Beats me....but the data is being reported from myriad sources worldwide now.
COVID vax does not stop infection
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Are we going to debate the meaning of "have"?
PeoplesElbow
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I've always wondered why people with no symptoms get tested. I understand some having to be tested but when 10% positive is considered high that means 90% of the people tested either had something else or nothing at all.
Clem72
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I would suspect a good number of those who don't want the vaccine also didn't care for and/or completely ignored the limited gathering, lockdown, and masks efforts. I.E. the ones who are supposed to be superspreaders.
PeoplesElbow
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FWIW I saw pregnancy tests at the dollar store and bought one and peed on it to see if it would pop positive, it didn't.
Tech
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Wondered too. Maybe if I had a close contact who had symptoms and tested positive I would get tested. That is a very low number.
Tech
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The county publishes those numbers it's between 20-25% of positives.
PeoplesElbow
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If some place is 70%vaxxed and the vaccine is 50% effective at reducing infection say 10% of unvaxxed gets Covid that means 5% of vaxxed gets it that would mean roughly the same number of vaxxed vs unvaxxed tests positive.
Every static can be presented to support both sides.
Every static can be presented to support both sides.
SamSpade
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Nah. I just don't see the wisdom in testing for a virus which at a given time, most of us "have".
In "The Walking Dead" - first season - they learn a truth. They all HAVE it. It just comes out once they're dead.
EVERY person on Earth has the virus.
The COVID? At any given time, a LOT of us have it. And then we don't. Most of us won't know - it just sits in our nostrils, not doing anything.
That's because you're not a hypochondriac or someone who needs to be part of the latest fad group. You're not the person whose FB is filled with drama to get attention. But I know you've seen the people who are, and those are the ones who run get tested every 5 seconds in hopes that they get a positive.
I was referring to the very disturbing data coming in from Scandinavia, the UK etc showing that the majority of new cases are in vaccinated people. Our percentages here are very quickly rising ...they'll be similar very soon.
actually, speaking as a statistician, that is a completely false statement. Data IS routinely manipulated to support a questionable hypothesis or claim, but, properly analyzed, there is never more than one correct answer.
Clem72
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Phew, dodged that bullet. So who would have been the lucky man?
PeoplesElbow
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I wonder why anyone would want a swab shoved that far up their nose.
PeoplesElbow
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Aren't most of their vaxxed done with the one that isn't available here from oxford.
There's a gay joke in there somewhere....
Hijinx
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They probably did not get it from the instruments, but from some person who changed the bandage with dirty hand or from a hospital room that wasn't clean, or maybe from dirt that got in a wound before being operated on, in the case of shooting or stabbings.