Photo: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune
Governor Greg Abbott (pictured) bars vaccine mandates in Texas, the second-highest state in the US for Coronavirus cases and deaths.
Abbott’s executive order covers private employers as well as public organizations:
No entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience, based on a religious belief, or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from COVID-19. I hereby suspend all relevant statutes to the extent necessary to enforce this prohibition.
Abbott and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, both Republicans, have been among the most aggressive governors in resisting Coronavirus containment measures. The two states accounted for much of the summer surge in Coronavirus cases in the US, with daily deaths rising almost 1,100% to reach 2,075 on September 26.
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The 7-day average has declined slightly since then, but still stands at 1,783. The US toll for the pandemic is 714,056 deaths with 44,455,951 confirmed cases.
Texas has recorded 67,044 deaths, behind only California, and 4,135,512 cases. Florida has announced 56,667 deaths and 3,645,290 cases.
Abbott’s order says, “Vaccines are strongly encouraged for those eligible to receive one”; however, he maintained that they “must always be voluntary for Texans”.
President Joe Biden has announced that most federal workers, federal contractors, and health care staff must be vaccinated or submit to regular testing. Last week he said all companies with more than 100 employees must issues the mandates. The rule is being drawn up by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
About 66% of Americans over age 12 are fully vaccinated.
Texas hospital Houston Methodist was among first large health care facilities in the US to issue a vaccine mandate in June. More than 150 staff members were fired or resigned when they refused the jab.
American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, announced on Friday that more than 100,000 employees must be vaccinated.
Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID-19 vaccines worsening clinical disease: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33113270/
“The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent. “
The Cardozo/Veazey paper you cite is from October 2020 and did not deal with mRNA vaccines. Subsequent research has established that there is no significant risk of ADE from the vaccines.
“So here’s the short version: no sign of ADE during the preclinical animal studies. No sign during the human clinical trials. No sign during the initial vaccine rollouts into the population. And (so far) no sign of ADE even with the variant strains in different parts of the world. We have things to worry about in this pandemic, but as far as I can tell today, antibody-dependent enhancement does not seem to be one of them.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/scicheck-texas-doctor-spreads-false-claims-about-covid-19-vaccines/
PHE has released the latest figures for Covid deaths (week 41): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1025358/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-41.pdf
For the last 4 week period, 2665 deaths were among the fully vaccinated (all ages) out of a total of 3523 (76%). This is derived from Table 4b.
Interestingly, for the age group 40-60, Table 2 shows that the infection rate was twice that among the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated.
Mass. reports 4,034 new breakthrough cases this week. There have been another 45 deaths among vaccinated individuals: https://www.boston.com/news/coronavirus/2021/10/12/massachusetts-new-breakthrough-cases-october-12/
Varharan,
“Medical Trend” is a propaganda site with no connection to medical expertise, and there is no corroboration of its claims about Taiwan and vaccines. So your comment has been deleted.
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https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1023849/Vaccine_surveillance_report_-_week_40.pdf
From Table 4b f the PHE report, 2750 Covid deaths – for all age groups – are among the fully vaccinated for a total of 3671 in the said period. That is 74.9%
Again your wilful ignorance of any context for these figures is striking.
Given that more than 95% of those over 80 in the UK are vaccinated, the occurrence of deaths among this group — particularly with waning efficacy over time — is to be expected.
But as vaccination level drops, the percentage of deaths rises sharply among the unvaccinated. Thus, for *every group* below the age of 60, a majority or near-majority of deaths are among the unvaccinated, rising to 64% for the 18-29 age group.
Moral: get vaccinated. And get the booster program moving.