Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #95

[ilovewings]

Rare COVID-19 blood clots tied to cold viruses, German scientists say

Glad they continue to investigate this serious issue: makes sense: I guess I prefer the vaccine using mRNA!

 

[SouthAussie]

The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo 2021 organisers will require athletes at this summer's Games to sign a waiver and assume all risk related to Covid-19 during the Olympics.

Similar forms have been signed by athletes at previous Games, but this year's document has been updated to include references to Covid-19.

The waiver for the Tokyo Games states that athletes participate at their own risk, including 'serious bodily injury or even death' due to the transmission of Covid-19.

The IOC nevertheless claims at least 80 per cent of people staying in the Olympic village at Tokyo Bay will have been vaccinated by the start of the Games.

IOC insists Tokyo athletes must sign Covid-19 waiver ahead of Olympics this summer | Daily Mail Online

 

[dixiegirl1035]

I was surprised to learn that CDC and NIH employees have been vaccinated at the same rate as the general population. I expected a larger percentage of those employees to be vaccinated. IMO

Fact Check-Fauci, Marks did not say 40% to 50% of CDC and FDA employees are ‘refusing the COVID-19 vaccine’

Around 1 hour and 40 minutes into the hearing, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina asked Fauci, Marks and Walensky what percentage of employees in their organizations had been already vaccinated ( youtu.be/qW8MF98wCgs?t=8421 ).

Regarding NIAID employees, Fauci responded: “You know I’m not 100% sure, Senator. But I think it’s probably a little bit more than half, probably around 60 percent”. Then Marks said that the number for FDA employees was “probably in the same range,” although he couldn’t “tell an exact number.”


The percentage mentioned by Fauci and Marks coincides with the nationwide trend in the United States, where around 60% of adults have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 37.8% of the entire population have been fully vaccinated, based on the CDC tracker here .

I don't think either one knows from the article as they were both just siting other references?

I spoke to a friend last week, who lives in Perth, Australia, where we have been very fortunate to not really have experienced the pandemic-only from afar. However, he has been planning to move to Scotland to retire and has begun the process of winding up his decades old business, and as of tax time(June) the business will cease to exist. Those plans have all been put on hold indefinitely. He said to me the other day that things are going to get worse...and I’m starting to think he’s right.

Understand the concern..... are we in US going up? Screenshot below of yesterday....

Variants, or expected increases due to the US opening up?

Dunno...

 

[SouthAussie]

Understand the concern..... are we in US going up? Screenshot below of yesterday....

Variants, or expected increases due to the US opening up?

Dunno...

National Geographic science article says that there will likely be local surges in the US - due to several factors.

• low vaccination rates in counties throughout the US
• opening up businesses at full capacity
• removing public health restrictions

The daily vaccination rate has dropped to about ½ of what it was, and the US is at about 40% of eligible people fully vaccinated.
If the vaccination rate continues as it is though, they expect 70% to be reached by the end of summer - with the '12 and over' group all being vaccinated by the end of the year - which may achieve herd immunity.

Coronavirus in the U.S.: Where cases are growing and declining

 

[GRT]

"Scientists have warned ministers that a third wave of coronavirus may have already begun in Britain, casting doubt on plans in England to lift all lockdown restrictions in three weeks’ time.

Experts cautioned that any rise in coronavirus hospital admissions could leave the NHS struggling to cope as it battles to clear the huge backlog in non-Covid cases."

Third wave of Covid may be under way in UK, scientists say​

 

[margarita25]

Vietnam detects hybrid of Indian and UK COVID-19 variants

Vietnam Detects New Highly Transmissible Coronavirus Variant

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/29/vietnam-hybrid-variant-covid-virus/

Covid: Vietnam detects new UK-Indian variant, health officials say

"Very dangerous" COVID variant found in Vietnam highly transmissible, replicates quickly

Vietnam finds new virus variant, hybrid of India, UK strains

 

[BayouBelle_LA]

It’s not only reporters with ‘egg on their face’ but also entities like Facebook among others. They tried to shut down an entire conversation and those with a different opinion. Their critical thinking skills are lacking. IMO

ABC's chief White House reporter: A lot of reporters have 'egg on their face' over Wuhan lab-leak theory

ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl admitted that many reporters were wrong to dismiss former President Trump’s assertion that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory.

(Snip)
New York Times writer David Leonhardt said it was a "mistake" for liberals and reporters to dismiss claims just because they came from Trump and Republicans like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

 

[SouthAussie]

Five-year-old Pratham and his 10-month-old brother Ayush lost their father to Covid in April. Days later, at a different Delhi hospital, they lost their mother.
Their world had changed and they didn't even know it.

Sonia, 12, and her brother Amit, 7, lost their father in the first wave of the pandemic in June last year and their mother in April this year.

Covid has devastated families across India, orphaning many children.

Smirti Irani, minister for women and child welfare, recently tweeted that both parents of at least 577 children had died with coronavirus between 1 April and 25 May. Experts say this number is likely a significant underestimate.

Coronavirus: The Indian children orphaned by Covid-19

 

[SouthAussie]

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Australia’s Victoria COVID-19 cluster swells to 51, next few days ‘critical’

We are all watching the covid cluster in Melbourne. It is the Indian variant.

There are now three aged care people (one partially vaccinated resident, and 2 workers) who have covid. Over 280 potential contact places, which means thousands may have been exposed.

Their 7 day lockdown will likely be extended ... and despite closing our borders to them, all other states are watching their own populations closely in case any virus sneaked over the borders early.

Geez, I wish our vaccination programs were rolling along quickly!!!!
I hope this is the eye opener everyone here needs.

 

[GRT]

It’s not only reporters with ‘egg on their face’ but also entities like Facebook among others. They tried to shut down an entire conversation and those with a different opinion. Their critical thinking skills are lacking. IMO

ABC's chief White House reporter: A lot of reporters have 'egg on their face' over Wuhan lab-leak theory

ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl admitted that many reporters were wrong to dismiss former President Trump’s assertion that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory.

(Snip)
New York Times writer David Leonhardt said it was a "mistake" for liberals and reporters to dismiss claims just because they came from Trump and Republicans like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

I don't know if it was a desire to dismiss anything Trump said--although that likely played a role--as much as it was a bit of covering up by Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth.

Early on we had Chinese doctors trying to tell us a virus was loose, only to be silenced by their government. But, it was Daszak who organized the letter from scientists that said a leak was highly unlikely. Daszak, of course, had funded the lab in China, although that funding stopped last August.

Lab leaks happen--SARS leaked multiple times from the lab. And, lab leaks happen all over the world, which is why I'm in favor of stopping gain of function research on a global scale.

Peter Daszak had a clear conflict of interest and should never have been on the WHO investigative team. He was the one who came back and announced it was "highly unlikely" the virus came from a lab. It was Tedros who said all options were still on the table.

Evidence of leak or not, Trump probably should not have put the information out there in the manner he did -- a very accusatory manner that caused China to close ranks even further. After all, it was under Trump that funding for gain of function research was started again in the US.

Now, we have scientists saying it's possible for the virus to have leaked, but they don't know for sure. It's also still possible it was zoonotic transfer. With nearly 600K dead Americans and over 3 million dead around the world, we can't afford to play politics. This has the potential of being a global bombshell, and it has to be treated with kid gloves.

Meanwhile, let's just stop making viruses more deadly. Let's ban it.

 

[GRT]

Five-year-old Pratham and his 10-month-old brother Ayush lost their father to Covid in April. Days later, at a different Delhi hospital, they lost their mother.
Their world had changed and they didn't even know it.

Sonia, 12, and her brother Amit, 7, lost their father in the first wave of the pandemic in June last year and their mother in April this year.

Covid has devastated families across India, orphaning many children.

Smirti Irani, minister for women and child welfare, recently tweeted that both parents of at least 577 children had died with coronavirus between 1 April and 25 May. Experts say this number is likely a significant underestimate.

Coronavirus: The Indian children orphaned by Covid-19

That's heartbreaking. I fear we're going to see a lot of little orphans coming out of India, probably Brazil, too.

Maybe an international adoption program will be warranted.

 

[GRT]

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Australia’s Victoria COVID-19 cluster swells to 51, next few days ‘critical’

We are all watching the covid cluster in Melbourne. It is the Indian variant.

There are now three aged care people (one partially vaccinated resident, and 2 workers) who have covid. Over 280 potential contact places, which means thousands may have been exposed.

Their 7 day lockdown will likely be extended ... and despite closing our borders to them, all other states are watching their own populations closely in case any virus sneaked over the borders early.

Geez, I wish our vaccination programs were rolling along quickly!!!!
I hope this is the eye opener everyone here needs.

Oh boy! You guys have done so good throughout all of this, now you need vaccines!

The vaccines should be prioritized for adults in your nation and in other parts of the world.

I think the US is making a big mistake by vaccinating kids here before vaccinating adults abroad. Kids don't suffer the same symptoms as adults, so stopping these variants by vaccinating on a global scale should take precedence. JMOO

 

[LadyL]

Covid-19: UK in early stages of third wave - scientist

 

[ilovewings]

It’s not only reporters with ‘egg on their face’ but also entities like Facebook among others. They tried to shut down an entire conversation and those with a different opinion. Their critical thinking skills are lacking. IMO

ABC's chief White House reporter: A lot of reporters have 'egg on their face' over Wuhan lab-leak theory

ABC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl admitted that many reporters were wrong to dismiss former President Trump’s assertion that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory.

(Snip)
New York Times writer David Leonhardt said it was a "mistake" for liberals and reporters to dismiss claims just because they came from Trump and Republicans like Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.

Here is how I see it: Trump did not merely suggest it was possible the lab was the origin of the virus: he said clearly IT WAS THE LAB, while he was calling Covid-19 " The China virus" in a very derogatory manner. He could have stated something like "we aren't sure at this point, it could be the lab, it could be the wet market but we are continuing to investigate"- his tone and attitude resulted in the Democrats and Liberals pushing back on what he was saying. At this point we don't know the origin of the virus and Trump didn't know either, but he spoke like it was a given, that the origin of the virus was the lab.

 

[LadyL]

Covid: Peru more than doubles death toll after review

 

[LadyL]

China reports surge of new COVID-19 cases in Guangzhou city, triggering flight cancellations

 

[dixiegirl1035]

Here is how I see it: Trump did not merely suggest it was possible the lab was the origin of the virus: he said clearly IT WAS THE LAB, while he was calling Covid-19 " The China virus" in a very derogatory manner. He could have stated something like "we aren't sure at this point, it could be the lab, it could be the wet market but we are continuing to investigate"- his tone and attitude resulted in the Democrats and Liberals pushing back on what he was saying. At this point we don't know the origin of the virus and Trump didn't know either, but he spoke like it was a given, that the origin of the virus was the lab.

And we must keep MOO in mind that the release of Antrax was purposefully done in the US by an Army microbiologist.

And we must keep MOO in mind the the release from the Birmingham small poxvirus in August 1978 during the countdown to eradication in Birmingham UK. (Still to this day their is disagreement on how it was "released" and transmitted to kill). Actually, there were 3 releases/escapes from the laboratory... 1966, 1972, 1978.

VEE vaccines caused the disease

Foot and Mouth disease was spread by waste-water line from the Merial vacccine plant (was damaged and leaking) [US law banned it on continental US, so FMD currently only held at Plum Island]

https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Escaped-Viruses-final-2-17-14-copy.pdf



Viral releases have happened purposefully and accidentally, and took MANY MANY years to discern, although to this day some question as to the conclusions.

With China and this outbreak... dunno if we'll ever find out without a doubt - but will hopefully lead to safety improvements etc nonetheless?

 

[SouthAussie]

Seems that this Indian variant is very, very contagious .....


Authorities say there is evidence of “stranger to stranger” virus transmission in Victoria’s latest COVID outbreak – with even fleeting contact enough to pass on the deadly virus.

COVID-19 testing commander Jeroen Weimar said at least four involved transmission between people who were unknown to each other.

“This is stranger to stranger transmission,” Mr Wiemar said.

“What we’re seeing now is people are brushing past each other in a small shop, they are going to a display home, they are looking at photos in a Telstra shop.”

“This is relatively speaking, relatively fleeting. They do not know each other’s lives, and that is very different from what we have seen before.”

“This is certainly the fastest moving outbreak we’ve seen anywhere in Australia. For a long time. I’m not taking this lightly,” he said.

'Stranger to stranger': Concerning detail revealed in Victoria's virus fight

 

[ilovewings]

Bay County hair stylist made it hard to track P.1 variant in Michigan

Very interesting story about a person who refused to cooperate with officials to give contact information----remember this: they walk among us and they can be carrying the virus- and they don't care about anybody but themselves

 

[MimosaMornings]

Bay County hair stylist made it hard to track P.1 variant in Michigan

Very interesting story about a person who refused to cooperate with officials to give contact information----remember this: they walk among us and they can be carrying the virus- and they don't care about anybody but themselves

OMG