New Cases: 473,017 (⬆︎ .46%)
New Deaths: 13,427 (⬆︎ .40%)
USA
New Cases: 35,816 (⬆︎ .12%)
New Deaths: 762 (⬆︎ .13%)
Vaccination Scorecard
Total Vaccinations: 154.6 million (⬆︎ %)
Total Eligible Population: 55.2%
Total Population: 46.4%
The big news from yesterday was the CDC announcing updated mask guidelines.
If you're fully vaccinated (ie: you've gotten your final jab, and it's been at least 2 weeks post-jab), then you can go naked.
Get your jab, dummy.
How can the vaccines be safe and effective if they were developed so quickly?
Messenger RNA technology had been studied, developed and refined for years before it was used in the coronavirus vaccines. To develop the two mRNA vaccines, all scientists essentially needed to do was plug in the molecular code for the coronavirus’s spike protein, said Robert Murphy, executive director of the Institute for Global Health and a professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at Northwestern University. (The vaccines contain molecular instructions — mRNA — that tell your cells to create a harmless protein similar to the spike protein on the surface of the coronavirus. Your immune system will recognize this harmless protein as an interloper, and be primed to eliminate the actual coronavirus if you are exposed to it.) That, along with the urgent need, billions of dollars in funding and a streamlined regulatory pathway, allowed enterprises such as the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership and Moderna to roll out the vaccines in record time.
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Are the vaccines “experimental?”
No. An experimental vaccine is one that has not gone through clinical trials and authorization or approval processes. The available coronavirus vaccines have completed clinical trials and have been authorized for emergency use. Pfizer recently filed for full approval from the FDA.
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Will the vaccines cause infertility?
The contention that the coronavirus vaccines might cause infertility is an argument that has been raised about other vaccines in the past but is “a complete myth” with no basis in science, said Sean O’Leary, vice chair of the Committee on Infectious Diseases for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “There’s no reason to think that these vaccines are going to affect fertility any more than any other vaccine — and no vaccine in history has ever had any impact on fertility,” O’Leary said.
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Will the mRNA vaccines change my DNA?
No, that’s not possible, experts said. The messenger RNA in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines that helps create the immune response against the coronavirus doesn’t enter the nucleus of the cells where DNA resides.
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Will the vaccines alter my immune system?
Every vaccine is intended to rev up the immune system to generate antibodies against a target virus. But there is no evidence to support claims by anti-vaccination activists that the coronavirus vaccines, particularly the mRNA shots, can permanently alter the immune system or lead to autoimmune diseases.
In fact, federal health authorities have said that the vaccines are safe for people who are immunocompromised.
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Do the vaccines contain aborted fetal cells?
There are no aborted fetal cells or tissue in any of the coronavirus vaccines. The confusion, experts said, arises largely from the well-established practice of developing and testing medical products, including vaccines, using historical fetal cell lines that were derived decades ago from elective abortions. These cell lines have been used to create vaccines against diseases such as hepatitis A, rubella and rabies.
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Do the vaccines contain microchips?
It appears this myth may have at least partly originated from a comment from Bill Gates that was misconstrued and shared widely across social media. But “it couldn’t be further from the truth,” Murphy said.
Injectable microchips? Really? C'mon, people - you might as well try to tell me some random bronze-age rabbi raised the dead and turned water to wine. Get fuckin' serious.
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