Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #100

[ilovewings]

Craziness! Ugh. Why do they not value others' health & well-being +++++ life?

Jmo

It is truly beyond comprehension

 

[TootsieFootsie]

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/melbourne/melbourne-protester-in-hospital-with-covid-19/ar-AAOJk
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A person who was part of yesterday's protest in Melbourne's CBD is now in hospital with COVID-19.

The Department of Health has confirmed that a person who attended the protests in Melbourne's CBD yesterday is being treated for the virus.

 

[Cool Cats]

• Doctors treating unvaccinated Covid patients are succumbing to compassion fatigue
• A family member of a COVID-19 patient reportedly threatened a doctor after she wouldn't treat him with ivermectin

Some doctors are beginning to express frustration with patients who refuse the vaccine and are endangering themselves and others, including the healthcare workers who must treat them.

The family member of a COVID-19 patient in Boise, Idaho, threatened a doctor who wouldn't treat the man with ivermectin, BuzzFeed News reported.

Dr. Ashley Carvalho recalled how the police had to remove the man's son-in-law from the hospital after he told her, "If you don't do this, I have a lot of ways to get people to do something, and they're all sitting in my gun safe at home," according to BuzzFeed News.

Carvalho told BuzzFeed News that hostility to healthcare workers and a new surge of COVID-19 cases are taking their toll, adding that she's more anxious now than she was before vaccines were available.

"I think it's just kind of a hopeless feeling," she said.

Healthcare workers across the US have seen a rise in violent threats
The threat against Carvalho is a part of a larger trend of violence against medical staff during the pandemic.

Karen Garvey, the vice president of patient safety and clinical risk management at Parkland Health & Hospital System, told the Texas Tribune in March that her hospital has seen a rise in violent threats since the pandemic began.

Garvey said there have been "people being punched in the chest, having urine thrown on them, and inappropriate sexual innuendos or behaviors in front of staff members." She also said medical staff have been called names and racial slurs in addition to getting broken bones and noses.

 

[LadyL]

Canada pauses COVID-19 vaccine deliveries as supply far exceeds demand

 

[musicaljoke]

Suicides in Canada fell 32 per cent in first year of pandemic compared with year before, report finds

Despite isolating lockdowns and a sharp rise in unemployment, suicides fell by 32 per cent in the first year of the pandemic compared with the year before it, according to a new report.

This is the lowest suicide mortality rate in Canada in more than a decade, says the study, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

“It’s a remarkable finding, that during this awful time, we saw a decrease,” said the report’s lead author, Roger McIntyre, a University of Toronto professor of psychiatry and pharmacology.


“This tells us there are things that we can do,” Dr. McIntyre said. “We don’t need to accept suicide rates, we need to rethink how we’re approaching this from a policy perspective.”

 

[LadyL]

Federal government to provide Red Cross, military help as Alberta’s hospitals are swamped by COVID-19

 

[LadyL]

U.S. backs Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots. Should Canada do the same? - National | Globalnews.ca

 

[jjenny]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
"An undisclosed number of people from the town of Edson in Alberta in Canada have ended up in the ICU after attending a “Covid party,” according to news reports."
Canadians End Up In ICU After Attending ‘Covid Party’ (forbes.com)

 

[SouthAussie]

Craziness! Ugh. Why do they not value others' health & well-being +++++ life?

Jmo

Their new surgeon general thinks that there is "too much emphasis on measuring public health by how many COVID-19 cases there are in an area".

Florida Gov. DeSantis Taps A New Surgeon General Who Doesn't Support Vaccine Mandates | NPR

 

[jjenny]

Their new surgeon general thinks that there is "too much emphasis on measuring public health by how many COVID-19 cases there are in an area".

Florida Gov. DeSantis Taps A New Surgeon General Who Doesn't Support Vaccine Mandates | NPR

Well DeSantis didn't pick him for nothing, did he?

 

[LadyL]

My Family Was a COVID Cluster

 

[Cool Cats]

• Kent Co. health director tells commissioners after almost being run off the road: ‘I need help’ ⋆ Michigan Advance
• ‘Liar,’ ‘coward:’ Large crowd ridicules Kent County health official at meeting over mask mandate

Kent County Health Department director Adam London

Email details abuse after department issued school mask mandate
“I had a woman try to run me off the road at 70+ miles per hour…twice, on Friday night,” London wrote in his Aug. 22 email to commissioners. “I think we have all seen the aggression and violence displayed at meetings across the nation during the past week.”

“There is nothing to be gained by entertaining such people with dialog,”

Across Michigan, local health and education officials have increasingly faced aggression and threats of violence, including death threats, after issuing school mask mandates.


London paints a dark picture of the abuse he has faced, from people “accusing me of being a deep state agent of liberal-progressive socialist powers that are working to undo the America they love (paraphrased minus expletives)” to others calling him a “child-abusing monster.”

“Last week, I had a person yell out to me, “Hey mother******, I hope someone abuses your kids and forces you to watch,” London wrote.

 

[LadyL]

this is interesting

Divorced Sask. parents fight in court over COVID-19 vaccination for teen daughter

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sask...vYlQo47Ukw5AX_l97Jjp5ggS4-Ol7NQTJniuoOJ4Y1qmI

 

[jjenny]

My Family Was a COVID Cluster

Not very smart to send a kid off to grandparents, after kid's sister tested positive for covid.

 

[MimosaMornings]

My Family Was a COVID Cluster

“Last week, on Heather’s third day out of quarantine, she said to me, “That’s it. I’m planning a Christmas vacation.”

I’m scratching my head on that statement. It’s not like they couldn’t get it again and be another cluster event?

They sent the son to the grandparents so he could go to school, why would you send a close contact and most likely positive kid to their grandparents and to attend school?
JMO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Oops sorry, just noticed the link was broken, too late to edit so posting it again.

Melbourne protester in hospital with COVID-19

A person who was part of yesterday's protest in Melbourne's CBD is now in hospital with COVID-19.

The Department of Health has confirmed that a person who attended the protests in Melbourne's CBD yesterday is being treated for the virus.

 

[sds71]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday backed a booster shot of the Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for Americans aged 65 and older, some adults with underlying medical conditions and some adults in high-risk working and institutional settings.


U.S. CDC director breaks with panel, backs COVID-19 boosters for high-risk workers

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Melbourne tradie who was in ICU with COVID urges protesting construction workers to get vaccinated

Mr Chellia had always intended to get vaccinated but had not felt there was any hurry.

Aged in his late 30s, he felt a false sense of security.

"I thought, 'COVID'S not going to get me, it's going to get older people.'"

"I'd never seen any COVID patients … I thought it was just a normal flu."

Grateful to have recovered, he's now urging other Australians to get vaccinated and wants his experience with coronavirus to act as a cautionary tale.

 

[ilovewings]

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[Cool Cats]

4 people who got COVID-19 booster shots share what it felt like to get an extra vaccine dose

More than 21,000 people who've received a third dose of Pfizer or Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine shared their side effects with the CDC. CDC ACIP meeting, September 22, 2021.

Steve Walz, head of international relations at Israel's Sheba Medical Center, spoke to Insider after his third dose of Pfizer. "The only thing that bothered me was I was extremely tired for 24 hours," Walz, who is in his 60s, said. "That's it. I didn't have any of those shakes, fevers, or all the other reactions that most people have. I guess I'm fortunate."

Alec Lynch, who's 21 and on medication that affects his immune system, said he was "just out of commission for a day," laying in bed after he got a third shot of Pfizer in August. Lynch described feeling "tired and achy" and "kind of gross" but without a fever.

32-year-old Andy Sparks who boosted his single shot J&J vaccine with a shot of Moderna said his arm hurt "way worse" after the Moderna boost than with the initial J&J.

Katie Bent, 30, boosted her J&J with Pfizer and said after that second shot she was so tired she slept for 15 hours, whereas with the J&J she was just "a little tired and sore afterwards."

Arm pain and swelling
By far the most common side effect felt after a third COVID-19 dose is arm pain at the injection site.

Fatigue and other muscle aches (myalgia) are also common in the week after a third mRNA injection.

Data that Pfizer presented to the CDC this week also suggested that more people may have swollen lymph nodes after a third dose of the vaccine than with a first or second, but that is temporary, and only happened about 5% of the time in their trials.