i think the fda needs to accept more risk during a health emergency and the pressure should mostly originate from the medical and health community not from politician
Nurse Campbell (Doctor of Philosophy) has really gone viral with his ongoing series of videos discussing Covid-19.
Yes he puts together good videos discussing studies and data with minimal politics. He has consistently given excellent advice and it's nice to see more in depth breakdowns of the mechanisms with the biology. Glad you appreciate them.
Vaccinations increased again today to 769k from 612k yesterday. I still don't understand why long term care doesn't have more vaccinated. I would think they would be an easier group to get done. Texas pace of vaccination has slowed a bit and we sit at 2.1% of the population with their first dose. West Virginia is the leader in the US at 4.9% .
Great site. I read about this in the Houston Chronicle today and wanted to share. A couple in Clear Lake City, TX developed this website to memorialize the hundreds of thousands of people killed by Covid-19. Their mission: COVID-19 Wall of Memories memorializes the lives of COVID-19 victims while serving as a source of information about the disease, the epidemic, and its impact on the United States. https://covid19wallofmemories.org/
I have a family member that is involved in administering vaccinations in some of these long term facilities. I don’t think many people understand how challenging it is to store and handle the Pfizer vaccine. The link below is the Pfizer vaccine storage and handling summery that can be found at the cdc website. This is just a very short summary of some of the procedures and protocols that must be followed. A great deal of planning and record keeping is required to do this properly. Vaccine has to be thawed and mixed and has to be used in a certain time frame before is goes bad. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/pfizer/downloads/storage-summary.pdf
I stated the biggest challenge is not the number of people wanting the vaccine or the amount of vaccine in hand. Its the administering the vaccine. There are simple ways to do it but our medical system isn't set up for high volume procedures as such.
Exactly. It blows my mind that federal, state, and local officials didn’t really make any preparations for this roll out. They had 10 months to prepare and very little was done. I do expect things to improve after other vaccines are available that are easier store and administer. But, it’s going to be a long time until everyone who wants a shot can get a shot. A single dose vaccine would REALLY help a lot.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations Looks like we averaged 766k vaccinations over the past 3 days. Texas, Florida, and New York are all at 2.9%. South Dakota leads the way at 5.5%.
Am reading in science periodicals that the new South-African variant has three mutations to the business end of the spike protein. Everyone is hoping that such mutations don't influence the efficacy of vaccines. If mutations appear to be picking up steam, I guess we have to simply admit we have more virus in more humans than ever before so we should expect more mutations.
My Virologist friend's podcast talking about new vaccines that are coming out. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pathogen-perspectives/id1545419596?i=1000504851087
