Makmak
Have Porg, will travel
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2020
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It’s so frustrating for many, as news and research findings change constantly and it feels like the finish line keeps getting moved. Lots of people are very fatigued by this. Many people were incentivized to get vaccinated assuming they’re get to ditch the mask and gain peace of mind regarding their health. But now it seems that may be way off in the future.....This article by Forbes has two interesting points I’ll copy below BUT after this and lots of other research (and dr. Fauci’s latest senate interview) I can’t see DCL dropping masks for vaccinated people.
which means, no matter where you fall on vaccination, it’s not the silver bullet for the travel industry (yet or maybe ever?) for Sars-cov-2.
Point 1.
“Two doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine were found to have only a 10.4% efficacy against mild-to-moderate infections caused by the B.1.351 South Africa variant, according to a phase 1b-2 clinical trial published on Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. This is a cause for grave concern as the South African variants share similar mutations to the other variants leaving those vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine potentially exposed to multiple variants.”
point 2.
“As these variants threaten to become the dominant source of coronavirus cases globally, we urgently need second generation vaccines that provide greater protection against the variants if we are going to prevent another wave of infections and return to a level of normalcy.”
let’s say we get a vaccine passport- are they going to reject those with only the AZ vaccine? Can you only travel with both the first and second set of vaccines (and a later update with a new booster possibly?). Will this be a yearly thing like the flu?
honestly, at this point, it’s overwhelming. I know it seems straightforward. But it doesn’t feel that way.