Really horrible incentives being created for a region that can not afford more bad incentives. If you're South Africa right now, you're definitely thinking, "Why the hell should I try to help in the future when all I get is shit on in response." The scare headlines from NYT and elsewhere are less than helpful right now. Immune evasion by the virus is sort of predictable, and not doesn't have to be a death sentence for the economy all over again. I'll bet if anyone looked, they'd find more variants. My step brother and his wife just got covid for the second time, and they were vaccinated in between. That's some immune evasion right there, but who the fuck is going to sequence their viral genomes? We all need to cool it right about now. I really hope to never become a person who uses phrases such as "main stream" or "liberal" media, but they're really pissing me off right now.
Fuckin' Bryan Adams tested positive twice in one month His rep said at the time that Adams was "fully vaccinated and has no symptoms at all."n October, Adams had to pull out of a performance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony after he tested positive.
And for my next trick. I would be interested to see a per capita (or case) comparison of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing broken down by country, or even at the state level here. Maybe my google skills are lacking. Yup, media frustration is real. It's not only a question of lessening funding/income, you've also gotta wonder if the absence of serious competition from right-wing outlets lets the "liberal" gatekeepers backslide into slop.
As of December 2020 Not per capita? But let's not get greedy
Thanks. Very interesting. For posterity: Gotta be careful with that Y-axis log scale. So there aren't many wealthy countries that were doing less sequencing than the USA on a per case count basis as of Dec. 2020. I would bet we've improved upwards, but probably not even close to by factor of 10. It's also a function of outbreak severity and testing rates, but yeah. Maybe it's a more benign variant than Delta, i.e. doesn't replicate as fast? Time will tell.