StrangeSox

I like Eloy too

I like Roberts

same, basically

Either Pfizer or Moderna is in trials for a delta-specific booster shot. I think Moderna but I'm not 100% sure. Pfizer is still in trials for an Alpha variant booster that may offer enhanced protection against Delta. The vaccines aren't highly sterilizing against Delta like they were against o.g. SARS-CoV-2, but it's not like it dropped to zero. The problem is that R0 with Delta is so high that vaccines alone aren't enough to bring it R below 1 unless you're >90% vaccinated. You need to frame things through the lens of Delta because that's what caused everything to explode again in multiple countries around the world that had crushed caseloads either through aggressive vaccination (Israel) or through aggressive NPI's (Vietnam, Australia among others).

The article does state that immunocompromised people are excluded from this. Tennessee has not only gone all-in on opposing COVID vaccines, they've ditched all vaccination outreach efforts in general.

Kimbrel is nothing if not reliable

It's "Good News for People Who LOVE Bad News," come on man! If you want a somewhat optimistic track off their latest album:

Sounds like we need better regulations

Right. We could have iron clad proof it was deliberately engineered and released by some country's bioweapons lab, or we could discover conclusive proof of animal origins and trace back the first cases. Either way, we'd still be dealing with the same Delta wave here and now.

We did have some AA players' fiance post here a bit years back

Obesity matters. I'm not sure anyone said otherwise. What I think some people are objecting to are trying to use it as a deflection from why we should care about COVID so much. We see COVID's ongoing major impacts to nearly every aspect of society still. Obesity is a long-term societal issue that ought to be addressed but presents different challenges and complications. Highly infectious viral diseases are a different animal than non-infectious disease and morbidities. It's as simple as that.

Honestly they should just concede the rest of the schedule

Obesity was causing full hospitals and completely burnt out emergency medicine staff and medicine shortages? Can you point me to this information?

Iirc it's like 75% hospitalized are overweight.... But 73% of Americans are overweight so it really isn't saying too much. I don't know if the recent CDC talked specifically about obesity, but that's nearly 40% of Americans too. Even if every American was a triathlon athlete, we'd still have had hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of hospitalizations. It's not good and it's a huge socioeconomic issue as well as a food "science" issue where garbage food is made as addictive as possible. But all that said, epidemic obesity has many negative impacts on society, but not to the level a highly contagious and fairly deadly respiratory virus does. We've all seen and are still living with those impacts. Comparing the two strictly on death rate misses a rather large forest for a single tree.

Filthy

Obesity is also an epidemic in this country and one that gets talked about regularly all the dang time. But it's not clogging up hospitals and burning out emergency medicine staff. And, importantly, that 1/500 is a counting stat rather than a rate state. It's only going to go up as time and deaths march steadily on.

Cleveland fans:

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There's lots of ways to break the data down. Overwhelmingly, of the 14% of Americans who say they definitely will not get a vaccine, they're strongly white and Republican. There's a decent number of people who are not vaccinated but not strictly opposed to it. They tend to be poorer and lack health insurance, whatever race/politics they may have.

Rogan got monoclonal antibody treatment, something that has actually been shown to be highly effective.