Women 18-48, to be even more on target. Do they suspect a large number are going unnoticed? Because 3 dead and 7 hospitalized out of 15 cases sounds serious.
I agree that it sounds serious, and I personally suspect there are more. But I haven’t seen anything about what is suspected by the regulators. I do know one member of the FDA advisory committee that voted to resume use of the vaccine had concerns about informed consent in that group:
“I voted yes, but I am concerned that consumers and women in this age group, in particular, will not be adequately informed just by the FDA [emergency use authorization] fact sheet,” said Beth Bell, a clinical professor in the department of global health at the University of Washington.
Quote is from the WaPo article I linked above.
ETA: same source (missed it earlier):
Among the 15 confirmed U.S. cases, the clotting reactions were rare, with 7 cases per 1 million vaccinations among women 18 to 49 years old, according to the CDC. There was fewer than 1 case per 1 million vaccinations in women older than 50. The reactions were most common in women in their 30s.
That is around 1 in 143,000.
After some initially conflicting or lukewarm advice, the CDC is now recommending that pregnant people be vaccinated.
CDC recommends pregnant women get coronavirus vaccine
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
146,236,400 total cases
3,099,461 dead
124,022,653 recovered
In the US:
32,735,704 total cases
585,075 dead
25,296,047 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
I know people that think smoking kills lung cancer because everyone they know seem to get lung cancer right about 6 months after they quit smoking.
Thailand is falling apart as I type. The situation has become so bad just in the past few days that at last count, almost half of Thailand’s 76 provinces are now requiring quarantine from everyone or just plain blocking people from entering. The wife and I don’t see ourselves visiting anytime soon.
147,074,132 total cases
3,112,966 dead
124,711,525 recovered
In the US:
32,789,653 total cases
585,880 dead
25,339,874 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
NYTimes article on how India is covering up the number of deaths from COVID:
Madrid, Spain:
Speaking of Thailand, that country has now closed its borders to all Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals along with any other foreigners coming from those countries. Honestly, Thais dislike South Asians so much that I would not see this as an unpopular measure even in the best of times.
Could you elaborate? Is this related to South Asians being generally less affluent than Western visitors? I believe Thailand has a lot in common with India in terms of Hindu / Buddhist culture.
The recent history of the Rohingya in Myanmar should give you a hint. In summary, ill-educated rural Buddhists don’t much like ill-educated rural Muslims or ill-educated rural Hindus.
To be sure, Thailand isn’t Myanmar, and Laos or Vietnam are each different in turn. But hating the Other is always a popular sentiment.
But it is an unusual kind of retraction. Not for using false numbers, nor for being not-repeatable, unethical, or having bad arithmetic. So if it was baffling, it is still baffling: the retraction by the publisher doesn’t address that aspect of the report.
I must add that although I found the report surprising, and thought it likely to be a purely statistical anomaly, I didn’t find it baffling. Smoking was for a long time thought to be protective against colds and lung disease: finding that it sometimes/rarely had such an effect would be explanatory, not baffling. Also, smoking is known to be destructive to epithelial cells, such as those susceptible to COVID infection. Finding that smoking has a protective effect beyond bad reporting and/or statistical anomaly would be surprising, but again, not baffling.
Just to be clear: I think that smoking is a COVID risk factor, like age, not protective.
(Not funded by the tobacco industry.)
Conflicts of interest: none.
Seems to me that he ought to be charged with attempted 1st-degree murder.
It’s been deeply rooted in Thai culture for centuries if not millennia. At the risk of sounding offensive, there is in fact a common saying, told to me on more than one occasion, that goes, “If you’re walking down the street, and you see a snake and an Indian, take a stick and beat the Indian.” I have met Indian-Thais, some of them even born and raised in Bangkok with no experience of their “mother country,” and they have some interesting tales.
Thais tend to look down on all their neighbors, they really did not miss out when pride was handed out, but South Asians are a particular target for reviling.
Thais/Siamese and Burmese have fought a series of wars over the last several centuries. No love lost between them.
147,794,679 total cases
3,122,705 dead
125,344,658 recovered
In the US:
32,824,389 total cases
586,152 dead
25,379,831 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Game of Risk - The Balkans, Southeast Asia edition
Surprising that I don’t see a post about this yet. Did I miss something?
Massive fire in hospital in Baghdad, Iraq kills 82 patients, many (most?) of them Covid patients, and injures at least 100 others. Suspected cause is explosion of an oxygen tank. Plus the hospital didn’t have adequate fire alarm or suppression equipment.
Undeclared conflicts of interest are a big deal in studies, though. Plus I wonder if it was withdrawn to avoid greater scrutiny that might show some cherry picking or other such attempts to “find” the results they wanted to achieve…