SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

So the volunteer doesn't know what he/she is getting, I wonder if the placebo has an irritant to cause pain at the site, like a real vaccine normally does.

 

But if there is no pain within a day or two, can you assume you got the placebo?

 

ok, rhino.

 

For me, flu shot pain is gone before then.

 

I'm not so sure. MUCH of what is happening right now tends to refute that theory.

 

YMMV.
I don't remember EVER having any injections site pain from ANY vaccine......over about 70 years.

 

is it too late for the ceo to sell their stock?

 

Someone at CNN doesn't understand different temperature scales:

"Moderna's vaccine can be kept at minus 20 degrees Celsius, which is about minus 68 agrees Fahrenheit."

That is a giant disconnect. Does anyone have a better temperature claim?

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OK, one item updated, while another has not:

"CORRECTION: A previous version of this post misstated the temperature the Moderna vaccine can be kept. It's minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit."

 

Hoarding here seems to be have been creeping up last week, then shot up yesterday right after our governor's press conference tightening restrictions:

"In announcing new statewide restrictions aimed at reducing the spike in COVID-19 cases, Gov. Jay Inslee on Sunday urged people not to hoard “supplies.”

“Buying up everything really hurts everybody,” Inslee said, “and there’s no necessity of it right now.”

But while the man didn’t specifically call out toilet paper, the toilet paper sure did call to shoppers.

At some Seattle stores on Sunday, in a throwback to earlier days of the pandemic, people were already buying up stacks of bathroom tissue, which seems to turn to spun gold when things look grim.

Costco ran out of the stuff over the weekend, ..."

Toilet paper shelves again left bare, as grocery store shoppers worry about Washington restrictions | The Seattle Times

Did March's hoarders already run low, and then not think to keep their stashes reasonably well stocked when retail supplies recovered?

 

Hoarding supplies hurts everyone.

 

Nevermind the headline, the story indicates that yesterday's local hoarding run seems to have tapered off today, with shorter lines and stores well restocked overnight:
Rise in panic buying at local stores as Washington tightens COVID-19 restrictions | KOMO

That may suggest that most of March's hoarders didn't let their home stashes run low this time.

 

same here. our local supermarket delivery is beginning to be swamped with orders as people get more nervous about venturing out.
lines for free covid tests are overwhelming faciliries, and police are making people go home.

it is an amazing phenomena to watch, as the virus spreads, and all authoroty of every stripe is at a loss as to what to do, and people are too dumb to protect themselves.

 

More encouraging news that immunity to SARS-CoV-2 should be much longer lasting than the usual circulating common cold strains. This and other data continuing to be collected suggest a minimum of several years of immunity:

Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 assessed for greater than six months after infection | bioRxiv

 

could have bought it for 20 bucks at the start of covid

 

Thank you for the info.

As someone who has fully recovered from COVID-19 (infected in August), I'm not sure if I will need to be vaccinated whenever the vaccine becomes available. Anyone seen any info on this specific scenario?