Once again.... VAERS is a one-way reporting database -- it's sole purpose is to collect data for investigation. People can enter whatever they desire into it -- so garbage in and the garbage can be read back by users. The purpose is not to be accurate but merely to collect information VAERS database is not a "shit one" -- it is working as intended as a report entry system. Sadly many anti-vaxxers have abused it for political purposes.
This demonstrates Biden's incompetence and complete failure. https://www.latimes.com/california/...unty-sees-alarming-spike-in-coronavirus-cases L.A. County sees big surge in coronavirus: 2,551 new cases in one day
'New science is worrisome': CDC recommends wearing masks indoors, again. What that means for vaccinated Americans. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-wear-masks-again-what-that-means/5385279001/ The CDC's decision Tuesday to reverse course and urge even fully vaccinated Americans to wear masks indoors in areas of high coronavirus transmission isn't likely to crush community spread, experts say – but it might ratchet up pressure on the unvaccinated and encourage businesses and schools to implement mask mandates. The CDC is also now recommending universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students and visitors inside schools from kindergarten to 12th grade, regardless of vaccination status. That aligns closely with guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which recommended this month that anyone older than 2 be required to wear a mask in school. The CDC and the AAP are still urging that children return to full-time in-person learning in the fall. "The delta variant is showing every day its willingness to outsmart us and be an opportunist," CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a briefing Tuesday. "In rare occasions, some vaccinated people infected with the delta variant after vaccination may be contagious and spread the virus to others. ... This new science is worrisome and unfortunately warrants an update to our recommendations." According to the new science, she said, fully vaccinated people with breakthrough infections from the delta variant have a similar viral load to infections in unvaccinated people. That means the fully vaccinated are more likely to spread the virus with the delta variant than the original coronavirus. "If you have a vaccinated individual who is in a place with substantial or high transmission – and they're contacting a lot of people – 1 in 20 or 1 in 10 could possibly lead to a breakthrough infection" even with a vaccine that's 90 to 95% effective," Walensky said. The goal behind the guidance may be to protect both the fully vaccinated and the unvaccinated, health experts say, especially vaccinated people who may be immunocompromised and children under 12 who aren’t yet eligible to get their shot. But the reality is there’s hardly any transmission among fully vaccinated people to truly affect community spread, they say. “There isn’t a whole lot of benefit that’s going to be felt by this. … We have good data that vaccinated people don’t spread COVID as efficiently as unvaccinated people,” Dr. Eric Cioe-Peña, director of global health at Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, New York, told USA TODAY. He suspects the new recommendations may be more successful in getting unvaccinated Americans to wear masks in public and empowering businesses and schools to implement mask mandates without requiring proof of vaccination. The CDC’s recommendations now also align more closely with local health departments that already have reimposed mask mandates because of rising coronavirus cases, said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor and infectious disease expert at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. “This gives more of an opportunity for local health departments to not look as though they’re doing something different than what the CDC is suggesting,” he said. “There was always an option for locals to make that determination, but now it’s much more explicit.” The CDC’s announcement comes a few days after Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief COVID-19 medical adviser, said the agency was reexamining mask recommendations amid surging cases triggered by the highly transmissible delta variant. “We’re going in the wrong direction,” he told CNN on Sunday. The delta variant accounts for more than 80% of COVID-19 cases across the United States, according to the CDC. Johns Hopkins University data shows daily cases are nearly doubled what they were last summer, and wearing a mask is an extra layer of protection to prevent another fall surge, said Dr. Ilan Shapiro, medical director of health education and wellness at AltaMed Health Services, a Los Angeles network of community health centers. “We already know how that movie ends,” he said. “Right now, we’re trying to protect every human being that we have around us (regardless of vaccination status), as the delta variant has proven to us that it’s a very effective jumper.” Health experts urge fully vaccinated people to consult their local health department websites for mask guidance and vaccination rates. If rates are below 70%, they recommend wearing a face covering in indoor public places or crowded outdoor gatherings. The No. 1 recommendation, however, will always to be to get vaccinated, Cioe-Peña said. “We have the tools and we’re one of the only countries in the world that can end the pandemic, and we’re just choosing not to,” he said. “We’re choosing to extend our pandemic, and that’s frustrating.” For those who are already vaccinated, Schaffner urges them to be flexible and patient as CDC recommendations are likely to change again with fluctuating vaccination rates and coronavirus transmission. “The virus is in charge, and we have to respond to what the virus is doing in our communities,” he said. “Some people would think of that as a step back, but when the opposing team makes a lot of points, you have to change your defense.”
We can thank the anti-vaxxers for this... CDC: The coronavirus could be 'just a few mutations' away from evading vaccines https://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-covid-19-could-few-mutations-away-from-evading-vaccines-2021-7 The coronavirus is "just a few mutations potentially away" from evading current COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC said. Coronavirus cases have been surging in the US, fueled by the highly transmissible Delta variant. The more transmission, the more opportunity for the virus to replicate and gain dangerous mutations. The coronavirus could be just a few mutations away from evading existing COVID-19 vaccines, according to the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "These vaccines operate really well in protecting us from severe disease and death, but the big concern is that the next variant that might emerge — just a few mutations potentially away — could potentially evade our vaccines," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in a Tuesday press briefing. She added, though that "right now, fortunately we are not there," since current COVID-19 vaccines "operate really well in protecting us from severe disease and death." Coronavirus cases, fueled by the highly transmissible Delta variant, have been surging in the US and across the globe — largely among those who are unvaccinated. In the last month, the US's seven-day average of new daily cases has quintupled: from 11,887 on June 26 to 56,635 on Monday. The CDC announced Tuesday that people infected with Delta — vaccinated or unvaccinated — have higher viral loads (meaning they carry greater amounts of virus) compared to other versions of coronavirus. That means even vaccinated people could pass the virus along to others similarly to how unvaccinated people do. More transmission means more mutations All viruses change over time as they replicate inside an infected host. So countless versions of the coronavirus are circulating, each separated by a handful of tiny changes in its genetic code. Many of these have no real public-health impact, but the more people a virus infects, the more chances it has to mutate into a new, dangerous variant. "The biggest concern at the moment is just the sheer number of people that have the virus and therefore the sheer number of variants that are being generated," Andrew Read, who studies the evolution of infectious diseases at Pennsylvania State University, previously told Insider. "Some of those might be the jackpot which are even fitter than Delta." No coronavirus variant spotted so far is more concerning than Delta, which was first identified in India this winter. World Health Organization officials recently called Delta the "fittest" variant to date, since it spreads more easily and may lead to more severe cases and an increased risk of hospitalization than other variants like Alpha, the variant discovered in the UK. What's more, emerging research indicates that a single vaccine dose doesn't hold up as well against Delta as it does against other coronavirus strains. Recent Public Health England analyses found that two doses of Pfizer's vaccine were 88% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 from Delta, while a single shot was just 33% effective. That's compared to 95% efficacy against the original strain, with 52% after one shot. Even though Delta is already the most transmissible variant, Read said it could still acquire combinations of mutations that make it even better at spreading — what he called a "Delta-plus" variant. It's also possible that two separate variants — Delta and Alpha, for instance — could combine their mutations to produce an even more infectious strain. The reason a future variant could evade vaccines is that the shots all target the coronavirus' spike protein, the sharp, crown-like bumps on the surface of the virus that help it invade our cells. If multiple, game-changing mutations alter characteristics of that protein, the antibodies induced by the vaccines might not be able to recognize or properly fight the new variant. Virologists call variations of a virus that slip past the immune defenses we've built "escape mutants." If the virus continues to spread and mutate rapidly, such escape mutants could be around the corner, Ravindra Gupta, a microbiology professor at the University of Cambridge, previously told Insider. "Full vaccine escape viruses, we're not necessarily that far away from them," he said.