COVID Thread

[Zeedox]

Or it's in short supply and they're using it only in hot spots.

 

[Gomez Adams]

That will be their undoing. You can't play whack-a-mole when you have 1.5 billion people.

 

[Zeedox]

They haven't reached 'all of the people, all of the time" like Russia, yet.

 

[Gomez Adams]

The CDC is investigating a Covid-19 outbreak on board a Carnival cruise ship

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a recent Covid-19 outbreak on a Carnival cruise ship that docked in Seattle after a two-week voyage.

www.cnn.com

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a recent Covid-19 outbreak on a Carnival cruise ship that docked in Seattle after a two-week voyage.​

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The Carnival Spirit, which sailed through the Panama Canal, departed Miami on April 17 and arrived in Seattle on May 3, according to a statement from the cruise line. The ship holds 2,124 guests and 930 crew members, Carnival said.​

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The CDC says it's not permitted to publicly share the number of passengers and crew members who quarantined or tested positive. But the ship is labeled as orange status per the agency's cruise ship Covid-19 threshold, indicating that 0.3% or more of total passengers and or crew members tested positive, according to CDC's guidelines.​

Color me surprised.

 

[Zeedox]

Just saw this. And that's why cruises are out.

 

[Gomez Adams]

Even before covid I would never go on one. Every year you always hear about people dying of food poisoning on those ships.

 

[Gomez Adams]

The most powerful nation on earth is also the dumbest.

US has a "very serious" problem with Covid-19 vaccine uptake

The United States has a "very serious" problem with Covid-19 vaccination uptake, a top health official has warned.

www.cnn.com

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 48.7% of people over the age of 12 have been fully vaccinated and received at least one booster dose in the US.​

 

[Gomez Adams]

Well, it's happening.

New coronavirus subvariants escape antibodies from vaccination and prior Omicron infection, studies suggest

Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 appear to escape antibody responses among both people who had previous Covid-19 infection and those who have been fully vaccinated and boosted, according to new data from researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of Harvard Medical School.

www.cnn.com

 

[Zeedox]

It was only a matter of time...

 

[Zeedox]

World Health Network declares monkeypox outbreak a pandemic

The current monkeypox outbreak, which has infected 3,417 people across 42 countries, has on Thursday been declared a pandemic by World Health Network (WHN), a global collaboration of scientific and citizen teams. The declaration comes ahead of the World Health Organization's (WHO) meeting on...

www.businessinsider.in

 

[Gomez Adams]

And the hits just keep on coming. We've digressed to the dark ages.

 

[Zeedox]

Never-before-seen microbes locked in glacier ice could spark a wave of new pandemics if released

Climate change just got even more terrifying.

www.livescience.com

Evidence suggests that some of the newfound bacteria could be very dangerous to humans and other organisms. The team identified 27,000 potential virulence factors — molecules that help bacteria invade and colonize potential hosts — within the TG2G catalog. The researchers warned that around 47% of these virulence factors have never been seen before, and so there is no way of knowing how harmful the bacteria could be.