COVID-19 2020

At a glance you need to reside in the county in which you are being vaccinated. Makes sense.

We love PG ever since we moved here…

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We love PG ever since we moved here…

*updates records*

StoneTheCrow wrote:
At a glance you need to reside in the county in which you are being vaccinated. Makes sense.

Interesting. 

In CA you need to live or work in the county, as it does no good to re-open a business in a county that has their vaccine plan together if more than 30% of their employees live in counties that don't have their shit together.

vansmack wrote:

StoneTheCrow wrote:
At a glance you need to reside in the county in which you are being vaccinated. Makes sense.

Interesting. 

In CA you need to live or work in the county, as it does no good to re-open a business in a county that has their vaccine plan together if more than 30% of their employees live in counties that don't have their shit together.

Virginia does not seem to have ANY enforcement of locality other than Virginia residency. (EDIT: There may be county specific "our residents only" vaccination events that I am unaware of but none of the pharmacies/colleges doing 1A were geographically limited.) Someone drove an hour to Charlottesville because there was an open appointment there from my company.

The scenario you lay out would be especially ineffective here where cities are not part of counties so every population center would have several vaccinating entities with varying levels of "shit togetherness" around every population center here.

Julian, wrote:
The scenario you lay out would be especially ineffective here where cities are not part of counties so every population center would have several vaccinating entities with varying levels of "shit togetherness" around every population center here.

I don't work in San Francisco.  So despite being high on the list because of my employment, if I had to be a resident of the county where I was employed, I could conceivably be a liability at my work as they try to safely reopen if I couldn't get the vaccine simply because I didn't work there.

However, as you note, I am much more likely to get my shot in SF because it is both a city and county long before my work county. 

Good


https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/us/vaccine-tourism-florida-new-york/index.html

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straight outta julian's america:

All overweight D.C. residents will get priority for the coronavirus vaccine.


along with smokers!!!

sweetcell wrote:
straight outta julian's america:

All overweight D.C. residents will get priority for the coronavirus vaccine.


along with smokers!!!

Technically, 30+ is "obese", not "overweight."

I went down by 0.1, so I'm going in the wrong direction.

Sara Tartof, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente’s research department, said that in a study she helped lead on factors that increase coronavirus risk, a BMI over 40 — severe obesity — “eclipsed” almost all other risk factors. BMI over 30 also posed some risk.

“We don’t see anything in our data — and this is a very large data set that I’m talking about — I don’t see an association below 30,” Tartof said. “And for death, we don’t see a statistically significant association below 40.”

Applying for my free "vaccinateds-only" Super Bowl tickets. #RestartConcertsImmediately

One year anniversary of my last live show…Heilung at the Fillmore.

New U.K. strain slightly deadlier

https://www.lanacion.com.ar/el-mundo/alarma-variante-britanica-del-coronavirus-apunta-mayor-nid2579184

How does this thread drop off the first page?

Anyway, hope this guy from MIT is right.

https://covid19-projections.com/path-to-herd-immunity/


By: Youyang Gu
Last Updated: January 26, 2021 (First posted December 9, 2020; CDC plots updated daily)
With the availability of the COVID-19 vaccine, we present our best estimate of the path to COVID-19 herd immunity in the United States. Herd immunity will be reached through immunity from two sources: vaccination and natural infection. On this page, we provide the latest COVID-19 vaccine projections and current vaccination progress.
January 26 Update: We are factoring in rollout of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine starting in late February/early March. In the past week, over 1 million doses were administered per day. Given no unforeseen supply issue from Pfizer/Moderna, we now estimate that the general public can receive the vaccine by April, and over 60% of the US adult population will be fully vaccinated by June. We also estimate that over 200 million doses will be administered in the first 100 days of the new presidential administration, more than double the administratoin’s original “100 million shots in 100 days” goal. Our timeline for a complete “return to normal” remains unchanged (June/July 2021).

People are tired of covid and just can’t process it

I agree if everything continues as it is or all other things being equal we should begin going back to “normal” later this year BUT

It will remain hard to process what will have happened in America. We will have lost 600,000 Americans or more.. one in 500 Americans will have died… lots of people will have lost family and friends due largely to a catastrophic failure of leadership…How normal is that? Is that really normal?? Probably we will as a society sweep it under the rug and move on.. most of them were old… How normal is that? How does that affect the society? What about increasing inequality and poverty in America? Is that “normal”? Maybe for the privileged they will go back to normal but what about the poor that bore the brunt of covid in terms of blood and money? Moving forward would be a repeat of sorts from the Flu of 1918.. But for many reasons that flu which killed close to 1 in 200 Americans was different…it killed young people as easily as old…it came in the middle of a world war…it was a hundred years ago before all the development that was expected to keep it from happening again AND governments basically kept a tight lid on stories about the Spanish Flu….We know it didn’t have to be like this time because we have the examples of other countries that handled it better…Australia has had less than 1000 deaths! For the world’s largest economy to fail on covid in such an epic manner might leave a mark

Honestly to speak of “going back to normal” seems somewhat in poor taste and disconnected from reality

Return to normal is predicated on the assumption no other covids develop that are immune to the vaccines… but surely having hundreds of millions of cases cases worldwide means we should be concerned about mutations

hutch wrote: on the assumption no other covids develop that are immune to the vaccines… but surely having hundreds of millions of cases cases worldwide means we should be concerned about mutations

this is my greatest fear as this may go on for years…

there is no bottom:

China rolls out anal swab coronavirus test, saying it’s more accurate than throat method

^THIS is my greatest fear

sweetcell wrote:
there is no bottom:

I believe that story indicates they found the bottom.