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Thursday, July 15, 2021

Game called due to Covid

 No game tonight. Yanks test positive. (Are we sure they're all vaccinated?)



Trey Amburgey still waits.

21 comments:

ZacharyA said...

via Lindsey Adler:
The Yankees three confirmed positive cases — Jonathan Loaisiga, Nestor Cortes, and Wandy Peralta — were all vaccinated, Brian Cashman said. Two J&J, one mRNA.

also

via Hoch:
Gleyber Torres’ case earlier this season was a false positive, Aaron Boone said.

ranger_lp said...

From Marly Rivera's twitter acct..

Rafael Devers just told me that he was asked to not do interviews pregame because one of the #Yankees who went to the All-Star Game tested positive. Devers said that he is going to undergo testing this afternoon.

Anonymous said...

Latest word is that Judge has it. Probably got it from the All-Star game.

TheWinWarblist said...

Expect more of this. The RNA vaccines, Pfizer and Moderna, and J&J are all effective in preventing infection, and especially effective at preventing serious infection requiring oxygen, hospitalization/ICU and excellent at preventing death. But the Delta variants are here now. They are rapidly becoming predominant across the world. They are more infectious and probably more lethal too. Vaccinated individuals can be infected, but are still very well protected from serious infection requiring oxygen, hospitalization and ICU care. And are still extremely well protected from dying. Those still dying of COVID in the USA are almost exclusively unvaccinated.

No vaccine is perfect. No natural immunity is perfect. If you are exposed to a large enough inoculum of virus you will be infected. We are certain now that the "natural" immunity from being infected wanes quickly and that an individual can be infected a second time. The vaccines provide better immunity than a prior infection.

This is not over. The Delta variants are here. The fourth wave has started. Stay safe. Be prudent in your contacts. Wear a mask when in public. Don't let unvaccinated individuals into you home. Wash your hands.

I will leave you with the sage words of the great 13bit: Fuck everybody. I love you all.

Anonymous said...

Thank you Winnie – and we all love you, too! Your posts are reasons enough to follow IIHIIFIIC.

mik said...

Well said, TheWinWarblist, well said.

el duque said...

Agreed.

Anonymous said...

Winnie, where did you get your medical degree?
we may have gone to the U of R together.

Godot

ranger_lp said...

5:20PM: Judge is indeed the Yankees All-Star in question, The Boston Globe’s Pete Abraham reports (via Twitter). Gio Urshela, and Kyle Higashioka are the other two Yankees in COVID protocol, ESPN’s Buster Olney tweets.

TheWinWarblist said...

Especially FUCK Buster Onley.

TheWinWarblist said...

We did not go to U of R (whatever that is) together, alas.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Just when you thought, this season could not possibly be more painful to watch.

Sheesh!

ranger_lp said...

I am sure that tomorrow's el duque post will have something in it like..."Putting off the inevitable..."

DickAllen said...

Looks like I’ll be watching “Bull Durham” a little early this year. It seems like the off-season is just around the corner.

DickAllen said...

The University of Rochester?

On the banks of the Genesee River?

A lovely place!

Except in the winter.

Anonymous said...

Here’s another no-holds-barred reason why we need to stay clear of Yankee Stadium:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_vRBXpkn_g

@DickAllen – if you’re wiling to part with a few bucks, I highly recommend the new Criterion Collection edition of “Bull Durham” – chock full o’terrific bonus features:

https://www.criterion.com/films/29143-bull-durham

HoraceClarke66 said...

You know, this might be the perfect season for the Yankees to blow up.

Don't want anyone to get seriously ill, of course. But if the fourth wave wipes out the season...well then, it would end with Altuve hitting a home run off a mediocre Yanks reliever, as all our seasons seem to.

And we could sit back and start thinking about next year. Ah!

Anonymous said...

Any doctor in the typing area of this site would know that U of R is University of Rochester is one of the top medical schools in the Northeast. Strong Hospital and Wilmot Cancer Center and Galisano Children's are top of the heap.

I thought that if Winne had all that medical advice on COVID, he may have went there with me.

Godot

TheWinWarblist said...

I thought it was Rochester, but I wasn't sure. One of my partners trained there, but I did not.

Still Waiting for That Godot Person

TheWinWarblist said...

I did my residency at the University Hospital at Stony Brook.



I will leave you with the sage words of the great 13bit: Fuck everybody. I love you all.

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