Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #76

[MimosaMornings]

I am especially curious about how the young daughter managed to avoid it altogether when she was apparently spending 24/7 in the same household as both her parents and her two siblings who had it with varying degrees of severity.

I am curious about how he got it after taking such aggressive measures with social distancing, masks, isolation etc.

Makes me wonder if he went in a store where people weren’t wearing masks?


Off a surface?

 

[ilovewings]

I am curious about how he got it after taking such aggressive measures with social distancing, masks, isolation etc.

Makes me wonder if he went in a store where people weren’t wearing masks?


Off a surface?

I don't think you get it off a surface unless you touch that surface where virus is and then touch your face (eyes, nose, mouth)- perhaps that is what he did- who knows--

 

[Simply Southern]

Have a friend whose kid is there—I was skeptical, to say the least, when her daughter reported that the VT students were taking this virus seriously, wearing masks and distancing themselves, and (most unbelievable of all!) not partying it up like we have seen happening at other schools. Well, maybe I was wrong—it looks (on paper, at least) like the VT leadership is taking this very, very seriously and maybe that attitude is trickling down to the student body. Only time will tell, though, right?

@realanastasia

VT is in the New River HD, their positivity rate was less than 1% prior to school opening. They heavily tested the entire, very rural areas early on and started a community campaign to prevent the spread.

All businesses, apartment building owners, bars and restaurants know their survival hinges on the success of VT and Radford College keeping students in the community.

Just prior to opening Radford College had several students expelled for a social gathering attended by nearby Bluefield College football players. It resulted in the entire Bluefield college football team being quarantined, after 17 tested postive. It scared the daylights out of VT, as we all love our football team, which is planning on playing this fall.

Hoping. praying and pulling hard for VT.

 

[Simply Southern]

Here's a nice tidbit from CNN on economic recovery by US and dropdowns for each state.

Tracking America's recovery

Tracking America's recovery
From your job to your home and your groceries, you know Covid-19 has disrupted every aspect of your life. This dashboard shows how things have changed, and will track the recovery in detail.

Today's news:

• How long until the US economy is back to normal? The new Back-to-Normal Index launched today by CNN Business and Moody's Analytics shows we still have a long way to go. Explore the index below.
  
  
• Separately, members of the National Association of Business Economists expect economic activity won't return to its pre-pandemic level until 2022.
  

 

[Sundog]

British PM Boris Johnson asks parents to set aside coronavirus fears, send children back to school next month: report

 

[roche.analisa]

@realanastasia

VT is in the New River HD, their positivity rate was less than 1% prior to school opening. They heavily tested the entire, very rural areas early on and started a community campaign to prevent the spread.

All businesses, apartment building owners, bars and restaurants know their survival hinges on the success of VT and Radford College keeping students in the community.

Just prior to opening Radford College had several students expelled for a social gathering attended by nearby Bluefield College football players. It resulted in the entire Bluefield college football team being quarantined, after 17 tested postive. It scared the daylights out of VT, as we all love our football team, which is planning on playing this fall.

Hoping. praying and pulling hard for VT.

Expelled for a social gathering! That IS serious! Wow!

 

[weepingangel]

Partying at Northeastern amid COVID-19 pandemic could lead to expulsion from university
More at link
Northeastern University warned students on Saturday that anyone intending to host or attend large parties during the coronavirus pandemic will be met with expulsion from the school.

In a letter sent to students on Saturday, Madeleine Estabrook, the Senior Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, said that parties are prohibited within the schools standards outlined in the “Expectations for Return to Campus Attestation.” Each student must accept those protocols to return to campus.

UMass café shuts down for 2 days after employee tests positive for COVID-19
More at link
A café at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was temporarily shut down over the weekend after a dining services employee was diagnosed with the coronavirus, officials said.

The staff member at Blue Wall Café who tested positive for COVID-19 was last on campus Friday, Aug. 21, a spokesperson for the university told MassLive.

 

[anneg]

Another COVID-19 Medical Mystery: Patients Come Off Ventilator But Linger In A Coma
August 24, 20205:01 AM ET
MARTHA BEBINGER

Leslie Cutitta said yes, twice, when clinicians from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston called asking whether she wanted them to take — and then continue — extreme measures to keep her husband, Frank Cutitta, alive.
[snip]

So the Cutittas hung on and a small army of ICU caregivers kept working. On April 21, after 27 days on a ventilator, Frank's lungs had recovered enough to remove the breathing tube.

After the removal, it typically takes hours, maybe a day, for the patient to return to consciousness. The body needs that time to clear the drugs that keep the patient sedated and comfortable — able to tolerate intubation and mechanical ventilation. But doctors across the U.S. and in other countries have noted a troubling phenomenon associated with some COVID-19 cases: Even after extubation, some patients remain unconscious for days, weeks or longer. There's no official term for the problem, but it's being called a "prolonged" or "persistent" coma or unresponsiveness.

Frank Cutitta, 68, was one of those patients. He just didn't wake up.
[snip]

"Because this disease is so new and because there are so many unanswered questions about COVID-19, we currently do not have reliable tools to predict how long it will take any individual patient to recover consciousness," says Dr. Brian Edlow, a critical care neurologist at Mass General.

Given all the unknowns, doctors at the hospital have had a hard time advising families when a patient has remained unresponsive for weeks, post-ventilator. Some families in that situation have decided to remove other life supports so the patient can die. Edlow can't say how many.

"It is very difficult for us to determine whether any given patient's future will bring a quality of life that would be acceptable to them," Edlow says, "based on what they've told their families or written in a prior directive."
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This is a story worth reading IMO.

In short, Frank Cutitta did eventually wake up. He and his wife praised Mass General Hospital doctors and nurses for their efforts to help him recover.

It's terrible to think of patients in this situation who died because hospital resources were insufficient to provide the care needed. It's also terrible for those who survive but suffer from severe problems as a result. MOO

 

[weepingangel]

I’m not a gambler but I would bet on horse Fauci
(I also think the real Fauci would be amused. And probably even laugh)

As an aside, I am a race horse fan, and guess what, there is a horse named Fauci- he is a good horse and just ran 2nd at Saratoga: i think Dr. Fauci would be amused to know there is a race horse named after him!!!

 

[weepingangel]

Unfortunately
I have to claim this one as “Massachusetts”
Have been seeing the headline But hadn’t bothered to read the story yet.
I’ve just had it lately With the Willful ignorance, plain stupidity And selfishjerk behavior.
Only in America people protesting childhood immunizations. Come on Massachusetts. If you’re that anti flu vaccine you have options. Either way more Distancing space in the schools for the rest of us. Sorry not sorry.
People better be showing up to vote this year. Geezus.

Man in Walmart gives customers hugs and tells them they now have Covid-19

Springfield police are looking for a man who allegedly gave a Walmart shopper a "Covid hug."

The police department in Massachusetts said the incident took place at a Walmart on August 15 around 7:10 p.m. The suspect, whom the victim had never seen before, took an item out of his hand and then gave him a hug.

"Just giving you a Covid hug. You now have Covid," the suspect said before laughing and walking away, according to the Springfield Police Department.

The victim is a cancer survivor, adding that the suspect did the same thing to several other customers.

The department is asking that anyone with information contact the detective bureau.

 

[anneg]

Speaking of Dr. Fauci (<3), I dreamed about him last night. We were in an office and I was asking him questions (not sure what about, maybe Covid). He went up some steps to find something and came back down covered with white powder and debris (like from construction). I helped him brush the debris off his hair and his suit jacket. That's it. Exciting dream, huh?

 

[SoCalDavidS]

A woman has died of COVID-19 after being infected by a guest who attended a wedding in Maine that caused a cluster of 53 infections.

The unidentified person did not attend the August 7 reception in Millinocket but died Friday after coming into contact with someone who did.

About 65 people attended the indoor event at the Big Moose Inn, according to Maine Center for Disease Control (CDC) spokesman Robert Long. The state's limit on social gatherings is 50 people.

Woman dies of COVID-19 after being infected by guest who attended a wedding in Maine | Daily Mail Online

 

[MrX]

A woman has died of COVID-19 after being infected by a guest who attended a wedding in Maine that caused a cluster of 53 infections.

The unidentified person did not attend the August 7 reception in Millinocket but died Friday after coming into contact with someone who did.

About 65 people attended the indoor event at the Big Moose Inn, according to Maine Center for Disease Control (CDC) spokesman Robert Long. The state's limit on social gatherings is 50 people.

Woman dies of COVID-19 after being infected by guest who attended a wedding in Maine | Daily Mail Online

"The Tri-Town Baptist Church in East Millinocket is understood to have held the wedding ceremony. " I wonder if the church will be cited, or just the Inn?

Given all of the testing difficulties, long lag times, absence of any coherent contact tracing strategy, etc., this seems pretty amazing. If Maine is able, in exactly 14 days, to trace a death back to an event that the deceased did not attend, then their system should be making the national news.

 

[MsArk]

An entire fourth grade class in Mississippi is in quarantine after a student and more than half of the class' teachers tested positive for the coronavirus.

Lafayette County School District Superintendent Adam Pugh told The Associated Press on Monday that the district notified the families of more than 200 fourth grade students at Lafayette Upper Elementary School to quarantine for two weeks over the weekend. One student and six out of 10 or 11 total fourth grade teachers have tested positive for the virus, and most of the rest of the fourth grade teachers were exposed, he said.

The Lafayette County School District has already experienced one loss amid the coronavirus pandemic. Middle school teacher and assistant high school football coach Nacoma James died in early August after quarantining with coronavirus symptoms. He was working with student-athletes to train throughout the summer, but was quarantining when classes started.

Entire fourth grade class in Mississippi sent to quarantine

 

[mickey2942]

College is a time for meeting new people, enjoying the "party". Honestly, if you just have to hunker down in a dorm room, may as well stay home and do classes online.

 

[Sundog]

CDC drops 14-day self-quarantine recommendation for out-of-state, international travelers

 

[SoCalDavidS]

A Florida pastor who at one point dismissed the threat of coronavirus as “just the flu” has died of complications caused by the illness, her family said on Monday. Her husband, who was equally skeptical, was also hospitalized but has since recovered.

Erin Hitchens, a 46-year-old pastor in West Palm Beach, fell ill in April and spent months in the intensive care unit, where she was put on a ventilator and sedated with no signs of improvement. She died this month of heart problems related to COVID-19.

Erin and her husband, Brian Lee Hitchens, were both skeptical of the virus when it reached the U.S. and began to spread. They believed online conspiracy theories, didn’t follow health guidance, and waited to seek help when they fell ill, according to the BBC, which featured Brian’s story in May.

“The news is emphasizing way too much on this coronavirus garbage, all it is is just the flu,” Erin wrote on Facebook on March 12, when she mistakenly believed that she had already gone through COVID-19 in the past. “I recently had it, I’m not dead. I’m not in the hospital and I’m fine.”

Erin added: “Can we all come together and get a petition going and tell the news to stop creating hysteria? Dr. Oz and other doctors are calling the news media’s out saying there is mass hysteria … Enough is enough, and you know what, I’m not scared, this is why I’m speaking out. Others need to speak out too with their voice.”

Florida pastor who dismissed coronavirus as ‘just the flu’ dies

One less Florida voter.

 

[SoCalDavidS]

Brian told the BBC on Monday that he wished he had listened from the beginning and hoped his wife would forgive him. “This is a real virus that affects people differently. I can’t change the past I can only live in today and make better choices for the future,” Brian said.

It only matters, now that it impacts your life. Otherwise it would STILL be a big hoax.

 

[Sundog]

A Florida pastor who at one point dismissed the threat of coronavirus as “just the flu” has died of complications caused by the illness, her family said on Monday. Her husband, who was equally skeptical, was also hospitalized but has since recovered.

Erin Hitchens, a 46-year-old pastor in West Palm Beach, fell ill in April and spent months in the intensive care unit, where she was put on a ventilator and sedated with no signs of improvement. She died this month of heart problems related to COVID-19.

Erin and her husband, Brian Lee Hitchens, were both skeptical of the virus when it reached the U.S. and began to spread. They believed online conspiracy theories, didn’t follow health guidance, and waited to seek help when they fell ill, according to the BBC, which featured Brian’s story in May.

“The news is emphasizing way too much on this coronavirus garbage, all it is is just the flu,” Erin wrote on Facebook on March 12, when she mistakenly believed that she had already gone through COVID-19 in the past. “I recently had it, I’m not dead. I’m not in the hospital and I’m fine.”

Erin added: “Can we all come together and get a petition going and tell the news to stop creating hysteria? Dr. Oz and other doctors are calling the news media’s out saying there is mass hysteria … Enough is enough, and you know what, I’m not scared, this is why I’m speaking out. Others need to speak out too with their voice.”

Florida pastor who dismissed coronavirus as ‘just the flu’ dies

One less Florida voter.

Prayers for her family at this difficult time.

 

[10ofRods]

Here's a nice tidbit from CNN on economic recovery by US and dropdowns for each state.

Tracking America's recovery

Tracking America's recovery
From your job to your home and your groceries, you know Covid-19 has disrupted every aspect of your life. This dashboard shows how things have changed, and will track the recovery in detail.

Today's news:

• How long until the US economy is back to normal? The new Back-to-Normal Index launched today by CNN Business and Moody's Analytics shows we still have a long way to go. Explore the index below.
  
  
• Separately, members of the National Association of Business Economists expect economic activity won't return to its pre-pandemic level until 2022.

Thank you for that - really useful information, I am sharing those links all over my little world.

We're going to see a very different "recovered" economy - I hope the NABE is correct!