[COVID NEWS] "Why Europe Is Falling Behind on Vaccines"

By artappraiser on Tue, 02/09/2021 - 4:30pm |

previous thread with Covid News from 2/4 thru 2/9 HOW VACCINE ‘PASSPORTS’ COULD GO WRONG

The EU must ramp up investment in testing and genomic sequencing to track new strains and slow their spread, and make a concentrated effort to push back against anti-vaccine sentiment, @eyckfreymann and @elettra_ardi write. https://t.co/RRv6kOwEqi
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) February 9, 2021

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https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/08/europe-falling-behind-vaccines-covid/

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Canada is going with promoting the rapid testing thing, see thread:

Update: We’ve distributed more than 19 million rapid tests to the provinces and territories since the beginning of the pandemic, and more are on the way. These tests are key to keeping COVID-19 under control - especially in long-term care homes, schools, and workplaces.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) February 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 02/09/2021 - 4:45pm

NEW VARIANT—New California variant CAL20C has recently found in over **half** of all samples in Los Angeles #COVID19 cases, & ~20-30% across CA. “I’m decently confident that this is a more infectious strain of the virus”, says expert from Cedar-Sinai. https://t.co/1XVtMOe0Pu pic.twitter.com/wSGfHGx7iO
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 10, 2021

SEE WHOLE THREAD. They've also got a real messy vaccine rollout situation like many other states do.

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/10/2021 - 3:35am

more evidence of a vaccination becoming the hottest new thing to own:

Seems like the play here is for 20/30-somethings to convince their unvaccinated older relatives to let them be their plus one. https://t.co/KFSyX62pup
— Conor Sen (@conorsen) February 10, 2021

Don't need no "ethicists" begging reluctant demographics to show up first. "Be there or be square", "anyone who's anyone's got one" (basically I-Phone Marketing 101) will do that trick far better.

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/10/2021 - 12:52pm

Reckless endangerment, @KristiNoem. Exhibit 597. When the #B117 variant sneaks up on South Dakota in March/April, don’t say you weren’t warned.

Concerned,

A former South Dakota childhood resident who grew up to become an epidemiologist. https://t.co/QUuFjhaYfg
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/10/2021 - 5:30pm

The CDC has released new research that found double-masking offers more protection against the coronavirus. Tying knots on the ear loops of medical masks can also help.https://t.co/zZmcggtgCT
— NPR (@NPR) February 10, 2021

fwiw, I saw Fox News has tweeted this as well

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/10/2021 - 5:49pm

A Pakistani-American doctor was fired *and is being prosecuted* because he gave an opened vaccine to anyone he could find rather than letting it go to waste.

Apparently, it would have been more "equitable" to throw the vaccine out.

This is madness.https://t.co/nLVlpKIt7H
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) February 11, 2021

pic.twitter.com/HTxLrgp8qJ
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) February 11, 2021

"Too many Indian names."

Is this the society we are trying to build?

Will this sort of logic help us build a fair and tolerant society?

If you think the answer to that is "yes," I just really don't know what to tell you.
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) February 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/10/2021 - 11:19pm

"When fall came, things started to go wrong," @annakatrein writes of Germany's handling of the pandemic. "And it wasn’t bad luck. It was politics." https://t.co/94X6cpaylj nytopinion
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) February 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/11/2021 - 1:08am

There are literally 30 million N95 masks sitting in Miami factories that the company can't figure out how to sell despite a desperate national shortage. This story is wild. https://t.co/LYV3J97N5T
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) February 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/11/2021 - 1:35am

She planned to be a pediatrician.
Helen Etuk, raised by a single mom, decided that once she became a doctor, she would take care of children even if their mothers couldn’t pay.
Etuk, 20, didn't get the chance.https://t.co/soozBRDRfB #RIP #COVID19
— David Beard (@dabeard) February 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/11/2021 - 1:51am

shocking actually:

Europe has really, really screwed up with their vaccination programs so far. Moving at a snail's pace, and thousands of people will needlessly die because of it. Via @OurWorldInData. pic.twitter.com/kmUqJREC3m
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) February 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/11/2021 - 3:48am

If Biden does nothing else, today he goes down in history as a president of major world import. YUGE:

BREAKING: "We've now purchased enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all Americans," President Biden says after announcing the purchase of 200M more coronavirus vaccines (100M Moderna, 100M Pfizer).

"We're now on track to have enough supply for 300M Americans by the end of July." pic.twitter.com/lGXtxFtKCP
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/11/2021 - 6:42pm

New York City authorities raided a warehouse that they said held 1.7 million counterfeit N95 masks, marking one of the biggest single seizures of personal protective equipment since the pandemic began https://t.co/F7Jfag1tgj
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) February 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/11/2021 - 10:13pm

Barack Obama: be there or be square--

There is a lot of disinformation out there, but here’s the truth: You should get a COVID vaccine as soon as it's available to you. It could save your life—or a loved one’s.https://t.co/jfRr8es6gW
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 2:38pm

the bleak prognosis folks' argument well summarized (you don't even have to listen to the podcast because he's such a skilled journalist at distillization):

"They're going to be chasing variants around the globe for the foreseeable future, and have made a death pact for endemic spread—it's never going to go away." says @gregggonsalves, in a great podcast with @jameshamblin and @maevehiggins. (1/x) https://t.co/T9TmlmcAsv
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 12, 2021

"We're now in a path where we're going to have these cycles of coronavirus outbreaks as there are gaps in vaccination across the U.S. and across the world, and as new variants emerge that might be less susceptible to vaccines that we put out into the field."
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 12, 2021

"We could be lucky. Maybe these variants don't emerge that escape the ability to be neutralized by the antibodies raised by these vaccines, but, you know, we have hundreds of millions of people infected, and while this virus isn't as great a mutation generator as HIV, but..."
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 12, 2021

"...the sheer number of infections that are occurring are a recipe for viral variation emerging over the course of the next few months are years..."
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 12, 2021

"...and as we put things in its way that are not good enough to stop it in its track, it starts to push it down an evolutionary pathway to resist these half-measures." (x/x)
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) February 12, 2021

of course, one major counter to this is that we make a new flu vaccine every year, we can do that with this, too? Maybe I am wrong? as far as the HIV comparison-and why we have no vaccine for it--that's beyond my pay grade.

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 2:53pm

Yglesias' optimist view:

This is what I wrote in December about how the economic relaunch is going to happen before herd immunity (and before the public health people want it to happen). https://t.co/VU30Kkh4rl pic.twitter.com/73bKNGaQFd
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 13, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 8:58pm

and then there's Noah Smith: BIDEN ROCKETSHIP!

Vaccinations up to 1.7M/day for the week! 2M today!

BIDEN ROCKETSHIP!! VACCINATION TO THE MOON!!! pic.twitter.com/qq8FyK4LHv
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) February 13, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 9:01pm

the true history, not the conspiratorial one--scientists make mistakes when they try to foretell the future:

This is known as an “asymmetric loss function” and it’s also one of the reasons doctors tend to be over-optimistic rather than over-pessimistic in their predictions (at least in certain situations). https://t.co/lK01fFdPBq https://t.co/l7FPs9733P
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) February 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/14/2021 - 7:51pm

[COVID NEWS] "Why Europe Is Falling Behind on Vaccines"

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