Summary

A school in Rösrath, Germany, temporarily closed after two children from the same family tested positive for the mpox clade 1b variant.

The children, who attend a special needs school, contracted the virus from a family member who recently traveled to Africa.

All infected family members are in quarantine, and online lessons will run until Friday as a precaution.

The Robert Koch Institute confirmed the virus poses low contagion risk, requiring close physical contact for transmission. The infections are mild, and no additional cases or deaths have been reported in Germany.

  • 9bananas@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    this is FALSE:

    The point still stands: The STIKO does not recommend yearly fresh-ups for people who have base immunity. You still got a fresh-up. I didn’t. Thus, I followed their recommendations, you didn’t.

    the guidelines say protections last at least 12 months, after which you should still get a fresh-up, even if you have base immunity:

    Die Kombination aus Impfung und Infektion (hybride Immunität) verleiht einen guten Schutz vor schweren Krankheitsverläufen nach SARS-CoV-2-Infektionen, der auf Basis der bisher verfügbaren Untersuchungen mindestens 12 Monate anhält.

    the recommendation literally says EVERYONE, and in this case specifically “Für Personen im Alter ≥ 18 Jahre und Schwangere ohne Grunderkrankung” (the very same paragraph, right at the beginning), has protections that last about 12 months.

    this is INCLUDING “Basisimmunität”, which that same paragraph states lasts about 12 month.

    they really shouldn’t use “Basisimmunität”, because it sounds like it lasts indefinitely, which is false; it lasts about 12 months, and then decreases in effectiveness.

    this is apparently the part you can’t read properly: the base immunity is NOT permanent.

    getting a fresh-up is the recommendation.

    NOT getting a fresh-up is AGAINST the recommendation.

    You still got a fresh-up.

    i can’t believe i have to state this again, but: I AM A DIFFERENT USER.

    i never said anything about getting the fresh-up.

    stop spreading anti-vax biullshit, just because you can’t read properly.

    and especially don’t go around telling other people they can’t read, if you yourself are the one incapable of it.

    to quote YOU:

    learn to read.

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      13 hours ago

      the guidelines say protections last at least 12 months,

      yes.

      after which you should still get a fresh-up.

      No.

      If they had data showing that base immunity has a drop-off, by date, effectiveness etc, that would warrant fresh-ups they would say, in very plain words, that you should get a fresh-up.

      But they don’t:

      Deshalb empfiehlt die STIKO für besonders gefährdete Personengruppen eine jährliche Auffrischimpfung, die im Herbst verabreicht werden soll.

      For endangered groups. Not the general population. They know, for sure, that it lasts at least 12 months, but they might have good reason to believe that it lasts indefinitely, that the drop-off is not worth the risk for the general population, or some such. Ask a specialist. I’m not one, but I can read, without turning to all caps. Maybe you should read the whole thing with a cooler head.

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        13 hours ago

        so you admit you have no idea, and then make a definitive statement to NOT get vaccinated.

        you do see the hypocrisy here, right?

        and “at least” means they do not know what happens after, presumably because data is not yet available.

        given that they very clearly state that getting fresh-ups does help, the reasonable assumption is to get the vaccine just in case.

        not the other way around, like you did.

        you are spreading misinformation, if you say not to get the vaccine, just because you assume that it has downsides.

        to use your own argument: IF fresh-ups had negative effects, they would say so in plain words.

        they don’t do that, which shows nicely how dumb of an argument that is.

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          12 hours ago

          so you admit you have no idea, and then make a definitive statement to NOT get vaccinated.

          I admitted that I have no idea about the epidemiological details, then made a definite statement about what the STIKO said. Which I did by quoting them, verbatim.

          to use your own argument: IF fresh-ups had negative effects, they would say so in plain words.

          It is not the job of the STIKO to not recommend vaccinations. They either recommend or don’t recommend, but they never recommend not to, that’s the job of your doctor, comparing your medical state/history against counterindications.