The Moderna vaccine is apparantly 94% effective and doesn't require the frozen storage. Some positive news today.
In the negative news, NJ's cases (like most of the US) are skyrocketing. Last week they had bars and anything indoor shutdown at 10pm. Today the governor announced no more the 25% capacity at any indoor event (religious gatherings) and no more than 10 people at indoor gatherings.
I'm convinced, it's because Thanksgiving is coming up and they don't want people to be Gathering, because they know they can't control us. But, they can scare us.... But yeah, Nothing surprising here. Of course the case numbers were going to go up. People are spending more time indoors, as it's colder, and standing in the long lines. People catching common colds, and getting more sick during the fall/winter times, is common. Putting that into logic though, Those that didn't bother getting tested before, and now feel more symptoms because of the cold, are finding out, they have covid-19. My question now is, how long does the antibodies last where it could be retriggered by catching the common cold? I ask this because if those people had Covid antibodies, it means they had it before, but never got tested due to not showing symptoms that are of any concern, until those symptoms were of concern.
That is one concern I really have with this. How many people never got tested because they don't see any concern for a cough or a slight itch in the throat, but since they did get tested now, are showing up positive now? Is this the reason numbers are higher?