Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #91

[margarita25]

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[24Roses]

Iowa numbers for Saturday, Jan. 9 and Sunday, Jan. 10:
Jan. 9: IDPH reports 1,659 new cases, 3 deaths
Jan. 10: 1,330 new cases in the last 24 hours, 11 more deaths

 

[LadyL]

Group takes B.C. government to court over COVID-19 ban on in-person church services

 

[margarita25]

Chuck Fleischmann tests positive for COVID-19

(Via @realanastasia)

 

[Yesiamapirate]

Large Numbers Of Health Care And Frontline Workers Are Refusing Covid-19 Vaccine

I work for a major medical center. I was given the vaccine much sooner than estimated. Word is lots of folks refused. MOO

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Ellen Degeneres Had “Excruciating Back Pain” From COVID-19. Is That a Common Symptom?

Coronavirus symptoms: Are you suffering with back pain? The lesser-known sign of COVID-19

Yes re the back pain! I've been saying about this since March. Weirdly glad to know these things (headache!) are being widely recognised now.

 

[Yesiamapirate]

Ellen Degeneres Had “Excruciating Back Pain” From COVID-19. Is That a Common Symptom?

Coronavirus symptoms: Are you suffering with back pain? The lesser-known sign of COVID-19

Those articles were fascinating to me given the amount of back and leg pain I have had since getting vaccinated on the 6th. I hope this means I am building some strong immunities.

 

[LadyL]

Canada adds 7,817 new COVID-19 cases as Ontario touts possible curfew

 

[gngr~snap]

Quick question, I know some of you received your stimulus checks via direct deposit, but for any of you who received the last one via the mail, have you gotten yours yet? I haven’t. Tia.

My dad did. I deposited it Jan 5th for him.
MOO

 

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[TootsieFootsie]

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news...k/news-story/6256e5ef2f2ff5df45a623009713167c


Brisbane-based biotech Ellume has ramped up production of its COVID-19 test kits and next week will begin sending its groundbreaking rapid home test products to the Us.

Last month the US Food and Drug Administration approved Ellume’s at home COVID-19 blood test — the first of its kind in the world — which can detect the highly infectious virus within 20 minutes, hailing it a “major milestone” in the pandemic.

Ellume has fast-tracked production and a spokesman said the first shipment to the US will be next week and by the end of the year more than 200 million tests will arrive in the country which has been ravaged by the coronavirus.

 

[ilovewings]

Dr Gregory Michael dies after COVID-19 vaccine – what are the facts?

Follow up on that physician (OB-GYN) who died three days after getting the vaccine. The cause of death was immune thrombocytopenia. He was healthy before he got the vaccine. He developed red spots on his feet three days after getting the vaccine- he went to the hospital and was diagnosed with immune thrombocytopenia. Treatment did not save his life. In the trials, no patient developed this disease process but I have to say, to my mind he got this from the vaccine. It is obviously very rare, but how else can it be explained?

 

[dixiegirl1035]

BNO Newsroom[URL='https://twitter.com/BNODesk']@BNODesk ·3m

Sample in Ireland shows UK coronavirus variant accounts for 45% of new cases, up from 25% a week ago and 9% last month - REU[/URL]

 

[dixiegirl1035]

I wonder if this is someone on Medicare ADVANTAGE.... All the Advantage carriers advertise incessantly, INCESSANTLY, in Florida, and appear to keep tossing in new benefits .

Would be interesting if your friend is on regular insurance, medicare, or medicare advantage.

I checked. Medicare Advantage in Florida. You were right on target. May not be for all of the rest of us folks.

 

[sds71]

Japan Says It Found New Coronavirus Variant - Bloomberg

 

[MimosaMornings]

Is Your Covid Vaccine Venue Prepared to Handle Rare, Life-Threatening Reactions? — Kaiser Health News

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Quick question, I know some of you received your stimulus checks via direct deposit, but for any of you who received the last one via the mail, have you gotten yours yet? I haven’t. Tia.

wow.. I hadn't even thought to check out... Mine was deposited Dec 30.. seems so early??????

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Japan Says It Found New Coronavirus Variant - Bloomberg

wow, Pittsburgh.... this is getting depressing. And now we have some US strain appearing too.
Are we still just waiting for the Level 5 hurricane?

 

[MimosaMornings]

“There are no beds”: One ambulance ride leads to another for non-COVID patients — Kaiser Health News

“She panicked when a nurse told her that no beds were available and that she would have to be transferred — possibly more than 450 miles away to Denver. She had heard a rumor about a dialysis patient who died waiting for a bed at a hospital in Wichita, about an hour down the road.”

 

[GRT]

Unless testing is truly free, we're going to continue to see people avoid it. My daughter's friend worked at a grocery store and their policy was that any employee with a live-in family member who is diagnosed with Covid must test negative in order to continue working. Since her live-in boyfriend tested positive (with symptoms), this young lady went to be tested as well--as per her employer's rules. She was told that since she is not having symptoms, the test would run $150. She has no insurance and she had no money to pay for the test herself. She had to leave without being tested. She chose to hide her boyfriend's diagnosis and go back to work. Someone found out and she was fired. She's currently looking for a different job. I found this and I suppose this is why she couldn't have a free test -- she had no symptoms.

Seriously, if we want to get a handle on this, testing has to be free. For everyone.

For those who present with symptoms and meet the definition of a person under investigation, they could get tested and not incur a bill for testing — that means their test results would be determined by the state lab.

But those wanting a test without symptoms, there will likely be a bill as results will likely be coming from a private, for profit lab.

“There are a couple of difficult scenarios here. The reality is if the person meets the definition of a person under investigation by KDHE ... We can send a test to KDHE’s lab. If it goes to KDHE’s lab there is no charge to the person for that,” Van Der Wege said. “If they do not fall under that, then we send it to our reference lab which is a LabCorp. If we send it there, there is a charge for that.”

Covid Testing in Mac county -- what will it cost?