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I live in India. I am already hearing companies offering planned month long vacation tours to UK/US where you could get yourself vaccinated with vaccines that aren't available in India.
not surprising. i am shocked people aren’t hawking fakes on the dark net yet.
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Internat...
A 90 year old woman in a nursing home is not spreading COVID. Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? Why wouldn't we go at the root cause of the pandemic; young healthy asymptomatic spreaders?
Because stopping the elderly from overwhelming the health infrastructure needs to be step 1. ICU beds are extremely expensive.
Even with half the population refusing it because the anti-vax people might be even more crazy than the anti-maskers.
Which makes you wonder which country will have covid longest.
A 90 year old woman in a nursing home is not spreading COVID. Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? Why wouldn't we go at the root cause of the pandemic; young healthy asymptomatic spreaders?
It's not yet known whether the Pfizer vaccine prevents an infected person from transmitting the infection to other people [1]. But there is robust evidence that is does prevent an immunised person from becoming ill. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03441-8
I live in India. I am already hearing companies offering planned month long vacation tours to UK/US where you could get yourself vaccinated with vaccines that aren't available in India.
I live in India. I am already hearing companies offering planned month long vacation tours to UK/US where you could get yourself vaccinated with vaccines that aren't available in India.
A 90 year old woman in a nursing home is not spreading COVID. Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? Why wouldn't we go at the root cause of the pandemic; young healthy asymptomatic spreaders?
Sources:
- Nature study, 20th Nov https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
- Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO Emerging Diseases and Zoonosis unit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQTBlbx1Xjs
- Fauci in 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrAvjU2LBkg&feature=emb_titl...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because stopping the elderly from overwhelming the health infrastructure needs to be step 1. ICU beds are extremely expensive.
At this age, you don't get admitted to an ICU bed
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not yet known whether the Pfizer vaccine prevents an infected person from transmitting the infection to other people [1]. But there is robust evidence that is does prevent an immunised person from becoming ill. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03441-8
Could someone please explain how this can be the case? I understand the vaccine works by stimulating antibody production, which prevent you from becoming ill by binding to the virus and disabling it should it enter your system. How then could the virus be spread further if it's already been disabled?
