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Post by rgs318 on Jan 16, 2022 13:46:33 GMT -5
I like that thought. Nice if He keeps His hand in!
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Post by hcpride on Jan 17, 2022 15:08:04 GMT -5
Not only do three jabs fail to stop covid infection and spread (so much for meaningless vax mandates), número cuatro apparently isn't much better: JERUSALEM, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A fourth shot of COVID-19 vaccine boosts antibodies to even higher levels than the third jab but it is not enough to prevent Omicron infections, according to a preliminary study in Israel.
Israel's Sheba Medical Center has given second booster shots in a trial among its staff and is studying the effect of the Pfizer booster in 154 people after two weeks and the Moderna booster in 120 people after one week, said Gili Regev-Yochay, director of the Infectious Diseases Unit.www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-study-shows-4th-shot-covid-19-vaccine-not-able-block-omicron-2022-01-17/
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Post by bfoley82 on Jan 17, 2022 16:58:38 GMT -5
Not only do three jabs fail to stop covid infection and spread (so much for meaningless vax mandates), número cuatro apparently isn't much better: JERUSALEM, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A fourth shot of COVID-19 vaccine boosts antibodies to even higher levels than the third jab but it is not enough to prevent Omicron infections, according to a preliminary study in Israel.
Israel's Sheba Medical Center has given second booster shots in a trial among its staff and is studying the effect of the Pfizer booster in 154 people after two weeks and the Moderna booster in 120 people after one week, said Gili Regev-Yochay, director of the Infectious Diseases Unit.www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-study-shows-4th-shot-covid-19-vaccine-not-able-block-omicron-2022-01-17/Only an anecdote, I got three shots and still tested positive. I had bad cold symptoms though.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 21, 2022 12:15:14 GMT -5
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jan 21, 2022 12:22:32 GMT -5
Are you making the case that the virus has no association with Wuhan, China?
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Post by bfoley82 on Jan 21, 2022 13:17:25 GMT -5
Are you making the case that the virus has no association with Wuhan, China? Spanish Flu started in Kansas so 🤷♂️
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Post by hcpride on Jan 21, 2022 13:57:17 GMT -5
Are you making the case that the virus has no association with Wuhan, China? LOL. Just because the bat coronavirus first emerged alongside the lab with the world's largest collection of coronaviruses (in a country notorious for lab leaks) doesn't mean the two are connected. Apparently the Chinese are looking for the source of the virus just about as hard as OJ is looking for the real killers.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 21, 2022 16:32:12 GMT -5
Are you making the case that the virus has no association with Wuhan, China? Nnnoooooooo. I don't think anyone disputes that there is a close association between the original Wuhan strain and Wuhan. It was this strain's genome that was analyzed by the Chinese, and was the basis for all the vaccine development that followed. The question remains whether this strain originated in Wuhan, or arrived / was brought to Wuhan from elsewhere. www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2Nature is a highly ranked science journal, though some of its offspring are ranked higher.. www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.phpFor Forbes, the question, post the article in Nature, no longer seems to remain. www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2021/10/06/origin-very-close-relatives-of-sars-cov-2-identified-in-laotian-bats/?sh=28b138ba7611All that being said, China's wild animal markets are a breeding ground for past and future epidemics, pandemics. --------------------- Edited to add: www.voanews.com/a/to-reveal-or-not-to-reveal-omicron-origins-botswana-s-dilemma/6339516.html^^^Botswana, where the first cluster of Omicron was found, strongly infers that this variant was brought in from Europe, and did not originate in Botswana.
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Post by Chu Chu on Jan 22, 2022 13:03:10 GMT -5
Posted by Pakachoag Phreek - Omicron was already present in New York City before it was reported by South Africa on Nov 24.. November 21 in NYC, to be exact. And on November 25th, it was detected in Northern California. Maybe it should be called the Gotham variant, instead? Dark humor aside, this illustrates the difficulty in determining the actual origin site and origin date [timeframe] of a highly infectious virus. Remember the numerous candidates for a lung cancer drug trial in Italy who had COVID antibodies in their blood samples, and, IIRC, the samples were collected before the virus was reported in Wuhan? www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7103a5.htm?s_cid=mm7103a5_w&utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=6439030dc2-MR_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-6439030dc2-151507929Are you making the case that the virus has no association with Wuhan, China? Although the Omicron virus variant was first identified and isolated in South Africa, that does not tell us where it first arose. In fact, as the evidence quoted by phreak shows, when we knew how to test for it, thanks to South Africa, we found out that it was already among us! Same thing with the virus first recognized and identified in Wuhan, China. We now have proof that is was in other countries before China identified it, when we know how to look for it and go back to check old samples. Where it actually started is still an open question. We, with our emasculated public health capability in this country, owe a debt of gratitude to these two countries and others, who with their sophisticated survey system, have found and identified these viruses.
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Post by longsuffering on Jan 23, 2022 13:59:23 GMT -5
We can't hire more public health officials until we can find body guards for them. Very tight labor market.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 27, 2022 16:36:55 GMT -5
NY Times article on a journal report that identifies four factors that could lead to a person having 'long' COVID, and potential therapeutic interventions that might prevent/reduce the occurrence/severity of 'long' COVID. www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/health/long-covid-risk-factors.html?smid=em-shareBest to avoid being intubated. March 2020 very likely was the Wuhan strain. Taking Fauci's maxim to heart, the later re-infection was either another variant -- although October 2020 would have been the very edge of the cusp for Alpha -- or his body never cleared the initial infection.
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Post by hcpride on Jan 28, 2022 4:43:12 GMT -5
/\ /\. Ummmm… “He said that before Covid, he had a spontaneous ability to visualize specific colors with certain foods — pink when he sprinkled pepper, blue with a type of liquor — but now, he is dismayed to have lost those automatic connections.”
Is the article a goof? (Apart from the color super-power which he has apparently lost, his description of the devil is very very scary - even in devil terms.)
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Post by alum on Jan 28, 2022 6:18:11 GMT -5
/\ /\. Ummmm… He said that before Covid, he had a spontaneous ability to visualize specific colors with certain foods — pink when he sprinkled pepper, blue with a type of liquor — but now, he is dismayed to have lost those automatic connections.”Is the article a goof? (Apart from the color super-power which he has apparently lost, his description of the devil is very very scary - even in devil terms.) Synesthesia?
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Post by hcpride on Jan 28, 2022 7:30:48 GMT -5
/\ /\. Ummmm… He said that before Covid, he had a spontaneous ability to visualize specific colors with certain foods — pink when he sprinkled pepper, blue with a type of liquor — but now, he is dismayed to have lost those automatic connections.”Is the article a goof? (Apart from the color super-power which he has apparently lost, his description of the devil is very very scary - even in devil terms.) Synesthesia? Food based? Could be. And ‘Long Covid’ wiped it out? Which is a bad thing? (If the article is serious I’m not sure this sort of side effect of ‘long Covid’ will frighten many people. But his 50 foot and limb-flinging devil description is truly scary… any chance this food-color guy is simply a nut?)
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Post by alum on Jan 28, 2022 8:48:58 GMT -5
Food based? Could be. And ‘Long Covid’ wiped it out? Which is a bad thing? (If the article is serious I’m not sure this sort of side effect of ‘long Covid’ will frighten many people. But his 50 foot and limb-flinging devil description is truly scary… any chance this food-color guy is simply a nut?) Definitely odd.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jan 30, 2022 13:16:00 GMT -5
Food based? Could be. And ‘Long Covid’ wiped it out? Which is a bad thing? (If the article is serious I’m not sure this sort of side effect of ‘long Covid’ will frighten many people. But his 50 foot and limb-flinging devil description is truly scary… any chance this food-color guy is simply a nut?) He now resides in NYC. I believe he is a software engineer, and you're safe unless he's moonlighting as an Uber driver. ++++++++++++++++ The more I thought about this particular case, the more I concluded that he likely suffered from an auto-antibody response to COVID. The so-called 'cytokine storm', which seemed to occur frequently earlier in the pandemic than now. If this 40 year old had no underlying co-morbidities when infected in March 2020 --, when the pandemic is just getting started in U.S. -- I think it would have been very atypical to have found him intubated for six days, in the absence of a cytokine storm. An re-infected six months later, with a much milder case.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Feb 2, 2022 7:11:38 GMT -5
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Post by Chu Chu on Feb 2, 2022 11:17:50 GMT -5
Feb 2, 2022 7:11:38 GMT -5 Pakachoag Phreek said: American exceptionalism.
An analytical assessment by the NY Times of why COVID deaths in the United States between December 1, 2021 and January 31, 2022 outpace deaths in other wealthy nations. Great stuff, phreek! I read the Times daily, and so I had already seen this, but I love the way you have paired the data with Fr. Martin's observations!
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 2, 2022 16:24:58 GMT -5
A powerful piece. The title of the article makes me think of the Holy Cross Exceptionalism felt by those who feel the Patriot League and/or the AHA are beneath HC Athletics. Also not grounded in current facts, but a powerful conviction nonetheless.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Feb 4, 2022 11:23:06 GMT -5
The mysterious COVID variants found in New York City's sewage, and where did they originate? A mystery yet to be solved. www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/health/coronavirus-wastewater-new-york.html?smid=em-shareThe article illustrates the great difficulty in identifying the origin of COVID-19, and the timeframe for such. Sampling of NYC's wasterwater for COVID began in June 2020, but they only began sequencing the viral particles, looking for particular variants, in January 2021, and found the mysterious variants immediately. These mysterious variants antedate Delta and Omicron.. The article does not mention whether samples of sewage from 2020 or 2019 were retained, and whether these could be analyzed for the presence of the mysterious variants. I suspect the samples either were not retained, or are too old and have degraded too much to analyze. .
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Feb 14, 2022 8:41:34 GMT -5
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 14, 2022 12:16:15 GMT -5
55% of humans have been vaccinated. So that's what's causing the world wide chip shortage. It must be costing Bill Gates a fortune.😊
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Post by Tom on Feb 14, 2022 14:52:09 GMT -5
The mysterious COVID variants found in New York City's sewage, and where did they originate? A mystery yet to be solved. Ed Norton, the leading expert on the NYC sewer system, is investigating this mystery
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Post by timholycross on Feb 14, 2022 14:54:36 GMT -5
The mysterious COVID variants found in New York City's sewage, and where did they originate? A mystery yet to be solved. Ed Norton, the leading expert on the NYC sewer system, is investigating this mystery Hello, Ball!
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 14, 2022 15:22:41 GMT -5
The mysterious COVID variants found in New York City's sewage, and where did they originate? A mystery yet to be solved. Ed Norton, the leading expert on the NYC sewer system, is investigating this mystery But first a quick trip to the Raccoon Lodge.
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