Wayward DP
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Thread on booster data...
Too good to ignore now. This is a 3 dose vaccine. After that we wait to see how quickly protection wanes from there. If we can maintain strong protection (80+%?) for a year and settle with annual boosters I think we're looking at a pandemic ender if we vaccinate enough people (however long that takes). Lower prevalence means slower rate of mutation of the virus too which is an added benefit.
Hey Canada, might want to look at this data.
Two studies — one published in Nature Reviews Microbiology in September and the other currently under review — show one of four flu viruses that infect humans each year hasn't been detected anywhere in the world since April 2020.
So does that mean it's gone for good? It's still too early to say.
There is a chance this particular virus — the Yamagata virus — might be lurking in a pocket of the world somewhere, according to Ian Barr, deputy director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza at the Doherty Institute, and co-author of one of the studies.
"It may re-emerge, but we haven't had a single detection of that virus in 18 months.
These clowns.
Clueless hubris and performative defiance syndrome is killing people.
I hope they enjoy their “culture”, whatever the fuck that is.