COVID-19

[Gaucho]

Priti Patel calling others morally reprehensible is delicious.

Is Priti a woman? I occasionally work with a woman name Priti who is from Nepal.

Yes, Ugandan-Indian, daughter of immigrants, hates immigrants. Sort of hot, though.

[Kane]

So, Priti is pretty?

[Gaucho]

lol

[Gaucho]

[meow]

Would

[Gaucho]

Would

[shmenguin]

Variants...distrust in vaccines...in a few months it’s all a memory.

[MR25]

They must've gotten the right group of 600 people.

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

Would

[willeyeam]

Wood

[nocera]

They must've gotten the right group of 600 people.

I’m willing to bet those percentages are the same as the people who already had trust in the vaccine, were anti-vaccine, and weren’t sure long before this J&J thing.

[meow]

I said in here before - I deal with vaccine hesitancy every. single. day. There is zero percent chance that poll is reflective on the real world.

[Kane]

[nocera]

Nearly 7 million Americans might not get a COVID-19 vaccine because they don’t know it’s free
https://fortune.com/2021/03/10/covid-va ... ost-price/

[NTP66]

[nocera]

So... how many shots we gonna end up needing here?

[NTP66]

So... how many shots we gonna end up needing here?

That’s the beauty of mRNA vaccines - they can pivot to cover variants. I’ll be first in line once made available.

[MR25]

Hopefully someone starts working on an mRNA vax for the flu soon too... would be nice, anyway.

[nocera]

Moderna and Pfizer just came out with the 6 month study and showed that efficacy is 90% after 6 months. I don’t know if I’d be down with a new shot for every new variant. I fully expect a yearly (at the least) booster though.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I was thinking this week how cool it would be to combine mRNA vaccines with some AI or machine learning software that can try to predict future variants

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

[faftorial]

I was thinking this week how cool it would be to combine mRNA vaccines with some AI or machine learning software that can try to predict future variants

That's the future. Make it happen MIMH.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

my life goals are much less pragmatic. In my next job I want to develop a sports betting algorithm and model. Half of it will be "bet the opposite of what Mikey picks"

[Freddy Rumsen]

Are we going to pause Pfizer?

[skullman80]

Holy misleading headline.. from the article..

A study by researchers at Oxford University in England suggests the risks of experiencing dangerous, rare blood clots in the brain are far higher in those who catch the coronavirus than in those who get either the AstraZeneca vaccine, or the vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna in the U.S. The research shows that the number of people who experience clots after getting the vaccines made by the American pharmaceutical giants appears very similar to the number who get the rare condition after a shot of the AstraZeneca drug, which was developed in conjunction with Oxford's vaccine institute.

"This is more evidence of the vaccine helping people in a dramatic way from the ravages of COVID-19," CBS News medical consultant Dr. David Agus said of the study on "CBS This Morning."

The data showed that about 4 in every 1 million people who get the American-made vaccines experience cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), or blood clots in the brain. With the AstraZeneca vaccine, which works in a different way and is similar to the Johnson & Johnson shot, the research showed an incidence rate of about 5 in every 1 million.