Treatments Good news! This preprint says that baricitinib reduces all-causes mortality of hospitalized COVID-19 patients by 38.2%! Vaccines Remember how I was saying that I thought we’d see that longer doses were better? It turns out that waaay longer is better. This preprint says that for AstraZeneca, antibody levels were four times higher in people… Continue reading 2021-09-01 General
Author: Ducky
2021-08-31 BC
Treatments This article says that it’s not just Americans being stupid: some feed stores in BC are seeing a run on ivermectin (a dewormer which the fringe right has decided is a good treatment for COVID-19, all scientific evidence to the contrary). Press Briefing Most of the time spent at the briefing was going over… Continue reading 2021-08-31 BC
2021-08-31 General
Vaccines This preprint from Israel says that in the second and third weeks after a third dose of Pfizer, there was a 48-68% drop and a 70-84% drop. This preprint says: Antibody levels are similar in unvaxxed people who get symptomatic and asymptomatic infections. Antibody levels decrease over time. Antibody levels were higher in people… Continue reading 2021-08-31 General
2021-08-29/30 BC
Statistics Fri/Sat: +769 casesSat/Sun: +581 casesSun/Mon: +503 cases Over the weekend, +7 deaths, average of +5,702 first doses, +9,096 second doses. Currently 176 in hospital / 91 in ICU, 5,918 active cases, 157,419 recovered. first doses second doses of adults 84.9% 77.5% of over-12s 84.2% 76.4% of all BCers 76.7% 69.5% We have 329,893 doses… Continue reading 2021-08-29/30 BC
2021-08-28/29/30 General
Vaccines This Research Letter says that six to ten weeks after the second dose, antibody levels were higher in people who got Moderna doses than Pfizer doses. People who also had gotten sick with COVID-19 had higher antibody levels than those who had not. Younger people had more antibodies than older people. This preprint says… Continue reading 2021-08-28/29/30 General
2021-08-28 BC
Vaccines From the federal COVID-19 page, these graphs show the fraction of each age cohort who have received their first and second doses, respectively:
2021-08-27 BC
Statistics +867 cases, +3 deaths, +8,552 first doses, +10,060 second doses. Currently 159 in hospital / 84 in ICU, 5,657 active cases, 155,928 recovered. first doses second doses of adults 84.6% 76.9% of over-12s 83.9% 75.8% of all BCers 76.3% 68.9% We have 374,285 doses in fridges; we’ll use it up in 23.3 days at… Continue reading 2021-08-27 BC
2021-08-27 General
Variants This preprint says that Delta is twice as likely to put you into the hospital than Alpha is. Transmission This article says that the US has identified the first cases of COVID-19 in deer. That’s kind of odd, because this article from July 2021 says that the USDA found antibodies in deer. Maybe it’s… Continue reading 2021-08-27 General
2021-08-26 General
Side Effects This paper says that cloth masks are the worst for speech intelligibility. Use a medical mask. Long COVID This preprint from China says that: The proportion of previously hospitalized patients with COVID who had symptoms dropped from 68% at six months to 49% at 12 months. The proportion with fatigue increased slightly, from… Continue reading 2021-08-26 General
2021-08-26 BC
Mitigation Measures This article says that 75% of Vancouverites approve of the renewed mask mandate. Statistics +724 cases, +2 deaths, +9,079 first doses, +11,283 second doses. Currently 149 in hospital / 83 in ICU, 5,640 active cases, 155,096 recovered. first doses second doses of adults 84.4% 76.7% of over-12s 83.7% 75.6% of all BCers 76.2%… Continue reading 2021-08-26 BC