Elizabeth: It *must* be a typo, right? — Subium • Bluesky web client

People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louismedicine.wustl.edu Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies

Why does this paper begin, "The covid pandemic is over..."? That is untrue.

It *must* be a typo, right?

Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, no scientist would ever write that, right?

Seems like a pretty solid source.

Since the sentence that claims that then immediately follows it up by saying that people are still being hospitalized by it, I think they mean that medically speaking the pandemic *is* over, because the disease is now endemic. Though they could be clearer on that.

Last I heard, the WHO still classifies it as a pandemic even tho they called an end to the international public health emergency.

Seems like they just haven't gotten around to updating that verbiage.

... after glancing at this page, fact-checking sounds like too much work so let's go with your explanation and pretend I tried 😅 www.who.int/emergencies/...

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) – World Health Organizationwww.who.int Information on COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus.

Michael, everything the WHO and CDC do in regard to communication is deliberate. Word choice is everything with public healrh comms! WHO tripled down on not airbourne, but droplets, for years. I would regard their sustained use of pandemic as deliberate.

Exactly. Until the WHO declares it over, it's still a pandemic.

Which is why I think better contextually-clarifying language is needed here; this could also be interpreted to mean the federal gov’t response state. However, I also think that semantic issue shouldn’t override the remarkable data from the study presented here.

Wut. It's got animal reservoirs, it's endemic. Most scientists agree on this.

You are exactly right.

Yes

Exactly this. It's endemic.

It's at the stage of a broad epidemic. However, every single wave edges on pandemic again. If we don't neutralize it through universal vaccination and responsive mask mandates and lockdowns, in areas of high hospitalization rates, we will never be done with it.

It's another flu. That's where it's at right now.

likely right, and yes, it needs clarity.

No doctor would write that. Scientists certainly might.

Dutch and Swedish doctors would write that. My allergist asks me why am I still wearing a mask. I'm sure my file has a note saying I'm hysterical 🫠

Wait. Your allergist, someone who deals with allergies, is wondering why someone with allergies would wear a mask when many allergens are airborne? What.

Most ppl in this country have completely internalised an ableist and eugenecist approach to life. It's a mix of neoliberalism with nature knows best. Mind you, I'm doing quite OK, fellow Dutchies with chronic diseases are screwed.

Yeah, they don't even realize it.

Sadly so.

The really stupid part is that immune compromised patients were advised to wear a mask outside the home BEFORE the pandemic, and suddenly it's bad for them to do so. The same goes for any time an epidemic surges in an area.

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