Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Yeah, that's probably what is meant. Js, my first reaction on seeing the shirt- "oh, I'm vaccinated too. NBD".

[Valmy]

I see it as a dig against "I identify as [insert gender]."

My sisters have shared plenty of cringeworthy "I identify as (x) therefore I am (x)" (rich, skinny, a dog etc.) "memes".

That, and he calls it "lib repellent".

It is a little too inside baseball to be lib repellent. I wouldn't even get it.

[Syt]

Clearly you've not learned your vocabulary list.

[Zoupa]

I'm pretty sure the babylon bee thing is a parody site like the Onion.

[Syt]

Yes, but they do have a conservative bend. https://babylonbee.com/news?sort=trending

[Duque de Bragança]

Clearly you've not learned your vocabulary list.

Already posted. 

[Legbiter]

A big week in vaccinations here. People with no underlying conditions born between 1975 and 2005 will be randomly selected for vaccination. 

[Josquius]

I am beginning to wonder if these are just bad people.  Ignorance is no dishonor, we are all ignorant

Choosing to be ignorant vs just happening to be ignorant are quite different things. But like most there isn't a clear line.
Then factor in dunning kruger too....

I see it as a dig against "I identify as [insert gender]."

My sisters have shared plenty of cringeworthy "I identify as (x) therefore I am (x)" (rich, skinny, a dog etc.) "memes".

That, and he calls it "lib repellent".

Well that's hyper encrypted. Only people who know him enough to know he's a shit bag will get it.

[Legbiter]

Extremely encouraging news regarding long term immunity.

Many people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 will probably make antibodies against the virus for most of their lives. So suggest researchers who have identified long-lived antibody-producing cells in the bone marrow of people who have recovered from COVID-191.

The study provides evidence that immunity triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection will be extraordinarily long-lasting. Adding to the good news, "the implications are that vaccines will have the same durable effect", says Menno van Zelm, an immunologist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

The same is observed in people who got SARS back in 2003, 17 years later they still have these memory cells in their bone marrow ready to swing into action if they encounter the virus again.

[mongers]

Extremely encouraging news regarding long term immunity.

Many people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 will probably make antibodies against the virus for most of their lives. So suggest researchers who have identified long-lived antibody-producing cells in the bone marrow of people who have recovered from COVID-191.

The study provides evidence that immunity triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection will be extraordinarily long-lasting. Adding to the good news, "the implications are that vaccines will have the same durable effect", says Menno van Zelm, an immunologist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

The same is observed in people who got SARS back in 2003, 17 years later they still have these memory cells in their bone marrow ready to swing into action if they encounter the virus again.

Thanks, that's bloody encouraging.

[mongers]

Peru has just revised its official Covid-19 death toll, more than doubling to over 180,000 victims:

Covid: Peru more than doubles death toll after review

Peru has more than doubled its Covid death toll following a review, making it the country with the world's highest death rate per capita, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

The official death toll now sits at more than 180,000, up from 69,342.

Prime Minister Violeta Bermudez told reporters that the number was raised on the advice of Peruvian and international experts.

This was in line with so-called excess deaths figures.

Excess deaths are a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years.

"We think it is our duty to make public this updated information," Ms Bermudez said.

Peru has been one of the worst-hit countries in Latin America, resulting in an overstretched healthcare system and a lack of oxygen tanks.

The official number of Covid deaths now stands at 180,764, a huge increase on the previous official figure of 69,342.

In comparison, neighbouring Colombia has registered 88,282 deaths and Bolivia has reported more than 14,000, while Brazil has one of the world's highest death tolls with more than 460,000.

But Peru now has the highest number of deaths in the world in relation to the size of its population, according to Johns Hopkins data.

Hungary previously had the worst number of deaths per capita at around 300 per 100,000 people. Now Peru stands at more than 500 Covid deaths per 100,000 people.

[mongers]

Surely the UK is a risk from a Fourth wave, not a third wave as is being reported in some quarters.

After all we've now had three national lockdowns of varying strength in response to these three up waves of cases:

[Eddie Teach]

From the graph it could be said you pulled the brake too quickly on the second.

[Sheilbh]

I don't know that I'd really break the winter wave into two. I don't think it dipped far enough in early December - it feels like that wave didn't really break. But I suppose it's just semantics.

[mongers]

I don't know that I'd really break the winter wave into two. I don't think it dipped far enough in early December - it feels like that wave didn't really break. But I suppose it's just semantics.

Isn't that a retrospective viewpoint? Because at the time of the Autumn lockdown we were facing a 2nd wave and were told we need a lockdown to curb it, then it was eased around the start of december, having apparently worked and we were going to have normal xmas.
Then it took off again because of the Kent variant in December and we had to lockdown for January onwards to prevent this new variant, which was significantly different from what happened in the Autumn.

We were the first to have a Kent variant wave in the world and yet in retrospect it now becomes only our 2nd wave, yet for France et al the Kent variant wave there is referred to as their 3rd wave.