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Large study finds COVID-19 is linked to a substantial drop in intelligence
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Things are about to get interesting.
Justice Department lawyers have determined that federal law doesn't prohibit public agencies and private businesses from requiring Covid-19 vaccines -- even if the vaccines have only emergency use authorization, according to an opinion posted online Monday.Comment
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Is this the opinion which came out of a situation in Indiana by any chance? I don't feel like reading that entire document. The concern I have is that this will still likely be fought in court and bottle up and work against the speed any vaccine is needed including that of school age kids who the vaccine has been approved for.Originally posted by jazzcyclist View PostComment
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One hole in that study: did Covid cause the low IQ, or did low IQ behavior cause increased exposure to Covid? Only a "small subset" of the participants were IQ tested both before and after their bout with Covid; most of the comparisons were with people who had Covid vs. other people who didn't.Originally posted by bhall View Post
Although a small subset of 275 participants completed the intelligence test both before and after contracting COVID-19, the study mostly employed a cross-sectional methodology, limiting the ability to draw firm conclusions about cause and effect.Comment
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The VA has stepped into the mandatory vaccine dumpster fire.Comment
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My employer, UCHealth, just announced in very firm terms that all employees, clinical and non-clinical, must be fully vaccinated by October 1 or face disciplinary action up to and including possible termination. As it should be.Comment
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A simple formula that every employer should emulate. If mandated worldwide, would wipe out covid 14 days after the last vaccination.Originally posted by DrJay View PostComment
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LONDON — This is a puzzler. Coronavirus cases are plummeting in Britain. They were supposed to soar. Scientists aren't sure why they haven't.
The daily number of new infections recorded in the country fell for seven days in a row before a slight uptick Wednesday, when the country reported 27,734 cases. That’s still almost half of where the caseload was a week ago.
The trajectory of the virus in Britain is something the world is watching closely and anxiously, as a test of how the delta variant behaves in a society with relatively high vaccination rates. And now people are asking if this could be the first real-world evidence that the pandemic in Britain is sputtering out — after three national lockdowns and almost 130,000 deaths.
Public health experts, alongside the government, predicted that cases would be rising in Britain at this point, perhaps even exponentially.
And so some of the best infectious-disease modelers on the planet warned that 100,000 new cases a day this summer could be expected.
But the trend since then has been on a sharp decline.
It is also possible that people have stopped getting tested — because if they test positive, even if they are fully vaccinated, they are asked to quarantine for 10 days, even if they are about to travel abroad for their holidays.
Or maybe Britain has reached an immunity threshold. More than 70 percent of adults here are fully vaccinated, and 88 percent have had a first dose — one of the best vaccine uptakes in the world. Among those who remain unvaccinated, many have had covid or asymptomatic infection.
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Denver Health, essentially the Denver General Hospital system and multiple satellite clinics, also announced they will require mandatory vaccination for employees.Comment
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40 new cases in my county since the start of August. I know that sounds really small, but we had less than 200 the whole pandemic at the end of July. Indoor mask mandate goes back into effect tomorrow. Only two cases on my island though.
We have something else going around on my island, might be RSV but the only clinic here doesn't test for that.Comment
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For those who say mandating vaccines violates your rights, I'm reminded of the old phrase concerning someone who has a "right" to throw a punch, which says, "Your rights end at the tip of my nose." (or variants like that).Originally posted by DrJay View Post
Your right to not be vaccinated end when you may transmit the disease to other people and your rights end at that point, IMHO.Comment
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Your comment was in response to a post about an internal Justice Department opinion about the constitutionality of vaccine mandates by public agencies and private businesses, but you referred to a circuit court opinion in Indiana about a mandate by Indiana University that was being challenged by students.Originally posted by NotDutra5 View Post
The Supreme Court declined the hear a request for emergency relief in the matter, leaving Indiana University's vaccine mandate in place.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/u...sultPosition=1Comment
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We will have more detail on the Monday update, but NJ now has hit over 1,700 daily cases which is about quadruple the earlier 2021 lows but well under the 4K highs in 2020.
The Rt peaked at 1.51 this summer but dropped to 1.30.
The hospitalizations have about doubled to over 750 but well under the 2020 high of 8K.
And the daily deaths remain in single digits compared to the 2020 high over 400.Last edited by Halfmiler2; 08-16-2021, 01:06 AM.Comment
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