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Some people have single doses from J&J too. Just to let you know.

It would be really annoying to have to confirm my subscriptions every month.

I can agree with them requiring permission to keep billing if you havent used the service in like three months though.

Same way nearly every product makes money

people buy it

So you consented to the agreement...

They do, when you enroll in the service.

Also fuck any company that makes it difficult to unsubscribe.

I shouldn't have to travel the lands and defeat the 8 elemental masters in order to unsubscribe.

And that's why they don't do it.

Yeah, it's a pretty scummy business practice.

its mostly the unvaccinated chuds saying that (pretending to be vaccinated)

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. For weeks, doctors have said the COVID-19 Delta variant is a game changer for those under 18 not because they are starting to see younger people being hospitalized, but because they are now getting sicker and contracting COVID-19 more frequently than this time a year ago.
What You Need To Know
Many doctors beleive that the COVID-19 delta variant is a serious threat to children

Across the country, the number of hospitalized children from birth to 4 years old has more than doubled since this time last year

The rate of hospitalized 5 to 17-year-olds has nearly doubled in the same timeframe
Lake County-based pediatrician Dr. Mohammed Afzal is voicing concerns about the increase in pediatric COVID-19 cases.
Stay-at-home mom Dana Ammendolea is sending her oldest son, Henry, to VPK next week, but her yonger son, Miles, who was born in March of last year, will stay home.
We have been vaccinated ourselves, as has my parents, my sister, my brother, so we feel we have done enough to protect the adults in the family, Ammendolea said, pushing her two sons on a swing at the park. The children should be fine.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the final week of July 2020, newborns to age 17 accounted for .9% of all COVID-19 hospitalizations nationwide.
In the final week of July this year, however, the rate for newborns to 4 was 2.1%; 5-17 was 1.6%.
Afzal believes those numbers will only continue to get worse as the virus continues to mutate.
The more this virus spreads, there are chances we will have more variants, he said. The fear is that one of those variants may be able to evade the vaccine, and that would be a problem.
Ammendolea said she is not too concerned with her child catching the coronavirus in school, but does admit she monitors COVID-19 numbers and statistics.
I try to keep my ear open if it is getting worse for the children, she said.
When asked what his medical opinion would be on sending children to school, Afzal recommended parents do whatever they can to protect them.
It is important for the children to go to school, but all 12 years and older, they should get vaccinated, he said. Parents should encourage to put a mask on.
For children not eligible to receive a vaccine, Afzal urges as much social distancing as possible. For parents like Ammendolea, she hopes her son will enjoy going to school, but stays safe as he does.
Live your life, do the best you can, and thats all you can do with any kind of diseases, she said.
Afzal suggested that schools have rapid COVID-19 tests on hand and available for school nurses on campus, to help limit the spread of the virus. He also said parents need to understand that if a child is hospitalized for COVID-19 its because a doctor feels the need to place them there, and that its not done at the request of a parent.

Providence Saint Johns Health Center in Santa Monica a city where approximately 80% of eligible residents are vaccinated is currently packed with Covid patients, according to a Monday New York Times report.
Numbers presented by L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer last Tuesday indicate there has been a fivefold increase in new Covid patients under 12 years old. (For perspective those under 12, who are not eligible for vaccination, make up about 15% of the countys population.) While raw case numbers were low relative to county residents ages 12 to 49, data indicating the spread of infections are not.

Guys the Omega variant is definitely vaccine resistant, trust me this time

The Lambda variant was first reported in Peru in December and has become the dominant strain of the virus there. It's concerning for the country because the vaccine used in Peru is not effective against this new variant.
"They have stated that there may be some resistance to the vaccine, but that it was a different vaccine that they were using. They were using the Chinese vaccine," Dr. Russo said.
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It's unknown how well the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines will help control this new variant.
"It's too early to tell, but we do think the vaccine is working against [the] variant as well," Dr. Russo said.

Get the fuck out of here with this BS topic

There *may* be *some* resistance but we arent sure, it was a different vaccine

VACCINE RESISTANT COVID IN THE US

Mods sleeping today eh

every fucking time i see a "vaccine resistant variant" headline i know everything in the actual story is going to say otherwise

this shit should be moddable

Third mRNA dose may boost antibody quantity, but not quality
Among fully vaccinated people who never had COVID-19, getting a third dose of an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer (PFE.N)/BioNTech or Moderna (MRNA.O) would likely increase levels of antibodies, but not antibodies that are better able to neutralize new virus variants, Rockefeller University researchers reported on Thursday on bioRxiv ahead of peer review. They note that in COVID-19 survivors, the immune system's antibodies evolve during the first year, becoming more potent and better able to resist new variants. In 32 volunteers who never had COVID-19, they found that antibodies induced by mRNA vaccines did evolve between the first and second shots.
But five months later, vaccine-induced antibodies were "equivalent" to those seen after the second dose, with "little measurable improvement" in the antibodies' ability to neutralize a broad variety of new variants, said coauthor Michel Nussenzweig. Therefore, he said, giving those individuals a third dose of the same vaccine would likely result in higher levels of antibodies that remain less effective against variants.
"At the moment, the vaccine remains protective against serious infection," Nussenzweig said. "Should we learn that efficacy is indeed waning for serious infection, which is not really the case to date," then a booster dose of "whatever is available" might become appropriate, he added. Should an updated vaccine become available that protects against specific variants, "then that would be the choice."

Do you not read you're own articles?

The dr repeatedly says they don't know and its too early to say and even that they think moderna / Pfizer will still work.

You're topic: it's resistant to vaccines used here!!!!

In addition, states the study, the RSYLTPGD246-253N mutation, a unique 7-amino-acid deletion mutation in the N-terminal domain of the lambda spike protein, is responsible for evasion from neutralizing antibodies.

"...we don't know whether this is going to be a more aggressive or less aggressive virus.

...the vaccine used in Peru is not effective against this new variant.

.... may be some resistance to the vaccine, but that it was a different vaccine that they were using. They were using the Chinese vaccine," Dr. Russo said.

It's unknown how well the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines will help control this new variant.

"It's too early to tell, but we do think the vaccine is working against [the] variant as well," Dr. Russo said.

That's not what the article you pasted itt says at all though.

In addition, states the study, the RSYLTPGD246-253N mutation, a unique 7-amino-acid deletion mutation in the N-terminal domain of the lambda spike protein, is responsible for evasion from neutralizing antibodies.

Reminder that even if this news is true, getting the vaccine not only protects you against all other known variants, but likely will still make this variant less devastating.

Hopefully our vaccines prove stronger than the ones on China(Not that I wish harm to anyone).

So...

Buy all the toilet paper?

I could be wrong but I believe we'd see a gradual decline of vaccination resistance with each variant.

Unless the study is peer reviewed, I'm gonna take it with a grain of salt.

I'm watching the governor of ohio and the head of the ohio health department talk about the delta variant, they have not said anything about this new variant being vaccine resistant. I'm not saying it's not vaccine resistant, however the study is not peer reviewed.

Do we have a simple percentage of how effective the current vaccines are against lambda? IIRC the efficacy was still above 90% for delta.

Time for that booster shot

Data show how the lambda COVID-19 variant could possibly elude vaccines. One of the lead researchers of a new study calls lambda a potential threat to the human society.
Scientific researchers continue to try and get a bead on the lambda variant of COVID-19, which initial andas yetnot peer-reviewed research suggests might possibly be resistant to vaccines. Thats the conclusion reached by investigators with the University of Tokyo, in a study posted on bioRxiv, which has not yet been peer-reviewed. Their conclusions mirror those of a study released several weeks agoalso not peer-reviewed yetby investigators in Chile.
The study by the University of Tokyo researchers states that two mutations in the lambda variantT76I and L452Qmakes it more infectious than the variant that had health care systems throughout the world reeling this time last yearD614G, the so-called wild type. (Its not yet known whether the lambda variant is more infectious than the Delta variant, which in many places in the world, including the United States, is now the dominant variant and also comes with

a host of challenges to health care systems.) In addition, states the study, the RSYLTPGD246-253N mutation, a unique 7-amino-acid deletion mutation in the N-terminal domain of the lambda spike protein, is responsible for evasion from neutralizing antibodies. The investigators discovered the mutations in lab experiments.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that the lambda variantor C.37 varianthas been the COVID-19 carrier in about 81% of infections in Peru since April. The variant was first identified in Peru in August 2020. The WHO declared the lambda variant a variant of interest (VOI) on June 14, a designation that means that it could cause a greater risk than the wild-type variant.
Thats an understatement, according to the investigators at the University of Tokyo, who want the WHO to label the lambda variant a variant of concern (VOC) to put health care systems around the world on notice that this might be their next big challenge. They write that because the lambda variant is a VOI, it might be considered that this variant is not an ongoing threat compared to the pandemic VOCs. However, because the lambda variant is relatively resistant to the vaccine-induced antisera, it might be possible that this variant is feasible to cause breakthrough infection.
Kei Sato, PhD, a senior researcher at the University of Tokyo and 1 of the 2 lead authors of the study, tells Reuters that lambda can be a potential threat to the human society.

The study states that since the Lambda variant has dominantly spread according to the increasing frequency of the isolates harboring the RSYLTPGD246-253N mutation, our data suggest that the insertion of the RSYLTPGD246-253N mutation is closely associated with the massive infection spread of the Lambda variant in South America.
According to data-collecting organization GISAID Initiative, there have been 1037 cases of lambda in the US.
Pablo Tsukayama, PhD, is a molecular microbiologist at Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru, and has been tracking lambda since its appearance. He told Al Jazeera on July 27 that when we found it, it did not attract much attention. But we continued processing samples, and by March, it was in 50% of the samples in Lima. By April, it was in 80% of the samples in Peru. That jump from [1%] to 50% is an early indicator of a more transmissible variant.

BATON ROUGE - The new COVID Lambda variant has been detected in Louisiana, doctors told WBRZ Thursday.

It was first reported in the U.S. in Houston and health care officials believe since Texas and Louisiana share a border, the virus variant was easily spread.

"I do know that with the proximity with Texas, there have been a few cases detected in North Louisiana with the Lamda variant. But we don't know whether this is going to be a more aggressive or less aggressive virus," Dr. Aldo Russo, the medical director at Ochsner said.
Dr. Russo said the Lambda variant has not been detected in the capital region yet, but health care professionals are testing for it.
"We are monitoring this very closely. Our teams are sequencing the different variants," Dr. Russo said.
The Lambda variant was first reported in Peru in December and has become the dominant strain of the virus there. It's concerning for the country because the vaccine used in Peru is not effective against this new variant.
"They have stated that there may be some resistance to the vaccine, but that it was a different vaccine that they were using. They were using the Chinese vaccine," Dr. Russo said.

It's unknown how well the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines will help control this new variant.
"It's too early to tell, but we do think the vaccine is working against [the] variant as well," Dr. Russo said.
Dr. Russo echoed health care messages from most everywhere else: The best way to combat the Lambda variant is to increase the vaccination rate.

Don't get me wrong, if a man's dream was for a Pokemon-themed wedding and it is truly important to him, then he needs to say something. I hope it's a conversation he has had with her before, and I'm sure there will absolutely be compromises, but he shouldn't have to set aside his wedding dreams just because of a societal norm.

Ive been waiting for the day that my wife has a child so that I can taste breast milk again as an adult. I need to find a wife first