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Old 11-26-2020, 09:26 AM
 
Location: Seattle
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Article link here: https://crosscut.com/environment/202...w-wa-preparing

“That medical experts have warned of a winter surge of the coronavirus since the early days of the now year-old pandemic doesn’t make the lived reality of it any less sobering. Cases are surging in almost every state, and exponential growth promises a long and deadly season, adding to the 1.4 million lives globally claimed so far by the pandemic, including more than 259,000 in the U.S. and more than 2,655 in Washington state. But just as the predicted darkness descended on the country, hope for an end to the pandemic also arrived.

In the past week, two separate trials for COVID-19 vaccines have claimed to significantly beat expectations for vaccine effectiveness, with a third showing promising results. Both Pfizer and Moderna say they have each reached about 95% effectiveness in Phase 3 trials of their respective vaccines, which means that only 5% of the COVID-19 cases identified in their trial participants were found in those who had been given vaccines.

“This is mind blowing,” says Dr. Jeff Duchin, Public Health — Seattle & King County’s health officer. “Nobody expected a COVID vaccine to be 95% effective. Our very best vaccine is the measles vaccine and it's about 95% effective.” While the companies’ data have not been made publicly available, Duchin says he thinks their estimates are probably right. They would “basically be shooting themselves in the foot by announcing something that's not true and then have it be widely discredited a few weeks later, ” he says.

Officials report that a vaccine could possibly be administered to some high-risk individuals before the end of the year, but people everywhere are curious about when and how the vaccine will be made available to all and what the timeline might be for life returning to some semblance of normalcy”.
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Old 11-26-2020, 12:27 PM
 
Location: West Coast
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Old 11-26-2020, 01:08 PM
 
Location: Rochester, WA
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People who hate masks are told we aren't helping... well... I don't think attitudes like that ^ are helping.

I for one will line up on day one to get this over with. I am tired of the changes this virus has made in who we are. We need to get out from under this before this new abnormal becomes normal!
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Old 11-26-2020, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Lyon, France, Whidbey Island WA
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The vaccine has proven to be effective and, thus far, safe.

There will be 3 vaccines all of which would if successful confer immunity to the inflammatory effects of CoV-19. Moderna, Astra Zeneca and Johnson and Johnson.
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