Interesting Links for 01-03-2021

[andrewducker]

A Decades-Long Quest Reveals New Details of Antimatter

(tags:physics )

Which character from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights are you?

(tags:art quiz ViaDrCross )

Video proof released that Winston Churchill collaborated with Hitler!

(tags:viaSwampers video Hitler music fake funny )

Looks like the effectiveness of the single Pfizer vaccine dose falls to 58%. Please do keep safe.

(tags:vaccine UK pandemic )

Comments

[cmcmck]

The 58% article flies in the face of all the evidence coming out of Scotland, Wales and England and this report has not shown up anywhere else.

I'm taking this with a largish dose of salt and not just because I'm a sixtysomething who's had the first Pfizer jab! :op

[andrewducker]

This *is* that evidence coming out of Scotland.

It's based off of the data in the data they've released here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/scotland_firstvaccinedata_preprint.pdf

Table 2. "Vaccinated overall" section. Peaks at 84% then seems to drop after that.

[cmcmck]

Though of course no one is likely to be left on just one dose.

[andrewducker]

They will be for 12 weeks.

Which is why knowing that the cover from it seems to drop from week 5, so that they stay careful and don't assume that it's going to cover them completely until they get it, is important.

[cmcmck]

I wasn't making assumptions I have to admit- we're fairly safe where we are so we're staying where we are for now! :o)

[andrewducker]

Please do! I'd like all my friends to make it through in one piece!

[danieldwilliam]

Has anyone looked at the impact of having three doses of a vaccine? Or the impact of having both the Pfizer and the Astra-Zenica vaccine over a period of months?

[cmcmck]

I did hear that someone in Australia overdosed some people by 4x the correct dose but the outcome doesn't appear to have made the news as yet.

[armiphlage]

I suspect that it'd be similar to someone getting one or two doses, then getting exposed to someone infected - the vaccines have different mechanisms, but are both targeting the same spike protein, so the end result should be the same.

Of course, real life doesn't care what I think, and biological processes are complicated.

[danieldwilliam]

That makes sense as a working hypothesis.

And we won't have any data on the effect of a 12 week gap on overall protection from week 15 onwards because I don't think anyone in the UK will have had their second dose yet. Or not many and them only very recently.

[channelpenguin]

Damn, my folks just got their f1rst shot last week - Pfizer. :-(

[andrewducker]

Please tell them to keep safe.

Hopefully the second shot will bring it back up permanently.

[calimac]

Owing to a scheduling glitch, B. is getting her second dose of Pfizer 29 days out instead of the recommended 21. From this I guess she'll be OK.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, can't see why that would be terrible. Glad she's getting it soon.

Have you had yours?

[calimac]

I'm not eligible here yet. Age limit right now is 65. They say they'll be opening up the next tranch in a couple of weeks; we'll see.