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Apple to ask all employees to voluntarily report Covid vaccination status
designr said:dws-2 said:
What I've read on this is that vaccinated people who get a delta-variant "breakthrough" infection seem to be more likely to be asymptomatically infectious.
The protection of the vaccines from getting sick from Delta ranges anywhere from a low of about 35% (in other words, about 1/3, which is if three unvaccinated people get sick, then two vaccinated people get sick under the same conditions) to a high of about 80%. The range might be because of the differences in the populations being tested and the time since vaccination. For example, in Israel, the number is around 35%, maybe because it has been a long time since initial vaccination. In England, the protection is much better, maybe because they spaced out their shots more widely, and the time since people's second shot is much shorter.
What is confusing is that the CDC, until recently, was combining numbers from Delta and non-Delta covid, which incorrectly made the protection from the vaccine seem higher than it is. In general, the CDC has done a bad job of monitoring and updating when new information becomes available. They have also been really bad at communicating, making absolute statements one day, then changing it the next day. This is a fast changing situation, and communication should be clear about that uncertainty rather than state everything as a fact. -
Steve Wozniak says he may have been first coronavirus case in US [u]
steven n. said:I personally think my sister contacted it at CES (about 50,000 people from China) this year. 18 days after returning from Vegas, she got the worst case of the flu with serious respiratory issues. Because she was outside the (then) 14 day incubation period, it was “just the flu” ruled by the ER doctors. 6 weeks later she is still getting over it.
Shortly afterwards, I got a 4 day case of the flu which hit my muscles and joints something fierce. I was also at CES.I strongly suspect my sister got corona virus. Me? I don’t know.
i think it is WAY under-reported.
In fact, I wonder if total flu deaths will actually be lower than expected this year because people are actually practicing decent sanitation. It's difficult to know, but nine times out of 10, things are better than the media reports. Of course, there's always the outlier that everyone points to.