Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #99

[MimosaMornings]

Dr. Fauci Says The U.S. Can Get Past COVID-19 By Spring 2022

Spring of 2022....IF more people get vaccinated.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/24/cov...ll-have-some-good-control-by-spring-2022.html

“As we get into the spring, we could start getting back to a degree of normality, namely resuming the things that we were hoping we could do, restaurants, theaters, that kind of thing," Fauci told CNN.”

So we aren’t even to fall here yet, we’ve got another winter to go through with no family gatherings, no holiday get togethers, no visiting with friends, MAYBE sitting outside with masks on depending on Delta and boosters, praying there isn’t a new variant.

We got all excited about summer and being vaccinated...we can finally do things....nope, can’t do that. Maybe by next spring. If more people get vaccinated.

So our future is in the hands of the people screaming at school board meetings, lizard/alien DNA vaccine believers and/or conspiracy theorists who think that newly installed 5G cell tower is tracking their every move.

Or they don’t believe Covid is real.

Well, that’s depressing. It’s time for a drink.

 

[anneg]

Australians Will Be the First to Trial Icosavax’s ‘Next-Generation’ COVID-19 Vaccine

Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout has advanced significantly in the past few months, but that hasn't stopped research on potential new vaccine candidates. Participants in Queensland will be the first to try out a new "next-generation" coronavirus vaccine as it enters its clinical trial phase.

The University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) is facilitating the first global trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine produced by the American company Icosavax.

This is the first I've heard of Icosavax, a Seattle company.

From a USC (University of the Sunshine Coast) press release:

USC Clinical Trial’s Principal Investigator Dr Rob Scott will oversee the clinical trial, which aims to identify the optimal dose and safety of this virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine that has been produced using nanoparticle technology.

“Virus-like particles display multiple copies of the protective antigens in a manner that closely resembles viruses but contain no genetic material,” Dr Scott said.

“Licensed VLP vaccines are well known to induce a robust and durable immune response. This type of vaccine can also be redirected towards new coronavirus strains as they emerge.”

 

[SouthAussie]

This is the first I've heard of Icosavax, a Seattle company.

From a USC (University of the Sunshine Coast) press release:

USC Clinical Trial’s Principal Investigator Dr Rob Scott will oversee the clinical trial, which aims to identify the optimal dose and safety of this virus-like particle (VLP) vaccine that has been produced using nanoparticle technology.

“Virus-like particles display multiple copies of the protective antigens in a manner that closely resembles viruses but contain no genetic material,” Dr Scott said.

“Licensed VLP vaccines are well known to induce a robust and durable immune response. This type of vaccine can also be redirected towards new coronavirus strains as they emerge.”

This (from 2017) gives us an idea of what VLP vaccines are, in our current lives.


VLPs constitute versatile tools in vaccine development due to their favourable immunological characteristics such as their size, repetitive surface geometry, ability to induce both innate and adaptive immune responses as well as being safe templates with favourable economics.

Several VLP-based vaccines are commercially available including vaccines against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) such as Cervarix®, Gardasil® & Gardasil9® and Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) including the 3rd generation Sci-B-Vac™.

In addition, the first licensed malaria-VLP-based vaccine Mosquirix™ has been recently approved by the European regulators.

Major findings and recent advances in virus-like particle (VLP)-based vaccines - PubMed

 

[ilovewings]

Dr. Fauci Says The U.S. Can Get Past COVID-19 By Spring 2022

Spring of 2022....IF more people get vaccinated.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/24/cov...ll-have-some-good-control-by-spring-2022.html

“As we get into the spring, we could start getting back to a degree of normality, namely resuming the things that we were hoping we could do, restaurants, theaters, that kind of thing," Fauci told CNN.”

So we aren’t even to fall here yet, we’ve got another winter to go through with no family gatherings, no holiday get togethers, no visiting with friends, MAYBE sitting outside with masks on depending on Delta and boosters, praying there isn’t a new variant.

We got all excited about summer and being vaccinated...we can finally do things....nope, can’t do that. Maybe by next spring. If more people get vaccinated.

So our future is in the hands of the people screaming at school board meetings, lizard/alien DNA vaccine believers and/or conspiracy theorists who think that newly installed 5G cell tower is tracking their every move.

Or they don’t believe Covid is real.

Well, that’s depressing. It’s time for a drink.

If we---blah blah blah- people are already doing whatever the heck they feel like- going to concerts, baseball games, dining out (indoors)--- now we have Labor Day approaching- more travel-----all those unvaccinated unmasked people living like there is no pandemic-- I just can't wrap my head around it----

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Delta Air Lines will make unvaccinated employees pay charge (clickondetroit.com)

Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline's top executive says is necessary because the average hospital stay for the virus costs the airline $50,000.

CEO Ed Bastian said that all employees who have been hospitalized for the virus in recent weeks were not fully vaccinated.

The airline said Wednesday that it also will stop extending pay protection to unvaccinated workers who contract COVID-19 on Sept. 30, and will require unvaccinated workers to be tested weekly beginning Sept. 12, although Delta will cover the cost. They will have to wear masks in all indoor company settings...

 

[ilovewings]

Delta Air Lines will make unvaccinated employees pay charge (clickondetroit.com)

Delta Air Lines will charge employees on the company health plan $200 a month if they fail to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the airline's top executive says is necessary because the average hospital stay for the virus costs the airline $50,000.

CEO Ed Bastian said that all employees who have been hospitalized for the virus in recent weeks were not fully vaccinated.

The airline said Wednesday that it also will stop extending pay protection to unvaccinated workers who contract COVID-19 on Sept. 30, and will require unvaccinated workers to be tested weekly beginning Sept. 12, although Delta will cover the cost. They will have to wear masks in all indoor company settings...

Maybe they should just mandate vaccines for all employees thereby making the policy less complicated and making travel safer for employees and passengers

 

[ilovewings]

University of Michigan study: Existing drugs block, reduce COVID in cells

University of Michigan is studying existing drugs that are approved by the FDA to reduce Covid in cells--- they do not name what drugs those are ( that is probably a good idea for the time being)

 

[Skigh]

Sydney's Westmead and Blacktown hospitals no longer accepting Covid patients | Daily Mail Online


Two major hospitals are no longer accepting Covid patients as wards overflow with virus-stricken Sydneysiders at the heart of the city's outbreak.

Westmead and Blacktown Hospitals in the virus-riddled western suburbs hit breaking point on Wednesday night, with not a single bed left to treat those suffering from the respiratory disease.

Ambulance drivers with coronavirus patients were instructed not to enter the building and told they would be turned away with resources stretched to the limits, Nine News reported.

The two hospitals are both located within western Sydney's 12 local government areas of concern, where even greater lockdown restrictions are enforced including curfews - but stubborn case numbers refuse to come down.

The shocking development came as New South Wales racked up a grim record of 919 infections on Wednesday, as well as two more deaths.

 

[musicaljoke]

Maybe they should just mandate vaccines for all employees thereby making the policy less complicated and making travel safer for employees and passengers

They probably are waiting for a Federal mandate, otherwise they could face frivolous lawsuits. I like the idea of charging more for their health insurance policy. That should hoof some people into the vaccination lineup.

We had quite a few folks getting their first vaccinations at our mass clinic yesterday, including a nurse who showed up hiding behind big sunglasses and her hair up under a scarf. Seriously, I don't understand how people working in medicine can be so tardy about getting vaccinated.

 

[musicaljoke]

University of Michigan study: Existing drugs block, reduce COVID in cells

University of Michigan is studying existing drugs that are approved by the FDA to reduce Covid in cells--- they do not name what drugs those are ( that is probably a good idea for the time being)

Probably Ivermectin.

 

[LaborDayRN]

Oregon hospital has plate-smashing booth for doctors and nurses stressed over Delta surge * Global news 24hours

Lisa, a nurse in Salem Hospital’s full ICU, told reporters she’s frustrated and sad at the crush of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients. “We’ve been dealing with the second wave when we thought — I guess we hoped — it wouldn’t come,” she said, hours after a COVID-19 patient had died in the ICU. “And it’s come. And it’s harder and worse, way worse, than before.”

Lisa said that unlike the first wave, she is vaccinated and isn’t scared for her own life, and the hospital has created new ways of coping with the angst. “The hospital’s wellness department, which normally recommends yoga and deep breathing for relaxation, recently set up a booth and filled it with dinner plates,” AP reports.

“We put on safety glasses,” Lisa said. “And we took plates and we shattered them. And I kept going back. I kept going back, and they told me I had enough turns.”

I LOVE this!!

 

[Cool Cats]

I LOVE this!!

Your a nurse, go for it!

Com'mon ...

White Broken Plates On A Wooden Floor Stock Photo - Download Image Now - iStock

 

[sds71]

FAYETTEVILLE -- Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder on Tuesday confirmed that the medical provider for the Detention Center has been prescribing ivermectin to detainees to treat them for the covid-19 virus.

Eva Madison, justice of the peace for District 9, said she had been told by a county employee that Karas Correctional Health had been prescribing ivermectin for them. Madison said the federal Food and Drug Administration has warned against using ivermectin to treat covid-19 and said the county should review the situation before approving a budget that includes money for Karas.

"I think we need to reevaluate who we are using to provide medical care if they are disregarding FDA guidelines and giving de-wormer to detainees at our county jail," Madison said. "It's very disturbing to me that that's the level of care we're providing."

Washington County sheriff confirms use of ivermectin at Detention Center

 

[Skigh]

New Zealand and Australia's 'zero cases' policy continues to crumble with record infections | Daily Mail Online

New Zealand and Australia are continuing to experience a surge in Covid cases despite their draconian lockdown measures which have proved powerless to prevent the contagious Delta variant.

New Zealand recorded another 62 community cases, with another in an isolation facility, in the largest single day jump of the latest outbreak.

It comes after Jacinda Ardern decided to extend lockdown measures this week in response to rising cases as her zero Covid policy becomes undone day by day.

 

[musicaljoke]

New Zealand and Australia's 'zero cases' policy continues to crumble with record infections | Daily Mail Online

New Zealand and Australia are continuing to experience a surge in Covid cases despite their draconian lockdown measures which have proved powerless to prevent the contagious Delta variant.

New Zealand recorded another 62 community cases, with another in an isolation facility, in the largest single day jump of the latest outbreak.

It comes after Jacinda Ardern decided to extend lockdown measures this week in response to rising cases as her zero Covid policy becomes undone day by day.

Don't you just hate the way the DM blows up every detail into an almighty huge melodrama?

The Dramatic Presentation of News and Its Effects on Cognitive Complexity on JSTOR

 

[Cool Cats]

Floridians Are Turning on Ron DeSantis as Covid Deaths Hit Record High

It shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, then, that Floridians have had it with Governor Ron DeSantis’ continued opposition to sensible preventative measures that have been proven to mitigate the spread of the disease.

60 percent of Florida residents support requiring faculty and students to wear masks while in school, something DeSantis has opposed so stridently that he has threatened to strip funding from the school districts who impose mask mandates.

Floridians don’t like that so much, either.

On July 30th, DeSantis signed an executive order to block school districts from imposing mask mandates as the Delta variant swept through the state. The order was challenged by multiple lawsuits, and as cases continued to rise, including among young people, school districts began to defy it.

This prompted the DeSantis administration to threaten to strip funding if the districts did not remove their mandates. On Friday, the Florida Department of Education informed the school boards in Alachua and Broward Counties, which voted to impose mandates,

that it “will begin to withhold from state funds, on a monthly basis, an amount equal to 1/12 of the total annual compensation of the school board members who voted to impose the unlawful mask mandates until each district demonstrates compliance.”

Later on Friday, the Biden administration offered to compensate these districts for any financial $ consequences they may face for requiring masks.

$ GOOD $

 

[Cool Cats]

Fair? or Not Fair? ($2,400 a year cost for unvaccinated)

Delta Air Lines announces a $200 monthly health insurance surcharge for unvaccinated employees

Ed Bastian memo: COVID-19 update

( Delta CEO reveals he's still refusing to call it the Delta variant ) ... HA!

• Effective immediately, unvaccinated employees are required to wear masks in all indoor Delta settings. This requirement will remain in place until community case rates stabilize.
• Starting Sept. 12, any U.S. employee who is not fully vaccinated will be required to take a COVID test each week while community case rates are high. Those with a positive result will need to isolate and remain out of the workplace.
• Beginning Nov. 1, unvaccinated employees enrolled in Delta’s account-based healthcare plan will be subject to a $200 monthly surcharge. The average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000 per person.
• This surcharge will be necessary to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company. In recent weeks since the rise of the B.1.617.2 variant, all Delta employees who have been hospitalized with COVID were not fully vaccinated.
• Effective Sept. 30, in compliance with state and local laws, COVID pay protection will only be provided to fully vaccinated individuals who are experiencing a breakthrough infection.

 

[mickey2942]

Fair? or Not Fair? ($2,400 a year cost for unvaccinated)

Ed Bastian memo: COVID-19 update

Delta Air Lines announces a $200 monthly health insurance surcharge for unvaccinated employees

• Effective immediately, unvaccinated employees are required to wear masks in all indoor Delta settings. This requirement will remain in place until community case rates stabilize.
• Starting Sept. 12, any U.S. employee who is not fully vaccinated will be required to take a COVID test each week while community case rates are high. Those with a positive result will need to isolate and remain out of the workplace.
• Beginning Nov. 1, unvaccinated employees enrolled in Delta’s account-based healthcare plan will be subject to a $200 monthly surcharge. The average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000 per person.
• This surcharge will be necessary to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company. In recent weeks since the rise of the B.1.617.2 variant, all Delta employees who have been hospitalized with COVID were not fully vaccinated.
• Effective Sept. 30, in compliance with state and local laws, COVID pay protection will only be provided to fully vaccinated individuals who are experiencing a breakthrough infection.

Slippery slope here. ADA laws, religious beliefs...cannot discriminate...

 

[Cool Cats]

Slippery slope here. ADA laws, religious beliefs...cannot discriminate...

Absolutely. Ahh....religious beliefs.....

Then you have the smoking factor amongst many other issues.

Like saying smokers get charged higher health care costs due to health risks.

Wait, how bout diabetics?

Wait how bout ... Etc........

 

[mickey2942]

Absolutely. Ahh....religious beliefs.....

Then you have the smoking factor amongst many other issues.

Like saying smokers get charged higher health care costs due to health risks.

Wait, how bout diabetics?

Wait how bout ... Etc........

Or my most favorite myth recently, "Only FAT people or OLD people die from Covid".

Right. That myth needs to get busted out of the universe.