Dr. Shades wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:09 am
Jersey Girl wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 1:14 am
If Florida can't get it's act together I'm NOT traveling there in early fall. That was my much hoped for only trip this year. Stupid people are taking it away from me.
Umm, . . . as long as
you're vaccinated, what's there to worry about?
Sigh.
If even someone as intelligent and aware as Shades doesn't know that the vaccine diminishes the risk of serious illness or hospitalisation, but does not eliminate it entirely, what hope for the rest of us? Risk rises very sharply with age. An 80-year old fully vaccinated man appears to have the same risk profile as an unvaccinated 50-year old, even if he has a much lower profile than an unvaccinated 80-year old man.
Also, every single time the virus passes from one person to another, it gets a chance to mutate and perhaps give us a lovely new variant. Are we enjoying the nice new delta variant, which is hugely more infectious than the others? Even a vaccinated person getting a mild or unsymptomatic infection helps that process along. Sooner or ltter we may produce a variant that combines delta variant infective power with high lethality or even vaccine resistance. They only way to avoid that is to block the damn thing from circulating: vaccines, masks, and no unnecessary mixing and travelling.
Or you can just cry freedom and let it rip. Good luck with that: the UK is currently trying that out and you can enjoy watching the results.
Meanwhile:
‘It’s too late’: US doctor says dying patients begging for Covid vaccine
At least 99% of those in US who died of Covid in the last six months had not been vaccinated, says CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky
What the US government is calling “the pandemic of the unvaccinated” is playing out in painful ways as some realize too late that they wish they had had the shot, while others hold out even as they suffer in hospital amid a national surge of new Covid-19 infections, primarily caused by the Delta variant.
At least 99% of those in the US who died of coronavirus in the last six months had not been vaccinated, Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has said.
Medical personnel work in the COVID-19 medical screening annex at NYC Health + Hospitals Metropolitan, Wednesday, May 27, 2020, in New York. At hospitals around the country, nurses, doctors and other health care workers are reckoning with the psychological toll of the virus fight, coupled with fears that the disease could flare anew later this year.
Meanwhile vaccination rates have slowed down nationwide and are especially low in some of the more conservative, southern parts of the country, despite more than 610,000 people in the US dying of the virus since the pandemic hit in early 2020.
In places such as Alabama, only 33% of people who can receive the vaccine had been fully vaccinated, as of 20 July.
On Monday, a doctor in a Birmingham, Alabama, hospital, Brytney Cobia, said that all but one of her Covid patients at Grandview medical center didn’t receive the vaccine, with the one who had expected to make a full recovery after receiving oxygen, she told the Birmingham News. Several others are dying.
“I’m admitting young, healthy people to the hospital with very serious Covid infections,” wrote Cobia in a Facebook post on Sunday.
“One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” she added, referring to patients who have to be put on a ventilator.
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