CBS News reports that states with low COVID-19 vaccine rates are seeing cases rise as the Delta variant spreads. This includes two states in the South, in which rates are among the lowest in the nation.
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USA Today reports that a University of Miami study conducted a study of 45 men aged 18 to 40. They took samples right before they got their vaccine and 70 days after their second shot. The study showed that neither the Pfizer nor the Moderna vaccine had any effect on sperm count.
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USA Today also reported Monday that there is a debate over whether natural immunity or vaccination is better. We don’t know which one lasts longer. What we do know is that COVID-19 cases and deaths have both gone down since people started getting vaccinated.
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The Associated Press reported that COVID-19 deaths have dropped below 300 per day, the lowest since March of last year. More Americans are now dying from accidents, respiratory diseases, strokes, and Alzheimer’s according to the CDC. Around 150 million Americans, or almost half the population, have become fully vaccinated.
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Yahoo News reports that Canada has found that it is safe to mix Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer, says that both vaccines use similar technology, making them safe to mix. He notes that the first dose protects you from severe consequences and hospitalization, but does not interrupt transmission. The second dose does interrupt transmission. He says it’s safe to mix them regardless of which one you took as your first dose.
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Former Trump Administration FDA Chief Scott Gottlieb told Face the Nation Sunday that there could be a fall Coronavirus surge if only 75% of the country’s eligible population is vaccinated. He thinks that an increase of infections to 20% of last winter’s peak, as one model projected, is an aggressive estimate, it depends on how much population wide immunity people have based on vaccination.
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KING5, a Seattle-based local TV station, interviewed two virologists, Dr. Alex Greninger (University of Washington) and Dr. Larry Corey (Fred Hutch, a research facility focusing on cancer, HIV, and contagious diseases), about the effect of water on Coronavirus vaccine side effects. They said that water has no effect on whether or not you get side effects. The only real predictor of side effects is age; older people tend to suffer fewer side effects from the vaccine.
While getting our shots in Lenox, we were advised to wait several hours before taking Tylenol or Ibuprofen. Other people getting their shots have been advised not to take Ibuprofen at all, as it might counteract the vaccine. We got sick after taking the second Moderna shot, waited a day for immunity to kick in, took some Tylenol, and got better 12 hours later.
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