My CDC approved full vax date came and went Tuesday without fanfare. When I got my first shot, I was so looking forward to the date. But then I looked at the research and realized protection starts 2 weeks after shot #1 and robust protection starts 1 week after shot #2. The CDC just chose 2 weeks after #2 because people don’t appreciate nuance.
But, yeah, I can get into vax sections at sporting events now. I’m going to a soccer game Sunday and my seats are in the pod section. Not because I’m uncomfortable being in the more crowded vax section. The pod section just has better seats.
I’d guess the same, but wondering why it’s called “pod”. I have heard of groups of people who share covid exposures (or lack thereof) call themselves a pod, and I’m trying to see how that relates to seats at a ball park.
Probably because you buy a group of 4 or 6 or 8 seats or something as a block. The ballpark is already losing a ton of revenue. They might not want to sell individual seats that are socially distanced.
So it would make a lot of sense for them to sell a small block, or pod, of seats as a unit and then socially distance that “pod” from the other “pods”.
This is all speculation. But if I was in charge of maximizing the ballpark’s revenue while following Covid protocols, that’s probably what I’d do.
Yeah, Each group of seats together is called a Pod. I use that term rather than the “unvaccinated section” because I’m sure there are many adults who are vaccinated in the section, even with a vaccinated section available. And yes, they’re more expensive. Limited supply and buying on the secondary market will do that.
Or this just acts like the other 4 coronaviruses where most people get them in childhood and subsequent infections are minor colds the vast majority of the time.
I saw an article today that current research suggests that for those who’ve had natural infection + vaccination that subsequent boosters won’t be needed. Jury’s still out on those whose only immune response is from vaccination, but they expect to have a better idea soon.
So common cold coronaviruses do not confer long-term immunity?
I thought they did, but there’s just so dang many of them and they keep mutating such that no matter how many colds you catch, there’s still more out there that you haven’t caught yet.
I thought you basically never caught the same cold twice though.
There are four Corona viruses, plus a number of adenoviruses and rhinoviruses that together cause “the common cold”.
At the start of the pandemic i researched the coronavirus, and found a handful of studies documenting that many people (perhaps not all people) can catch the same corona virus over and over. One person caught the same cold 3 months after the first time. More commonly, people were immune for about a year.
But there are also studies on survivors of MERS and SARS which seem to show long term immunity.
Something like 17 years & counting for SARS survivors.
Different virus family, but there was a study done in 2006 (IIRC) on survivors of the 1918 flu that showed they still had immunity about 9 decades later.
15 people were exposed, of which 10 got infected. The 5 who didn’t get it had some higher immunity levels prior to the study suggesting potential earlier exposure.
1 year later they were re exposed to the same dose. The five who didn’t get it the first time all were infected the second time, with one having symptoms. Of the 10 who did get it a year ago, 1 couldn’t make it for retesting. 6/9 retested were reinfected, although none of them had any symptoms and the duration of the virus shedding was shorter for all subjects than the initial infection of the 10 was.
I went to a very busy indoor farmers market/supermarket today. They had a sign up saying masks optional. I’d say at least 80% of shoppers were masked, as were all the employees that I noticed.
Very safe. I’m vaccinated. The people I want to protect are vaccinated. And society is vaccinated. All of these levels of vaccination combine multiplicatively. I’m 95% safe. Mom is 95% safe. And the case rate is 95% less.
It’s a shame that this thing became so horribly divisive, because I feel like in a very real sense, we’ve been fighting a war, and we are just now really winning. We fought together and we won together and it’s a beautiful kind of thing.