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Heart inflammation after COVID-19 shots higher-than-expected in study of U.S. military

Members of the U.S. military who were vaccinated against COVID-19 showed higher-than-expected rates of heart inflammation, although the condition was still extremely rare, according to a study released on Tuesday.

The study found that 23 previously healthy males with an average age of 25 complained of chest pain within four days of receiving a COVID-19 shot. The incident rate was higher than some previous estimates would have anticipated, it said.

All the patients, who at the time of the study's publication had recovered or were recovering from myocarditis - an inflammation of the heart muscle - had received shots made by either Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE or Moderna Inc.

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[nivek]

In Raleigh, North Carolina two college baseball teams have a Covid problem and with the Indian variant...Some members of the team were vaccinated yet got infected with the Indian variant...

Four out of 13 vaccinated players test positive is just over 30 percent...Perhaps longer exposure is what's causing more infections with vaccinated people, being around an infected individual for hours at a time at work or school or sports events for instance...

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North Carolina State: 8 baseball players test positive for delta variant of COVID-19

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NC State had four positive tests before Friday’s game with Vanderbilt.

The Wolfpack had 13 available players for the 3-1 loss. Those 13 players were vaccinated, according to WRAL.

After Friday's game, the 13 vaccinated players were tested, and four more players tested positive.

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[nivek]

The closed case numbers for the United States shows a 2 percent death rate currently, but I would expect that number to reduce as more of the population gets vaccinated...Even if vaccinated people get infected the percentage of deaths is far lower than with unvaccinated folks...

 

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Indian Delta variant sinks its teeth into America: LA urges a return to masks as unvaccinated counties in South and West see sharp increase in super-infectious mutant that will cause 'very dense outbreaks'

U.S. counties in the South and the West are seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases over the past seven days. Counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Wyoming reported between 100 and 500 cases per 100,000 in the last week, compared to the national average of 23.9 cases per 100,000. All five states have fully vaccinated 35% or fewer residents, lower than the national average, and only three counties between the five have fully vaccinated more than 50%.

Former FDA commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb warns that he expects outbreaks of the Indian 'Delta' variant to rise in areas with low vaccination rates. Previous studies have shown that two doses of COVID-19 vaccines are much more effective against the variant than one shot.

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Indian Delta variant sinks its teeth into America: LA urges a return to masks as unvaccinated counties in South and West see sharp increase in super-infectious mutant that will cause 'very dense outbreaks'

U.S. counties in the South and the West are seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases over the past seven days. Counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Wyoming reported between 100 and 500 cases per 100,000 in the last week, compared to the national average of 23.9 cases per 100,000. All five states have fully vaccinated 35% or fewer residents, lower than the national average, and only three counties between the five have fully vaccinated more than 50%.

Former FDA commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb warns that he expects outbreaks of the Indian 'Delta' variant to rise in areas with low vaccination rates. Previous studies have shown that two doses of COVID-19 vaccines are much more effective against the variant than one shot.

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I zoomed in on this map to the county I live in and it's in the yellow...

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[nivek]

Biden Admin Creates 'Vaccine Hesitancy' Map To Help Activists Target Vaccine Skeptics Door To Door - National File

 

[JahaRa]

Well, that is worse than in the 70's when they had nurses at bus stops in large cities giving flu shots. I guess one or all of the companies that created vaccines for COVID19 donated to Biden's campaign like the flu vaccine makers did to Carter and Obama's campaigns.

 

[JahaRa]

Biden Admin Creates 'Vaccine Hesitancy' Map To Help Activists Target Vaccine Skeptics Door To Door - National File

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Wait, how does census data indicate whether one has had a vaccine or not? There was no vaccine when we filled out the census and I don't think asking on the census is legal.

 

[JahaRa]

I looked at the map and the only two counties in our state that show "hesitancy" are Navajo reservation, which is understandable since those are remote areas and the feds already burned them once over this virus. Probably they aren't getting the vaccine because they have had the virus. Even so it is only 10-15% for those 2 counties,

I noticed the two north eastern counties in Arizona (the rest of Navajo land) are over 25% hesitant, part of that is probably because of Arizona governor not helping them when they needed it like ours did by sending the national guard to provide medical supplies, food and water.

 

[nivek]

Wait, how does census data indicate whether one has had a vaccine or not? There was no vaccine when we filled out the census and I don't think asking on the census is legal.

Each state's health departments are keeping a list of who was vaccinated and when and is probably shared with the CDC...So I think they are going to use census data lists of names and addresses to plug in those names from the health departments across the country and the names that remain will be the unvaccinated...Using the census data it sounds like giving addresses to activists would be illegal, providing census data to private citizens on other private citizens, it is also the assumption that it's mostly republicans who are not getting vaccinated so this just opens up another can of worms and could cause serious fallout...

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[JahaRa]

Each state's health departments are keeping a list of who was vaccinated and when and is probably shared with the CDC...So I think they are going to use census data lists of names and addresses to plug in those names from the health departments across the country and the names that remain will be the unvaccinated...Using the census data it sounds like giving addresses to activists would be illegal, providing census data to private citizens on other private citizens, it is also the assumption that it's mostly republicans who are not getting vaccinated so this just opens up another can of worms and could cause serious fallout...

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I found a better map. Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19 | Data | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

I think it is plain wrong for them to do this. I agree with someone's tweet that it is harrassment, and I could see someone shooting the door knockers in certain areas of the country.

 

[nivek]

Biden Admin Creates 'Vaccine Hesitancy' Map To Help Activists Target Vaccine Skeptics Door To Door - National File

Check out the comments after the article on the link...

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[JahaRa]

That article is Whack! Biased, emotional bull**&**

And this is important to say — virtually every person who is in the hospital right now sick with COVID-19, where their families are sitting by the bed, holding their hand, almost every one of those persons is unvaccinated.”

"virtually" still means "like but not in fact"

 

[JahaRa]

This is not the Biden administration, this is the CDC, which is a separate entity, not matter what Trump pretended.

• We use the HPS survey question, “Once a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 is available to you, would you…get a vaccine?”, which provides the following options: 1) “definitely get a vaccine”; 2) “probably get a vaccine”; 3) “unsure”; 4) “probably not get a vaccine”; 5) “definitely not get a vaccine.” We use three definitions to capture the strength of hesitancy to receive a vaccine.
  • Strongly hesitant: includes only survey responses indicating that they would “definitely not” receive a COVID-19 vaccine when available.
    
  • Hesitant: includes survey responses indicating that they would “probably not” or “definitely not” receive a COVID-19 vaccine when available.
    
  • Hesitant or unsure: includes survey responses indicating that they would “probably not” or “unsure” or “definitely not” receive a COVID-19 vaccine when available.
• Full methodology for estimates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is available here.
  
• Demographic data were obtained from the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates.

 

[nivek]

This is not the Biden administration, this is the CDC,

If the CDC are using census data then they have the blessings and permission of the Biden administration...

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[JahaRa]

If the CDC are using census data then they have the blessings and permission of the Biden administration...

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But the headline was that Biden administration created the map, which is false. They may have given the CDC permission to use the census data but they did not create the map. Biased emotional tripe to denigrate Biden. If they have to make stuff up, it speaks to their motives and lack of credibility for everything. The media is never trust worthy, every outlet has an agenda and National File's agenda is clear.

 

[nivek]

The media is never trust worthy, every outlet has an agenda

Couldn't agree with you more, I would also add to that, the government no matter the party in power and the CDC, both are barely trustworthy if at all and have shown to have their own agenda which isn't always in the best interests of the American people...

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Fears over the ‘Lambda’ Covid variant that’s hit UK as ‘unusual’ mutations can ‘dodge vaccines’

Global health officials warn an "unusual" mutation in the "Lambda" variant that's hitting the UK could make it resistant to vaccines. The new variant shares a similar genetic mutation as the Delta strain, making it more transmissible, the WHO claim.

Also known as C.37, the Lambda strain was first detected in Peru last year before quickly spreading to 27 countries, including Britain. Scientist noticed the variant in December when it accounted for “just one in every 200 samples”. By March, that jumped to 50 per cent of cases. Now that figure is a whopping 82 per cent, according to the WHO.

Pablo Tsukayama, a molecular scientist at the Cayetano Heredia university in Lima said the virus' rapid rise "would suggest its rate of transmission is higher than other variants".

In neighbouring Chile, it accounts for almost a third of cases, though scientists are unable to say which the strain is more transmissible. "At the moment there’s no evidence to suggest it’s more aggressive than other variants,” Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) adviser Jairo Méndez Rico said. "It’s possible that it has a higher rate of contagion but more work needs to be done on it."

The Lambda strain is now considered as the seventh "variant of interest" by the WHO, and is now being closely followed by Public Health England after six cases were recorded in the country last week.

An "unusual set of mutations" have made testing the virus' virulence hard to do, says top science director Jeff Barrett. He also worried a lack of gene sequencing labs in South America has allowed the virus to spread almost undetected.

Of particular concern to virologists is the L452Q spike protein because of its potential in infect human cells like the L452R mutation in the highly infectious Delta variant.

Preliminary testing results are already showing worrying signs.

Experts at the University of Chile who studied the virus in local healthcare workers who received two doses of China's CoronaVac jab say Lambda is more infectious than the Brazilian and UK mutations.

"Our data show for the first time that mutations present in the spike protein of the Lambda variant confer escape to neutralising antibodies and increased infectivity,” they wrote in a paper yet to be peer reviewed.

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Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Provides 8-Month COVID Immunity, Protection Against Delta Variant

The Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine can now provide immunity against COVID-19 for at least eight months, as well as protection against "other highly prevalent SARS-CoV-2 viral variants" of the virus.

The company announced on Thursday that during its trial, the vaccine generated a "strong neutralizing antibody response" to the widely spreading Delta variant, with 85% effectiveness.

It is also expected to improve and continue immunity past the eight-month span of their study — reassuring the over 12 million Americans who have gotten the Johnson & Johnson dose.

"Current data for the eight months studied so far show that the single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine generates a strong neutralizing antibody response that does not wane; rather, we observe an improvement over time," said Mathai Mammen, global head, Janssen research & development, Johnson & Johnson, in a statement.

"In addition, we observe a persistent and particularly robust, durable cellular immune response," Mammen added.

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[nivek]

This is quite interesting, perhaps catching a cold could save your life from Covid...

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Common cold could prime the immune system to fight off Covid

Common colds may prime the immune system against Covid, scientists believe, after finding that some people never develop an infection despite repeated exposure to the virus.

Researchers at University College London (UCL) have discovered that some people have natural protection against Covid and seem to fight off an infection using pre-existing memory T-cells.

T-cells remember past infections and circulate in the body looking for invaders. They can directly kill cells or activate other parts of the immune system.

The scientists studied a cohort of 129 healthcare workers at high risk of an infection for 16 weeks and found that 57 never tested positive for the virus.

When they looked to see what their immune systems were doing, they discovered they had mounted a "robust" T-cell response to Covid, suggesting they had encountered the virus but managed to shake it off.

Crucially, the T-cells had ramped up targeted areas of the genetic code shared by both colds and Covid. The T-cells were so effective in clearing out the infection that the healthcare workers never developed antibodies to the disease.

Francois Balloux, professor of computational systems biology at UCL, said: "The evidence points to protection originating from prior exposure to endemic common cold coronaviruses [HCoVs]. Latent infection to low levels of SARS-CoV-2 might also have played a role.

"There may indeed be such a thing as 'immunological dark matter' against SARS-CoV-2, at least in some people who were extensively exposed to HCoVs pre-pandemic."

Scientists have previously speculated that the reason older people are far more affected by Covid is because T-cells diminish in later life. Children also pick up far more colds than adults, which may also be one reason they are at less risk.

Last year, a study by Public Health England (PHE) found that one in four healthcare workers had high levels of T-cells which recognised Covid, suggesting they had some level of protection against the virus – but nearly half had never been infected.

In the four months of follow-up, nobody with a high T-cell count became infected with Covid, suggesting they were protected against it. However, it was unclear until now what was triggering the natural immunity. The latest research suggests T-cells that have encountered common colds also recognise Covid.

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