Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #99

[ilovewings]

U.S. vet denied ICU bed due to COVID crisis dies of treatable illness — CBS News

“When U.S. Army veteran Daniel Wilkinson started feeling sick last week, he went to the hospital in Bellville, Texas, outside Houston. His health problem wasn't related to COVID-19, but Wilkinson needed advanced care, and with the coronavirus filling up intensive care beds, he couldn't get it in time to save his life.

"He loved his country," his mother, Michelle Puget, told "CBS This Morning" lead national correspondent David Begnaud. "He served two deployments in Afghanistan, came home with a Purple Heart, and it was a gallstone that took him out.

Kakli told Begnaud that if it weren't for the COVID crisis, the procedure for Wilkinson would have taken 30 minutes, and he'd have been back out the door.

As of last night, there were 102 people waiting for an ICU bed in the greater Houston area.”

This case makes my blood boil: all those selfish anti vaxxers getting the care they need while a Veteran who fought for our country dies for lack of a bed. Absolutely sickening. Good thing I am not a nurse at that hospital- I would have probably taken one of those people who is taking up a bed due to failure to take proper care of themselves, and moved this man into that bed.

 

[WichitaFalls]

This is an example of what is happening at the University of Central Florida. Unfortunately, I couldn't upload the video so I took a still shot of it. The class is standing-room only and just a couple of students are wearing masks that I could see. Apparently this isn't the only class where this is happening. The news crews were on campus today preparing a story about it, so I'll post a follow-up link if there is one. (Sorry about the pic quality...like I said, it is a still shot from a video)

What a damn shame.

 

[weepingangel]

DEFINE_ME


Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) compared with alpha (B.1.1.7) variants of concern: a cohort study

 

[Skigh]

Delta Covid variant is TWICE as likely to land patients in hospital | Daily Mail Online

Delta variant doubles the risk of hospital admission, a study has found.

It was already known that the Covid strain first identified in India is up to 50 per cent more transmissible than the previous dominant Alpha variant, which emerged in Kent.

But the largest study to date comparing the two now shows those infected with the Delta strain are 2.26 times more likely to be admitted to hospital.

Delta is also 1.45 times more likely to see people entering A&E needing emergency treatment

 

[FLmom777]

We keep getting conflicting information in so many areas- who knows what to believe? Remember these gems: children don't get the virus/don't spread it
The jab may last a lifetime

This is exactly why I don’t trust anything we are told.

 

[Cool Cats]

An unvaccinated teacher spread COVID-19 to 50% of students in a classroom after taking off a mask to read, CDC says

Article shows a diagram of the classroom.

Fri, August 27, 2021, 5:12 PM

• An unvaccinated teacher started a COVID-19 outbreak that spread to 26 people, the CDC reported.
  
  
• The school required masks, but the teacher didn't always wear one when reading aloud, the report said.
  
  
• People spit out more viral aerosols when they're talking, which makes it extra important to mask.

• Sitting closer to the teacher upped the odds that kids got sick, even with masks

 

[WichitaFalls]

This is exactly why I don’t trust anything we are told.

Delta changed everything and some of the awful/new changes are to children. It's different than the first virus.

This pandemic is something that not one person alive on the planet has delt with before. The virus changes, our knowledge base increases. I personally don't think any main stream health official has been intentially untruthful with what they claim to know at the time they have said it. No doubt things were said in the beginning that have been proven wrong. That is the learning curve and although not perfect, I still will follow the science while taking personal responsibility to educate myself to make the best decisions I can. MOO

 

[Cool Cats]

Delta changed everything and some of the awful changes are to children. It's different than the first virus.

Community, Work, and School

Opening windows, using portable air cleaners, and improving building-wide filtration are ways you can increase ventilation in your school or childcare program.

While implementing ventilation strategies, be sure to continue to take regular precautions to keep young children safe, such as using fans with covers and windows with screens.

Continue to follow other preventive actions to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Keep children separated as much as possible. Help children 2 years and older wear masks whenever possible. Children under age 2 should not wear masks.

Good ventilation is important, especially in areas where students may not be able to wear masks. Eating meals outside is best. If you need to have students eat in a cafeteria, use methods such as opening windows, maximizing filtration as much as the system will allow and using portable HEPA air cleaners.

Opening vehicle windows even a little bit can improve ventilation

 

[Cool Cats]

https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article253760443.html

AUGUST 27, 2021 05:00 AM
I was hooked to a ventilator, fighting for life. Talk to me about ‘personal freedom’

For a certain subset of the population, everything related to COVID is tyranny now. Mask orders are tyranny. Vaccination requirements are tyranny. Contact tracing is tyranny. Which is odd, because all of these strategies have been used to prevent other diseases going all the way back to the Spanish flu.

But COVID is politicized, so now we have an environment in which public health is pitted against “freedom.” That ignores two hard truths: Personal liberty with no sense of civic responsibility is just selfishness, and no one has much freedom in an intensive care unit, regardless of what the government is or isn’t doing.

 

[Deleted member 158085]

Illinois vaccine and mask mandates.

Q: Who has to get vaccinated in Illinois now?

A: Those included in the new vaccine mandates include all prekindergarten through 12th grade teachers and staff, higher education personnel, higher education students and health care workers in settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, physicians’ offices and urgent care centers.

Q: Who has to wear masks now?

A: Everyone 2 and older will have to wear masks when indoors starting Monday. Masks will not be required outdoors, but are encouraged in crowded outdoor settings such as festivals and concerts.

Illinois has new COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates. Here’s how they’ll work.

 

[ZoriahNZ]

NZ updates:

Current stats - 70 new cases today which shows are we are not experiencing exponential spread. Yay. Expecting to reach peak in the next few days. 347 active cases. 19 hospitalized with one stable in ICU.

Most of NZ will go to level 3 alert next Wednesday. Auckland and Northland will remain in Lvl 4 quarantine for another fortnight, however, as the vast majority of new cases are from Auckland.

Covid 19 coronavirus Delta lockdown alert levels: Country split in two from Wednesday, police to patrol Auckland's southern border - NZ Herald


COVID-19: One person shows up at anti-lockdown protest in Auckland

I know it's no laughing matter, but I kind of chuckled seeing that only one protester showed up.

 

[MimosaMornings]

An unvaccinated teacher spread COVID-19 to 50% of students in a classroom after taking off a mask to read, CDC says

Article shows a diagram of the classroom.

Fri, August 27, 2021, 5:12 PM

• An unvaccinated teacher started a COVID-19 outbreak that spread to 26 people, the CDC reported.
  
  
• The school required masks, but the teacher didn't always wear one when reading aloud, the report said.
  
  
• People spit out more viral aerosols when they're talking, which makes it extra important to mask.

• Sitting closer to the teacher upped the odds that kids got sick, even with masks

“The teacher in question "was both symptomatic and unvaccinated," Walensky said, and "was unmasked when reading aloud to the class," whose students were all too young to be vaccinated.”

Unvaccinated
Symptomatic
Took off mask repeatedly to read

I would be one p*ssed off parent if someone deliberately exposed my unvaccinated child to Covid.
JMO

 

[WichitaFalls]

“The teacher in question "was both symptomatic and unvaccinated," Walensky said, and "was unmasked when reading aloud to the class," whose students were all too young to be vaccinated.”

Unvaccinated
Symptomatic
Took off mask repeatedly to read

I would be one p*ssed off parent if someone deliberately exposed my unvaccinated child to Covid.
JMO

She/he should lose their license to teach. How utterly stupid and uncaring.

 

[ilovewings]

This is exactly why I don’t trust anything we are told.

Delta changed everything and some of the awful/new changes are to children. It's different than the first virus.

This pandemic is something that not one person alive on the planet has delt with before. The virus changes, our knowledge base increases. I personally don't think any main stream health official has been intentially untruthful with what they claim to know at the time they have said it. No doubt things were said in the beginning that have been proven wrong. That is the learning curve and although not perfect, I still will follow the science while taking personal responsibility to educate myself to make the best decisions I can. MOO

So well said-----

 

[ZoriahNZ]

Let's not forget who was in charge last year. Fauci was walking a political tight-rope in terms of what he could and couldn't say publicly. Even then, he was seen as going against the Trump admin compared to Dr Birx because he was too outspoken and less 'everything is perfect, nothing to see here' about the situation.

 

[WichitaFalls]

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I personally admire the heck out of Dr. Fauci. I'll quote a USA Today article that sums up how grateful for his expertise I and lots others are.

Anthony Fauci is a coronavirus hero in a time of great public need
Coronavirus hero: Anthony Fauci is a great public servant in a time of great public need
Fauci is the world's leading authority on infectious diseases and the best person in the country to help us deal with the COVID-19 crisis.

Some viewers of the daily White House coronavirus briefings may wonder why everyone increasingly defers to a diminutive, Brooklyn-accented 79-year-old doctor, Anthony Fauci.

They do because, as I have learned over many years of talking with and more recently interviewing this man, he is without doubt the world’s leading authority on infectious diseases. In any area of human activity or knowledge, there always seems to be one person who is the global gold standard. In the world of infectious diseases that person is Tony Fauci.

The American people — indeed, people around the globe — should be grateful that Tony has dug into this crisis with the same work-around-the-clock, just-the-facts-ma’am style that he has used while serving under and working with six U.S. presidents. He is as apolitical as anyone can be. I have no idea whether he is registered with any political party; I suspect though that he is rabidly independent. His only focus is getting the facts out, providing the best health care treatment and information possible, and saving lives.
A top expert from AIDS to Ebola
Tony Fauci joined the National Institutes of Health in 1968, after completing his medical training at Weill Cornell Medical Center, and he has led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease since 1984 — 36 years. Hard to believe anyone can run anything that long and still be at the top of his game. But Tony is. During this period, he has dealt with every serious infectious disease challenge — malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, the Middle East respiratory syndrome, the severe acute respiratory syndrome, dengue fever, Ebola, to name a few — and now what seems to be the most serious pandemic since the the 1918 flu, COVID-19.
Among Tony’s best known accomplishments, beyond simply running the institute and training dozens of the world’s top infectious disease professionals, has been helping to discover how HIV leads to AIDS and leading the effort to create (at President George W. Bush’s direction) the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which has transformed the treatment of HIV/AIDS in Africa and other parts of the developing world. Millions of lives have been saved by this program alone.

There is so much more in the article (link is above) that I would love for you to read.

 

[Cool Cats]

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They couldn't find anything negative to say except to criticize his revised early remark about masks and that he revised his herd immunity estimates.

Wow.... If that's all they can come up with they may want to believe in my swamp property being a good investment for future resale.

$ Buy my swamp home great investment $

House in swamp, SC. | Louisiana swamp

 

[Lilibet]

Well, I’ve had Covid AND spent six days in the hospital on O2 at age 75 in February. I was given every drug Trump got and I’m fortunate to be here. Is that really the way I’d want to get natural immunity to Covid? What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? Seriously folks? Was that true of smallpox and polio? And what about those who end up with “long Covid” or die of Covid in their 30s and 40s with no chance to get “longer lasting and stronger protection”?

I’m not crazy, and if the study is correct that my “natural immunity” is stronger than offered by the vaccine, I’m not willing to gamble my health and what’s left of my life on having had Covid and hoping my immunity holds up. I got my two jabs in May and I will get a booster when offered. And I don’t just care about my own health. I care about others with whom I may come in contact. And I care about not becoming a human petri dish creating the next and worse variant.

Vaccinations have saved my generation from death and serious illness since childhood. Some of you younger ones might not be here if your parents had not been vaccinated as children. But now there are children losing parents who refuse the vaccines against Covid. One of the men who died in my county this month was 49 with two kids, unvaxxed. Every day someone in my county dies in their 40s of Covid, probably a parent. So much for freeeeeeeeedom. Those poor kids.

ETA: Yes, I realize the Israeli study recommends one shot for those who have had Covid because the natural immunity is so great. But in my community, one of the worst Covid counties in the country right now, people are arguing against getting any vax at all because they are confident in their immune systems (without having even had Covid). So most of my post is through that lens, not just referring to the Israeli study.

 

[Cool Cats]

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As of the dates shown below, there were 23.7 million full-time and part-time employees of our Government, including:

• 4.0 million federal employees, of whom 8% (excluding armed forces) work part-time;
• 5.5 million state employees, of whom 29% work part-time; and
• 14.2 million local government employees, of whom 23% work part-time.

The functions of our Government employing the most people and the respective percentage of Government employees were:

• Education – 47%, of which 69% relate to elementary and secondary education, 30% relate to higher education, and 1% relate to other education;
• Active duty military – 6%;
• Hospitals – 6%; and
• Police – 5%.
• How Many Government Employees Are There in the US? | USAFacts

 

[pocketaccent]

US
One day (8/27/21)
US 190,370 Cases, 1,304 Deaths

Australia
18 months
48,816 Cases, 991 Deaths

Yeah, the US' population is larger but still...

COVID Live Update: 216,227,881 Cases and 4,499,271 Deaths from the Coronavirus - Worldometer