Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #89

[SoCalDavidS]

Breaking News:

President-Elect Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden will be receiving the Pfizer vaccine on Monday. It will be televised.

Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris will receive the vaccine the following week.

Biden to receive first dose of coronavirus vaccine on Monday

 

[margarita25]

This is weird to me. Just sayin.

Hospitals Discover a Surprise in Their Vaccine Deliveries: Extra Doses

FDA says Pfizer vaccine vials hold extra doses, expanding supply

Pfizer vaccine vials contain excess doses, surprising hospitals and pharmacists

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eta / nevermind, “experts say that’s normal”:

Pfizer vaccine vials hold some extra doses — experts say that's normal

Alrighty then.

 

[Rose in SC]

Another record-breaking day in South Carolina.

SC shatters daily COVID-19 case record with 3,648 new cases Friday, 28 more deaths
"As of Friday morning, DHEC says 82.56% of inpatient beds in South Carolina are in use while 79.74% of ICU beds are in use.

There are 1,460 hospitalized patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 or are under investigation for having the virus, DHEC said. Of those, 315 COVID-19 patients are in the ICU.

DHEC is reporting 1,939 ventilators available in the state with 546 of them in use. COVID-19 patients account for 143 of those."

247,361 confirmed positive cases (+3,648) - new daily record
4,512 confirmed deaths (+28)

Total Tests Received - 3,251,816
Percent Positive - 25.9% -

 

[GRT]

MOO, on the face of it, a truly just awful idea as to have folks think they can wait if they are low income/doing it for the money. Terrible idea. I have never heard of such for public health and would set a frightening precedence. Many other reasons..... MOO

I think I agree. Just give the people the money to help out with the poor economy right now, but not as payment for getting vaccinated.

The people who are most likely to think the government is trying to pull a fast one will really think it then. I wish they could create an atmosphere that we're all pulling together to get through this, so people would want to do their part, but I fear we're too divided right now.

I plan to get the shot, but I would feel bad taking money for doing so.

 

[GRT]

This years flu shot I was surprised to have been feeling blah for a day, headache, sore arm,, tired and crabby lol! My first unexpected reaction and my husband was fine. I imagine a flu shot needs to be changed every season due to the flu strain? Covid is a new vaccine as well, we need to decide what we think will be best in this Covid battle, go without a vaccine or have some immunity with majority having only slight reactions from the vaccine. We know what getting Covid does to some and the long term issues for some. Could those people have avoided suffering or death from the vaccine? No answer to that.

The only side effect I've ever had from the flu vaccine was a sore arm. I think I tolerate them well.

But, my second pneumonia shot was something else. The first one - Prevnar-13-- was mild and I don't even remember having a sore arm, but the next year, when it was time to get the follow-up Prevnar 23, it really knocked me for a loop. I was very weak, my heart pounded, and I stayed in bed for three days. For the next few weeks, my legs kept swelling, which had never happened before. I'm not sure what was different about the second vaccine, but it affected me much worse than any other shot I'd had.

If the Covid shot isn't any worse than Prevnar 23, I'll be fine.

 

[margarita25]

Dbm wrong thread

 

[SouthAussie]

Today’s update on COVID Valley. The coffee shop is still closed but dozens of people are gathered there waiting for COVID testing, or waiting for their COVID test results. Most aren’t wearing masks. They are sitting on the floor or standing, since all the tables and chairs have been removed.

The lab upstairs is running far behind on COVID testing appointments and results so people are waiting for a couple of hours.

Definitely a health hazard but no one has the authority to tell them to leave the area. It’s the atrium of the medical building.

I don’t go near it but use the employee entrance. We watch the disaster of COVID Valley through the back windows of our office.

Doesn't the hospital have security? Surely a security person would have the authority to separate the people?

I went to have blood tests done a couple of months ago - it is a little clinic within my doctors offices, no appointments needed, just walk in and wait.
So, I went to the (narrow) hallway where the blood test clinic is to wait, there were about 8 people already there. I thought I would come back another time, as I caught the wrong time period and didn't want to wait long.

I stopped at the front desk to check the blood clinic opening hours (best time to come for a short wait) and when the reception/office manager heard there were 8 people currently waiting, she flew to that hallway and separated the people, made 5 of them come out into the waiting room, made the other 3 sit in the spaced waiting chairs near the blood clinic. She was ferocious ... no-one messed with her.

 

[CSIDreamer]

I saw an article within the last 2 weeks. I don’t think it was the Relay walkie talkie but some sort of speaker system that can be set up in a hospital room and folks can talk to their loved ones who are not conscious. I'm still looking desperately for this. Anyone recall seeing it? Thanks.

 

[weepingangel]

I’m sure this has been brought here already? Other states as well
‘We’re certainly frustrated’; Gov. Charlie Baker weighs in on unexpected reduction in COVID vaccine doses
more at link
Gov. Charlie Baker said officials are frustrated that the state received fewer doses of the COVID vaccine than anticipated, and that his administration is “working to get clarity” on how the change will impact the immunization timeline in Massachusetts.

“At this time, it’s not clear to us why the shipment amounts have been adjusted,” Baker said during a press conference at the Massachusetts State House on Friday. “We’re certainly frustrated that we won’t be receiving the amount we expected in the first wave, and are working to get clarity on what this means, why it happens and how that bump will be dealt with along the way.”

The state ordered roughly 60,000 dosesof Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID vaccine; but those shipments yielded only 42,900 doses, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Health told MassLive.


“The Command Center has been notified by the federal government, in addition to many other states, that its next shipments of the first doses of Pfizer vaccines has been reduced from 60,000 to about 42,900 doses,” Massachusetts Department of Health said. “The Command Center is in communication with the CDC to learn more about when additional shipment are arriving.”


The next few shipments of the Pfizer’s COVID vaccine will also contain fewer doses than officials anticipated — about 20% fewer, Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders said.


State officials say they were expecting an additional 180,000 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine before the end of the year. The Department of Public Health has been informed that the state will instead get a little more than 145,000, Sudders said, noting the “fast-moving and ever-changing” nature of the national rollout.


“We will continue to pivot as necessary,” Sudders said.


Baker said officials aren’t sure if the reduction in doses will impact the three-phased timeline proposed last week.


Additionally, state officials have ordered 120,000 first doses of the Moderna vaccine, which is expected to receive emergency use authorization on Friday after it was endorsed by a government vaccine advisory panel on Thursday.

 

[sds71]

workers are protesting the decision to give vaccines to administrators and physicians who are at home and not in contact with patients instead of frontline workers:

Stanford doctors protest vaccine plan, saying front line workers are at the back of the line - SFChronicle.com
Physicians at Stanford Medical Center held a raucous protest Friday, accusing the university of prioritizing the wrong health care workers to receive the coronavirus vaccine ahead of residents and fellows who work directly with COVID-19 patients.

 

[gngr~snap]

I saw an article within the last 2 weeks. I don’t think it was the Relay walkie talkie but some sort of speaker system that can be set up in a hospital room and folks can talk to their loved ones who are not conscious. I'm still looking desperately for this. Anyone recall seeing it? Thanks.

This?
https://www.acr.org/Practice-Manage...udies/COVID-19/Bridging-the-Communication-Gap

 

[CSIDreamer]

This? View attachment 276090
https://www.acr.org/Practice-Manage...udies/COVID-19/Bridging-the-Communication-Gap

That's it thanks!

 

[IceIce9]

Doesn't the hospital have security? Surely a security person would have the authority to separate the people?

I went to have blood tests done a couple of months ago - it is a little clinic within my doctors offices, no appointments needed, just walk in and wait.
So, I went to the (narrow) hallway where the blood test clinic is to wait, there were about 8 people already there. I thought I would come back another time, as I caught the wrong time period and didn't want to wait long.

I stopped at the front desk to check the blood clinic opening hours (best time to come for a short wait) and when the reception/office manager heard there were 8 people currently waiting, she flew to that hallway and separated the people, made 5 of them come out into the waiting room, made the other 3 sit in the spaced waiting chairs near the blood clinic. She was ferocious ... no-one messed with her.

It’s a clinic inside a large building, besides our clinic there is a lab upstairs (unrelated to our clinic) and several non-medical offices. There are a couple of small business like a hair salon, a smoothie place, small restaurant snd a spa.

The coffee shop is in the atrium/lobby. No security or management on site.

 

[weepingangel]

Vaccine tracker
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

 

[mickey2942]

workers are protesting the decision to give vaccines to administrators and physicians who are at home and not in contact with patients instead of frontline workers:

Stanford doctors protest vaccine plan, saying front line workers are at the back of the line - SFChronicle.com
Physicians at Stanford Medical Center held a raucous protest Friday, accusing the university of prioritizing the wrong health care workers to receive the coronavirus vaccine ahead of residents and fellows who work directly with COVID-19 patients.

Gotta say, a Facebook friend showed herself proudly getting her vaccine today, at the VA. Not a veteran, not a nurse, or a doctor, or even housekeeping...social worker, who has been at home since March on telework.

It was so impossibly tone deaf, I choose to not say a word. While my 80 year old, veteran, disabled, has no idea of when he will get a vaccine.

 

[LadyL]

Eight nuns died of Covid-19 at a Wisconsin facility within a week - CNN

 

[sds71]

Gotta say, a Facebook friend showed herself proudly getting her vaccine today, at the VA. Not a veteran, not a nurse, or a doctor, or even housekeeping...social worker, who has been at home since March on telework.

It was so impossibly tone deaf, I choose to not say a word. While my 80 year old, veteran, disabled, has no idea of when he will get a vaccine.

I’m sorry. That’s not right at all.

 

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[astheworldfallsdown]

COVID-19: New coronavirus strain spreading faster than previous variant, government scientists warn ministers

Scientific advisers have warned ministers they believe the new variant of COVID-19 spreads more quickly than previous strains, Sky News understands.

Government scientists are expected to meet next week to draw up a strategy for how Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions could be strengthened in response.

It comes amid reports that cabinet ministers were due to meet tonight to discuss evidence that indicated the new strain was spreading faster than what was previously thought.

 

[weepingangel]

Nope nope Can we just get a break already.

COVID-19: New coronavirus strain spreading faster than previous variant, government scientists warn ministers

Scientific advisers have warned ministers they believe the new variant of COVID-19 spreads more quickly than previous strains, Sky News understands.

Government scientists are expected to meet next week to draw up a strategy for how Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions could be strengthened in response.

It comes amid reports that cabinet ministers were due to meet tonight to discuss evidence that indicated the new strain was spreading faster than what was previously thought.