By Hal Brown
My own title and the headline for The Washington Post article make this a short story.
It’s based on a featured article (upper left below) in the subscription Washington Post.
Here’s the essence what the article says:
In the placebo group of the trial for Novavax’s vaccine, people with prior coronavirus infections appeared just as likely to get sick as people without them, meaning they weren’t fully protected against the B.1.351 variant that has swiftly become dominant in South Africa. The variant has been detected only a handful of times in the United States, including a case reported Friday in Virginia, which became the third state to identify the presence of the virus variant.
The preliminary finding from the South African vaccine trial, based on a data set with limitations, stirred debate and concern among researchers as results first hinted at in a news release last week were revealed more broadly this week.
“The data really are quite suggestive: The level of immunity that you get from natural infection — either the degree of immunity, the intensity of the immunity or the breadth of immunity — is obviously not enough to protect against infection with the mutant,” Fauci said.
Even if they don’t agree on the scope of the threat, scientists said reinfection with new variants is clearly a risk that needs to be explored more. There is no evidence that second cases are more severe or deadly, and a world in which people may have imperfect protection against new versions of the virus is not necessarily a world in which the pandemic never ends.
Trump discontinued the White House subscription to what he sometimes called the “Amazon Washington Post” since he hated owner Jeff Bezos and the exposes about him which his newspaper published. I rather doubt Trump keeps up with any news about Covid whether it is in The Washington Post or elsewhere.
I wonder whether Trump made sure he was vaccinated even though he’d had Covid considering it would be in his character to refuse to do so thinking he is a kind of Rocky Balboa or Superman. Consider this from The Week:
I can envision Trump watching Mike Pence wearing his mask and getting vaccinated on TV and thinking that he was a big wimp. “No way am I going to do that” he’d be thinking.
Dare I suggest that some of you are thinking two words? That would be:
Karma, please...