Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Excellent point. I think what people miss is that until later in 2021, we didn't have much of a grasp about protection from prior infection. Early on it was looking like the protective effects from natural immunity were shorter lived (might still be the case), but more research has shown that natural immunity provides even better protective benefits. There's also that many people who caught covid haven't actually been tested for covid or got tested for antibodies. And then omicron hit, which kind of upended quite a bit for a period.

In any case, I completely agree about unvaccinated but prior infected skewing results. Yet, even so, the difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated is stark but we still don't have a great handle on the parameters of natural infection as far as I can tell.

 

Fewer people are hospitalized with Covid-19 in the United States now than at any other point in the pandemic, but hospitals and staff continue to feel the strain.
As of Friday, there are 16,138 people in the hospital with Covid-19 -- fewer than there have ever been since the US Department of Health and Human Services first started tracking in July 2020. Just 2% of hospital beds are currently in use for Covid-19 patients.


Covid-19 hospitalizations hit a pandemic low in the US, HHS data shows - CNN

 

The cure is spelled B-I-D-E-N!

 

if biden is the cure, i hate to see the disease.

 

You can barely find the disease in this country now.

 

sort of like biden can barely go a day w/o a major gaffe.

 

Who cares?. He killed COVID and he is killing it in Ukraine. All that NATO aid turning the tide and keeping us out of WW3. But this thread is about COVID. Why do you think COVID is nearly invisible here and it is running wild in China? What is the difference? Perhaps Vaccines that work? Look up BIDEN in the dictionary. Synonymous with competence and success!

 

You must have a hell of a hard time sleeping, with Biden living inside that brain of yours.

 

Metro Atlanta is experiencing a bit of a surge.

 

3 more variants being tracked:

"The CDC announced this week that the BA.2 Omicron variant, which is reportedly 30% more transmissible than the original BA.1 Omicron strain — has become dominant among new cases sequenced in the United States. That’s a startling rise for a variant that was less than 1% of all sequences as recently as January. But, just as Americans are hearing about BA.2, there’s already a newer, even more transmissible variant on the rise.

There are actually three new variants that have been given designations. According to a recently-released report from the UK Health Services Agency, the two being called XD and XF are combinations of Delta and BA.1, or so-called “Deltacron” strains, which have been talked about for months but made no significant inroads in any country."

New Mutant XE Omicron Variant May Be Most Transmissible Covid Yet – Deadline

 

Wife and I got our second booster yesterday.

 

The most recent data from the CDC shows that U.S. millennials, aged 25-44, experienced a record-setting 84% increase in excess mortality during the final four months of 2021 not related to Covid.

 

You sticking with same brand or switching up?

 

This is false.

Fact Check-No evidence that people aged 25-44 experienced an 84% increase in excess mortality due to COVID vaccine rollout

 

Spin of all spins. I like this quote from CDC :

“And these excess deaths should most certainly not be attributed to specific events or causes – they just represent an overall higher number of deaths in this age group relative to previous years and could be due to any number of different factors (missed COVID-19 deaths, missed emergency care for conditions like heart disease, increases in drug overdose deaths and motor vehicle traffic fatalities, etc.),” NCHS said.

 

The figures you reported as not being related to Covid we're the increase in deaths directly due to Covid (which you can easily see on the CDC's website). Please stop spreading misinformation.

 

Speaking of spin, the original claim by this “anonymous executive” was that these deaths were “not related to COVID”. That was a lie. It was bs spread by antivaxxers and alt-right media personalities like Bannon.

 

We stayed with Pfizer for the boosters, but only because my wife is autoimmune and was worried about side-effects. We got J&J for the original vaccination. My wife has had fever, chills and aches with all shots. I got a sore arm but nothing more.

 

Fascinating data out of the weekly MMWR from the CDC:

(studying 80,000 people between Dec 21 and Mar 22 when Omicron was the dominant variant)

Vaccine Efficacy against Laboratory confirmed COVID-19 associated ED (emergency department) encounters was shown to be
24% with 1 Janssen dose
54% with 2 Janssen doses
79% with 1 Janssen dose followed by 1 mRNA dose
83% with 3 mRNA doses

VE for same vaccine strategies against lab-confirmed COVID-19 associated hospitalizations
31% with 1 Janssen dose
67% with 2 Janssen doses
78% with 1 Janssen dose followed by 1 mRNA dose
90% with 3 mRNA doses

Effectiveness of Homologous and Heterologous COVID-19 Booster Doses ..