Covid-19 Vaccinations.

[JJ Husker]

I finally forced (yes forced) my 27 yo son to get vaccinated today. He’d been blowing it off and saying he didn’t need it. First time Ive had to jerk the slack out since he was teenager.

[BigRedBuster]

6 hours ago, ColoradoHusk said:

Bryson's an a$$, who projects himself as the boy-genius on the PGA Tour.  You put it well, he didn't get the vaccine because he thought he was invincible and he's also ultra-conservative (he counts the Trump kids as personal friends).  The whole "saving the vaccine for those who need it" is complete BS.  There are plenty of vaccines going around.

Don’t feel sorry. 

[teachercd]

16 hours ago, ColoradoHusk said:

Bryson's an a$$, who projects himself as the boy-genius on the PGA Tour.  You put it well, he didn't get the vaccine because he thought he was invincible and he's also ultra-conservative (he counts the Trump kids as personal friends).  The whole "saving the vaccine for those who need it" is complete BS.  There are plenty of vaccines going around.

"So I have this idea that no one in golf has EVER thought of, because I am so much smarter,  I am going to swing really hard"

 

 

[TGHusker]

If you haven't gotten vaccinated - get vaccinated for the sake of everyone else. 

If you want to maintain your "liberty" not to get vaccinate - then go live in isolation some place where

you can't affect the lives of those around you.  It isn't all about you.    My liberty stops at the door of my neighbor if it

negatively affects their health and welfare.

 

 

https://www.axios.com/fauci-delta-variant-covid-d1c0d550-6624-417d-bde6-33c8f56deaba.html

 

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If America's current COVID-19 surge continues unabated into the fall and winter, the country will likely face an even more deadly strain of the virus that could evade the current coronavirus vaccines, NIAID director Anthony Fauci told McClatchy Wednesday.

Why it matters: Fauci's comments underscore the importance of acting quickly to vaccinate the tens of millions of Americans who have not been inoculated against the virus.

• The current surge in coronavirus cases nationwide is being driven by the Delta variant, which is already more contagious than the original strain of the virus.

The big picture: As the virus continues to spread due to insufficient vaccination rates, it is being given "ample" time to mutate into a more dangerous new variant in the fall and winter, Fauci said.

• "[Q]uite frankly, we’re very lucky that the vaccines that we have now do very well against the variants — particularly against severe illness," Fauci said, emphasizing that this might not be the case with a new variant.
• “If another one comes along that has an equally high capability of transmitting but also is much more severe, then we could really be in trouble,” he said.
• “People who are not getting vaccinated mistakenly think it’s only about them. But it isn’t. It’s about everybody else, also.”

 

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[Scarlet]

 

[Scarlet]

[commando]

19 minutes ago, Scarlet said:

i believe the plexiglass structure might hinder the viking passing game a bit

[RedDenver]

 

[suh_fan93]

 

 

[cornhuskers4ever]

The Variant is on the rise and people have refused to take the vaccine.  Also, they are begging people to get the flu shot this fall too. 

I have a feeling that some type of Covid is going to be around a lot longer than people think. 

 

[commando]

6 minutes ago, cornhuskers4ever said:

The Variant is on the rise and people have refused to take the vaccine.  Also, they are begging people to get the flu shot this fall too. 

I have a feeling that some type of Covid is going to be around a lot longer than people think. 

 

the spanish flu from 1918 is still with us.  it's called H1N1 now and is part of our yearly flu vaccine efforts.   

[Archy1221]

 

[BigRedBuster]

31 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

 

Smart people can do stupid things. 

[commando]

38 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

 

zero hedge?  that is a far right sight that is not above misinformation.   

[Lorewarn]

“It finds that the association between hesitancy and education level follows a U-shaped curve with the

highest hesitancy among those least and most educated. People with a master’s degree had the least hesitancy, and the highest hesitancy was among those holding a PhD.”

 

Not nearly as salacious as the misleading headline. Here's a helpful tip - any website that uses memes to prove its point, or editorializes how a study demolishes or owns a tribe or narrative, isn't a reputable news source. Anyways, let's take a look at the actual study itself and not the right wing libertarian bulgarian financial blog that writers sign pieces as 'Tyler Durden' on.

 

First of all, the study is focused on January to May. The first vaccine administered in the states was December 14th, so starting just over two weeks after.

 

Here is their result summary (emphasis mine):

 

Results: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy decreased by one-third from January to May, with
19 relatively large decreases among participants with Black, Pacific Islander or Hispanic
20 race/ethnicity and ≤high school education. In May, independent hesitancy risk factors included

21 younger age, non-Asian race, having a PhD or ≤high school education, living in a rural county,
22 living in a county with higher 2020 Trump support, lack of worry about COVID-19, working
23 outside the home, never intentionally avoiding contact with others, and no past-year flu
24 vaccine. Differences in hesitancy by race/ethnicity varied by age. Almost half of vaccine hesitant
25 respondents reported fear of side effects and not trusting the COVID-19 vaccine; over one-third
26 reported not trusting the government, not needing the vaccine, and waiting to see if safe.
27 Reasons differed by degree of vaccine intent and by race/ethnicity.

 

Some other excerpts:

 

A longitudinal study of US adults (N=7,420) by Daly et al. reported an

overall decrease in COVID43 19 vaccine hesitancy from 46.0% in October 2020 to 35.2% in March 2021, with larger decreases in Black and Hispanic versus White race/ethnicity8 44 , thereby reducing the racial
45 disparity in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. However, if and how vaccine hesitancy has changed
46 during the first five months of the US COVID-19 vaccine rollout, overall and among subgroups,
47 is largely unstudied.

 

Per Figure 1, from January to May the gap
113 in percent hesitant between race/ethnicity groups among younger adults (panel A) and
114 education levels among all respondents (panel B) decreased, with the biggest decreases among

115 two of the three most hesitant race/ethnicity groups (e.g., Black and Pacific Islanders but not
116 Native American) and the two most hesitant education groups (≤high school and some college
117 education) in January. There was not a decrease in hesitancy among those with a professional
118 degree or PhD.

 

The large decrease in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy January-May among those with ≤high school
235 education went a long way towards narrowing the education gap; still this group has a relatively
236 high hesitancy prevalence. Those with professional degrees (e.g., JD, MBA) and PhDs were the
237 only education groups without a decrease in hesitancy, and by May, those with PhDs had the
238 highest hesitancy. To our knowledge, no other study has evaluated education with this level of
239 granularity, which was possible due to our unusually large sample size (>10,000 participants
240 with PhDs). Further investigation into hesitancy among those with a PhD is warranted.
241 January-May, there was a dose-response relationship between relative degree of local Trump
242 support in the 2020 presidential election and hesitancy, that grew slightly over time such that

243 by May those living in counties in the top quartile were 42% more at risk for being hesitant,
244 highlighting the politicization of public health recommendations.