The places in the USA with the harshest rules have the worst outbreaks. I'll be honest I don't know why, but it tells me the lock downs aren't working and the reason our numbers are declining is vaccines
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NY's COVID positivity rate has fallen below 2% for the first time since November and we have 43% of the states population with at least one shot of the vaccine. The US as a country has 47.6% of the population with at least one shot.
www.nydailynews.com
New York’s COVID-19 positive test rate falls below 2% to lowest level since early November
The coronavirus positive test rate in New York has fallen below 2% — its lowest level since the first week of November — as the vaccine campaign keeps a lid on the pandemic. Just 1.79% …
www.nydailynews.com
I'm starting to believe that sometime this summer travel to Montreal is possible, Europe is a go:
nypost.com
Vaccinated US tourists to be allowed into Europe this summer
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said on Sunday that a switch in policy to allow trans-Atlantic travel is around the corner. “The Americans, as far as I can see, us…
nypost.com
Covid: Countries send aid to ease India's oxygen emergency
The UK is sending oxygen machines and ventilators while France and the US are also sending supplies.
www.bbc.com
Canada extends helping hand to India in tackling raging Covid-19 crisis
As the Covid-19 pandemic ravages India, Canada has reached out to New Delhi with an offer to help in any way possible to alleviate the crisis
Hospitals are 100% occupied due to COVID-19 cases.
India reports record new COVID cases for 5th straight day and sadly the death tolls are getting up there as well:
www.cnbc.com
India reports record Covid cases for a fifth straight day with more than 350,000 new infections
In April, alone, India reported more than 5 million new cases, sending the country's health care system to the brink.
Wow Diane Francis!!! One of the least credible "journalist" in Canada.
Meanwhile: OIL SANDS REGION DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY DUE TO COVID-19 CASES. That is a TRUE story.
If you wanna bash someone, Jason Kenney is the one who failed all the way. His own party is blaming him now.
CDC saying that masks are not required outdoors for vaccinated people.
www.foxnews.com
Biden says no masks outdoors for fully vaccinated people step toward 'normal living'
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated mask guidance for people who are fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus.
www.foxnews.com
Don't forget this mRNA vacinne is not like the traditional vaccine as we use to know them...
That major difference could explain why human even vaccinated can still transmit the virus.
Who care about the journalist if the points presented are true about the virus handling. Just like some of your group saying a video is not credible due to the one presenting it, really?
Cases do not mean much to most of us, deaths are the concern. Nice attempt though. BTW, most Albertans do not like Kenny or O'Toole.
A vaccine never prevent you from getting the virus. You get it but your defense system is ready to fight efficiently. As to being vaccinated and the still possible contagion, recent datas shows that vaccinated people are a lot less contagious than not-vaccinated one. This is normal as vaccination slows down the viral replication. Less virus, les contagion probability. Remember we know a lot more now than 2 months ago. At this time we thought it would be the case but had no datas to support it. Five months ago, nobody was vaccinated yet... and in five months, majority of people in the world will still not be vaccinated. That is the sad part of the story.
Maybe but... they will still vote for those guys and the conservative party. The last polls show that Albertans still support the Conservative (47%), Liberal (23.7%) and NDP (19%) which is a huge support. [...]
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GOOD NEWS!!!
www.nationalgeographic.com
Yes, vaccines block most transmission of COVID-19 PUBLISHED APRIL 21, 2021
Yes, vaccines block most transmission of COVID-19
The latest data show that getting a shot not only protects vaccinated individuals, it reduces the chance they can spread the virus to others.
www.nationalgeographic.com
I understand that, it is meant to ease the hospital cases.
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Kenny will not be around next election due to his handling of the virus.
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Easing the hospital cases is a consequence. Vaccination prevent peoples getting very sick and dying. Even if we could triple the nurses, doctors and facilities, the problem would still be terrible for peoples. It is a human problem, not a purely logistic one. But you are right consequences are big and serious.
COVID-19: Alberta Health Services postponing up to 30 per cent of surgeries in Edmonton, Calgary and North Zones
Up to 30 per cent of scheduled surgeries will be postponed in the Edmonton, Calgary and North Zones in order to increase capacity for COVID-19 hospitalizations, Alb…
edmontonjournal.com
It’s not a mystery but basic immuno fuckin ology
You do not get sarcasm at all do you?
Just to add, my comment was towards the article about masks not needed if you had the vaccine as I am guessing it flew above some heads.
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I tried to read the article but it stops part way through and asks you to join, fuck I hate that. That I did read is that it " can ", I do not like words like can and may, will is good, can and may is not. I can and may win a lottery is not as good as I will win a lottery. I will do some checking on this info though. My checking will be to see how long you would need to be vaccinated for this effect to happen or how long the virus needs to be in your system to deteriorate, can you still spread it to full strength for the first 7 days?GOOD NEWS!!!
Yes, vaccines block most transmission of COVID-19 PUBLISHED APRIL 21, 2021
Yes, vaccines block most transmission of COVID-19
The latest data show that getting a shot not only protects vaccinated individuals, it reduces the chance they can spread the virus to others.
In fact it will vary from one individual to another. Upon vaccination 2 things happen. First you produce antibodies that will attack the virus (the antigen) directly and secondly you will get T-cells that will keep in memory the caracteristics of the virus. Let say a while after vaccination you get infected again. The remaining antibodies will be your first defense and will bind to the virus and neutralise hopefully most of them but not all. The neutralised virus will be recognised by the T-Cell ant this cells will sort of eat it. This is the second line of defense. But what is interesting is that those T-cells will also recognize the infected cells (within the lung) that some virus succeeded to penetrate and will kill those cells preventing the replication of the virus to continue. As those processes go on either your body will completely destroy the virus quickly and you don't even have symptoms, or it may take longer, you will be sick and eventually heal. But it is also possible that your immunity is not so strong and by the time all the defense strategy is in place you will be badly infected and affected and it can be a severe disease or you may even die. So there is no way a vacine can be 100% effective, each person acquiring a different immunity. That is why a vaccinated person is still at risk. She may have 95% of probability to fight efficiently the virus but there is still this 5%... If a high percentage of the people around are vaccinated (usually over 75%) the virus will not find easily the hosts to replicate and the spreading will go down by a lot. In this case, even if you haven't been vaccinated the probability to be infected is much lower. But there are a lot of caveats... This goes on with the original virus against which the vaccine was developed. When variants appear and if they are more contagious than the 75% may not be enough. That is why it is so important to vaccinate the higher number of persons as soon as possible. We would then prevent the probability that a very dangerous variant occurs. What is specially bad in Alberta is that polls show that 28% of the population do not want a vaccine or maybe only later... Later might be too late... Time is very important.
Concerning your question, you now know, that it will vary from individual to individual. 7 day is quite short. Usually we consider it takes 3-4 weeks for your immunity (sort of, never 100% efficient) to get its maximum strength. For Moderna, Pfizer and Astra-Zeneca, a second shot will even boost your immunity. Sorry, COVID-19 is tricky and vicious. It may take a long time to eradicate this disease. But if we can control it a lot better than now it will be easier. People will still die, as some die from the flu or other. You like certainty, 100% fact proof... Here is one: we will all die one day. Hopefully, while we are sleeping, not in an ICU bed...
Make no mistake. Even in USA with 230 millions vaccine shots given, only for yesterday, they got 950 new deaths and 54,520 new cases. Up to now, they had 32 millions cases and a total of 574 thousands deaths. And it is not over yet... Annually, in USA, influenza kills 12,000 - 60,000 people (statistic 2010-2018). So we can say COVID killed at least 10 to 50 times more than influenza. We all know now it is much more serious than flu.
Science is good for our humility. Word is very complex. Of course immunity is much more complicated than what I described. When we will understand it better we may cure cancer. We were very lucky with the SARS-CoV-2 virus a corona virus which is quite simple. There are probably 10-20 effective vaccines now and others are in test. Cuba has developed 3. For AIDS, there is still no vaccine after 35 years... The main problem with this one is that the virus integrates himself in our own white cells within our genome (DNA) and is then hidden from our immune system.
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