Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #94

[weepingangel]

Ted Nugent tests positive for coronavirus after calling pandemic a ‘scam’

Why get tested for something you don’t think is real. *eyeroll* What a dipstick.

 

[Inthedetails]

Why get tested for something you don’t think is real. *eyeroll* What a dipstick.

Curious if he will say he was wrong, it's a serious thing, please take the virus spread seriously, wear your mask, get a vaccine.

Or not.

jmo

 

[tabitha111]

Curious if he will say he was wrong, it's a serious thing, please take the virus spread seriously, wear your mask, get a vaccine.

Or not.

jmo

IMO he will never admit he was wrong. Karma is a b*tch!

 

[tabitha111]

Here at my retirement living community: The dining room is completely open and there is no more getting meal delivery to your apartment from the onsite kitchen. Of course you can do your own thing with outside ordering or microwaving a frozen dinner, etc if you wish- but part of what we pay for here is the chef and meals.
I am a bit nervous at mealtimes since its over 100 people in there and you hear folks coughing all the time and do they even cover thier mouths- NOPE- grown ups that can not even cover thier mouths when they cough up a lung....ugh ...gets on my last nerve.
I sit alone. I prefer it at the moment. I eat my meal and then high tail it out of there.
Now, this is interesting- but there is a special table set aside for all the folks (8 of them ) who did not get the vaccine. Its what I call "outer Sibera" they have to sit farther away from us. Don't really know what that will accomplish, esp. when one server in particular who wears her mask on her chin- didn't get vaccinated either and she is all up in our faces serving food, etc. btw - she did get Covid at the beginning of this, so maybe she feels immune?
Not really loving all the science deniers here and folks that want to pretend we are back to normal....what do you all think of all this?

 

[Inthedetails]

IMO he will never admit he was wrong. Karma is a b*tch!

Very unfortunate to pass up the opportunity to make a difference - I do think if he admits he was wrong and talks about how bad the virus can be, it would make it easier for people to change their minds too. He is in position to make a difference.

I'm not holding my breath though.

jmo

 

[anneg]

Here at my retirement living community: The dining room is completely open and there is no more getting meal delivery to your apartment from the onsite kitchen. Of course you can do your own thing with outside ordering or microwaving a frozen dinner, etc if you wish- but part of what we pay for here is the chef and meals.
I am a bit nervous at mealtimes since its over 100 people in there and you hear folks coughing all the time and do they even cover thier mouths- NOPE- grown ups that can not even cover thier mouths when they cough up a lung....ugh ...gets on my last nerve.
I sit alone. I prefer it at the moment. I eat my meal and then high tail it out of there.
Now, this is interesting- but there is a special table set aside for all the folks (8 of them ) who did not get the vaccine. Its what I call "outer Sibera" they have to sit farther away from us. Don't really know what that will accomplish, esp. when one server in particular who wears her mask on her chin- didn't get vaccinated either and she is all up in our faces serving food, etc. btw - she did get Covid at the beginning of this, so maybe she feels immune?
Not really loving all the science deniers here and folks that want to pretend we are back to normal....what do you all think of all this?

I'm wondering whether you could move to a different retirement community that is a better fit for you...but maybe it's not really feasible to move elsewhere. And maybe it's not so easy to find a community that takes Covid seriously. I don't live in a retirement community, but I know the CCRCs in my area take it very seriously indeed. They are also expensive.

 

[weepingangel]

Nearly every India-Toronto flight this month had COVID-positive passengers | Toronto Sun

 

[weepingangel]

Wellllll
I’m not a betting person but

Curious if he will say he was wrong, it's a serious thing, please take the virus spread seriously, wear your mask, get a vaccine.

Or not.

jmo

 

[weepingangel]

Cora says some Red Sox players getting COVID-19 vaccine Monday at Fenway Park
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Red Sox manager Alex Cora said some of his players were getting their first COVID-19 vaccination at Fenway Park on Monday.

"Today, there's some guys that are going to get the vaccine," Cora said before the Red Sox hosted the White Sox in Boston’s annual Patriots’ Day game. "I'm not going to tell you how many."

The state announced Monday that anyone 16 and older who lives, works or studies in Massachusetts is eligible to receive the vaccine. Cora said he already got his first shot and will get his second one with another group on Wednesday.

"I did it not only for myself, but I want to protect the people around me," he said. "We're doing it for the right reason. This is more than baseball."

After Monday's game, the Red Sox shared photos on social media of players receiving their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, including catcher Christian Vázquez and pitchers Matt Barnes, Nathan Eovaldi and Hirokazu Sawamura.

Cora said there’s been a lot of discussion about whether to get vaccinated.

"I'm not going to get into specifics, but there were a lot of good questions," he said. "We got guys that have families and have kids already to guys that are trying to have kids. There were a lot of good questions and we provided them with people that are experts on this and they had answers."

Cora said he was confident the Red Sox would get to the 85% vaccinated threshold that Major League Baseball would like to see each club reach.





Pics at Twitter link
@REDSOX
Trust the facts. Get the vax.
Thank you, @BIDMChealth, for always being there!
https://twitter.com/redsox/status/1384275578237247490?s=21

 

[Yesiamapirate]

Here at my retirement living community: The dining room is completely open and there is no more getting meal delivery to your apartment from the onsite kitchen. Of course you can do your own thing with outside ordering or microwaving a frozen dinner, etc if you wish- but part of what we pay for here is the chef and meals.
I am a bit nervous at mealtimes since its over 100 people in there and you hear folks coughing all the time and do they even cover thier mouths- NOPE- grown ups that can not even cover thier mouths when they cough up a lung....ugh ...gets on my last nerve.
I sit alone. I prefer it at the moment. I eat my meal and then high tail it out of there.
Now, this is interesting- but there is a special table set aside for all the folks (8 of them ) who did not get the vaccine. Its what I call "outer Sibera" they have to sit farther away from us. Don't really know what that will accomplish, esp. when one server in particular who wears her mask on her chin- didn't get vaccinated either and she is all up in our faces serving food, etc. btw - she did get Covid at the beginning of this, so maybe she feels immune?
Not really loving all the science deniers here and folks that want to pretend we are back to normal....what do you all think of all this?

My first thought is, I am so glad you are vaccinated. As for the others, it is very unfortunate that they choose to work with a vulnerable population and still choose not to get vaccinated. I would think if you were drawn to work older folks you might also be sensitive to their needs and higher level of risk in general.

As for "outer Sibera"....well, it is an effort to at least keep them 6 ft or so away. In Michigan, indoor seating must have 6 ft between the tables since people take masks off to eat. They are not following this rule in my experience, but that is for another post.

IMHO..the servers should be held to a high standard of proper masking. Period. Again in Michigan, restaurants can be fined for not requiring proper mask wearing among staff. Again, my experience says they are not really following the rules.

Most off all, I feel that with unvaccinated residents and unvaccinated staff, unmasked and indoors, your facility runs the risk of an outbreak. You personally are probably in a good spot, being vaccinated.

 

[GRT]

Pandemic deaths are accelerating, WHO warns, as world records most cases ever in a single week - CNN

 

[sds71]

— In honor of “4/20” and continued efforts to get more New Yorkers vaccinated, a group of activists will hand out free marijuana joints in Union Square on Tuesday to adults who can prove they’re fully vaccinated.

From 11 a.m. until 4:20 p.m., each person 21 and older who shows proof of their COVID-19 vaccination can pick up a free joint on the south side of the Manhattan park, near the George Washington statue.

https://www.wivb.com/news/new-york/nyc/marijuana-activists-giving-free-joints-to-vaccinated-new-yorkers-in-union-square-on-4-20/

 

[LadyL]

U.S. upgrades Canada to ‘do not travel’ status amid soaring COVID-19 numbers

 

[Inthedetails]

— In honor of “4/20” and continued efforts to get more New Yorkers vaccinated, a group of activists will hand out free marijuana joints in Union Square on Tuesday to adults who can prove they’re fully vaccinated.

From 11 a.m. until 4:20 p.m., each person 21 and older who shows proof of their COVID-19 vaccination can pick up a free joint on the south side of the Manhattan park, near the George Washington statue.

To encourage vaccinations, activists in NYC are trying a “Joints For Jabs” program on 4/20 | News 4 Buffalo

It's not illegal in NY anymore.

jmo

 

[LadyL]

Exercise during COVID-19: Why physical activity can protect from severe illness, death

 

[margarita25]

Curfew in India’s Delhi for six days as COVID outbreak worsens

New record rise in India’s COVID cases, deaths; curfew in capital
India reports 273,810 new cases, taking its overall caseload past 15 million and a record 1,619 deaths as Delhi announces six-day curfew.

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Is a double mutant COVID variant behind India’s record surge?

““This is a variant of interest we are following,” Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead officer on Covid, told reporters Friday. “Having two of these mutations, which have been seen in other variants around the world, are concerning,” she said, adding that there was a similarity with mutations that increase transmission as well as reduce neutralization, possibly stunting the ability of vaccines to curb them.”

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India / Children / Alarming Rise In Pediatric Cases

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Oil falls for second day as India's COVID-19 surge to dent fuel demand | Reuters

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India Covid-19 second wave: Shortage of oxygen, beds and even cremation slots

“Variants in play
India on 25 March announced that a new "double mutant" variant of the coronavirus had been detected from samples collected from different states.

Virologist Shahid Jameel explained that a "double mutation in key areas of the virus's spike protein may make the virus more infectious and allow it to escape the immune system".”

He says the change in the virus is the only "logical explanation" behind the surge. Health officials in the UK are now investigating whether a double mutant spreads more easily and evades vaccines.

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Covid: Indian variant being investigated in UK

“There is not yet enough data to classify it as a "variant of concern", a leading scientist has said.”

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Israel logs Indian COVID-19 variant, sees some vaccine efficacy against it | Reuters

 

[margarita25]

— In honor of “4/20” and continued efforts to get more New Yorkers vaccinated, a group of activists will hand out free marijuana joints in Union Square on Tuesday to adults who can prove they’re fully vaccinated.

From 11 a.m. until 4:20 p.m., each person 21 and older who shows proof of their COVID-19 vaccination can pick up a free joint on the south side of the Manhattan park, near the George Washington statue.

To encourage vaccinations, activists in NYC are trying a “Joints For Jabs” program on 4/20 | News 4 Buffalo

They should put it next to the Donut vaccination site
Krispy Kreme free donuts: COVID vaccine incentive plus deals for all

 

[margarita25]

Large clinical trial to study repurposed drugs to treat COVID-19 symptoms
Using an ACTIV master protocol, the trial will focus on potential interventions for mild-to-moderate illness.
April 19, 2021

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“Assessing medicines to self-treat COVID
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund a phase 3 trial called ACTIV-6 that will test several existing prescription and over-the-counter medications for people to self-administer to treat symptoms of COVID-19, the NIH said in a press release yesterday.

Though several treatments for moderate to severe COVID-19 have been approved, there are currently no at-home recommended treatment for mild cases of the virus.

"While we're doing a good job with treating hospitalized patients with severe disease, we don't currently have an approved medication that can be self-administered to ease symptoms of people suffering from mild disease at home, and reduce the chance of their needing hospitalization," said NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD.

"ACTIV-6 will evaluate whether certain drugs showing promise in small trials can pass the rigor of a larger trial."

CIDRAP:
Pennsylvania, New Jersey emerge as COVID-19 hot spots

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India:

Delhi Oxygen Shortage

India COVID cases surge, hospitals run out of oxygen, beds

India COVID ‘storm’ hits new records as oxygen supplies run short

“India’s COVID-19 outbreak has set new records with 2,023 deaths in 24 hours – the highest single-day tally for the country so far – as hospitals run perilously low on oxygen amid rising demand for beds.”

India's hospitals run out of beds and oxygen in devastating second Covid-19 wave - CNN

Indian capital running out of medical oxygen as pandemic surges | Reuters

India's COVID tsunami leaves bodies piling up as oxygen, medicines, vaccines and hospital beds run short

PM Praises Tata Group's "Compassionate Gesture" To Ease Oxygen Crisis

COVID-19: Bombay Oxygen shares up 256%; it doesn't even make oxygen

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Michigan:

Sparrow hospital is at capacity as pandemic rages in Michigan

“Michigan has the worst COVID-19 rate in the country in the last seven days, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost 50,000 people have tested positive in the last week.”


What’s Causing Michigan’s COVID Surge, and Who’s Getting Sick?

“Are the kinds of patients you are seeing now similar to those you treated in previous waves of the pandemic?

What is different about this time, compared with previous times, is that it is a lot of young people—because the first people that got vaccinated were people over the age of 75, health care workers [and later] people over the age of 65. There’s this gap that’s going on right now where there’s a huge portion of the population that’s not vaccinated, and they range in age from children through people in their 50s and 60s. We were getting calls about people in their 30s, in their 40s, in their 50s who had COVID, all of a sudden, really badly.””

[...]

“In these younger patients that you’re seeing, does their disease look like the older patients you had before, or do they present differently?

I don’t think it’s different. What gets you to an ICU is illness severe enough to cause [ARDS]. And often there’s a superimposed bacterial pneumonia on top of COVID. What I think gets you to an ICU, or at least to this level of care where it’s so severe that you need to be intubated, is: you often have a coexisting illness. Even people in their 30s who are otherwise “healthy,” a lot of them have obesity or hypertension—all the sorts of comorbidities that have been associated with severe illness.”


Expert who spoke to Whitmer: Michigan losing race to COVID-19

“"As a matter of disease mitigation, there's no question" shutting down activities like dining inside restaurants, youth sports and moving high schools to virtual learning would be effective in slowing transmission in the state, said Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, associate dean for public health practice and training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

"It should be very seriously considered," he said. "Stronger action should be seriously considered, but I also at the same time understand that she’s using her judgment about what people will accept."”


Michigan reports 43 new school-related COVID-19 outbreaks


3 who died after vaccine were infected before injections, Michigan officials say

“All three of the potential breakthrough cases had a prior positive PCR test for COVID-19, but met the definition of a "breakthrough" case because they'd tested positive more than 45 days before the onset of symptoms, said Chelsea Wuth, a spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

"It is likely that these three cases were examples of prolonged viral shedding of SARS-CoV-2 virus rather than reinfections with COVID-19," Wuth said in a Sunday email to The Detroit News.”

 

[Inthedetails]

What I think gets you to an ICU, or at least to this level of care where it’s so severe that you need to be intubated, is: you often have a coexisting illness. Even people in their 30s who are otherwise “healthy,” a lot of them have obesity or hypertension—all the sorts of comorbidities that have been associated with severe illness."

Snipped.

This part pops out at me, among all the useful info that @margarita25 shared in her post.

We've seen over and over again about how underlying conditions make a difference. Of course we can't control everything about pre-existing conditions (our family friend who died of covid had Diabetes I). I get that. But it does concern me (for myself as well as everyone) that many people are not in good shape in our country.

IMO (I'm not a medical person), in addition to wearing masks, social distancing, vaccinating, we should also be paying attention to our diet and fitness. I'm not preaching, except to myself, but this stuff does matter and could make a difference between surviving covid at home or being admitted to ICU.

Way back when, it was a patriotic thing to be in shape. I wish we could get that message across, especially since so many people are currently drawn to "patriot" sentiments. Want to help our nation? Take a walk. Literally, take a walk.

(Yes, I know taking a walk will not solve the pandemic.)

jmo

 

[margarita25]

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The French prime minister is being mailed ladies' underwear, as lingerie stores protest lockdown rules

“French Prime Minister Jean Castex is being sent ladies' underwear in the mail, as part of a protest by lingerie store owners whose outlets have been forced to close under the country's lockdown.”

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US Coronavirus: The country may soon reach a tipping point on Covid-19 vaccine demand. Here's why that's concerning - CNN

“As US health officials race to get more Covid-19 shots into arms to control the virus, experts now warn the country will run into another challenge in the next few weeks: vaccine supply will likely outstrip demand.

"While timing may differ by state, we estimate that across the U.S. as a whole we will likely reach a tipping point on vaccine enthusiasm in the next 2 to 4 weeks," the Kaiser Family Foundation said in a new report published Tuesday.
"Once this happens, efforts to encourage vaccination will become much harder, presenting a challenge to reaching the levels of herd immunity that are expected to be needed."”

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Pfizer Identifies Fake Covid-19 Shots Abroad as Criminals Exploit Vaccine Demand
In Mexico, about 80 people received fraudulent doses, and in Poland authorities recovered vials likely containing an anti-wrinkle treatment

*Dr. Tedros talked about criminal exploitation of vaccines in a PC a while back. I had been meaning to being forward his comments, but didn’t get around to it.

Quick reference from March:

Criminal groups selling fake COVID-19 vaccines on dark web, WHO warns
March 26, 2021