COVID-19

[DigitalGypsy66]

Our school district is debating whether masks will be recommended or required when school starts back up in August. My employer still requires masks indoors in common areas, where social distancing isn't possible. Just like it's been for the last 15 months. Vaccinations have ground to a halt locally.

[NTP66]

Source of the post Our school district is debating whether masks will be recommended or required when school starts back up in August.

I hope they aren't making that call right now, in June...

[DigitalGypsy66]

No final determinations will be made until late July, but with board members on vacation and only meeting 1-2 times before then, the discussions have begun.

A neighboring district is giving $500 to all district employees who are vaccinated. When our superintendent brought this up for debate, our school board rep - the spouse of a pediatrician for Christ's sake - went apoplectic. How our country has gone crazy, etc. Now, the district has the money to do this - outside of CARES act funding (which doesn't allow for additional compensation of any kind) - so it's not the usual anti-tax sentiment. I don't even know what he was really upset about, and he's been kind of an imbecile the entire time.

[faftorial]

More than 150 health-care workers who did not comply with a Houston-based hospital system’s vaccine mandate have been fired or resigned, more than a week after a federal judge upheld the policy.

Houston Methodist — one of the first health systems to require the coronavirus shots — terminated or accepted the resignations of 153 workers Tuesday, spokeswoman Gale Smith said. Smith declined to specify how many were in each category.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... op-stories

[shafnutz05]

So stupid (people willing to lose their jobs over a dumb anti-vax stance)

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/health/u ... index.html

Nearly every new Covid-19 death is now entirely preventable, CDC director says

[shafnutz05]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/cdc-rep ... shots.html

Most cases seem to thankfully be minor.

A CDC safety group said there’s a “likely association” between a rare heart inflammatory condition in adolescents and young adults mostly after they’ve received their second Covid-19 vaccine shot, citing the most recent data available.

There have been more than 1,200 cases of a myocarditis or pericarditis in 16- to-24-year-olds who received Pfizer’s or Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine, according to a series of slide presentations published Wednesday for a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

[NTP66]

Still having my 8 year old vaccinated the second she's eligible.

[PFiDC]

Still having my 8 year old vaccinated the second she's eligible.

Same (9 1/2 year old)

[King Colby]

Good chance those people would have also had myo/pericarditis if they got covid.

Probably part of the immune systems inflammatory response to the foreign body

[CBear3]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/cdc-rep ... shots.html

Most cases seem to thankfully be minor.

A CDC safety group said there’s a “likely association” between a rare heart inflammatory condition in adolescents and young adults mostly after they’ve received their second Covid-19 vaccine shot, citing the most recent data available.

There have been more than 1,200 cases of a myocarditis or pericarditis in 16- to-24-year-olds who received Pfizer’s or Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine, according to a series of slide presentations published Wednesday for a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

I'd love to see that chart as a percentage of vaccines given.
Also, is that across all vaccines? Just Pfizer? etc.

[Shyster]

The anti-vax twits over on MeWe love to post about the deaths and adverse events being reported on VAERS. But we've vaccinated far more people than have officially caught Covid, and the 5,000 or so deaths related to vaccination pale in comparison to the 600,000 Covid deaths. Of course, those same folks will argue that those people didn't really die or they "died with Covid, not from Covid." Well, many of the 5,000 deaths reported to VAERS were people who died after being vaccinated, but not from the vaccination.

[shafnutz05]

Agree with all the above posts. They were gonna get it with covid anyway.

[NTP66]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/cdc-rep ... shots.html

Most cases seem to thankfully be minor.

A CDC safety group said there’s a “likely association” between a rare heart inflammatory condition in adolescents and young adults mostly after they’ve received their second Covid-19 vaccine shot, citing the most recent data available.

There have been more than 1,200 cases of a myocarditis or pericarditis in 16- to-24-year-olds who received Pfizer’s or Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine, according to a series of slide presentations published Wednesday for a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

I'd love to see that chart as a percentage of vaccines given.
Also, is that across all vaccines? Just Pfizer? etc.

For both Moderna and Pfizer.

[Gaucho]

Israel masking up again.

[nocera]

Fiance has a full fledged summer cold. She was tested yesterday just to confirm that we aren't special and she isn't a breakthrough case. After almost 2 years without having a cold, this sucks.

[LeopardLetang]

My sister got covid after getting both shots. My 9 yr old niece got it at the same time. Both had no issues

[PFiDC]

Israel masking up again.

Delta Variant is going hard

[count2infinity]

My sister got covid after getting both shots. My 9 yr old niece got it at the same time. Both had no issues

No symptoms? Or just no issues?

I wonder to what extent the breakthrough cases are tests of asymptomatic people.

[nocera]

Yeah Delta is running wild. The mask ship has sailed in the US, though. Pfizer/Moderna is still 88% effective against infection and somewhere around 95% effective against hospitalization for the Delta variant. Vaccinated folks are well protected, unvaxxed folks don't give a ****. Nobody is putting a mask back on.

[LeopardLetang]

My sister got covid after getting both shots. My 9 yr old niece got it at the same time. Both had no issues

No symptoms? Or just no issues?

I wonder to what extent the breakthrough cases are tests of asymptomatic people.

Minor symptoms

[LITT]

My sister got covid after getting both shots. My 9 yr old niece got it at the same time. Both had no issues

No symptoms? Or just no issues?

I wonder to what extent the breakthrough cases are tests of asymptomatic people.

not a lot of asymptomatic testing going on from what i gather

[count2infinity]

My sister got covid after getting both shots. My 9 yr old niece got it at the same time. Both had no issues

No symptoms? Or just no issues?

I wonder to what extent the breakthrough cases are tests of asymptomatic people.

not a lot of asymptomatic testing going on from what i gather

Makes sense... with the vaccine rollout, a lot of the precautionary testing has gone by the wayside.

[meow]

My sister got covid after getting both shots. My 9 yr old niece got it at the same time. Both had no issues

No symptoms? Or just no issues?

I wonder to what extent the breakthrough cases are tests of asymptomatic people.

not a lot of asymptomatic testing going on from what i gather

Second

[robbiestoupe]

Yeah Delta is running wild. The mask ship has sailed in the US, though. Pfizer/Moderna is still 88% effective against infection and somewhere around 95% effective against hospitalization for the Delta variant. Vaccinated folks are well protected, unvaxxed folks don't give a ****. Nobody is putting a mask back on.

Hasn’t sailed on me making my kids wear masks. They are in vacation bible school this week and may be the only kids wearing masks. Sorry kids, your dad is a prude