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I can see that.. LAC play heavy zone.. that feeds into exactly what we like offensively.. I also feel running the ball when they are zone is what we need to do.. continue with the run to open up everything...
Agreed. Reports earlier Tonga is out unfortunately.. to offset his loss Durden and Gregory have played well also. With Landry as you mentioned and Jennings and ponder coming on should boost the pass rush and allow us to send blitzers.
Can’t say I’m a fan of US CDC any more, not since their big boss started adjusting science to suit his personal beliefs.
Hard to interpret because there’s nothing I saw explaining how they define “effectiveness”, and left a lot of my other question about methodology unanswered, but the text seems to answer my question about whether the vaccines prevented influenza infections, or merely reduced severity of symptoms. Very first sentence reads “Preliminary data … indicate that the seasonal vaccines available in EU are providing protection against influenza A(H3N2) infection”.
Yes Gregory is another addition doing well and improving recently.
Mea culpa my bad. I meant it didn’t guarantee against getting the flu. The bigger benefit is if you get it, it tends to give some good benefits to keeping the severity down. Very much like the Covid vaccines. People shouldn’t look at it as surprising if people with the vaccine actually get the flu. But it is an important protection against more terrible outcomes. What I was (badly) trying to to get at is that it doesn’t mean Morgan Moses is anti-vaxx or anything.
How well a particular season's flu vaccine works depends on how good a match it is to the prevailing strain. It takes nearly several months to make the vaccines (most are produced in chicken eggs) so they pick a strain based on what's circulating in the Southern Hemisphere the previous winter there. Unfortunately this winter the vaccine is not a great match - the luck of the draw. The vaccine also works worse in older folk - hence the higher dose that most older folk get. An interesting little known observation is that the flu vaccine seems to also protect to some degree from heart attacks - nobody really knows why. (And yes, they did account for the fact that the people who get vaccinated are generally healthier to begin with).
Very good point. Thanks for making it!
Reading the studies, especially this one, gave a lot of information on why that is. It was really great to appeal to my geek nature!
I don’t believe so.
He's right because it's a guessing game as to the strain that will be dominant (you can't just produce a vaccine in the time between when you find out the dominant strain for that year and the end of the flu season). So the vaccine is for the virus, but not the mutation (strain) - therefore unlike other vaccines where there's homogeneity (low or no mutation) the annual flu vaccine just "trains" the immune system to recognize the virus meaning it adapts more quickly and is able to reduce severity and length of infection.
True.
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