Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #85

[MsArk]

Police: Chicago store guard stabbed 27 times for asking women to wear masks

What is happening to this country?

 

[margarita25]

Police: Chicago store guard stabbed 27 times for asking women to wear masks

What is happening to this country?

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Interesting new video by Dr. Seheult discussing why convalescent plasma isn't effective for COVID as was hoped for (short answer... due to clotting agents that come with the plasma antibodies as COVID is a thrombotic disorder that not only produces an inflammatory and hypercoagulable state, but also a hypofibrinolytic state not seen with most other types of coagulopathys.)

 

[margarita25]

More unsettling news (NYT):

Some Covid Survivors Have Antibodies That Attack the Body, not Virus



Unfortunately, surviving even a mild case of covid-19 may not be the end of serious ongoing health issues for the patient.

Yeah...there’s a lot to be said about this, as far as inflammatory responses, ETC, ETC. Waay too deep right now though but definitely marking for later, thanks for link - frankly I am overwhelmed and my head is going to explode. Racing to get final preparations done before totally locking down for a long, cold, covid winter.

Get er done, folks. Rock and roll.

 

[margarita25]

Denver Moves To Safer At Home Level 3 'High Risk' As Coronavirus Cases Continue To Rise

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Gyms in Colorado can stay open under Level 3 COVID restrictions | 9news.com
State loosens COVID-19 restrictions on gyms after a day of confusion
Gyms in counties under Level 3 restrictions can now operate indoors at 25% capacity, or 25 people, whichever is fewer.

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Coronavirus Is Roaring Back In Colorado With Record-High Cases

“Colorado obliterated its record for COVID-19 cases in a day, with more than 2,100 reported Sunday, Oct. 25, as the coronavirus approached or surpassed records in all parts of the state, and rising intensive care occupancy created new concerns about capacity.

Before this past weekend, Colorado had never recorded more than 1,267 new cases in a day. Then came Friday, Saturday and Sunday, when the state recorded 1,604, 1,594 and 2,102 cases on consecutive days. Those also coincided with three of the busiest testing days in the state since the start of the pandemic in March, with a record 31,847 tests reported administered on Sunday.“

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“The current growth in cases and positive tests is occurring despite repeated admonitions from public health officials and Gov. Jared Polis that the pandemic is not yet behind the state and that mask-wearing, hand washing and social distancing remain critical strategies for keeping the virus in check and the economy open.“

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“The Colorado Hospital Association’s Julie Lonborg said hospitals are worried that if the ICU beds continue to fill, there won’t be enough specially-trained staff to work in them.“

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-On Tuesday Polis will conduct a briefing for the state at 12:30 p.m. featuring patients who have survived the illness.

-The 7-day average positivity rate has grown from 3.36 percent to 6.67 percent in October.

 

[mickey2942]

Denver Moves To Safer At Home Level 3 'High Risk' As Coronavirus Cases Continue To Rise

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Gyms in Colorado can stay open under Level 3 COVID restrictions | 9news.com
State loosens COVID-19 restrictions on gyms after a day of confusion
Gyms in counties under Level 3 restrictions can now operate indoors at 25% capacity, or 25 people, whichever is fewer.

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Coronavirus Is Roaring Back In Colorado With Record-High Cases

“Colorado obliterated its record for COVID-19 cases in a day, with more than 2,100 reported Sunday, Oct. 25, as the coronavirus approached or surpassed records in all parts of the state, and rising intensive care occupancy created new concerns about capacity.

Before this past weekend, Colorado had never recorded more than 1,267 new cases in a day. Then came Friday, Saturday and Sunday, when the state recorded 1,604, 1,594 and 2,102 cases on consecutive days. Those also coincided with three of the busiest testing days in the state since the start of the pandemic in March, with a record 31,847 tests reported administered on Sunday.

The growth in testing was almost bound to lead to a growth in cases uncovered, but the percentage of tests coming back positive, a reliable gauge of the direction the pandemic is taking, is also growing, just not as dramatically. The 7-day average positivity rate has grown from 3.36 percent to 6.67 percent just in October. At the peak in April, when testing was scarce but the virus was pervasive, more than 22 percent of COVID-19 tests returned a positive result.

The current growth in cases and positive tests is occurring despite repeated admonitions from public health officials and Gov. Jared Polis that the pandemic is not yet behind the state and that mask-wearing, hand washing and social distancing remain critical strategies for keeping the virus in check and the economy open.

Polis will try again Tuesday, with a briefing for the state at 12:30 p.m. featuring patients who have survived the illness.“

You couldn't pay me to go to the gym today.

 

[SouthAussie]

THOUSANDS OF NURSING HOMES nationwide are dealing with horrific shortages of masks, gowns and other items they need to protect residents, workers and the broader community from COVID-19. And seven months into this pandemic, the shortages have actually become much worse.

The shortages actually became more grave as the summer went on, with three times as many nursing homes reporting they were completely out of masks, gowns and eye protection in late August, compared with mid-July.

One of the many questions this analysis raises: How did the PPE situation not improve and actually get worse throughout this year, as the seriousness of the pandemic became obvious?

Seven months into pandemic, 20 percent of facilities lacked enough supplies
October 2020

 

[margarita25]

THOUSANDS OF NURSING HOMES nationwide are dealing with horrific shortages of masks, gowns and other items they need to protect residents, workers and the broader community from COVID-19. And seven months into this pandemic, the shortages have actually become much worse.

The shortages actually became more grave as the summer went on, with three times as many nursing homes reporting they were completely out of masks, gowns and eye protection in late August, compared with mid-July.

One of the many questions this analysis raises: How did the PPE situation not improve and actually get worse throughout this year, as the seriousness of the pandemic became obvious?

Seven months into pandemic, 20 percent of facilities lacked enough supplies
October 2020

Thank for posting this very important article/report.

You couldn't pay me to go to the gym today.

I am not going near a gym until this is over.

I am thankful to have ordered some things I want/need to exercise at home (hand weights, resistance bands, etc.). It is ESSENTIAL to keep the movement going and I REFUSE to rot away this winter.

Hopefully we can help keep each other motivated.

PS FTR: Since this started, even though I had the best of intentions, exercise at home has not gone well LOL. Time to kick it up. It’s do or die time. Who and how are we going to be when we emerge from all this? I’d like to be minimally deteriorated if possible.

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eta / from 4 days ago / sorry if repost:


Dr. Fauci: Widespread vaccine distribution likely 'several months into 2021'
NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said vaccine doses will likely start to be distributed, on a priority basis, by the end of this year or early next year. "But when you talk about hundreds of millions of people, you're really talking about several months into 2021." Oct. 23, 2020

 

[SouthAussie]

Interesting new video by Dr. Seheult discussing why convalescent plasma isn't effective for COVID as was hoped for (short answer... due to clotting agents that come with the plasma antibodies as COVID is a thrombotic disorder that not only produces an inflammatory and hypercoagulable state, but also a hypofibrinolytic state not seen with most other types of coagulopathys.)

There is an article here about the same thing ...


But a study, which is published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Friday, suggests “convalescent plasma” has only limited effectiveness and fails to reduce deaths or stop the progression to severe disease.

India: One month later, 19% of those who received the plasma had progressed to severe disease or had died of any cause, compared with 18% in the control group.

Texas: a significant reduction in deaths among patients who received plasma with high levels of antibodies early in the course of their disease ..... although plasma transfusion later in the course of the disease had no significant effect on death rates regardless of antibody levels.

Britain: the study suggested plasma therapy was associated with a reduction in viral load, “so, there does seem to be an antiviral effect of the therapy, even if it isn’t reflected in the final outcomes”

Covid-19 blood plasma therapy has limited effect, study finds

 

[margarita25]

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Eta:
COVID Spreading Faster Than Ever in the US, 71,000 cases a day / Wisconsin breaks record for daily cases and deaths/ Anger over crackdowns overseas

 

[SouthAussie]

<RSBM>

Anger over crackdowns overseas

I see that there are unruly mobs who are creating havoc in Italy. Lots of issues there at the moment. Although I am sure that police there will crack down very hard, if it continues. IMO


After protests in Italy in recent days, including some which turned violent, police say organised crime is behind the unrest ........ Most say the restrictions are either adequate or don't go far enough, a poll by Italian firm SWG and TV news channel LA7 found on Tuesday.

Business owners have held peaceful demonstrations in recent days to voice their concerns about the financial impact of the latest measures. However, authorities said these demonstrators were not responsible for the vandalism and clashes with riot police reported over the weekend.

Turin’s police chief Giuseppe De Matteis told AFP the protests “cannot be attributed to social discontent but... to orchestration by individuals dedicated to crime".

https://www.thelocal.it/20201027/wh...ally-think-of-the-new-coronavrus-restrictions

 

[Curiousobserver]

This is so interesting. For chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia patients, it's probably an all-too-familiar story. Certain viruses have this effect. The body sees them (over and over) as attackers - and the virus is in every cell. CoVid attacks a tissue (epithelial cells) that are common to most organs in the body, including the nervous system.

Afterwards, it's not uncommon for the body to mistake remnants of the virus for the Enemy and therefore, to attack body cells that contain it (which, in the case of CoVid is nearly all cells in the body).

People are gambling with their own immune systems.

This will likely include higher incidence of stroke, arthritis, inflammatory diseases including heart disease. The survivors (including young people who were asymptomatic) may not be as healthy as they would have been - and there will likely be longterm health costs (although who is going to pay those costs in the US?)

The cultural impact of CoVid has only just begun.

You touched on something very important. Covid-19 might be just like a cold for many people and it might not. It is wrong to assume this coronavirus will behave like the other endemic human coronaviruses. There could be long term health consequences we haven't seen yet, including the diseases you mentioned and I'll add infertility and even cancer. Viruses, even those that don't integrate into your genome, can still alter your DNA and that is forever. We don't know anybody who has lived more than 7 months after having Covid yet- it is wise to be a little cautious.

The problem with the internet is that everyone has access to enough information so that they feel like experts but they are missing the polishing that comes from learning by immersion in a particular field of study- much like what it would look like if I tried to build fine furniture after watching a Youtube video.

 

[Deleted member 158085]

Illinois

Pritzker orders tougher restrictions for Chicago starting Friday. Lightfoot says she’ll try to change his mind.

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Jump in county COVID-19 cases prompts Bannockburn teachers to demand return to remote learning

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Winter high school sports ‘put on hold’ by Gov. Pritzker and Illinois Department of Public Health

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COVID-19 numbers climbing at Naperville’s two school districts and North Central College, newest dashboard data shows

People are losing their minds over this sports thing in Illinois. None of the parents seem to care about the Bloomberg report that a small study of college athletes show 1 in 7 with heart damage after having covid.

ETA
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[ilovewings]

Good morning -- I visited my husband at the hospital yesterday and talked with the physician's assistant who was very informative: he has bilateral blood clots in his lungs. It was fortuitous that he went to the hospital because he was worried about Covid- to be honest, if he had not gone to the hospital he could have died from these pulmonary emboli. He is on Heparin drip-- there is also another issue (concerning) that this clot puts a strain on the heart - so they have to evaluate that on a echocardiogram he will have today. Hopefully the test will not show severe right heart strain or he will need to have a procedure to relieve that pressure (sigh). I am so shocked about his condition. Never even considered such a thing. Hopefully he will be discharged today or tomorrow and he will be on an oral life-long blood thinner.

I asked the nurses at the hospital if there lots of Covid cases there (this is a 200 bed hospital in a suburb of Detroit)- she said very few Covid cases but the hospital is filled with patients with the usual types of condition. So for now at least Covid is not nearly at a point where it was early on in the pandemic in this area.

It is heartening to know how far the medical system has evolved since the first months of the pandemic. Now they test and really do a thorough workup for Covid. In those first months people with Covid symptoms came in but there was no testing and if those patients were not deathly ill they were sent home and many died at home.

It is concerning going to that hospital to visit my husband -there are so many ways you can contract the virus just going there: elevator buttons, all kinds of surfaces, the Valet ticket given to me--- could all contain the virus. It is daunting to even think about. You just do the best you can and hope for the best. I also worry a little bit about his contracting the virus in the hospital but I try not to think about that too much.

These surely are stressful times for all of us-----be safe and be well. We just have to hang in there.

 

[sds71]

Justin Turner removed from World Series Game 6 after COVID positive test, returns after Dodgers win title

 

[SouthAussie]

Justin Turner removed from World Series Game 6 after COVID positive test, returns after Dodgers win title

All for one, and one for all ... apparently.


"We're not excluding him from anything," teammate Mookie Betts said.

When asked about what happened after the game, Friedman said Turner wanted to take a picture with the trophy. Friedman stated several times that those around Turner had previously been in close contact and said the team would take another round of tests before determining when to leave Texas.

"Now the subsequent tests we're going to take are really important," Friedman said.

 

[sds71]

All for one, and one for all ... apparently.
When asked about what happened after the game, Friedman said Turner wanted to take a picture with the trophy.
"Now the subsequent tests we're going to take are really important," Friedman said.

 

[ilovewings]

Justin Turner removed from World Series Game 6 after COVID positive test, returns after Dodgers win title

What can you say??? really-- no words!!

 

[SouthAussie]

The United States reported a record of more than 500,000 new cases over the past week .....

The record reflects how quickly the virus is spreading. It took nearly three months for the first 500,000 coronavirus cases to be tallied in the United States ....

U.S. Reports a Record 500,000-Plus Coronavirus Cases Over the Past Week


The virus is blamed for more than 8.6 million confirmed infections and over 225,000 deaths in the US, the highest such totals anywhere in the world.

.... average deaths per day across the country are up 10 per cent over the past two weeks ....

The true number of infections is thought to be far higher because many Americans have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected without feeling sick.

US coronavirus deaths surpass 225,000

 

[nhmemorymaker]

<modsnip: referenced article was removed>- there was lots of confusion and less knowledge as to the organs the virus affected- we have developed more knowledge as time as gone on. In April they were putting people on ventilators because that is what they did for pneumonia. They learned that was not necessarily the best way to treat patients. But it took time to figure it out and sadly, people died on ventilators that did more harm than good. It is a learning curve for this novel virus.

Yes...and as we posted back then....the US government was buying up all the ventilators, because they were on the same page as that early evidence that this disease appeared to be all respiratory.
Who knows what is happening to all those ventilators now!!!

We are continuing to learn very difficult facts--Long Covid will be a big issue, with coverage and costs; Antibodies may not be the hope that we have heard touted; and who knows what could happen regarding reinfection.

If we had a better and well-managed CDC and FDA of the past, there would be efforts to address all these ongoing questions. But, as we are now, i think we will continue to be behind the 8-ball instead of in front of it.