06-21-2021, 06:16 AM
(06-20-2021, 06:33 PM)plam Wrote:(06-20-2021, 06:08 PM)jeffster Wrote: First fully immunized person dies in the region, a senior at a LTC Home. It does have me wondering, because from what I understand, the outbreak originated with a care worker that was unvaccinated. How can something like this happen? I would have thought that ensuring all care workers are vaccinated would be a priority -- that, or this worker didn't want the vaccine, which begs the other question: should these people be working around the vulnerable? I would think not.
I guess that will happen when the vaccines are less than 100% effective (but they're damn close). I would want to check that the person is 2 weeks out from the last dose of the vaccine; I'm not sure that message is getting out to people.
I wouldn't think that care workers should be allowed to continue working in that role while unvaccinated, but who knows what the rules are.
The vaccines are nearly 100% effective at preventing death, even with the Delta variant. That said, the lady that died was quite old, in her 90’s, so not overly surprising that any minor illness could knock them out.
At some point in this pandemic, and depending how vaccines work and continue to work, we might want to stop counting cases and deaths. I think we have other health issues (including pneumonia) that are starting to take more lives, but this is never reported.