Coronavirus

[sukumvit boy]

Another big question: will people modify or continue to modify their behaviour to help stop the spread of Covid-19 and new strains? My movements are limited to home-shop-home, with no social mixing, and nothing planned between now and -well, when? Even the other day I realized I was relucant to talk to my neighbour, who is 85, even though we were both masked and in the street. Maybe it was because I suddenly realized she had made her mask out of an old pair of Marks & Spencer knickers and it sort of made me feel queer...

LOL,why should you feel "queer" you're not the one wearing the Knickers?

[Ben]

Humans are not resources. Coronavirus shows why we must democratise work:

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...h-lives-market

[Stavros]

LOL,why should you feel "queer" you're not the one wearing the Knickers?

Medical thread, medical version of queer. Or, I felt ill. Some of her relatives have had Covid-19, through school and university, and I looked at that off-white fabric, and then it started, and I stepped away. But I guess it proves that Marks & Spencer underwear last for years.

[Torris]

New Sars-CoV-2 strain emerges .I seems to be more easily transmitted but not more lethal. The big,still unanswered ,question is will the vaccines now being distributed work against this new strain?
https://abc7ny.com/new-covid-strain-...ation/8929849/

Isn’t that the point of the mutation? Viruses die if they kill all their hosts, so the mutations are less lethal. The goal is to feed not kill.

[Torris]

Another big question: will people modify or continue to modify their behaviour to help stop the spread of Covid-19 and new strains? My movements are limited to home-shop-home, with no social mixing, and nothing planned between now and -well, when? Even the other day I realized I was relucant to talk to my neighbour, who is 85, even though we were both masked and in the street. Maybe it was because I suddenly realized she had made her mask out of an old pair of Marks & Spencer knickers and it sort of made me feel queer...

Recovery rate is over 97%

https://www.webmd.com/lung/covid-rec...20and%2099.75%.

Experts also don’t have information about the outcome of every infection. However, early estimates predict that the overall COVID-19 recovery rate is between 97% and 99.75%.

[Torris]

LOL,and where would you be 'headed' Nikka? Perhaps Thailand ,Colombia or Brazil?
By the way now is a great time to fly , I just finisher some travel around the United States and the airports are empty and so are the planes.

I flew to see my parents for Christmas on Dec. 20. Plane was only about 2/3 full. Only a few middle aisle seats and I assume those were families sitting together in the same row.

I was stunned and pleasantly surprised. Normally that flight is packed from front to back

[Torris]

Anyone know anything about potential HIV infection/susceptibility from potential Covid vaccines?

https://www.ajmc.com/view/researcher...id-19-vaccines

[Fitzcarraldo]

Recovery rate is over 97%

https://www.webmd.com/lung/covid-rec...20and%2099.75%.

Experts also don’t have information about the outcome of every infection. However, early estimates predict that the overall COVID-19 recovery rate is between 97% and 99.75%.

Over 300,000 Americans dead in less than a year. Over 3000 dying a day now. Which statistic is more important to you?

[broncofan]

Anyone know anything about potential HIV infection/susceptibility from potential Covid vaccines?

https://www.ajmc.com/view/researcher...id-19-vaccines

A vaccine that was in development stages in Australia used an HIV viral protein as part of its design. There was no risk of people developing HIV because it was a protein from the virus and was not capable of replicating, but it raised some of the same antibodies that HIV antibody tests are sensitive to. There are PCR tests for HIV but they are more expensive and it would be a major flaw for a vaccine to cause false positives on antibody tests for HIV because it's the primary means of testing for it. But they WERE false positives. Nobody was HIV positive or at risk of it.
https://www.bioworld.com/articles/50...onse?v=preview

It was not one of the major vaccines developed by Pfizer, Astrazeneca, GSK, Moderna, or Johnson and Johnson etc.

Your article talks about the risk with AD5 vaccines. I just assumed it dealt with the Queensland vaccine because I had just read about it. If you're concerned, neither Pfizer nor Moderna are adenovirus vaccines.

[broncofan]

Anyone know anything about potential HIV infection/susceptibility from potential Covid vaccines?

https://www.ajmc.com/view/researcher...id-19-vaccines

"In addition to the Ad5 COVID-19 vaccine candidates, several other leading vaccines, including ones made by Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca/the University of Oxford, use different adenoviruses as vectors. There’s no evidence that any of those adenoviruses increases the risks of an HIV infection."

The article below says only the Russian state vaccine and Cansino biologics, a vaccine in China use the ad5 vector. There isn't any evidence that those particular vaccines increase risk for HIV but if it's a heightened concern there are a half dozen other vaccines that use different technologies, different adenoviruses as vectors, and an inactivated virus vaccine.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/could-certain-covid-19-vaccines-leave-people-more-vulnerable-aids-virus