Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #92

[weepingangel]

CDC expected to release new guidelines for reopening schools

new new guidelines

 

[24Roses]

Iowa numbers today and recent news : As of 10:00-11:00 a.m., we had 841 new confirmed cases for a total of 327,255 confirmed cases of which 299,122 are recovering (+1,304). 22 more were reported to have passed for a total of 5,196. 32 were hospitalized in the last 24 hrs. for a total of 273 (-19).
IDPH Reports 22 Additional COVID-19 Deaths and 841 New Coronavirus Cases | who13.com
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Iowa one of the worst in U.S. in vaccine supply, but ranked 26th in actual distribution
Computer system error temporarily turns away people 65 years old or older from making a vaccine appointment

 

[MimosaMornings]

CDC expected to release new guidelines for reopening schools

new new guidelines

“One of the most effective ways people can help make teachers, staff and students safer inside schools is by helping to control the spread of the virus outside of schools, Ray said.

"If people are really careful about masking and distancing outside of schools, then the schools become safer," he said.”

And how are they going to control that?

A lot of people here don’t wear one thin mask much less layer two masks per new recommendations.

 

[sds71]

• Former President Donald Trump was more seriously sick from the coronavirus in October than the public was told at the time.
• Trump, after contracting Covid-19, had “extremely depressed blood oxygen levels at one point and a lung problem associated with pneumonia caused by the coronavirus,” The New York Times reported.
• His condition was so poor, the Times reported, that “officials believed he would be put on a ventilator” before he was taken from the White House to Walter Reed National Military Center,” the newspaper said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/11/covid-trump-was-sicker-from-coronavirus-than-first-said.html

 

[LadyL]

Trump Was Sicker Than Acknowledged With Covid-19

 

[onceuponadecember]

Hey y'all, just made it online after a day full of emails from my students. I still have some soreness in my arm, but overall I feel just fine after my first dose.

 

[LadyL]

The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired.

 

[SouthAussie]

BBM - the new mutation is mutating

The coronavirus variant first recorded in southeast England is likely to “sweep the world” and become the most dominant global strain, the head of the United Kingdom’s genetic surveillance programme says, as concerns mount over emerging mutations of the virus.

.... the B.1.1.7 variant has spread to more than 50 countries.
Experts have said it may be up to 70 percent more infectious and about 30 percent more lethal than other variants.

“It’s concerning that the 1.1.7, which is more transmissible, which has swept the country, is now mutating to have this new mutation that could threaten vaccination.”

Kent coronavirus variant set to ‘sweep world’, says UK scientist

 

[LadyL]

Exhausted Health Care Workers Feel Betrayed by Those Who Ignore COVID Rules | KQED

 

[mickey2942]

The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired.

He was actually fired for giving the vaccine to his wife. He should have called his supervisor for direction.

 

[LadyL]

2 masks are better than 1 to protect against coronavirus, CDC confirms

 

[mickey2942]

2 masks are better than 1 to protect against coronavirus, CDC confirms

I had someone in my office the other day. She literally couldn't breathe with her N95 and surgical mask over that. Then, she kept coughing up a lung, maybe it was a cheap fake N95 mask. I don't know.

 

[MimosaMornings]

National cheerleading competition could become super-spreader event, health officials warn — NBC News

 

[ilovewings]

2 masks are better than 1 to protect against coronavirus, CDC confirms

I am now wearing 2 masks

 

[SouthAussie]

All those Australian Open tennis players who travelled here, and quarantined, just to play in the Open .... they will now be playing to empty stadiums. Victoria goes into a snap 5-day lockdown as of midnight tonight.

Australian Open to be closed to crowds as Victoria announces COVID lockdown

 

[LadyL]

What a 16th-century plague survival guide has in common with COVID-19 advice

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent...nlR8GEv3HNkN7ZzIABHshFmMcTUAj9PXOWHFvYRKXKZ_Q

 

[casesensitive]

Do our members have any info re kidney transplant recipients getting the vaccine? My daughter's transplant doctors have never alerted her to get it, and when she finally asked them, they said it was ok, although they admitted that there was no research on it. Many months ago they warned her that kidney organ recipients had a high death rate if they contacted covid.

They were in constant contact with her on what she should do to prevent being infected with covid, which entailed her separating from her husband if he continued to work (he stayed home), keeping her kids home from school (which she did), washing her clothes immediately after she came in from taking her dog for a walk, etc. She was so scared, and unfortunately I was kicked out of her bubble.

But with all of her doctor's strict guidelines and attention, they have never called her to recommend the vaccine. We agree that because she is staying very safe, she will wait to see how the vaccines affect people in her condition. If anybody has knowledge of someone else in her condition, who has had a vaccine, it would help to hear about it. TIA

 

[Scoutce]

Do our members have any info re kidney transplant recipients getting the vaccine? My daughter's transplant doctors have never alerted her to get it, and when she finally asked them, they said it was ok, although they admitted that there was no research on it. Many months ago they warned her that kidney organ recipients had a high death rate if they contacted covid.

They were in constant contact with her on what she should do to prevent being infected with covid, which entailed her separating from her husband if he continued to work (he stayed home), keeping her kids home from school (which she did), washing her clothes immediately after she came in from taking her dog for a walk, etc. She was so scared, and unfortunately I was kicked out of her bubble.

But with all of her doctor's strict guidelines and attention, they have never called her to recommend the vaccine. We agree that because she is staying very safe, she will wait to see how the vaccines affect people in her condition. If anybody has knowledge of someone else in her condition, who has had a vaccine, it would help to hear about it. TIA

I don’t know about kidney transplant recipients but my 54 year old brother in law is on dialysis 3 days a week. The medical team their strongly encouraged all the dialysis patients to get it. They gave the vaccination at the dialysis center. He had his second shot yesterday and hasn’t shown any significant problems. Hope your daughter stays well.

 

[casesensitive]

I don’t know about kidney transplant recipients but my 54 year old brother in law is on dialysis 3 days a week. The medical team their strongly encouraged all the dialysis patients to get it. They gave the vaccination at the dialysis center. He had his second shot yesterday and hasn’t shown any significant problems. Hope your daughter stays well.

Thanks Scoutce. From my research, people on dialysis seemed to be just as vulnerable as those who had a kidney transplant. Good to hear about your BIL. Can I ask you where you live? I am close to Toronto, in a city known as as a world class organ transplant center, so this is surprising to see the difference in protocol.

 

[nightowl1975]

Thanks Scoutce. From my research, people on dialysis seemed to be just as vulnerable as those who had a kidney transplant. Good to hear about your BIL. Can I ask you where you live? I am close to Toronto, in a city known as as a world class organ transplant center, so this is surprising to see the difference in protocol.

I work in healthcare with incredibly vulnerable elderly individuals. I can only tell you what I’ve noticed personally with the caveat that my observations may be a total fluke, correlation does not necessarily equal causation, etc etc etc.

In the long term care setting, the most frequently observed thing when tracing back the origin of an outbreak: patient zero is a dialysis patient. This is true in a majority of outbreaks across well over 100+ facilities. Many months ago, very specific guidelines were issued on how to handle dialysis patients in this setting because the trend was so obvious. Mind you, we do not know WHY this is true. Is it that dialysis patients are more susceptible to symptomatic covid? Is it that dialysis patients by far spend the most time away from the facility, in close quarters with other medically fragile people for their dialysis appointments? Is it that dialysis patients are just more likely to get covid period? We don’t know. But we do see it over and over and over again that they tend to get it first, and they tend to struggle with it more than others once they test positive.

Because of this, and without any real research (because it doesn’t exist), these patients were strongly encouraged to get the vaccine. I’ll be honest though. We are seeing the VAST majority of elderly long term care residents more than eager to be vaccinated, so it really wasn’t a huge issue to get them all vaccinated.

So, did they have any unusual response to the vaccine? From what I’ve witnessed, no. The overwhelming majority of all of the patients I’ve witnessed have very few side effects at all. It is hypothesized by some that I work with that this might indicate that the elderly don’t mount as strong of an immune response to the vaccine. Of course, we don’t really know for sure at this point.

The one particular “type” of patient/person that I’ve noticed seems to have more or more significant side effects seems to be those who have already had covid. This is purely an observation on my part, hardly conclusive, but something I’ve noticed quite a bit so far.

I would personally be far more concerned about contracting covid as a solid organ transplant recipient than I would be about getting the vaccine. Either choice carries a degree of risk, but IMO, the vaccine seems less risky.