Dr. C wonders WTF is going on... something I noted in a previous blogpost.
.and the vaccine protection wears off quickly, but the lower death rate suggests that vaccines do decrease hospitalizations and deaths, which is important for high risk folks like myself.
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his summary is that with the milder omicron strain and the high rate of immunity from omicron and previous infections and the vaccines, and the failure of any of the vaccines to stop the virus for more than a few weeks, that the aim to vaccinate everyone is a bit exaggerated given the data.
and he does comment on anecdotal reports of slow covid like symptoms after mild infections, but doesn't cite data.
The good news of course is that immunity from previous vaccine shots, or from previous infections, and the presence of a milder omicron strain means that covid is no longer a huge killer of folks, just an ordinary disease that kills mainly high risk folks and alas a few people who are low risk.
Medically, the boosters for the elderly and high risk should continue but I keep reading over the top suggestions even in western countries about vaccine passports and this suggests either ignorance of the new data on the evolution of the virus, or a power grab using the virus as an excuse.
The irony of the shutdown in China is that their response is draconian, yet the dirty little secret is that they are not being aggressive at vaccinating the elderly.
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update:
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this site reports a Philippine envoy has died in quarantine:
Don't ask me.
After the huge political rallies like the one in our town that I reported on two days ago, the Philippines is expecting a huge increase in cases of covid (this surge should hit after the election).
Joy was in Manila last week and said that there is a lot of illness around. When I asked if it was covid, she said no because negative tests, but did not give details.
what one has to realize is that other things can kill you beside covid:
we are seeing some Dengue (10 thousand cases diagnosed between Jan and March: but most mild cases of course never get tested. This is about half of what was reported last years at this time).
and there are reports of a couple cases of measles, and the usual virus infections that go around in the hot season.
Sigh.
in the meanwhile, the election is the big news here.
lots of editorials worrying about election fraud. This is an ongoing problem here. Usually the teachers count the votes and so they are trusted, but there have been questions about the ballots and the electronic voting machines.
But luckily we don't see evidence of any outside country trying to interfere with the election;
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