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Gleyber Torres Tests Positive For COVID-19

By Connor Byrne | May 13, 2021 at 3:41pm CDT

Yankees shortstop Gleyber Torres has tested positive for COVID-19, Lindsey Adler of The Athletic was among those to report. The Yankees placed Torres on the COVID-19 injured list as a result, and they recalled infielder/outfielder Miguel Andujar to fill his roster spot.

“He was fully vaccinated and previously had COVID-19 during the most recent baseball offseason,” the team said of Torres.

Torres is the eighth member of the Yankees’ traveling party to test positive this week, joining coaches Phil Nevin, Reggie Willits, Matt Blake and four non-coaches on their staff.

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  1. Joel Peterson

    1 year ago

    Making it up as we go good gosh people.

    Reply
    • dobsonel

      1 year ago

      Starting to sound like that.

      Reply
    • itsmeheyhi

      1 year ago

      I sure dont have the answers, but it is scary. Yikes.

      Reply
    • Ben Grigsby

      1 year ago

      Shhhh, just be a Republican, pretend it doesn’t exist, and you’re good!

      Reply
      • KCJ

        1 year ago

        Ben Grigsby –
        More like, be under 25 years old, a complete smart a**, and don’t give a crap about anyone but yourself getting infected. You’re ignorant and politics has no place in a baseball comment section. Idiot.

        Reply
      • dpsmith22

        1 year ago

        Considering what your party has done to America so far, you might want to go back under that rock.

        Reply
      • emac22

        1 year ago

        Republicans will tell you it makes him better and helps the country and school is for losers.

        But no one cares what they’ve been told to say anyway.

        Reply
  2. ItsStillMillerPark

    1 year ago

    “He was fully vaccinated and previously had COVID-19 during the most recent baseball offseason,”

    Yup it doesnt work people.

    Reply
    • bjaygrr1977

      1 year ago

      Possible I guess, but sure sounds like a stretch!

      Reply
    • underdog

      1 year ago

      No, according to a lot of medical experts (including my doctor) it takes 4-6 weeks to be considered “fully vaccinated” and it sounds like he was vaccinated more recently than that. Let’s not use this as proof of anything else.

      Reply
      • jkoch717

        1 year ago

        That and you can still get COVID after having the vaccine, you just won’t show symptoms. You can still pass it along, which is why you need to get vaccinated.

        Reply
        • clrrogers

          1 year ago

          That’s not true. Being vaccinated doesn’t mean you won’t show symptoms of COVID if you end up getting it. You may still have symptoms, you’re just less likely to have a bad case of it if you do have those symptoms.

        • dougsolo1

          1 year ago

          It isn’t just “less likely”. There are zero examples of anyone bring fully vaccinated and being hospitalized or dying due to COVID. Zero! The anti-vax crew is always looking to say it doesn’t work and wants to ignore that key fact.

        • EasternLeagueVeteran

          1 year ago

          And there are deaths because of reactions to the vaccination that the Pro-vax people don’t want to discuss. The CDC actually has a disclaimer on their website about it so the CDC can CYA.

          I wish a speedy recovery to Gleyber and the coaches of the Yankees, and to anyone else who comea down with

        • Toddybaseball

          1 year ago

          The problem with entertaining that kind of discussion is how disproportionate the reaction is compared to everyday risks people happily accept. You’re more likely to die in your car, for example. WAY more likely. Unless you’re freaking out about every danger that is both A) a choice and B) an equal or greater risk, you’re just a moron peddling fear for political purposes.

          Get the damn shot so we can end trump’s pandemic.

        • 1984wasntamanual

          1 year ago

          Wait, how do you jump from “no symptoms” to “no one being hospitalized or dying” and act like there is no middle ground there?

        • FrankRoo

          1 year ago

          “peddling fear for political purposes.”

          “end trump’s pandemic”

          I’m sure that’ll convince him. Do as I say, not as I do.

        • AceKing

          1 year ago

          They’re all hypocrites.

        • PhDPad

          1 year ago

          @doug, you’re completely wrong. There are many examples. I know one personally. The vaccine efficacy is not 100%, which means there are ‘breakthrough’ infections and if those people have comorbidities, they can die and thousands have. VAERS has documented proof of this. This is not a pro-vax or anti-vax thing, this is documented proof (and anecdotal proof).

        • andyg37

          1 year ago

          and COVID isn’t as bad as everyday risks people happily accept. You’re essentially building an argument against your own position from top to bottom.

        • BaseballGuy1

          1 year ago

          Read what you wrote…. it is illogical.

        • timpa

          1 year ago

          This is a Tucker Carlson talking point regarding VAERS and the data is not being construed correctly.

          The VAERS database simply lets unverified reports be made regarding adverse reactions or deaths following the administration of a vaccine. There were over 4000 cases and the CDC had gotten through approximately 4,000 investigations and determined there was no related deaths due to the vaccine.

          If an 80 year old man with a heart condition or cancer gets the vaccine, and dies a month later that can go into the database.

          These vaccines had something like 35,000-45,000 people tested on between Sept/Oct and when they were approved for emergency use in December. There was not one person in that group who died from the vaccine. If there was even a 1% chance of death that would be 350 people. a 0.1% chance of death would be 35 people., a 0.01% of death would be 3.5 people.

        • MarkoRock68

          1 year ago

          Not sure of the American numbers but here in Canada 15.6 million have at least one dose of a vaccine and so far there have been only 2 reported deaths related to blood clots and Astra Zeneca. That is 1:7,600,000 . The US hasn’t approved of that vaccine anyway.

          Anyone saying the Vaccines are risky to health are fear mongering.

        • dpsmith22

          1 year ago

          Sure blame Trump, you liberals blame him for every other bad thing that’s happened. Of course he did put up a ton of money out of his own pocket to get the vaccine made. But let’s only blame.

        • tuna411

          1 year ago

          @dough … if the (experimental) vax is so perfect and wonderfully healing, why do the makers of the vax have full immunity ? if it works, you don’t need to worry about facing a court hearing, right? kind of like “if the election was the most secure ever, why are you afraid of an audit?”

        • tuna411

          1 year ago

          @ marko … I suppose those numbers could be true but coming from herrr trudo, who owns the media, I’ll take the over in number of cases

        • MarkoRock68

          1 year ago

          By the sounds of it you spend alot of time listening to every word Q says or is Tucker C your expert on all matters .

        • Dustyslambchops23

          1 year ago

          So you’re right on the odds, however when there are alternatives to AstraZeneca there is no real reason to take that risk.

      • lordd99

        1 year ago

        Maybe. But he also had Covid in January. His body should be awash in antibodies. Is this a variant? Should they even be playing if this virus can bust right through the vaccine? As I write below, this is not a one-off. This is an outbreak.

        Reply
        • Ian Theodore Fanthemson

          1 year ago

          There are multiple variants. I’m assuming he got one that the vacc did not create antibodies for…but who knows.

        • clrrogers

          1 year ago

          Calm down, Chicken Little.

        • geg42

          1 year ago

          Antibodies don’t hang around for months

        • jide

          1 year ago

          4-6 months

        • BaseballGuy1

          1 year ago

          In some people, they dissipate in as little as 90 days.

      • basquiat

        1 year ago

        Why listen to a doctor when you can watch Tucker? /s

        Reply
      • billysbballz

        1 year ago

        I thought it takes one full week? At least for Moderna and Pfizer. Where is your Dr getting this information? Same CDC that keeps changing on the fly?

        Reply
        • jide

          1 year ago

          14 days after your second shot for moderna and pfizer

    • JOHNSmith2778

      1 year ago

      A vaccine is not an immunity and was never advertised as one, it reduces symptoms. You can inject yourself with whatever but that doesn’t build a reverse magnetic field around you. It’s not like a deer tick collar that repels the virus particles away.

      Reply
      • seamaholic 2

        1 year ago

        A vaccine is immunity, period and by definition. What it isn’t is 100% immunity. No vaccine is that. This particular one (assuming he got Pfizer or Moderna) is somewhere in the low 90’s in terms of effectiveness. So one out of every 8 or so people who have been vaccinated will end up being vulnerable to be infected. There are no recorded cases of anyone dying after being fully vaccinated, and the chances of being hospitalized are a tiny fraction of what they’d be if not vaccinated.

        The fact that he had COVID a year ago is irrelevant. It’s been known for a long time that natural antibodies fade over time, especially for mild cases.

        Reply
        • BaseballGuy1

          1 year ago

          Actually there have been a number of people die after being fully vaccinated. It is not the magic bullet.

        • Cmurphy

          1 year ago

          @seamaholic 2 He got the J&J, as did the other Yankee players/staff, which is advertised as 72% effective.

        • tuna411

          1 year ago

          @ seam … if you watch cnn and listen to sleepy joe, then yes, you are right, nobody has died because of the vax.

    • A'sfaninUK

      1 year ago

      Nope, it means pro athletes are lying because they are scared of getting in trouble for the ways they’re catching it in the first place. YOU ARE WRONG.

      Reply
      • billysbballz

        1 year ago

        Really? 7 coaches lied and now a player all who received the J&J vaccine in early April? Stop!

        Reply
    • atomcc

      1 year ago

      You are partly right. First shot is like 60% effective against the virus variants that were around last year. Second shot gets you to 95% but which isn’t 100%. But shots will need a booster to take care of the

      Reply
      • atomcc

        1 year ago

        Additional variants present right now. Always playing a game of catch-up so not a 100% prevention but enough to keep hospitals from peak capacity

        Reply
        • seamaholic 2

          1 year ago

          Variants are irrelevant. The dominant vaccines in the U.S. — Pfizer and Moderna — have been tested against all the known ones and work fine.

        • marcfrombrooklyn

          1 year ago

          They work fine but possibly not as well, depending on the variant. As with how long the vaccine will be effective before needing a booster, we don’t know yet. It’s why it is continually being assessed and studied. It’s why the manufacturers are working on updating their vaccines to address the variants better. Right now, the advantage of vaccination is, as has been stated, fewer infections. milder infections, fewer severe cases and hospitalizations, and no deaths. As for the risks of the vaccines, they are miniscule compared to the risk of an unvaccinated person getting severely ill, suffering so called “long haul” symptoms, or death.. And, they have had the effect of reducing the number of people infected which does two things: it reduces the number of new variants and it has the potential of ending the pandemic not because of herd immunity per se but because the number of people with the disease drops low enough that it just isn’t spreading, which is how we stopped SARS and MERS and Ebola in years past. The threat, on the other hand, is either new variants coming from places where the disease is widespread, like India, Brazil, or Ontario, or that people become so careless here that infection rates among both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated rises and more of the unvaccinated get very sick, There is reason to be cautiously optimistic, just not complacent.

    • Al Hirschen

      1 year ago

      He got the Johnson &Johnson shot. The team got the J&J shot

      Reply
      • seamaholic 2

        1 year ago

        Ah, that makes it even less newsworthy. J&J is only abou t 65% effective in terms of getting infected, but 100% effective in preventing serious illness.

        Reply
        • johnrealtime

          1 year ago

          This. I know it isn’t mlbtrs responsibility at all but I wonder if things would go more smoothly for a certain segment of readers if they had included a little blurb stating vaccine statistics. Since a handful take this article and come to the conclusion that it is proof that the vaccine are a fraud

    • terrymesmer

      1 year ago

      Look up “COVID variant” and “breakthrough infections” you pettifogging quakebuttock!

      Reply
    • Daynlokki

      1 year ago

      It’s almost like the efficacy of the vaccine isn’t 100%. Weird. That’s been known since day one.

      Reply
    • douglasb

      1 year ago

      sure, because we should ignore the results of 100,000,000 people and focus on a handful of famous people instead.

      Reply
  3. For Love of the Game

    1 year ago

    Wow, Torres had that much COVID exposure and still got it again? Between a recent case of the virus and full vaccination, one would think he would be largely immune to it. But it just goes to show how little we know about the virus or the vaccines (yes, I’m vaccinated so don’t go political on me).

    Reply
    • itsmeheyhi

      1 year ago

      I had covid last year, got the vaccine last month, then got covid again 4 days after.

      I think the lesson is that there will always be exceptions to the rule, so to speak. And we are still in the early stages overall.

      Reply
    • bot

      1 year ago

      The United States Federal Government knows much and more about the “virus” and “vaccines”

      As My dad use to say- “he’d rather walk 10 miles to tell ya a lie rather than stand there and tell u truth” got to bury your head waist deep to buy what they sell on tv

      Reply
      • emac22

        1 year ago

        Your dad sounds like a real dick..

        What is it with liars and people who think the government is some secret group of adults making sure you you don’t kill yourself but also making you suffer every day of your life?

        Reply
  4. Ducky Buckin Fent

    1 year ago

    Aww, man.

    Well…just all part of the fun of 2021.
    Get back soon, Gleybae.

    Go Yanks.
    Sweep the Ray’s, uh?

    Reply
  5. lordd99

    1 year ago

    I’m sorry, but why are reporters not asking the obvious question. We have an outbreak here, an outbreak among a small, fully vaccinated group. No vaccine is 100% effective, but what would happen is you’d get a random, one-off infection in a vaccinated group. What we have is an outbreak. We now also have a player who had Covid and was vaccinated. Something is different. This is not a baseball story. This is a national healthy story.

    Reply
    • lordd99

      1 year ago

      Health.

      Reply
      • A'sfaninUK

        1 year ago

        your brain appears to have misfired

        Reply
    • seamaholic 2

      1 year ago

      It’s not even a story, let alone a national one. There are numerous such cases around the world. If anyone on the Yankees who was vaccinated gets seriously sick, we’d have a story. But short of that, it’s precisely what’s expected in a certain percentage of cases.

      Reply
      • billysbballz

        1 year ago

        This would have been a national story if 45 were still President but the fact that 46 is in office the kid gloves from the media and his overall approval rates regarding covid for doing pretty much nothing reveals why it’s not a national story. I know this sounds political but guess what, 6 months ago this would have shut down the Yankees! What happened?

        Reply
        • johnrealtime

          1 year ago

          How many things has 46 done “wrong” regarding the virus or what has he said that is wildly incorrect? Now 45? Huh I guess it makes sense how the media has handled the Covid response of these two individuals.

    • Daynlokki

      1 year ago

      72% efficacy on their vaccine which is based on a lab setting. Once you add variables from the real world the actual efficacy is even lower. There are already some major mutations.

      Reply
    • nyy42

      1 year ago

      Not really! The vaccine does not stop you from getting covid! It helps prevent hospitalization and getting severe symptoms!

      No story here…

      Reply
    • emac22

      1 year ago

      What is the obvious question?

      or the point?

      The vaccines aren’t 100% effective. People who get Them can still die.

      You get them because you’re much more likely to die or get disabled without one.

      This is a great public science test but it isn’t news.

      Reply
  6. jabronieramone

    1 year ago

    Johnson & Johnson is only 75% effective compared to Pfizer & Maderna’s 97%. It’s weird that Yankees are the only team having this happen. Are some lying about getting the vaccine?

    Reply
    • dobsonel

      1 year ago

      Or is the J&J vaccine trash?

      Reply
    • A'sfaninUK

      1 year ago

      Ding ding ding, these players getting it actually have not been vaccinated.

      Damion Lee of the Golden State Warriors was saying he wasn’t going to get vaxxed on twitter for weeks, then gets covid but suddenly he apparently had gotten vaxxed? Yeah, right. One brings up legal questions (not vaxxed and going to illegal gatherings, which breaks contracts) and the other isnt being questioned and is entirely up to the player’s word (claiming you have been vaxxed and then getting covid makes the story about the vaccine, not how the player got it – also players lie constantly in the press).

      Reply
      • lordd99

        1 year ago

        They have been vaccinated. The Yankees were known for running the tightest protocols last year and were the first team to exceed the 85% vaccination threshold this year.

        Reply
        • douglasb

          1 year ago

          so they say.

    • emac22

      1 year ago

      I also don’t think it’s 97% for getting sick.

      It doesn’t count against the vaccine unless someone gets really sick. Hopefully everyone would be thrilled to test positive instead of die.

      Reply
  7. ItsStillMillerPark

    1 year ago

    someone wasnt triple masking in their car by themselves.

    How selfish can Torres be

    Reply
    • Joel Peterson

      1 year ago

      Trade him to Tampa. That’s like social distancing right?

      Reply
  8. datrain021

    1 year ago

    I’m surprised they haven’t postponed the next few Yankee games with the number of cases on the staff and now moving to the players

    Reply
    • Lars MacDonald

      1 year ago

      They are constantly being tested right now.

      If no other player tests positive, why screw up the schedule.

      Reply
  9. Julio Franco's Birth Certificate

    1 year ago

    RIP

    Reply
  10. Dustyslambchops23

    1 year ago

    Hopefully they are just picking up the old virus in him, otherwise this is concerning that he’s had it and is vaccinated and still carrying/able to spread

    Reply
    • dobsonel

      1 year ago

      I’m hoping this is just a flawed set of tests or administrator error.

      Reply
      • terrymesmer

        1 year ago

        Friday headline: “CDC declares Rougned Odor a ‘variant of concern,’ MLB has player euthanised out of abundance of caution.”

        Reply
        • Dustyslambchops23

          1 year ago

          Shaving the beard unleashed the deadly virus on New York

        • padam

          1 year ago

          I think he gave it to Torres on purpose in order to get more playing time.

        • PhDPad

          1 year ago

          @terry, you win the internet tonight

  11. Bochys Retirement Fund

    1 year ago

    Going to just redirect the comments to talk about how ridiculous it is the Yankees are just wasting Andujar’s prime years in AAA. Just trade the dude already. Let him actually play somewhere that won’t require an IL stint to get playing time.

    Reply
    • DockEllisDee

      1 year ago

      I’ve been screaming this at the sky but the baseball gods won’t listen.

      Reply
  12. sureshotschmitty

    1 year ago

    Big CDC announcement today that mask mandates for vaccinated people are relaxed. A huge step forwards towards a new normal. What it means is that the ‘real world evidence’ shows that the vaccines work. Vaccinated individuals are protected from the virus & if exposed to the virus will have little ability to spread the virus to someone else. A chance to see our friends & families whole faces again!

    Reply
    • bot

      1 year ago

      Whatever u got to tell yourself to convince yourself injecting a trial vaccine in your body is safe.

      Reply
      • nyy42

        1 year ago

        Lol… You are so clueless!

        Reply
      • emac22

        1 year ago

        If “I want to live” isn’t enough don’t take it.

        The gene pool doesn’t need people who can’t process vaccine math.

        Reply
  13. jessaumodesto

    1 year ago

    Quite a marketing piece for the vaccination.

    Reply
  14. whyhayzee

    1 year ago

    “He was fully vaccinated and previously had COVID-19 during the most recent baseball offseason,” the team said of Torres.

    Does the team understand what fully vaccinated means? Or are they just blowing smoke? This thing is not done, apparently. Or the team is lying. Or they just don’t know what they’re talking about.

    How do eight people around the team get COVID? Are they just careless? Is there any reason in the world why this should happen? What is going on here?

    Now, THIS is suspicious.

    Reply
    • whyhayzee

      1 year ago

      But because the Yankees have regimented, robust testing (Boone was tested at least three times Thursday), there’s a chance to better understand how COVID-19 spreads between vaccinated individuals. Which brings us back to that key question: Did all of the infected Yankees catch it from a shared, unvaccinated source, or did fully vaccinated individuals pass it to one another?

      “I would want to know what happened,” Moore said, “because it’s of interest – not just from a sports fan perspective, although I like sports – it’s of interest from the wider public health perspective to figure out what happened.”

      Reply
      • bot

        1 year ago

        It’s not either or. Just an endless rambling of theories on your part

        Reply
        • whyhayzee

          1 year ago

          Yesterday I called it suspicious.

          Today it’s being investigated.

          No theories on my part, it’s being investigated.

  15. reflect

    1 year ago

    Don’t get the J&J vaccine lol

    Reply
  16. tedtheodorelogan

    1 year ago

    With all these fully vaccinated people in baseball testing positive, is there a chance baseball was given a batch of bunk tests?

    Reply
  17. Johnmac94

    1 year ago

    If we had a President, he (she) should be made aware of this! What a HORRIBLE way to write a story, a short statement that affects the world?

    Reply
  18. Johnmac94

    1 year ago

    With all the stories of extra vaccine available, why would anyone get the J&J? WHY?

    Reply
  19. dubinsky

    1 year ago

    lousy news for the Yankees and their infield defense if they intend to deploy Urshela at short and Andujar at 3rd.

    they might be better off defensively if they play Wade at short

    Reply
  20. bot

    1 year ago

    99.999999 percent effective. Give or take some 9’s

    Reply
  21. Srechter35

    1 year ago

    Yeah you guys can go ahead and close these comment threads again.

    Mercy.

    Reply
    • Joel Peterson

      1 year ago

      You can go ahead and not jump in. How about that fella?

      Look at the title. You showed up just to whine. You knew what the comments would look like. You are the guy nobody likes…..

      Reply
    • FredMcGriff for the HOF

      1 year ago

      Feel free to ignore the comments section if you can’t handle it.

      Reply
      • Joel Peterson

        1 year ago

        Exactly. The title was clear as day what the post was about. If you started reading and replying you absolutely had a choice.

        Reply
        • Srechter35

          1 year ago

          Lol, just now seeing this. Never did I suggest my feeble little mind couldn’t handle the rigors of this unbelievably straining conversation now did I? I’m merely saddened by the overwhelming disinformation and bickering on the subject, and think threads like this actively hurt others, not myself. But I appreciate the inane responses, boys!

  22. forwhomjoshbelltolled

    1 year ago

    Covid has a real beef with Gleyber Torres.

    I like these stories about people who have been vaccinated getting infected, it’s the ONLY way to get the anti-vaxxers and their ilk to admit Covid is not a hoax.

    Reply
    • itsmeheyhi

      1 year ago

      liking stories about ppl getting sick is weird dude

      Reply
      • forwhomjoshbelltolled

        1 year ago

        He’s been vaccinated, he’ll be fine.

        The people who naively believe misinformation and/or disinformation, on the other hand, are giving Darwin a clean head shot.

        Reply
  23. carlos15

    1 year ago

    Vaccines lessen the symptoms, not the actual spread, read the literature that goes into the approval for use.

    Reply
    • douglasb

      1 year ago

      Read what vaccine efficacy means and then come back.

      Reply
  24. mike156

    1 year ago

    Vaccines are not 100% effective and they are not marketed that way…High eighties and low nineties were the estimates when they were released. They have been shown to be very effective in lessening the symptoms and mortality if you get it. But nothing is perfect., and Torres case is a classic small sample result., Let’s not all head to the mattresses over it.,

    Reply
    • 1984wasntamanual

      1 year ago

      Weren’t the other people that tested positive vaccinated as well? I thought that’s what the previous story that had the comments closed said.

      Reply
      • mike156

        1 year ago

        I think that’s true.. It’s too easy to speculate about whether this is a variant, or what. But we haven’t seen many cases of positive tests after vaccination, so this might be something different. My point was more along the lines of “in general they seem to be safe and effective…but if someone doesn’t want to believe…fine.”

        Reply
  25. Ezpkns34

    1 year ago

    All the vaccinated people getting it again had the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. J&J stock about to tank

    Reply
  26. antone

    1 year ago

    COVID-19 will be with us forever. Time to get used to that reality.

    Reply
  27. FrankRoo

    1 year ago

    This is actually a huge issue and needs to be investigated. The odds of this many positives among “fully vaccinated” individuals is extremely unlikely given the data.

    It not only affects the team, but anyone on their schedule as well as the league as a whole. MLB needs to find out what happened here and if their entire roster and staff really received both doses of the vaccine.

    Reply
  28. LetGoOfMyLeg

    1 year ago

    My gut feeling is none of these folks have been vaccinated. Management claims they have been for the relaxed protocol benefit. Makes total sense….

    Reply
  29. Rick Pernell

    1 year ago

    Rumor has it that the Yankees tried to pick up a shortstop named Fauci. His contract was going to require everyone wear a mask. at all times.

    Reply
  30. KCJ

    1 year ago

    I just love all you morons who think they know all the answers about an unprecedented epidemic that is still being studied and top scientists are still trying to fully understand. You blowhards think you know everything and keep blabbing to the rest of us about what we should all do when in truth you don’t know jack shi*. Just shut the hell up. Seems to me the smart thing to do our best to eliminate this crap instead of acting like a bunch of cocky ignorant bastards and acting like anyone knows exactly how this should be handled and what will or will not help. You all know nothing more than what the top scientists in the world do, so get over yourselves and your giant egos. Particularly you young people who think they have answers for a utopian society while sitting on a bean bag chair in your parents basement playing your newest playstation game. None of us care what you think, so quit trying to shove your own misinformed agendas and solutions down our throats

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    • Joel Peterson

      1 year ago

      Ok let’s assume that’s all true.

      What about the people who do know this stuff. This isn’t China they are not working for the people they are working for themselves. They are in it to get rich. So why should we trust them blindly???? If I take my car into Midas they will say I need a muffler. Why do we assume doctors and medical professionals are looking out for our best interests????? Why?????? Because you want to believe it’s true????? This is capitalism wetting the bed. Open your eyes man.

      Reply
      • MarkoRock68

        1 year ago

        So it is a worldwide conspiracy including all the top world epidemiologists, researchers, MD’s, PPE manufacturers and Big Pharma and all levels of government to make money?????

        The Hippocratic oath and malpractice would play no part either I suppose.

        You need to stop watching Tucker – a guy with a degree in European history.

        Reply
  31. oh my gawd

    1 year ago

    I have been reading this site for nine years. Tonight I finally created an account just to post this message, going to the trouble of posting via a browser after the app quit every time I tried to comment. Go back two years and read the comments section, and it’s just so different. There are trolls and insults and the inevitable comment about how “X” is the worst and anyone who disagrees is a moron, but there are also comments about baseball. There is no reason for a comments section on this article and yes, I understand irony. When we pretend to be experts about baseball, it’s one thing. But to go to a baseball website and see people pretend to be experts on a novel coronavirus, it’s pathetic.

    Reply
    • FredMcGriff for the HOF

      1 year ago

      Feel free to ignore the comment section.

      Reply
  32. forwhomjoshbelltolled

    1 year ago

    “They said the vaccine was 95% effective, so the fact that it’s not 100% effective proves it doesn’t work at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

    Reply
  33. MarkoRock68

    1 year ago

    For those who do not know how to use google. pertaining to the J&J Vaccine.

    “In Johnson & Johnson’s trial, researchers looked at different outcomes in different parts of the world. In the United States, for example, the vaccine was found to be 72 percent effective at preventing what the company defined as moderate to severe Covid-19.
    When researchers looked specifically at the vaccine’s protection against the most severe forms of illness, effectiveness shot up to 86 percent.

    And it prevented 100 percent of hospitalizations and deaths related to Covid-19. No one who got the Johnson & Johnson shot was hospitalized or died of Covid-19 during the study’s follow-up period of 28 days after vaccination.

    What’s more, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine’s effectiveness against severe disease was found to increase over time — to more than 90 percent within a month and a half after vaccination.

    What all that means in practice is that even if a vaccinated person is infected with the coronavirus, the illness is likely to be one that can be managed at home, experts say. That’s true regardless of the variant.

    Even if they get Covid, their symptoms are much more mild than people who got the placebo and got Covid,” said the director of the Alabama Vaccine Research Clinic, Dr. Paul Goepfert, a professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Goepfert was an investigator in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine trials.”

    Reply
  34. Steven

    1 year ago

    Honestly, I think my favorite part of this website may be the comment section and the weekly chats.

    Reply
  35. whyhayzee

    1 year ago

    I am continually amazed at the amount of ignorance and the occasional really good comment. Gives me hope. I was raised by a world class scientist who had a Fellowship at Harvard and an MIT PhD at the age of 24. The smartest people in the world know what they DON’T know as well or even better than what they do know.

    There are some smart people here with really good comments but they’re sprinkles on an ice cream cone of ignorance. So lick off the sprinkles and throw out the cone!

    My field includes statistics and risk assessment (I’m an actuary) and it’s sad to see what gets manipulated in that area. People have very little comprehension of risk and a barely tenuous grasp of statistics but they freely banter nonsense. It’s sad.

    Reply
  36. dpsmith22

    1 year ago

    It’s comical to see you guys fight over Covid and Vaccines. NO ONE KNOWS the answers. Haven’t you heard enough of the so called experts spewing incorrect statements? Not worth arguing about.

    Reply
  37. Clones92

    1 year ago

    Did he have symptoms?? False positive? I haven’t heard of anyone who had Covid, got the vaccine, and then tested positive again.

    Reply
  38. nottinghamforest13

    1 year ago

    If there’s even a 1% chance that anyone could ever contract the virus, that’s 1% too many. None should remove their masks until we can be certain the disease cannot possibly infect anyone ever again. It’s a small price to pay in order to preserve human life.

    Reply
  39. kevins

    1 year ago

    Sorry to hear, but not much of a loss for the Yankees. Horrible offense, no power.

    Reply

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