EasilyAmused
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I wouldn't be advocating mandatory mask wearing but if it reduced the annual flu or other annual respiratory illnesses it would do a lot of good.
If vaccines are nearly 100% effective in preventing serious illness or death from Covid-19 ...
Three years of further lockdown and one could kiss goodbye to the economy and the recession will likely have much more of a devastating effect than the pandemic.
In the last week Sam McConkey has warmed us that we may be facing at least a further three years of pandemic.
With all the handwashing, shops closures, social distancing, closed schools and creches, travel bans and masks a drop of influenza and the cold is logical.
Apart of that with people staying at home in most cases anyway it doesn't make much of a sense to go to the GP if one catches the flue/cold so that might be even under reported - also some might want to avoid the GP in order to get "stabbed in the nose/brain" with the Covid Swapas some symptoms are overlapping.
How much of a percentage of a drop in influenza is now to be assigned to what measure ? I doubt that can be now easily said if at all.
And as we have working influenza vaccines every year I do not see the government being able to mandate face coverings when this pandemic here is over.
What do you men by that?Pfizer, Moderna and Sputnik-V are in the 90ies but AZ is in the 70ies and J&J in the 60ies.
The percentages you are citing pertain to those who don't develop any symptoms of the disease, not to mortality rates which drop to nearly zero with any vaccine currently on the market. The media generally doesn't seem to report this difference. Once everyone is vaccinated some will still contract the virus and develop symptoms but virtually nobody will die from it.Pfizer, Moderna and Sputnik-V are in the 90ies but AZ is in the 70ies and J&J in the 60ies
What do you men by that?
Sam McConkey might be a science expert but his comments on everything outside of that have been idiotic. He was completely wrong on the vaccine and is divorced from the reality of the real world and how to run an economy during a pandemic. Of course it's easy to put out these scenarios when you are protected in the ivory towers of academia.In the last week Sam McConkey just warned us that we may be facing at least a further three years of pandemic. Anthony Staines said we may be wearing face masks (more-or-less) forever.
Sam McConkey might be a science expert but his comments on everything outside of that have been idiotic. He was completely wrong on the vaccine and is divorced from the reality of the real world and how to run an economy during a pandemic. Of course it's easy to put out these scenarios when you are protected in the ivory towers of academia.
Once everyone is vaccinated some will still contract the virus and develop symptoms but virtually nobody will die from it.
What is your source for that?
No Joe the Israelis are using the vaccine as per instruction by Pfizer and its the only vaccine they have.The israelis have also shown that just one dose is good enough to stop the spread and prevent illness, the British are also concentrating on administering the first dose to as many as possible. With the limited number of vaccines we have now we should be doing the same rather than holding back vaccines for the second dose which the hse are now doing. This is sticking to rules for minimal benefits rather than being flexible and pragmatic. Tony holohan seems to have an iron grip on all the decision making.
Given what we've known about vaccines for the last 100 years or so reduced rates of infection and transmission amongst people who have been vaccinated shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. That's kind of the point of vaccines. I'm surprised anyone is surprised.
Sure, but that was developed in 1921 and new vaccines are in the pipeline.There are some vaccines that don't reduce transmission, just provide protection. I think TB vaccine is like that.
Given what we've known about vaccines for the last 100 years or so reduced rates of infection and transmission amongst people who have been vaccinated shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. That's kind of the point of vaccines. I'm surprised anyone is surprised.
It can but it rarely does.Notwithstanding the fact that Coivd-19 is primarily transferred person-to-person, it may also be transmitted via contact/surfaces
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