Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?
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Oceanslider
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billboard in NZ.
Its a DAMN GOOD START!
Is Canada following in Australia's footsteps?
tnc.news
Unvaccinated Canadians can be banned from grocery stores in New Brunswick
Beginning Saturday, people in New Brunswick who do not show proof of full vaccination can be barred from entering grocery stores to buy food.
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bigredfish
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I think that may be a deal breaker here. Not sure in Canuck land? Do they own firearms?
Why should anyone believe the FDA for vaccine recommendations when they are pleased by the Fast Food industry and are able to make approvals for dangerous ingredients easily? Think about it for a moment...
Yes they do. But Canada has been working on trying to disarm the various provinces for a long time.
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bigredfish
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Back in July, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced that COVID had become “a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” an unfortunate turn of phrasethat was soon picked up by the president. Now the flaws in its logic are about to be exposed on what could be a terrifying scale. Unvaccinated Americans will certainly pay the steepest price in the months to come, but the risks appear to have grown for everyone. The pandemic of the vaccinated can no longer be denied.
The 60 percent of Americans who are fully vaccinated could soon find their lives looking very different.
Fauci laying the argument that vaccinations need to be not only mandated, but forced if necessary...
bigredfish
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Yeah that’ll go over well 
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bigredfish
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Pandemic of the unvaccinated my ass.
200 healthcare workers fired last week for not taking the experimental vaccine.
25 - 40% of the cases are vaccinated
No end in sight': Massachusetts hospital flooded with patients amidst COVID surge
Despite having one of the nation's highest vaccination rates, Massachusetts is in the midst of a full coronavirus resurgence. The state's daily case average is now at its highest point in nearly a year, and in the last month alone, new hospital admissions have more than doubled.
In central Massachusetts, the UMass Memorial Health System is, once again, completely overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.
"We, right now, have more patients in the hospital, overall, than we have had at either of the two peaks previously. You come in one day and you say this is the worst we've ever seen it and you come back the next day and it's even worse. This is very concerning, what's going on right now," UMass Memorial Health Care President and CEO Dr. Eric Dickson told during an interview ABC News Wednesday.
According to Dickson, many of the hospitals in the UMass Memorial health care system are currently at-capacity.
At UMass Memorial Medical Center, all 450 beds, which are typically available, are full. There are 75 patients waiting in the ER for a bed, including seven ICU patients.
"We're running at more than 120% of capacity right now," Dickson said. "There's really no end in sight, which is the scary part for all of us."
The health system's latest surge is the result of the delta variant, said Dickson, who added that although the health system is actively sequencing patients, the omicron variant has yet to be detected in the patient population.
On top of the "intense pressure" and significant increase in COVID-19 patients overwhelming health care workers, hospitals are also seeing an increase in winter trauma-related incidents, such as slips, heart attacks and strokes.
"It's really the perfect storm for a bed crisis," Dickson added.
A strike among workers, in one of the hospitals in Worcester, has forced 100 beds offline, thus further reducing hospital capacity, while staffing shortages have greatly exacerbated the health care system's struggle.
"You can't imagine how exhausted caregivers are right now," Dickson said. "The biggest challenge for us right now is that our people are extremely, extremely fatigued. This is their third surge over the course of about 20 months, and that's really taking a toll on them."
In addition, compounding its woes, UMass Memorial Health was forced to fire 200 employees last week after they refused to get vaccinated.
"We've got a problem getting patients out of the hospital, because there's no staff in the nursing homes and they're dealing with shortages," Dickson said.
Dickson explained that he is greatly concerned by the fact that a state like Massachusetts, with more than 72% of its total population fully vaccinated, could be experiencing such a significant surge.
"This pandemic is clearly not over," Dickson said. "This is really the toughest period of this whole pandemic right now for some of us," adding that he was "extremely concerned" about the health system capacity to handle potential increases in people needing care, over the next several weeks and months.
The rest of the upcoming winter holidays also continue to be a major source of concern for Dickson and his teams, who saw a "big bump" in test positive cases and hospitalizations following Thanksgiving.
"Now you have a higher starting point, and you're going to add Christmas and New Year's on top of that. It really could get bad into mid January, and that's what we're most concerned about. We're holding on right now, today. But if this keeps on going up for the next five, six weeks, I'm not quite sure where we're going to get everyone in," he said.
Although the majority -- between 60 and 75% -- of patients currently under care are unvaccinated, hospital officials have seen the impact of waning immunity over time.
"We even have some breakthrough cases of people that have received the booster, so there's definitely a waning of the immunity over time, but it's still your best protection is getting your COVID vaccine and then getting a booster," Dickson said.
Ultimately, it is critical for all residents to do their best to slow the rise in infections by getting vaccinated and boosted, and by following important mitigation strategies to control the spread, Dickson said.
'No end in sight': Massachusetts hospital flooded with patients amidst COVID surge
The UMass Memorial Health System is once again, completely overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.
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Oceanslider
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I have a better headline, per the Lancet study;
Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccination Against Risk of Symptomatic Infection, Hospitalization, and Death Up to 9 Months: A Swedish Total-Population Cohort Study
Background: Whether vaccine effectiveness against Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) lasts longer than 6 months is unclear.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted using Swedish nationwide registries. The cohort comprised 842,974 pairs (N=1,684,958), including individuals vaccinated with 2 doses of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, mRNA-1273, or BNT162b2, and matched unvaccinated individuals. Cases of symptomatic infection and severe Covid-19 (hospitalization or 30-day mortality after confirmed infection) were collected from 12 January to 4 October 2021.
Findings: Vaccine effectiveness of BNT162b2 against infection waned progressively from 92% (95% CI, 92-93, P<0·001) at day 15-30 to 47% (95% CI, 39-55, P<0·001) at day 121-180, and from day 211 and onwards no effectiveness could be detected (23%; 95% CI, -2-41, P=0·07). The effectiveness waned slightly slower for mRNA-1273, being estimated to 59% (95% CI, 18-79) from day 181 and onwards. In contrast, effectiveness of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 was generally lower and waned faster, with no effectiveness detected from day 121 and onwards (-19%, 95% CI, -97-28), whereas effectiveness from heterologous ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 / mRNA was maintained from 121 days and onwards (66%; 95% CI, 41-80). Overall, vaccine effectiveness was lower and waned faster among men and older individuals. For the outcome severe Covid-19, effectiveness waned from 89% (95% CI, 82-93, P<0·001) at day 15-30 to 42% (95% CI, -35-75, P=0·21) from day 181 and onwards, with sensitivity analyses showing notable waning among men, older frail individuals, and individuals with comorbidities.
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bigredfish
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This is how they're going to try and do it. Sick, twisted, liberal Covidian SCUM
Fuck every Liberal. Every.Last.One.
I really no longer care if you're "friend", neighbor, coworker, or family. If you agree with this kind of shit, God help you, because I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
Illinois Bill Proposes To Strip Unvaxxed Of Their Health Insurance | ZeroHedge
Fuck every Liberal. Every.Last.One.
I really no longer care if you're "friend", neighbor, coworker, or family. If you agree with this kind of shit, God help you, because I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
Illinois Bill Proposes To Strip Unvaxxed Of Their Health Insurance | ZeroHedge
Smilingreen
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All you have to do is let all the bills pile up, then go take them to a bankruptcy attorney. File bankruptcy and go on with life. The hospital files the extra padded bills as a business capital loss and takes the tax deduction. The state ends up getting less money. Beat e'm at their own game.
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Nevada on Thursday became the first U.S. state to impose a surcharge on workers who have not gotten a COVID-19 vaccine, though the penalty doesn’t take effect until the middle of next year.
All but two members of the state’s Public Employees’ Benefit Program Board (PEBP) voted during a meeting to approve a surcharge of $55 a month on unvaccinated workers.
The approved proposal also stipulates a surcharge of $175 a month for workers’ spouses, partners, and dependents 18 and older. That could be adjusted down the road. The surcharges will go into effect on July 1, 2022.
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