Posted on 04/30/2021 11:40:48 AM PDT by BeauBo
(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update)
(Over 100 million Americans now Fully Vaccinated- 145M have at least a first shot)
Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 308,774,155 (18,038,400 J&J)
Administered: 240,159,677 (8,231,139 J&J)
People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 144,894,586
Fully Vaccinated: 101,407,318
(Excerpt) Read more at covid.cdc.gov ...
Sounds like you are going to make it through the vaccination alive.
Like you, I could hardly detect symptoms after the first shot (Pfizer), but nothing after the second.
The ferrets dying was many years ago, when they were trying to make a vaccine for SARS (a closely related coronavirus to COVID).
They used a whole virus approach for that failed candidate.
The whole virus approach was abandoned for coronavirus vaccines over a decade ago, because it was found to be (dramatically) unsafe.
Researchers have sought to find just the minimal features of the virus (epitopes) that would stimulate effective immune response, while minimizing undesired side effects. They nip those features off, and graft them onto innocuous common viruses as carriers (in the case of J&J, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, etc.).
A newer approach, is to use an mRNA blueprint of just that tiny snippet of the locking mechanism at the tip of the spike protein (epitope), to induce cells to manufacture perfect fresh copies on site in the body. That is what Pfizer and Moderna do. There is absolutely no other viral material to cause potentially unwanted side effects (for safety), and you can get a higher number of the epitopes of interest for the immune system to recognize (for effectiveness).
The epitopes produced, and the mRNA instructions to produce it, have a relatively short existence in the body (about a ten hour half life for the mRNA). Then they degrade and are disposed of, like any other dead cells or extraneous material. Neither the small snippet off of the COVID spike protein, nor the mRNA instruction set, have any reproductive ability.
“I think that before valuable (bulk) vaccines are allowed to expire in inventory, they will be exported to other needy countries.”
I think not initially. As the pipeline and logistics become established and workable then yes. But sh!tcanning the vaccines for non-use will be the preliminary result until out of country distribution protocols are established.
I guess the question might be how many of those people already had at least their 1st shot or were scheduled up for such. In my county I think the vast majority of people getting COVID-19 vacc shots got them @ the “mass clinics”, at which you have to have an appointment (by phone, online, through PCP, etc. A few weeks ago, though, most people under age 65 in my State were still not eligible.
That said, most counties near me, in-state and in adjacent states, are showing pretty steep declines in shots administered, despite recent opening up of shots to a much wider demographic, and plenty of supply. Factors discussed above: lack of a feeling of urgency, convenience*, and the psychological effect of the J&J pause, surely all are playing a role.
*Something else too: I don’t have a firm number, but, a LOT of the teachers at the parochial school my wife teaches at had the strong “fatigued” reaction the day after their 2nd shot; some had it for 2 days. At least several were “out” for a 1/2 a day or more. How much of this may have been psychosomatic I don’t know — I have my suspicions.
I suspect this info. “really got around” to and in and beyond the group of parents with high school or younger kids, almost all of whom (under 65) would just now be becoming eligible for vaccinations.
So, is the average under 65 weighing “likely” (it might seem to them) feeling crappy a day or two, maybe in bed a day / missing work or a planned activity, plus some small probability adverse risks and unknowns, vs. very likely eventually getting an asymptomatic COVID-19 case they may not spread, or even notice, and, oh, BTW, their elders are vaccinated.
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So, what do you say when they claim way more cases of Covid that there really are - or when they attribute way more deaths to Covid that actual - and then claim “there’s no proof” the jabs have anything to do with the sudden, pots-jab, deaths and distresses?
Do you cheer when they show the ads telling us “we can get back to normal if only we all take the jab”?
At least the site you “add perspective” to is honest enough to use disclaimers an=instead of assertions - I believe those sites more than the others. It’s why I called it “food for thought” and mentioned the site - so folks could take their own look-sees.
Am I the only 9ne wondering if Fedzilla is lying about these stats, too...?
One thing that I suspect with the teachers, is that because it is a free day off if you claim a vaccine reaction, many view it as a perk they don’t want to pass up.
They like to play hooky too.
The big drop off in first shots was quite tightly correlated with the J&J pause. The bad press may have been that powerful.
It was also right around when eligibility was opened to all adults. I thought expanding eligibility would bring a surge of newly eligible folks who had been waiting.
The flip side however, is that might have marked the exhaustion of priority people waiting for shots - who had particular reasons to be be motivated for vaccination.
these “medical professional” posers that are posting cdc statistics all day every day should not be trusted...
thanks for the link...
Maybe DJT is Satan! [S]
You may want to start posting on the DU noob as your most DEFINATELY on the wrong forum.
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