Reported case, death’s and hospital stays KEEP FALLING……
Political pandemic things keep going on….
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In the past week in the U.S. …
Among reported tests, the positivity rate was 5.6%.
The number of tests reported fell 18.4% from the previous week.
Since Dec. 14, more than 405,444,000 doses of a coronavirus vaccine have been administered in the U.S.
More than 188,281,000 people have completed vaccination, or about 56.71% of the population.
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An independent advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday unanimously recommended a booster dose of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine for people 65 and older and for adults who are at high risk of severe illness because of underlying conditions or exposure on the job….
A new Morning Consult poll finds President Biden’s net approval rating is down 16 percentage points among unvaccinated Black voters since September 8, the day before he issued the vaccine mandates.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday pledged to contest the Biden administration’s employer coronavirus vaccine mandate in court, saying that he is “offended” it could wind up taking away jobs.
“Let’s not have Biden come in and effectively take away — threaten to take away — the jobs of people who have been working hard throughout this entire pandemic,” DeSantis said during a Thursday news conference on monoclonal antibody treatments in Fort Myers. “I am offended that a police officer could potentially lose their job.”
DeSantis’s comments come in response to a mandate Biden issued last month, calling for private businesses with 100 workers or more to require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. He also called for federal employees and those employed by health care providers to follow similar requirements….
U.S. to Lift Restrictions for Vaccinated Travelers
“International travelers fully vaccinated against the coronavirus who have been barred from entering the United States during the pandemic will be able to enter the country on Nov. 8, marking an end to restrictions that had walled off tourists and relatives seeking to visit their families,” the New York Times reports.
“Unvaccinated foreigners will be broadly barred from entering the United States, although the White House official said there will be limited exemptions, including for young children.”
The Johnson & Johnson one shot vaccine ishould now have a second shot a few months later the FDA recommends….
Will you get this one James?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to announce that it will allow vaccinated individuals to get booster shots from vaccine makers that differ from their initial doses, The New York Times reported.
Sources familiar with the matter told the Times that the agency could announce the decision as early as this week. The FDA would not recommend one COVID-19 shot over the other, though it may note that using the same COVID-19 vaccine for the booster shot as the first two doses may be preferable.
The reported decision comes less than a week after a preprint study from the National Institutes of Health found that receiving vaccine booster shots different from what was initially administered is safe and effective. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed yet, found that Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA vaccine booster shots offered the best protection….
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Long-term Covid ……
Eventually—years or even decades in the future—COVID-19 could transition into a mild childhood illness, like the four endemic human coronaviruses that contribute to the common cold.
“My guess is, enough people will get it and enough people will get the vaccine to reduce person-to-person transmission,” says Paul Duprex, director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Vaccine Research. “There will be pockets of people who won’t take [the vaccines], there will be localized outbreaks, but it will become one of the ‘regular’ coronaviruses.”
But this transition won’t happen overnight. Experts say that SARS-CoV-2’s exact post-pandemic trajectory will depend on three major factors: how long humans retain immunity to the virus, how quickly the virus evolves, and how widely older populations become immune during the pandemic itself.
Depending on how these three factors shake out, the world could be facing several years of a halting post-pandemic transition—one marked by continued viral evolution, localized outbreaks, and possibly multiple rounds of updated vaccinations.
“People have got to realize, this is not going to go away,” says Roy Anderson, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Imperial College London. “We’re going to be able to manage it because of modern medicine and vaccines, but it’s not something that will just vanish out of the window.”….
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