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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

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  1. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    My state just announced over the weekend they would begin mandatory coronavirus testing for nursing home staff.

    Surprise No. 1: Just NOW they're doing that?

    Surprise No. 2: Nursing homes STILL account for 50 percent of NC's COVID-19 deaths.
     
    BTExpress, Aug 10, 2020
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  2. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

     
    Neutral Corner, Aug 10, 2020
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  3. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    That seems high. If I'm reading the numbers correctly, nursing homes don't even account for 25 percdent of the COVID-19 death total in New York.
     
    outofplace, Aug 10, 2020
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  4. lakefront

    lakefront Well-Known Member

    March, it would have made a difference and we knew a little more in march. Any of those early month would have been a world of difference.
     
    lakefront, Aug 10, 2020
    #12904
  5. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

     
    Neutral Corner, Aug 11, 2020
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  6. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

     
    Della9250, Aug 11, 2020
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  7. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    I'm sure Fatfuck will be eager to try an untested vaccine... on Tiffany.
     
    Starman, Aug 11, 2020
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  8. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    That's OK. Westerners discounted the Sabin polio vaccine, too, when trials were under way in the USSR in 1959. The one Eastern Europeans were using instead of the Salk vaccine.

    The Sabin vaccine eventually replaced Salk's around the world by the mid-1960s.
     
    BTExpress, Aug 11, 2020
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  9. Scout

    Scout Well-Known Member

    BTE, lay odds on Russia having a safe vaccine for the world to use right now?

    My number is 17% chance.
     
    Scout, Aug 11, 2020
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  10. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Not to sweat too many details, but Salk's was ready four years earlier.
     
    doctorquant, Aug 11, 2020
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  11. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Of course. Wasn't discounting that at all. Just noting the typical skepticism about anything coming from "there."
     
    BTExpress, Aug 11, 2020
    #12911
  12. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Nobody is "discounting" anything.

    There are more than 100 vaccines in development around the world, with dozens of them already tested in humans at the Phase 1 or Phase 2 stage. Some already in wide Phase 3 tests.

    Any of those 100+ could be being mass produced right now to be injected into hundreds of millions of people without regard for their safety or efficacy. And maybe if someone did that, the vaccine would ultimately prove safe and maybe somewhat effective.

    Others don't do that, though, because they don't make hundreds of millions of people into guinea pigs without first doing a solid Phase 3 trial to try to minimize the possible risks.

    Putin is willing to put the Russian people potentially at risk -- he could give two shits if his people die in his experiment -- to pound his chest and claim Russian ingenuity.

    I am glad the rest of the world isn't that reckless. It doesn't matter if a Russian vaccine ultimately proves to be safe and/or effective. He is willing to potentially kill people or give them a false sense of security on a vaccine that hasn't been proven effective, on a gambit.
     
    The Big Ragu, Aug 11, 2020
    #12912
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