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Blood clot risk much higher from covid19 than with Vaccines

The research, which used findings from more than 29 million people, found there is still a risk after having the jab – but it is “considerably higher” in someone who has the virus.

A coronavirus infection presents a much higher risk of developing a blood clot than a first dose of either the AstraZeneca or the Pfizer jab, a study has found. The research used findings from more than 29 million people who were vaccinated with first doses of either jab. The study showed although there was an increased risk of having a blood clot after having the first doses of either vaccine, it was much greater in someone who had tested positive for COVID-19. The researchers are fully independent from the University of Oxford team that worked with AstraZeneca to develop that particular vaccine. Fears over blood clots have led to the restricted use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in a number of countries. The researchers, writing in the British Medical Journal, found for short time intervals after the first does there are increased risks of some blood, or blood-vessel, related events leading to hospitalisation or death. However, they also wrote that that the risk of these adverse events is substantially higher and for a longer period of time, following infection from coronavirus. Nick Note: If you do not get vaccinated and try for natural immunity known as herd immunity you risk that you get infected. Even if you do not require hospitalization you risk long haul effects of the virus including reduced cognitive abilities, blood clots, stroker and heart attack to name a few. The older you are the higher the risk of permanent damage from a covid19 infection. I guess it gets down to how lucky are your feeling….. I believe in hedging my bet and have been vaccinated three times.

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Dow jumps 200 pts on Powell’s remarks inflation transitory… Philadelphia Fed’s Harker: Inflation may not be so transitory..

Stocks rose on Friday and headed for a winning week as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell prepared the markets for the central bank to pull back on some of its monetary stimulus, saying it’s likely to start tapering its $120 billion in monthly bond purchases this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 216 points, or 0.6%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite rose 0.7% and 0.9%, respectively. The 10-year Treasury yield, which ran up this week into the Powell speech, eased slightly after the Fed chief’s remarks as Powell made clear that interest rate hikes would not immediately follow after tapering was over. The financial markets’ reaction Friday is a sign that the central bank has successfully prepped investors so far for a removal of its $120 billion a month in bond buying and may avoid a ‘taper tantrum’ that rocked markets temporarily at end of 2013. Energy stocks were higher, after being among the hardest hit on Thursday. Occidental Petroleum climbed more than 5% while Diamondback, Devon Energy and Halliburton rose about 3%.The three major U.S. indexes closed Thursday’s regular trading session lower. The Dow snapped a four-day win streak while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite both broke five-day win streaks. The three major stock averages are all set to close the week in the green. The Dow is up 0.3% week-to-date, while the S&P 500 is up 0.6% and the Nasdaq Composite is 1.6% higher. The indexes are on track to end the month higher. The Dow is up 0.8% in August. The S&P 500 is 1.7% higher and the Nasdaq Composite is up 1.9% this month. Nick Note: The FED is a house divided against itself on this all important inflation issue. The denial of inflation By Powell will go down in history as the greatest mistake any central bank governor has ever made… And their will be hell to pay.

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U.S. coronavirus hospitalizations hit eight-month high over 100,000

Aug 26 (Reuters) – The number of coronavirus patients in U.S. hospitals breached 100,000 on Thursday, the highest level in eight months, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, as a resurgence of COVID-19 spurred by the highly contagious Delta variant strains the nation’s health care system. U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations have more than doubled in the past month. Over the past week, more than 500 people with COVID were admitted to hospitals each hour on average, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The United States reached its all-time peak for hospitalizations on Jan. 6 when there were 132,051 coronavirus-infected patients in hospital beds, according to a Reuters tally. As the vaccination campaign rapidly expanded in early 2021, hospitalizations fell and hit a 2021 low of 13,843 on June 28. However, COVID-19 admissions rose suddenly in July as the Delta variant became the dominant strain. The U.S. South is the epicenter of the latest outbreak but hospitalizations are rising nationwide.

Hillsborough County Rescue first responders admit a patient to the emergency room at St. Joseph’s Hospital amid a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tampa, Florida, U.S., August 3, 2021. REUTERS/Octavio Jones/Files
Patients are held in the hallway as St. Mary Medical Center resorts to using tents outside to handle the overflow at its 200 bed hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Apple Valley, California, U.S., January 12, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Critical care workers insert an endotracheal tube into a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) positive patient in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, February 11, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Florida has the highest number of COVID-19 hospitalized patients, followed by Texas and California, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. More than 95% of intensive care beds are currently occupied in Alabama, Florida and Georgia.

The Delta variant, which is rapidly spreading among mostly the unvaccinated U.S. population, has also sent a record number of children to hospital. There are currently over 2,000 confirmed and suspected pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to HHS. Three states – California, Florida and Texas – amount to about 32% of the total confirmed and suspected pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States. Children currently make up about 2.3% of the nation’s COVID-19 hospitalizations. Kids under 12 are not eligible to receive the vaccine. The country is hoping for vaccine authorization for younger children by autumn with the Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) vaccine. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said this week that the nation could get COVID-19 under control by early next year if vaccinations ramp up. Nick Bit: HA HA HA HA HA HA…………. Just like Afghanistan is under control The United States has given at least one dose of vaccine to about 61% of its population, according to the CDC.

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At-home COVID tests are ‘flying off the shelves’

The popularity of at-home COVID-19 testing kits has skyrocketed as the delta variant has spread, leaving many consumers scrambling to find them as retailers struggle to catch up with demand. Over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits are now the top-selling items in CVS stores, a spokeswoman said. Manufacturers of BinaxNOW Self Tests said demand for its products is increasing as cases rise and it’s working with retailers to keep store shelves stocked. “The phrase ‘flying off the shelves’ would probably be appropriate,” said Tim Halfin, regional pharmacy director for H-E-B’s Houston Division.

On HoustonChronicle.com: Struggling to find COVID tests in Houston? You’re not alone as delta variant rages, schools reopen

The home testing kits have grown in popularity with the concurrent rise in delta cases and the return of students to school this month, he said. Vaccination volumes at H-E-B’s Houston pharmacies have also returned to the peak volumes they reached in April. Supply throughout Houston has been spotty as demand for home test kits soars, but Halfin said H-E-B should be well-stocked for at least the next couple of weeks. “We placed what I’ve been told was a very large order of them,” he said. Leslie Santamaria, of Houston, had to do a bit of hunting to score her kit last week after learning she’d been exposed to COVID-19. She wanted immediate results — she is fully vaccinated, she said, but her young children are not. “I wanted to know ASAP to protect my under-12 children,” she said. The first pharmacy she went to was sold out of the kit she wanted, Santamaria said, so she searched CVS’ website for which stores had them in stock and found one on South Main. Walmart said it, too, is noticing and adjusting to an uptick in home test sales. “While we have seen increased demand for COVID testing kits, we are not experiencing major supply issues overall and if a particular store has low or no inventory,” it said in a statement, “we expect it is temporary as product moves through the supply chain.” Rapid tests at drive-thru operations by Walgreens and CVS are also getting harder to schedule as people scramble for tests. Testing slots are booked days in advance. Compounding the demand for testing in recent weeks was the rampant spread of colds and other viruses that had been suppressed as people wore masks and socially distanced earlier in the pandemic, said Steve Hoffart, owner of Magnolia Pharmacy in Magnolia. He said his customers are blowing through cough and cold medicines. “You would think it’s the fall,” he said, noting a run like this is abnormal for summer. “You don’t ever see this.” Hoffart said he received so many requests for home testing kits last week that he ordered his first batch, which arrived on shelves Monday. He said people are out and about more than they had been in a while and are catching all kinds of viruses en masse, are experiencing allergy symptoms and are wondering which is which. Immune systems got weaker during the pandemic as people masked up and limited their exposure to others, he said, urging use of Vitamin D to help give it a boost.

On HoustonChronicle.com: Houston retailers update mask policies as delta spurs COVID surge

“Your immune system’s like a muscle,” he said. “We didn’t let our immune system work.” Catherine Troisi, an epidemiologist with UTHealth School of Public Health, said resources shifted away from testing and toward vaccination earlier in the pandemic, but testing remains an important piece of the pandemic puzzle. Knowing your test result influences how careful you are about socializing and potentially sharing germs with others. “Your inclination might be you’re not as careful as you would be if you had a positive test in-hand,” she said. The PCR tests available at doctor’s offices and pharmacies are “the gold standard” for accuracy, Troisi said. The downside is results take longer — a day or two or sometimes more — to produce, while rapid antigen tests take around 15 minutes. Rapid tests, meanwhile, are not as sensitive so false negatives are possible. Troisi also recommended taking two rapid tests in the event a test is positive, as false positives are possible but less likely to happen twice. The advantage of rapid tests is they can be taken so quickly and regularly, she said. In settings where people take rapid tests every three days, “it’s actually very good at detecting infections and it rivals the PCR.” Nick Note: we have ordered and sold over 1000 test kits. At first we were buying them for $20 A KIT PLUS SHIPPING. aND SOLD THEN FOR $20 PLUS EXPEDITED SHIPPING.  The price has gone higher and we are now buying them for $25 a kit when we can find them, We have less then 40 in stock and another 100 due in next week. Amazon IS offering  them for $19.95 a kit but will not let you order them. And refers you to their $39 kit. We are in stock and can deliver in quantities. Amazon will not let us offer them in our store. Shoptify took down our test  kit offering until we provided them the FDA Emergency Use Authorization and proved they were a over the counter item. So they put our sight back up. But their credit card processor has a new policy… Get this they will not accept any charges for covid19 items. Our shoptiy store accepts PayPal and the PayPal credit card service. We expect to have a new processor next week. We are the highest quantity SHIP WITHIN  24 HOURS provider on the internet. And we are offering for free our Salvavida supplement or a mask with our ULPA filter for free with every order. for ten test kits or more. We are losing on every order and i am glad to do it. I am warning you stock up. My quantity delivery orders are pushed back to late September early October and the prices keep rising. On our Suppliments we are down to a little over 200 bottles and have ordered more but i do not expect new supplies until October…. I urge you to stock up while you can.

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U.S. coronavirus hospitalizations hit eight-month high over 100,000

(Reuters) – The number of coronavirus patients in U.S. hospitals breached 100,000 on Thursday, the highest level in eight months, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, as a resurgence of COVID-19 spurred by the highly contagious Delta variant strains the nation’s health care system. U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations have more than doubled in the past month. Over the past week, more than 500 people with COVID were admitted to hospitals each hour on average, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The United States reached its all-time peak for hospitalizations on Jan. 6 when there were 132,051 coronavirus-infected patients in hospital beds, according to a Reuters tally. As the vaccination campaign rapidly expanded in early 2021, hospitalizations fell and hit a 2021 low of 13,843 on June 28. However, COVID-19 admissions rose suddenly in July as the Delta variant became the dominant strain. The U.S. South is the epicenter of the latest outbreak but hospitalizations are rising nationwide. Florida has the highest number of COVID-19 hospitalized patients, followed by Texas and California, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. More than 95% of intensive care beds are currently occupied in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. The Delta variant, which is rapidly spreading among mostly the unvaccinated U.S. population, has also sent a record number of children to hospital. There are currently over 2,000 confirmed and suspected pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to HHS. Three states – California, Florida and Texas – amount to about 32% of the total confirmed and suspected pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States. Children currently make up about 2.3% of the nation’s COVID-19 hospitalizations. Kids under 12 are not eligible to receive the vaccine. The country is hoping for vaccine authorization for younger children by autumn with the Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) vaccine.  Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said this week that the nation could get COVID-19 under control by early next year if vaccinations ramp up. The United States has given at least one dose of vaccine to about 61% of its population, according to the CDC. Nick Note: Dr Faucci of you do not need a face mask fame now wants you to know this will be over ha ha ha ha next year….. Do you really want to present you asshole to these guys so they can blow blue sky up you ass?

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Not so mighty anymore… the ongoing humiliation of the US military

US forces helping to rescue Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule braced for more attacks on Friday after an Islamic State suicide bomber killed 85 people, including 13 US soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport. Two blasts and gunfire rocked the area outside the airport on Thursday evening, witnesses said. Video shot by Afghan journalists showed dozens of bodies strewn around a canal on the edge of the airport. A health official and a Taliban official said the toll of Afghans killed had risen to 72, including 28 Taliban members. The US military said 13 of its service members were killed. Islamic State (Isis), an enemy of the Taliban as well as the West, said one of its suicide bombers targeted “translators and collaborators with the American army”. US officials also blamed the group and vowed retribution. General Frank McKenzie, head of US Central Command, said US commanders were on alert for more attacks by Islamic State, including possibly rockets or vehicle-borne bombs targeting the airport. “We’re doing everything we can to be prepared,” he said, adding that some intelligence was being shared with the Taliban and that he believed “some attacks have been thwarted by them.” US forces are racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan by an August 31st deadline set by President Joe Biden, who says the United States had long ago achieved its original rationale for invading the country in 2001: to root out al Qaeda militants and prevent a repeat of the September 11th attacks on the United States. Mr Biden said he had ordered the Pentagon to plan how to strike Isis-K, the Islamic State affiliate that claimed responsibility. “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay,” Mr Biden said during televised comments from the White House. Video taken in the aftermath of the attack showed corpses in a waste water canal by the airport fence, some being fished out and laid in heaps while wailing civilians searched for loved ones. “I saw bodies and body parts flying in the air like a tornado blowing plastic bags,” said one Afghan witness. “That little water flowing in the sewage canal had turned into blood.” Zubair, a 24 year-old civil engineer, said he was close to a suicide bomber who detonated explosives. “Men, women and children were screaming. I saw many injured people – men, women and children – being loaded into private vehicles and taken toward the hospitals,” he said. A US Central Command spokesperson said 18 soldiers wounded in the attack were “in the process of being aeromedically evacuated from Afghanistan on specially equipped C-17s with embarked surgical units”. A Taliban official lamented the number of Taliban members killed in the Isis attack. “We have lost more people than the Americans in the airport blast,” a Taliban official said, adding that the Taliban was “not responsible for the chaotic evacuation plan prepared by foreign nations”. A Nato country diplomat in Kabul said all foreign forces were aiming to remove their citizens and embassy employees by August 30th. The Taliban would tighten security around the airport, said the diplomat who declined to be identified. “Security is their responsibility,” the diplomat said, adding that the Taliban should investigate the Islamic State network. Western countries fear that the Taliban, which once sheltered Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda, will allow Afghanistan to turn again into a haven for militants. The Taliban say they will not let the country be used by terrorists. Isis-K was initially confined to areas on the border with Pakistan but has established a second front in the north of the country. The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point says Isis-K includes Pakistanis from other militant groups and Uzbek extremist  in addition to Afghans. The United States would press on with evacuations despite the threat of further attacks, Mr McKenzie said, noting that there were still about round 1,000 US citizens in Afghanistan. The pace of evacuation flights had accelerated on Friday and American passport holders had been allowed to enter the airport compound, said a Western security official stationed inside the airport. In the past 12 days, Western countries have rescued nearly 100,000 people. But they acknowledge that thousands will be left behind when the last US troops leave at the end of the month. Several Western countries said the mass airlift of civilians was coming to an end and announced their last remaining troops had left the country. The American casualties in Thursday’s attack were believed to be the most US troops killed in Afghanistan in a single incident since 30 personnel died when a helicopter was shot down in 2011. The US deaths were the first in action in Afghanistan in 18 months, a fact likely to be cited by critics who accuse Mr Biden of recklessly abandoning a stable and hard-won status quo by ordering an abrupt pullout. –Reuters Nick Note: The mightiest t military in the world cannot control an airport nor arrange the evacuation of its citizens… REALLY Joe?

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German import prices hit largest increase in 40 years… And its not just in Germany

Costlier crude oil, cocoa and aluminium helped lift German import prices by a greater-than-expected 0.8 per cent month on month in August, Federal Statistics Office data showed today. Compared with August 2002, import prices were 1.7 per cent lower, underscoring that price pressures in Europe’s largest economy remain weak. Excluding mineral oils, import prices rose 0.3 per cent month on month but also fell 1.7 per cent year on year. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast the headline import price index rising 0.3 per cent month on month and declining 2.3 per cent year on year. In July, import prices rose 0.2 per cent month on month and fell 2.0 per cent year on year. So far there is little sign of German firms being able to pass on higher import prices to consumers. Factory gate prices declined for a 12th consecutive month in August, according to the monthly Reuters/BME survey of purchasing managers. Strong competition, excess capacity and pressure from customers were all reported to have encouraged price discounting, said NTC Research, which compiles the PMI data. Germany’s consumer price index in September fell 0.1 per cent month on month, rising at an unchanged annual rate of 1.1 per cent, according to preliminary data published this week. While cocoa in August was 7.1 per cent more expensive than in July it was still 25 per cent cheaper than in August 2002, the Statistics Office said.Similarly, aluminium was nearly six per cent cheaper on the year despite a month-on-month price increase of 4.3 per cent. Nick Note: No matter what bullshit they spin. Inflation is embedded and spinning out of control. Central banks the world over will be raising rates significantly. Fuck the jobs market and double fuck real estate and while they are at it they will triple fuck the equities market who deserve the wipeout… in fact they are begging for it. No matter what they spin at the Woodstock fuck fest for PHD mathematicians in the Jackson hole in Wyoming…. I wonder why they picked this particular hole to have their yearly fuckfest….. Maybe its the water… as in watering whole……

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Pentagon confirms US soldiers killed in Kabul Third blast heard near Kabul airport – reports

Update: At least 12 U.S. service members were killed in the Afghanistan bombings, including 11 Marines and one Navy corpsman, according to two U.S. officials, the Associated Press reports. Officials say a number of US military troops were wounded. They warn, however, that the numbers may grow.

This is a developing story. Stay with Military Times for updates.

Third blast heard near Kabul airport – reports

A third explosion was heard near Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, hours after two previous suicide attacks have occurred. According to Fox News reports, cumulatively the bombings took away at least 10 US marines’ lives, while dozens of American service members have been wounded. Alarm sirens are heard across Kabul as the Taliban warns civilians to not leave homes and allegedly cuts of cell network to prevent further bombings that could be set off with a phone. ISIS-K branch located in Afghanistan is believed to be behind the attacks. Nick Note: What the US should do is fly in10,000 marines. Find where the palace the grand mullah is staying and level the place

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Fed runs risk of financial market bubbles – Bullard says the Fed has to ‘get going’ on the taper, may need to get aggressive to stop inflationBullard

  • St. Louis Fed President James Bullard says the central bank should have its tapering process finished by the end of March 2022.
  • At that point, we’ll see “whether inflation has moderated,” he said. “If it hasn’t moderated, we’re going to have to be more aggressive to contain inflation.”
  • Bullard, who spoke from the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole conference, said there’s some evidence the Fed’s bond-buying blitz has started to create bubbles in the U.S. housing market.

The President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve James Bullard stated in an interview on Thursday that if the Bank doesn’t engage in tapering the bond-buying program soon, it runs the risk of creating bubbles in the financial markets, as well as runaway inflation. “We do have a new framework we did say that we would allow inflation to run above target for some time, but not this much above target. So for that reason, I think we want to get going on taper. Get the taper finished by the end of the first quarter next year,” Bullard noted. The Fed official expressed worry that at this point asset purchasing is doing more damage to the economy as the housing market is already seeing a bubble. Following tapering, if the inflation doesn’t moderate, the Fed will have to act more aggressively to contain the price increases.

St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said Thursday that the central bank should begin curbing its monthly stimulus efforts soon and have the process wrapped up by the end of March to prevent the U.S. economy from overheating. Many Fed leaders believe the central bank should reduce the pace of its monthly purchases of $120 billion in Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities in a process known as tapering. Bullard said the Fed’s purchases were appropriate in 2020 to support American business through the Covid-19 pandemic, but they now run the risk of creating bubbles in financial markets and runaway inflation. “We do have a new framework we did say that we would allow inflation to run above target for some time, but not this much above target,” Bullard said of recent price increases in the U.S. economy. “So for that reason I think we want to get going on taper. Get the taper finished by the end of the first quarter next year,” he continued. “And then we can evaluate what the situation is and we’ll be able to see at that point whether inflation has moderated and if that’s the case we’ll be in great shape. If it hasn’t moderated, we’re going to have to be more aggressive to contain inflation.” Bullard, who spoke with CNBC’s Steve Liesman for an interview that aired on “Squawk Box,” said there’s some evidence that the Fed’s bond-buying blitz has started to create bubbles in the U.S. housing market. “I think that there is worry that we’re doing more damage than helping with the asset purchases because there is an incipient housing bubble in the U.S. The median house price, at least the number I saw, was approaching $400,000,” he said. “We got into a lot of trouble in the mid-2000s by being too complacent about housing prices, so I think we want to be very careful on that this time around.” Officials have set the standard of “substantial further progress” as the point at which they will consider tightening monetary policy that includes benchmark interest rates being held near zero. Bullard spoke as part of the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole conference, which is virtual in 2021 to protect against the spread of Covid-19. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note last traded at 1.358%. Central bank leaders use the summit to discuss the current of the U.S. economy and how monetary policy could be adjusted. This year likely will feature significant debate over when to begin tapering. Bullard is known as a “hawk” among central bank officials, meaning he tends to be more apt to pursue higher interest rates and curb easy policy sooner than his peers. He is not a voting member on the Fed’s policymaking committee in 2021, but will be in 2022. Reducing the minimum $120 billion a month in bond purchases is the first step in the tightening process. The Fed would later move to increase interest rates. Nick Note: The stock market has not yet realized that the FED is going to rain on their parade…..

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U.S. data show rising ‘breakthrough’ infections among fully vaccinated

CHICAGO, (Reuters) –  Some 25% of SARS-CoV-2 infections among Los Angeles County residents occurred in fully vaccinated residents from May through July 25, a period that includes the impact of the highly transmissible Delta variant, U.S. officials reported on Tuesday. The data, published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly report on death and disease, shows an increase in so-called “breakthrough” infections among fully vaccinated individuals. The CDC is relying on data from cohorts, such as the Los Angeles County study, to determine whether Americans need a third dose of COVID-19 vaccines to increase protection. Government scientists last week laid out a strategy for booster doses beginning on Sept. 20, pending reviews from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the CDC.The new data released on Tuesday involved more than 43,000 reported infections among Los Angeles County residents aged 16 and older. Of them, 10,895, or 25.3%, occurred in fully vaccinated persons, 1,431, or 3.3%, were in partially vaccinated persons, and 30,801, or 71.4%, were in unvaccinated individuals. The vaccines did, however, protect individuals from more severe cases. According to the study, 3.2% of fully vaccinated individuals who were infected with the virus were hospitalized, just 0.5% were admitted to an intensive care unit and 0.2% were placed on a ventilator. Among the unvaccinated who fell ill, 7.5% were hospitalized, 1.5% were admitted to an intensive care unit and 0.5% required breathing support with a mechanical ventilator.

In addition to the LA County data, the CDC on Tuesday released an update on the HEROES cohort study among healthcare workers that showed a significant drop in vaccine effectiveness among vaccinated frontline workers in eight states who became infected with the coronavirus.

Vaccine efficacy during the period of the study when Delta was predominant fell to 66% from 91% prior to the arrival of the Delta variant, according to the report. Nick Note: Reality is the breakthrough is with us. In the US conveniently they do not record breakthrough infections. In Israel where the best data is available shows in this August surge 60% of the people infected were vaccinated twice. Bottom line is as far as i am concerned your vaccine lasts 6 months. I urge you to get your third vaccines.