COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

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New face mask guidance from the CDC recommends vaccinated people wear masks indoors in certain areas - CNN

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To prevent further spread of the Delta variant, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance on Tuesday to recommend that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors when in areas with "substantial" and "high" transmission of Covid-19, which includes nearly two-thirds of all US counties.


New unpublished data showing that vaccinated people infected with the Delta coronavirus variant can have as much virus as those who are unvaccinated is the primary driver for the CDC's latest mask guidance change, a source involved with the decision process told CNN. Overall, vaccinated people still play a small role in transmission and breakthrough infections are rare.
In addition, the source noted two other factors that led to this decision: the prevalence of the Delta variant and low vaccine uptake.
When the CDC previously revised its guidance on May 13 for vaccinated people to unmask, Delta only represented 1% of reported infections. Now, according to the CDC, it represents at least 83% of cases.
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TheManFromVA said:
Lockdown part 2?
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The 7 day average in January was 260k and half the country had little to no restrictions.

The 7 day average now is 45k.

Basically what I'm saying is, there ain't gonna be another lock down. The last one was like a year and a half ago, I have no idea why people keep mentioning it.
That ship sailed a long, long time ago. I mean....the CDC can't even firmly tell people to wear a mask and people think a whole lock down is coming? :mjlol:

Mind you, this is totally unrelated to my personal opinion on whether or not it should happen. I'm just saying shyt was literally 4x as bad as it currently is, and there wasn't one.

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Absolut said:


Vax up and get on with life fam
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The current expansion in prevalence of infectious Sars-CoV-2 variants is highly problematic because it erodes natural Ab-based, variant-nonspecific immunity in the non-vaccinated part of the population. The high infectivity rate that results from this expansion not only further enhances the expansion of these variants but may also drive natural selection of viral variants that are featured by an even higher level of infectiousness. Erosion, therefore, of natural Ab-based, variant-nonspecific immunity promotes breeding and transmission of more infectious viral variants in the non-vaccinated part of the population. On the other hand, mass vaccination promotes natural selection of increasingly vaccine immunity (VI)-escaping variants in the vaccinated part of the population. Taken together, mass vaccination conducted on a background of high infectivity rates enables more infectious, increasingly VI-escaping variants to expand in prevalence. This evolution inevitably results in inclining morbidity rates in both, the non-vaccinated and vaccinated population and precipitates the emergence of circulating viral variants that will eventually fully resist vaccine-mediated immunity (VMI). This is why mass vaccination campaigns should not be conducted during a pandemic of a highly mutable virus, let alone during a pandemic of more infectious variants (unless transmission-blocking vaccines are used!).
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https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/...etending-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-toning-down
 
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Young dude I work with in college just showed me an email where his school is paying students $250 if they show proof of vaccination for the upcoming semester
 
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heisenburrr said:
https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/...etending-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-toning-down
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Addressing Geert Vanden Bossche’s Claims — Deplatform Disease

I won’t be addressing the contents of Dr. Vanden Bossche’s resume as it’s irrelevant to the fact that he is currently making unsupportable claims, but for those seeking a backgrounder on the subject, Dr. Iannelli has graciously obliged. I also won’t be linking to his original letter.

I’ll be blunt: there is very little within this letter that is even close to being correct, and there is almost no evidence presented to support any of its claims. I’ll now go through it point-by-point to explain where it’s wrong.

It's not exactly rocket science, it’s a basic principle taught in a student’s first vaccinology class: One shouldn’t use a prophylactic vaccine in populations exposed to high infectious pressure (which is now certainly the case as multiple highly infectious variants are currently circulating in many parts of the world).

There is no such principle. It in fact directly goes against current policies for responding to outbreaks of e.g. measles, mumps, meningococcal disease, etc. and more generally is directly at odds with the incredibly effective ring vaccination strategy
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etc etc etc.

Fred.
 
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