Climate Update for KGRR: August 2021
Climate Update for KGRR: August 2021
What a hoot.
The paper, the SCIENCE, comes out a week before Biden is expected to announce booster shots.
The scientists in The Lancet review include Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review, and deputy director Phil Krause. Both are departing the FDA after they were reportedly frustrated over the ... booster shots. ...
They said there are risks to distributing boosters too soon, including the potential for side effects such as a rare heart inflammation condition known as myocarditis, which is more common after the second dose of mRNA vaccines. ...
wide distribution of boosters is “not appropriate at this stage in the pandemic.”
More.
In the first year to Mar 7, 2021, there were 29.034 million total announced cases and 0.524646 million deaths, for a case fatality rate of 1.80%.
From Mar 7, 2021 to Sep 7, 2021, just past, six months, there were 11.349 million total announced cases and 0.126368 million deaths, for a case fatality rate of 1.11%, 38% less severe.
Compared with the first six months of the pandemic to Sep 7, 2020, the first six months of year two have been even less deadly still.
Through Sep 7, 2020 there had been 6.317 million total announced cases, and 0.189083 million deaths, for a case fatality rate of 2.99%, 2.7 times worse.
All data is from The New York Times.
Phony Diagnoses Hide High Rates of Drugging at Nursing Homes :
Starting at the 20:00 mark.
Government unions have already said, Not so fast!
In April Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, said "We cannot require someone to be vaccinated" (at about 1:30 below).
We'll see how long that lasts.
Probably about as long as Joe's promise to get every last American out of Kabul.
None of his supporters want to talk about that stupid load of BS Trump tried to sell.
Wrong again.
The United States has added 7 million cases since achieving 50% vaccination with one dose on June 1, and that spike continued strong despite achieving 50% full vaccination on August 14.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's senior official for infectious diseases, predicts the United States could begin to achieve early stages of herd immunity against the deadly coronavirus by late spring or summer. And if that happens, Fauci anticipates, "we could really turn this thing around" toward the end of 2021.
In a wide-ranging interview Tuesday on Morning Edition, NPR's Rachel Martin asked Fauci how many Americans need to receive the vaccine to have an impact on the number of COVID-19 infections.
"I would say 50% would have to get vaccinated before you start to see an impact," Fauci said. "But I would say 75 to 85% would have to get vaccinated if you want to have that blanket of herd immunity."
"Certainly it’s not going to be a pandemic for a lot longer, because I believe the vaccines are going to turn that around,” Fauci said. “Vaccines will help us. What we’ve got to do is just hang on and continue to double down on the public health measures.” ... The public also needs to be prepared for the likelihood that protection against the virus -- whether from vaccines or from fighting off Covid -- will probably only last for a year, perhaps two, he said. That’s based on experience with similar viruses and the growing number of documented cases of people being infected with this coronavirus twice, he said.