Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)

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Colonel

Something interesting in this video. The table in the video says that convalescent patients (recovered patients without vaccination) have no neutralizing activity on Omicron. That is against Sputnik with 1 and Sinopharm with 3 having it and Pfizer and Moderna having reduced activity.

Does that mean unvaccinated patients recovered from Covid have a higher chance of getting infected with Omicron than people vaccinated with any of the available vaccines.?

I very much doubt so as I believe the human body immune system is very much more complex than relying on just neutralizing antibodies.
 

daifo

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Two people have died in New Zealand because of Pfizer vaccine, there are possibly two more that have not been confirmed yet. I haven't really heard of such report in the US, guess the US population is smaller than New Zealand /s

There was that happening hence there was vaccine hesitancy... but suddenly the "independent"/non-gov media stopped reporting about it. But in some ways, its it might hard to tell if the person also died from natural death
 

winword

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There was that happening hence there was vaccine hesitancy... but suddenly the "independent"/non-gov media stopped reporting about it. But in some ways, its it might hard to tell if the person also died from natural death
Yes it's probably hard to tell, that's why I'm only quoting relatively reliable sources like Reuters. Those two are confirmed death. Btw if they could stop shitposting 24/7 about traditional vaccine and actually start to make them, give people more choices, maybe vaccine hesitancy will not be such a big issue.
 

winword

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Ontario science experts suggests mandating every person wear N95 mask instead of standard surgical mask and its variations. However, I don't think it makes much difference because the gap between mask and face is at least 0.1 millimeters and virus is about 0.1 micrometers.

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Sorry but this is wrong, airflow take the path of the least resistance, as the area of the mask is much larger a lot of the air will still be filtered. Besides, the filter efficiency measurement took that into consideration already, the actual filter material alone usually has higher efficiency(>95%). In short, N95s or its equivalents work. But wearing those for hours is no easy task.
 
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