StrangeSox

broke the scoreboard lol

the thrill and excitement of baseball

let's slam that door shut now please

I heard he's stupid

Jays pitcher getting squeezed there

Fantastic hitting throughout today

Some decent news if you got the J&J shot:

"hey here's a random outfielder maybe tracking the ball"

hell of a hit

Not giving Rodon that perfect strike in the 1st, giving Ryu a strike 2 inches inside

Some sort of long-standing feud with the Canadian government??

where is stone?

Ump completely missed a solid strike 3 on the corner, turns into a solo HR.

that was a perfect pitch, thanks blue

Eric Topol tweets out a bunch of the studies being done in various countries. Importantly, what we're mainly seeing is that we don't get that local sterilizing immunity that prevents infection because Delta comes on too fast, but your body is still spinning up those antibodies fairly quickly and the vaccines are very likely to keep you out of the hospital. Third shot boosters gets the level of antibodies floating around in your bloodstream back up to sterilizing levels so that you don't get infected in the first place.

You're much more protected against hospitalization and death, but it's not impossible. A non-severe case can still mean something similar to a bad case of influenza--knocked on your ass for a week or two, possibly long-term complications e.g. fatigue or headaches for months. Vaccine efficacy begins waning after a few months, especially against Delta. If you're 6+ months out from your second shot, protection against infection is significantly reduced. Protection against hospitalization is still high but not as high. Against all of that, you do have to weigh your personal risks and the risks to others in your household. We've still done some smaller family outdoor stuff lately, but will probably be skipping an indoor family thing this weekend because our kids aren't vaccinated. We haven't sat down inside a restaurant since February 2020 and probably won't be any time soon. But we're doing more than we did this time last year. Maybe that's smart, maybe not. None of its easy to judge.

One more to go

Pitching out of it just like we knew he'd do. Total confidence.

Israel's hospitalization vs case curves are matching the US very closely, though. The UK is the outlier. It's not obesity rates.

Israel rolled out almost entirely on Pfizer and they followed the same dosing schedule as the US did--3 weeks between shots. That was the quickest way to ramp up protection against infection. The UK has highish vaccination rates, but they used AZ and Pfizer, mixed it sometimes, and also had a delayed dosing schedule. They've had a big case spike just like the US and Israel, but their hospitalization rates are remaining much lower. There's thoughts that the delayed second dose may provide for better long-term immunity, or just that their second doses were not as long ago as a lot of Israeli and US second doses, so their antibody levels are still high. A third dose in Israel in their 60+ population is seeing that group leveling off pretty clearly in recent weeks. It's all still in the early investigative stages, but the main thought appears to be that Delta replicates and attaches so much better than OG sars-cov-2 that by the time your immune system spins up antibodies, the infection already has a foothold. So now you've got this rush of antibodies that's going to help fight off the infection more quickly and still reduce your odds of hospitalization quite a bit, but it's not going to stop the infection in its tracks and you'll still be able to spread. The vaccines were much more effective at preventing infections of non-Delta because those took a couple of days longer to really set in, giving your immune system more opportunity to build up antibodies. We are still suppressing hospitalizations here and in Israel, but not nearly as much as the UK managed with this latest wave. via NYT https://t.co/zfpdYOlaYU

Expecting to see more of these rolling out:

latest news: not great!