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On the mainland within 5-6 miles of the ferry dock last week, I observed multiple locations with walk-in, no-appointment-needed, vaccination services advertised with big banners and such.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
There at least in this region appears to be a surplus of vaccines, and plenty of people who won't take them.
There were people who lied or would have if they needed to in order to get initial vaccines. (We had one here.) So it shouldn't be surprising the same will happen with boosters.
We are having a serious discussion in our infectious disease control team here about getting boosters ASAP. We were all inoculated basically the first day of availability when the vaccines rolled out, our team's median age is 58, and there is credible data that shows that immune response drops off over time from the vaccination, especially in the older folks. We've been vaccinated for long enough to experience the drop, and are in the age range of concern.
Our community is experiencing our worst outbreak of the entire pandemic starting just a few weeks ago.
An interesting article about how the opposite of vaccine liars helped alert the CDC to the Provincetown situation much quicker than they would have otherwise figured things out. And it didn’t turn into a mass spreader event.
TLDR: Decades of gay men having to take personal responsibility for their health and that of their sexual partners leading to the free sharing of personal health info resulted in a rapid collection of data about who got infected and who they had been in contact with in Provincetown.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...hiMa9IJrfeceMo
My sister said that they are working on a booster that specifically targets Delta but yes I have heard of people getting a third shot.
We are keeping up with Austin Covid news since we lived there for so many years. They have close to 200 ICU cases today. ER's are packed. Mask mandates are being enacted even though the governor is trying to ban them. What's different is that even though there are many cases showing up, hospital stays are shorter and there are much fewer deaths than last time. At least that is what medical staff are saying. Personally, I keep hearing about vaccinated people getting sick here and there, ie breakthrough cases, but media makes it sound like it is only a tiny amount percentage wise.
Locally our first vaccinated person died but was in his 80’s.
I'm more concerned about people claiming they were vaccinated when they were not, and obtaining fake vaccination cards.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
Yikes! I have friends heading your way--fully vaccinated, but I'll pass that along...Quote:
Originally Posted by bae
Our tenant's girlfriend - a woman who is from Nogales, Mexico interestingly enough - just lost her 30 year old cousin to the Coronavirus - don't know if the Delta variant or not - in Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. Tragic - so young. Rob