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SlyPokerDog said:
Oklahoma trying to return its $2m stockpile of hydroxychloroquine

The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office has been tasked with attempting to return a $2 million stockpile of a malaria drug once touted by former President Donald Trump as a way to treat the coronavirus.

https://www.readfrontier.org/storie...eturn-its-2m-stockpile-of-hydroxychloroquine/
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And............... This was not a dumb ass cowboy decision listening to Trump. Others with a high school education did too.
 
The Amazonian city that hatched the Brazil variant has been crushed by it

Another surge was coming. This time, Uildéia Galvão thought they were prepared.

Galvão, the lead physician in the coronavirus ward at a public hospital in the Brazilian city of Manaus, had been haunted by the wave that crashed last spring. In less than 10 days, it ruptured the city’s bewildered medical system. Sick patients were turned away. The dead were piled into mass graves.

So Galvão’s hospital organized contingency plans. Additional beds were reserved, and a detailed schedule for opening them was created.

But the new surge, when it came, was different. The virus had mutated, with a suite of alterations that probably made it more transmissible – and perhaps more lethal. Manaus was hit by what scientists call the P.1 variant. This time, it didn’t take 10 days to overwhelm Galvão’s hospital. It took 24 hours.

Even in a city as traumatized as Manaus, the horror has been unlike anything doctors have seen. The oxygen quickly ran out. Dozens of hospital patients have died of asphyxiation. Scores more, unable to get care, have died at home. Every half-hour, one doctor said, a funeral procession rumbled toward the cemetery.

“We had a plan,” Galvão said. “We increased the availability of beds. But even with that, there was strangulation.”

The humanitarian disaster unfolding in the Amazon’s largest city has shown what happens when government failures, scientific misfires and public indifference meet a new, possibly more dangerous variant of the virus that has ravaged the globe.

Believed to have been circulating in the Amazon since December, P.1 now appears to be the dominant coronavirus strain in Manaus. It’s been detected in São Paulo and as far away as Japan. A first case was identified in the United States on Monday.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation...ed-the-brazil-variant-has-been-crushed-by-it/
 
BigGameDamian said:
J&J only 66% effective. Not good.
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72% effective in the US and 80% plus effective at preventing serious illness that causes hospitalization and death. Similar results across all age groups. Doesn't require super cold storage and can be administered in a single dose. This is fantastic news for the world. This vaccine can be used in remote areas and is absolutely effective enough to help end the pandemic. They're working on tweaking the formula to address the variants that reduced effectiveness.
 
Are both doses of the vaccine the same
 
African Americans are more likely to contract COVID-19, more likely to die, and less likely to get vaccine. Dallas County developed a plan to promote vaccine equity. The Texas state health department threatened to take away their vaccine supply unless they scrapped the plan.

An Ohio Republican state legislator suggested the high rate of COVID-19 in Black and Latinx communities was due to the poor hygiene of "colored people". Republicans put him on health committee.
 
BigGameDamian said:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...stephen-lynch-tests-positive-covid/index.html

Massachusetts Democratic congressman, vaccinated for Covid-19, tests positive for virus
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From the article you linked:

“Covid-19 vaccines prevent illness, but do not necessarily prevent infection. If someone tests positive and doesn't get sick, the vaccine has worked as intended. If someone tests positive within a few weeks of receiving the second dose, it may be because the vaccine hasn't yet fully kicked in.”
 
e_blazer said:
From the article you linked:

“Covid-19 vaccines prevent illness, but do not necessarily prevent infection. If someone tests positive and doesn't get sick, the vaccine has worked as intended. If someone tests positive within a few weeks of receiving the second dose, it may be because the vaccine hasn't yet fully kicked in.”
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He won't see this. This dude hunts down DOOMSDAY articles 24/7!
 
Don't be a byproduct of Bill Gates? I mean, there's lots to not like but I would rather be smart and rich than a science denying Trumper.
 
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