I think it’s the false marketing claim their after. The science is pretty settled, Vitamin D decency is linked to a persons susceptibility to the virus. But to claim it’s a cure? Yeah, that will get you in trouble. On your earlier post regarding D and Zinc, Zinc’s hard to get inside your cells, where you need it to help fight viral replication. Add a ionophore like Quercetin. It’s a flavonoid found in many fruits and will help your body properly transport Zinc through the cell membrane.
"...There is a good reason why we have flu season and cold season in the winter. In cold, dry air when the virus leaves your mouth when you exhale it doesn’t start to die right away like it does in hot weather; it stays very much alive,” he said..." I bet that guy has 5 Ph.D in immunology, chemistry, physics, astrobiology, and parapsychology. Hell, throw in political science, because it's science, bitch! No. The Influenza virus is prevalent all year round. It is always around us. It encircles us. It binds the universe together, like The Force™. The reason we generally do not succumb to it during the warmer months is because our bodies are strong. Because we, as humans, are mammals. Warm-blooded. Our bodies use a certain amount of energy to perform certain functions. It requires heat energy to perform these functions. Well, in the winter months, when it gets really cols outside, our bodies consume a lot of energy just to maintain that temperature. There's an actual gland that regulates our body temp, you know. When, in the winter months, the body is trying to maintain it's temperature, it has less strength to fight off invading enemies, like virii.' During the summer, the body has no use for all this extra energy, so it sheds it through evaporation (sweating). The rest of the energy? Hah! A little Flu virus in there? We got this, G! Balance, man!
WHO official warns global herd immunity from COVID-19 won't happen until 2022 https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...rd-immunity-from-covid-wont-happen-until-2022 An official with the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that herd immunity from COVID-19 vaccines will not happen this year and physical distancing and mask wearing will need to continue into 2022. WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said the quick development of vaccines is a testament to scientists around the world, but cautioned that scaling the production on a global basis takes time. "The vaccines are going to come. They are going to go to all countries, but meanwhile we mustn't forget that there are measures that work," like masks and physical distancing, Swaminathan said during a press briefing Monday. "It's really important to remind people, both government as well as individuals, on the responsibilities and measures we need to practice for the rest of this year at least, because even as vaccines start protecting the most vulnerable, we're not going to achieve any levels of population immunity, herd immunity, in 2021," she said. Swaminathan noted that it will take a long time for the low- and middle-income countries to have enough doses to fully protect their populations. Herd immunity is a global issue, she said. "Even if it happens in a couple of pockets in a few countries, it's not going to protect people across the world," Swaminathan said. WHO senior adviser Bruce Aylward said the issue with low countries right now isn't the number of initial doses that will be available, but how quickly they can be given to health workers and other vulnerable people. Aylward said the WHO-backed COVAX initiative for low-income countries has ordered 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with options for 1 billion more. "The issue is not the lack of vaccines we are ordering, the crucial thing is the timing to get at least some of those doses early enough to protect those healthcare workers on the front lines in these countries, as well as the older populations and others who are at risk of dying," Aylward said. Aylward noted that virtually all the countries that have begun vaccinating people against COVID-19 are wealthy, like the U.S., Israel, Britain and China. Without cooperation from manufacturers though, the concern is those rich countries will stockpile all available vaccines, leaving the 92 lower- and lower-middle income nations that comprise COVAX without the ability to help their citizens. "Right now, we have an inequitable situation," Aylward said “We expect, and we have strong confidence that we should be able to begin vaccinating in February in these countries," Aylward added. "But we cannot do that on our own. We require the cooperation of vaccine manufacturers to prioritize deliveries to the COVAX facility."
The WHO needs to confront real issues related to vaccines beyond just declaring over and over that rich countries are getting them and the poor are not. It is all fine and necessary to point that out. No problem. The WHO is supposed to be working on that. But they should also be playing a leadership role in getting member countries to not engage in dirty dealing on vaccines whereby it is a bargaining tool for some other unrelated thing. Unfortunately, the WHO is a puppet of the Chinese who are right at the front of the line when it comes to dirty dealing. For example, the Chinese are trying to get Turkey to agree to an extradition treaty that would allow China to extradite Uyghur muslims who have fled China for various reasons and have gone to Turkey. Turkey does not want to send muslims back just to have them sent to the camps. So China is trying to sweeten the pot with more vaccine. That's some dirty arse shiite right theya. And if someone points out the U.S. doing that, I will say "there is some more dirty-arsed shiite right there."
A guide to the new COVID-19 testing rules for travel to the US The CDC will require preflight testing as Covid-19 cases continue to soar and new, more infectious strains of the virus emerge The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ordered that all travelers flying to the U.S. from abroad will have to show proof of negative Covid-19 tests before boarding their flight starting Jan. 26. The CDC said preflight testing is necessary as Covid-19 cases continue to soar and new, more contagious strains of the virus emerge around the world. Who does it affect? The order applies to everyone traveling to the U.S. on international flights, including U.S. citizens. You will need to show negative test results even if you are flying on a private jet or charter flight. There are exceptions for children under age 2, airline crews, and federal law-enforcement agents and members of the military traveling for duty. What countries are covered? All of them. Passengers need to show proof of a negative test when traveling to the U.S. from any country, including Mexico and the Caribbean. Airlines can seek temporary waivers for certain countries where testing supplies are inadequate, but carriers haven’t yet said which countries might fall into this category. The universal testing requirement goes into effect Jan. 26. People arriving from the United Kingdom already have been subject to similar testing requirements that went into effect in December following the emergence of a new coronavirus strain there. What kind of test will I need, and when? What happens if I don’t have my results? U.S.-bound air travelers must get tested no more than three days before flying and bring written or electronic proof of the results. Airlines can accept both PCR and rapid antigen tests. If you don’t have the documentation with you, airlines won’t allow you to board, according to the CDC’s order. Airlines are still working out the exact protocols they will use to check test results. Customers coming from the U.K. on United Airlines show test results in the lobby before security, but the details might not be the same for other countries, a United Airlines Holdings Inc. spokeswoman said. What if I have been vaccinated? Even if you have been vaccinated for Covid-19, you still will need to show proof of a negative test. What if I recently had Covid-19 and got better? If you have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past three months but no longer have symptoms, the CDC doesn’t recommend getting tested again. If you are in this group and have met the criteria to end isolation, the CDC says you can travel as long as you have written permission from a health-care provider or public-health official. Bring your positive test result and the doctor’s letter to show the airline in lieu of a negative test result. Does this mean the U.S. has lifted bans on most travel from Europe, the U.K. and other countries? Not at this point. Airlines have been pushing the government to drop those bans, especially now that testing requirements are going into effect. The government hasn’t taken any action on that though, so people who aren’t U.S. citizens or permanent residents can’t come to the U.S. from most of Europe, the U.K., Brazil, China and Iran. Likewise, many countries don’t allow travelers to enter from the U.S., or continue to impose lengthy quarantine requirements on arrival. https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/a-guide-to-the-new-covid-19-testing-rules-for-travel-to-the-us
More than 90,000 Americans could die of Covid-19 in next three weeks, CDC forecast shows https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html More than 38,000 Americans have died of Covid-19 in the first two weeks of the new year. Another 92,000 are projected to die from the virus over roughly the next three weeks, according to an ensemble forecast published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers are scary and reflect what public health experts have repeatedly warned: While the end is in sight -- with the help of ongoing Covid-19 vaccinations -- the nation is still facing challenging times ahead. Currently, more than 130,300 people are hospitalized with the virus, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project. In Pennsylvania, officials said the number of hospitalizations are nearing double the peak experienced during spring. Louisiana's governor said earlier this week the state was seeing a "huge spike" in infections and hospitalizations. And in Arizona, officials reported Tuesday record-high Covid-19 hospitalization and ICU numbers. Hundreds of thousands of infections are added to the country's tally every single day, with the US adding more than three million new reported infections since the start of the month. In Los Angeles County, about one in three residents has been infected with the virus since the pandemic's start, according to data published by county officials. Outbreaks have increased across workplaces as well as schools and daycare settings, they said. Echoing other leaders' warnings, the LA officials added they have "not yet fully seen the effect of transmission in the period from around Christmas to New Years." And with all eyes now turned to the nation's capital ahead of Inauguration Day, cases in Washington DC have never been higher. Right now, it's averaging more than 320 new cases every day -- about a 38% jump from the previous week. DC has reported a total of more than 32,600 Covid-19 cases since the pandemic's start, about 10% of which have been added in 2021.
"Trevor Bedford, expert in evolution of immunity and viruses, gives a 19-tweet thread (w/citations). His point: Covid went 10 months of normal mutation rates, then convergent evolution began to flourish in Sept. Spike protein variants also converge." Click to read the entire thread.
Interesting read and although not discussed...the United States is poorly performing in genetic testing of Covid-19...I'm not talking about testing for infections. I can't remember the country ranking but its was in the +60 range out of 193 countries. wrbtrader
Who could've seen this coming? Oh everyone, everyone paying attention saw this coming: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/mod...ave-to-live-with-the-coronavirus-forever.html Moderna CEO says the world will have to live with Covid ‘forever’ Stephane Bancel, CEO of Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna, warned Wednesday that the virus will be around “forever.” Public health officials and infectious disease experts have said there is a high likelihood that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease, meaning it will be present at all times, though likely at lower levels than it is now. “SARS-CoV-2 is not going away,” Bancel said during a panel discussion at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference.