Fears arise that Lambda Covid-19 variant from Peru may be resistant to vaccines

The alleged resistance is vs CoronaVac, which we already have good reason to believe isn't very effective in general.

This doesn't say much about resistance vs 2 dose Pfizer/Modern/AstraZenca (which would be most worrying), or J&J/Novavax. That's what's important to check. Experience until now was that the mRNA vaccines could handle all variants, and JJ/Nova are apparently fine too.

Fortunately, we already have multiple vaccines that are based on multiple working mechanisms. Also some vaccines, especially the mRNA based ones, can be adapted quite fast.

It's always something, isn't it? Some people just can't let this go. The fact is, the vaccines we have work against all these variants.

When we had outages at work, we'd amp up our monitoring to 11 and when the outage was over the amount of noise generated by the logs had the tendency to spook people. They'd see a bunch of errors that were always present in the system but never noticed because the logs weren't as high. You'd have to remind yourself "yeah, this stuff always happens... we just have our monitoring cranked up and adrenaline still flowing".

It takes a little while to mentally recover from a bad outage. I suspect something similar is happening here. Society has its monitoring amped up and getting freaked out by every little thing the monitoring is showing.

The Financial Times article (linked from this one) is much better: https://www.ft.com/content/b3ea5177-9312-418b-acb7-af16a3bdc...

Fuck