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kcmets wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:47 am My two-cent take, I bet Virginia is a sanctimonious bitch in real life not just in print.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 2:25 pm Good!

I read that in the case of an NFL forfeit, both teams will lose their pay for the game, not just the team with the infected players.

I hope that's not accurate. It doesn't seem at all fair.

Edgy MD wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:15 pm

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 2:25 pm Good!

I read that in the case of an NFL forfeit, both teams will lose their pay for the game, not just the team with the infected players.

I hope that's not accurate. It doesn't seem at all fair.

Yeah, but it's the NFL.

Willets Point wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 10:41 am The timing of this CDC announcement is bad. Remember that vaccines were only available to the general public 16+ on April 19. There's a 3-week gap between Pfizer shots and 4 weeks for Moderna. Then you're supposed to wait another 2 weeks to be fully vaccinated. So it's a 5-6 week process. Assuming someone was able to navigate the labyrinthine registration process, the earliest the average American will be fully vaccinated is May 31. And of course, most people didn't get started on Day #1. And kids 12-16 just started this week. And under-12s are not vaccinated at all. They really should've held off on this until mid-June at the earliest. But hey, I guess "bipartisanship" is important even if it means having a 6th wave this summer.

London(CNN) An analysis by British academics, published by the UK Government's official scientific advisory group, says that they believe it is "almost certain" that a SARS-Cov-2 variant will emerge that "leads to current vaccine failure." SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes Covid-19.

The analysis has not been peer-reviewed, the early research is theoretical, and does not provide any proof that such a variant is in circulation now. Documents like it are released "as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an emergency."

The paper is dated July 26, and was published by the British government on Friday.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:48 pm I worry about an even worse scenario. I worry about a mutation that not only evades immunity, whether acquired naturally or through vaccination, but one that also puts young and relative healthy people at as much risk of bad covid outcomes as older and health-compromised people.

whippoorwill wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 3:47 pm

batmagadanleadoff wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 8:48 pm I worry about an even worse scenario. I worry about a mutation that not only evades immunity, whether acquired naturally or through vaccination, but one that also puts young and relative healthy people at as much risk of bad covid outcomes as older and health-compromised people.

Me too and that’s why I’m so anxious for them to let us vaccinate our children. For Feck’s sake why are they waiting?
And school will start soon…

Lefty Specialist wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:14 am They're waiting because they have to be sure 1) it's effective, 2) the correct dosage as children are smaller than adults, and 3) there are no side effects. To do this, they have to test large numbers of people of various ages over a longer period under controlled conditions.

They probably had an effective vaccine within a few weeks of the genetic sequencing. They had to test it, though and get those tests monitored and approved by professionals at the FDA. If you wonder why they do it so slowly and methodically, Google 'thalidomide'.