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Maybe I will once this is all over, maybe I won’t.
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Maybe I will once this is all over, maybe I won’t.
Originally posted by Thales of Miletus
If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
Originally posted by Toma
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Looking like the US will never reach herd immunity. Original strain was estimated to require 60% of people with immunity but with the new variants being 50%+ more contagious, they are estimating you need 80% of people with immunity to reach herd immunity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/h...y-vaccine.html
I think we might be slightly better in Canada for vaccine hesitancy but if 80% is the real threshold I don’t think we will get all the way there. Yay for yearly covid shots!
People just need to stop reading the NYT, it actively makes you stupider.
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If I have a mantra, this is it.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Had a friend say the same thing to me this weekend...This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Friend: "We are two times worse than India right now, let that sink in!"
Me: "Are we running out of oxygen and letting people sit on the side of the road and suffer/ die?"
Friend: "No"
Me: ".............."
Just summarizing what the article says.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Do people still think the mutations have not made any difference in transmissibility compared to the original strain?Early on, the target herd immunity threshold was estimated to be about 60 to 70 percent of the population. Most experts, including Dr. Fauci, expected that the United States would be able to reach it once vaccines were available.
But as vaccines were developed and distribution ramped up through the winter and into the spring, estimates of the threshold began to rise. That is because the initial calculations were based on the contagiousness of the original version of the virus. The predominant variant now circulating in the United States, called B.1.1.7 and first identified in Britain, is about 60 percent more transmissible.
As a result, experts now calculate the herd immunity threshold to be at least 80 percent. If even more contagious variants develop, or if scientists find that immunized people can still transmit the virus, the calculation will have to be revised upward again.
I believe that no one knows, yet. There are many who "think" or "are pretty sure" that it's ____% more transmissible. But I want someone to know, and then share that knowledge.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Here’s a study from April in the Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...170-5/fulltext
If peer reviewed study published in the lancet isn’t good enough then I really don’t know what the bar is. Always happy to be educated/proven wrong by people smarter than me but that’s where my simple mind is at for now.Interpretation
Emerging evidence exists of increased transmissibility of B.1.1.7, and we found increased virus load by proxy for B.1.1.7 in our data. We did not identify an association of the variant with severe disease in this hospitalised cohort.
Last edited by sabad66; 05-03-2021 at 09:12 AM.
From your own quoted study. And no mention in the findings of anything regarding transmissibility.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We found no evidence of an association between severe disease and death and lineage (B.1.1.7 vs non-B.1.1.7) in unadjusted analyses (prevalence ratio [PR] 0·97 [95% CI 0·72–1·31]), or in analyses adjusted for hospitals, sex, age, comorbidities, and ethnicity (adjusted PR 1·02 [0·76–1·38]).
Originally posted by Thales of Miletus
If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
Originally posted by Toma
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Yeah but can you provide a facebook article though? That's the only real news source.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I don’t think I ever said variants cause increased disease did i? I just mentioned transmissibility which is mentioned in the summary under Interpretation.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Today was the first day in over a week where none of our staff in India reported a death in their family. This is what we consider a good day right now.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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I have gone above and beyond what I should rightfully have to do to protect my good name
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Sounds about right
Originally posted by Thales of Miletus
If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
Originally posted by Toma
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Who pissed in your cheerios this morning?This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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he's been grumpy since he became a dad. I can relate.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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His name isn't NICEramos.
I like Kill’s outlook. It’s to the point.
I like how he says he might not talk to people again because they just don’t comprehend. Lol.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft
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How do you figure it has nothing to do with what i was talking about? Here is the background of the study:This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
"Virological characteristics" includes transmissibility.Emergence of variants with specific mutations in key epitopes in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 raises concerns pertinent to mass vaccination campaigns and use of monoclonal antibodies. We aimed to describe the emergence of the B.1.1.7 variant of concern (VOC), including virological characteristics and clinical severity in contemporaneous patients with and without the variant.
Then in the details of the study, they investigated the theory of enhanced transmissibility and it was supported by the finding that it has increased viral load:
Again i'm happy to be educated otherwise if you can show me some quality evidence that variants aren't more transmissible than the original strain. I don't have any skin in the game and doesn't matter to me personally whether the variants are more contagious or not. I just simply like to be aware of the latest info.Following concerns that the B.1.1.7 VOC has enhanced transmissibility,1, 16 we investigated whether this characteristic is reflected by an increase in viral load, using Ct values from an in-house N-gene real-time RT-PCR assay and genomic read depths as surrogates. Although our Ct value analysis was limited by data availability, other studies have shown that NGS read counts can be used as a reliable predictor of viral load.26 Given that we found significant differences for Ct values and genomic read depths between B.1.1.7 and non-B.1.1.7 samples, we believe that B.1.1.7 infections were associated with higher viral loads than were non-B.1.1.7 infections in this study. This finding is in keeping with results from similar independent analyses, including that of approximately 1400 genomes assembled as part of the UK test and trace programme, which reported a 0·5 increase in median log10-inferred viral load in B.1.1.7 relative to non-B.1.1.7 samples.27 Our observed higher read depths are equivalent to a 0·2–0·3 increase in log10 read depth in B.1.1.7 relative to non-B.1.1.7, a smaller increase than observed in the previous study, which might be a consequence of sampling patients at later stages of infection than was done for test and trace swabs, which are typically derived from recently symptomatic individuals when viral loads are likely to be high.28