White House Chief Medical Adviser and COVID-19 expert Anthony Fauci on Monday urged Americans to get the vaccine for COVID-19 as soon as they can.
Anyone done of planning to do this soon? Iām almost 60 but relatively healthy and have never gotten a flu shot. Havenāt even looked into getting a Covid shot. Has anyone else?
White House Chief Medical Adviser and COVID-19 expert Anthony Fauci on Monday urged Americans to get the vaccine for COVID-19 as soon as they can.
Iām trying. For some reason, there is no vaccine available.
I keep calling the āOffice of the Former Presidentā for vaccine guidance, but they say I have to make a contribution before proceeding any further.
To the millions of people who want to get the vaccine and canāt it sounds a little tone deaf.
States - the laboratory of Democracy has to be the stupidest fucking concept in the history of fucking concepts.
During a press briefing with the rest of the White Houseās COVID-19 response team
(Deep sigh of satisfaction and relief)
Oh, itās so nice to get back to a normally functioning government again.
Fact
viruses cannot mutate if they donāt replicate
Donāt be frantic. Just get vaccinated.
It would help to know if there are interfering ālockoutā effects between the types of vaccine. If you get a 57% effective adenovirus-based single shot like J&J, can you later take the mRNA double dose with unimpaired (ie, 95%) efficacy? Or could your first immune response ācannibalizeā subsequent ones?
Itās tempting to assume the first scenario, given the typical protocol for things like annual flu shots and āboosterā vaccine series, including the planned mRNA COVID variant updates. But Iāve not seen it directly addressed, and it would be nice to have some authoritative statements along with the vague encouragement to take whatever shot you can lay hands on.
āAnd if you stop their replication by vaccinating widely and not giving the virus an open playing field to continue to respond to the pressures that you put on it, you will not get mutations,ā he continued.
100%!
And if we have to think that, maybe, Donnie coulda and shoulda known this, whatās there to say about his āherd mentalityā strategy except that he was encouraging the virusās success.
Itās positively self-destructive in a national crisis like a pandemic.
Same here. I am in my 70s and Maryland is only getting 10,000 doses a day so I am being told it could be March at this rate.
What heās saying re: vaccination only holds if the shot actually prevents transmission. We really need clarity on that. Otherwise, itās more of a case for strengthening our existing mitigation measures. These mutations are yet another reason to be angry at the maskholes.
To the extent theyāve been around in NYC (and they have : I know people who got at least the first shot,) theyāve been inaccessible to me.
Thatās with the caveat that I donāt drive and have opted against an extended journey on public transit where thereās always a clown a who wonāt wear a mask.
States are the petri dish of democracy.
My sister did but she is a hospital lab tech. My parents who are in their 90s have scheduled to get them pretty soon. I just havenāt even taken any time to look into it because I feel like Iām low in the need to list health wise. My wifeās twin sister, whoās 30 year old daughter got it has tested positive for antibodies. So donāt know if that means she had some exposure and her body reacted and if that means she immune of not. So many unknows wit such a new pathogen.
We are in the same situation in NC but all we have is a number on the list and no idea of when we will get the vaccination.
Here is the answer to your question. They donāt know. There hasnāt been sufficient time to do the science.
Although I have conditions which predispose me to a rough time with covid, being a teacher is what really moved me up the list for prioritization.
I read this article from National Geographic yesterday. It addresses some of those questionsā¦