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Pfizer says booster in children 5-11 raises antibodies against omicron
Source: NBC News

A booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine raised antibody levels in children ages 5 to 11, the company said Thursday. The additional shot, given six months after the two-dose primary series, led to a sixfold increase in antibodies against the original strain of the coronavirus.

The clinical trial of the booster shot included 140 children ages 5 through 11. In a smaller sub-analysis of 30 kids in the trial, Pfizer said the additional dose led to a thirtysixfold increase in antibodies against the omicron variant of the virus. Pfizer announced the trial results in a news release. The data have not yet been made available to outside scientists for review.

The results are welcome news, but as scientists have seen in the omicron era, the booster may only provide short-lived protection against infection. Antibodies generated from a booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine in adults wane after about four months, and the same phenomenon could occur in kids, said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Toronto.

Protection against infection is the ideal, but "it doesn't appear that we're going to have a very effective campaign in doing so based on everything we know about how these vaccines work," Bogoch said. Still, the vaccines offer protection against more severe outcomes, such as hospitalization and death.
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Thank goodness the pandemic is "over", and everything is back to normal.

Clearly time to relax all restrictions.

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‘Never seen it this bad’: new long COVID clinic opens in Victoria, as emergency rooms fill up

At the Saanich Peninsula Hospital ER, a doctor says more patients without family doctors are showing up with post-COVID complications and other, worsening afflictions

By Brishti Basu
April 14, 2022

A new clinic for people who suffer from long COVID symptoms has opened at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria and is taking referrals as of this week.

A statement posted on Island Health’s website for medical staff on April 12 announced the opening of the ‘Post COVID-19 Recovery Clinic at RJH,’ making it the fifth long COVID clinic site in BC—the first outside of the Lower Mainland.

According to the statement, the program is designed to help each patient for 18 months, with sessions designed to be accessible virtually and in person. The Jubilee long COVID clinic is taking patients from across Vancouver Island and, the website stresses, “A positive COVID test is NOT required for a referral.”

https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/long-c ... n-victoria
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weatheriscool wrote: Sat Apr 09, 2022 9:09 pm
caltrek wrote: Sat Apr 09, 2022 3:32 pm Drop in Life Expectancy 'Speaks Volumes' About How U.S. Handled Covid
by Jessica Corbett
April 8, 2022

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/ ... vid-expert

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(Common Dreams) Just over a month into year three of the Covid-19 pandemic, research revealed Thursday that life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2021—which followed a well-documented drop in 2020 and contrasted a recovery trend in other high-income countries.

"The life expectancy gap between the United States and its peer income countries is now over five years, which is an incredible gap."
The paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, shows that U.S. life expectancy fell from 78.86 years in 2019 to 76.99 years in 2020 and 76.60 years in 2021, a net loss of 2.26 years.

The study comes as progressives in Congress continue to fight for Medicare for All legislation to replace the U.S. for-profit healthcare system—one in which 112 million adults struggle to afford care, according to Gallup and West Health.

The research also comes just days after a Poor People's Campaign analysis exposed how the public health crisis was twice as deadly in poor counties as in wealthy ones and "exacerbated preexisting social and economic disparities that have long festered in the U.S."

Johns Hopkins University's case tracker reported that as of Thursday afternoon, Covid-19 had claimed 984,571 lives across the United States, or nearly 16% of the more than six million deaths globally.
I think it is far more complex then just covid. The poverty that we see in our cities is a good sign that people simply aint able to pay anymore and standards in general are dropping. It is really sad.
Part of that is because every three months there is new covid wave. In my area if you go to ER to see a doctor or see specialist you going to have very long wait time.

Than there are people afraid to go to hospital or see family doctor because they may get covid. So when they do show up later have more problems. Like some one has medical symptom and afraid to go to doctor.

There will not be covid exit strategy unless one or two things happen. One is a vaccine that last at least minimum a year and works with many varieties or two a proper plasma IV drug or some kind of anti IV viral drug.

Well herd immunity is not possible because there is a new wave every three months. So if you got say the omicron BA1 in December and of work sick and got over it now you can get the omicron BA2.

There going be point that businesses and stock market is going to say enough is enough and start crashing the market or lobbying the government to do some thing.

And well there is very little testing in the world so we cannot get full picture of the covid problem. But never a less it is costing businesses millions of dollars a year paying people getting sick every three months no matter if they go to hospitals or sick in bed all day. And even if it is 3 days and not the 10 to 15 days it was before or should be just the high numbers of people getting sick every week will add up the cost.

I cannot see businesses and stock market going on much more of this.

Unless they come out with some better vaccines or IV plasma drugs or anti IV viral drug the world will not break out of the pandemic.
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Lilymoon wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 3:24 pm
Well herd immunity is not possible because there is a new wave every three months. So if you got say the omicron BA1 in December and of work sick and got over it now you can get the omicron BA2.
This is a key point that so many people miss. It's infuriating...

Lilymoon wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 3:24 pm
There will not be covid exit strategy unless one or two things happen. One is a vaccine that last at least minimum a year and works with many varieties or two a proper plasma IV drug or some kind of anti IV viral drug.
Walter Reed in the US, plus at least one Japanese institute are working on multi-variant vaccines.

But ultimately what's really needed is a universal vaccine that targets all strains, by getting to the very core of the viral structure. As I've said before, whoever invents that will be guaranteed a Nobel Prize in Medicine. I suspect we're some decades away from it, unfortunately.
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It's obvious why so many Americans died. They didn't take the vaccine.
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andmar74 wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 4:49 pm It's obvious why so many Americans died. They didn't take the vaccine.
The 4th "booster"?
And, as always, bye bye.
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The third shot was the first booster, and only 30% of Americans has it.
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andmar74 wrote: Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:59 pm The third shot was the first booster, and only 30% of Americans has it.
What would be the rest of the series?
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Uber, Lyft drop mask requirements
Source: The Hill
Passengers are no longer required to wear masks while riding with Uber or Lyft in the U.S., the companies announced Tuesday.

The decision to lift the requirement comes a day after a federal judge struck down the federal government’s mask mandate for planes, trains and buses.

“You can now ride without a mask and use the front seat if you need to,” Uber said in a statement. “While mask usage is still recommended, we’ve updated our Covid Safety policies.”

Uber’s safety landing page encourages riders and drivers to “roll down the windows for extra airflow, sanitize your hands before and after trips or deliveries, and always cover your cough or sneeze.”
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