New hantavirus vaccine being developed by University of Bath

This guy gets it

Can’t stop. Won’t stop. GameStop.

To the moon 🚀🚀

Nah, Steam is better for lockdowns 

Dave Mathews covered it too

Did he cook?

He'll probably call it hantifa or something dumb

The Milei Malaise ?

Isn't it usually spread by Rodents (I know this is the Andes variant) so controlling rodents at will is more likely.

Psssst. Birds aren't real!

Racoon d*** loving fascist pieces of shit. The world will be better off.

Rat feces are the most clean dust there is! and it inhibits 5G!

Yes but they specified the rate for the USA, not global rate. Americans are mostly fat and out of shape. Quite different from much of the rest of the world. ETA: AW, I hurt some American feelings. Facts hurt? [https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/obesity-rates-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/obesity-rates-by-country)

\> “According to PubMed:” \>”The mortality rate for Covid was below 0.035% for individual under the age of 50 and remained under 2.3% up to the age of 80.” ( I assume you mean “fatality rate” I.e deaths per infection … “mortality rate” technically means deaths per 100,000 people whether infected or not ) In any case - This is incredibly unusual and very misleading way to report statistics for health risk of a viral infection … It’s arbitrarily chunking 0 - 49 years .. then averaging… then arbitrarily averaging 50 - 79 years. The most straight forward way to communicate this info would be to simply show people the data for each small age group: 2024 - 2026 Covid deaths per infection by age = **0–19 Years** <0.01% **20–34 Years** \~0.1% **35–44** **Years** \~0.2% **45–54** **Years** 0.5% – 0.8% **55–64 Years** 1.4% – 2.6% **65–74 Years** 2.7% – 4.9% **75–84 Years** 4.3% – 10.5% **85+ Years** 7.8% – 15.0% Clearly there is a steady increase in risk as you get older. “ The mortality rate for Covid was below 0.035% for individual under the age of 50 “ **A 45 year old will have at least 14x the fatality risk** compared to the 0.035% risk that many people will assume from reading the way you communicated this data At 61 years old you are already over 1 in 50 chance or \~2% of death… which may not sound like much… but its over 20x risk of death for the flu at that age range. At 71 years old you are at nearly a 1 in 25 chance of death , or \~4% My point is - especially for people in their 30s and 40s - your stats are likely being read as incredibly misleading … It’s also very misleading for people aged \~ 65 to 79 years old to- which is a huge chunk of the most vulnerable people as there simply a lot more humans in the 65-79 age range vs 80 - 94 years old. \> “It was only individuals above the age of 80 who were very vulnerable (spikes up to 17% here)” No it clearly doesn’t go from a relatively flat risk and then suddenly spike at 80 years old. Clearly the risk steadily & sharply increases as you get older - the risk doubles ( or more ) every \~ 10 years.

Time to visit a civilized country just to get a shot. 😞

If the worst comes to the worst I'll send you some from the UK.

Imagine what this admin could do.. "All companies working on vaccine will be charged and have medical licenses revoked. All overseas companies working on a vaccine will be sanctioned and the countries tariffed"

All their stances are just "say the things democrats do are bad and take the opposite opinion"

I mean, I just googled it but this is what the World Health org said: **Case Fatality Rate (CFR):** Early in the pandemic, the World Health Organization estimated a 3.4% case fatality rate, though this varied widely based on testing availability and population demographics.

Depending on the sources and region, the overall fatality rate fluctated between 1-5%

Do you think it's too high or too low?

Before lockdown and vaccines? Yeah definetly

The LeopardsAteMyFace sublistnook will have lots of material to laugh about, at least.

Hantaviruses are bad at human to human transmission. The risk of pandemic is extremely low This is not a new virus. It’s been known for at least as such for a century and records of it go back to the 12th century. It happens to have landed on a cruise ship but that’s going to be the extent of it, mostly

Masks still lessened the total initial load of the virus, which helped the body adapt quicker and better.

I would look it up for yourself. That's the info I got. One said 2.9%. It seems right because I remember MAGAs saying it wasn't a high enough percentage to make a lock down worth it. Please, if you find another number from a reliable source, post it. Edit: ok, now I'm enlisting you to help. I can't find anything else about it. They have covid deaths per capital, but I can't find any other definitive numbers beside 3.4 and 2.9 but that is from a research paper.

It's so frustrating that folks, even those writing articles of concern, are not aware that this is the Andes variant, not the common Hantavirus we are used to.

C’mon, I’ve played Plague Inc long enough to know that just couple of DNA bonus points are enough to get the right mutations.

>sorry if I don't trust the billion dollar enterprises to rush something out to "production" in record time. mRNA vaccines have been studied for decades. Coronaviruses have been studied for decades. The unprecedented production of the COVID-19 vaccine is a combination of that research and a showing of what a united globe with unlimited funding can accomplish.

Now I'm enlisting you to find the number for me. That's all I could find. Seriously, go find the mortality rate for covid in 2020. That is all I could find for reference.

Already happening on X, apparently.

That only happens if the rest of us are able to get the shot

Darwinism/evolutionary speed run

Except when they infect their children and those with immunocompromisation who can't get vaccines... herd immunity is important

UwU-19

I've trained my whole life to fight off this bad boy. Put me in, coach.

Oh god…

canonical for me now thank you

You don't get to murder people because of "freedom". There's a lot of things you can't do even in free countries. Refusing to get vaccinated is a form of mass murder, and it should be illegal. Nobody has the right to endanger the lives of others.

Most countries make them mandatory, as they should. Nobody has the right to murder people by walking around unvaccinated and spreading diseases all over the place (with few exceptions approved by a doctor for legitimate medical reasons, and those people rely on herd immunity, which is destroyed by antivaxxers).

Not true, unfortunately. In the infectious period (luckily, only about a day), the Andes virus can spread quite easily, even in passing. "\[...\] the study also found that the virus could be passed relatively easily during this window, after periods of only brief proximity to someone else. The researchers were able to show that the first patient, a 68-year-old man who attended a birthday party with about 100 other people, infected someone else after being in contact with them for only a few moments, on the way to the restroom." [https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/andes-strain-hantavirus-explained](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/06/health/andes-strain-hantavirus-explained)

Remember when monkeypox didn't spiral out of control because everyone that it could affect got vaccinated quickly with no whinging.