Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #95

[CSIDreamer]

Apparently we just like to leave it a couple of weeks too late so that a few cases can sneak in and spread everywhere

I'm a little confused. I follow world meters. Is there a new surge I'm not seeing or just a prediction of one?

 

[HongKongPhooey]

I'm a little confused. I follow world meters. Is there a new surge I'm not seeing or just a prediction of one?

The so called Indian variant is causing an increase in cases here and press are murmuring about a poss third wave

Covid-19: Could a third wave change 21 June plans in England?

 

[CoverMeCagney]

I'm a little confused. I follow world meters. Is there a new surge I'm not seeing or just a prediction of one?

As HKP says, cases are gradually increasing again, seemingly in concentrated clusters (so, some towns are getting hit by it again, others barely at all) So far it’s not really translating to hospitalisations / deaths but obviously that could go either way based on previous case increases. We’re all hoping that vaccinations mean it won’t surge out of control (75% of adults have had at least one shot, 50% have already had both).

Latest reports suggest that of all those getting admitted to hospital recently, the vast majority have NOT been vaccinated. Obviously this is encouraging and suggests vaccines are doing their job, but we’re not quite out of the woods just yet.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

This is the best site to follow for week on week stats

Daily summary | Coronavirus in the UK

 

[weepingangel]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/03/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

CDC director urges teens to get vaccinated

more at link
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, urged teens and adolescents to get vaccinated and recommended that parents who have questions speak with their child’s health providers, or with local pharmacists or health departments.


“I strongly encourage parents to get their teens vaccinated, as I did mine,” she said during a Thursday briefing.

Until teens are fully vaccinated, Walensky said, “they should continue to wear masks and take precautions when around others who are not vaccinated to protect themselves, their friends, family and community.”

Walensky said that ahead of the announcement recommending the Pfizer-BioNTech shot for adolescents as young as 12, “CDC observed troubling data regarding the hospitalizations of adolescents with covid-19.”

She cited a CDC weekly report set to be published Friday, saying its findings “force us to redouble our motivation to get our adolescents and young adults vaccinated.”

 

[LadyL]

The rest of the world is far from 'normal' | CNN

 

[weepingangel]

600000
Covid has claimed more than 600,000 lives in United States

US coronavirus: States that fall well below vaccinating 70% of adults are 'sitting ducks' for an outbreak, expert warns - CNN

 

[weepingangel]

New increases in teen hospitalization rates reinforce importance of Covid-19 vaccination, CDC study says


CDC report released today 6/4
Hospitalization of Adolescents Aged 12–17 Years with ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/03/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

CDC director urges teens to get vaccinated

more at link
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, urged teens and adolescents to get vaccinated and recommended that parents who have questions speak with their child’s health providers, or with local pharmacists or health departments.


“I strongly encourage parents to get their teens vaccinated, as I did mine,” she said during a Thursday briefing.

Until teens are fully vaccinated, Walensky said, “they should continue to wear masks and take precautions when around others who are not vaccinated to protect themselves, their friends, family and community.”

Walensky said that ahead of the announcement recommending the Pfizer-BioNTech shot for adolescents as young as 12, “CDC observed troubling data regarding the hospitalizations of adolescents with covid-19.”

She cited a CDC weekly report set to be published Friday, saying its findings “force us to redouble our motivation to get our adolescents and young adults vaccinated.”

 

[SouthAussie]

600000
Covid has claimed more than 600,000 lives in United States

An incredibly huge loss.
Such a huge number, it is almost unfathomable.
But it is like my country losing 1/4 of its entire population in just 16 months.

 

[SouthAussie]

US coronavirus: States that fall well below vaccinating 70% of adults are 'sitting ducks' for an outbreak, expert warns - CNN

I saw a FB post (from TX) yesterday ... "I am not putting that poison in my body" ... and how the vaccines are designed for 'depopulation'.

I guess these kinds of conspiracy theory influenced people just don't get that it is covid itself that is depopulating their country and the world. That the vaccines are slowing that depopulation right down, for those places lucky enough to be getting vaccinated.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

An incredibly huge loss.
Such a huge number, it is almost unfathomable.
But it is like my country losing 1/4 of its entire population in just 16 months.

1/40 I think!!

 

[SouthAussie]

1/40 I think!!

Lol ... yes, you are right. Didn't have enough zeros in my calculation.

But hey, it is the weekend. Time for a numerics brain rest.

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Lol ... yes, you are right. Didn't have enough zeros in my calculation.

But hey, it is the weekend. Time for a numerics brain rest.

Ha, you know I like the numerics

On the subject of numbers, have you seen Worldometers now has a handy “weekly trends” tab? Much easier to track which countries have +/- changes in cases and deaths.:

COVID-19 Weekly Trends by Country - Worldometer

I’ve also just recently discovered the Reuters covid tracker with its pretty arrows and swanky graphs:

COVID-19: the latest global statistics, charts and maps

 

[Springrain]

I have mentioned this before, but I'm a college student, who lives in a college town. My school is a pretty large state school (15k+ students on campus) and lots of people, like myself, have been staying in town during the pandemic even though school is mostly online, with the exception of lab or engineering classes. My school isn't even a "party school", but it had massive surges of COVID cases during Halloween, because people wanted to have Halloween parties and thought the rules didn't apply to them There are hardly any people in the dorms, from my knowledge, but other students were partying in town and becoming super-spreaders, so the whole city basically went under strict lockdown again because some people can't get drunk and dress up at home.

My school is opening up more in fall, although some departments are preferring doing hybrid or distance models still. I'm in the education program, and my fall classes are a mix of in person, hybrid and distance. So that will be interesting. My school is also thankfully requiring students who take classes on campus in fall are fully vaccinated. This had led to lots of drama and threatened lawsuits. Some people here are so worried about getting vaccinated that they are opting to take online only classes because they don't want to follow the vaccine requirements. They are also keeping the masking requirements.

 

[ColyH]

I saw a FB post (from TX) yesterday ... "I am not putting that poison in my body" ... and how the vaccines are designed for 'depopulation'.

I guess these kinds of conspiracy theory influenced people just don't get that it is covid itself that is depopulating their country and the world. That the vaccines are slowing that depopulation right down, for those places lucky enough to be getting vaccinated.

That's what we do in the good ole USA. If there is something we don't like we just declare a conspiracy and were good to go.

 

[Springrain]

That's what we do in the good ole USA. If there is something we don't like we just declare a conspiracy and were good to go.

Unfortunately true. And so many people posting those kinds of things, at least in my experience, drink and smoke, which is "putting poison in your body", yet no one thinks twice about that. You drinking a beer doesn't affect anyone else, but you turning down the COVID vaccine very well might.

 

[margarita25]

Dbm

 

[margarita25]

The rest of the world is far from 'normal' | CNN

Exactly!
Nobody is safe until we are all safe. As Doc Mike, Doc T, Doc O, etc. have said, variants will keep spinning out control, with the danger of potentially evading/compromising vaccine efficacy.
We have GOT to approach this globally! Thank GOD Biden just pledged to donate unused vaccines to COVAX!!! Best news ever.

 

[margarita25]

I'm a little confused. I follow world meters. Is there a new surge I'm not seeing or just a prediction of one?

 

[acutename]

Las Vegas buffets are open. What it's like to step into line again

Okay folks- are any of you ready for an open buffet? I am not sure I will ever be ready for a buffet again and it is sad, but right now, the last thing on my list of things to do would be to eat at a buffet------thoughts?

I really miss buffet.... I did meet some friends I have not seen in a few years at a nearly empty diner last week. we are all vaxed, but I did keep thinking of the diagrams of air flow in restaurants while we were eating. This week, I actually forgot to wear a mask in a grocery store (no longer required) but I felt strange without one. I also tried to stop at a Dunkin for a coffee and found out that it was drive through only- the doors were locked (oops). I am sort of at a point where I feel weird with or without a mask. Tonight I passed by a school parking lot where a lot of high school-ish aged kids were congregating in and around their new cars, screaming and acting crazy as kids may do on a warm summer night but it occurred to me how unusual it seems to see anyone congregating... was pretty much illegal for months.