DannyCasolaro

If only they had vaccinated 100% of the world all at once, including all animal reservoirs, these variants never would have emerged in the first place!

> Among regulators, the US Food and Drug Administration is believed to receive the most raw data but does not proactively release them. After a freedom of information request to the agency for Pfizer’s vaccine data, the FDA offered to release 500 pages a month, a process that would take decades to complete, arguing in court that publicly releasing data was slow owing to the need to first redact sensitive information.

https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o102

But hoocoodanode that these immune escape variants would arise so quickly?

Correct link: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-world-1-in-daily-covid-...

> Though vaccine requirements are common at hospitals, many health care workers are coming down with the virus, exacerbating staffing issues.

Well, at least this article didn't do the usual thing of just completely ignoring the vaccine mandates, which are working far better to reduce the levels of hospital staff than they are to reduce nosocomial COVID infections.

Test positivity rates are through the roof, and wastewater sampling also indicates a huge surge of infections. I don't think this can be that easily dismissed as an artifact of testing.

To add some context to this number, France recorded new confirmed cases (there may be quite a bit more that went unreported) in 0.7% of its total population in one day.

What, you haven't heard of the ketamine early treatment protocols?

Now that we know it's inevitable that everyone, vaccinated or not, will be infected, is there much evidence that vaccines are reducing the odds of long COVID from a breakthrough case? My understanding is that it can often arise after quite mild cases.

Like much of what the CDC puts out these days (e.g. "natural immunity is less effective than vaccine-induced"), their diabetes study is junk science: https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/does-covid19-cause-d...

What's the proposal here, exactly? Should children be kept in hermetic isolation indefinitely to forestall the possibility of long COVID (at least, until a sufficiently infectious variant comes along that even the Ted Kaczynskis of the world get it)?

There may be ACE2 receptors in the brain but what has never been found in the brain so far is SARS-CoV-2. The spike protein crosses the blood brain barrier in mice, but you also get plenty of that from the vaccines which doesn't seem to concern anyone at all.