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COVID-19 vaccine: Virus outbreak hits Seychelles despite most of the population being vaccinated

It has one of the highest COVID-19 vaccinations in the world, yet this country is experiencing an outbreak with the population enduring harsh restrictions.

The Seychelles can boast that it is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world with
over 60 per cent of its population immunised, yet its currently experiencing a full-blown
COVID-19 outbreak.

The past month has seen case numbers on the East African island rising dramatically, with
more than 2700 active cases recorded, according to figures released on Thursday and
reported by CNN.

Of these active cases, 33 per cent have already been fully vaccinated, said Seychelles’
Ministry of Health. Around 20 per cent of those admitted to hospital for treatment were also
vaccinated, although none had died, according to the government.

The Seychelles may have gotten itself into hot water after the tourist dependent nation
dropped restrictions for most travelers a month ago, reopening its borders and scrapping
quarantine.

Tourism accounts for a whopping 72 per cent of the island nation’s GDP, employing more
than 30 per cent of the population.

When restrictions were dropped, the nation had fewer than 3800 cases and only 16 deaths as
a result of the virus.

This has now shot up to 9184 cases and doubled the amount of deaths to 32, according to
Ministry of Health figures.

 


The Indian Ocean archipelago, which has a population of about 98,000, is dependent on tourism
for much of its foreign exchange and acted quickly to begin vaccinations in January using a
donation of Chinese vaccines from the United Arab Emirates. It has procured other vaccines since.

By April 12, 59% of the doses administered were Sinopharm vaccines and the rest were Covishield,
a version of AstraZeneca Plc’s shot made under license in India.

 

 

The Sinopharm vaccine, BBIBP-CorV, is an inactivated virus vaccine. Efficacy is claimed to be
78.1% or 86% or 90%...

Approved for use in 42 countries and by WHO.

Argentina
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
Cameroon
China
Comoros
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Guyana
Hungary
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Iraq
Jordan
Kyrgyzstan
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lebanon
Maldives
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Niger
North Macedonia
Pakistan
Peru
Republic of the Congo
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Sri Lanka
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Zimbabwe

 

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1 hour ago, fygjam said:

COVID-19 vaccine: Virus outbreak hits Seychelles despite most of the population being vaccinated

"Over the last few months, after vaccination, people have seen that anybody getting infected is not getting seriously sick, nobody is dying, nobody is getting a lot of complications," he said. People in the islands -- who he said love to party -- have been socializing without taking precautions. "People have let down their guard."

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/14/africa/seychelles-covid-vaccination-infection-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

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35 minutes ago, Bazle said:

"Over the last few months, after vaccination, people have seen that anybody getting infected is not getting seriously sick, nobody is dying, nobody is getting a lot of complications," he said. People in the islands -- who he said love to party -- have been socializing without taking precautions. "People have let down their guard."

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/14/africa/seychelles-covid-vaccination-infection-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

I hope that does not happen here in UK over the summer. 

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14 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

Saw that too on PT. From his website Jan, 2020.

The past few years have been extremely challenging for me. Due to diabetes (inherited from my dear mother), I had to have three toes amputated from my left foot. In fact, I was lucky not to lose my left leg, according to the Diabetes Specialists at Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok. Looking at the positive side, these Thai doctors saved my leg.
https://www.davetheravebangkok.com/2020/01/14/soaring-like-an-eagle/

 

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8 minutes ago, fforest said:

 Dave the Rave was very much at risk of a bad reaction by his history of diabetes....Diabetes and blood clotting are a dangerous mixture....But the vaxxs carry no warnings at all...

Most every other drug on the market have long long warning labels....Even everyday drugs like aspirin and antacids... 

More garbage!

I got given a 4 page sheet with my first Pfizer jab.

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I read that a guy got knocked down and died a month after having the vaccine.

Those pesky vaccines eh. 

Amazing how many nutters will try to claim the vaccines are causing a death, but won't accept someone who catches covid and dies, dies from Covid!

Then again, common sense and logic, alien to nutters ...

 

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9 minutes ago, Painter said:

Absolute bollocks, like so much you write.

In the UK, every recipient of the AZ vaccine is given a patient information sheet.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca/information-for-uk-recipients-on-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca

The person giving the jab asks them a series of questions before they are jabbed. The risks and side effects are explained.

Yep, they weren't gonna give me mine as i'm on an anti coagulate. Had to go speak to a consultant. 

Had to fill in a patient/medical history sheet, explain things, get things explained to me. And well as the 4 page sheet on potential side effects. 

But then, the window Lickers R Us websites wouldn't say that, and the gullible believe all the garbage they're fed ...

 

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4 hours ago, Krapow said:

I read that a guy got knocked down and died a month after having the vaccine.

Those pesky vaccines eh. 

Amazing how many nutters will try to claim the vaccines are causing a death, but won't accept someone who catches covid and dies, dies from Covid!

Then again, common sense and logic, alien to nutters ...

 

These'll be the same nutters who, a couple of months ago, were complaining that every death was being recorded as a Covid-19 death despite comorbidities.

Have your cake and eat it! | EASY LeArNGUAGE

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BREAKING: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that, due to the new Indian Covid variant, people will now be offered the Pun jab

Please start taking this Indian Covid variant seriously! My neighbour caught it and has been in a korma for a week, and he's only just buried his naan.
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2 minutes ago, Bazle said:
BREAKING: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that, due to the new Indian Covid variant, people will now be offered the Pun jab

Please start taking this Indian Covid variant seriously! My neighbour caught it and has been in a korma for a week, and he's only just buried his naan.

Don't know whether to groan or laugh....!!

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A surprising pandemic side effect: It has improved health care

 
By Shantanu Nundy
Shantanu Nundy is a primary-care physician, the chief medical officer of Accolade, which helps people navigate the healthcare system, and the author of "Care After Covid: What the Pandemic Revealed Is Broken in Healthcare and How to Reinvent It.”
May 12, 2021 at 10:20 a.m. EDT
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Four months into the coronavirus pandemic, my mother did something I had thought was impossible. She decreased her sugar intake and lost enough weight to safely get off insulin, effectively putting her Type 2 diabetes into remission. And she did it the way nearly everything has been done in the last year: online.

 

After reading several reports that people with diabetes are at a higher risk of complications from covid-19, my mom signed up for a virtual diabetes reversal program. A few days later, she received a recipe book and multiple connected devices to automatically transmit her weight and sugar readings to her care team. She downloaded an app that gave her 24/7 access to a health coach and doctors via text messaging and video visits. It also let her connect with peers, like a fellow Indian American based in Chicago. He, like my mom, followed a strict vegetarian diet and shared several recipes with her early on. This extra support empowered her to make dramatic changes to her lifestyle, and within weeks, she was off insulin for the first time in more than a decade.

Much of our focus over the past year has rightly been on the widespread failures related to the pandemic. But we’ve taken for granted just how flexible the American health-care system showed it can be in a crisis. Before the coronavirus, doctors, patients and policymakers had largely grown cynical about the prospect of bringing real changes to the front lines of care. But over the last year, we finally learned that the right role for innovation and technology should simply be to increase the care in health care. In many respects, my mom’s story mirrors the fundamental shifts that have occurred — shifts that are not yet available to everyone but that point to a future when health care finally works for us.

 

Like my mom, many patients have realized that their health is in their hands. We’re now aware of how our health is linked to our behaviors: how far apart we should stand to socially distance, how often we should wash our hands and how face coverings can protect us from viral particles. For many, this realization also extended to the way they accessed care. Faced with an overtaxed health-care system that was scrambling to adjust, patients learned that they couldn’t always rely on their medical providers. They often couldn’t see their regular doctors — either because of temporary pauses or permanent closures due to the financial impact of the pandemic on clinics — or didn’t feel safe going in person.

While the resulting decrease in medical care led to precipitous drops in cancer screenings and chronic-care visits, these circumstances also forced a greater sense of self-reliance in my patients. Many came to appointments more organized, with questions written down or medication bottles with them. Others took this a step further: One of my patients with long-standing, uncontrolled hypertension came back to the clinic after six months with his blood pressure finally managed. The difference? Because he hadn’t felt comfortable coming to the clinic, he bought a blood pressure machine and, with regular feedback at home, learned how to keep his condition in check.

That my mother found the diabetes reversal program herself is also indicative of a wider trend. Before the last year, most patients relied on their medical providers to navigate the byzantine health-care system. Now, many have had to find their own coronavirus tests and, more recently, their own vaccines — a frustrating experience, to be sure, but one that proved patients are their own best advocates.

 

Even so, patients weren’t entirely on their own. With the shift to virtual, home-based and community care, doctors finally began fulfilling the promise of “meeting patients where they are.” According to many observers, the coronavirus accelerated the shift toward virtual care by seven to 10 years. Nationally, we saw 46 percent of consumers use telehealth in the first months of 2020, up from a mere 11 percent in 2019. I consider myself a tech-savvy physician, but even I had never done a single virtual visit before the pandemic. Now I’ve done hundreds.

While telemedicine is traditionally used for urgent care, the pandemic pushed primary, specialty, mental health and even ancillary care into virtual spaces. My mom’s online diabetes program is just one example. But providers have our work cut out for us to ensure that new technologies for additional types of care don’t continue to leave our most vulnerable patients behind.

Beyond technology, we realized that drive-through testing for acute viral illnesses is safe and efficient. It turns out it’s just as easy, if not easier, to vaccinate large numbers of people at football stadiums or churches as it is in clinics or hospitals. Faced with overflowing hospitals, doctors also expanded the idea of hospitalizing patients at home — providing around-the-clock nursing support, a hospital bed and equipment, and IV medications — which is safer, cheaper and more humane for many patients who need hospital-level attention.

 

Physicians finally embraced the impact that social determinants — like socioeconomic status, neighborhood and physical environment, education, food, and housing — have on health. When I meet with patients now, I ask about their lives, who lives with them, how they get groceries, etc. These things of course drove the health of my patients before the pandemic, but I never routinely asked about them until I started trying to assess their risk of covid-19. In one case, I learned that a patient of mine was homeless, and I was able to get her a hotel room through a local organization — and her first restful night in months.

Care also became more continuous during the pandemic. Part of the reason my mom’s diabetes didn’t get better for so many years is that she’d leave the doctor’s office with a long list of lifestyle changes to make, but little or no support or communication from her providers in between visits. Now, she sends data daily on her weight, blood sugar and ketones and receives immediate feedback from her health coach.  

Although my mom’s program is far more advanced than what most patients have access to, many components of continuous-care models have been implemented in my clinic, which serves low-income and uninsured patients. Once I was issued an iPhone and permitted to text and FaceTime with my patients, I found myself keeping up with them more, checking in after visits to confirm that they picked up the medication I had prescribed or just to see how they were doing. While this did create new burdens on me as a doctor, it also created new efficiencies — a quick text often saves a great deal of downstream communication. It was also a way for me to more deeply connect with my patients, something that had been wanting in my medical practice for years.

As we improvised solutions for hospital bed shortages and restrictions on in-person visits, continuity with patients increased. High-risk patients who came through our drive-through testing site were sent home with pulse oximeters. In one case, the family of a covid patient with shortness of breath was too scared to go to the emergency room — but also too scared to go home. By giving him a pulse oximeter to track his oxygen levels, we were able to help him stay home.

 

Perhaps the biggest change is that doctors and patients have come to believe that better is possible. Our deeply held assumptions about where and how health care happens have been upended, offering us a glimpse of the future.

Months into her program, my mother remains off insulin. She doesn’t have everything figured out and still needs support, or she risks backsliding. The health-care system is no different. While there are reasons to be hopeful, health care is still too inaccessible, too costly, too inequitable. We can’t stop now.

When I recently asked my mom if she’s glad she joined the program, she replied: “Beta, I’m now living the life I want and finally getting the care I need.” This future is what all of us should hope for.

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Strippers are back on the job but COVID rules are hurting their pay

Tue, May 18, 2021, 6:10 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When California stripper Brittney, 26, walked into San Francisco’s reopened Gold Club stripping venue again in April after a year, she was confronted with masked-up dancers and just a clutch of patrons.

“My heart just sank. This is just so, so sad,” said Brittney, who asked that her last name not be disclosed to protect her 6-year-old son. An hour of that four-hour shift was spent just waiting for customers and she earned $150, less than a third of what she would have made pre-pandemic.

“A lot of times you'll see a lot of girls just sitting around,” said Brittney, who started stripping around two years ago to supplement income from two other jobs. “It’s just not fun anymore.”

As some of the United States’ estimated 3,821 strip clubs start to open up again, women who work as strippers are confronting a transformed industry. Revenue in the industry is estimated to have decreased 17.4% in 2020 and is forecast to fall another 1.5% this year, according to research by IBISWorld. 

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RE ^ -- "Strippers are back on the job but COVID rules are hurting their pay"

^ most of 'em -- strippers -- have long switched over to Only Fans & Twitch and have been servicing regulars virtually for the past year and a lot longer.

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Despite all assertions that the site isn’t powered by its sexual content, the platform is synonymous with porn. What is it really?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/magazine/onlyfans-porn.html

... OnlyFans’ 120 million users can pay to unlock the direct messages, as well as posts hidden behind individual pay walls; tip to request custom photo sets, audio recordings and video clips; and scroll the feeds of their aggregated subscriptions to decide if, and on whom, they’ll spend more money. Gia describes the environment as a virtual strip club, and as is true in an actual strip club, a majority of visitors aren’t forking over much. ...

. . .

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And an OF site: https://onlyfans.com/sukiyuki3

For cheap charlies here's a few free looks: 

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For our alternate reality friends.

A Gold Coast hairdresser, who found herself in hot water yesterday after announcing vaccinated
Aussies were no longer welcome in her salon, has today posted “proof” to support the ban.

One woman claiming her period came early.A woman whose period changed after taking an 11 hour flight.

A flight attendant whose period changed.Ms Adler’s call-out for stories.

 

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15 hours ago, fygjam said:

For our alternate reality friends.

A Gold Coast hairdresser, who found herself in hot water yesterday after announcing vaccinated
Aussies were no longer welcome in her salon, has today posted “proof” to support the ban.

One woman claiming her period came early.A woman whose period changed after taking an 11 hour flight.

A flight attendant whose period changed.Ms Adler’s call-out for stories.

 

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