CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Wed Sep 29, 2021 1:46 am Factories Closed After Workers in Sihanoukville SEZ Test Positive for COVID
Cambodia News, Sihanoukville - On September 28, 2021, the provincial administration issued a directive to temporarily suspend the activities of 3 factories located in the special economic zone of Jeang Gorachi in Prey Nub district, Sihanoukville for 14 days in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, after some workers tested positive for COVID-19 in the three factories.

Wouldn't all these workers be vaccinated, it was a push to get factory workers vaccinated?

Surely the authorities must know the vaccines are not going to prevent people from catching and spreading Covid19. Looking at how it is, like in the beginning of this people were testing positive and probably more people being seriously ill, but now the figures of transmission maybe about the same, but less people seriously ill or dead. But then again looking at the daily numbers of infection and death, they have something to worry about.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:10 am The term "vaccine" is, "a suspension of attenuated or killed microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, or rickettsiae), administered for prevention, amelioration, or treatment of infectious diseases.
https://medical-dictionary.thefreedicti ... om/vaccine.

2 out of 3 isn't bad and expected by those in the know. The upper respiratory tract, where coronavirus get in are...

"... a separate immune system, if you like, which isn't easily accessible by vaccine technology," Professor Frazer told the Health Report.
Despite your upper respiratory tract feeling very much like it's inside your body, it's effectively considered an external surface for the purposes of immunisation.
"It's a bit like trying to get a vaccine to kill a virus on the surface of your skin."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020 ... r/12146616

The good news is they do afford some protection against mild to severe symptoms and death. Not 100% protection and possibly as little as 50%. Neither the old technology nor the new have managed to prevent infection 100%, and probably never will, but it is 100% better than nothing.

A better name for what is being stuck in our arms would be "pre-infection preventative therapy" .

Not catchy, I know, but more accurate and may be helpful in managing expectations and the fear factor created by governments worldwide.

This might be as good as it gets folks...

I think it will improve, more so now the facts and process are more clear, science can work wonder's once the situation becomes more stable and they're not playing catch up. Mutation and variants have been problematic.
How do you feel about the Chinese vaccines! Still no data from there side, getting a freebie is one thing, if it doesn't work, then it can be dismissed more easily. But I would be pig sick if I had payed for the privilege. Again I bet they are the leaders of sale's.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/ch ... d=msedgntp

They were the leader but it was more due to supply being available. This has begun to change as folks realize the Delta variant is overrunning anything they have to offer.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:10 am The term "vaccine" is, "a suspension of attenuated or killed microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, or rickettsiae), administered for prevention, amelioration, or treatment of infectious diseases.
https://medical-dictionary.thefreedicti ... om/vaccine.

2 out of 3 isn't bad and expected by those in the know. The upper respiratory tract, where coronavirus get in are...

"... a separate immune system, if you like, which isn't easily accessible by vaccine technology," Professor Frazer told the Health Report.
Despite your upper respiratory tract feeling very much like it's inside your body, it's effectively considered an external surface for the purposes of immunisation.
"It's a bit like trying to get a vaccine to kill a virus on the surface of your skin."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020 ... r/12146616

The good news is they do afford some protection against mild to severe symptoms and death. Not 100% protection and possibly as little as 50%. Neither the old technology nor the new have managed to prevent infection 100%, and probably never will, but it is 100% better than nothing.

A better name for what is being stuck in our arms would be "pre-infection preventative therapy" .

Not catchy, I know, but more accurate and may be helpful in managing expectations and the fear factor created by governments worldwide.

This might be as good as it gets folks...

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Yeah, we are pretty much getting a flu shot. The challenge is that unlike the flu Covid isn't seasonal. So we're faced with the question of what to do on an ongoing basis. There are a small percentage of people that are told not to get flu shots for various health reasons. I would assume that percentage might increase with the idea of getting additional shots during a year. The question will become how will we account for these people?

With more of the US enacting severe restrictions on those not able to prove vaccination, it is a question in urgent need of an answer. I saw the mayor of NYC speaking yesterday of people that will "either get vaccinated or lose their jobs". No reported then asked him how does this work on an ongoing basis? Not to mention what type of citizens will we be leaving behind? Didn't trust the government enough to get vaccinated and now same government throws you out of work and unable to support your family. That doesn't sound like a recipe for a better society.

If we are going to use mandates to fight Covid then lets mandate 30 minutes of physical exercise every day. Then we could mandate salad instead of french fries for anyone deemed overweight. Cut off the supply of soda to the obese. And on and on. Cutting down obesity will greatly alleviate the burden on our health care system ( the reason for all the lockdowns).

So it may be that not only this is as good as it gets - it may be that this is how screwed up our society will be going forward.

Asymptomatic spread is the reason why covid has been so difficult to contain from the beginning IMO. Sick people stay home or in the hospital. People who feel fine carry on their lives and give others no reason to be wary. Vaccines may offer clinical test results indicating a 50% reduction in spread but I wonder if the real world results match since the vaccines tend to increase mild and asymptomatic cases and Delta is considerably more infectious than the original covid.

Tons of examples lately in local news of blanket testing showing positive results. Presumably these people did not know that they were sick but were only made aware by the test. I suppose it is good news that so many are not symptomatic but that’s not so good news for people who are more vulnerable. To be fair, that has been the case since the beginning. That cruise ship in early 2020 demonstrated this.

Vaccination totals from the Khmer Times today:
October 1, 2021
Less than one percent of adults in Cambodia unvaccinated as of September 30

Cambodia has finally crossed the physiological barrier of crossing 99 percent of vaccinated adults aged 18 and above by finally breaching the mark and now remains 0.94 percent towards achieving total vaccination of people in this segment.

As of September 30, since the vaccination programme for this segment began on February 10, Cambodia has vaccinated 9,905,666 adults with 72,126 deemed ineligible to be vaccinated.

If taken into the overall scheme of things, the total number who reman unvaccinated could be much less than the 0.94 percent as technically, according to available data, less than 25,000 adults remain unvaccinated, a small to vaccinate if an all out campaign to find and vaccinate these people is carried out, unless of course verifying first whether do want to get vaccinated or want to join the small number of unvaccinated category.

Of the 9,905,666 adults vaccinate with at least one dose of the vaccine, 9,436,851 have been fully vaccinated, of whom 4,744,885 women, have been fully vaccinated with both doses of the vaccine.’

Furthermore, 894,351 of them, comprising mainly frontline health, security and provincial officials and workers who face the daily deluge of migrant Cambodian workers who return from Thailand and selected others such as government officials and their families and journalists have received their third booster dose of the vaccine.

The public campaign to administer the 3rd booster dose is set to kick off in Phnom Penh on October 11, after the Pchum Ben week and will than rapidly move to Kandal and other provinces.

With the latest development, Cambodia has achieved 83.57 vaccination total of the estimated 16 million people.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50945396/l ... tember-30/