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From our nation's paper of record -- re Omicron ...

Author: conorlarkin (21051 Posts - Original UHND Member)
Posted at 2:43 pm on Dec 19, 2021
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"Hospitals are already overburdened by Delta patients, and the consequences of many infections in a short period will be increasingly deadly. Even cases among the vaccinated can still lead to long Covid.

Fortunately, there’s mounting evidence that a third shot, which the Food and Drug Administration authorized in November for all adults, can increase people’s defenses. But only around 28 percent of Americans have received a booster.

While policymakers are still urging people to do what they can to avoid spreading or contracting the virus, the response to Omicron has largely been to re-emphasize the need for boosters in order to bolster immunity against an infection that will be hard to keep at bay. More measures will likely be needed to lessen the toll on the health system. Rapid tests for every American could help prevent transmission by identifying infections early, for example.

With the eradication of Covid-19 off the table, the hope has been that one variant — in the best-case scenario, an innocuous one — would finally push the United States toward endemicity, a consistent but relatively contained level of infection. But the world will need a lot more immunity to get there. Ideally, people would be both vaccinated and regularly boosted so that they have protection against disease when they are exposed to any variant and at most feel they have a crummy cold and recover.

Annual shots, as with seasonal flu variants, and boosters, as with tetanus, have always been an accepted part of infectious disease prevention. And outside of the Covid pandemic, no one really speaks of breakthrough infections, though the term may still apply. In the future, getting Covid-19 boosters and breakthroughs will feel like the new normal, Dr. Ellebedy said.

While SARS-CoV-2 infections among the vaccinated may feel like a personal problem, they actually represent a societal and global one. In the United States, for example, the Delta variant has already pummeled health care infrastructure, putting strain on providers and making it more difficult for everyone from cancer patients to people experiencing appendicitis to seek care.

“We will continue to have variants of concern emerging as long as we have large swaths of the human population that are unprotected,” said the bioethicist Nancy Jecker, a professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine."


Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/19/opinion/omicron-breakthroughs.html

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Replies to: "From our nation's paper of record -- re Omicron ..."

  • From our nation's paper of record -- re Omicron ... [LINK] - conorlarkin - 2:43pm 12/19/21 (35) [View All]
    • NYSlimes. [NT] - Cole - 7:46pm 12/19/21
    • Excellent article...here are some "Cliffs Notes" from the UCSF Grand Rounds video on Omicron posted - TyroneIrish - 5:44pm 12/19/21
      • Great notes. I did watch it early this morning. Very informative. - conorlarkin - 5:55pm 12/19/21
    • In fact, Dr. Collins says it best: - Frank L - 4:28pm 12/19/21
      • Clearly, the “persuasion” campaign was disastrously bad. - Iggle - 6:00pm 12/19/21
        • P.T. Barnum couldn’t have sold it to this crowd. The stupidity is breathtaking. [NT] - Frank L - 7:49pm 12/19/21
          • Meh - Measles, mumps, polio, smallpox - all sucess stories. - Iggle - 8:42pm 12/19/21
            • Different times. Different people. No socials and people trusted medicine. Now we are all our own - Frank L - 8:49pm 12/19/21
      • Yep. The ERs are about to be overrun with unvaxxed morons, and there’s nothing we can do about that. [NT] - Chris94 - 5:19pm 12/19/21
      • That is well said. - conorlarkin - 4:38pm 12/19/21
    • The wave that’s gonna hit is gonna be painful. You can’t fix stupid and convince morons. - Frank L - 3:41pm 12/19/21
      • Racist. [NT] - notredame678 - 3:57pm 12/19/21
    • Micro clots are not visible on imaging, except that D Dimer levels are raised [NT] - eftg1 - 2:47pm 12/19/21
    • Thank god you are vaxxed and protected. Not a chance you can catch this, amirite? - TampaIrish - 2:46pm 12/19/21
      • Ahh, but then he can't tell everyone else how to live. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 4:29pm 12/19/21
        • Only on this board will you find a physician supporting someone not getting vaccinated...unreal. [NT] - TyroneIrish - 5:36pm 12/19/21
          • Or make safe harbor for those who support minor attracted"people". - Stark Raving Dad - 7:12pm 12/19/21
            • I'm completely aware of that (i.e. "Ignore")...but others can see what I post...and that's important - TyroneIrish - 7:19pm 12/19/21
              • “Nobody” reads your posts, you are a proven liar. [NT] - notredame678 - 8:59pm 12/19/21
      • Increased chance that we will catch it. Hence, we add defensive fortifications. - conorlarkin - 2:52pm 12/19/21
        • a man made protein is what is causing the clotting [NT] - eftg1 - 4:24pm 12/19/21
        • Ok, but still can catch it. It’s not a vaccine. [NT] - TampaIrish - 3:13pm 12/19/21
          • Check w/ your school's librarian. [NT] [LINK] - conorlarkin - 3:18pm 12/19/21
            • I did and got this. - TampaIrish - 3:24pm 12/19/21
              • Heh. They are going to need to change the definition now. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 4:31pm 12/19/21
              • Hank the Tank territory. [NT] - jimbasil - 3:30pm 12/19/21
                • Maybe you need to get in touch with google. That definition came from them. - TampaIrish - 3:34pm 12/19/21
                  • Protection from infection is not the medical community's (CDC, et al) ONLY measure...protection from [LINK] - TyroneIrish - 3:59pm 12/19/21
                  • You’d rather blame Google for your misunderstanding of why - jimbasil - 3:52pm 12/19/21
                    • I just gave you the definition of vaccine. The fact that the COVID shot doesn’t give the - TampaIrish - 4:01pm 12/19/21
                      • The classic term vaccine is being misapplied to the new mRNA treatments. Not sure why someone would - BaronVonZemo - 4:51pm 12/19/21
          • I love it when dopes and Fox News hosts decide what is and what is not a vaccine - Chris94 - 3:18pm 12/19/21
            • What are you babbling about? I don’t know what is so hard about letting people - TampaIrish - 3:22pm 12/19/21
        • What flavor kool aid did you drink 🥤💉💉💉 [NT] - eftg1 - 2:57pm 12/19/21
    • spike protein and the RBN furin clevage site, including mRNA vaccines causes clotting [NT] - eftg1 - 2:46pm 12/19/21
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