Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #98

[SA55]

AP Source: Biden to require vaccines for nursing home staff
The Biden administration will require that nursing home staff be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition for those facilities to continue receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid funding.

Biden will announce the move Wednesday afternoon in a White House address as the administration continues to look for ways to use mandates to encourage vaccine holdouts to get shots. A senior administration official confirmed the announcement on condition of anonymity to preview the news before Biden’s remarks.

 

[ilovewings]

AP Source: Biden to require vaccines for nursing home staff
The Biden administration will require that nursing home staff be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition for those facilities to continue receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid funding.

Biden will announce the move Wednesday afternoon in a White House address as the administration continues to look for ways to use mandates to encourage vaccine holdouts to get shots. A senior administration official confirmed the announcement on condition of anonymity to preview the news before Biden’s remarks.

Long overdue----

 

[dmac55]

NPR: A Texas School Made Masks Part Of Its Dress Code To Get Around Gov. Abbott's Ban.
A Texas School Made Masks Part Of Its Dress Code To Get Around Gov. Abbott's Ban

 

[Turkeytrot]

This is an awful tragedy but geez, she was a nurse for goodness sakes-- both husband and wife died and leave their children without parents-- this was a preventable tragedy IMO.

I think her cousin who was trying to warn her is the nurse

 

[ilovewings]

I think her cousin who was trying to warn her is the nurse

Oh thanks for that info

 

[Jax49]

I think her cousin who was trying to warn her is the nurse

Thanks from me also. I got confused too.

 

[Turkeytrot]

Thanks from me also. I got confused too.

Oh thanks for that info

Yw! I had to read it twice, got confused too

 

[Cool Cats]

Anyone here getting the Booster soon as you can?

The first ones in September will go to nursing homes and frontline workers but probably soon to the general public.

I'm getting my 2nd shot in September so won't need a booster until April 2022

I definitely will get the booster.

 

[pocketaccent]

In cases like this, I hope they investigate to make sure he actually received a viable vaccine... And not one that had been spoiled, adulterated or swapped with saline solution.

Or sometimes the vaccinator incorrectly gives the shot in the wrong area. I often witness it while watching news.
The shot in the picture clearly isn't going into the deltoid muscle. Too low. Lady in the picture received a useless shot.

Who can get a COVID booster shot, and where do you get one? Here’s what we know so far

 

[ilovewings]

Thanks from me also. I got confused too.

Glad i wasnt the only one. LOL

 

[beatrixpotter]

I can' t answer your question: the communication has been awful from the CDC- I expect we will get more information soon regarding booster shots with respect to Pfizer, Moderna and hopefully J&J- I think we are all in the dark really: I am trying to think how will we get those boosters? will we be called back by the entity where we got the first two shots or will we just go somewhere like a pharmacy to get the booster--- right now nothing is clear--

I need to ask my sil how she went about it but she got her booster several days ago already. She falls under the severely immune compromised category. I'm so relieved she was able to get it. She is in her 30's and almost died 2 years ago from the flu. She was hospitalized for months with of course insane medical bills despite health insurance. Everyone and their BS about "people die every day they can't be half arsed to do anything to protect others" just make me sick.

 

[JDG]

Or sometimes the vaccinator incorrectly gives the shot in the wrong area. I often witness it while watching news.
The shot in the picture clearly isn't going into the deltoid muscle. Too low. Lady in the picture received a useless shot.

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Who can get a COVID booster shot, and where do you get one? Here’s what we know so far

AFAIK, a shot is not ‘useless’ when given incorrectly. It still gets absorbed into your body but it is better if they put it into the deltoid muscle.

Many drugs, for example can be given IV, orally or IM but they all work.

 

[ilovewings]

I need to ask my sil how she went about it but she got her booster several days ago already. She falls under the severely immune compromised category. I'm so relieved she was able to get it. She is in her 30's and almost died 2 years ago from the flu. She was hospitalized for months with of course insane medical bills despite health insurance. Everyone and their BS about "people die every day they can't be half arsed to do anything to protect others" just make me sick.

Glad tbat she was able to get the booster---- those people who refuse
to get vaccinated threaten all of us-- I am getting that terrified feeling
I had before I got vaccinated

 

[Cool Cats]

I need to ask my sil how she went about it but she got her booster several days ago already. She falls under the severely immune compromised category. I'm so relieved she was able to get it. She is in her 30's and almost died 2 years ago from the flu. She was hospitalized for months with of course insane medical bills despite health insurance. Everyone and their BS about "people die every day they can't be half arsed to do anything to protect others" just make me sick.

Which is why it's so liberating that we have mitigation protocols and freedom to choose the vaccine. In other words we don't have to rely on any of these stubborn @#$%& people to keep us safe.

I relied on the hospital personnel to keep me safe, that worked.

 

[Cool Cats]

Glad tbat she was able to get the booster---- those people who refuse
to get vaccinated threaten all of us-- I am getting that terrified feeling
I had before I got vaccinated

Why? Are you at the 8 month mark?

 

[beatrixpotter]

A mom of 4 who died of covid days after her husband makes a wish: 'Make sure my kids get vaccinated'

A few weeks ago, Lydia Rodriguez thought her body was strong enough to fight the coronavirus without the vaccine.

But after a week-long church camp, she and other members of her family tested positive for the coronavirus. By the time Rodriguez, 42, changed her mind and asked for the shot, it was too late, her doctor said. A ventilator awaited her, her cousin Dottie Jones told The Washington Post.

Out of options, the Galveston, Tex., mother of four, asked her family to make a promise: “Please make sure my kids get vaccinated,” Rodriguez, a piano teacher, told her sister during their last phone call.

Rodriguez died Monday — two weeks after her husband, Lawrence Rodriguez, 49, also died after coronavirus complications. The couple fought the virus from hospital beds just a few feet from one another in a Texas intensive care unit, Jones said.

“Lydia has never really believed in vaccines,” Jones, 55, told The Post. “She believed that she could handle everything on her own, that you didn’t really need medicine.”

A neonatal nurse, Jones was familiar with the serious effects covid-19 had on mothers and babies she treated at the Sugarland, Tex., hospital where she worked. She shared with Rodriguez how she had watched patient after patient be connected to a ventilator for weeks without much improvement.

Jones could have gone on and on. But her cousin’s silence spoke for itself, she said. “I knew she would never get vaccinated,” Jones told The Post. “I was very concerned.”

Rodriguez’s husband, who shared her anti-vaccine beliefs, also declined to get the shot. Three of their four children are eligible but have not yet received the vaccine, Jones said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...ouple-declined-covid-19-vaccine-died-orphans/

As low as the death rate is supposedly I'm blown away with how many people are losing multiple family members who aren't even blood related. The chances of a married couple in their 40's or so both dying of the flu are just not even plausible. I remember reading about this happening in India and it was blamed on the poor medical care.

I guess we are now reaching that state on some level in places stretched way too thin. But I wonder how much it's just this variant. But even if the CFR is say 3% in people in their 40's..BOTH parents? Their poor children. I have honestly never once worried that my husband was really at risk till the past couple of weeks after seeing how many younger people his age are dying.

There are a lot of pregnant women in some online groups starting to panic and decide now is the time to hurry up and get vaccinated.

 

[Cool Cats]

As low as the death rate is supposedly I'm blown away with how many people are losing multiple family members who aren't even blood related. The chances of a married couple in their 40's or so both dying of the flu are just not even plausible. I remember reading about this happening in India and it was blamed on the poor medical care.

I guess we are now reaching that state on some level in places stretched way too thin. But I wonder how much it's just this variant. But even if the CFR is say 3% in people in their 40's..BOTH parents? Their poor children. I have honestly never once worried that my husband was really at risk till the past couple of weeks after seeing how many younger people his age are dying.

There are a lot of pregnant women in some online groups starting to panic and decide now is the time to hurry up and get vaccinated.

Its mostly all the variant because 98% of cases are the variant.

So now that we will both be vaccinated we called our close friends out of State to plan to visit them. We knew they were vaccinated, the husband has severe lung disease from breathing in chemicals.

Lo and behold we were shocked when the wife told us she had 100° temperature and tested positive for the virus. She said it's the Delta and her Dr. told her had she not been vaccinated then she would be a heck of alot sicker.

She sleeps on the couch but that is all, in other words I'm worried about her husband.

I'll have to ask her how she knows for sure it's the Delta.

 

[beatrixpotter]

AFAIK, a shot is not ‘useless’ when given incorrectly. It still gets absorbed into your body but it is better if they put it into the deltoid muscle.

Many drugs, for example can be given IV, orally or IM but they all work.

I sure hope so. If not I'm going to be second guessing whether my vaccine was even effective and given in the right spot. :/

 

[SouthAussie]

They say in the article the lockdown in NZ was economically crippling or some such thing as well and that scientists say Covid zero is impossible with Delta. Not the most encouraging article, is it!

The thing that we have found, and NZ will find also, is that a short sharp snap statewide lockdown is better for the economy.

Yes, many businesses close up for a week. Usually govt benefits kick in that supplement the businesses and the staff to an adequate degree. Then everything opens up again, once the danger is over.

Which is preferable to what NSW is going through now. No short sharp statewide lockdown (only a "lockdown" in a specific small area), which resulted in too much exponential spread, and so now their lockdown has had to swing into full lockdown and will go on and on and on - to try to minimise deaths.
That is what is bad for the economy. imo

 

[beatrixpotter]

Glad tbat she was able to get the booster---- those people who refuse
to get vaccinated threaten all of us-- I am getting that terrified feeling
I had before I got vaccinated

Yeah, me too. :/ The relief was short lived. I did not feel safe or ok till after I had my baby because I was so high risk while pregnant. Now we have this stupid variant and I'm still not in great shape and recovering from preeclampsia still. My BP is just bad and I was not on BP meds before pregnancy.

Is Delta still a disease that's going after the vascular system? I'm stressed because I just can't isolate like we did last year. I have had to take the baby to the doctor multiple times including today. And she will have physical therapy weekly for a while. I keep trying to tell myself that I'm just seeing the PT once a week and they are seeing lots of patients all day and most of them are doing ok.