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    Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates

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      starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"2027596\" time=\"1624156389\" user_id=\"14025:

      raysusan\" post_id=\"2027595\" time=\"1624153778\" user_id=\"1304:

      https://news.yahoo.com/vaccine-experts-having-second-thoughts-100022396.html

      Below age 12: kids?
      Age 13 to 18: ???
      Above 19: adults?

      Below 12 = children
      12-18 adolescents


      https://postimg.cc/vgK5g0wj

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        Are you guys requiring your private tutors to swab with ART before going to your place for tuition?


        Surprised my tutor WA me the ART negative result image. I didnt ask for it. In any case, we can’t even prove whose result that belongs to. LOL.

        My tutor wanna take S. Not sure if you guys are asking for tutors’ vaccination status update or will that be too rude?

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          sevenseals\" post_id=\"2027750\" time=\"1624351156\" user_id=\"124401:

          Pharma do not want us to use anti-viral med, as it will make their vaccine obsolete/unnecessary. When anti-viral is effective, very few people will die of covid. And there will be no fear factor and their hundreds of billion dollars vaccine revenue per year will be down the drain. They will try their very best to make every online platform censor any such news about anti-viral med from you the public.
          Vaccine + treatment go hand in hand. Both vaccine + cure mfrs will have buyers, so don't you worry! You use the cure, you are also helping the shares of that pharma which developed/sells the cure to shoot up, no? :slapshead:

          H1N1 vaccine + Tamiflu
          Chicken pox/Shingles vaccine + Zovirax

          Right now, they probably are using a cocktail of antiviral drugs to treat positive cases. E.g. Remdisivir by Gilead.
          https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-treatment-singapore-coronavirus-trials-remdesivir-12699782

          Of course there's Regeneron's REGN-COV2, ''similar'' to that cocktail used by Donald Trump last year, thanks to the plasma from Singapore's recovered patients.
          https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/how-singapore-helped-with-us-president-trumps-covid-19-treatment
          https://sg.news.yahoo.com/regeneron-says-antibody-injection-drastically-175130528.html

          And Singapore's working on Tychan.
          https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-drug-singapore-company-antibody-tychan-13749540

          Low mortality rate dont just happen miraculously. Somebody is paying for your 1-5 mth hospitalisation and very expensive antibodies therapy.

          You have seen the no. of oximeters Temasek had shipped to India - >50,000! Those BiPAPs, Advanced Medtech ICU-grade ventilators, smart gas cylinders, etc.

          The high % of UNvaccinated not dying here in Singapore is partly due to the abovementioned equipment and our national stockpile of antiviral drugs that they're using on symptomatic cases in hospitals.

          So don't take everything for granted, naively thinking that Delta is actually not very lethal leh; after all, every day only 20+ cases in Singapore, so I just wait and wait for the miracle cure like a hunter waiting under a tree for his rabbit.

          We're extremely lucky we're living in Singapore. If in backward India, and you still don't want to vaccinate, you may end up with either black fungus or Long Covid if you don't die.

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          • lee_ylL Offline
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            .zeit\" post_id=\"2027837\" time=\"1624420413\" user_id=\"171271:

            Are you guys requiring your private tutors to swab with ART before going to your place for tuition?

            Surprised my tutor WA me the ART negative result image. I didnt ask for it. In any case, we can't even prove whose result that belongs to. LOL.

            My tutor wanna take S. Not sure if you guys are asking for tutors' vaccination status update or will that be too rude?
            Just look at the Bukit Merah view hawkers.
            Many of them are vaccinated with P or M but still continue to bring virus home to infect their whole families! So I guess it doesn’t really matter whether your tutor has taken P or M or S. Vaccine protects oneself but it does not seem to stop transmission.

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              lee_yl\" post_id=\"2027841\" time=\"1624422783\" user_id=\"17023:

              .zeit\" post_id=\"2027837\" time=\"1624420413\" user_id=\"171271:

              Are you guys requiring your private tutors to swab with ART before going to your place for tuition?

              Surprised my tutor WA me the ART negative result image. I didnt ask for it. In any case, we can't even prove whose result that belongs to. LOL.

              My tutor wanna take S. Not sure if you guys are asking for tutors' vaccination status update or will that be too rude?

              Just look at the Bukit Merah view hawkers.
              Many of them are vaccinated with P or M but still continue to bring virus home to infect their whole families! So I guess it doesn’t really matter whether your tutor has taken P or M or S. Vaccine protects oneself but it does not seem to stop transmission.

              May or may not be true. Heard from relative that her colleague's family of 5+ 1 FDW. Hubby fully vaccinated got it from outside , came home to transmit to his 2 elder unvaccinated DDs, but his youngest unvaccinated DS was not infected. Wifey also fully vaccinated was also not infected. Helper not vaccinated not infected too. So 3 out of 6 pax.

              It's almost like a Russian roulette! Depends on your own risk threshold, like how you potentially could suffer from a foggy brain, fatigue, breathlessness, etc. Foggy brain for unemployed is fine. Foggy brain and tiredness for those sitting for national exams in future is no good.

              Psst, IMHO, it's best to be infected so you have natural immunity and with the high level of antibodies in you, you actually don't need to be vaccinated, until 6 months later when your antibodies reduce then the govt will offer you only 1 dose.

              You have not been vaccinated yet? :scratchhead:

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                It makes a difference which vaccine tutor is taking, be it S or P/M. Our family members might transmit the virus to the tutor who has less antibodies! We're already eating in pairs outside since Monday. She must beware...but still better than those unvaccinated tutors.


                People who are vaccinated against Covid-19 with BioNTech’s vaccine were found to have \"substantially higher\" levels of antibodies than those who received Sinovac’s jab, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday (June 19), citing a Hong Kong study.

                Some who received the Sinovac vaccine might need a third booster shot as well, the newspaper said, citing lead researcher Benjamin Cowling, an epidemiologist with the University of Hong Kong (HKU).


                https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/biontech-covid-19-shots-trigger-more-antibodies-than-sinovac-report

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                  as of 21st Jun


                  ~52.0% at least 1 dose
                  ~36.1% fully vaccinated

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                    .zeit\" post_id=\"2027837\" time=\"1624420413\" user_id=\"171271:

                    Are you guys requiring your private tutors to swab with ART before going to your place for tuition?

                    Surprised my tutor WA me the ART negative result image. I didnt ask for it. In any case, we can't even prove whose result that belongs to. LOL.

                    My tutor wanna take S. Not sure if you guys are asking for tutors' vaccination status update or will that be too rude?
                    Your tutor proactively sent u the negative result, which is good. As others have said, vaccination status is irrelevant becos it doesn’t guarantee no transmission.

                    Did tutor actually go take the ART (home kit??) just to show parents that she is negative? Wow…

                    I won’t be insisting that tutors show me -ve result every time before they come over. What if they also insist we all show -ve result before she’s willing to step into the house? It cuts both ways leh.

                    Ytd DS followed the new recommended guidelines of no turning on the aircon (he reminded the tutor himself). Used fan instead for better ventilation. Also thanked the tutor for the snack but said will eat later after she goes home.

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                      slmkhoo\" post_id=\"2027594\" time=\"1624153429\" user_id=\"28674:

                      .zeit\" post_id=\"2027585\" time=\"1624111493\" user_id=\"171271:

                      Kept hearing MTF and HC lamenting about vaccine shipment delays. Why doesn't the US donate some to Singapore? Why?! 😢

                      ... Is it cos US thinks we're too capable, too rich, too close to China, or not relevant at all?

                      Certainly the first 2, not sure about the rest. Singapore's vaccination rate is the 3rd highest in Asia (just checked, we are behind Mongolia and Maldives), and certainly we have proven capable, and are rich compared to others.
                      https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2021/02/covid-vaccine-rollout/index.html?shell

                      Taiwan is a special case, I believe. For the rest, let's not begrudge them vaccinations from wherever they can get them.

                      On second thoughts, it is a blessing that we have the resources to procure directly from Europe. Many places, including Taiwan, have received vaccine donations unneeded/rejected by rich nations and worse, are nearing their expiry dates!

                      At least Singapore gets vaccines fresh from the plants. Excess vaccines may not be good, if no one wants to take.

                      https://www.bbc.com/news/56940657

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                        On second thoughts, it is a blessing that we have the resources to procure directly from Europe. Many places, including Taiwan, have received vaccine donations unneeded/rejected by rich nations and worse, are nearing their expiry dates!
                        As long as the vaccines haven't expired, why should they mind? It's wasteful if no-one uses them. Better that they are put to use than discarded.

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