Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #92

[MimosaMornings]

Officials in Texas scramble after power outage hits Houston vaccine storage freezer


Wintry weather delays COVID-19 vaccine shipment to Texas

 

[24Roses]

Iowa numbers today: As of 10:00-11:00 a.m., we had 508 new confirmed cases for a total of 329,812 confirmed cases of which 303,712 are recovering (+1,553). 26 more were reported to have passed for a total of 5,263. 40 were hospitalized in the last 24 hrs. for a total of 255 (+13). Feb. 16: Iowa reports over 10,000 new COVID-19 tests with only 508 returning positive
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[Mo Thuairim]

Spotted this story this morning and thought @margarita25 would like it!

WHO's Mike Ryan to receive Trócaire's Romero International Award

Dr Mike Ryan of the World Health Organization will receive Trócaire's Romero International Award at a ceremony today in recognition of his work.

Mr Ryan is the Executive Director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme.

The Irishman has been at the forefront of managing acute risks to global health for nearly 25 years.

The Romero award commemorates the work of the late Archbishop of San Salvador Oscar Romero, who fought against poverty and repression in his native El Salvador.

The honour highlights efforts to raise awareness of human rights violations and support for people who are experiencing poverty and injustice.

This year the award will be given jointly to Dr Ryan and Dr Lilian Otiso at a webinar which will be held this afternoon.

Dr Otiso is the Executive Director of a Kenyan NGO founded in 2001 called Liverpool Voluntary Counselling and Testing (LVCT).

She oversees over 200 staff implementing programmes on HIV prevention, testing, counselling, care and treatment.

The LVCT programmes also seek to tackle gender-based violence against adolescent girls and young women.

(...)

Despite the demands of his job in the past year, Dr Ryan has been generous with his time outside of the WHO.

He has spoken at webinars, accepted awards from NGOs and answered innumerable questions from journalists worldwide.

(More about Dr Mike at link)

WHO's Mike Ryan to receive Trócaire international award

 

[gngr~snap]

BAD NEWS-Exclusive: Two variants have merged into heavily mutated coronavirus | New Scientist

Health 16 February 2021
By Graham Lawton

Two variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes covid-19 have combined their genomes to form a heavily mutated hybrid version of the virus. The “recombination” event was discovered in a virus sample in California, provoking warnings that we may be poised to enter a new phase of the pandemic.

The hybrid virus is the result of recombination of the highly transmissible B.1.1.7 variant discovered in the UK and the B.1.429 variant that originated in California and which may be responsible for a recent wave of cases in Los Angeles because it carries a mutation making it resistant to some antibodies.
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Go figure!
This is not a good thing.
MOO

 

[ilovewings]

COVID-19 likely to become endemic, experts say. Here's what it means.

Covid-19 is likely to become endemic, over the next several years at least.

 

[ilovewings]

Go figure!
This is not a good thing.
MOO

No, this is not a good thing: I think of this virus as a sociopathic pathogen.

 

[SouthAussie]

How nice is this? Reassurance.

Asked about divisions in the country, Biden points out that his Covid plan is popular, adding, “The nation is not divided ... You have fringes on both ends.”
Joe Biden pledges 600m vaccine doses by end of July in town hall – live

 

[SouthAussie]

Spotted this story this morning and thought @margarita25 would like it!

WHO's Mike Ryan to receive Trócaire's Romero International Award

Dr Mike Ryan of the World Health Organization will receive Trócaire's Romero International Award at a ceremony today in recognition of his work.

Mr Ryan is the Executive Director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme.

The Irishman has been at the forefront of managing acute risks to global health for nearly 25 years.

The Romero award commemorates the work of the late Archbishop of San Salvador Oscar Romero, who fought against poverty and repression in his native El Salvador.

The honour highlights efforts to raise awareness of human rights violations and support for people who are experiencing poverty and injustice.

This year the award will be given jointly to Dr Ryan and Dr Lilian Otiso at a webinar which will be held this afternoon.

Dr Otiso is the Executive Director of a Kenyan NGO founded in 2001 called Liverpool Voluntary Counselling and Testing (LVCT).

She oversees over 200 staff implementing programmes on HIV prevention, testing, counselling, care and treatment.

The LVCT programmes also seek to tackle gender-based violence against adolescent girls and young women.

(...)

Despite the demands of his job in the past year, Dr Ryan has been generous with his time outside of the WHO.

He has spoken at webinars, accepted awards from NGOs and answered innumerable questions from journalists worldwide.

(More about Dr Mike at link)

WHO's Mike Ryan to receive Trócaire international award

It is really good to see Dr Ryan and Dr Fauci being recognised for their fabulous perseverance during this pandemic.

Thanks for posting!


Dr. Fauci Wins $1 Million Prize For 'Speaking Truth To Power' On COVID-19

 

[ilovewings]

It is really good to see Dr Ryan and Dr Fauci being recognised for their fabulous perseverance during this pandemic.

Thanks for posting!


Dr. Fauci Wins $1 Million Prize For 'Speaking Truth To Power' On COVID-19

He deserves all the accolades he gets-- he was treated so shabbily by you know who it was just awful-----

 

[weepingangel]

Seattle Woman, 90, Walks 6 Miles Through Snow for Vaccine

 

[tabitha111]

Super interesting read, was it the elevator? I avoid the elevator in my apartment building for just this reason.
Covid-19 in Spain: Architecture of an outbreak: the Spanish apartment building hijacked by the coronavirus | Society | EL PAÍS in English (elpais.com)


Six people are dead and dozens more infected after the virus moved undetected through a 16-story residential property in the Basque city of Bilbao

 

[ilovewings]

Super interesting read, was it the elevator? I avoid the elevator in my apartment building for just this reason.
Covid-19 in Spain: Architecture of an outbreak: the Spanish apartment building hijacked by the coronavirus | Society | EL PAÍS in English (elpais.com)


Six people are dead and dozens more infected after the virus moved undetected through a 16-story residential property in the Basque city of Bilbao

I would think that an elevator would not be a good place to be during a pandemic: people in a small space, standing close together--- and at least one of them having the virus.

 

[LadyL]

How 7 months stuck at an airport provided a Syrian refugee with skills to survive a pandemic

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/...Cf7F66s8fLI7Uw_8osyHU8e_ULBF8ti1mNZkl3zsvdpHs

 

[SouthAussie]

Super interesting read, was it the elevator? I avoid the elevator in my apartment building for just this reason.
Covid-19 in Spain: Architecture of an outbreak: the Spanish apartment building hijacked by the coronavirus | Society | EL PAÍS in English (elpais.com)


Six people are dead and dozens more infected after the virus moved undetected through a 16-story residential property in the Basque city of Bilbao

With the new variants, it is hard to say how the virus travels. We have had people in strict quarantine who have caught the virus from someone else in strict quarantine.

The authorities have trawled through all the CCTV and have seen no safety breaches. No mixing of people, no sharing of space. They conclude ventilation, and in one case perhaps nebuliser mist escaping when a door was opened.

Now, they are keeping infected people in a whole different building, instead of just different rooms.

 

[Sillybilly]

Landing at random to bump a couple of Tricia's earlier posts:

Hey Everyone,

After SillyBilly's warning, I am still seeing political posts.

I really REALLY want to keep this thread open. This thread is needed but everyone needs to stop with the politics. Stop with the complaining about politics. Stop with the complaining about posters complaining about politics.

PLEASE JUST STOP!

Thank you,

Tricia

 

[Sillybilly]

and ...

Hey Everyone,

If you want to quote what the president or anyone in his administrations who give information on what they are doing to contain the virus that is absolutely fine.

THIS IS ME BEGGING NOW. NO MATTER HOW FRUSTRATED YOU FEEL, HOW GRATEFUL YOU FEEL OR HOW YOU FEEL WITH ANY OF THE COMMENTS COMING FROM THE WHITEHOUSE OR THEIR ADMINISTRATION DO NOT PUT IT ON THIS THREAD. DO NOT PUT TOGETHER A POST THAT IS OBVIOUSLY A POLITICAL STATEMENT AND THEN TRY AND SAY IT IS NOT.

PLEASE USE OUR PRIVATE MESSAGING SYSTEM IF YOU WISH TO DISCUSS POLITICS IN ANY WAY. YOU CAN HAVE UP TO 20 PEOPLE ON A PRIVATE MESSAGE. LOOK IN THE UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER. YOU WILL SEE YOUR USER NAME. NEXT TO THAT IS "INBOX". CLICK ON INBOX AND YOU CAN ACCESS YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGE SYSTEM.

OK, not begging now.

I am so impressed with our members posting much-needed info and members helping each other. I swear I sit here and cry happy tears at how incredible you are with this pandemic.

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Love,

Tricia

PS. I actually love Donny Osmond. Very talented, a great businessman and fantastic human being, but, Puppy Love is painful. LOL

 

[Tadpole12]

Seattle Woman, 90, Walks 6 Miles Through Snow for Vaccine

I like the occasional uplifting feel good story. IYKWIM
Go Fran Goldman!

 

[Tadpole12]

Covid-19 related attacks against Asian Americans surging - CNN Video

 

[LadyL]

Seattle Woman, 90, Walks 6 Miles Through Snow for Vaccine

I think it's really sad that elderly people are struggling to get appts in the first place.

 

[SouthAussie]

Vaccine tracker says the US now has 15,015,435 people fully vaccinated (position 5 worldwide).

Israel, Gibraltar, Seychelles, Cayman Islands are still leading the world in getting vaccines into arms, and people fully vaccinated.

Ireland in position 18.
UK in position 39.
Canada is way down the list.
Australia - and NZ - not on the chart. (But we will be next week. )

https://www.smh.com.au/national/covid-19-global-vaccine-tracker-and-data-centre-20210128-p56xht.html