Vaccines and Therapeutics 2.0 & 3.0 Merge

[Jersey Girl]

This is good news but watch for the lie that I bold.

Pfizer says it has second doses of coronavirus vaccines for Americans, even if there's no stockpile

Vaccine maker Pfizer says it has second doses of coronavirus vaccines ready to ship as needed – something that should reassure governors infuriated by the federal government’s announcement that it does not have a reserve stockpile of vaccine doses.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Friday there was no reserve stockpile, even though the Trump administration has been telling states for weeks it is holding onto second doses of vaccine to make sure people who get one dose can get the second shot on time.

Pfizer says it’s holding the vaccine doses.

“Operation Warp Speed (OWS) has asked us to start shipping second doses only recently. As a result, we have on hand all the second doses of the previous shipments to the US. We are working around the clock to produce millions more each day,” Pfizer said in a statement sent to CNN.
“We have and are continuing to work closely with OWS on our production, release and shipping schedules – to ensure Americans receive their first and second doses of the vaccine on time. We have provided OWS with a specific schedule and we foresee no issues in delivering on the commitments we have made,” the company added.

“Our facility in Kalamazoo, MI, is the primary manufacturing site of our COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. and we have shipped more than 15 million doses to destinations across the country as of today. We anticipate no interruptions in shipments at this facility, as we look to scale up our production of the vaccine to produce 2 billion doses worldwide by the end of 2021 (up from the previously communicated approximately 1.3 billion).”

Pfizer is contracted to supply the US with 200 million doses.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/cor ... 266ba6189d

[Icarus]

More than 420,000 Americans will have died from COVID by the time Trump leaves office. More than 500,000 on the anniversary of the first COVID death. "Just the flu"...

[Chap]

More than 420,000 Americans will have died from COVID by the time Trump leaves office. More than 500,000 on the anniversary of the first COVID death. "Just the flu"...

How many 9/11s is that on Trump's watch?

[Icarus]

More than 420,000 Americans will have died from COVID by the time Trump leaves office. More than 500,000 on the anniversary of the first COVID death. "Just the flu"...

How many 9/11s is that on Trump's watch?

About a thousand Benghazis

[Chap]

More than 420,000 Americans will have died from COVID by the time Trump leaves office. More than 500,000 on the anniversary of the first COVID death. "Just the flu"...

How many 9/11s is that on Trump's watch?

About a thousand Benghazis

Don't you mean a hundred thousand? I think only four Americans died in the Benghazi attack - Ambassador Chris Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and two CIA operatives, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. Or am I wrong about that?

[MeDotOrg]

I'm a part of Kaiser Northern California Medical Group. I emailed my doctor yesterday about the status of the vaccine. I'm in th 70+ group. I should hear back tomorrow. I'll let you know....

[Jersey Girl]

I'm a part of Kaiser Northern California Medical Group. I emailed my doctor yesterday about the status of the vaccine. I'm in th 70+ group. I should hear back tomorrow. I'll let you know....

That's good because your group would be next I am sure. In our area, we have a list of providers that have the vaccines by county. Walgreens and CVS are assigned the nursing home vaccinations. So on the list are all medical groups by county. We have both been treated by two groups (and it doesn't matter if you have been treated by them) and so what we did was go to their websites and sign up for an invitation.

Having been military most of our lives and now receiving care from civilian providers, I am still kind of a novice when it comes to medical groups. The two groups we signed up for are UCHealth and Centura. I don't know if those are nationwide. I DO know that Kaiser is on the list of providers so you might have to go to their websites and sign up for the vaccine.

In any case, I don't think that you even have to be in a certain network to sign up for a vaccine. In that case you create an account to use their patient portal.

Yes, let us know how you get on with this and how it is working in your area. Because like I said, it doesn't matter what group you are in, we're all going to be using the same systems to get our vaccines when our group comes up though I am pretty sure that by the time the largest group (gen public) gets vaccinated we're going to see the pharmacies and other groups open for vaccinating them. I think we could even see folks assigned to vaccinate in school parking lots and that sort of thing, using retired doctors, pharm techs, vets, dentists, chiropractors, and optometrists--folks who are qualified to do the stick. I do believe something like that is going to happen once the supply ramps up but it will need to be in a situation where those vaccinating are in a position to provide urgent/emergency care to patients who have extreme reactions.

[MeDotOrg]

Received an automated email reply from my doctor, who is on vacation. God knows she probably needs it. The short answer is that Kaiser's supply is limited, and right now they are just beginning to vaccinate those 75 and older. I'm guesstimating I'm still several weeks, and probably a month away.

[Jersey Girl]

Received an automated email reply from my doctor, who is on vacation. God knows she probably needs it. The short answer is that Kaiser's supply is limited, and right now they are just beginning to vaccinate those 75 and older. I'm guesstimating I'm still several weeks, and probably a month away.

Well, during that time I think the supply is going to ramp up pretty significantly if Biden has anything to say about it. He's planning to use the DPA to get the vaccine supply flowing again for us. According to reports, he has set a goal of 1M vaccinated in the first 100 days of his term in office and Fauci agrees that it's totally do-able. If anyone has a handle on these things, it's Fauci who "gets it" most of all. I can't imagine how frustrated he must have been having to work with the Trump administration all these months.

I can't help thinking when I see all these measures about to be put in place by the upcoming Biden administration that all of these things could have been done several months ago by Trump and likely would have spared thousands upon thousands of lives lost. Trump wasted his powers and wasted so many American lives. He basically stopped working the job the past 2 months if he ever worked it at all.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Another good post from a Redditor regarding the covid:

I make my money through risk analysis. I run the numbers daily for Covid so I can perform risk analysis for my family. And yes, the simple act of driving your car is one of the most dangerous things you can do. We know this because we have over 100 years of data. Pretty much every single variable is known. And by analyzing those variables, one can reduce risk. For example, the vehicles my family owns have extremely high safety ratings. And since having children, you will absolutely not see me out driving on nights like New Years. Not just for my children's physical health, but to increase the chances of them having both parents into adulthood.

If those variables changed and 35% of the population thought that drunk driving was no big deal and 2-3% of drivers were drunk at any one time, I'd drive less. If certain law enforcement organizations chose not to enforce drunk driving laws, I'd drive less. If our governor wouldn't create drunk driving laws and wouldn't let cities enforce any, I'd drive less. If our director of our public health agency set standards for drunk driving and when they were exceeded just ignored those standards, I would drive less.
If, when we got in a minor accident, the doctors would tell me that as a result, 100% of kids had biomarkers for vascular damage and they had no idea what that meant for their future health, I'd drive less.

If, after a minor fender bender my child had some unknown chance of contracting MIS-C and we didn't know the medium to long term effects of that, I'd drive less. If we got in an accident and the emergency response and subsequent care was less than optimal because something else was overwhelming the healthcare system, I'd drive less. If there were countless unknown short and long term variables because driving was so novel, I'd drive less.

After surpassing 400,000 deaths today my fussiness with the outgoing administration is pretty high.

- Doc