Good News Thread

Grace T. said:
Here's a good summary of why there aren't a whole lot of good therapeutics (and unlikely to be a whole lot more in the near future). Part of it is the very high threshold for testing set out by the FDA. Part of it too is just Fauci...he made the decision early on to go all in on the vaccines (which is now coming back to bite all of us in the ass since the vaccines are not 100% effective). Without doing a deep dive onto Fauci, It's hard to speculate the reasons why.

www.biopharminternational.com

Where Are the Therapeutics to Combat COVID-19?

Scientists and policy makers are looking more sharply at the lag in identifying and producing medicines to moderate early infections and to treat seriously ill patients.
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You're wrong about Fauci.
 
GrapeNuts cereal is back on the shelves. Post completely stopped producing it because it’s a tedious process and needed to catch up on its other products. Yum!
 
When the NY Times is talking about "Normalcy" as soon as this summer, that's good news.

Not zero, but normalcy​
Covid is caused by a coronavirus — known as SARS-CoV-2 — and coronaviruses often circulate for years, causing respiratory infections and the common cold. The world is not going to extinguish coronaviruses anytime soon, nor will it extinguish this specific one. “The coronavirus is here to stay,” as a recent article in the science journal Nature, by Nicky Phillips, concluded.​
The reasonable goal is to make it manageable, much like the seasonal flu. Fortunately, the vaccines are doing that. In fact, they’re doing better than that. For fully vaccinated people, serious illness from Covid is extremely rare, much rarer than serious illness from the seasonal flu.​
Israel, the country that has vaccinated the largest share of its population, offers a case study. One recent analysis looked at 602,000 Israelis who had received Covid vaccines and found that only 21 later contracted the virus and had to be hospitalized. Twenty-one is obviously not zero. Vaccines are almost never perfect. But the Covid vaccines are turning it into the sort of risk that people accept every day.​
Here’s a useful way to think about Israel’s numbers: Only 3.5 out of every 100,000 people vaccinated there were later hospitalized with Covid symptoms. During a typical flu season in the U.S., by comparison, roughly 150 out of every 100,000 people are hospitalized with flu symptoms.​
And yet the seasonal flu does not grind life to a halt. It does not keep people from flying on airplanes, eating in restaurants, visiting their friends or going to school and work.​
The vaccines will not produce “Covid zero.” But they are on pace — eventually, and perhaps even by summer — to produce something that looks a lot like normalcy. The rare exceptions won’t change that, no matter how much attention they receive.​
 
Kicker4Life said:
Good news....more Union hypocrisy is getting called out:

www.kqed.org

After Leading School Closures, Berkeley Teachers Union President Spotted Dropping Daughter Off at In-Person Preschool | KQED

Parents shoot video of Matt Meyer, president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, dropping his 2-year-old off for in-person instruction even as he fights against in-person instruction for Berkeley public school teachers until they are all vaccinated, which the parents' groups view as hypocrisy.
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Now if the voters could actually put 1+1 together and vote accordingly.
 
AZ now vaccinating 55 and older. That's impressive. Over 80% of deaths have come from 65 and over (nationwide). By the time AZ gets done with 55 and over they will have covered the age groups that represent over 90% of their COVID deaths.

COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics

Tabulated data on provisional COVID-19 deaths by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, and comorbidities. Also includes an index of state-level and county-level mortality data available for download.
www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov

www.azcentral.com

Arizona opens vaccinations at 2 of its state-run sites to people 55 and older

Arizona on Monday announced two of its state-run vaccination sites will now be open to anyone 55 years of age and older.
www.azcentral.com
 
kickingandscreaming said:
AZ now vaccinating 55 and older. That's impressive. Over 80% of deaths have come from 65 and over (nationwide). By the time AZ gets done with 55 and over they will have covered the age groups that represent over 90% of their COVID deaths.

COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics

Tabulated data on provisional COVID-19 deaths by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, and comorbidities. Also includes an index of state-level and county-level mortality data available for download.
www.cdc.gov www.cdc.gov

www.azcentral.com

Arizona opens vaccinations at 2 of its state-run sites to people 55 and older

Arizona on Monday announced two of its state-run vaccination sites will now be open to anyone 55 years of age and older.
www.azcentral.com
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Crazy right?

Vaccinate the age groups at risk.

Some states focus on fluff...equity and other crap that has the end result of delaying the vaccination of people who actually need it most.
 
kickingandscreaming said:
Was "science" recalled?
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I just heard the following radio commercial. Please, do your part California residents and obey us.

1. Wear a Mask ((STFU))
2. Wash your Hands ((Loser has dirty hands))
3. Social Distance ((Not good enough to be next to me))
4. Vaccine ((Do as I say or else))

If you do all this, we can be friends they say. If you disobey, good luck finding work loser. We know what's best for you. Plus, if you voted (R), then it's all your fault anyways. We had to do what we had to do to get what we want.
 
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