I guess the CDC still needs to sign off, but i expect that will happen today.
I wish they’d done this a couple of weeks ago, so folks would have had time to get a buster two weeks before Thanksgiving. But there’s still lots of time before Christmas, and i expect this will help a lot with the “winter surge”.
No, it doesn’t get first doses into arms. But it’s not an either/or. And I’m happy to live in a place where vaccine uptake has been high. This is going to help us.
Hey, you buster!
weird autocorrect. Sorry.
So the Austrian government has now decided that locking down the unvaccinated isn’t enough, and has planned a general vaccination mandate for 1 February 2022. In the meantime, the country will go into its third nationwide lockdown this coming Monday, 22 November.
This makes Austria the first country in Europe to impose a general vaccine mandate for coronavirus. The mandate will be enforced with fines and possibly prison sentences; exemptions will be granted to those medically unable to receive vaccinations.
Same in Arkansas. It also mentions that patients can pick any vaccine, which got me wondering if maybe I should try to get J&J as my booster, in case mixing between the two would be stronger.
That said, I’m not sure it’s available in the area, and will likely wind up with Moderna again.
I actually did that, as part of a clinical study. I nearly backed out, because the (extremely preliminary) results of an NIH study suggest it’s a worse booster. But I decided even a worse booster was probably good enough, and it was worth doing it so that we’ll know more in a year. The study won’t be completed for another 11 months, and I’m sure it takes time to analyze the data and write the paper after that. but they might publish some preliminary stuff halfway through.
Here’s the preliminary NIH results. I find it easiest to read the charts and graphs, which are at the very end, after the references
That helps. It suggests I should go ahead with Moderna in a couple weeks, and then see if any results give me a reason to go with J&J.
What made me wonder were studies saying that mixing was better than not mixing, but I believe that was J&J first followed by Moderna/Pfiser which was better. So it could just be that Moderna/Pfizer are better as a whole, based on you “very preliminary” info.
Study finds Ivermectin appears to reduce mortality from covid. If you have worms.
I can’t read the article, but that does make some sense. Worms are known to lessen parts of your immune system to make a friendlier home for themselves.
It’s a metastudy. It looks at several studies of ivermectin, and groups them by whether they were done in places with a high frequency of a particular parasitic worm that can grow out of control in people taking steroids, and ones done in other places.
The “other places” studies have a rather tight range of the effectiveness of ivermectin, centered on “neither help nor harm”.
The places with the worms mostly show ivermectin to be effective, and have widely different central estimates of how effective.
I think the hypothesis is not that the worms weaken the immune system, but that treatment for covid may lead to a deadly case of worms. (Or at least, enough additional damage from worms to add up to deadly.)
But it does seem very plausible.
Unfortunately, it might put you off your kibble.
Sorry
I think it’s kind of a no-brainer that if you have a co-morbidity -another medical condition on top of Covid- curing the co-morbidity will improve your success at beating COVID.
I posted about this in the Pit. I’m not posting the link because I think the preview violates the no politics rule but it’s in the Omnibus Stupid MFer’s thread.
The point of this meta study is that it reconciles why there are several well-done studies that show ivermectin helps against covid, with several other well-done studies that show it doesn’t. There are a lot of places where this worm is common, and it rarely causes serious problems, but it turns out it interacts badly with covid because the treatment of covid can exacerbate the worm problem.
AP article about the boosters:
Thailand now requires only a one-night quarantine in an approved hotel if you’ve been vaccinated, pending a negative result of the test they give you at the airport on arrival. It’s widely seen as a government scam aimed at throwing some business to the gutted hotel industry. My buddy from Boston finally made it back into Thailand last week and reports the process is pretty smooth. My wife is now planning a visit early next year, which will be her first in two years. Although restaurants have reopened, bars and other nightlife venues will remain closed until at least next January 16.
Neighboring Cambodia is widely advertising no quarantine whatsoever for vaccinated arrivals.
Hawaii reached 998 Covid deaths yesterday and is poised to hit 1000 any day now.
257,462,324 total cases
5,164,277 dead
232,435,607 recovered
In the US:
48,558,229 total cases
793,539 dead
38,437,852 recovered
YesterdayThree days ago’s numbers for comparison:
I should be back to regular posting now. After several months of planning, scouting and prep work, my project has. now begun in earnest.
And with four more deaths reported Saturday, Hawaii’s Covid-19 death toll stands at 1002.
In the words of Bill and Ted - ‘Our album covers lied to us’.
Enjoy the project.
257,832,881 total cases
5,168,069 dead
232,756,149 recovered
In the US:
48,592,810 total cases
793,651 dead
38,463,041 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
My poss are going to start coming earlier now, eventually settling in 3 hours earlier at 9pm EST/6pm PST.
Thanks for doing this for us still. Who knew we’d still get valuable information from daily numbers 20 months on?