The COVID-2019 Thread

[Humbert]

"She definitely left her mark on the community,"

More like a 'stain'. I wonder how many others got infected needlessly as a result of her ignorant blathering.

[harrybarracuda]

The first validation samples taken from the produced batch will be shipped to the Gamaleya Center for the quality control.

Well that's a bit fucking silly.

[harrybarracuda]

Dr. Brytney Cobia said Monday that all but one of her COVID patients in Alabama did not receive the vaccine. The vaccinated patient, she said, just needed a little oxygen and is expected to fully recover. Some of the others are dying.

“I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,” wrote Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.”

Three COVID-19 vaccines have been widely available in Alabama for months now, yet the state is last in the nation in vaccination rate, with only 33.7 percent of the population fully vaccinated. COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations are surging yet again due to the more contagious Delta variant of the virus and Alabama’s low vaccination rate.

For the first year and a half of the pandemic, Cobia and hundreds of other Alabama physicians caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients worked themselves to the bone trying to save as many as possible.

“Back in 2020 and early 2021, when the vaccine wasn’t available, it was just tragedy after tragedy after tragedy,” Cobia told AL.com this week. “You know, so many people that did all the right things, and yet still came in, and were critically ill and died.”

In the United States, COVID is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated, according to the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Alabama, state officials report 94% of COVID hospital patients and 96% of Alabamians who have died of COVID since April were not fully vaccinated.

“A few days later when I call time of death,” continued Cobia on Facebook, “I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same.”

“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’. But they were wrong. And they wish they could go back. But they can’t. So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives.”

https://www.al.com/news/2021/07/im-s...-patients.html

[Klondyke]

(How such a capacity can make such a mistake?)

60% of people being admitted to UK hospitals are unvaccinated - adviser

Who Is Patrick Vallance? UK Chief Scientific Adviser's Error Goes Viral
7/20/21 AT 6:18 AM EDT

The U.K. government's chief medical adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, issued a correction after providing an erroneous COVID-19 hospitalization figure at a press conference hosted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday.

In a tweet posted July 19 on his official Twitter account, Vallance wrote: "Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference today, 19 July. About 60 percent of hospitalisations from covid are not from double vaccinated people, rather 60 percent of hospitalisations from covid are currently from unvaccinated people."

A clip showing Vallance stating the wrong statistic at the press briefing tweeted by Dr. David Samadi, a medical doctor and author based in New York City, went viral. It received over 200,000 views since it was first posted Monday.

"The original statistic spread quickly via social media," Samadi wrote alongside the clip.

At the press conference on Monday, Vallance stated: "In terms of the number of people in hospital who have been double-vaccinated, we know it's around 60 percent of the people being admitted to hospital with COVID have been double-vaccinated. And that's not surprising because the vaccines are not 100 percent effective.

"They're very, very effective, but not 100 percent, and as a higher proportion of the population is double-vaccinated, it's inevitable that those 10 percent of that very large number remain at risk, and therefore will be amongst the people who both catch the infection and end up in hospital," Vallance explained.

Who is Patrick Vallance?
Vallance is the U.K.'s "Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) and Head of the Government Science and Engineering (GSE) Profession," according to the U.K. government website.

He was previously the president of R&D (research and development) at the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) from 2012 to 2017.

Vallance first joined GSK in 2006 as head of drug discovery before leaving in March 2018 to begin his role as GCSA for the U.K. government, according to a GSK statement in 2017.

The government website says: "During his period as head of R&D over 14 new medicines were approved for use worldwide, for diseases ranging from cancer to asthma and HIV."

Before joining GSK, he was a professor of medicine, leading the division of medicine at University College London in the U.K. With more than 20 years of experience in "basic and clinical research," he was a consultant physician in the National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K.

"His research spanned from work on medicinal chemistry and structural biology, through to cellular work, studies in humans and use of large electronic health record databases," the government website says.

Vallance previously faced backlash from other scientific advisers following his reference to "herd immunity" at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Herd immunity refers to the idea that once a significant portion of the population had been exposed to the virus, people would then develop a natural immunity to it.

In September 2020, the BBC reported an email from March 2020 (which were among several emails obtained by the BBC via a Freedom of Information Act request) showed Vallance asking for help to "calm our academic friends down" as they were outraged by his references to herd immunity and delays in announcing a lockdown.

Latest Error Sparks Criticism on Social Media
Vallance's error on Monday caused a wave of criticism, confusion and skepticism on Twitter.

Candance Owens, the writer and political commentator who previously served as the communications director for the conservative group Turning Point USA, tweeted: "His press conference goes viral and just like that... he comes out and says he made a mistake. He even specifically explained why the 60 percent was so high, but...it was a mistake people."

User @Jon_Chalk1 tweeted: "An absolutely bizarre 'error' considering that you went on to explain exactly why the 60 percent figure was so high. This is all very odd and suspicious." The post received over 6,800 likes at time of writing.

At the press briefing on Monday, Vallance explained: "Whilst vaccines are very effective at reducing severe disease, they're also effective at reducing the chance of catching it and reducing the chance of passing it on. But they're slightly less effective at doing that than they are at preventing severe disease."

The chief adviser said that if everyone over the age of 18 had taken up the vaccine, "of course anybody who caught it would be double-vaccinated."

He added: "We should expect to see a higher proportion of people in hospital and catching the infection who are double vaccinated. That is inevitable, that we will see that because of the less-than-100 percent efficacy of the vaccines overall."

In a reply to Vallance's tweet making the correction, user @northman19840 tweeted: "It's taken you over 2 hours to publish this vital information about your misinformation. Come on. Give us facts. What is it. Why should we now believe you?" The post received over 1,500 likes at time of writing.

Owen Jones, a columnist for The Guardian and author, tweeted: "Is it possible for someone to clarify that the 40 percent are people aren't double vaccinated, but presumably people who have had one or two jabs, or maybe their status in unclear? Because this correction is itself causing confusion." The post received over 700 likes since it was shared.

Author of This Is Why I Resist and activist Shola Mos-Shogbamimu tweeted: "I'm sorry but HOW do you as UK Science Chief get such important figures wrong and discredit the double vaccinated in the process? Doesn't add up and very suspect. Were you mistaken then or LYING now?"

Newsweek has contacted the U.K. Government Office for Science and the GSE Profession for comment from Vallance.

The Wider Picture
Coronavirus has infected more than 190.9 million people since it was first reported in Wuhan, China, including over 34.1 million in the U.S. More than 4 million people have died and over 3.6 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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Who Is Patrick Vallance? UK Chief Scientific Adviser's Error Goes Viral

[sabang]

I just put on our foreign news channel, and lo and behold it was PBS. A most interesting statistic-

Average life expectancy in the USA has decreased by some 1.5 years over the last decade. The main reason is Covid.

[OhOh]

(How such a capacity can make such a mistake?)

I don't believe it's the first time, an English government minister has made a mistake, and it will not be the last.

Just assume they are all "misspeaking".

[Saint Willy]

“They cry. And they tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn’t get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’. But they were wrong. And they wish they could go back. But they can’t. So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives.”

Hard to feel sympathy for the terminally stupid and wilfully ignorant!

[Fondles]

Average life expectancy in the USA has decreased by some 1.5 years over the last decade. The main reason is Covid.

so Covid does have an upside after all !!

[Klondyke]

^What I read somewhere recently was attributed not only to Covid, but also to the increased number of homicides.

[harrybarracuda]

Texas has seen nearly 9,000 COVID-19 deaths since February. All but 43 were unvaccinated people.

Preliminary data shows 99.5% of COVID-related deaths in Texas were among unvaccinated people, according to the Department of State Health Services.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/21/coronavirus-texas-vaccinated-deaths/

[harrybarracuda]

The chinkies don't want the WHO to talk to people at the Wuhan lab about their date of infection. Which means the chinkies have something to hide.

The Chinese government will not participate in a second phase of the World Health Organization's investigation into the origins of Covid-19, a top health official announced Thursday, after the possibility of the virus leaking from a Wuhan lab was included on the proposal.

Zeng Yixin, deputy head of the National Health Commission, told a press conference in Beijing he had been "surprised" to see the lab leak listed as a research objective under the second phase of the investigation.
"In some aspects, the WHO's plan for next phase of investigation of the coronavirus origin doesn't respect common sense, and it's against science. It's impossible for us to accept such a plan," he said.

Covid-19 origins: Chinese government rejects WHO plan for second phase of origins study - CNN

[harrybarracuda]

US infection rates up 55% over last week.

Delta at work I presume.

Let the antivaxxers die, better off without them anyway.

[harrybarracuda]

Dodgy minor shaikh profiteering off the Russian vaccine. Who gave him sole rights to sell vaccines to foreign countries?

No doubt there's a Russian sharing the filthy lucre with him somewhere.

A botched deal to supply 1 million Sputnik V doses to Kenya was part of the same controversial Emirati scheme which has seen an Abu Dhabi-based company with royal connections ink deals to resell Russia’s flagship coronavirus vaccine at huge mark-ups.
Documents obtained by The Moscow Times confirm that Russia named Aurugulf Health Investments — a firm registered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and linked to Emirati royalty — as an official Sputnik V reseller in Kenya, where it secured a contract with private healthcare company Dinlas Pharma to ship at least 1 million jabs to the African country.
The deal eventually collapsed after the government in Nairobi learned a first shipment of 75,000 doses, which arrived in Kenya on March 22, had not come direct from the Russian government, and subsequently blocked them from use across the country at a time when Covid-19 cases were surging.
The confirmation of Aurugulf’s involvement in Kenya follows The Moscow Times’ previous investigation which uncovered a complex scheme in which Russia awarded the firm — and minor Emirati royal Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum — exclusive resale rights for Sputnik V in at least five countries across three continents. Documents showed how Maktoum and Aurugulf resold the Russian vaccines to governments and private sector buyers at up to twice Russia’s official price, with payments from the deals flowing directly to Maktoum’s private office.

Kenya’s Failed Sputnik V Deal Used Emirati Resale Scheme - The Moscow Times

[harrybarracuda]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African firm will begin producing the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the first time that the shot will be produced in Africa, Pfizer announced Wednesday.
The Biovac Institute based in Cape Town will manufacture the vaccine for distribution across Africa, a move that should help address the continent’s desperate need for more vaccine doses amid a recent surge of cases.
Biovac will receive large batch ingredients for the vaccine from Europe and will blend the components, put them in vials and package them for distribution. The production will begin in 2022 with a goal of reaching more than 100 million finished doses annually. Biovac’s production of doses will be distributed among the 54 countries of Africa.
The development is “a critical step” in increasing African’s access to an effective COVID-19 vaccine, Biovac chief executive Dr. Morena Makhoana said.

South African firm to make Pfizer vaccine, first in Africa

[PAG]

A new record for Chonburi today, 669 new cases, including 229 in Pattaya.

[PAG]

And today's national figures, 14,575 new cases with 114 deaths.

[Fondles]

Kickin Goals !!

[sabang]

US life expectancy in 2020 saw biggest one-year drop since WWII, mainly due to coronavirus pandemic



Life expectancy in the United States fell by 18 months in 2020 to 77.3 years, the lowest level since 2003, primarily due to the deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is the biggest one-year decline since World War II, when life expectancy fell 2.9 years between 1942 and 1943, and is six months shorter than its February 2021 estimate, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

"Life expectancy has been increasing gradually every year for the past several decades," Elizabeth Arias, a CDC researcher who worked on the report, said.

"The decline between 2019 and 2020 was so large that it took us back to the levels we were in 2003. Sort of like we lost a decade."

Deaths from COVID-19 contributed to nearly three-quarters, or 74 per cent, of the decline.

Drug overdoses were also a major contributor, the CDC said, with interim data showing that deaths attributed to this rose nearly 30 per cent in 2020.

US life expectancy in 2020 saw biggest one-year drop since WWII, mainly due to coronavirus pandemic - ABC News

[harrybarracuda]

Two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca‘s COVID-19 vaccine are nearly as effective against the highly transmissible Delta coronavirus variant as they are against the previously dominant Alpha variant, a study published on Wednesday showed.

Officials say vaccines are highly effective against the Delta variant, now the dominant variant worldwide, though the study reiterated that one shot of the vaccines is not enough for high protection.

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, confirms headline findings given by Public Health England in May about the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca, based on real-world data.

Wednesday’s study found that two doses of Pfizer’s shot was 88 per cent effective at preventing symptomatic disease from the Delta variant, compared to 93.7 per cent against the Alpha variant, broadly the same as previously reported.

Two shots of AstraZeneca vaccine were 67 per cent effective against the Delta variant, up from 60 per cent originally reported, and 74.5 per cent effective against the Alpha variant, compared to an original estimate of 66 per cent effectiveness.

“Only modest differences in vaccine effectiveness were noted with the Delta variant as compared with the Alpha variant after the receipt of two vaccine doses,” Public Health England researchers wrote in the study.

Data from Israel has estimated lower effectiveness of Pfizer’s shot against symptomatic disease, although protection against severe disease remains high.

PHE had previously said that a first dose of either vaccine was around 33 per cent effective against symptomatic disease from the Delta variant.

The full study published on Wednesday found that one dose of Pfizer’s shot was 36 per cent effective, and one dose of AstraZeneca’s vaccine was around 30 per cent effective.

“Our finding of reduced effectiveness after the first dose would support efforts to maximize vaccine uptake with two doses among vulnerable groups in the context of circulation of the Delta variant,” the authors of the study said.

2 shots of Pfizer vaccine 88% effective against Delta variant: study - National | Globalnews.ca

[harrybarracuda]

[OhOh]

^
USA FACTS



Scary eh, some perspective.

'arrys "selection". All from Florida, 'arry?

From May 2021 150,000,000 to todays 197,000,000.

47,000,000 increase worldwide, of which 58% are DELTA B1.617.2

Approximately 27,000,000


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Jan 2020 From 0 to todays 197,000,000.

197,000,000 increase worldwide, of which 100% are all variants

Approximately 14% are DELTA B1.617.2


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No breakdown of the virgin unvaccinated infected cases v reinfected vaccinated infected cases. No breakdown of % cases, virgin or vaccinated of other variants over the pandemic.

What if they are 80% xxx brand vacinated cases? That data USA FACTS/CD has access to.

But hey its USA FACTS/CDC. No Politician/pharmaceutical company involved in approving them, 'arry?

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases - Statistics and Research - Our World in Data

[harrybarracuda]

Approximately 14% are DELTA B1.617.2

Tell me hoohoo: When are you planning on learning the meaning of the word "cumulative"?

[harrybarracuda]

Did you manage to book a Moderna hoohoo? You know that chinky shit won't stop that Delta killing you.

I can understand you trying to play it down, but this is no time for silly games.

The Delta Covid-19 variant has taken over the Alpha variant as the dominant strain in the country, accounting for 63% of infections, according to the Department of Medical Sciences.

Dr Supakit Sirilak, the department's chief, said about 63% of more than 3,000 cases analysed by the department are found to be the Delta strain, first detected in India, while 34% are the Alpha variant, first discovered in the UK. The rest are the Beta strain which is dominant in the deep South.

Delta takes over as dominant variant

[harrybarracuda]

Maybe even see if you can get a a brace of Aztrazeneca hoohoo.

The delta Covid variant is one of the most infectious respiratory diseases ever seen by scientists, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

The variant is highly contagious, largely because people infected with the delta strain can carry up to 1,000 times more virus in their nasal passages than those infected with the original strain, according to new data.

“The delta variant is more aggressive and much more transmissible than previously circulating strains,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told reporters at a briefing Thursday. “It is one of the most infectious respiratory viruses we know of, and that I have seen in my 20-year career.”

The delta variant has spread quickly through the U.S., accounting for more than 83% of sequenced cases in the U.S. right now, up from 50% the week of July 3.

The seven-day average of new cases is up about 53% from last week, currently at 37,674 new cases per day. Hospitalizations are up 32% from last week at about 3,500 per day and deaths have also increased 19% in the same time frame to about 240 per day.

“This virus has no incentive to let up, and it remains in search of the next vulnerable person to infect,” Walensky said.

The virus is ripping through U.S. counties with low vaccination rates, while counties with high vaccination rates are seeing lower rates of new cases.

Three states, Florida, Texas and Missouri, with low vaccination rates accounted for 40% of all new cases nationwide, White House Covid czar Jeff Zients said. Florida alone accounted for 1 in 5 of all new cases in the U.S. for the second week in a row.

In hospitals around the country, 97% of people admitted with Covid symptoms are unvaccinated, and 99.5% of all Covid deaths are also among the unvaccinated.

In the past week, the five states with the highest case counts had higher rates of people getting newly vaccinated compared with the national average.

“We are at yet another pivotal moment in this pandemic, with cases rising again and some hospitals reaching their capacity in some areas, we need to come together as one nation,” Walensky said.

Delta variant is one of the most infectious respiratory diseases known, CDC director says

[harrybarracuda]

Looks like the pongos want Moderna as well.

The Protocol Division of the Royal Thai Armed Forces is being probed and criticised for seeking a special allocation of Moderna vaccine for its personnel and their families.

Deputy spokesman Maj Gen Teerapong Pattamasingh Na Ayuthaya said late on Thursday night that an investigation was underway into the decision by protocol chief Col Yutthasak Promtha to make a special request for a supply of the vaccine against Covid-19.

The probe came after a letter dated July 19 and signed by Col Yutthasak was leaked and published on social media.

The letter was sent to the Thai Red Cross Society secretary-general and requested Moderna vaccine inoculations for his staff and their families.

The names of soldiers and their families were attached to the letter.

The Thai Red Cross is importing 1 million doses of Moderna to provide free jabs for the public.

The deputy spokesman did not deny the letter, but said it was not an official letter sent to an agency outside the armed forces.

However, the letter published on social media had a running reference number and the Garuda emblem, like official letters do.

The letter caused an uproar as many people are desperately seeking the mRNA vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech now the Sinovac vaccine is seen as less effective in protecting against the Delta variant of the coronavirus dominant in Thailand.

The Public Health Ministry is scrambling to find supplies of mRNA vaccines, or AstraZeneca's viral vector vaccine, for use as boosters for health personnel, especially those working in risk areas.

Former red-shirt leader Nattawut Saikuar posted a Twitter message on Friday questioning the explanation from the armed forces. He said the incident reeked of use of privilege.

"What was the letter written for if it was not an official one? Just written for internal circulation, as a souvenir?" he wrote.

Anti-government leader Sombat Boonngam-anong posted a sarcastic message on Facebook, saying soldiers had a chance of getting Moderna, while the grassroots were given Sinovac.

Armed forces unit under fire over special request for Moderna vaccine