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AstraZeneca is losing its credibility with each hiccup – this time lower the efficacy by 3% – https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/24/covid-vaccine-astrazeneca-issues-updated-phase-3-trial-data.html
“The company now says its vaccine is 76% effective in protecting against symptomatic cases of virus. A release issued on Monday reported a symptomatic efficacy rate of 79%. The updated report maintains that the shot is 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization.”
All these variants are already an issue. Variants happen as you create a breeding ground – therefore letting other countries not solve their issue will lead to world problem unless you isolate that country. Now we have double mutant variant – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56517495
“A new "double mutant" variant of the coronavirus has been detected from samples collected in India.
Scientists are checking if the variant, where two mutations come together in the same virus, may be more infectious or less affected by vaccines.”
“The government said that an analysis of the samples collected from the western state of Maharashtra showed "an increase in the fraction of samples with the E484Q and L452R mutations" compared with December last year.
"Such [double] mutations confer immune escape and increased infectivity," the health ministry said in a statement.”
“scientists say reinfections will be very mild compared to primary infections in people who are vaccinated or who recovered already from an earlier case of Covid-19.
But if the virus can use reinfection to spread, then it would be "penetrating" herd immunity, says Dr Kamil. (Herd immunity happens when a large portion of a community becomes immune to a disease through vaccination or through the mass spread of the disease.)”
In the end its about getting healthy now. A metric for good health is 40 push ups in one sitting – right now I am at 35. Got to get better myself – https://bestlifeonline.com/push-ups-heart-risk-news/
“firefighters who could do 11 push-ups or more saw a significant risk reduction; they were 64 percent less likely to develop heart disease than those who maxed out at 10.”
“the men who could knock out more than 40 push-ups were 96 percent less likely to develop heart disease a decade later than the sub-10 group.”
US death jump to almost 1500 – confirmation very high along with Brazil
Confirm – India moving into another waver – Brazil continues to be in a steady rise. Europe still not in a clear new wave.
Something going on NY – huge jump in confirmation and deaths
NY changes all centered around NYC
NYC counties all big jump in confirmation. LA still lead in deaths
Pace of vaccination has stopped rising.
