But, in typical American fashion, we show up late to something that the rest of the world knew was going on for a while, bungled our way towards the forefront of something, and will spend decades after the fact in self masturbatory bliss saying how much we truly suffered.
well, to be fair to the United States, France and the UK didn't want to join an antifascist alliance with the Soviet Union in 1939 either.
We know vitamin k works for anticalcification.
And all those people that think America was so awesome back in the era right after the war and we need to go back there, but America was really only so great then because just about every other country had to rebuild from the war and America didn't. So, of course, those times would be great for America.
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Maybe all hospital treatment or just covid related. Definition of the latter isn't simple so I'm guessing it's the former. 100% would indeed be a miracle cure for everything.
So, imagine of 1,000 people who catch Covid, 100 need hospitalisation. If the jab is 80% effective (at preventing hospitalisation), it means that of 1,000 vaccinated people who catch Covid-19, only 20 need hospitalisation.
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One might point out there is a substantial difference between having enough vaccine doses and actually vaccinating. Whilst production limits may impose a limit on vaccination, I suspect administration will become a bigger limiting factor.
That's fair but the biggest issue that I've seen with getting shots in arms has been the supply. While this news doesn't necessarily mean every American will be vaccinated by the end of May, one of the biggest roadblocks to getting everyone vaccinated will be removed by the end of May assuming what Biden is saying is legit and there aren't any complications between now and then.
Thanks, pretty much what I thought, but I'm wary anytime there's any statement 'improves chances of x by x percent', because sometimes it means a percent of a percentage which is always less impressive when you see how much it really is.
At least for Pfizer it's supposed to be a 90-95% reduction in positive covid cases compared to placebo. So not just symptoms but a positive covid-19 test on top. There could be asymptomatic infections anyway, and thus how much it affects transmission is still investigated.
It sounds like a nightmare logistically to handle these vsccines in the warehouse. You have to keep them really cold all the time? So what, do you have to turn the whole warehouse, the truck and everything in between into a freezer room? Working in fucking eskimo gear? Or are you just frantically rushing them from freezer room to truck on a forklift and hoping they don't get warm?
The vaccines themselves are different: there are mRNA (Pfizer, Moderna), human adenovirus vector (Sputnik), chimp adenovirus vector (AstraZeneca), inactivated virus (Chinese CoronaVac). Another thing is that making a vaccine or a drug can sometimes be easier than the testing phases by many orders of magnitude. And also while anticapitalist sentiments have been on the rise lately, these vaccines -- some of them extremely good -- have been created efficiently, safely, and quickly. The combination of strict testing requirements on top of the profit incentive has worked well.
Having options is a good thing. Having different manufacturing costs, storage requirements, distribution methods, etc allows for different solutions to be enacted where and when they are better suited. Like, if everyone was copying the vaccine that needs ultra-cold storage, we'd be having even bigger distribution problems. And god forbid one of these vaccines causes unforeseen issues way down the line, it's better not to have all your eggs in one basket.
Bear in mind these are the exact people who wound up in power after the war, thanks to the Democratic political machine strong-arming FDR to nominate their guy as VP in '44 instead of Wallace, who would have done a damn sight better than Truman. "Anti-Communist" in the US is just a euphemism for "fascist".
