COVID-19 >> New Drug Activity & VACCINE TRACKING!!

[Anonymous]

1 case does not an example make & Mild is a relative term



+  as soon as one shows symptoms their contacts are traced even before test results are in



She does have the best record for fewest cases per x persons in all major areas of Canada or most anywhere in the world for that  matter .



She used the analogy of standing on a street corner testing people vs. following up on contacts to stop further spread

Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and Japan are lower than BC..



They use both extensive rapid testing and contact tracing..



But, they closed borders before the virus spread unlike North America.

[cc]

By anywhere, I sure didn't mean Asia ... should have added, anywhere except S E Asia  



In fact they didn't trust contacts, they tracked them



Mt point was that BC decided to put forces onto tracking contacts vs. testing the general (not ill) population

[Anonymous]

By anywhere, I sure didn't mean Asia ... should have added, anywhere except S E Asia  

The virus already had considerable spread by the time North America and Europe acted..



This is why states like Michigan while going on three weeks into a hard lock down and with extensive testing and contact tracing is getting 10,000 cases per day.

[cc]

By anywhere, I sure didn't mean Asia ... should have added, anywhere except S E Asia  

The virus already had considerable spread by the time North America and Europe acted..



This is why states like Michigan while going on three weeks into a hard lock down and with extensive testing and contact tracing is getting 10,000 cases per day.

Yes. Way to late getting going ... Many areas have too many cases and + many times too many contacts to track .. so tracking and nothing else works in those areas

[cc]

When I look at where our cases are, contact tracing is working well - it's only that "different" area where any method  is useless and where we are getting most of our cases (about 3/4 + in fact)

It people will not cooperate or can't, it will spread like crazy



And while my area is good, that area is too close for us to be comfortable



Even Vancouver and it's greater area is quite low

[Anonymous]

By anywhere, I sure didn't mean Asia ... should have added, anywhere except S E Asia  

The virus already had considerable spread by the time North America and Europe acted..



This is why states like Michigan while going on three weeks into a hard lock down and with extensive testing and contact tracing is getting 10,000 cases per day.

Yes. Way to late getting going ... Many areas have too many cases and + many times too many contacts to track .. so tracking and nothing else works in those areas

Like many other jusrisdictions across North America and Europe, our lock down, contact tracing and testing worked well, but it was around Thanksgiving everything fell apart .

[cc]

Yes, that was about when it took off .. in the higher population provinces

[Anonymous]

Even Theresa Tam admitted the 6 million doses set to arrive between January and March won't be enough to vaccinate everyone on the initial priority list developed by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization.

[Anonymous]

"Track 1 vaccines are likely to be delivered to Canadians at the height of the second wave of the pandemic and in the midst of the spring 2021 thaw— a period of heightened flood risk for many communities," Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance said.



That means sometime before the end of March 2021.



Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had himself said that more than half of Canadians could be vaccinated by September "if all goes to plan." Now the military is saying the country could "potentially" be vaccinated by the end of next year. It doesn't inspire confidence.

[Anonymous]

Moderna elixir has staying power: Data



OTTAWA — U.S. biotech firm Moderna says its vaccine is showing signs of producing lasting immunity to COVID-19 and that it will have as many as 125 million doses available by the end of March.



Moderna's messenger RNA vaccine is one of the first two Health Canada expects to approve, with at least 20 million doses guaranteed for Canadians.



Currently only 2 million doses are supposed to arrive in the first three months of 2021, but the company says it should have 15 million-25 million doses available for non-U.S. deliveries before the end of March.



Moderna has said Canada — the first country to sign a deal to buy its vaccine — will be getting doses from the company's first batches, but it's not yet clear whether Canada will receive more than 2 million doses in its first deliveries.

[Anonymous]

WHAT?



Pfizer CEO admits he is 'not certain' their COVID-19 shot will prevent vaccinated people from spreading the virus - as the firm cuts the number of doses it will ship this year



*Asked in a Dateline interview whether Pfizer's shot prevents transmission, CEO Albert Bourla said the firm is 'not certain about that'



*Its shot was 95% effective at preventing COVID-19 in trials but the firm did not test whether participants spread the virus



*It comes as Pfizer admitted it will not meet its goal of shipping 100 million doses  of its vaccine by year-end will instead  ship just  50 million globally

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9018547/Pfizer-CEO-not-certain-covid-shot-prevents-transmission.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... ssion.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9018547/Pfizer-CEO-not-certain-covid-shot-prevents-transmission.html

[cc]

Whoa Down - It's still early and there is only so much data yet



There is no reason to believe that as actuality, it's just an off the cuff answer to a reporter's question because that element has not been tested for yet



It assumes "a possibility" that one vaccinated can actually get it .. a strange sounding allowance  with nothing to back it up .. but to date there is no data to refute or support it scientifically .. but enough to charge up out fkn press who want failure



Don't us let the press do more damage .. they have already screwed society enough already

[Anonymous]

Whoa Down - It's still early and there is only so much data yet



There is no reason to believe that as actuality, it's just an off the cuff answer to a reporter's question because that element has not been tested for yet



It assumes "a possibility" that one vaccinated can actually get it .. a strange sounding allowance  with nothing to back it up .. but to date there is no data to refute or support it scientifically .. but enough to charge up out fkn press who want failure



Don't us let the press do more damage .. they have already screwed society enough already

That's true cc, but I took it for granted that not being able to transmit the virus was as much a part of a successful vaccine as not being able to catch it.

[cc]

Yes, I did also .. and still do.



 I posted it mainly to demonstrate how the press will take nothing and make it into something .. and further, always  a negative something

[Anonymous]

Yes, I did also .. and still do.



 I posted it mainly to demonstrate how the press will take nothing and make it into something .. and further, always  a negative something

I know. And I'm not worried about it. Like Fash said, it raised a question most people, I made assumptions about what the vaccine would do.