Posted on 07/27/2021 6:37:31 PM PDT by rxsid
Higher COVID Rate Found In Some Counties With Higher Vaccination Rate – Why, And What It Says About The Delta Variant
State workers and health care employees will now be required to show proof of vaccine or get tested for COVID at least once a week.
The governor announced the new guidance today and is urging private employers to “replicate the example.”
This comes as the highly contagious Delta variant is now dominant in the state and COVID rates have skyrocketed in the month since California officially reopened, including breakthrough cases among vaccinated Californians.
A new analysis finds several counties with above-average vaccination rates also have higher COVID case rates, while case rates are falling in counties with below-average vaccination rates.
Statewide data analyzed by the Bay Area News Group found five counties, Los Angeles, San Diego, Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco, have both a higher percentage of people who are fully vaccinated than the state average and a higher average daily case rate.
Compare that to these five counties: Modoc, Glenn, Lassen, Del Norte, and San Benito, which have below-average vaccination rates and decreasing case rates.
However, UCSF infectious disease expert Dr. Phillip Norris clarifies that the data doesn’t mean the vaccine is not working.
He notes, first, the counties referenced with higher vaccination and case rates are more densely populated.
“If there are a lot of people around you’re more likely to bump into one who has COVID,” Norris explained.
He, like other infectious disease experts, warns that vaccinated people may be unknowingly spreading the virus.
Julie: A lot of people think if they’re vaccinated, they can’t transmit. Is that true?
Phillip: So, originally we thought that might be true.
But he says that’s no longer the case, thanks to the Delta variant.
He points to preliminary data from China that indicates the viral load in the nose from the Delta variant may be 1,000 times higher than previous variants.
“If that’s the case, even a little bit in somebody who’s vaccinated could be a lot,” he explains.
Several studies have indicated that vaccines may reduce transmission, but most were based on previous COVID variants.
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Consider this: In Los Angeles County last month, vaccinated people made up one out of five new COVID cases.
Pfizer's EUA:
"the FDA decision is based on the totality of scientific evidence available showing that the product may be effective to prevent COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic and that the known and potential benefits of the product outweigh the known and potential risks of the product. All of these criteria must be met to allow for the product to be used in the treatment of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The EUA for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is in effect for the duration of the COVID-19 EUA declaration justifying emergency use of these products, unless terminated or revoked (after which the products may no longer be used)."
Moderna's EUA: "Having concluded that the criteria for issuance of this authorization under Section 564(c) of the Act are met, I am authorizing the emergency use of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19"
Janssens's EUA: "On February 27, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for emergency use of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 for individuals 18 years of age and older pursuant to Section 564 of the Act."
Higher COVID Rate Found In Some Counties With Higher Vaccination Rate – Why, And What It Says About The Delta Variant (CA)
THANK GOD I don't live or work in a HELLHOLE like that.
The spinners keep changing their stories on this stuff.
They will probably change it a thousand more times.
That is just one of the reasons I cannot trust the safety of their vaccines.
No kidding!!
Capt Obvious is too busy, or I’d post his pic.
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“ The covid vaccines were given emergency authorization to “prevent” covid...NOT to reduce hospitalizations or deaths.”
This confuses my me too. I know that the running line with Johnson and Johnson was that while it’s less effective overall, it will prevent severe case. The others shots I understood to be totally preventative (94-95%.) Not merely against severe cases.
Does that only apply to the Alpha variant?
I must admit, I am as confused as ever on what to do. I don’t even know if I’ve had Covid. My teen daughters don’t want the vaccine for fear of side effects. They have a respiratory illness to begin with…am I being nieve in not having them get this vax? Even for myself, 50 years old??
Hand waving.
Now it's here & spreading (according to MSM)
So my question is “was the delta variant imported across the southern border by the illegal immigrants (who have no proof of vaccination) & from there they're shipped out across the country via airlines or buses (not counting the “get aways?)
Uh, we meant unvaxxed. Yeah, not vaxxed, UNvaxxed. That’s the ticket
*For purposes of vaccine development, CDC defined Covid-19 as two or more symptoms followed by a positive PCR test. So vaccines are effective at reducing symptoms. They never looked at transmission, and EUAs for all vaccines were only given for reducing “symptomatic covid”.
The “vaccines” ARE the variants.
Prevent symptomatic covid. This means reduce symptoms that may lead to hospitalization. Vaccine trials did not look at transmissibility. Only symptom reduction. Covid is the disease, I.e. the symptoms. SARS Cov2 is the virus. You can still get and transmit the virus, but not get severe symptoms. Thus covid is “ prevented”.
Bingo! The mRNA vaccines have created pathogen ‘pathways’.
However, UCSF infectious disease expert Dr. Phillip Norris clarifies that the data doesn’t mean the vaccine is not working.
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“If there are a lot of people around you’re more likely to bump into one who has COVID,” Norris explained.
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The vaccine works as long as you’re not exposed to anyone with Covid.
In UK and Israel, 40% of new delta variant cases are coming from the vaccinated. 1% are coming from those previously infected with “wild covid”. Best to get the virus if you are not in a high risk category. The immunity will be broader and last a lifetime. Those who had SARS-Cov1 back in 2003 still have immunity after 17+ years.
There is absolutely no data to conclude for or against what you postulate. There is not allowed to be any data. If migrants are flooding hospitals with cases it will not be reported. If any reporter or doctor or nurse or night janitor tries to release this information they will be cancelled. They know it. Fear of losing everything for the truth is what modern one party politics is all about.
Why are we still trusting the ChiComs to provide any factual data?
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