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So the pattern at least fits with a substantial life protective effect in high vax Western countries although we're clearly arm chair quarterbacking with a small subset of data. Encouraging though. As the data emerges, things epidemiologists will be wondering in making policy recommendations include: so we got a mixture of people who appear to be more resistant to at least the Covid19 part of Cov-2, likely as a result of acquired immunity through previous infection, through vaxx, or both. We've also got a higher burst variant that's coming on strong. For those that test positive by PCR (which I assume largely = cases), maybe show a range of non-life threatening symptoms, what sort of viral titer are they producing? Its possible that the numbers right now could mean that the increase in viral production associated with the delta variant basically just cause people that would have been asymptomatic to now feel low level symptoms and therefore go get tested and get scored as cases, even though their lives were never in any danger. In that case the data might indicate that with delta we are just going more effective sampling. Or it could be that with vaxx there is now just a longer lag between cases and morbidity in susceptible people, especially if we bin the mortality data by age or other co-morbities. How much protection are the most susceptible segments of the population getting? Stuff like that. Everyone's really tired of this but we're just now starting to get a look at what the vaccines might be doing out there in the real world.
Papers please?
France will require people to use a 'health passport' to enter a restaurant or attraction this fall
French President Emmanuel Macron said the new policy requiring COVID-19 vaccines would start in August.
Like Los Angeles?
Nonsense
Fauci's game was to keep insisting that there was no proof he specifically funded the covid-19 creation itself -- while ignoring Paul's point that he had previously denied funding any gain of function research at Wuhan, which now is proven to be a lie.
You should be able to look at the rate of increase in places with very high vax rates. Pick places with so many vaccinations that you’d expect some herd immunity.
I'm pretty sure Fauci got distracted from the gain of function because Paul said he was responsible for 4M deaths and that caught his attention. Paul then backed off that and went back to gain of function, while Fauci was still caught up in refuting the accusation that he was complicit in the deaths of 4M people.
No that actually refers to testimony he had some time before....ie another date.
I'm not particularly defending Fauci, and as I said, I thought his defense was weak, i.e. qualified people said it wasn't. You could say he dealt with it and moved on to the far more egregious accusation by Paul that he was complicit in the deaths of 4M people. Paul shouldn't have said that and just stuck to the gain of function.
Neither obama nor trump would have reviewed the level of detail in the budget for a grant to some third party (checked to see what the third party was and what it did) and line itemed it (us presidents do not have a line item power). They are both responsible only in a buck stops here sort of way (as is Biden to the extent he hasn’t fired fauci for it). Congress is a little more true since as you say they have oversight power…but they’ve surrendered a lot of that detail oversight to the executive over the years (hence recent flurries or executive orders).
