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but gooo, there are a number of well respected doctors who believed in "the science" as well. there was a method to other procedures that if followed, were very successful fauci was not a "hands on " doc" and therefore was not privy to first hand efficacy of these treatments. understand, when we were in the intial and secondary phases of treating this virus as we were getting to know more and more about it's wide ranging effects on different people. some of these epidemiologists were using different approaches as they made sense and were showing success for them. now remember the context were were in. we didn't have the luxury of time and double blinds to follow all of these. but there are docs who had successes with some "non traditional" approaches. nope, toe the line and keep your mouth shut, you will be cancelled. who does that? let's just say doc warrior and i came up with a "non traditional' way to treat toothaches. toothaches have become a sudden, mysterious, "pandemic-like" issue with some people with compromised immune systems, etc and actually dying as a result. let's just imagine that doc and i found that cat piss was a very effective medicament when used with a certain type of tooth ache with patients in a specific age group at a certain stage of the tooth ache. if it was not harmful, it was effective in most cases and its main ingredient was readily available and cheap, he and i are going to talk about it. others may or may not use it on some of their patients. word gets out and of course there is no science and/or double blind studies supporting it, but we felt comfortable using it in "certain" situations because it was bring people relief. well, the higher ups get word of it and you know it's going to be critiqued and downplayed, with doc and i getting a letter from the "guru's" warning us of straying from the "standards of care" but we saw with our own eyes, up front the efficacy. now, more docs and patients want this treatment. remember, we are in a crisis NOW and don't have time for double blinds. the vaccines we are getting right now, we are the phase 3 studies. of course you know, phase 3 studies are normally done under more controlled circumstances. how many covid patients did fauci actually treat? how many influenza patients has he treated within the past, oh, 5 years? how many tummy aches has he treated? most of dentistry's most well respected are still hands on guys. they are apolitical and you won't see them on tv if i had covid, i would not want dr fauci as my treating doc. i'd much rather have dr harvey risch(top epidemiologist at yale) dr steven smith(smith center for infectious diseases) these guys had actual patients lives in their hands much of the "science" of treating covid that we were initially going by has been debunked, but guys like fauci continue to adhere to it-which science? masks? lockdowns? there have been many dissenting opinions from the beginning about these 2 basic things, but they were strongly admonished and chastised with some being strongly reprimanded. today, the studies are showing that those who were minimized are showing to be right...the science. all depended on who your "expert" voted for and that's the science unfortunately.
The concept or fascination of seeing patients has always baffled me as it relates to public health. Isn’t that like calling for a food truck vendor to run the Fed. Or conversely giving the public health reigns to a radiologist?
What year were you rejected when applying to dental school?
https://www.radio.com/wbbm780/news/person-dies-hours-after-getting-covid-19-vaccine-reportI read this story and my first thought was, why and how was someone who got diagnosed with Covid in late December getting a vaccine three weeks later? Everything I have heard says to wait a while afterwards. I have no idea what happened, or if there is a link, I am curious to see what they find out.
Sounds like herd immunity needs a pretty high level of immunity. Bad for Scoot Atlas fans and everyone else as we vaccinate. https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/01/23/a-brazilian-city-thought-it-had-herd-immunity-it-was-wrong
I can't see that entire article, so don't know if they commented on it or not, but people are looking into a new strain that emerged there similar to the South African strain. There is concern that the 2nd wave is due to the new strain being resistant to neutralizing antibodies from the first round of spread.I think it is more likely, that the people estimating the degree of infection from the first wave were way off.
It’s a pretty short article but essentially it said that the people of Manaus were hit so hard early and immunity estimates were that about two thirds of the population had the disease through serology studies. The people felt like it was over and no second wave could happen and let their guard down. We all know it’s been a second tragedy there.
Brazil and Manaus specifically have been devastated. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/new-coronavirus-variants-could-cause-more-reinfections-require-updated-vaccinesThis is some the ideas I had seen about the possibility that this 2nd wave in Manaus could be due to a new variant avoiding immunity from the previous round of infections.Let's hope that is not the case.
New cases and new hospitalizations are going down, which intuitively makes sense since we are a month out from Christmas. Hopefully we will see the strain on hospitals ease in the coming weeks as they clear out (mostly from recovered patients.)
It will be interesting to see what happens with cases vs hospitalizations as the vaccine is rolled out to more and more high risk groups, too. Intuitively, it would make sense that as higher risk populations are vaccinated, we may see hospitalizations and deaths decrease even with steady case rates. Even just nursing home vaccinations could have an impact. Then again, if any of these new strains are more severe, that would probably be more than enough to offset any gains :/