CoronaBro Meltdown/SARS-Covid-19 Spitballing Thread

[Dugout DickStone]

Guess we get to see how effective these vaccines are against omicron real quick like

come on nerds!  Don't be slight losers like you were for delta

[michigancat]

And apparently the patient is in San Francisco. Congrats for escaping, Rusty!

yeah no way this is in new york city

[kim carnes]

The term travel ban is a bit of a misnomer bc travel isn’t actually banned.

[michigancat]

The term travel ban is a bit of a misnomer bc travel isn’t actually banned.

Oh no crap?!???

[IPA4Me]

Some good news from South Africa.

https://twitter.com/KoenSwinkels/status/1465906474270531589?t=3_mJRcTu8jzY8_WW23M1Sg&s=19

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[Spracne]

Gonna have to wait for good data. That piece reads more like P.R.

[passranch]

I did appreciate the last line in the column though:

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I did appreciate the last line in the column though:

Patz said something similar once.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Large VA study published in NEJM directly comparing Pfizer and Moderna confirms that Moderna is somewhat better but both are good:

[url]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2115463?query=TOC/url]

[steve dave]

And apparently the patient is in San Francisco. Congrats for escaping, Rusty!

yeah no way this is in new york city

Shocking news alert!

https://twitter.com/megtirrell/status/1466545977574100993

[steve dave]

https://twitter.com/financialjuice/status/1466549117086224387

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https://nypost.com/2021/12/02/doctor-with-omicron-appears-to-only-pass-bug-on-to-one-person/amp/

[steve dave]

These vaccines whip so much ass

[catastrophe]

https://twitter.com/financialjuice/status/1466549117086224387

Any word on MAGA or non-MAGA demographic?

[steve dave]

Stuff he been kicking around a LONG time

https://twitter.com/financialjuice/status/1466578660048216068

[Dugout DickStone]

There are several other variants, we just aren't testing for all of them.

[michigancat]

I wonder if Omicron's trick is it's contagious without being detected?

I keep thinking back to the rapid testing guy Michael Mina and how we just need to flood everyone with cheap (free) rapid tests and test everyone's ass daily. when you see the people testing before traveling but still spreading we need to be more precise about infections and things like testing 3 days before traveling just isn't gonna cut it.

[steve dave]

https://twitter.com/craig_a_spencer/status/1466547784484544515

[sys]

I wonder if Omicron's trick is it's contagious without being detected?

seems pretty unlikely that it's different from normal or delta covid in that regard.

[sys]

Stuff he been kicking around a LONG time

guess that depends on what you mean by a long time, but we have a pretty good idea of when it originated (or when it crossed back into humans).

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1466487737461063680

[steve dave]

crap’s getting really bad again :-(

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1466597155548897282

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These vaccines whip so much ass

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/12/01/breakthrough-covid-infections-shorter-and-spread-less-study-finds/8808202002/

[Cire]

At this point it’s a pandemic of the unvaxxed.


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[Phil Titola]

Prophet Scott with a different opinion

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/12/02/dr-gottlieb-believes-omicron-variant-could-be-less-transmissible-than-delta.html

[sys]

i think i've seen enough of the early data and informed speculation to form a preliminary opinion/prediction:

for now, my expectation is that it omicron is able to escape natural immunity and probably older two dose mrna-vaccine immunity long enough to briefly render a host infectious, but not long enough to cause much serious illness or death.

not natively more transmissible than delta (probably less).  no prediction currently on how it responds to boosted vaccine-induced immunity.