Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #94

[SouthAussie]

No big surprise why a cluster has broken out in this quarantine hotel in Queensland.

TV News is even showing one man passing something to a man on an adjacent balcony.



No Cookies | The Courier Mail

 

[LadyL]

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[LadyL]

Do we still need to wear a mask outdoors? - CNN

 

[LadyL]

A heart-breaking image of a mother sitting with the lifeless body of her 29-year-old son at her feet has gone viral in India.

And as she sat there grieving, shattered by the death of her son and in desperate need of help, she was robbed. Her son's medical records and phone were stolen.

Varanasi: The viral picture that defines India's Covid distress

 

[margarita25]

It’s amazing to see the vaccine working, imo, wrt deaths. This is clear in the data, Imo.

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April 22, 2021
Where Covid Kills the Young: Brazil Shows What May Await Others

“Like in most countries, the pandemic in Brazil hit the elderly and immuno-compromised first and hardest. But in the past couple of months, the nation that has stood out as nearly a worst-case-scenario for caseloads, deaths and public policy, has shown where the global plague may be headed: for the young.”

 

[margarita25]

Excellent article- I think it remains a little mysterious as to why Michigan has been hit so hard. It isn't just Southeast Michigan either: it is in the thumb and in rural areas. There was an article that I read last week in our local newspaper that suggested that these younger people are waiting way too long to go to the hospital, so by the time they are really really sick, that is when they go to the hospital and they are filling up the ICU. The reason they are waiting is because they refuse to believe the have the virus: they think oh ,maybe I have the flu or a cold and it will go away- If they would recognize what they have sooner, they would be eligible for early treatment like monoclonal antibodies, given early on, before the viral load gets too heavy. I personally believe these younger people did a lot of things to bring on their disease. They travelled, they are not vaccinated, they went on spring break, they are going to bars and dining in- And to make things much worse: the B117 variant is really raging here so transmission is much easier than it was. Some of these patients IMO acted recklessly, and now they are putting a huge burden on our hospital systems here in Michigan.

Sadly, the young folk are in for a rude awakening about this virus, jmo. I don’t know how many more times one can post the same message from different countries around the world, “we are now seeing younger patients”.

 

[SouthAussie]

India is having the absolute worst time ..... it is no wonder their dual citizens are trying to get out of India.
We all should be helping them to get their population vaccinated. This is a danger to everyone.


A fire has broken out in a hospital in western India, killing 13 COVID-19 patients, as an extreme surge in infections leaves the nation short of medical care and oxygen.

The fire at a hospital in the Virar area on the outskirts of Mumbai early on Friday occurred two days after 24 COVID-19 patients on ventilators died due to an oxygen leak in a hospital in Nashik, another city in Maharashtra state.

Some doctors advised patients to stay at home while a crematorium in the eastern city of Muzaffarpur said it was being overwhelmed with bodies and grieving families had to wait their turn.

A crematorium east of Delhi built funeral pyres in its car park.

“Right now there are no beds, no oxygen. Everything else is secondary,” said Shahid Jameel, a virologist and director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University.

“The infrastructure is crumbling.”

'No beds, no oxygen': Devastating virus crisis sweeps India

 

[weepingangel]

Data suggests Massachusetts has lowest vaccine hesitancy rates in country | Boston.com
Massachusetts had the lowest statewide hesitancy rate, at just 7 percent; and just 3 percent of Bay Staters said they would definitely not get the vaccine.

In terms of willingness to get the vaccine, Massachusetts is only rivaled by Vermont, where the hesitancy rate was also just 7 percent. No other state had a hesitancy rate in the single digits.

The state with the highest vaccine hesitancy rate was Wyoming, at 31 percent, following by Mississippi and North Dakota, at 29 percent and 27 percent, respectively. In North Dakota, 19 percent of residents said they would “definitely not” get the vaccine, the highest rate in the country.

While hesitancy may be a less challenging hurdle to overcome in Massachusetts, the flip side is that vaccine appointments may remain hard to come by in the state, due to demand and the constrained supply of doses.




Charlie Baker pushes to get vaccine doses from states with surplus supply | Boston.com

To the states currently dealing with surplus vaccine supply: Charlie Baker wants your doses.

During a press conference Thursday afternoon in Pittsfield, the Massachusetts governor said he had spoken to President Joe Biden’s administration “on several occasions” about diverting vaccine doses from states where supply has overtaken demand. As the Washington Postrecently reported, more than a dozen states have turned down or delayed their weekly, population-based allocation of vaccine doses, mostly due to local residents’ hesitancy to get the shots.

“We’d be perfectly happy to take them off their hands and make sure that they get used quickly,” Baker said Thursday.

“There are counties and there are states that are no longer even taking down the available allocation that’s made available to them by the feds,” he later added. “They basically said, ‘Don’t send us any more. We haven’t been able to put the stuff that you sent us recently to work.’ That is not what’s going on here in Massachusetts.”

 

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[weepingangel]

Three months ahead of Olympics Japan issues third COVID emergency in Tokyo, Osaka area

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Japan declared a third state of emergency for Tokyo and three western prefectures on Friday amid skepticism it will be enough to curb a rapid coronavirus resurgence just three months ahead of the Olympics.


Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the emergency for Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo from April 25 through May 11.


The step is largely intended to be “short and intensive” to stop people from traveling and spreading the virus during Japan’s “Golden Week” holidays from late April through the first week of May, Suga said. He is due to explain the measures at a news conference later Friday as he seeks the public’s understanding.


Japan’s third state of emergency since the pandemic began comes only a month after an earlier emergency ended in the Tokyo area. For days, experts and local leaders said ongoing semi-emergency measures have failed and tougher steps are urgently needed.

 

[SouthAussie]

Three months ahead of Olympics Japan issues third COVID emergency in Tokyo, Osaka area

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Japan declared a third state of emergency for Tokyo and three western prefectures on Friday amid skepticism it will be enough to curb a rapid coronavirus resurgence just three months ahead of the Olympics.


Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the emergency for Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo from April 25 through May 11.


The step is largely intended to be “short and intensive” to stop people from traveling and spreading the virus during Japan’s “Golden Week” holidays from late April through the first week of May, Suga said. He is due to explain the measures at a news conference later Friday as he seeks the public’s understanding.


Japan’s third state of emergency since the pandemic began comes only a month after an earlier emergency ended in the Tokyo area. For days, experts and local leaders said ongoing semi-emergency measures have failed and tougher steps are urgently needed.

I honestly don't understand what is so important about the Olympics that they can't wait one more year, until more people are vaccinated.

I guess maybe Japan needs some return/income for the economic outlay of building the Olympic facilities?

 

[Satchie]

I honestly don't understand what is so important about the Olympics that they can't wait one more year, until more people are vaccinated.

I guess maybe Japan needs some return/income for the economic outlay of building the Olympic facilities?

Apparently, this time they would be cancelled, not postponed. Not just the billions invested by Japan, but all the ad revenue anticipated by corporate sponsors and the IOC revenue from sale of the broadcasting rights.

From a poll in Japan back in December "63% said the Olympics should be postponed again or cancelled, and 27% said the games should be held." I wonder what those numbers are like now.

Official costs of Tokyo Olympics up by 22 per cent to $15.4B

 

[musicaljoke]

they should be banned from work until they get vaccinated

Certainly they should be banned from entering the care facilities. There may be work that they can do from home and be reassigned to such positions, providing they are available. If not, then the nursing home is not the right place for them to be.

 

[LadyL]

Trudeau, wife Sophie receive 1st dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine

 

[musicaljoke]

Trudeau, wife Sophie receive 1st dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine

Hehe? Sweet little video. I love that our Prime Minister waited to get his vaccine until his age group became eligible. No jumping the queue! And I love that he got the AZ vaccine.

 

[SoCalDavidS]

COVID-19 has been more deadly in Florida than reported, especially in rural counties, study shows

Many COVID deaths went unreported last year in Florida’s rural counties, allowing the severity of the pandemic’s impact to be understated, according to a nationwide study released this week.

Although urban counties such as those in South Florida did a good job identifying COVID deaths, most rural counties reported an unusual jump in deaths for 2020 but left many of them unexplained or attributed to other causes, according to a study by researchers at Boston University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

“I think there’s a hidden pandemic here that’s not being appreciated,” said Andrew Stokes, assistant professor in the Department of Global Health in the Boston University School of Public Health. “But it’s not hitting Florida equally. It’s hitting some areas more than others.”

“If COVID deaths are being suppressed in certain counties in Florida, that is creating the appearance in those counties that COVID is not a real big deal,” he said. “And that’s probably affecting people’s behaviors.”

COVID-19 has been more deadly in Florida than reported, especially in rural counties, study shows

 

[LadyL]

Hehe? Sweet little video. I love that our Prime Minister waited to get his vaccine until his age group became eligible. No jumping the queue! And I love that he got the AZ vaccine.

so Canadian lol

 

[Yesiamapirate]

So Covid has come calling to our family again. My son Sam has Covid for the second time. He lives in New York. He was positive in March 2020 early on in the pandemic. He had antibodies when he tested 3 months later but at the 7 month point, he had no detectable antibodies via his blood work. He got his first Pfizer shot 10 days ago. Now this morning he called me. He traveled to LA on business. Felt fine. The next morning he was routine tested at the 'job site'. His test was positive. He went back to his hotel of course and awaited the PCR which was also positive. He now feels very crummy and lost his sense of taste and smell, cough, fever, etc. He will be isolated in the hotel and will travel back to NY following CDC guidelines.

Of note, he is 29. He has now had confirmed Covid twice, antibodies that waned away and one Pfizer shot in. Also food for thought for anyone that travels. My son sat in first class, right next to another person for 5 hours. He took an Uber, stopped for coffee in the airport and ate lunch inside a restaurant when he landed. His positive test was less than 12 hours later so he was most likely contagious through it all.

He has traveled throughout this pandemic for work so I am not shocked he has Covid again. I worry and feel so bad for him. And he was SO proud of his vaccine. He got it the minute he was eligible. Too bad work could not wait until after #2.

 

[sds71]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. health panel says it’s time to resume use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, despite a very rare risk of blood clots.

CDC advisory panel votes to reauthorize use of Johnson and Johnson vaccine | WFLA

 

[ilovewings]

So Covid has come calling to our family again. My son Sam has Covid for the second time. He lives in New York. He was positive in March 2020 early on in the pandemic. He had antibodies when he tested 3 months later but at the 7 month point, he had no detectable antibodies via his blood work. He got his first Pfizer shot 10 days ago. Now this morning he called me. He traveled to LA on business. Felt fine. The next morning he was routine tested at the 'job site'. His test was positive. He went back to his hotel of course and awaited the PCR which was also positive. He now feels very crummy and lost his sense of taste and smell, cough, fever, etc. He will be isolated in the hotel and will travel back to NY following CDC guidelines.

Of note, he is 29. He has now had confirmed Covid twice, antibodies that waned away and one Pfizer shot in. Also food for thought for anyone that travels. My son sat in first class, right next to another person for 5 hours. He took an Uber, stopped for coffee in the airport and ate lunch inside a restaurant when he landed. His positive test was less than 12 hours later so he was most likely contagious through it all.

He has traveled throughout this pandemic for work so I am not shocked he has Covid again. I worry and feel so bad for him. And he was SO proud of his vaccine. He got it the minute he was eligible. Too bad work could not wait until after #2.

I am sorry your son got the nasty virus a second time: the evil virus loves people sitting inside resetaurants and anywhere else like an airplane where people
might be sitting close together--- Hoping for a swift recovery