Demand for Covid vaccines continues to wane in the U.S., where states are requesting small fractions of their allotted doses from the Federal Government to save them from having to throw misused doses away. The Guardian has the story.
Reduced demand, which is contributing to a growing stockpile of doses, comes as nearly 46% of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of a two-shot vaccine and about 34% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
Last week, Joe Biden announced a plan to get at least one dose of vaccine administered to 70% of the nation’s adult population by July 4th – a date also floated for a full-economic and social interaction re-opening of America.
But on Saturday, hours before a pre-recorded message from Biden to a Global Citizen Vax Live event, it was reported that the nation’s vaccination rate dropped to two million shots a day – a 20% decrease from the week before…
Reports that many states are requesting that the Biden administration send them only a fraction of their allocations is a clear indication of persistent vaccine hesitancy in the U.S..
According to the Associated Press, Wisconsin health officials have asked for just 8% of the 162,680 doses that had been set aside for the state next week. Julie Willems Van Dijk, a State Health Department official, has said demand is softening and vaccinators are reducing existing inventories before ordering more doses.
Iowa health officials have requested 29% of the state’s allotment. Kansas officials asked for 9%, as the state has about 647,000 doses on hand; and Illinois officials says the state has five weeks’ worth of doses on hand and plans to cut its request, also to 9%. Similar patterns were reported by Connecticut – 26% – and South Carolina, 21%. North Carolina and Washington have reduced their requests by 40%.
But some states are maintaining full orders, including Maryland and Colorado. New York City is taking its full quota despite seeing the number of daily shots administered drop by about 40% since a mid-April peak.
Unused doses are expected to be allocated to states with higher demands.
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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-05-reveals-patients-positive-covid-recovery.html New research reveals why some patients may test positive for COVID-19 long after recovery In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers analyzing test results began noticing something strange: patients who had already recovered from COVID-19 would sometimes inexplicably test positive on a PCR test weeks or even months later. Although people can catch COVID-19 for a second time, this did not appear to be the case for these patients; no live viruses were isolated from their samples, and some studies found these false positive results even while holding participants in quarantine. Also, RNAs generally have a short life—most only stick around for a few minutes—so it was unlikely for positive tests to be the result of residual RNAs. Now, a new paper from the lab of Whitehead Institute Member and MIT professor of biology Rudolf Jaenisch may offer an answer to why some patients continue to test positive after recovery from COVID-19. In the paper, published online May 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jaenisch and collaborators show that genetic sequences from the RNA virus SARS-CoV-2 can integrate into the genome of the host cell through a process called reverse transcription. These sections… Read more »
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2105968118
SARS-CoV-2 RNA integrates into the genome:
“[…] we recovered ‘human–viral–human’ chimeric reads encompassing a direct target site repeat & a consensus recognition site of the LINE1 endonuclease was present on both ends of the host DNA […].”
Basically means if you’ve had Covid, you can be positive forever using high CT PCR
or maybe the “test” is
shitjust not fit for purpose.“no live viruses were isolated from their samples”
What’s the definitive answer to this: has live SARS-CoV-2 ever been isolated from any sample?
Well now that you mention it……
it does not matter. every atom is know, it’s been sequenced, virii do no exist in isolation.
Get lost.
The number of downvotes to your comment highlights a point I made to a group of sincere US scientists, who tried to convince me that viruses didn’t exist. My position is that I’ve no feel for the standard of evidence, and to obtain sufficient fluency to enable me to offer a view from a standpoint of high expertise would take more time than I’m willing to assign to such a task.
Proving negatives is almost impossible. I knew that the moment the question arose. So as it’s impossible to prove the negative, it simply cannot be a tool to use to persuade people not to be afraid.
There are so many other tools which work well that I’ve chosen to leave this question in the dust.
For a brief while I had fon down as a paid agent of the dark side. However, it didn’t take too long to realise, that no one would pay for fon’s endless drivel. Poor buggar, a really sad case.
As far as anyone knows, after several requests for information, no live SARS2 virus has ever been isolated. However there are computer simulations based on the original Wuhan code issued to Drosten back in January 2020.
Indeed its quite possible that SARS2 virus is just a computer simulation. What covid19 is of course is different. Its a bit like AIDS, its the breakdown of the immune system caused by ‘something’ which certainly seems to have a protein spike which is being replicated for injection under the auspices of a ‘vaccine’.
Its all to easy to work backwards if you believe the injections are the aim, to rationalising everything that went before it as the means to that end. Starting with a bit of computer code.
I am not saying I believe that, but its at least plausable.
I agree with you. There’s certainly an illness, overlapping the symptoms of other illnesses. Something leaves it’s immunological footprints in people’s immune systems. Their T-cells acquire responsiveness to peptides predicted from the claimed SARS-Cov-2 sequence. Maybe it’s SARS-CoV-2, maybe it’s not.
I have a strange feeling that these very clever people do not really know what they are doing.
They know exactly what they are doing.
Mad scientists gone mad!
I’m not vaccine hesitant! I don’t want your product! I have no contract with your company!
Indeed. Having made my assessment, my decision is firm. Nothing hesitant about it.
It reminds me of the TV license scam. I don’t watch their drivel so I don’t need to be harassed thank you very much! Incidentally I’ve been getting threatening letters but they’ve never turned up. Paper tiger I think. Pathetic.
Why is it “vaccine hesitancy”? When clothing sales are down, the media don’t tell us about clothing hesitancy. Alcohol sales fall; it isn’t alcohol hesitancy. Low turnout for an election, it’s not voter hesitancy. Murder rate down, it’s not homicide hesitancy.
it’s in the word the quality or state of being hesitant.
You are obviously a shill. The Covid “vaccination” shills have got to be the most unintelligent and useless people on the Internet – you can’t get a single thing right.
That red hand-shaped thing under every single one of your posts? It means people know you are a shill and are telling you to do one.
Why don’t you go to https://www.reddit.com/r/CovidVaccinated/
You can a) be with your own kind and b) you can tell all the true believers there who are having side-effects that they are just imagining things.
Pray, just ignore the little fon
When it pollutes your favourite forums.
It doesn’t like the zombie crowd:
It’s no fun to agree with morons.
(Not a good rhyme, but I haven’t had brekker yet.)
Let’s help our friend from the Red Hand Brigade to their 77th downvote.
Not hesitancy! That’s such a condescending term, implying ignorance and cowardice. Rather say “vaccine” intelligence, shrewdness, wisdom. We are not “hesitant,” we are decisive, informed, insightful. Not gullible, not foolish, not imprudent.
Do you think? I think hesitancy to take an unknown biologically active substance to prevent a disease for which I am at incredibly low risk of developing severe symptoms, in this context implies wisdom, and a “safety first” mindset.
On the other hand, perhaps we could describe the non-hesitant as vaccine gung-ho or vaccine reckless. If we start using vaccine reckless as a term, people might understand the lunacy of what they are doing to themselves.
At the end of the day though, I think it all boils down to how frightened you are of COVID. In my case, not one jot. Or maybe a little as to how much you believe a vaccine will facilitate future travel plans. To which I say, “not before the virus disappears….or the vaccines are shown not to have an approval risk/safety benefit”
We agree, Sophie. I didn’t express myself very well.
And dieting is food hesitancy.
And then there’s voting heresy. And, for schoolchildren, homework hesitancy.And, for women with headaches, copulation hesitancy. And for politicians, truth hesitancy.
Hesitancy could be the next big thing, if people would only make up their minds to embrace it.
Yes, the implicit assumption is “every rational person ought to accept vaccination”.
That’s not objectively correct, certainly not with these gene-based immunomodulators, but it’s a clever ploy.
One of the key factors, usually ignored by the policy makers, is risk-aversion. Different rational people have different degrees of it. That’s what is wrong with one size fits all policy,
a clear indication of persistent vaccine hesitancy in the U.S ?
I love how anyone who has refused the jab is ‘hesitant’, sick of hearing this phrase!!
I’m not hesitant. There is no way on God’s earth I will take this vaccine, I do not consent, my body, my choice, end of.
I wonder how many of the ‘hesitant’ states are republican?
Sweden’s public health authority has now updated its guidance on PCR testing. Finally some sanity. Will the rest of Europe follow?
“The Swedish Public Health Agency has developed national criteria for assessing freedom from infection in covid-19.
The PCR technology used in tests to detect viruses cannot distinguish between viruses capable of infecting cells and viruses that have been neutralized by the immune system and therefore these tests cannot be used to determine whether someone is contagious or not. RNA from viruses can often be detected for weeks (sometimes months) after the illness but does not mean that you are still contagious. There are also several scientific studies that suggest that the infectivity of covid-19 is greatest at the beginning of the disease period.
The recommended criteria for assessing freedom from infection are therefore based on stable clinical improvement with freedom from fever for at least two days and that at least seven days have elapsed since the onset of symptoms. For those who have had more pronounced symptoms, at least 14 days after the illness and for the very sickest, individual assessment by the treating doctor.”
Common sense? From our lot??? More battalions of flying pigs will be seen than the likelihood of that happening!
Interesting how long it takes for govt Bureaucrats to catch on. Apparently, they only read certain papers.The discoverer of the PCR test, Kary Mullis, noted this long ago and specifically stated that the test was not meant for its current use.
I cannot see how they possibly cannot see that you cannot allow large scale use of a new technology on emergency approval and without thorough longterm validation. I can’t prove it, but it seems to me highly likely this is treatable to a comparable, possibly better level than the jab. I find it hard to believe we haven’t got something better than qcovid to within relatively tight confidence intervals identify those relatively few likely to have a severe outcome. Nothing about this makes sense. As an engineer I am constantly feeling the science approach is not suitable for these kind of high consequence situations. I often hear we should trust science because of improvements in vehicle reliability – but that’s engineering, as far as I can make out science has not taken on board those lessons engineering is learning from painful mistakes; it retains many of the problems that help us fail. I feel engineering welcomes, knows it must encourage, people to raise their concerns, however convinced we are we have correctly validated, without requiring them first to prove it through peer reviewed papers. I too fear we are in great danger, we are rapidly running out of time to… Read more »