Is it time for our safety culture to kick in and at a minimum make it optional to work on campus? UK, Japan, Israel shutting things down.
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As predicted number of campus COVID cases tripled and 50% of them were vaccinated. What a failure from the COVID task force.
COVID19 Delta announcement coming soon. Indoor mask recommended for all vaccinated or not.
J&J vaccine far less effective against the Delta variant.
“The Pfizer vaccine was 96% effective after two doses at preventing hospitalization, meaning the average unvaccinated person in the study was more than 25 times as likely to be hospitalized with Covid as the average vaccinated one. (This almost certainly understates the protectiveness of the vaccine, as the vaccinated cohort was older and had a higher incidence of pre-existing conditions than the unvaccinated one.)”
Results from an UK study mentioned today in a WSJ article.
There has been a recent uptake on COVID cases with breakthrough COVID D cases on vaccinated people. I think it was premature to remove the mask recommendation and social distance markers on campus having the insight from what is happening with the COVID D variant in highly vaccinated countries. I highly doubt EM is going to revert their “going back to normal” course at this point. That would mean owning up to mistakes/failures. I am sure in the next week there will be an increase in COVID cases at the campus but EM could care less. I pretty much have given up on safety culture after how they have handled the COVID… bunch of hypocrites!
15% of the people in hospitals due to COVID D have been vaccinated.
How many fingers now, Winston? IIII
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Wrong, its 5 fingers. IIII
And your post is meaningless, as !00% of those who acquired COVID were vaccinated.
Not meant to be a statistic, rather a fact, derelict.
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In a sample of many thousands of ill people (reported by a network of hospitals and quoted by WSJ), 3% of those who recently got Covid-19 were vaccinated. In the much, much smaller sample of 50 legislators (most likely all vaccinated), the rate was 10%. Do you see any problem here ? As to “100% of those who got sick were vaccinated”, that’s out of a sample where ALL were vaccinated, so the 100% is meaningless. I don’t know what your job is, but please stay away from anything that involves statistics, we don’t need another Valdez right now.
60% of people being admitted to the hospital with Covid-19 in England are fully vaccinated, Sky News reported.
According to Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific advisor, Covid patients have received two doses of the Covid vaccine.
@OP Covid variants are a problem for people who refuse to get vaccinated. Their prerogative, but not my (or the company’s) problem to protect them from their own pride and stupidity.
If you’re fully vaccinated you have very little to worry about, even if you do catch Covid, which you probably won’t.
Open a covid ward in Hughes. Need body counts for taxes in Texas.
How long before we are just fighting against natural selection, a fundamental rule of nature?
I do not buy that 97% of those who get Delta are unvaccinated.
50 Texas Legislators just teamed up in a trial.
5 of them developed COVID (Delta?).
We assume all were vaccinated as none wore masks on plane or chartered bus or while meeting in an indoor setting with the VPOTUS.
10% of the fifty vaccinated participants in this trial developed COVID.
100% of those who developed COVID were vaccinated.
According to an article in WSJ yesterday, 97% of the people who got sick with the Delta variant were non-vaccinated. So yes, you can say that both categories are affected… But then let’s not claim that EM hires the best and brightest.
OP just say you want to work remote forever lol
Some how a 3rd world country with 3rd world health care can originate the variant, quickly get over the wave, and still have a lower deaths per million than every state in the US. Yes, you should definitely run out and stock up on toilet paper.
The delta variant is no joke. NC state baseball & Texas legislature has seen both vaxxed and non-vaxxed people come down with COVID. It appears that neither the vaccine nor masks provide much protection from this nasty virus. We will need a work from home option if we want to defeat this disease.
No more shutdowns, get to work. Get to life.