The P&R Plague Thread (Covid-19)

[Scarlet]

The article I linked is an actual observance of T Cells recognizing the current variants after previous exposure to the ‘wild type’ virus. 
 

What you have linked is a study that is hypothesizing why a resurgence of cases is happening in Manaus, with the third hypothesis being that the variants are reinfecting. The first hypothesis presented is that they perhaps overestimated the degree of mass infection in Manaus. 

I'm not stating that T-cells do not elicit an immune response thereby limiting future infections.  How robust and for how long is still unknown. 

What I am stating is that people like Rand Paul who are getting out in front of their skis and saying people are immune from reinfection are speaking from a point of ignorance. 

What I linked makes it cleared that the immune response to the Brazilian variant is unclear at this time.  Reinfection is possible.  Therefore those that have had Covid and who have yet to be vaccinated shouldn't heed Rand Paul's drivel.  Why not see what happens over the next few months?  

 

[suh_fan93]

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[Guy Chamberlin]

I'd like to welcome Jason Sitoke to the P&R forum. I've always found him to be a reasonable and often humorous poster. 

 

[RedDenver]

Fortunately the elderly population has had a chance to get vaccinated, so the fatality rate should continue to drop even if cases start rising. But the data in Texas shows that the lockdowns and mask mandates preceded the peak turning down back in July and reopening preceded the larger peak of Dec and Jan.

 

[Scarlet]

If I'm going to die a long, lonely, excruciating death it's not going to be from going to a baseball game.  Football, well maybe 

 

[Ulty]

If I'm going to die a long, lonely, excruciating death it's not going to be from going to a baseball game.  Football, well maybe 

That's exactly what football has been doing to us the last few years anyway, without the virus. 

 

[Scarlet]

Dude should be charged with criminally negligent homicide.  

Just so we don't get confused his supporters claim to be pro-life.  

However, pro-birth ≠ pro-life evidently

 

[Mierin]

They weren't going off instinct, you f#&%ing dips#!t. And if you always overturned them, you own what happened.

 

[BigRedBuster]

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[Archy1221]

https://www.axios.com/covid-vaccine-passports-fauci-federal-government-ece3e53c-82a1-4a14-8e0a-a92b547fe68b.html

The federal government will not mandate the use of vaccine passports for travelers or businesses post-pandemic, President Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told the Politico Dispatch podcast Monday 

 

[Archy1221]

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[RedDenver]

It's good that it's trending down, but April 4 was Easter Sunday, so it's just being under-reported. Nate Silver of all people should use something more statisitcally meaningful like the 7 day average.

 

[knapplc]

It's tragic we've reached herd immunity this way. Nearly 600,000 dead. Just unfathomable.

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

Yeah, if you've been tracking COVID deaths, the number always go way down over the weekend, which actually show up in Sunday and Monday numbers, then climb back up, often doubling, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Virtually every single week of the pandemic.

222 is good news indeed, but we've had a lot of low numbers followed by quadruple digit deaths. Including just last week. 

 

[DevoHusker]

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/swedens-pandemic-experiment 

An interesting read about Sweden.