COVID Thread
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And now there's this:
www.politico.com
U.S. global Covid work will ‘grind to a halt’ without more cash
With a more than $4 billion request stalled in Congress, USAID officials are now forced to plan for the possibility that their funding will run dry in the next few months.
www.politico.com
For nearly three months, top officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development privately warned the White House and lawmakers on Capitol Hill that USAID would soon run out of money to help put Covid-19 shots in arms across the world, jeopardizing one of President Joe Biden’s key Covid promises.
In 2021, Jeremy Konyndyk, the executive director of the agency’s Covid-19 task force, helped set up a system to deliver and help administer hundreds of millions of Covid-19 shots in dozens of countries — more than any other nation combined. But at the turn of the year, the billions of dollars the agency received through the American Rescue Plan was running low and USAID officials raced to the Hill to make the case for more money to continue their vaccination work.
They're acting like it's all over. Again. This is going to come back and bite us all right in the ass. Hard.
There was someone else calling for withholding vaccines from any country supporting Russia. I had to shake my head - that's a great way to ensure a resurgence of covid with new variations.
Nobody gives a shit anymore. It's like the whole thing never happened. Nobody even talks about it anymore. They go on and on about Chris Rock getting slapped but you don't hear shit about a virus that's killed nearly a million fucking americans and is still killing. This country is just a shitbox now. Seriously. It's a fucking shitbox.
Governor Kemp just signed a law that kids can't be made to wear masks, effectively destroying the last of any useable mandate to keep kids safe.
Of course, the idea that there still is no vaccine for kids 5 and under, which here covers pre-K and kindergarten, is completely irrelevant.
Of course, the idea that there still is no vaccine for kids 5 and under, which here covers pre-K and kindergarten, is completely irrelevant.
So here's the story:
www.cnn.com
And here's the operative parts:
Is herd immunity for Covid-19 still possible?
This time last year, the brand new, stunningly effective Covid-19 vaccines were rolling out across the country, injecting a strong note of optimism into the United States' once fumbling pandemic response.
www.cnn.com
And here's the operative parts:
Like the virus that causes Covid-19, the measles virus spreads through the air. It is so contagious that if one person has it, 9 out of 10 people around them will catch it if they are not immune to it, according to the CDC. Some experts have estimated that the Omicron viruses are as contagious as the measles.
The US eliminated transmission of measles and has successfully kept the virus from circulating in this country because of three things: an extremely effective vaccine; a virus that doesn't change, or mutate, in significant ways over time; and a successful childhood vaccination campaign.
The measles vaccine is 97% effective at preventing the disease, according to the CDC. Once a person is vaccinated, studies have determined that protection lasts virtually their whole lives.
Many states in the US had once reached an ambitious public health goal of getting more than 90% of their children vaccinated against the disease by the time they started kindergarten.
This high level of vaccination coverage, the durability and effectiveness of the vaccine, and the relative stability of the virus have helped the United States prevent major outbreaks of the disease for more than 20 years.
Covid-19, unfortunately, isn't playing by those same rules.
"Bad news number one," said Fauci, is that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 changes a lot and in significant ways.
"We've already experienced over a period of two years that we've had five separate variants Alpha, Beta, Delta, Omicron. And now BA.2 from Omicron one," he said.
"Bad news number two is that there's a lack of a wide acceptance of safe and effective vaccines," Fauci said. Put simply, not enough people have been vaccinated.
My mother in law is the latest. She believes she caught it at church. And now after her time in isolation she has come to find out the rest of her condo floor is now developing symptoms from attending an event she stayed away from due to her illness.
I also have a nephew and grand niece recovering. None of us live within a minimum of 100 miles if not thousands of the others.
I also have a nephew and grand niece recovering. None of us live within a minimum of 100 miles if not thousands of the others.
Beijing races to contain 'urgent and grim' Covid outbreak as Shanghai lockdown continues | CNN
Beijing is racing to track a Covid-19 outbreak that may have been spreading in the capital for a week, city authorities said over the weekend, raising the prospect more stringent restrictions could soon be implemented in line with other Chinese cities.
I read just the other day that they were loosening restrictions and letting people back out.
Their vaccine must be very poor or they're simply not using it.
Their vaccine must be very poor or they're simply not using it.