Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #102

[ilovewings]

I just hate that this is starting to hit innocent animals. Humans can at least make educated choices about protecting themselves. These guys don't have choices.

Agree--- humans often make me sick

 

[mickey2942]

The frustration I personally have now, is "Holiday" party season. Seems that "Social Distancing" is out. I have zero interest in attending any functions...but, sometimes, you really don't have a choice.

I wish President Biden would declare "No Party" ban, so I could get out of it.

 

[Arkay]

The frustration I personally have now, is "Holiday" party season. Seems that "Social Distancing" is out. I have zero interest in attending any functions...but, sometimes, you really don't have a choice.

I wish President Biden would declare "No Party" ban, so I could get out of it.

My opinion is that I don't need Biden to make it a law. I have my own law. I say "no, I'm not attending any gathering until the pandemic is over."

Works for me.

 

[Cool Cats]

An Italian man tried to trick a nurse into injecting the COVID-19 vaccine in a rubber foam arm he was wearing under a theater corset to finesse a vaccine pass

Filippa Bua, the eagle-eyed nurse administering the shot, told The Times that when the patient sat down, he pulled his sweatshirt slightly, creating a small gap where his shirt and the rubber foam arm were visible for the vaccine.

"The colour of the arm made me suspicious and so I asked the man to uncover the rest of his left arm. It was well made but it wasn't the same colour," Bua told La Repubblica, according to the Guardian.

The Guardian also reported that Bua paused when she could not see the man's veins.
"It was made of rubber foam," Bua said, adding that it was "quite well made."

The BBC reported that the unnamed man was a health worker who had been suspended from his job for not being vaccinated.

Although the man with foam arms' strategy failed, Bua said he was "pleasant and serene," after being caught, but hospital authorities reported the incident to local police and he is being investigated for fraud, according to the BBC.

"It was so humiliating," Bua told The Times, "thinking that a nurse cannot tell the difference between rubber foam and skin."

"I felt offended as a professional," Filippa Bua told La Repubblica. "The colour of the arm made me suspicious and so I asked the man to uncover the rest of his left arm. It was well made but it wasn't the same colour."

The man said to her: "Would you have imagined that I'd have such a physique?"

 

[CrimeAway]

This Week In Virology (TWIV) Clinical Update:

 

[pocketaccent]

Gee, this virus breaks through even the boosters. We must mask up!

5 people in NorCal contract omicron linked to Wisconsin wedding | KTLA

At least five people in Northern California have contracted the omicron variant of the coronavirus, and the outbreak is linked to a wedding in Wisconsin last month, public health officials said Friday.
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The five people who have confirmed omicron cases are part of a group of 12 vaccinated people in Alameda County who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Alameda County Department of Public Health. They are linked to a Nov. 27 wedding in Wisconsin, “which one of these individuals attended upon return from international travel,” the agency said.
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The people were vaccinated and have “mildly symptomatic cases.” Genomic sequencing for the remaining seven cases has not yet been completed.
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Officials said “most” of the 12 people had received boosters; they are between 18 and 49 years old.
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[margarita25]

New thread in Game Room

ABC - Covid-19 Coronavirus Words & Terms

 

[SouthAussie]

Many health experts are hypothesising that Omicron emerged because people with weakened immune systems are more likely to remain infected with Covid-19 for several weeks or months, increasing the virus’s opportunity to mutate.

These prolonged infections have been seen particularly in patients with advanced, untreated HIV, a serious issue in sub-Saharan Africa where the Omicron variant was first detected, and where Covid-19 vaccination rates are also woefully low.

Australia and Omicron: how and when will the Covid pandemic actually end?

 

[margarita25]

 

[weepingangel]

NY state
Also mentioned in this article iirc is that rehab/nursing facilities where many hospital patients are discharged to - thus freeing up a bed- are also severely understaffed.
Upstate New York Hospitals Are Overwhelmed as Covid Cases Surge

 

[Niner]

Thought I'd post this here - give you all a bit of a smile....

 

[weepingangel]

Or just no, I’m not attending. Period.
Or make up a (non covid maybe) excuse if necessary.

My opinion is that I don't need Biden to make it a law. I have my own law. I say "no, I'm not attending any gathering until the pandemic is over."

Works for me.

 

[weepingangel]

MA
More at links

‘Rough Couple of Months': Doctors Warn of Possible Winter COVID Surge in Mass.
As the new omicron variant emerges in other parts of the country, COVID-19 cases are already climbing in Massachusetts. This week the state reported the highest COVID case numbers since January, and with hospital beds filling, doctors are warning of a winter surge.

“I’m actually more concerned right now than I was last year,” said Dr. Eric Dickson, the president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health.

Dickson also said their hospital is full of non-COVID patients this year who delayed care during the peak of the pandemic, so they are struggling with capacity. UMass Memorial ran out of ICU beds this week.

“We’re not even effectively managing what we have today and we’re just getting started with this new variant. It’s going to be a rough couple of months,” Dr. Dickson said.






Worcester County faces grim diagnosis on COVID-19 with variants
UMass Memorial Medical Center had 70 people waiting for beds at the University Campus on Friday — eight of whom needed intensive care beds — as COVID-19 surges followed after the Thanksgiving holiday.

UMass Memorial Health President and CEO Dr. Eric Dickson said the worst is yet to come.

“Unfortunately, it’s not going to end anytime soon with the (omicron) variant coming, (and the delta variant) already doing this to us today, and cold and flu season coming, it’s going to be a rough couple of months,” Dickson said in an interview Friday afternoon. “It’s going to get worse, there’s no doubt it’s going to get worse, and if it’s a bad flu season on top of this, that will make it worse too.”

Massachusetts recorded 5,170 new COVID cases on Dec. 2, the latest data available as of deadline, and case totals have gone up 150% and hospitalizations have nearly doubled in recent weeks. Luckily, deaths have not risen as quickly, according to state data.

 

[weepingangel]

Boston MA
'Just a shame': Boch Center's rapid COVID testing delays force families to forgo 'Elf' show
More at link
Over 200 ticket holders for a performance of “The Elf on the Shelf” at the Boch Center last week were refunded after the theater’s on-site rapid COVID-19 testing couldn’t keep pace with the demand for tests of unvaccinated children in line to see the show.




Chelsea issues mask mandate as COVID-19 cases rise
Chelsea, one of the Massachusetts communities hit hardest by COVID-19, will require face masks in all indoor public spaces under a new emergency order, officials said, as cases continue to rise across Massachusetts and the Omicron variant begins to appear in the United States.

 

[Turkeytrot]

Thought I'd post this here - give you all a bit of a smile....

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Hmm.. naughty or nice

 

[SA55]

Hmm.. naughty or nice

I’d say Naughty AND Nice

 

[CrimeAway]

America's Got Talent musician Jay Jay Phillips dead at 30 from COVID-19; rocker was unvaccinated | Daily Mail Online

 

[Cool Cats]

New thread in Game Room

ABC - Covid-19 Coronavirus Words & Terms

How do I find the game room for other games?

 

[Skigh]

How do I find the game room for other games?

https://www.websleuths.com/forums/forums/game-room.44/

 

[jjenny]

America's Got Talent musician Jay Jay Phillips dead at 30 from COVID-19; rocker was unvaccinated | Daily Mail Online

And his father is in the hospital on the vent.