COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)
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I feel like I'm the only person still wearing a mask when I go shopping these days. I'm in california, so I can only imagine what's it's like in other states.
Words can't express how much hatred I have towards trumpf for politicizing this virus.
I was playing basketball with one of my friends and he texted me yesterday morning that he tested positive
Hopefully he wasn't contagious as he was testing negative all week. He just came back from Vegas, LA, and somewhere else so he got it on his travels no doubt.
If I stay infection-free, this'll be the 3rd time I was in close proximity to someone who tested positive a day after being with me. My sister in 2020 got it from her job and I was with her the night before she tested positive. Back in May, I was with my co-worker in the same closed room for 2 hours... and then a day later she tested positive but me and my boss didn't.
It's crazy.
Been over a week and no symptoms or positive tests
My friend tested negative twice earlier this week
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Wait… oh hell nah. Didn’t the CDC tell people to stop wearing masks, social distancing and quarantining? now they’re saying it could get bad again and people are still dying?
King_Kamala61
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Wear ya masks yall. Stock up on the N95s...gon be a long Fall/Winter
Republicans and Blacks most hesitant to get COVID vaccine, PSU spatial analysis finds
Vaccine hesitancy remains a public health challenge that cuts across the country as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, but Republican voters and Black people are among the most hesitant to get the shot, according to a new Portland State University study.
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NEWS RELEASE 29-AUG-2022
Republicans and Blacks most hesitant to get COVID vaccine, PSU spatial analysis finds
Peer-Reviewed PublicationPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Vaccine hesitancy remains a public health challenge that cuts across the country as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, but Republican voters and Black people are among the most hesitant to get the shot, according to a new Portland State University study.
Arun Pallathadka, a Ph.D. student in PSU's Earth, Environment and Society's program, and Heejun Chang, professor of geography, conducted a spatial analysis of vaccination data at the county level across the U.S. to identify the social, ecological and technological factors impacting vaccine rates.
Among the findings:
- Vaccine hesitancy is strong in many Republican counties across the U.S., especially in the Mountain States, Southwest and the South, which other research has shown to be fueled in part by the misinformation spread by politicians. In the Northeast, however, many Republican counties in the Virginias and New Jersey as well in New England states such as Maine and Vermont show higher vaccination rates, suggesting libertarian-leaning or moderate Republicans may differ on the issue of COVID-19 vaccines.
- Vaccine hesitancy is strong among the Black population, particularly in the South, Mountain States, Southwest as well as the Pacific Northwest. Prior research has shown that a combination of lack of healthcare access, medical racism and misinformation has led to that hesitancy.
- The most highly educated demographics are more likely to get vaccinated, and this trend is strong in many urbanized parts of the U.S., while populations with lower educational attainment show vaccine hesitancy in many of the relatively less urbanized counties in the South, Southwest and Mountain States.
- Populations with access to broadband internet and health facilities per 10,000 residents are also positively linked to vaccination rates.
"Public health officials and policymakers need to recognize that space matters to COVID-19 vaccination efforts," Pallathadka said. "This study demonstrates how spatially explicitly health policies are required to boost vaccination rates, especially targeted towards significant local factors we have emphasized in the study."
The findings were published in Environmental Research: Health. Daikwon Han, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Texas A&M, is also a co-author of the study.
@bnew do you recommend getting the modified covid booster shot in the fall/winter or would it be ok to just get the current one already available? The modified version hasn't been tested on humans from what I read. What are your thoughts on this?
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if by modified you mean the omnicron vaccine, then yes I will be waiting for that.
testing is currently underway.
Kyle C. Barker
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All of the variants have the same t cell epitopes but it certainly can't hurt to get a vaccine that addresses multiple variants.
What are you personally going to do? Wait for the new modified booster and get that one?
I got my first booster back in December 2021. What month should I get my second booster?
Kyle C. Barker
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I'll probably just take the original moderna formula around the holiday season since that's when cases sky rocket.
Truth is, if you've been vaccinated for over 6 months then your memory b cells have already gone through somatic hypermutation to deal with variants you haven't even seen yet. Getting another vaccination will activate those same memory b cells. That's probably good enough to deal with SARS COV 2 since it only goes through antigenic drift (as opposed to influenza which goes through antigenic shift thus truly allowing it evade the immune system).
Regardless, all of the variants have the same t cell epitopes.