Irvine511
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This new Brazil varient is ... terrifying.
This new Brazil varient is ... terrifying.
Anything to share ? I feel like I’ve been keeping up with certain scientists / doctors and it hasn’t really come up much.
We know the South African mutation has caused some vaccine trouble but companies believe a booster should help (the J&J showed 100% no severe reaction after 48 days)
The U.K. and South Africa strains have generated both the most coverage and the most research, but the most concerning may be the Brazilian one, also called P.1. In the Amazonian city of Manaus, where antibodies had been previously estimated in 76 percent of the population, there has been a horrifying and deadly dramatic second wave, right in the middle of Brazilian summer in a place believed to have developed a quite robust community immune protection and perhaps true herd immunity. A new “Comment” published Wednesday in the Lancet surveys what we know about the Manaus variant, and offers four possible explanations for what has happened there. None of them are good. Three are quite terrifying.
Keep a close eye on Minnesota's numbers. The Brazil variant was found there several days ago.
As a Brazilian, a note of caution: very hard to separate the supposedly increased infection rate of the virus as found in the northern states from the utter incompetent federal and local response, which made the situation profoundly worse, including by lack of decisive action in areas that would curb the spread. So I’d wait for real data before worrying too much.
As a Brazilian, a note of caution: very hard to separate the supposedly increased infection rate of the virus as found in the northern states from the utter incompetent federal and local response, which made the situation profoundly worse, including by lack of decisive action in areas that would curb the spread. So I’d wait for real data before worrying too much.
The 7 day average for cases in the US is at its lowest point since mid November, right when the holiday season was beginning. Lowest number of hospitalizations since December 1. Good signs. Hopefully this carries on alongside the vaccination effort.
Probably both, but I'm with you that the vaccines are probably the main reason. The rates were going up even before the holidays. The holidays caused a spike, but considering as it's still winter and cold AF we'd likely see cases/hospitalizations/deaths continuing to rise if not for the vaccine roll out.One must wonder if the drop is because post holiday or because inoculation of medical staff and patients/likely-patients is maybe cutting cross contamination or cutting likely new positive patients (elderly and sick being more likely to check into the hospital).
Since January 24, the number of active coronavirus cases in California has dropped from 1,727,000 to 1,678,000. This doesn't sound like a lot, it's only about 3%, but the last two weeks have been our ONLY period of steady decline in terms of active cases during the entire pandemic. You can observe plateauing and individual days of decline, but not entire weeks of it.
The effect of the vaccines is very real and it has become apparent quickly.
It doesn’t help when states like Iowa say it’s all over and release all restrictions.