Originally posted Sep 20, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/c/Merogenomics/videos
Dr. Mikolaj Raszek Phd, Merogenomics
https://merogenomics.ca
This video goes into details of pandemic breakdown in Alberta, Canada with focus of the latest Delta driven wave, first wave after mass vaccination, using publicly posted COVID-19 statistics. The video also discusses one science preprint suggesting that variants might experience hard time escaping the best neutralizing antibodies which is a great news towards achieving end of pandemic.
Discussed content:
Alberta COVID-19 stats: https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm
Alberta demographics: https://www.alberta.ca/population-statistics.aspx
Future immune escape: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.458225v1.full
00:00 Intro
00:35 Dr. Raszek explains Stats from AB govt site about the current pandemic 4th wave
01:49 Graph: AB COVID cases (shows 4 waves)
03:00 Graph: Review the first 3 waves; Show vaccination start; Show variants responsible
05:32 Popout: Age demographics of Deaths in AB
06:30 Graph: Who’s in hospitals?
07:25 A Blame game, vaccinated or unvaccinated; does it matter?
08:24 Graph: Covid case
09:20 Graph: Variants of Concern; Delta wave takes over Alpha
09:39 Graph: Cumulative Vaccination rates
10:22 Graph: Cumulative Vaaccination rates Coloured to show Dose 1, 2, 3 (September’s small spike from Booster shots)
11:57 Graph: Vaccine outcomes
12: 15 Hospital cases: ICU vs Non-ICU by vaccination status
13:05 what percentage in hospitals are Vaccinated? 27% to about 33%\
14:01 Focus should be on whose infectious NOT who’s vaccinated
14:09 Thought: Passport vs Mass screening as prophylaxis measures
15:00 Need for a simple mass screening? (no nasal swab)
16:10 What if vaccines promote asymptomatic spread by preventing symptoms showing?
16:23 Point: Should we focus on screening instead of status?
16:54 Graph: Data on hospitalized and ICU by Vaxxed and unVaxxed status
18:00 Graph: Deaths from Covid by wave
18:30 Table3: Vaccination status and Covid outcomes: Take home message: 1/3 of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths are now Vaccinated.
19:39 Table 4: Cases last 120 days in AB by Vax status and Pre-existing conditions
21:35 Point: Shaming rhetoric against Unvaxxed BUT most unvaxxed are young people
22:30 We need to protect the young against mental health consequences from abusing shaming rhetoric
26:26 Table 6: Hospitalized cases past 120 days in AB by AGE, Vax status, and pre-existing conditions
26:50 Points: Vaccines protect, Young getting hospitalized but no serious outcomes or death
27:13 Table 8/9 Population in ICU and Deaths by vax Status (in past 120 days in AB) Still 1/3 vaxxed dying
29:51 Graph: Specific characteristics of Pandemic: Number of cases by AGE
31:00 AB’s Age demographics generally match COVID demographics & each risk
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