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NEWS: Anime Expo 2022 Reinstates Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test

The convention will require attendees to the Anime Expo 2022 event to show proof of vaccination for the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) or a negative COVID-19 test taken 72 hours prior to attending the event. Regardless of vaccination status, masks will be required indoors (except in designated eating areas) and will be optional outdoors.

it's really weird how people think COVID is gone. the reason it's gone down is BECAUSE of vaccines. requiring them is the logical thing for large events. Masks is nice but vaccines is better

This is such an insanely bad look for AX. I know that enforcing it would have been a nightmare because AX is seemingly committed to screwing up everything possible when it comes to crowd management, but it's preferable to letting Covid run wild in a crowd that normally numbers in six figures and are packed in like sardines.

This also makes me nervous for Otakon, which is only two months away. Will they pull a similar stunt, or will they follow in the path of cons like Fanime and Anime Boston that held to their mask and vaccine requirements?

it's really weird how people think COVID is gone. the reason it's gone down is BECAUSE of vaccines. requiring them is the logical thing for large events. Masks is nice but vaccines is better

Look the evidence is there and proven… getting the vaccine does not prevent you from spreading the virus… if it did.. the CDC would never have recommended still

"Studies of viral dynamics further suggest that while viral loads in breakthrough infections may be as high in vaccinated individuals as they are in unvaccinated individuals, viral loads in those who are vaccinated decline more rapidly, and the virus that they shed is less likely to be culture-positive than virus shed by unvaccinated individuals.7,8 This suggests that people who are fully vaccinated are less likely to become infected and if infected, will be contagious for shorter periods than unvaccinated people. This is supported by transmission studies that confirm that vaccinated people are less likely to transmit SARS-CoV-2 to close contacts compared with unvaccinated people, including the Delta variant.9 In a study of 7771 household contacts of 4921 index cases in the Netherlands, the rate of transmission from fully vaccinated household members was 13% vs 22% from unvaccinated household members (estimated vaccine effectiveness against transmission, 63% [95% CI, 46%-75%]).10 Similarly, in an English study of 151 821 contacts of 99 567 index patients, the rate of transmission from people fully vaccinated with BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) was 23% vs 49% for transmission from unvaccinated people (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.35 [95% CI, 0.26-0.48] for transmission of Delta to unvaccinated contacts; aOR, 0.10 [95% CI, 0.08-0.13] for transmission of Delta to fully vaccinated contacts).11"

They said that it’s base on CDC and WHO recommendations… so there is no bad look for them as they are following the science that the government recommends… I see no issues in this.

Look the evidence is there and proven… getting the vaccine does not prevent you from spreading the virus… if it did.. the CDC would never have recommended still
Masking up for those that are vaccinated… all I see as by what’s happening today is the vaccine only helps you fight the virus so you don’t get severely sick of even die! In which case it’s to this day that I sided that only those that are immune compromised or have other conditions that make it worse (aka diabetes, obesity, HIV, etc)… those like myself that have been asymptomatic to this whole thing should NOT need to have the vaccine..

Oh, you mean those CDC recommendations that were clearly changed not to protect people but instead to appease corporations who only wanted to push people back into offices and back into work ASAP, regardless of their health and the health of others? The ones that enabled an upswing in cases after months of decline due to mask and vaccine mandates? THOSE recommendations?

??? This reads like a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. Science is not scary nor radical. The CDC are made up of professional doctors and scientists. They are the ones people should be listening to here, not random people on the internet peddling anti-government conspriacy theories.

No idea why so many Very Online Americans are still hung up on covid, it's not going away, everyone's going to get it

and the vaccines have blunted its impact

(you want to know why people have moved on? This is why), you can spend your whole life panicking over it

Sevokevo Royuki wrote:

Look the evidence is there and proven… getting the vaccine does not prevent you from spreading the virus… if it did.. the CDC would never have recommended still

Vaccination doesn't drop the probabilities of (A) being infected or the probability of (B) spreading infection, if you develop a break-through infection, to zero, but it does significantly reduce them (per https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.14.21264959v1.full#ref-1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264260v2 and https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2786040).

This isn't really news, though, or shouldn't be, anyway. No one with any reasonable understanding of medical science ever expected vaccination to drop your transmission probability (if infected), or your probability of being infected, to 0. Just to significantly reduce it; that's how vaccines work -- they reduce the probability of infection and transmission-if-infected to a low enough point that, if enough of us get vaccinated, then a new infection will tend to struggle to spread because it will mostly run into vaccinated people and have a much lower probability of (A) spreading and (B) replicating to a third person, if it does infect the first person. Reduce these probabilities enough and there is no longer a tendency for a single virus to become many viruses (aka "herd immunity"); this also works together in concert with masks, avoiding crowds, etc, all of which help to reduce viral spread as well, but through different mechanisms (and which are also only partially effective -- a mask doesn't drop your transmission-if-infected probability to 0 either, but combining it with a vaccine sure gets you closer!).

This paragraph from the JAMA editorial (third reference) is an especially useful summary of evidence on transmission (as of Delta; I haven't followed up on similar research for later variants):

JAMA Editorial wrote:

"Studies of viral dynamics further suggest that while viral loads in breakthrough infections may be as high in vaccinated individuals as they are in unvaccinated individuals, viral loads in those who are vaccinated decline more rapidly, and the virus that they shed is less likely to be culture-positive than virus shed by unvaccinated individuals.7,8 This suggests that people who are fully vaccinated are less likely to become infected and if infected, will be contagious for shorter periods than unvaccinated people. This is supported by transmission studies that confirm that vaccinated people are less likely to transmit SARS-CoV-2 to close contacts compared with unvaccinated people, including the Delta variant.9 In a study of 7771 household contacts of 4921 index cases in the Netherlands, the rate of transmission from fully vaccinated household members was 13% vs 22% from unvaccinated household members (estimated vaccine effectiveness against transmission, 63% [95% CI, 46%-75%]).10 Similarly, in an English study of 151 821 contacts of 99 567 index patients, the rate of transmission from people fully vaccinated with BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) was 23% vs 49% for transmission from unvaccinated people (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.35 [95% CI, 0.26-0.48] for transmission of Delta to unvaccinated contacts; aOR, 0.10 [95% CI, 0.08-0.13] for transmission of Delta to fully vaccinated contacts).11"