Missing from this headline "Associated with Large Public Gatherings".<p>Its worth noting...<p>- Vaccination is not equal to 100% immunity as some folks appear to think.<p>- Vaccination means a significant reduced risk of getting COVID.<p>- Vaccination means that if you get COVID your risk for death is significantly lower.<p>With Delta variants right now, it is worth noting...<p>- Variants will continue to mutate as a significant % of people go unvaccinated.<p>- Variants seem to pose higher risk for all, but vaccination still reduces risk.<p>- Vaccinated folks with a COVID variant are equally contagious - but possibly for a shorter period of time (early days).<p>Summary: You're not special. Get a vaccination. We are in this together.<p>Am not interested in rebutting every issue someone flags with this - its a high-level generalization. Am not a doctor etc. Look to CDC for guidance and authority.
that's what happens when most people are vaccinated. This whole thing is dumb. We know vaccines work. Let's move on to interesting and productive things.
Delta strain reproduces at ~1,200x faster rate than the already contagious original COVID19 strain. This is an absolutely massive difference and works on quasi-exponential scale! The body cannot detect and react immediately in force to a virii intrusion, hence a vaccinated person can be infectious, but with everything else being equal, he or she will have lower viral load (hence level of infectiousness) and shorter period of infectiousness compared to an unvaccinated person.<p>Why is that not clear to most people opposing vaccination on these grounds, is beyond me.
“If the CDC has increased their Delta Ro because of the Ptown cohort, then they are overstating it for the general population. The cohort was 85% male (WaPo and NYT have both failed to mention this). Hello, it was Bear Week.
@apoorva_nyc rightly mentions packed bars, etc., but /1<p>... everyone is missing the horny bear in the room. Bears go to Ptown to have lots of fun which includes lots of sex. News flash, gay men KISS when they have sex. /2”<p><a href="https://twitter.com/peterstaley/status/1421215604481142785" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/peterstaley/status/1421215604481142785</a>