Coronavirus - Overall
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@muddyriver I guess the issue is D3 has been touted as the answer to everything from Cancer to MS to Gout.
Sit in the sun eating salmon with mushrooms and you'll be fine. Beer is optional. Doesn't help raise your D3 but ... beer.
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Covid-19: Should we be worried about reports of myocarditis and pericarditis after mRNA vaccines?
BMJ 2021; 373 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1635 (Published 24 June 2021)
An attentive reader has kindly pointed out to me through a personal communication that in my previous rapid response [1] my computation of the number needed to treat for an additional beneficial outcome (NNTB) for preventing hospitalisation after a covid-19 infection in a healthy white male aged 25 years, i.e., ( 1 / 0.000089 ) x 3, is not 3,371, but 33,708 (due to me having likely missed a leading zero on my calculator). Therefore, the actual estimate of NNTB/NNTH (number needed to treat for an additional harmful outcome) is 223, and not 22.3. Hence, according to Pfizer’s own data [2] and the QCovid risk calculator [3], 223 young people would experience at least one serious adverse event for every prevented hospitalisation. For the best case scenario, using again the upper limit of the NNTH confidence interval, 43 individuals aged 12-25 years will experience at least one serious adverse event for each prevented hospital admission. The chance of benefits from vaccinating younger people are so vanishingly small and the risk of harms so large that the one-size-fits-all covid-19 vaccination campaign might need revision.
If you dont want to read the key take from this. assuming 100% efficacy of the vaccine 43, 12-25 year olds will experience an adverse reaction for every positve outcome gained from the pfizer/moderna vaccine.
This is within mandated age ranges. it gets worse the younger it goes. and better the older it goes.
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Here we fucking go
UK already shutting the door
Post-Christmas Lockdown is almost guaranteed
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So the thing is, this virus ain't going away, the virus is mutating to stay alive, so are world leaders gonna shut everyone off every year?
So isn't the theory that a virus wants to survive, so while making itself more transmissible it should be less damaging to its host or should they name it kamikaze?
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
So the thing is, this virus ain't going away, the virus is mutating to stay alive, so are world leaders gonna shut everyone off every year?
So isn't the theory that a virus wants to survive, so while making itself more transmissible it should be less damaging to its host or should they name it kamikaze?
That's the point they haven't made. Delta was less lethal and more transmissible. I assume this new one continues the trend. A living surviving host is a good host for a virus
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@kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan was delta less lethal? i thought the lower death rates were all down to vaccines or some level of immunity from those that had survived catching covid
That is the general trend as a virus evolves
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@canefan yeah, i get thats what generally happens long term for viruses but didn't think it was always a linear trend through variants and though the original messaging was Delta was more deadly, maybe that was just proven wrong
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@kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan yeah, i get thats what generally happens long term for viruses but didn't think it was always a linear trend through variants and though the original messaging was Delta was more deadly, maybe that was just proven wrong
Yeah I can't remember. Seems like each time a new variant rolls in everyone in the media loses their shit over it. Governments are closing up in response too
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@kiwiwomble Modelling assumptions in NZ are that Delta causes more hospitalisations and is more deadly than older variants, but they are struggling to work out how much improved treatment has reduced it.
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@godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@kiwiwomble Modelling assumptions in NZ are that Delta causes more hospitalisations and is more deadly than older variants, but they are struggling to work out how much improved treatment has reduced it.
I hates modellers
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@kiwiwomble Modelling assumptions in NZ are that Delta causes more hospitalisations and is more deadly than older variants, but they are struggling to work out how much improved treatment has reduced it.
I hates modellers
We loves wags
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@kiwiwomble Modelling assumptions in NZ are that Delta causes more hospitalisations and is more deadly than older variants, but they are struggling to work out how much improved treatment has reduced it.
I hates modellers
We loves wags
I'd loves Wags to bowl bodyline at a team of modellers and epidemiologists
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@nzzp said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@kiwiwomble Modelling assumptions in NZ are that Delta causes more hospitalisations and is more deadly than older variants, but they are struggling to work out how much improved treatment has reduced it.
I hates modellers
We loves wags
I'd loves Wags to bowl bodyline at a team of modellers and epidemiologists
Start a givealittle page. I'm on for that.
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Japan continues to have low rates for new infections and deaths from Delta.
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People are getting a bit pissed off that exit/entry procedures are still really time consuming.
On the streets, life is essentially back to normal except for everyone wearing masks, checking temperatures, and sterilizing hands on entry to a building.