High elevation which limit the range and load carrying capacity of helicopters. Merak (pictured below) which is a major community is located at elevation 3,500 m. It is my understanding that there are small settlements located at even higher elevations. As high as 4,000 m. Back when I was there, getting to Merak was a two-day hike. I heard that they built a new road. Now it is only a day hike. No vehicle access.
So I had an idea. You know those dart guns they use to tranquilize animals at a distance?
Load those up with vaccines, then set them loose in under-vaccinated communities.
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Most of the world also does not have Western logistical capacity (and I think you are totally ignoring logistics anyway), have different climatic zones (no Pfizer in Central Africa) and are just plainly against vaccination.
More than one 1/4th of the total population have already received at least one dose, that is more than 2 billion people. I really do not think you are qualified (or me, to be fair) enough to judge whether that is a lot or not in less than a year. There is an average of 35+ million jabs per day now, read, a Poland gets vaccinated every day. This is the biggest ever vaccination campaign to happen in record fast time.
So, TL;DR, stop being so negative.
Yeah, at that altitude majority of heli's simply cannot fly, some others will be at limit. Look at the ubiquitos Mi-8 and it's derivations, it already would struggle at 4km with light load.
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“Leadership: Whatever happens, you’re responsible. If it doesn’t happen, you’re responsible.” -- Donald J. Trump, 2013
"I don't take responsibility at all." -- Donald J. Trump, 2020
My workplace is back to requiring regular tests despite 99% of us being vaccinated.
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After me raising hell the last couple of days, a few of my coworkers decided to come forward and said they didn’t like the way the restaurant was handling the increase of both business and covid protections.
They’ve decided to go back to spacing tables, masking, and a heap load of other precautions. It doesn’t make the ones that won’t vaccinate get them, but it certainly is a step forward.
Or build the Medic's syringe gun and go from doing drive-through vaccinations to drive-by vaccinations.
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Pfizer med for covid-19 treatment on phase 2 of trials.
https://twitter.com/pfizer/status/1420474141686255624
Vaccine mixing tested (AZ+Sputnik).
https://twitter.com/sputnikvaccine/s...17800794066946
Isreal to give boosters to over 60s who had their last vaccine 5 months ago as immune response is shown to lower over time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-58021386
CDC Reports vaccinated people spread Delta variant (but don't suffer as severe an illness) as unvaccinated people. And that it's as transmissible a chicken pox (that is, very.)
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/29/p...ons/index.html
Unwelcome news as this is for those looking to vaccinations for herd immunity, the important thing is that vaccines will still greatly reduce the chance of you ending up in hospital or dead, and should 100% get it done. But you shouldn't let having been jabbed mean you take your guard down on this or be thinking it'll be over any time soon.
If everyone would get the jab, the amount of severe cases would be handled by the healthcare system no problemo and we would effectively have ended the whole Covid 19 craze.
It doesn't matter that the Virus is still there if all it causes are mild cases.
Problems arise if you have ~30% of the population that is too paranoid to get the vaccine.
It still spreads well in a highly vaccinated population. And there are still questions in most countries over whether to vaccinate children. Finally, trying to keep on top of boosters every 6 months is a lot of work.
We need better treatments, because on this basis, it isn't going away through vaccination alone.
Not really, no. It can spread, but not "well".
We're still waiting on some studies to finish, but this question will hopefully have a good answer before too much time has passed.
We don't need boosters every 6 months. We may not need boosters, period; that remains to be seen. We've covered this before, but antibody levels waning is normal and fine, as long as the memory B- and T-cells continue to do their job.
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Some interesting data between fully vaccinated vs. not fully vaccinated population of SF.
Currently 77% of eligible (12 +) SF residents have received 2 doses. The number is 70% for all residents (including 12 -).
Positivity rate is currently around 12%. Higher than the State. The high positivity rate is attributed to the high testing rate and the City’s high population density (18,000 per square mile). Positivity among fully vaccinated population is 5%. Among not fully vaccinated 4-fold of that.
Number of hospitalized Covid patient 65. Two fully vaccinated. No 12 - in the hospital.
Number of fully vaccinated hospitalized Covid patient per capita is 0.3 per 100,000 of fully vaccinated resident. For not fully vaccinated, the number is 31.8 per 100,000 of not fully vaccinated resident (excluding 12-).
Two Covid-related deaths in July. Both not fully vaccinated.
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