The divide between the vaccinated and unvaccinated could grow as the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention roll out booster shots. Starting late last month, those who had received their second dose of the Pfizer vaccine at least six months ago became eligible for a third shot if they were 65 or older or at risk of severe COVID-19 based on their health or living and working conditions. That includes healthcare workers, grocery clerks and people in homeless shelters. Those who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccines are not eligible for boosters, but that could change soon.ĭr. Mark Sawyer, an infectious-disease expert at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, served on the advisory panels that recommended that the FDA authorize all three vaccines, and he recently voted to endorse boosters of Pfizer’s shots. “If I had to guess, by the time we get all done, the recommendation for Moderna and J&J is likely going to be the same as it finally ended up for Pfizer,” he said. Sawyer emphasized that the main way to end the pandemic remains to vaccinate the unvaccinated. Over the last month, about 9.6 out of every 1,000 residents who weren’t fully vaccinated got a coronavirus infection. That figure dwarfs differences in so-called breakthrough infection rates among the fully vaccinated, with rates of 2, 2.5 and 3.5 cases per 1,000 residents for the Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, respectively. There’s one group of residents who still aren’t eligible for vaccination: children younger than 12. 20, Pfizer announced that a study of its vaccine among more than 2,260 kids showed the shots were safe and sparked strong immune responses. 26, the FDA’s advisory panel will meet to discuss Pfizer’s bid to offer its vaccine to kids 5 to 11. Roughly 344,000 San Diegans are in that age range and, depending on what the FDA and CDC decide, could be eligible by the end of the month. Public health officials are also pushing hard for everyone to get flu shots as the region heads into the fall and winter months. Wednesday morning, Supervisor Fletcher publicly received his flu vaccine. Moments later, the county announced that San Diego has logged 195 confirmed flu cases in 2021, an uptick from the region’s five-year average of 128 cases by mid-October. FACEBOOK GROWTH TO DECELERATE MANDATES VACCINE FULL.Article content Contemporary etching of the British Titanic inquiry. It was an almost physiologically impossible feat of survival. And, according to the British Titanic inquiry, it was because the 33-year-old Englishman had the presence of mind to greet history’s greatest maritime disaster by getting smashed. To be sure, a good rule of thumb is that a drunk man will usually freeze to death faster than a sober man. The warming sensation of a glass of brandy (and the telltale red cheeks that sometimes results) is caused by vasodilation, the phenomenon of warm blood rushing to the surface of the skin. In a survival situation, having all that warm blood away from the vital organs means that the drinker is at greater risk of hypothermia. However, Canadian hypothermia expert Gordon Giesbrecht figures that in the -2 C temperature of the North Atlantic, the water was cold enough to quickly tighten Joughin’s blood vessels and cancel out any effect of the alcohol. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content A deck chair from the Titanic, recovered floating at the disaster site. This could very well have been one of the chairs thrown overboard by Joughin. “He sat down on his bunk and nursed it along - aware but not particularly caring that the water now rippled through the cabin doorway,” wrote historian Walter Lord in A Night to Remember. Lord was in touch with Joughin just before the baker’s 1956 death. Joughin then splashed topside again, where he took it upon himself to begin throwing deck chairs overboard, with an eye to filling the water with impromptu floatation devices. Parched, he then worked his way back to his pantry to get a drink of water. And yet, he remembered the violent, catastrophic breakup only as a “great list over to port.” The baker was standing on the stern when the ship broke in half. “There was no great shock or anything,” he told the inquiry. A sketch made just after the disaster by a survivor. The Titanic was a violent shipwreck in its final minutes, although Charles Joughin was apparently too inebriated to notice.
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