Fifth Avenue Forum

It's called Corona, of course it's coming from Mexico.

meow and litt:

serious question from a serious poster:

what is the overall vibe at your place of employment regarding the virus at the moment? Is this more or less business as usual? The sun is setting on the pandemic? We are making progress? something else?

My Dad's second shot got moved from this morning to Saturday because of supply problems. Could be worse, I guess.

I don't know about your side of the state, but nearly all the folks I know who have received the vaccine have gone to other counties to get them. Our county (York) has been atrocious. Chester, Lancaster, Cherokee, and Union have done great.

Folks from Lancaster have been coming over the border to get it in NC by the masses. That is probably helping their situation in a big big way. Cherokee, Chester and Union are outside our catchment area, so I don’t have any insight on them.

My Dad's second shot got moved from this morning to Saturday because of supply problems. Could be worse, I guess.

I don't know about your side of the state, but nearly all the folks I know who have received the vaccine have gone to other counties to get them. Our county (York) has been atrocious. Chester, Lancaster, Cherokee, and Union have done great.

Folks from Lancaster have been coming over the border to get it in NC by the masses. That is probably helping their situation in a big big way. Cherokee, Chester and Union are outside our catchment area, so I don’t have any insight on them.

I wonder though how many of those Lancaster people already go to the doctor in Waxhaw, etc...

The people I know who got it in Gastonia already had their primary care physicians associated with Caromount.

Though most people around here would rather die on the way to Pineville or Gaston Memorial than go to Piedmont.

What's with military personnel declining to be vaccinated? Around 1/3 or so are refusing to get it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-mili ... ing-2021-2

Why is it optional?

meow and litt:

serious question from a serious poster:

what is the overall vibe at your place of employment regarding the virus at the moment? Is this more or less business as usual? The sun is setting on the pandemic? We are making progress? something else?

What's with military personnel declining to be vaccinated? Around 1/3 or so are refusing to get it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-mili ... ing-2021-2

Why is it optional?

No idea. When I signed up the vaccination requirement list was long and distinguished.

What's with military personnel declining to be vaccinated? Around 1/3 or so are refusing to get it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-mili ... ing-2021-2

Why is it optional?

No idea. When I signed up the vaccination requirement list was long and distinguished.

So is my johnson

Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted?

In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. Testing has been capturing only from 10% to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity.

But the consistent and rapid decline in daily cases since Jan. 8 can be explained only by natural immunity. Behavior didn’t suddenly improve over the holidays; Americans traveled more over Christmas than they had since March. Vaccines also don’t explain the steep decline in January. Vaccination rates were low and they take weeks to kick in.

My prediction that Covid-19 will be mostly gone by April is based on laboratory data, mathematical data, published literature and conversations with experts. But it’s also based on direct observation of how hard testing has been to get, especially for the poor. If you live in a wealthy community where worried people are vigilant about getting tested, you might think that most infections are captured by testing. But if you have seen the many barriers to testing for low-income Americans, you might think that very few infections have been captured at testing centers. Keep in mind that most infections are asymptomatic, which still triggers natural immunity.

Many experts, along with politicians and journalists, are afraid to talk about herd immunity. The term has political overtones because some suggested the U.S. simply let Covid rip to achieve herd immunity. That was a reckless idea. But herd immunity is the inevitable result of viral spread and vaccination. When the chain of virus transmission has been broken in multiple places, it’s harder for it to spread—and that includes the new strains.

meow and litt:

serious question from a serious poster:

what is the overall vibe at your place of employment regarding the virus at the moment? Is this more or less business as usual? The sun is setting on the pandemic? We are making progress? something else?

I have left the testing/diagnosis arena to engage in the vaccination effort so my opinion is probably not the best for commenting on the pulse of the pandemic in regards to hospital morale. litt will be able to comment better than ya boy meow

Edit: Sorry, I just saw Laura Ingraham's "take" was shared on this in the PDT. This is great news.

It feels like this is the third time we've gone through this sudden decline in cases...