Covid Vaccine

[Augie91]

Govt should find Thomas Dolby asap!

[Augie91]

Supply and demand y'all. Empty shelves and full pharmacy lines!

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner and CNBC contributor, told "Squawk Box" on Friday that a surge in cases meant it may soon become difficult to get a booster shot.

"We know omicron moves very quickly … this variant is going to move much more quickly through the country than delta did, so people who are waiting to get a booster to afford themselves a measure of protection against this variant – time is running out to do that," he said.

"Appointments are going to fill up, demand's going to surge. The best way to protect yourself is a booster shot."

[Trub Lou]

Is there a ZOMGICRON version of the shot? If not, I had the coof for about 5 hours in September, so I'm probably still covered as well as a shot would do.

Has anyone in the US died from this one yet? Based on recent events, I'll be focusing my worry on tornadoes, traffic, and BLM people in vans until data suggest I should do otherwise.

[Mexas Joe]

Pretty sure I got the Omni last week. Was just a massive cold.

[Augie91]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zealand-l...21740.html

SYDNEY, Dec 20 (Reuters) - New Zealand authorities on Monday said they had linked a 26-year-old man's death to Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 vaccine after the person suffered myocarditis, a rare inflammation of the heart muscle, after taking his first dose.

The vaccine safety board also said another two people, including a 13-year-old, had died with possible myocarditis after taking their vaccinations. More details were needed before linking the child's death to the vaccine, while the death of a man in his 60s was unlikely related to the vaccine, it said.

[Augie91]

Dec 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is set to authorize COVID-19 treatment pills from both Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Merck (MRK.N) as early as Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The two drugs, especially Pfizer's pill Paxlovid, are seen as promising new oral treatments that can be taken upon onset of symptoms at home to help prevent COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths.

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Within weeks, scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that is effective against COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron, as well as from previous SARS-origin viruses that have killed millions of people worldwide.

[Trub Lou]

From a medical science standpoint, it's pretty impressive what this whole situation has nudged mankind to do. I understand that most of it was already underway, but the injection of money, publicity, and political will has really put everything into overdrive. I guess that's what "warp speed" was supposed to be.

I guess there's not much left to do but bitch about unequal distribution.

[Augie91]

I read an article today that said in America we are WAY overdoing the vaccine distribution.
It was on CNN.com of all places!

"We can't vaccinate the planet every four to six months. It's not sustainable or affordable," Professor Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and head of the UK's Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, told The Daily Telegraph in an interview published Tuesday.

Pollard also stressed the "need to target the vulnerable" going forward, rather than administering doses to everyone age 12 and older. More data is needed to ascertain "whether, when and how often those who are vulnerable will need additional doses," he said.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/04/healt...index.html

[Buzzie mcnugget]

So this variant is supposed to be vaccine resistant.  So the answer is to go and get the vaccine.  Science!

Isn't that a recipe for creating even moar resistant strains?
IE only replicate strains that can elude the vax? 
I also don't think its honest to call this a vax now, it's at best a proactive therapeutic.

[Mexas Joe]

I'm down 5 people today due to general sickness. FML.