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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

Study on a South Korean vaccine currently in Phase 3 trials. It is RBD-based which is different than anything currently out and the hope was that it would provide more variant-proof protection. Looks like it does after a booster.

www.biorxiv.org

Durable protection against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron induced by an adjuvanted subunit vaccine

Despite the remarkable efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, waning immunity, and the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants such as Omicron represents a major global health challenge. Here we present data from a study in non-human primates demonstrating durable protection against the Omicron BA.1 variant...
www.biorxiv.org www.biorxiv.org

This part in particular was interesting. Peak responses may not be too different from Moderna's but durability on this platform appears to be much stronger.

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Long lasting immunity is gonna be a big piece of the puzzle. None of this 2-3 month shit.
 
I dunno if it’s just an acknowledgment from people in Toronto that masks are good because it’s densely populated and a lot of people are in fact, gross, but I haven’t really noticed a huge change in mask wearing downtown yet. Most people still seem to be wearing them in the PATH etc that I’ve seen.
 
Preston said:
Yeah I barely knew who he was not long ago but now I see his shit everywhere. And it's all dangerous disinformation and quoting quack grifter doctors.

The amount of passion that people have over masks is something else. I just wear them when I'm out because I don't want to catch a severe disease. At this point, especially with our poorly matched vaccines, a good quality mask is easily the best defense we have outside of not mixing socially at all. There's no need to overthink it, folks.
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My best friend, who's an anti-vaxxer, shared a Youtube video with me at the start of the pandemic from a Doctor claiming that COVID was milder than the flu and that there was a lot of stat padding going on.

I googled the Doctor's name, he was a chiropractor and not at all qualified to talk on the subject. Despite sharing that information with my buddy, it did not change his mind. I ****ing hate it when people live in echo chambers...
 
hockeylover said:
I dunno if it’s just an acknowledgment from people in Toronto that masks are good because it’s densely populated and a lot of people are in fact, gross, but I haven’t really noticed a huge change in mask wearing downtown yet. Most people still seem to be wearing them in the PATH etc that I’ve seen.
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I went to the climbing gym last night for the first time since covid ended. Mixed bag. Warming up, majority of folks were masked. Then bouldering, it was maybe 50/50, with some folks who were masked warming up then ditching them. But, by the time I left at closing, everyone who was left was masked. Seemed like most of the more 'serious' or 'legit' climbers were masked and the beginners were not.
 
trujaysfan said:
1st day back in office in 2+ years (only did a half day) but team meeting had 90% of people wearing masks.
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Lucky you, even before the removal of the mask mandate when I was in group meetings, everyone would sit down in a confined room less than 6 feet apart and would remove their masks. Every time I said something, the response was, we're fully vaccinated so there's no risk. My wife had just given birth and newborns (and to some extent infants under the age of 1) are still at significant risk of developing complications. People just didn't care because it was too much of an inconvenience for them...
 
AP79 said:
Lucky you, even before the removal of the mask mandate when I was in group meetings, everyone would sit down in a confined room less than 6 feet apart and would remove their masks. Every time I said something, the response was, we're fully vaccinated so there's no risk. My wife had just given birth and newborns (and to some extent infants under the age of 1) are still at significant risk of developing complications. People just didn't care because it was too much of an inconvenience for them...
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It helps that this is basically the 1st team meeting in person in 2 years and most people don't want to be in office.
 
NS update - my paralegal, who has had covid three times already, is now a close contact of her sister, who tested positive earlier this week (RAT, and PCR).

New rules say she can basically live life as she pleases until she is symptomatic. So that and most all of my colleagues largely abandoning masks and we could have another office wide covid outbreak upon us... I am still masking when I leave my office but I am the minority and have no leg to stand on to get others to comply (boss is done with masks).

We shall see how it plays out... but I am fully expecting her to get covid a fourth time.
 
That chick is cursed. Has she been alright since her third infection and random fevers a month after the infection?
 
Is she vaccinated?
Does she engage in full mouth-to-mouth conversations at work?

Three times? Like she is really trying hard.
 
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