lockdown). Unknown to anyone, the Delta variant attended the party.

24 people at the party were unvaccinated.
6 people at the party (health workers) were fully vaccinated.
One person at the party (aged care worker) was partially vaccinated, with her first dose.

Guess which 24 people contracted the Delta virus? A 100% hit rate of unvaccinated people.
None of the vaccinated people (even the partially vaccinated person) caught the virus.

West Hoxton, NSW superspreader party becomes case study in effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines

Vaccinated health workers at West Hoxton birthday party didn't contract COVID-19, NSW Health reveals - ABC News

While I'm sorry for the 24 who became infected, I'm encouraged by the fact that none of the six who were vaccinated came down with the virus.

 

[drsleuth]

Australia Covid: Sydney in lockdown, national borders closed and hardly anyone vaccinated. How long can the country go on? - CNN

Australia has fully vaccinated just over 4% of its population, compared with more than 46% in the US and 47% in the UK, according to Our World in Data. Its rates are more comparable with Indonesia and India, which, like much of the developing world, were left out of the agreements with pharmaceutical companies that secured hundreds of millions of vaccine doses for most of the rich world.
Compounding the problem is hesitancy towards Covid-19 vaccines in Australia. One survey by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, with research firm Resolve Strategic, found 15% of adults surveyed were "not at all likely" and 14% were "not very likely" to take a vaccination in the months ahead. The survey was taken after an April ruling that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was linked to a very rare blood disorder side effect, involving blood clots.

 

[jjenny]

While I'm sorry for the 24 who became infected, I'm encouraged by the fact that none of the six who were vaccinated came down with the virus.

That actually is really good because figures out of UK an Israel have 20 -25 % of infections being fully vaccinated.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

There was a party in Sydney (just before lockdown). Unknown to anyone, the Delta variant attended the party.

24 people at the party were unvaccinated.
6 people at the party (health workers) were fully vaccinated.
One person at the party (aged care worker) was partially vaccinated, with her first dose.

Guess which 24 people contracted the Delta virus? A 100% hit rate of unvaccinated people.
None of the vaccinated people (even the partially vaccinated person) caught the virus.

West Hoxton, NSW superspreader party becomes case study in effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines

Vaccinated health workers at West Hoxton birthday party didn't contract COVID-19, NSW Health reveals - ABC News

Oh my word, a damning example if ever I heard one. I’m sad and sorry this stupid virus is gatecrashing your country after everything you’ve done to stop it

 

[jjenny]

Australia Covid: Sydney in lockdown, national borders closed and hardly anyone vaccinated. How long can the country go on? - CNN

Australia has fully vaccinated just over 4% of its population, compared with more than 46% in the US and 47% in the UK, according to Our World in Data. Its rates are more comparable with Indonesia and India, which, like much of the developing world, were left out of the agreements with pharmaceutical companies that secured hundreds of millions of vaccine doses for most of the rich world.
Compounding the problem is hesitancy towards Covid-19 vaccines in Australia. One survey by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, with research firm Resolve Strategic, found 15% of adults surveyed were "not at all likely" and 14% were "not very likely" to take a vaccination in the months ahead. The survey was taken after an April ruling that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was linked to a very rare blood disorder side effect, involving blood clots.

The outbreak in Australia is currently very small and they are trying to prevent it from growing into a big one.
As for people being reluctant to get AstraZeneca, I am not surprised. Australia managed to keep virus spread low, and AstraZeneca's blood clots can be very serious and deadly.

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Australia Covid: Outbreaks emerge across country in 'new phase' of pandemic

Headline news here today. We're routing for you Australia.

 

[drsleuth]

The outbreak in Australia is currently very small and they are trying to prevent it from growing into a big one.
As for people being reluctant to get AstraZeneca, I am not surprised. Australia managed to keep virus spread low, and AstraZeneca's blood clots can be very serious and deadly.

The problem we ( yes I'm in Australia, NSW ) have is that we have very low vaccination rates about 4% & a desperate need for more vaccines, our vaccine roll out has been a shambles, alot of positive cases now are not eligible to even get a vaccine ( less than 40 yrs )

AZ is only being given to people over 60 now too & we don't have enough Pfizer......& now we have the delta

Eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine
The following people are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine:

• All adults aged 40-49
• All Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 16 to 49
• NDIS participants, and carers of NDIS participants, aged 16 years and over
• Temporary visa holders aged under 50 years who are currently in Australia and have been approved for return travel to Australia through the travel exemption process.

This is in addition to the following people, who were already eligible for vaccination:

• All adults aged 50 and over
  
• Quarantine and border workers
• Health care workers
• Aged care and disability care residents and staff
• People aged 16 and over with an underlying medical condition or significant disability
• Critical and high risk workers aged 16 and over including defence, police, fire, emergency services and meat processing.
• Individuals with an Australian Border Force outwards travel exemption in an eligible category

When will I get a COVID-19 vaccine?

 

[CoverMeCagney]

It’s a mess. And now the FDA has linked Pfizer / Moderna with heart inflammation there will be even more vaccine hesitancy. I was keen to get my children jabbed with it ASAP but not so confident now there have been over 1200 cases of myocarditis.

I just can’t fathom that this sodding thing is as rampant as ever 18 months on.

 

[SouthAussie]

There is one plus ... our toilet paper sales are doing really well.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

There is one plus ... our toilet paper sales are doing really well.

Haha, I remember the toilet paper debacle, seems like a lifetime ago now!

 

[drsleuth]

There is one plus ... our toilet paper sales are doing really well.

You'd think they'd still have some left from last time ................I'll never understand it

 

[weepingangel]

Massachusetts (59.52% fully vaxxed)
Massachusetts reports 31 new COVID-19 cases, 1 additional death

Yah. I’ll admit it. Delta worries me. Especially for the kids. Local metro area is like at just under 50 %. Not sure where we’re at state wise. I’ll check and post a link later

 

[HongKongPhooey]

You'd think they'd still have some left from last time ................I'll never understand it

My mum in the early days assumed upset tum was a big symptom. She couldn't understand why loo roll was selling out