Pfizer is working on a vaccine specifically for the Omicron variant.
U.S. Covid deaths are now averaging 2,400 per day. Not quite approaching the levels seen last winter, but getting there.
It often takes a foreign perspective on the U.S. to really nail down what has gone wrong with federal policy. The British Financial Times is to be commended for providing such a clear perspective. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1486353742597292034
Joshua, with regard to our discussion here yesterday about giving up your cellphone, will you still be able to post on the blogs as often as you always have?
Also, what are your thoughts about the Pfizer vaccine specifically for Omicron? Will that be realistic?
Yes, I never use my cellphone to post anything. My cellphone doesn’t even have internet capability.
I don’t like the idea of an Omicron-specific vaccine. Seems like a money-grab to me. There will be other variants, and, as even the Pfizer CEO said, it’s not feasible to be boosting all the time or administering variant-specific vaccines all the time. Better to develop one that can apply to most if not all variants. Here, the message should be – the vaccine does NOT significantly reduce transmission risk, but DOES very significantly reduce risk of severe disease.
I quite agree. Glad that you will still be posting as always! 🙂
Also, my old flip phone (c. 2002) actually did have internet capability but I never figured out how to use it.
I think my flip phone can access the internet, but I also don’t know how to do it. I’m kind of a clutz when it comes to devices. My daughter tried to teach me how to use her smartphone, and I failed the test miserably. On my flip phone I can’t even add a contact number. I’ve been told how to do it, and tried to follow the steps (my daughter patiently added contacts to my phone), but simply can’t. I was given a shuffle iPod many years ago and tried to operate it, but can’t. And so I gave it away.
Nothing to be embarrassed about Joshua as I’m not really all that far ahead of you compared to the young folks. Your daughter could still teach me a few more things I’m sure. 🙂
I have Covid-19. Symptomatic since Sunday night. Was in denial for a couple of days, also hoping the very persistent cough, headache, fatigue, and rough throat would go away. Alas. When my daughter called and said “Dad, you sound like you’re a 3-pack a day guy” and I started wheezing today – it’s hit my bronchi pretty bad – I tested using a rapid antigen test.
So sorry about that Joshua. Get well soon.
Thanks, Philip. I think I’ve had Covid several times, but just couldn’t test before. Now I can.
Sipping hot tea. That’s reducing the wheezing and coughing, which is good.
Also, thinking of the long chain of events that connect me to the first case of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan.
What a brutal week this has been in terms of the health of several friends of mine.
My friend who has liver cancer has only “days” left. It’s happened that fast. He started feeling very unwell a week before Christmas. I’m gutted. He’s a man in his 60s.
My ex-wife’s best friend’s husband in the Netherlands – who I knew fairly well – died of pancreatic cancer last week. He was in his 60s.
Another friend of my ex-wife will be losing her husband on Friday. He has ALS and several other serious conditions, which have reduced his quality of life to nothing. He will undergo euthanasia (this is allowed in the Netherlands, under a strict set of conditions). He is in his 60s.
All I can say is, don’t take anything for granted. Our days on this earth are precious.
Joshua – I am so very sorry to hear about all of this as well as your case of Covid-19. I will keep you in my thoughts.
C-19 for 1-27 is ready.
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Pfizer is working on a vaccine specifically for the Omicron variant.
U.S. Covid deaths are now averaging 2,400 per day. Not quite approaching the levels seen last winter, but getting there.
It often takes a foreign perspective on the U.S. to really nail down what has gone wrong with federal policy. The British Financial Times is to be commended for providing such a clear perspective.
https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1486353742597292034
Joshua, with regard to our discussion here yesterday about giving up your cellphone, will you still be able to post on the blogs as often as you always have?
Also, what are your thoughts about the Pfizer vaccine specifically for Omicron? Will that be realistic?
Yes, I never use my cellphone to post anything. My cellphone doesn’t even have internet capability.
I don’t like the idea of an Omicron-specific vaccine. Seems like a money-grab to me. There will be other variants, and, as even the Pfizer CEO said, it’s not feasible to be boosting all the time or administering variant-specific vaccines all the time. Better to develop one that can apply to most if not all variants. Here, the message should be – the vaccine does NOT significantly reduce transmission risk, but DOES very significantly reduce risk of severe disease.
I quite agree. Glad that you will still be posting as always! 🙂
Also, my old flip phone (c. 2002) actually did have internet capability but I never figured out how to use it.
I think my flip phone can access the internet, but I also don’t know how to do it. I’m kind of a clutz when it comes to devices. My daughter tried to teach me how to use her smartphone, and I failed the test miserably. On my flip phone I can’t even add a contact number. I’ve been told how to do it, and tried to follow the steps (my daughter patiently added contacts to my phone), but simply can’t. I was given a shuffle iPod many years ago and tried to operate it, but can’t. And so I gave it away.
Nothing to be embarrassed about Joshua as I’m not really all that far ahead of you compared to the young folks. Your daughter could still teach me a few more things I’m sure. 🙂
I have Covid-19. Symptomatic since Sunday night. Was in denial for a couple of days, also hoping the very persistent cough, headache, fatigue, and rough throat would go away. Alas. When my daughter called and said “Dad, you sound like you’re a 3-pack a day guy” and I started wheezing today – it’s hit my bronchi pretty bad – I tested using a rapid antigen test.
So sorry about that Joshua. Get well soon.
Thanks, Philip. I think I’ve had Covid several times, but just couldn’t test before. Now I can.
Sipping hot tea. That’s reducing the wheezing and coughing, which is good.
Also, thinking of the long chain of events that connect me to the first case of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan.
What a brutal week this has been in terms of the health of several friends of mine.
My friend who has liver cancer has only “days” left. It’s happened that fast. He started feeling very unwell a week before Christmas. I’m gutted. He’s a man in his 60s.
My ex-wife’s best friend’s husband in the Netherlands – who I knew fairly well – died of pancreatic cancer last week. He was in his 60s.
Another friend of my ex-wife will be losing her husband on Friday. He has ALS and several other serious conditions, which have reduced his quality of life to nothing. He will undergo euthanasia (this is allowed in the Netherlands, under a strict set of conditions). He is in his 60s.
All I can say is, don’t take anything for granted. Our days on this earth are precious.
Joshua – I am so very sorry to hear about all of this as well as your case of Covid-19. I will keep you in my thoughts.
C-19 for 1-27 is ready.