news today: the US will finally be reopening it’s land border with Canada next month. I finally get to go see my recreational property there after 20months…
of course, I’ll be in Mexico when it happens.
Sample size is small to make any final conclusion, also pending peer review.
If the outcome is as indicated in the research, Canada really hit the jackpot in the decisions on mixing vaccines, as well as longer gap between doses, all based on supplies (or lack thereof initially), and trying to get as many as possible to have 1st dose.
What’s the uptake like? Better than your freedom loving neighbors I hope
youd be suprised…i live with someone who is…
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The Real World data has been pointing pretty convincingly to this for a while. The different types of vaccines produce slightly different immune responses, as does natural infection. Lots of different lines of evidence is that a broader immune response results in better clinical outcomes.
J&J submitted their booster application to the FDA last week and it’s a pretty borderline case with the data they have (only biomarker data, no clinical outcome data) but fingers crossed it gets approved as this is what I’m holding out for as my booster given I’m double Pfizered.
PCR tests are more sensitive, meaning if you “have it” they are more likely to detect it than the LFTs. This led to the early conclusion, one I followed, that if you have a specific reason to get tested (think you’ve been exposed) then you should go for the PCR for fear the LFTs will miss it.
What we’re now seeing is that we maybe haven’t been using a clinically useful definition of “have it”, and the additional positives the PCR is able to detect are almost certainly not clinically relevant. So what now seems to be the case is that if you have a discrepancy it like means you’ve had it, there are inactive remnants in you the PCR tests detects but you are no longer contagious.
For me now, being double vaxxed and having had it, as long as I dont have symptoms and Im just being cautious about having been potentially exposed either through a known contact or an environment where there were lost of people (travel), I rely solely on the LFTs now.
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Still fucking expensive and difficult to get here though. I log on to Amazon maybe once a week to check for availability of Binax (the Abbott ones) and buy a couple of boxes if theyre available just to make sure I have them when I need them.
LFTs? I’ve got loads. Get them for free here.
Yeah, it’s fucking madness how badly we fucked up testing here.
We fucked it up too, certainly at the key early stages, but since about November last year we’ve been much, much better.
$23.99 for a pack of 2 and not in stock at any of the near by locations
The worrying thing is that one of the test kits we’ve had was made in 2019 and they’re all made in China……
good luck finding those test kits here. hoping to cross the border in 30days and will likely need a PCR test to return home
Yeah, that will be interesting how travel restrictions adapt to this growing understanding. As it stands, about the best reason to go through the hassle of having a lab performed PCR test is because at home tests typically do not count for complying with international travel requirements.
Will there be any test requirements in place for crossing the Canada/US border once they open that?
Worth noting that cases are on the rise again, having never really dropped from where we were when they decided to “open”
Deaths at over 110 per day, 7 rolling average.
That’s not a great picture but everything now seems to be in the past.
