Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #101

[Skigh]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...nce-symptoms-six-months-recovering-virus.html

More than half of COVID-19 survivors experience symptoms of the virus six months after recovery, a new study finds.

Researchers from Pennsylvania State University, in State College, performed a meta-analysis of previous studies investigating patients who said they still had symptoms months after initially testing positive.

Symptoms such as cognitive impairment, anxiety and chronic fatigue were the most common reported after recovering from the virus.

The implications of this study are large for the health care world going forward, because many will be carrying serious symptoms for potentially years.

 

[ilovewings]

Vaccine injury database VAERS considered unreliable, ‘subject to biases’

Injury Database Considered Unreliable because anyone can report on the database and the information is not verified.

 

[weepingangel]

One in five of England’s most critically ill Covid patients are unvaccinated pregnant women, a study finds.
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Unvaccinated pregnant women make up nearly 20 percent of the most critically ill Covid-19 patients in England, according to data released by the National Health Service on Monday.

Since July, approximately one in five coronavirus patients who received an intensive lung-bypass treatment, or Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), were unvaccinated and pregnant.
“The disproportionate number of unvaccinated pregnant women in intensive care demonstrates that there is a significant risk of severe illness from Covid-19 in pregnancy,” said Dr. Edward Morris, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, in a statement on the N.H.S. website.




Vaccine hesitancy in pregnant people drives rise in Covid hospitalizations
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Pregnant people who develop Covid-19 symptoms risk emergency complications and other problems with their pregnancies, according to two new studies. And pregnancy alone places people at an increased risk for severe illness and death. But despite these risks, pregnant people remain some of the most vaccine-hesitant populations in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

 

[Deleted member 39678]

A plethora of reports strongly suggests that vitamin D plays a vital role in protection against SARS-COV-2, which includes preventing infected patients from developing severe disease. Here, we report for the first time that a range of vitamin D3-related compounds, including 7-DHC and L3 hydroxyderivaties, display anti-SARS-CoV-2 activities and we provide a possible target on which they may act directly. Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 are clearly a major advance in controlling COVID-19; however, new viral variants emphasize the need for alternative therapeutic approaches. This study presents novel vitamin D and L3 metabolites as candidates for antiviral drugs.

https://journals.physiology.org/doi...21&utm_medium=PressRelease&utm_source=ajpendo

 

[Deleted member 39678]

In Latvia... our COVID cases have sky rocketed - so the legislature put out "new" rules starting last Oct. 11th. And most stores in malls - like clothing - non essential items stores - will be closed on weekends. I believe for 3 months...

Why didn't they mandate showing a vaccine certificate before entry like the grocery stores?

 

[Niner]

Why didn't they mandate showing a vaccine certificate before entry like the grocery stores?

They did... or am I not understanding your question? All restaurants here you have to show a vaccine cert, so they extended that to grocery stores & malls.

 

[Deleted member 39678]

They did... or am I not understanding your question? All restaurants here you have to show a vaccine cert, so they extended that to grocery stores & malls.

Then why do the mall stores have to close on weekends? I don't get it.

 

[Yesiamapirate]

Well I did it. Got my COVID booster. Third Pfizer vaccine. Hopefully the side effects will not be too bad. I feel I have done my part to make us all a little safer. ​

 

[ilovewings]

U.S. FDA staff says Moderna did not meet all criteria for COVID-19 boosters

 

[Cool Cats]

I understand that but those are small numbers. The odds of them being exposed to an unvaccinated person are negligee. My point is that we keep hearing how the unvaccinated are a risk to the vaccinated. Logically it doesn’t make sense.

I just keep hearing they are a risk to themselves. I was a risk to myself until I got my 2nd vaccination last month, then I felt I could go out more.

I was of the attitude "if it ain't broke don't fix it" then decided I didn't want to get "broke" from Covid and end up on the 4th floor of my local hospital.

 

[Niner]

Then why do the mall stores have to close on weekends? I don't get it.

That was already "on the books" from our first or second wave of COVID - where they close some stores over the weekend. I don't know why - just the way it is!

 

[ilovewings]

I just keep hearing they are a risk to themselves. I was a risk to myself until I got my 2nd vaccination last month, then I felt I could go out more.

I was of the attitude "if it ain't broke don't fix it" then decided I didn't want to get "broke" from Covid and end up on the 4th floor of my local hospital.

Good that you decided to get fully vaxxed: Covid is clearly nothing to fool with

 

[FLmom777]

I just keep hearing they are a risk to themselves. I was a risk to myself until I got my 2nd vaccination last month, then I felt I could go out more.

I was of the attitude "if it ain't broke don't fix it" then decided I didn't want to get "broke" from Covid and end up on the 4th floor of my local hospital.

Here is what Biden said.
“The bottom line: We’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers. We’re going to reduce the spread of COVID-19 by increasing the share of the workforce that is vaccinated in businesses all across America.”
Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic | The White House

 

[Cool Cats]

Good that you decided to get fully vaxxed: Covid is clearly nothing to fool with

I love and respect my lungs too much to "fool" with them.

I have never forgotten what it was like trying to breath when I had pneumonia and a collapsed lung. Struggling for every single breath, very afraid, clutching the railing of the bed.

I hear Covid is similar.

Respect your lungs - get a shot for them.

A three-dimensional rendering of a CT scan shows densely consolidated inflammation caused by COVID-19, which NYU Langone radiologists have linked to poor outcomes. IMAGE COURTESY OF MATTHEW YOUNG, DO, CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RADIOLOGY

The Truth About COVID Lung
An NYU Langone Radiologist Correlates COVID-19 Disease Progression with the Density of Inflammation in the Lungs

NYU LANGONE HEALTH MAGAZINE

 

[anneg]

NPR article:
Breakthrough infections might not be a big transmission risk. Here's the evidence

Conventional wisdom says that if you're vaccinated and you get a breakthrough infection with the coronavirus, you can transmit that infection to someone else and make that person sick.

But new evidence suggests that even though that may happen on occasion, breakthrough infections might not represent the threat to others that scientists originally thought.

Ross Kedl, an immunologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, will point out to anyone who cares to listen that basic immunology suggests the virus of a vaccinated person who gets infected will be different from the virus of an infected unvaccinated person.

That's because vaccinated people have already made antibodies to the coronavirus. Even if those antibodies don't prevent infection, they still "should be coating that virus with antibody and therefore helping prevent excessive downstream transmission," Kedl says. And a virus coated with antibodies won't be as infectious as a virus not coated in antibodies.

(more at link)

 

[musicaljoke]

Why didn't they mandate showing a vaccine certificate before entry like the grocery stores?

Or at the very least mandate that all front line workers must be vaccinated, including grocery store employees. Remember how they were so highly regarded as essential workers that they were offered vaccines at the beginning of the roll out?

Sometimes it seems to me that the vaccine mandates are applied to those in professional careers, doctors, nurses, pilots, teachers, law enforcement, etc., but people earning minimum wage are not given the same protection.

 

[Cool Cats]

Or at the very least mandate that all front line workers must be vaccinated, including grocery store employees. Remember how they were so highly regarded as essential workers that they were offered vaccines at the beginning of the roll out?

Sometimes it seems to me that the vaccine mandates are applied to those in professional careers, doctors, nurses, pilots, teachers, law enforcement, etc., but people earning minimum wage are not given the same protection.

Depends on the specific company. More and more companies that pay minimum wages are requiring Covid vaccinations.

From McDonald's to Goldman Sachs, here are the companies mandating vaccines for all or some employees

Here are the companies requiring employees to get vaccinated

 

[Cool Cats]

Why big chains aren't requiring vaccines for customers - CNN

Representatives for retailers and restaurants and HR consultants who work with companies say it's too risky for frontline staff to be put in the position of enforcing vaccine rules for customers.

Half of the US population has been fully vaccinated, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and pockets of Americans remain resistant or fiercely opposed to getting the shots. There's also the risk that such requirements would alienate customers.

Requiring customers to mask up throughout the pandemic has led to confrontations between customers who oppose mask wearing and store staff. Mandating vaccines would be even more challenging for businesses and jeopardize worker safety, industry trade groups say.

 

[Satchie]

In BC, the vaccine passport system only applies to optional 'fun' stuff, like restaurants, sports, movies, banquet halls. These were the places that were closed last winter, so it makes sense that now they're only opened because people are vaccinated.

Essential services like grocery stores, shops, etc don't require a vaccine passport. They were open before vaccines, so to restrict access now, I think would be seen as punitive to the unvaxed, plus hard to enforce and the companies don't have that incentive to implement new measures in order to open up.

The government would like organizations to implement vaccine mandates for their employees, but they haven't openly demanded it. They've done it in the public sector, where government has power and pays the salaries (which includes health care). But they aren't going to require employers to do it.

I think there's a fine line to walk where vaccination is encouraged, but doesn't create a backlash against the government's 'draconian' strategies. It's still a matter of seeing what happens next with the virus.

 

[MrX]

In BC, the vaccine passport system only applies to optional 'fun' stuff, like restaurants, sports, movies, banquet halls. These were the places that were closed last winter, so it makes sense that now they're only opened because people are vaccinated.

Essential services like grocery stores, shops, etc don't require a vaccine passport. They were open before vaccines, so to restrict access now, I think would be seen as punitive to the unvaxed, plus hard to enforce and the companies don't have that incentive to implement new measures in order to open up.

The government would like organizations to implement vaccine mandates for their employees, but they haven't openly demanded it. They've done it in the public sector, where government has power and pays the salaries (which includes health care). But they aren't going to require employers to do it.

I think there's a fine line to walk where vaccination is encouraged, but doesn't create a backlash against the government's 'draconian' strategies. It's still a matter of seeing what happens next with the virus.

Haaa - you hit it on the head: "fun" stuff. That has been the case in the States. Bars were closed or restricted because they could threaten liquor licenses. In states where restaurants are heavily licensed and regulated, they were close or restricted. The only reason Nevada is under a mask mandate is because of leverage they have over casinos.