Yep. The situation for them is immensely confusing and frustrating—this isn’t some small afterthought. Tens of millions of households! Plus there’s the immunocompromised.https://twitter.com/lbent/status/1418962247909523468 …
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I don’t think that’s really a valid general theory—the real evolutionary pressure is on transmitting and replicating, so as long as that happens the rest can vary in many ways. But our immune system does learn to fight viruses so repeated exposure can result in milder case.https://twitter.com/bpcostello/status/1418959854853570562 …
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40% of staff in nursing homes and long-term care facilities are unvaccinated. They can transmit to the elderly, whose immune systems are less robust even if vaccinated. Children under 12 cannot be vaccinated. The immunocompromised aren't as well protected.https://twitter.com/loganerik/status/1418974631889981442 …
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Vaccine mandates are already used. We have an ongoing pandemic and many vulnerable populations who cannot fully protect themselves via vaccination. People have a right to refuse vaccination, but not a right to infect the elderly or the immunocompromised. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/opinion/coronavius-vaccine-masks.html …pic.twitter.com/HoaI2BQBZL
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The "labor shortage" can be solved by offering higher-wages and better working conditions. Most nursing homes are for-profit and receive substantial amounts of of taxpayer money, but many fail their residents and underpay their staff. This isn't working.https://twitter.com/sciliz/status/1418978414598529025 …
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Also, we really cannot, should not, expect parents of children under 12, who are not be able to vaccinate their children, to start the *third* school year of the pandemic with this much confusion. Parents need concrete information, not broad statistics. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/opinion/coronavius-vaccine-masks.html …pic.twitter.com/1fNfTC7o9m
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This is a good article. The unvaccinated in the United States are not a monolith. We can, and we should try, to get our numbers much higher. The hard-core “never” numbers aren’t as high as it sometimes seems. A lot of in-between.https://twitter.com/NarroVictor/status/1418980260951912463 …
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Evidence is strong that the vaccines remain highly-effective against Delta, but there’s no contradiction between that and saying a surge like the one in the US still requires a collective response, and vaccines aren’t 100% especially for the elderly or the immunocompromised.https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1419027634835578880 …
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This is a good question. Many nursing homes mandate the flu vaccine. Covid is not less of a risk.https://twitter.com/VincentRK/status/1418648145328852995 …
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Earlier thread as reminder: "herd immunity" is neither something easy to calculate (we rarely have random serosurveys), nor a single number that works like a switch (networks are heterogeneous, people's response to an outbreak changes transmission etc...)https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1380146862607511555 …
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A few states are moving to vaccination or regular testing.https://twitter.com/emily_hoeven/status/1419714899660328970 …
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Some more context. VA is the first federal agency to mandate this vaccine for healthcare workers. (Many hospital systems already mandate influenza vaccines for their staff—hospital employees, necessarily, interact with vulnerable population).https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1419733427247620107 …
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So I said first - a given:
The vaccine isn’t 100% effective
It’s pretty amazing, like 91-98% effective against hospitalisation. But not *perfect*. So you must accept that fact