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Which vaccine did he get? What are their ages? Hope your sister gets well soon.
I keep seeing articles about a 4th wave coming while at the same time areas are opening up more and more and eliminating rules and mandates.
Also see articles stating where a new vaccine will be needed soon. I suppose this is from new strains. Can't they repeat the same process to make the new vaccine? Will all of this just replace or join the annual flu and flu vaccine routine?
4th wave may be starting already. But, it seems like it's mostly in a few states so far.
On the overall country map, it's going up again. That would make it potentially the 4th wave.
Here on the map, you can view the per capita hot spots. Michigan really stands out, but other areas too. Just a few days ago it was a lot quieter on the map.
Looking at the state by state rolling averages, NY and Michigan are really standing out in a bad kind of way. A few other states are accellerating too. VT never had a lot of cases, but it looks like they're having their highest ever now.
Now the point about another vaccine, or perhaps yearly boosters is exactly due to variants. They can tailor these to other variants. Now, not sure if they'll need to do as many efficacy and safety studies (I'm not sure how they do that with the yearly flu shots). But, the bigger concern at first is getting enough people vaccinated to prevent more waves of infection. If you prevent waves of infections, globally, you then also minimize mutations, to make it easier to keep up with, as needed.
Right now, there would be arguments to make a tailored vaccine to combat the UK, South Africa, and Brazil variants... or B.1.1.7, B.1.351, and P.1, but not sure you could make one for all three. And you'd maybe only consider the ones that are the most dangerous, or easy to catch. Right now, the B.1.1.7 from the UK is the most prevalent one in the US. Not sure how many get tested for genome, though.
COVID-19 and Your Health
Symptoms, testing, what to do if sick, daily activities, and more.
www.cdc.gov
COVID-19 and Your Health
Symptoms, testing, what to do if sick, daily activities, and more.
www.cdc.gov
Pfizer is already working on booster shots for the variants.. they're also just looking at the idea of just giving a third current vaccine shot possibly helping. Looks like they are targeting the B.1.351 (South Africa) variant first. I think it has the higher death rate, so that makes sense.
Is more simply better? Why Pfizer thinks a booster of its Covid vaccine might work against new variants
Could the solution to emerging variants of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, some of which seem to make current vaccines less effective, be more of the current vaccines?
www.statnews.com