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Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #89
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Canada's first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Quebec on Sunday night, with more to follow on Monday.
UPS Canada released on Friday what the company said are the first images of Canada-bound Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses being processed at a distribution facility in Cologne, Germany.
Once the doses arrive, provinces will administer the vaccine to people in priority population groups, including front-line health-care workers, as well as residents and employees at long-term care homes.
First Toronto doses going to long-term care workers
The first 3,000 or so doses bound for Toronto will inoculate personal support workers and other employees at hard-hit long-term care homes in the Greater Toronto Area, Smith said. Employees are being given priority over residents because they can travel to the hospital to receive the vaccine.
1st doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Canada
UPS Canada released on Friday what the company said are the first images of Canada-bound Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses being processed at a distribution facility in Cologne, Germany.
Once the doses arrive, provinces will administer the vaccine to people in priority population groups, including front-line health-care workers, as well as residents and employees at long-term care homes.
First Toronto doses going to long-term care workers
The first 3,000 or so doses bound for Toronto will inoculate personal support workers and other employees at hard-hit long-term care homes in the Greater Toronto Area, Smith said. Employees are being given priority over residents because they can travel to the hospital to receive the vaccine.
1st doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Canada
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Covid vaccine: GPs in England to begin offering Pfizer jab
Over 80s and healthcare workers first up for the vaccine this week.
Over 80s and healthcare workers first up for the vaccine this week.
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A little fun came back into our lives in my state today. We can now stand and chat in the pub again, and caregivers can take their kids to play cafes again .... along with a few other things we haven't been able to do for a while.
We are under a strict QR Code regime. We must check in to every public place that we go to. The onus is on both the business owner and on the person going to that place.
Starting next week, there will be steep fines in places for not checking in. I read in the paper today that the fine will be about $3,000 for the business owner and $1,300 for the person who did not check in. (Can't find an online link to that at the moment.) But the police will be in warning mode with regard to that, until we all get used to it.
The business owners are really nice, they just call out "have you checked in?" when you enter their premises. As a reminder. (Then good old compliant us goes and checks in. lol
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The QR code check-ins are going to be our path to more personal freedoms. Because the Health Dept feels they can more easily find us if there is an outbreak.
South Australia will take no chances with its hotel quarantine system
We are under a strict QR Code regime. We must check in to every public place that we go to. The onus is on both the business owner and on the person going to that place.
Starting next week, there will be steep fines in places for not checking in. I read in the paper today that the fine will be about $3,000 for the business owner and $1,300 for the person who did not check in. (Can't find an online link to that at the moment.) But the police will be in warning mode with regard to that, until we all get used to it.
The business owners are really nice, they just call out "have you checked in?" when you enter their premises. As a reminder. (Then good old compliant us goes and checks in. lol
)The QR code check-ins are going to be our path to more personal freedoms. Because the Health Dept feels they can more easily find us if there is an outbreak.
South Australia will take no chances with its hotel quarantine system
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US President Donald Trump has suggested that senior White House officials would wait longer for COVID-19 vaccines hours after media outlets reported senior officials were to receive doses within 10 days.
Late Sunday night (US time), Mr Trump said on Twitter he had asked for an "adjustment" to be made to the plans to vaccinate White House officials.
"People working in the White House should receive the vaccine somewhat later in the program, unless specifically necessary.
"I am not scheduled to take the vaccine, but look forward to doing so at the appropriate time."
Canada set to start vaccinating its citizens within 24 hours
Late Sunday night (US time), Mr Trump said on Twitter he had asked for an "adjustment" to be made to the plans to vaccinate White House officials.
"People working in the White House should receive the vaccine somewhat later in the program, unless specifically necessary.
"I am not scheduled to take the vaccine, but look forward to doing so at the appropriate time."
Canada set to start vaccinating its citizens within 24 hours
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I will do it, but I won't like it
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Last night Dr. C., focusing on virus predispositions/genetics and overview of US rollou
Within the video, he consternates over so many therapeutics being nixed, but the studies for them were done/administered at the WRONG time in the disease process. A conundrum indeed as folks usually don't get hospitalized until they are in the 3rd phase of the disease, and the therapeutics should be given ASAP after symptoms start. Yeah, I know I'm preaching to the WS choir here as y'all will get it. He says was a failure... yet how can it be fixed and at what cost?
@SouthAussie , he also speaks at the beginning of last nights video of the Australian vaccine/Queensland vaccine program has been cancelled. (University of Queenland was making their own virus). There were using a component of the HIV virus... and then some of them tested positive for HIV (not really the disease.. just showed up on their tests due to cross rxn of Ab's to the vaccine and therefore stopped). 50 million doses were ordered by the government at a cost of US $5.4 million.
Within the video, he consternates over so many therapeutics being nixed, but the studies for them were done/administered at the WRONG time in the disease process. A conundrum indeed as folks usually don't get hospitalized until they are in the 3rd phase of the disease, and the therapeutics should be given ASAP after symptoms start. Yeah, I know I'm preaching to the WS choir here as y'all will get it. He says was a failure... yet how can it be fixed and at what cost?
@SouthAussie , he also speaks at the beginning of last nights video of the Australian vaccine/Queensland vaccine program has been cancelled. (University of Queenland was making their own virus). There were using a component of the HIV virus... and then some of them tested positive for HIV (not really the disease.. just showed up on their tests due to cross rxn of Ab's to the vaccine and therefore stopped). 50 million doses were ordered by the government at a cost of US $5.4 million.
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He talks about the rollout of the Pfizer vaccine in the UK etc. It's from the 9th.. but missed it when it when posted.
He discussed the two "anaphylactoid" reactions that happened, (the two nurses who got the shot and had adverse reactions.. they both had history of serious allergies and carried adrenalin pens) and how they differ from "anaphylaxis" reactions. Very educational and building on knowledge. He's not concerned with, yet concerned with how the media is presenting the information. He has much more to share as to his opinion on such at about 7:00 - 8:03.
Again, thanks the my fellow WS'er for noting that with YouTubes, you can get the speed up x 1.25 to view more in a day vs. being 3 days behind!
He discussed the two "anaphylactoid" reactions that happened, (the two nurses who got the shot and had adverse reactions.. they both had history of serious allergies and carried adrenalin pens) and how they differ from "anaphylaxis" reactions. Very educational and building on knowledge. He's not concerned with, yet concerned with how the media is presenting the information. He has much more to share as to his opinion on such at about 7:00 - 8:03.
Again, thanks the my fellow WS'er for noting that with YouTubes, you can get the speed up x 1.25 to view more in a day vs. being 3 days behind!
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Yes, the Qld vaccine didn't turn out so well. We can't have HIV positive people walking around, who don't actually have the HIV virus. That would lead to a heck of a conundrum.
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Just a few snippets from a very good reflection of 2020 ........
The magnifying glass: how Covid revealed the truth about the world
.... while the virus ended and upended so many lives, and spawned a whole new vocabulary – social distancing, furlough, herd immunity, R number, circuit breaker, bubble, unmute – it did not remake the global landscape so much as reveal what was already there, or what was taking shape, just below the surface.
Even as the virus forced billions to cover their faces, it ripped the mask from so many of our leaders.
This was a global picture, the virus widening the chasm between the richest and poorest. The wealthiest got even wealthier. For the billionaire class, 2020 was a banner year, their fortunes topping $10.2tn (£7.6tn) in the summer – a giant increase on the year before, according to data from the Swiss bank UBS.
And yet 2020 was also the year Britons used food banks in record numbers and the year when thousands of cars lined up in Dallas, Texas, queueing to get help at a “food distribution event”, with some 25,000 waiting in line on a single day.
Coronavirus was unforgiving like that, magnifying the blemishes on the skin of our society, showing up the deep lines that divide it. And given that it did that for regional, class, gender and age divisions, it was scarcely a surprise that it exposed racial inequality too.
The lens of coronavirus showed up a great deal that was already happening in our world, but it also magnified much about ourselves and the way we live.
Even so, the pandemic did allow us to learn again what we value most. Along with healthcare workers, scientists were the year’s heroes – a reminder that, when it comes to life and death, and despite Michael Gove’s notorious 2016 declaration, the country had not had enough of experts.
We learned who we are by what we missed.
The magnifying glass: how Covid revealed the truth about our world
The magnifying glass: how Covid revealed the truth about the world
.... while the virus ended and upended so many lives, and spawned a whole new vocabulary – social distancing, furlough, herd immunity, R number, circuit breaker, bubble, unmute – it did not remake the global landscape so much as reveal what was already there, or what was taking shape, just below the surface.
Even as the virus forced billions to cover their faces, it ripped the mask from so many of our leaders.
This was a global picture, the virus widening the chasm between the richest and poorest. The wealthiest got even wealthier. For the billionaire class, 2020 was a banner year, their fortunes topping $10.2tn (£7.6tn) in the summer – a giant increase on the year before, according to data from the Swiss bank UBS.
And yet 2020 was also the year Britons used food banks in record numbers and the year when thousands of cars lined up in Dallas, Texas, queueing to get help at a “food distribution event”, with some 25,000 waiting in line on a single day.
Coronavirus was unforgiving like that, magnifying the blemishes on the skin of our society, showing up the deep lines that divide it. And given that it did that for regional, class, gender and age divisions, it was scarcely a surprise that it exposed racial inequality too.
The lens of coronavirus showed up a great deal that was already happening in our world, but it also magnified much about ourselves and the way we live.
Even so, the pandemic did allow us to learn again what we value most. Along with healthcare workers, scientists were the year’s heroes – a reminder that, when it comes to life and death, and despite Michael Gove’s notorious 2016 declaration, the country had not had enough of experts.
We learned who we are by what we missed.
The magnifying glass: how Covid revealed the truth about our world
Families of some who perished have written pointedly about the virus in remembrances. They tell of agonizing final days. They plead for wearing of masks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/us/as-us-deaths-approach-300000-obituaries-force-reckoning-with-covid.html
When Kim Miller sat down in her Illinois house to compose her husband’s obituary, she could not hold back.
Not about the coronavirus that had left Scott, her fit, healthy spouse who loved to swim, golf and putter in the garden, gasping for breath and unable to move his limbs as he stood at the kitchen counter. Not about what had killed him swiftly and cruelly in only a few days.
“This disease is real, it is serious and it is deadly,” she wrote in his obituary. “Wear the mask, socially distance, if not for yourself then for others who may lose a loved one to the disease.”
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After Shirley Flores, a postmaster and mother of three, died in Las Cruces, N.M., her family noted in her obituary: “She died a very painful lonely death because we weren’t allowed in to hold her hand and sit with her. Please take Covid-19 seriously, protect yourself and those you love.”
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The obituary of Shirley Rowe, a 67-year-old Michigan resident, said that she had fought for her life after contracting the virus, but her body was overpowered by Covid-19. Ms. Rowe was a loving grandmother and the life of every party, her family said, and believed she caught the coronavirus from a guest at her home.
“It is our family’s firm belief that she would still be here if restrictions hadn’t been lifted so soon for society, and the person that gave her the virus would have taken precautions more seriously,” they wrote. “This is not how my mom’s story should have ended.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/us/as-us-deaths-approach-300000-obituaries-force-reckoning-with-covid.html
When Kim Miller sat down in her Illinois house to compose her husband’s obituary, she could not hold back.
Not about the coronavirus that had left Scott, her fit, healthy spouse who loved to swim, golf and putter in the garden, gasping for breath and unable to move his limbs as he stood at the kitchen counter. Not about what had killed him swiftly and cruelly in only a few days.
“This disease is real, it is serious and it is deadly,” she wrote in his obituary. “Wear the mask, socially distance, if not for yourself then for others who may lose a loved one to the disease.”
......
After Shirley Flores, a postmaster and mother of three, died in Las Cruces, N.M., her family noted in her obituary: “She died a very painful lonely death because we weren’t allowed in to hold her hand and sit with her. Please take Covid-19 seriously, protect yourself and those you love.”
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The obituary of Shirley Rowe, a 67-year-old Michigan resident, said that she had fought for her life after contracting the virus, but her body was overpowered by Covid-19. Ms. Rowe was a loving grandmother and the life of every party, her family said, and believed she caught the coronavirus from a guest at her home.
“It is our family’s firm belief that she would still be here if restrictions hadn’t been lifted so soon for society, and the person that gave her the virus would have taken precautions more seriously,” they wrote. “This is not how my mom’s story should have ended.”
COVID patient with sepsis makes 'remarkable' recovery following megadose of vitamin C
A COVID patient with sepsis was given a megadose of vitamin C. The change in him was 'remarkable'
A COVID patient with sepsis was given a megadose of vitamin C. The change in him was 'remarkable'
It would be my preference that the original plan for everyone in the White House to be vaccinated as soon as possible, still stand, for this reason:
I think it would go a long way to set an example that the vaccine is ok, and that it's a good thing to get it
I am guessing President Trump may think it's a display of generosity for he and his staff to let other people get those first doses
My view/thoughts
Edited to add the following because it's even better reasoning than my own:
"NBC News reported that the early access was needed to ensure that there's a continuity of government, vaccinating people in high-level roles who are responsible for keeping the government functioning in a crisis."
Trump slows plan for White House staffers to get Covid vaccine early.
Trump slows plan for White House staffers to get Covid vaccine early
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I'm still here. Still not posting a bunch but I read every single day. I looked back at my Amazon account to see when I ordered my "pandemic order"--my instinct was to order Mucinex, sugar free Gatorade, shelf-stable milk, water, cough syrups, aspirin, Advil, cat food and dog food (I got very very sick the beginning of January--all the symptoms of Covid, but I'll never know for sure-- and was still sick when I ordered so it was very medicine-centric). No toilet paper lol. I ordered on Feb 27th so that was the day that I fully realized we were in trouble in the US. Since then I had a good friend that I was trying to warn bring me to tears for not believing me and belittling me (friend has since apologized). My mom believed me all along. She was able to stock up on some things. All because of the smart people here at WS on these threads. I've learned so much.
My husband's brother's daughter is a nurse and she just got over Covid, as did her husband who is in LE and their school age son. It was rough for the husband, the others had mild symptoms. We haven't been exposed to them. Our family decided not to gather for TG or Christmas, thankfully.
I wonder where Henry is??? Hopefully she (? I think she's a she....) is ok.
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Great article- pulls no punches about Trump--- so accurate- so sad for the United States
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/12/14/covid-genes-illness-severity/
Scientists pinpoint genes common among people with severe coronavirus Infections
Scientists pinpoint genes common among people with severe coronavirus Infections
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London is going into Tier 3 restrictions from midnight tomorrow. Sad, but about time.
Covid: London to move into tier 3 as infections rise
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