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Andrew Costa Mesa:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now targeting early September to grant full approval of the Pfizer vaccine. Currently they only have emergency approval.
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Register or LoginThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now targeting early September to grant full approval of the Pfizer vaccine. Currently they only have emergency approval.
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It's looking like September is the month for Americans to start getting a third dose. The stars are lining up. That's also when the WHO moratorium on boosters ends. I think I heard a director of some US health agency say yesterday on the BBC that September is when things will get going. Regardless, once the vaccine has full FDA approval then nothing stops anyone from getting a third dose. Any doctor can write a script for it at that point.
Speaking of boosters. San Francisco announced that it is "accommodating" a dose of BioNTech or Moderna for people who got the J&J vaccine. Which is something that people have been doing for sometime now. Some high profile doctors have been recommending it and even Fauci acknowledged it was happening. This just formalizes it. There's nothing wrong with the J&J vaccine. I don't discriminate between the various vaccines. They may take different routes to get there but they all do the same thing in the end, introduce the spike protein. The difference is 1 or 2 doses. The evidence is clear that 2 doses is much better than 1. For delta, it's a necessity.
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Here's an interesting update in the local paper this week: You are not allowed to view links.
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--- Quote ---San Diego Zoo races to vaccinate lions, tigers and other vulnerable species as COVID surges
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This is interesting in a couple of different ways:
1) COVID is a problem not just for humans, but animals as well. In Jan. SD Zoo & Safari Park had gorillas get COVID, now tigers & snow leopards are getting sick
2) SD Zoo officials think they animals got infected by human employees who were asymptomatic, meaning humans can not only infect each other w/COVID but also animals
3) this feels kinda odd in a sense that we're racing to vaccinate zoo animals when there are so many countries still woefully unable to get vaccination for their human residents (I know we're talking about the US, as well as endangered species SD Zoo is trying to protect - still seems kinda odd, though)
Miss Kitty:
I know someone that got a call to schedule his booster. Now it may be because he's a senior and/or because he's well known. Either way, very interesting.
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semigeekgirl:
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This is interesting in a couple of different ways:
1) COVID is a problem not just for humans, but animals as well. In Jan. SD Zoo & Safari Park had gorillas get COVID, now tigers & snow leopards are getting sick
2) SD Zoo officials think they animals got infected by human employees who were asymptomatic, meaning humans can not only infect each other w/COVID but also animals
3) this feels kinda odd in a sense that we're racing to vaccinate zoo animals when there are so many countries still woefully unable to get vaccination for their human residents (I know we're talking about the US, as well as endangered species SD Zoo is trying to protect - still seems kinda odd, though)
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It does seem odd - and it's definitely still sort of a first-world privilege thing that we're able to vaccinate these animals - but the shots they're getting are totally separate (like, not even development/manufacturing overlap) from the human vaccines, so I'm glad we can do it.
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