25 January 2021

Parallax View - part the forty second

Another week's up, so here are today's numbers:
  >= 1,000 -   920
100 to 999 - 1,682
(New) grand total of counties reads at 3,119. While I've not gotten into an argument with the Topo folks over this re-definition of 'affected' counties, it certainly looks like a move to bolster wannaBePresident Huey Long 2024's perpetual lying.

Hot off the presses,
For the B.1.351 variant, vaccination with the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine produces neutralizing antibody titers that remain above the neutralizing titers that were shown to protect NHPs against wildtype viral challenge. While the Company expects these levels of neutralizing antibodies to be protective, pseudovirus neutralizing antibody titers were approximately 6-fold lower relative to prior variants. These lower titers may suggest a potential risk of earlier waning of immunity to the new B.1.351 strains/. [my emphasis]
Gentle reader may remember the various times in these endeavors where the durability of coronavirus vaccines was mused about. Guess that was warranted.

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