Coronavirus in Massachusetts (Boston: university, statistics, courses)

[sawyer2]

Friends have had success with this

https://twitter.com/vaccinetime?lang=en

[msRB311]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cases-flo...115340644.html

[mdovell]

check out vaccinetime on twitter. They seem to be doing a good job at getting the word out.

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by sawyer2

I can only make the same point so many times .... I'm moving on.

I gave up and blocked the guy a couple of weeks ago. I only see his walls of text when someone quotes them. J-1 visa holders are allowed into the country. Any foreign university student I’ve ever heard of has a J-1. It’s not particularly difficult to get one. With an admission letter, it’s a rubber stamp. No blue chip college is going to adopt 100% remote or online learning. That’s for degree mills and it would massively devalued a blue chip school.

[yesmaybe]

Can you imagine paying 50k for Zoom U.

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by yesmaybe

Can you imagine paying 50k for Zoom U.

I'd be pretty angry as a parent...in the end I guess if kids are at a top school they'll still be able to put that on their resume and be find in the end.

[elnrgby]

Originally Posted by sawyer2

Friends have had success with this

https://twitter.com/vaccinetime?lang=en

Thank you. I tried that, but it loads incredibly slowly on my phone, which is probably why I had zero success scheduling, just as with any other method. I guess the pre-registration will work eventually, that is my only real hope.

[sawyer2]

Moderna is on track

"- Moderna has shipped the 100-millionth dose of its COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. Government

- The Company expects to meet its commitment dates to the U.S. Government for all currently ordered doses of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine, including delivery of the second 100 million doses by the end of May 2021 and the third 100 million doses by the end of July 2021. "


https://investors.modernatx.com/news...e-its-covid-19

[GeoffD]

My news feed has a Washington Post article about a CDC study for vaccine effectiveness. They got 4,000+ front line workers to participate in January doing a nasal swab weekly and sending it in to a lab for analysis. 80% effective after one jab. 90% effective after 2 jabs. It's catching both symptomatic and asymptomatic infection. Seems reasonable since the initial Phase 3 trial came back as 95% effective against symptomatic transmission. If you guess that half of all infections are asymptomatic, 90% looks right.


The other take-away for me is that vaccination isn't a miracle cure. It cuts my odds of catching COVID-19 to 10%. I'm unlikely to be hospitalized or die but I can still catch it and I can still give it to others. Without a mask, I could still be a super-spreader.


It's good when the data comes back that aligns with the best guess of the experts.


Link but behind a paywall, I think: https://www.washingtonpost.com/healt...workers-study/

[wolfgang239]

Originally Posted by GeoffD

The other take-away for me is that vaccination isn't a miracle cure. It cuts my odds of catching COVID-19 to 10%. I'm unlikely to be hospitalized or die but I can still catch it and I can still give it to others. Without a mask, I could still be a super-spreader.


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Just a note that's not what 90% reduction means, that you would now have a 1 in 10 chance of being infected.

It's a 90% reduction of your chance of infection. So if the chance of infection is normally 10% (an example number, don't know in reality), then this would be a 90% reduction of that 10% chance, making it a 1% chance of infection. If your chance of infection from exposure was 5%, this 90% reduction would make it 0.5%.