[COVID NEWS] California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous: ‘The devil is already here’

By artappraiser on Tue, 02/23/2021 - 2:27pm |

Terrible news for California: The coronavirus strain that is dominant here appears to be more contagious, more lethal and more able to evade antibodies generated by COVID-19 vaccines or prior infection. It’s all bad. https://t.co/KABDF5iBeP
— Soumya (@skarlamangla) February 23, 2021

Previous COVID NEWS thread HERE, covers 2/19 thru 2/23

URL:

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-02-23/california-homegrown-coronavirus-strain-looks-increasingly-transmissible-and-dangerous

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6) The parallel NYT piece is just as ominous. It also notes that the new CA variant like I doubles the viral load in new study. https://t.co/lvWudK8DXf
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 23, 2021

7) “That study also hinted that the variant may be better than others at evading the immune system — and vaccines”.

“I wish I had better news to give you—that this variant is not significant at all,” said Dr. Charles Chiu of UCSF. “But unfortunately, we just follow the science.”
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 23, 2021

8) Any other corroborating data? yes, unfortunately. The CA variant has a mutation that also evades certain antibodies, behaving like the South Africa #B1351 and #P1 variants. https://t.co/YVyG5Kuqhk
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 23, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 02/23/2021 - 2:41pm

Oh what a wonderful world,

COVID pandemic causes spike in cyberattacks against hospitals, medical companies https://t.co/Mxbjo80ZQN by @SecurityCharlie ZDNet
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) February 24, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 02/23/2021 - 11:59pm

Coronavirus vaccine skepticism has come way down for Black and Hispanic people since last fall. Where skepticism remains high is among white Republicans. Nearly 60% of white Rs will either not take the vaccine or are unsure.@Civiqs tracking: https://t.co/lLKHxCP3IM pic.twitter.com/O1NT9xB4ZF
— Drew Linzer (@DrewLinzer) February 23, 2021

Angie, would YOU get the J&J vaccine? Would you recommend it to your friends and family?

You bet I would. Yesterday. https://t.co/DQFmO8G7i0
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) February 24, 2021

both found retweeted by Matthew Yglesias.

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 12:23am

Military begins delivering vaccines in Texas, New Yorkhttps://t.co/WnPdjykSxo
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) February 25, 2021

IT'S WAR!!! GO BIDEN!!!

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 9:35pm

One soldier from the area told Austin how thrilled he was to be able to give his own mother a shot.

“It almost brought me to tears,” Austin said later, recounting the story.

Speaking to another group of service members working at the walk-up vaccination site, Austin said they need to take the leadership, coordination and compassionate skills they have learned doing this to their next mission.

Austin told reporters later that the military is learning every day how to make the process more efficient. And he said one thing that has proved successful has been the mobile vaccination teams, and he intends to talk to agency leaders about expanding those....

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 10:45pm

seriously brings tears to my eyes that people are finally finally treating this like the war it is:

.@aslavitt46: all #covid19 vaccine doses backlogged by weather will be delivered by mid-week.

Notes 70 McKesson employees volunteered to work 1am shifts Saturday night to Sunday morning to prepare shipments. "An all-out, around the clock effort." Says military also assisted. https://t.co/ok8WreJfSr
— Meg Tirrell (@megtirrell) February 22, 2021

instead of protesting on the streets over whatever other delusioniary priorities were distracting them while 500,000 died. should have been mass protests everywhere demanding people wear masks because those who weren't were killing thousands and thousands of others

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 11:01pm

Ah, and they/we dint care if it is a Red or Blue state...It people...gotta feel good about this...I do!
— Dawna Carnagey-Stanfield (@CarnageyDawna) February 25, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 11:11pm

Black pastors have a new job on their plates during COVID-19: encouraging skeptical congregants to get vaccinated.

One D.C. church has a portable vaccination trailer in its parking lot twice a week. https://t.co/hACZDnw14O axios
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) February 24, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 10:51pm

Yglesias on vaccination arguments about race:

Me in the Washington Post — just pointing to racial gaps and labeling them “racism” doesn’t actually solve problem. https://t.co/IaIfm41oVy pic.twitter.com/tidwLnLATI
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 24, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/25/2021 - 12:52am

Biden admin sending 25 million masks to community health centers & food pantries:

Between March and May, the administration will send well-fitted cloth masks, available in child and adult sizes, that can be washed for reuse. https://t.co/Vctg1mKDj0
— Journal Sentinel (@journalsentinel) February 25, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/25/2021 - 12:55am

In randomized trials with 6 different COVID vaccines involving ~175000 persons:

0 hospitalizations for COVID in persons who received the recommended schedule of vaccine.

That is ZERO.
— Vincent Rajkumar (@VincentRK) February 26, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/26/2021 - 11:28pm

Ending the week with some good news: COVID cases and hospitalizations are down, vaccinations are up.

Americans received 2.2 million doses of COVID vaccines today, a single-day record. https://t.co/l3sgfKu56M
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) February 27, 2021

This is even better news with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine requiring only 1 dose. https://t.co/ei1ivpSgur
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) February 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 12:16am

The NYTimes.com Editorial Board:

America could be on its way to something approaching normal by autumn. But we have some hurdles to clear to get there. https://t.co/foQC0tluyn nytopinion
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) February 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 12:19am

Let’s do it! https://t.co/uMBRkFjLaP
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) February 28, 2021

he also retweeted this, it's great:

Want to *see* why airflow and ventilation are important in schools?

I've been working on this project with @nytimes and colleagues at @JarosBaumBolles for the past few months. Great to see it out in the world.https://t.co/pKl7jorQCD
— Joseph Allen (@j_g_allen) February 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 12:57am

NIH launches initiative to start studying long-term Covid symptoms:

We don’t yet know all of the long-term health impacts of the different COVID-19 strains in adults or kids. I’m glad that @NIH is launching an initiative to study long COVID – something I’ve been urging our public health officials to do since summer.https://t.co/J1YCgAiZ2K
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 1:35am

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by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 2:50am

Yeah, they deleted the extra Germany in 1990. I was there. (kinda like bragging about my degrees)

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 4:43am

Germany ???

Germany has built up a stockpile of 1.75 m unused doses of AstraZeneca vaccine. In East German states delivery is as low as 5%. This is a grotesque misallocation of resources that are critically scarce at global level. Reallocate to low income countries NOW. pic.twitter.com/OOP8eRM1ug
— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) February 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 2:34am

And, on top of that, by the fact that there’s so much more vaccine supply coming online, and that the WH seems to understand exactly what challenges it needs to focus on to get those shots into arms. https://t.co/RewrHm4ypr
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 1, 2021

No offense to anyone giving speeches, there’s just a lot of exciting stuff going on and we’ve all got to make choices about what to pay attention to.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 1, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 9:42pm

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You don’t get it.
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Read the article at https://x.com/GeorgeDeek/status/1731020551328579863?s=20

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