Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #88

[SouthAussie]

BBM:
As for how he and Reis became infected, Polis pointed out that approximately one of every 41 Coloradans is carrying the virus right now. "There are exposures I know about, and also exposures I didn't know about" that might have resulted in him catching COVID-19 — but he suggested that his situation is no different from anyone else's. After all, he said, "If you're around forty people in a grocery store, chances are that one of them is contagious."

I saw a graph in Time yesterday about how close (averaged) you were to an infected person, throughout these months of covid. It shows your probable proximity in April - where you could have been 80 miles away from an infected person - then every month up until now (around zero miles away).



Time explain the county-by-county study they did, and the metrics they used, in their article.
There Will Be No Safe Havens in COVID-19's Final Assault on the U.S.

 

[10ofRods]

I can't find the citation, but about 2 weeks ago, there was a report (I believe it was CDC) that there were a record low number of flu deaths so far this flu season.

Mask wearing and staying home is keeping the flu at bay. More people got flu shots than in any previous year.

 

[sds71]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...lys-COVID-19-antibody-drug-patients-home.html

• CVS has been chosen by the HHS to administer coronavirus antibody drugs to elderly COVID-19 patients at their homes and at nursing homes
• The company can now give care home residents with coronavirus infusions of Eli Lilly's treatment, which was given emergency approval on November 9
• CVS is also one of two pharmacy giants that will vaccinate nursing home patients when a COVID-19 shot is approved
• The pilot program will be rolled out by 900 nurses and tech who will start giving out 1,000 doses of the IV therapy on Thursday
• Patients will who qualify as at risk of severe infection will get the drug for free

The pharmacy chain said it would expand the service to more markets as supply of the drug increases. The pilot is starting in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Tampa.


CVS to give Eli Lilly's antibody drug to covid patients at home for free | Daily Mail Online

 

[10ofRods]

• CVS has been chosen by the HHS to administer coronavirus antibody drugs to elderly COVID-19 patients at their homes and at nursing homes
• The company can now give care home residents with coronavirus infusions of Eli Lilly's treatment, which was given emergency approval on November 9
• CVS is also one of two pharmacy giants that will vaccinate nursing home patients when a COVID-19 shot is approved
• The pilot program will be rolled out by 900 nurses and tech who will start giving out 1,000 doses of the IV therapy on Thursday
• Patients will who qualify as at risk of severe infection will get the drug for free

The pharmacy chain said it would expand the service to more markets as supply of the drug increases. The pilot is starting in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Tampa.


CVS to give Eli Lilly's antibody drug to covid patients at home for free | Daily Mail Online

That's big news! We can now picture how this is going to roll out - and it sure looks like a few nursing home patients will be getting a vaccine very soon...

 

[SouthAussie]

Hearing on our morning news about the UK vac. The Pfizer shipment is on its way from Belgium.

Vaccinations start on Monday to healthcare workers, aged care homes, and the elderly.

Two jabs - 21 days apart.

Immunity expected in a month.

Very exciting news! The beginning of the end.

 

[margarita25]

Hearing on our morning news about the UK vac. The Pfizer shipment is on its way from Belgium.

Vaccinations start on Monday to healthcare workers, aged care homes, and the elderly.

Two jabs - 21 days apart.

Immunity expected in a month.

Very exciting news! The beginning of the end.

I was just thinking about how great it would be to be vaccinated and have protection and be able to go back out there in the real world...all the basic things we took for granted...I’m towards the bottom of the prioritization list, which is okay with me, as most important is getting our frontlines and vulnerable protected.

Also, I’m assuming all these companies were able to get their vaccines out around the same time due to data pooling, as described wrt the COVAX Facility?

eta:

Gavi launches innovative financing mechanism for access to COVID ...
Jun 4, 2020 — AstraZeneca today became the first vaccine manufacturer to sign up to the Gavi Covax AMC.

Pfizer and BioNTech Announce an Agreement with U.S. ...
Jul 22, 2020 — ... for possible supply to the COVAX Facility, a mechanism established by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, ...

172 countries and multiple candidate vaccines engaged in COVID-19 vaccine Global Access Facility
Aug. 24, 2020

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance › news
New collaboration makes further 100 million doses of COVID-19 ...
... be supported by the Gavi COVAX AMC. Under the new collaboration, AstraZeneca's candidate vaccine, if successful, ...
Sept. 29, 2020

Johnson & Johnson to supply 400 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to ...
Oct 9, 2020 — Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has entered into agreement with the European Commission (EC) to supply ...

Johnson & Johnson confident in 1B dose goal for COVID-19 vaccine ...
Nov 12, 2020 — But thanks to J&J's expansive slate of manufacturing partners, the company is on track to ... The drugmaker is also engaged with COVAX, the World Health Organization's equitable ...

COVID-19 vaccines: no time for complacency - The Lancet
Nov 21, 2020 — Pfizer and Moderna have not yet reached agreements with COVAX to supply vaccines; Pfizer has ...

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance › why-o...
Why the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is now a global game changer ...
Nov 24, 2020 — It set up the COVAX initiative in 2020, which has access to 700 million doses of COVID vaccine if ...

 

[acutename]

That's not good news but it is exactly the kind of thing we are waiting to find out about. I would wager that these people had a milder case of COVID to begin with, unless they are all very elderly and have immune issues. I'd sure like to know if their second case was also mild.

The implications for the asymptomatic transmission of COVID are even more grim, if true, as many people relax their safety precautions once they've had COVID one time.

wonder if they were ever really "clear." I suspect that unless you are a sports star/politician/other special class of person, you do not get tested every day- if you feel better after 14 days and were not hospitalized, on your way you go.

 

[margarita25]

• Redfield warns this winter may be ‘the most difficult time in the public health history’ of the U.S.
• The C.D.C. warns Americans not to travel for the holidays and outlines ways to shorten quarantine times.
• Britain approves a vaccine, the first nation in the West to do so.
• How did Britain move so fast on a vaccine? It leaned on Pfizer’s own analyses, for starters.
• Moderna will soon begin testing its coronavirus vaccine in children.
• If authorized, vaccine doses for about 170,000 New Yorkers could arrive on Dec. 15, Cuomo says.
• Wondering when you can get a vaccine? Here are answers to some common questions about the rollout.
• A ‘pandemic effect’ is driving a rise in applications to medical schools.
• Brazil will prioritize Indigenous people and the elderly in its vaccine rollout.

 

[acutename]

My DD said the other day that she thinks they will invite retired nurses to be involved in vaccinating everyone, as well as medical students of all varieties. There will be a little training involved, but most of these people are attuned to probable requirements.

should vaccinate these retired nurses first.... which will take 21-28 days...so not the fastest start but ...

 

[dixiegirl1035]

We're doing FINE here in South Carolina (nothing could be finer, ya know) ... or so a visitor to our office told us today (68 y/o male, extremely overweight, with multiple health issues, no mask of course).

If that's the case, then what is THIS:

S.C. reports more than 1,600 new cases, percent-positive rate above 21%
DHEC's "report on daily COVID-19 new case counts exceeded 1,000 for the 15th straight time Wednesday" and "the percent-positive rate for the most recent batch of testing also exceeded the 20% mark."

206,653 confirmed positive cases (+1,612)
4,126 confirmed deaths (+35)
Total Tests Received - 2,749,657
Percent Positive - 21.6%

The Thanksgiving bump is here..... SMDH

 

[margarita25]

So, I’m curious, for the international candidates (I’m still learning about all this), has the US purchased more vaccine doses than other countries, or are there limits, etc.? I’m reminded of when the US “bought out” other things...

 

[sds71]

MAPPING COVID-19 VACCINE PRE-PURCHASES ACROSS THE GLOBE:

Data compiled by researchers at Duke University’s Global Health Innovation Centre shows that 9.5 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines have already been reserved, even before any candidate has been approved for market.

High-income countries account for more than half of all confirmed purchases, the data shows, while the U.S. is responsible for almost one-sixth of advance market commitments (AMCs). America has ordered over 1 billion doses from half-a-dozen drugmakers.

Direct deals made by predominantly high-income countries result in a smaller piece of the pie available for equitable global allocation.


COVID-19 | Launch and Scale Speedometer (launchandscalefaster.org)
Coronavirus: Health expert says vaccine race akin to law of the jungle (cnbc.com)

 

[ilovewings]

Early on last spring I remember people saying dismissively, “The flu kills more people than Covid-19.” Back then, they were comparing the number of deaths in a year of the flu, failing to realize or choosing to ignore the fact that we were only looking at a few months of Covid deaths at that time. That comparison was never valid, and even more glaringly so now that deaths from Covid in nine or ten months are over four times higher than the highest number of flu deaths annually (61,000) in the U.S. We have yet to see what the Covid death toll will be in twelve months, but we could not have imagined back in March the devastation that would be visited upon this country.

There are still lots of people saying that, and also saying Covid is no worse
than the flu--- this virus is pure evil because half the population has no
symptoms wbatsoever, so they say, what's the big deal

 

[margarita25]

Deaths increasing, as expected.

Kentucky COVID update: Beshear confirms highest day of deaths

How Colorado tracks COVID-19 deaths

Illinois sees biggest spike in reported COVID-19 deaths to date after holidays delay some data, officials say | WGN-TV

NJ Coronavirus Update: COVID deaths spike as new drive-thru testing site opens in New Jersey

Kansas reports spike in COVID-19 deaths as it awaits vaccine

New virus deaths up again, NY confirms nearly 9K new cases

3 graphs that show LA County's rapid spike in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths • Long Beach Post News

Riverside County Sees 1-Day Spike In Coronavirus Deaths

CT hits grim COVID milestone: 5,000 deaths since pandemic began; doctors expecting to see another spike soon

Ontario records 1,723 new COVID-19 cases along with spike in deaths

COVID Hospitalizations Spike Again, As Oklahoma Adds Record-High 54 Deaths

Coronavirus deaths spike in Lincolnshire as county enters Tier 3 (UK)

Utah sees spikes in hospitalizations and deaths from Labor Day to Thanksgiving

Bucks Co. Reports 23 COVID Deaths, Most Since May

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[SouthAussie]

Deaths increasing, as expected.
Kentucky COVID update: Beshear confirms highest day of deaths

How Colorado tracks COVID-19 deaths

Illinois sees biggest spike in reported COVID-19 deaths to date after holidays delay some data, officials say | WGN-TV

NJ Coronavirus Update: COVID deaths spike as new drive-thru testing site opens in New Jersey

Kansas reports spike in COVID-19 deaths as it awaits vaccine

3 graphs that show LA County's rapid spike in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths • Long Beach Post News

Riverside County Sees 1-Day Spike In Coronavirus Deaths

CT hits grim COVID milestone: 5,000 deaths since pandemic began; doctors expecting to see another spike soon

Ontario records 1,723 new COVID-19 cases along with spike in deaths

COVID Hospitalizations Spike Again, As Oklahoma Adds Record-High 54 Deaths

Coronavirus deaths spike in Lincolnshire as county enters Tier 3 (UK)

Utah sees spikes in hospitalizations and deaths from Labor Day to Thanksgiving

Bucks Co. Reports 23 COVID Deaths, Most Since May

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Last couple of days in the US have been really bad.

2,297 deaths and counting today
2,672 deaths yesterday

Currently at 277,037 deaths overall.
It is not going to be a happy Christmas for many, many people.

Coronavirus Update (Live): 64,743,136 Cases and 1,497,010 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer

 

[margarita25]

90 new COVID-19 deaths confirmed in Wisconsin; 7-day positivity rate rises to 31%

Health Officials: Thanksgiving to Push COVID Deaths to Record Rates

Nursing homes create 'perfect storm' for Covid outbreaks as cases and deaths surge again

 

[MsArk]

This is why we are in the shape we

The Memphis/Shelby County COVID-19 Task Force released new data Tuesday suggesting a good number of those individuals who became infected with the virus continued to participate in daily living activities instead of going into quarantine.

Of the 303 cases surveyed in November, 76 percent went back to work and almost 40 percent still engaged in social events and gatherings while sick, putting others at risk of getting the virus.

Health experts: Up to 80% of COVID positive patients went back to work while sick in November

 

[SouthAussie]

90 new COVID-19 deaths confirmed in Wisconsin; 7-day positivity rate rises to 31%

Health Officials: Thanksgiving to Push COVID Deaths to Record Rates

Nursing homes create 'perfect storm' for Covid outbreaks as cases and deaths surge again

"Deaths at U.S. nursing homes for the week ended last Thursday topped 3,000 — the highest weekly death toll since June, pushing cumulative fatalities over 100,000, according to the tracking project."

“I’ve likened nursing homes to being like a tinderbox. It takes one person, one person, to unknowingly bring the virus into a facility and it could kill several people, make a lot of people sick”

No matter what precautions staff take, it’s going to be difficult to prevent outbreaks in nursing homes, said Ouslander, who is also a professor of integrated medical science. “All those elements of the perfect storm are in place.”

 

[margarita25]

This is why we are in the shape we

The Memphis/Shelby County COVID-19 Task Force released new data Tuesday suggesting a good number of those individuals who became infected with the virus continued to participate in daily living activities instead of going into quarantine.

Of the 303 cases surveyed in November, 76 percent went back to work and almost 40 percent still engaged in social events and gatherings while sick, putting others at risk of getting the virus.

Health experts: Up to 80% of COVID positive patients went back to work while sick in November

Couple who tested positive for Covid is arrested after boarding flight
"They knowingly boarded a flight aware of their positive Covid-19 test results, placing the passengers of the flight in danger of death," a Kaua'i police spokeswoman said.

 

[musicaljoke]

There are still lots of people saying that, and also saying Covid is no worse
than the flu--- this virus is pure evil because half the pkpulation has no
symptoms wbatsoever, so they say, what's the big deal

It's going to be very difficult during the early days of vaccination too, when some of the vulnerable are vaccinated, and others are not. Families will let down their guard when Gramma has been vaccinated, but maybe not their younger, high risk uncle who lives with her. Those who are not vaccinated during that period will likely be at the highest risk ever.