The Strange Influence On Google’s Vaccine Ad

The Strange Influence On Google’s Vaccine Ad

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I feel that it’s not entirely healthy for an ad that consists only of search terms to elicit an emotional response.

On the other hand, as many others remarked when this place took place during the Final Four this weekend, the message here is much better than the CDCs. Last week, Rochelle Walensky’s store told us alternately that we were facing a looming doom. ‘that vaccinated people could not carry the virus; it’s actually people who have been vaccinated could carry the virus, but it was still good for them to travel; and that they should not travel anyway, just to be on the safe side.

Contrast that with the simple elegance of Google’s point: take a chance and get your life back.

In an advertising contest between a private entity that has to make money or die and a federal agency that is not accountable, I should not be surprised that the corporation wins. Look, then read on.

Americans get the chance and get their lives back. On Friday and Saturday, we averaged four million doses a day, pushing the average of seven days north of three million. This is about one percent of Americans every 24 hours. At the current rate, assuming we can find enough willing recipients, we could have at least one dose in 70 percent of the population by June 15th. Among older citizens, we have already crossed the threshold. More than 75 percent of adults 65 and older had their first shot and more than half had their second shot. What does it look like in practice?

It looks like that. The pool of people most vulnerable to dying from COVID is shrinking.

Least deaths in a year. In Israel, where an even higher percentage of the population has been vaccinated, scientists are now talking openly about the COVID endgame:

After a lockout during the second wave, infection rates increased rapidly and never dropped until another lockout was introduced. But after the third wave, “the effect of the vaccines began”, [biologist Eran Segal] said. The R number (the growth of infections) has since dropped to the lowest level in the pandemic, although the economy is more open than for a year…

In the coastal city of Tel Aviv, beaches are packed for the Passover holiday. When the sun goes down, thousands of people go to pubs and restaurants. While indoor venues are supposed to scan people’s green passes, with a QR code, it seems that many bars accept that their customers have been vaccinated …

Adi Niv-Yagoda, an expert in health policy at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Covid-19 advisory panel of the Ministry of Health, said he believed Israel may have almost reached the end of the pandemic.

Meanwhile, here in the US, our public health bureaucracy cannot explain why vaccines should not travel, and only now, after 13 months, has it finally officially informed the public that viral transmission via infected surfaces is unlikely. The experts do not normally go back without kicking and screaming, but eventually they will get there. We’ll be dragging them out by following Google’s advice instead.

I let you at Scott Gottlieb once again push the Walenskys of the world to be realistic about their health guidance. Both he and she noticed it today younger people lead to the increase in cases in some countries, which you would expect, given how many older people have been vaccinated. Spring is here, restrictions are weakening, the little ones are unprotected and they want to get together. It’s a race between the virus and the vaccine to see if we get a real wave out of it or not.

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