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william webster

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Aha - dueling studies........ one Yes - one No

It's getting hopeless... but you cannot go back and start again !
 

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NY TImes email today:

By now, you’ve probably heard someone say it, or maybe you’ve said it yourself: We’re all getting Covid. “Yes, you’ll get the virus,” Dr. James Hamblin wrote in his newsletter. “I think we all have a date with Covid at some point,” Helen Branswell, a health reporter at Stat News, said. “People are starting to give up,” my colleague Tara Parker-Pope told me. It’s an understandable feeling given Omicron’s intense contagiousness, even among the vaccinated. A surge that began in the Northeast is now spreading to the Midwest, South and beyond:
 

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Aha - dueling studies........ one Yes - one No

It's getting hopeless... but you cannot go back and start again !
I am going with the 2nd study. Si No Vac being useless against Omicron.

And finally some are starting to realize what I said back on day 1 , everyone will eventually get CV19.
With Omicron as contagious as the measles and no vaccine that kills the virus, it is virtually inevitable.
 

william webster

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I am getting on with it Windy
I get out & about regularly...... Christmas with family.... fly back to DR...

Just behave- observe the protocols.... life is what it is
 
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Research findings
The findings show that two doses of either Comirnaty or CoronaVac vaccines provide very poor virus killing (neutralising) antibody responses against Omicron.
The findings also show that a third dose of Comirnaty vaccine given to those who received two doses of either Comirnaty or CoronaVac provides protective levels of protective antibody against the Omicron variant; while a third dose of CoronaVac given to those who received two previous doses of CoronaVac does not provide adequate levels of protective antibody.

Professor David Hui urged those eligible but who have not received two doses of vaccine to get vaccinated as a matter of urgency, ‘The transmissibility of Omicron variant means that if the virus started spreading in Hong Kong, unvaccinated people who are highest risk of severe disease - older age or underlying diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, will rapidly at high risk.’ He pointed out that the reduced severity of Omicron epidemics in South Africa and United Kingdom was being reported from vaccinated or previously infected (in South Africa) populations. Hospitals in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in affected countries are rapidly getting filled with unvaccinated people.

‘Those who had received two doses of either Comirnaty or CoronaVac should get a third dose of Comirnaty vaccine around six months after their second dose of vaccine to achieve optimal protection against Omicron variant,’ remarked Professor Malik Peiris.
 

william webster

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Yessir..... that was me - 6mo later #3

And I survived a trial by fire this week... in a house of Omicron.....

Last sentences of paragraphs #1 & #3 are conflicting -- seems to me

The record low case count in the DR are hard to explain if you believe the study......lowest death rate in the world, article says
 

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I am getting on with it Windy
I get out & about regularly...... Christmas with family.... fly back to DR...

Just behave- observe the protocols.... life is what it is

When you say that you arrived last Friday, do you mean the 17th or the 10th?
Did the family discover they had contracted omicron by way of testing?
Just trying to nail down the timeline of the incubation period.
Was the whole family required to quarantine and is that why you moved in with them?
Sorry for all the questions but, I'm a detail kind of person.
Thanks for sharing details of your omicron experience.
It brings it all a little closer to home.
Hope the family is well and truly recovered.
Stay safe.
 

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I am going with the 2nd study. Si No Vac being useless against Omicron.

And finally some are starting to realize what I said back on day 1 , everyone will eventually get CV19.
With Omicron as contagious as the measles and no vaccine that kills the virus, it is virtually inevitable.
I am going to go with real world outcomes which involve millions of people not petri dishes and, so far, The DR and South America are doing better than Europe and others.
 

william webster

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Fly

17th I arrived...... son-in-law had been sick since night of the 10th.... contracted it the 8th at his office party....many people sick from that party.

SIL was tested on the Monday afetr the weekend - confirmed Omicron
Rest of the family - daughter / wife got it a few days later.... then the 22mo old

Yes - they all quarantined , I visited... Fri nite arrival and 3x a day Sat/Sun/Mon - dinner together every nite
The women were clear by Monday - I moved in Tuesday and have been fine
I nevr quarantined per se but I kept to myself pretty much

Yes, thank you .... all recovered

I fly back Monday
Just read that masks on an plane are useless against Omicron
 

william webster

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Research findings
The findings show that two doses of either Comirnaty or CoronaVac vaccines provide very poor virus killing (neutralising) antibody responses against Omicron.
The findings also show that a third dose of Comirnaty vaccine given to those who received two doses of either Comirnaty or CoronaVac provides protective levels of protective antibody against the Omicron variant; while a third dose of CoronaVac given to those who received two previous doses of CoronaVac does not provide adequate levels of protective antibody.

Professor David Hui urged those eligible but who have not received two doses of vaccine to get vaccinated as a matter of urgency, ‘The transmissibility of Omicron variant means that if the virus started spreading in Hong Kong, unvaccinated people who are highest risk of severe disease - older age or underlying diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, will rapidly at high risk.’ He pointed out that the reduced severity of Omicron epidemics in South Africa and United Kingdom was being reported from vaccinated or previously infected (in South Africa) populations. Hospitals in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in affected countries are rapidly getting filled with unvaccinated people.

‘Those who had received two doses of either Comirnaty or CoronaVac should get a third dose of Comirnaty vaccine around six months after their second dose of vaccine to achieve optimal protection against Omicron variant,’ remarked Professor Malik Peiris.

Windy - read up on T cells

Antibodies come in two forms and the important form is the neutralizing antibody that sticks to the spike and prevents body cell infection. Antibodies dont kill. T cells kill.
A lab test of antibodies does not determine how many are the sticky type.
Real world data is needed.
 

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.it can even make people believe that it s doing something that it is not.


So why did the DR stop using Si No Vac............or more importantly why did so many people in the DR refuse it and demand pfizer or moderna or?............

Country after country.

The answer of course is.............it really in reality is not that good................or the world would be beating a path to it and bypassing everything else.

Placebo like effects are powerful psychologically............that is for sure....it can even make people believe that it s doing something that it is not.


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Sinovac hahahahahaha. Selling snake oil and DR bought it and tried to convince its citizens to…go for it. This is a tragedy…
 

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Australia after being locked downed "forever" over CV19, has realized lockdowns don't work and cannot work against Omicron and everyone has to take personal responsibility while going forward and living with CV1(


Reuters Videos

Australian PM says no Xmas lockdown​


Wed, December 22, 2021, 3:33 AM


Australia is grappling with the more transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus as restrictions ease ahead of the Christmas holidays after higher vaccination levels were reached.
Even as daily infections surge to record tallies, hospitalisation and death rates remain low compared with those seen during a wave of cases from the Delta wave and Morrison said there would be no more lockdowns.
Morrison insisted that limiting the spread of the virus comes down to personal responsibility. No national mandatory rule to wear masks indoors would be introduced, although it would be "highly recommended," he said at a news conference in Canberra.
 

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Windy - read up on T cells

Antibodies come in two forms and the important form is the neutralizing antibody that sticks to the spike and prevents body cell infection. Antibodies dont kill. T cells kill.
A lab test of antibodies does not determine how many are the sticky type.
Real world data is needed.
I have read up EXTENSIVELY on CV19 Including all of the "cells". Thanks..

Australia just realized it is time to move on, antibodies T, B and other cells notwithstanding.
 

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Sinovac hahahahahaha. Selling snake oil and DR bought it and tried to convince its citizens to…go for it. This is a tragedy…
That snake oil opened up the Dominican Republic as well an any in the World today. If you are here you know that, and if not you know squat.......................
 
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william webster

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For those not as well informed as Windy....

It's the T cells that clobber Omicron..... not antibodies.

mRNA is strong on antibodies..... Sinovac strong on T & B cells

As - Yes Sky - Rep Dom doing as well as any place in the world right now--- below 5%, daily and 4 week average
 

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Problem is Europe is barely past 50% vax rate.. take Canada’s rate and results huge difference on delta..
Let's compare Canada with the DR. Canada currently has 50,896 cases/1M - the DR has 37,488/1M. The death rate in Canada is 788/1M. In the DR, it's 384/1M. Looking at the death rate as a percentage of cases, the death rate among cases is 50% higher in Canada than in the DR. Today, Canada reported a record high number of cases - about 40% higher than the previous high. I don't think this is any time for Canada to be tooting it's horn.
 
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