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Getting vaccinated provides strong protection against serious illness, hospitalisation and death from .

Get vaccinated when it’s your turn and keep up the other protective measures to stay safe from .

How blood pressure works - Wilfred Manzano View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-blood-pressure-works-wilfred-manzano If you lined up all the blood vessels in your body, they’d be 60 thousan...

Right now, in the USA, 99% of people being hospitalized & dying from COVID-19 are those who chose not to be vaccinated.

This confirms that whoever’s been advising you to decline the Vaccine, does not value your health or longevity.

A form of biological “unnatural” selection.

Get vaccinated even if you’ve had .

The vaccine acts as a booster to protect you longer. 💪🏽

And continue to practice protective measures:

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to protect yourself and your loved ones from the .

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Here's what the numbers mean:

"Astra has now been shown to be more effective when the second dose is given at 12 weeks compared with earlier than six weeks. The effectiveness for the first dose is as high as 80 percent, and a second dose increases this to 85 to 90 percent. Sinovac, in real-world experience in 10 million people in Chile, showed a vaccine effectiveness against moderate to severe disease of 85 percent. In a recent trial in Indonesia among 128,290 healthcare workers, Sinovac prevented symptomatic disease in 94 percent of participants, prevented hospitalization in 96 percent, and prevented death in 98 percent. These real-world numbers are just as good as those for the mRNA vaccines.

In other words, ALL four vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, Sinovac, and Astra have shown SIMILAR real- world effectiveness against symptomatic disease. This is important because effectiveness is a more realistic measure of how well a vaccine works since it accounts for logistics and handling issues. All four vaccines prevent symptomatic disease in the 85 to 95 percent range, and all are nearly 100 percent effective in decreasing the risk of dying. Data from other vaccines continues to be gathered, but there is a reasonable expectation that efficacy against symptomatic and severe disease will remain high."

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When was the last time you drank water? Keep hydrated to keep cool in the heat and to help you .

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A more positive read on covid

Latest from Dr. Edsel Salvaña

Sunday rounds again. No rest for the weary. ER is full and people are lined up with positive tests. On the more optimistic side, this isn't exactly like last year when we were running scared, we were running out of PPE, and people were dying left and right.

1. We know how to take care of COVID-19 patients much better now. We have dexamethasone, remdesivir, and tocilizumab. We know how to use high flow nasal oxygen to keep people off the ventilators. I haven't had a single COVID-19 death since January, and I've had some really sick patients including doctors who were in the ICU. I'd rather not have so many though and so prevention is still the best for everyone.

2. We are able to detect variants and keep track of them. The surge last July was supercharged by the D614G mutation and it was months before we confirmed this. Now we can track all the variants and do enhanced contact tracing. If we keep the proportion of variants low, we can keep this under control.

3. We know what works - faceshield and mask combination is more than 90% effective IF used properly. We also know eating together if you aren't from the same household is a MAJOR source of spread. The recent PGH outbreak was partially from this, and I've had two outbreaks in my lab before even after I had banned eating together. Almost every single outbreak can be traced to lax adherence or to someone who already had symptoms and decided not to isolate. I hope this time we follow meticulously our health protocols or this is never going to end.

I'm vaccinated but its just the first dose and its been only two weeks. There may already be some partial protection but I'm still gearing up same as before I was vaccinated. I'm a bit less scared for myself since I am less likely to get severe disease, but I am still scared for ALL my patients.

I know its been a long year, but this is far from over. Please continue to use your armor - mask, face shield and physical distance. There is hope and we do know that all pandemics end. We just have to hold on for a bit longer. Thank you and stay safe.

X # # # pls cascade to all levels..
WMS.wear mask and shield
PD physical distance
ACC avoid close contact
WH Wash Hands.
Ty. GOD BLESS US ALL
With God, We Shall Overcome.
Pray. Pray. Pray.

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How the Sinovac Vaccine Works Using inactivated coronaviruses to train the immune system.

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