09-01-2021, 05:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-01-2021, 05:30 PM by panamaniac.)
(08-27-2021, 07:57 PM)It plam Wrote: Just a note on vaccine efficacy. This time last year we didn't even know that we would have vaccines and were hoping for a vaccine with 50% efficacy. Also, the early super-high numbers are probably not reflective of long-term performance even when boosted, because they include lots of antibodies that just won't stay around.
Still, the vaccines are extraordinarily effective at preventing death and the worst consequences from COVID. It remains that you don't want COVID, even when vaccinated, and it is still worse than the flu, but it's much less risky than before. But we will still need some non-pharmaceutical interventions, at least until we discover an actual cure.
Even with a 90% of population vaccinated we're likely to still have reasonably-large outbreaks. Not among the population as a whole, but starting with unvaccinated subpopulations.
Jacinda Ardern refuses to set a numerical target for vaccination: she wants all groups to have reasonable vaccine coverage before saying that NZ is safer. Also, I was talking to a physiotherapist from Alberta who made it to NZ, and he was unfamiliar with how hard the NZ lockdown actually is. We get takeaways on Wednesday, after two weeks, if all goes well...
(09-01-2021, 12:21 PM)jeffster Wrote: Current 7-day Covid-19 cases per 100k
• Windsor-Essex County Health Unit 113.2
• City of Hamilton Public Health Services 84.3
• Chatham-Kent Public Health 48.0
• York Region Public Health 45.6
• Brant County Health Unit 40.6
• Peel Public Health 37.2
• Durham Region Health Department 35.9
• Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health 34.3
• Middlesex-London Health Unit 34.3
• Toronto Public Health 33.2
• Region of Waterloo Public Health and Emergency Services 27.0
• Algoma Public Health 9.6
• Lambton Public Health 8.4
• North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit 7.7
• Thunder Bay District Health Unit 7.3
• Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District Health Unit 5.2
• Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit 3.7
• Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Public Health 2.8
• Northwestern Health Unit 2.3
• Renfrew County and District Health Unit 0.9
• Timiskaming Health Unit 0.0
• TOTAL ONTARIO 33.0
What has been happening down Windsor way? Is it related to the border reopening?