Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Does the vaccine work on the new strain?

Coronavirus live updates: England's restrictions likely to stay 'for months'; Italy, Belgium, Netherlands suspending flights from UK

 

Researchers believe so, yes.

 

They say there is no evidence that it doesn't work on the strain.

Ten months ago, they also told us there was no evidence of community spread in the U.S. and Trump promised this would be gone in a few days. So who knows.

 

So you say you’re tired of hearing about how COVID-19 has created incredible strain on the caregivers in our health system … OK, here: a story about what COVID-19 did to one family.

Two weeks. Three lost. One Florida family ravaged by coronavirus.
Times journalist Boyzell Hosey developed symptoms, then watched his world shatter.



Boyzell Hosey says goodbye with a single rose at the conclusion of a dual service at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens in St. Petersburg November 21, 2020, for his father Amos Hosey (December 17, 1926-November 5, 2020) and his brother Roy Hosey (December 1, 1952 - November 15, 2020). [ JOHN PENDYGRAFT | Times ]
By Claire McNeill
Published Dec. 17
Updated Dec. 17
ST. PETERSBURG — The family took their seats under the green cemetery tent and passed hand sanitizer row to row. Yes, Lord, my life is yoursdrifted from the speakers. Boyzell Hosey prayed in front, facing the bone-white casket and the empty space beside it.

A man from the funeral home passed out two memorial cards.

In Loving Memory: Amos Hosey.

Forever in our hearts: Roy Hosey.

Boyzell wiped his glasses and nodded as the bishop talked of trusting the hand of God. It was Nov. 21. His elderly father had died on the 5th. His older brother had passed on the 15th. Soon there would be a memorial for his brother-in-law, Bob, who had died in between. Boyzell himself had fought COVID-19 and was only a week out of the hospital, where his sister had gone for treatment, too.​

‘How did it get in?’ Ravaged by coronavirus, Florida family grieves

 

"Oh, more navel gazing by the Blue Check Cools in the media! That's the real problem."

 

Perhaps there is more than one problem in this complex “world” we live in that are worthy of “discussion”?

 

Lots of country banning flights from the UK because of this new strain of the virus. Think fatfuck will do that for us? Of course he won't.

 

There's no evidence the new strain doesn't give us superpowers, either.

I understand the level of caution, but I think the headlines and the UK politicians are overstating what we know. We don't even know for sure the new strain is more infectious, it just looks like it might be.

 

Asked without sarcasm: Do you think they’re overreacting? Not overstating, overreacting. We were all told in February to stay calm, all is well. Then Italy happened. I can see why everyone is freaking out.

 

Well, the thing with that sort of thinking is, that we forget about all the times they told us to stay calm and they were right. It's like how you remember the time you had a dream and then that day the thing from the dream happened, but you don't remember the 99 other times you had a dream that didn't happen.

This is probably the fourth time we've had stories about a new strain that might be more infectious and the first three fizzled out.

All that said, this one has a little more legs from what I've seen (and I'm just trying to read as much as I possibly can from people who actually know what they're talking about). It still could be a coincidence and it's a meaningless mutation that happened to catch a couple of super-spread events, but it's plausible that it's a real change in ability to transmit because it's the spike protein that mutated.

It's already been seen in multiple European countries and Australia, so frantically shutting down travel from the UK is probably not going to do anything to stop it, but you would always rather be too cautious than not cautious enough.

 

If it doesn’t, we’re back to square one. We’ll be playing whack-a-mole with this virus for years and years as it mutates on a regular basis. That’s why we don’t have a vaccine for the common cold.