COVID-19 Coronavirus: global situation

[Strawberryzaaria]

Here's a good site for some "fun" reading. It essentially ridicules severely ill or dead anti-vaxxers. But it's careful to only list people who were actively anti-vax, who spread dangerous messages and falsehoods. It turns out nearly all of them die in the hospital. Somehow they suddenly trust the medical establishment when they are having trouble breathing and don't question all the drugs they are given during their hospital stays.

sorryantivaxxer.com | stories of anti-vaxxers who died from COVID.

They thought COVID was a scam, until they lay dying from it. sorryantivaxxer.com tells their story using their own facebook and twitter posts.

www.sorryantivaxxer.com

Its kindve funny that the same vaccine they use to treat covid befor I heard is what they use to help afterward after getting covid. But the sick dont seem to care about the vaccine then

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Maine is still getting hit hard. We went from under 100 cases a day to over 1000 cases a day. All the hospitals have stopped unneeded surgeries and some are using National Guard people to help out. The northern half of Maine has people spread out and not too many big towns so the people there figured they did not need to get vacinated. They seem to be the ones filling the hospitals. I figure they will be calling for a second booster soon and maybe even taking the new pills coming out. Portland has gone back to mandatory masks and showing the shot cards and getting tested often with home kits. Portland has appointed new "mask police" with up to a $500 fine for refusing. Mean while , I stay home except to go to the ATM machine once a month to get my Social Security.

 

[mdchachi]

Maine is still getting hit hard. We went from under 100 cases a day to over 1000 cases a day. All the hospitals have stopped unneeded surgeries and some are using National Guard people to help out. The northern half of Maine has people spread out and not too many big towns so the people there figured they did not need to get vacinated. They seem to be the ones filling the hospitals. I figure they will be calling for a second booster soon and maybe even taking the new pills coming out. Portland has gone back to mandatory masks and showing the shot cards and getting tested often with home kits. Portland has appointed new "mask police" with up to a $500 fine for refusing. Mean while , I stay home except to go to the ATM machine once a month to get my Social Security.

People here have seem to taken a fatalistic approach. Most people don't bother to mask and just seem to think the vaccine will protect them. That's probably true but the vaccine won't protect them from getting and spreading Covid, affecting and killing people further down the line.

 

[Grandpa Frank]

When I worked as a home care nurse we were told never wear a mask as it would upset the customers. Frequent hand washing & gloves was all we had when working with infectious patients. The info I thought was real important was to never touch your face(eyes & nose & mouth) without a good hand washing first. I had patients with aids , tuberculosis , hepatitis and the only thing I ever caught was shingles which they say can't happen. It seems this virus is the most infectious thing I've seen in my lifetime. Mask wearing here is only 50% where it is not mandatory which is probably one of the reasons our state is getting hit so hard.

 

[thomas]

Pfizer and BioNTech are working on a new hybrid vaccine combining its original shot with a formulation against the omicron variant. The original plan was to develop a standalone vaccine against omicron. They also test higher-dose versions of their vaccine and evaluate different dosing schedules.

The New York-based drug giant and German partner BioNTech SE are also testing higher-dose versions of their vaccine and evaluating different dosing schedules, Bourla said. He said he continues to provide additional resources to the company's vaccine unit and is also looking to deploy its messenger RNA technology in other spaces. The use of mRNA is "clearly … a very powerful technology and we're just scratching the surface of it," Bourla said. On Monday, Pfizer announced a trio of deals to build out its budding franchise of mRNA candidates to target COVID-19, rare diseases and cancer. Pfizer is also making inroads in scaling out access to its oral COVID-19 treatment, Paxlovid. "In a couple of weeks, we will have it everywhere," Bourla said of U.S. access to the pill.

Pfizer starts making vaccine that targets both omicron and the original COVID virus

While research continues, Pfizer will evaluate the new hybrid shot against one specific to omicron and determine which should move forward by March, the firm’s CEO has said.

www.japantimes.co.jp

 

[musicisgood]

Here is something you all might want to read.

3 Sinovac doses fail to protect against Omicron in study

The prospect of having to roll out a different booster shot or even re-vaccinate with a more Omicron-specific vaccine will set back the world's efforts to exit the pandemic. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

www.straitstimes.com

 

[johnnyG]

Probably people in china (or those involved in the olympics ) would want to read that.

 

[musicisgood]

Update : Tokyo , Japan
March 16, 2022 Wednesday

Infected cases confirmed since the beginning : nearly 6million people Japan has a population of about 134 million people

Confirmed deaths : 26,262 I don't know if deaths are slowing down since the reporting varies from week to week

1st dose of vaccine : 102 million people 80 % vaccinated
2nd dose of vaccine : 1,500,000 people 79 % vaccinated
3rd dose of vaccine ( no current update on this yet )

Just reported : Japan firms near domestic rollout of their COVID-19 vaccines ( sorry paid subscriber to get more info of this from Japan Times )

 

[Lothor]

Update : Tokyo , Japan
March 16, 2022 Wednesday

Infected cases confirmed since the beginning : nearly 6million people Japan has a population of about 134 million people

Confirmed deaths : 26,262 I don't know if deaths are slowing down since the reporting varies from week to week

1st dose of vaccine : 102 million people 80 % vaccinated
2nd dose of vaccine : 1,500,000 people 79 % vaccinated
3rd dose of vaccine ( no current update on this yet )

Just reported : Japan firms near domestic rollout of their COVID-19 vaccines ( sorry paid subscriber to get more info of this from Japan Times )

According to NHK, about 30% of adults have received their third vaccination.

 

[Mansoor]

I have been sick for about 20 days.

It started with weakness and sweating, then fewer. In sleep, I rolled in my bed to every side alternatively while was moaning because of fever. One night when I went to WC in the yard, I began shaking intensely. I went back to the room running (with difficulty) and wore an overcoat, and used two blankets beside the heater until the shaking got better, but I couldn't put off the covers while after shaking, fever appeared on and off.

In the morning, I went to WC again. When I was coming back to the room, I felt like I was going to faint. It was an unpleasant state similar to dying. It was a frightening moment like my heart was stopping working. I just whispered a prayer and lay on the cold mosaics of the yard immediately. After minutes I got better, but I didn't dare to get up. I lay on the cold mosaics for about a quarter-hour. I finally got up and went back to bed unhealthily.

After 12 days, I finally decided to go to a clinic while I was worried about how can I go to the clinic. I was not sure I could go out from home or drive my old car. I was afraid that I feel bad in the streets. I read a prayer and requested God to keep me in the way.

In the clinic, I asked the doctor, is it Corona disease? He said, "I don't know. We haven't facilities for testing Corona sickness here, but your throat is infected severely.

In the clinic, I received a serum and two penicillin. Also, the doctor prescribed a package of Amoxiclove antibiotics and some other medicines. It is about one week I'm using the medicines. I got better but not entirely. I still have a little weakness and infectious discharges.

 

[tomoni]

Mansoor,

I am sorry to hear about your health problems and lack of access to advanced medical treatment.

I hope that you will recover and can find comfort in your beliefs.

Take care.

 

[mdchachi]

I have been sick for about 20 days.

It started with weakness and sweating, then fewer. In sleep, I rolled in my bed to every side alternatively while was moaning because of fever. One night when I went to WC in the yard, I began shaking intensely. I went back to the room running (with difficulty) and wore an overcoat, and used two blankets beside the heater until the shaking got better, but I couldn't put off the covers while after shaking, fever appeared on and off.

In the morning, I went to WC again. When I was coming back to the room, I felt like I was going to faint. It was an unpleasant state similar to dying. It was a frightening moment like my heart was stopping working. I just whispered a prayer and lay on the cold mosaics of the yard immediately. After minutes I got better, but I didn't dare to get up. I lay on the cold mosaics for about a quarter-hour. I finally got up and went back to bed unhealthily.

After 12 days, I finally decided to go to a clinic while I was worried about how can I go to the clinic. I was not sure I could go out from home or drive my old car. I was afraid that I feel bad in the streets. I read a prayer and requested God to keep me in the way.

In the clinic, I asked the doctor, is it Corona disease? He said, "I don't know. We haven't facilities for testing Corona sickness here, but your throat is infected severely.

In the clinic, I received a serum and two penicillin. Also, the doctor prescribed a package of Amoxiclove antibiotics and some other medicines. It is about one week I'm using the medicines. I got better but not entirely. I still have a little weakness and infectious discharges.

I'm glad you're feeling better. I don't think it's Covid based on the symptoms you describe. It sounds like some other virus. Maybe one of the influenza strains.

 

[Lothor]

I have been sick for about 20 days.

It started with weakness and sweating, then fewer. In sleep, I rolled in my bed to every side alternatively while was moaning because of fever. One night when I went to WC in the yard, I began shaking intensely. I went back to the room running (with difficulty) and wore an overcoat, and used two blankets beside the heater until the shaking got better, but I couldn't put off the covers while after shaking, fever appeared on and off.

In the morning, I went to WC again. When I was coming back to the room, I felt like I was going to faint. It was an unpleasant state similar to dying. It was a frightening moment like my heart was stopping working. I just whispered a prayer and lay on the cold mosaics of the yard immediately. After minutes I got better, but I didn't dare to get up. I lay on the cold mosaics for about a quarter-hour. I finally got up and went back to bed unhealthily.

After 12 days, I finally decided to go to a clinic while I was worried about how can I go to the clinic. I was not sure I could go out from home or drive my old car. I was afraid that I feel bad in the streets. I read a prayer and requested God to keep me in the way.

In the clinic, I asked the doctor, is it Corona disease? He said, "I don't know. We haven't facilities for testing Corona sickness here, but your throat is infected severely.

In the clinic, I received a serum and two penicillin. Also, the doctor prescribed a package of Amoxiclove antibiotics and some other medicines. It is about one week I'm using the medicines. I got better but not entirely. I still have a little weakness and infectious discharges.

Sorry to hear you've been ill, Mansoor. Hope you're feeling better soon.

 

[thomas]

The world's first plant-based COVID vaccine, developed by a Canadian subsidiary of pharmaceutical giant Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. and derived from a type of tobacco plant, has been approved for human use in Canada.

The final phase of a clinical trial in North America and elsewhere showed that the vaccine proved 75.3 percent effective in preventing symptomatic infection with the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus. The figure for the Gamma variant was 88.6 percent. Less than 10 percent of the test subjects developed a fever of 38 degrees or more following two shots of the vaccine, and no serious side effects were observed. Efficacy of the vaccine against the Omicron variant that is now raging worldwide is currently being tested, company officials said. Nicotiana genus plants were chosen because they grow quickly and produce virus-like particles in large amounts in a short time. COVID-19 vaccines produced by other manufacturers have to be stored at very low temperatures to be effective. But MTPC's vaccine can be kept in a refrigerator at temperatures of 2 to 8 degrees, making it easier to handle and reducing transportation costs, the officials said. Medicago signed an agreement to sell 76 million doses of the vaccine to the Canadian government. It will start supplying doses shortly.

World’s first plant-based COVID vaccine wins approval | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

www.asahi.com

 

[thomas]

BQ.1, BQ.1.1, BA.2.75.2, and XBB: they sound like really bad news.

As colder weather sets in, public health experts are keeping a close eye on COVID-19 variants that could spell doom and gloom this winter, just like omicron did last year. Yet these nascent variants that are rapidly spreading abroad have an evil twist that omicron lacked: an ability to evade the drugs that humans have developed to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The two subvariants of particular concern are known as BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, both off-shoots of the omicron variant BA.5 (but with several key changes.) Indeed, they seem able to evade many of the tools we have to defend against it, which could trigger a wave of hospitalizations, disabling victims with long COVID or death.

The most drug-evasive COVID variant yet is likely to ruin winter

The new COVID variants easily evade drugs as well as vaccines. And they’re spreading faster than ever in Europe

www.salon.com

 

[Majestic]

Horrible news. And at a time when things were looking like they were improving - particularly with regard to the lockdowns in Asia.

 

[musicisgood]

I wonder for those that never been vaccinated have a better chance of fighting off any new virus this winter.

 

[mdchachi]

I wonder for those that never been vaccinated have a better chance of fighting off any new virus this winter.

There's no logical basis supporting that hypothesis that I'm aware of. The whole point of vaccines is to prime your immune system.

 

[musicisgood]

There's no logical basis supporting that hypothesis that I'm aware of. The whole point of vaccines is to prime your immune system.

OK , thanks.

 

[musicisgood]

Just listen

 

[mdchachi]

Just listen

Better to read the source

Unredacted NIH Emails Show Efforts to Rule Out Lab Origin of Covid

Virologists close to the NIH initially believed the Covid virus could be genetically engineered. Unredacted emails show how their thinking evolved.

theintercept.com

 

[johnnyG]

Just listen

So, fox faux news has run out of other bogeymen to scare you with, and they're going back to fauci?

Whether natural, or an engineered lab escapee, that doesn't excuse the trump administration's disastrous/dangerous reaction to it: denial. Sure, go get some 'hydroxy', or inject some bleach.

If trump and then anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers had had their way, instead of being over a million dead, it could have been many, many times that.

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This is on par with your post EKG/vaccine asking about pilots. The wonderful thing about being in japan is that this kind of crap/noise is so rare.

 

[Master of Time]

This may seem unrelated but I think once you realize that NASA can't do proper quarantines of astronauts you realize that society is never going to pull off a quarantine of John Q. Public and a corona virus. It was an illusion and so were any claims of success. Maybe there was a slow down of spread due to some quarantines but if they had real value or significance is debatable.

 

[musicisgood]

I am in Shikoku prefer. Most people are still masked up.
I'd rather see anyone that's not married a mask actually.

 

[Mansoor]

I think, the Cd 19 virus has gone, but as far as I see in the world, either a new version of the virus or another type of a virus will threat the world again.

Being witness of dying people is a painful and intolerable thing that brings depression, but we should consider the fact of the fatal pandemics that are behind the curtain of unclearness in the future.

Although, in the corner of my mind is a suspicion about the Cd 19 virus that it was a laboratory one that leaked from a secret laboratory tube in the world and found its way to China for first time, nevertheless, if it was a natural virus, we should wait for the similar ones in the future that they may be more hazardous and mortal than Cd 19.

If it is so, the people who are inattentive and unthankful to God and do whatever they desire, they should reconsider about their actions before they destroy millions of other people due to their wrongs.


A knowledgeable Islamic- Iranian philosopher who was familiar with the supernatural secrets (I usually don't trust on all a philosopher's quotes except his theories are according to my knowledge. He was a philosopher that I confirmed all his quotes, unexceptionally).

He said, nature is intelligent (and understand)!

As you see ( regardless of Cd 19 virus) how a virus or bacterial can change its genetical codes intellectually to be able to be hidden from the defensive system of our body to destroy the organic factors carefreely.