Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #99

[WichitaFalls]

I live in Florida, I know Covid. I live in Florida, I know hurricanes.

But I am buckling at the knees thinking about what Lousianians are going through right now.....

Me too.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

AstraZeneca vaccine is the best at keeping people out of hospital with just 1.52 per cent admitted | Daily Mail Online


AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine is best at keeping people out of hospital and preventing deaths from the virus, a study has found.

Just 1.52 per cent of people who got the Oxford-made vaccine were admitted to wards after they caught the virus.

And only 0.03 per cent, or one in 3,000, died from the disease.

For comparison, 1.99 per cent of those who got Pfizer were hospitalised with the virus, and 0.15 per cent died.

The AstraZeneca vaccine has formed the backbone of Britain's vaccine roll out, with 25million people having already received the jab.

But an alternative to the jab was recommended for under-40s in May, amid concern over a vanishingly rare blood clot. More than 21million have got the Pfizer vaccine.

but only Britain.

 

[ilovewings]

Covid: Vaccine complications dwarfed by virus risks

What a dreadful waste of energy, time and money. Is there no Public Health authority that simply mandates the best practices? Why is it even an argument?

Sometimes I think we are living in the dark ages.

This is worse than the dark ages because they didnt know any better. but
we have the knowledge and techno!ogy

 

[nhmemorymaker]

The difference being, the Israel study was an 'observational' study. (No blood testing done, just a database looked at and dissected for statistics)

The study you posted is more accurately a study of the antibody levels in people's blood. (Seroprevalence studies)

thank you hugely, SA

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Me too.

Quite honestly, my stomach is eating at me soooooooooo bad.....
Waiting for a hurricane is agony, but what they are going through............geeez.

 

[WichitaFalls]

Quite honestly, my stomach is eating at me soooooooooo bad.....
Waiting for a hurricane is agony, but what they are going through............geeez.

I tried to visualize what the vibe in the hospitals will be as the storm goes through - many critically ill people on vents/icu units filled, staff that is past burned out having committed to sleeping, eating, working in that environment for no telling how many days, wondering about their own family, power outages, flooding, communications broken down? God be with them.
A total nightmare.

 

[10ofRods]

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

Definitely should lose their license. Unbelievable. I have to say that I lost my optimism about the general intelligence and goodness of our species some years ago, but I expect more from teachers. Truly.

Symptomatic and reading to unvaccinated children - there should be criminal negligence charges, IMO.

And because the school permitted this to happen, there should be a huge lawsuit against the school - for the lifetime medical care of all those children...and their parents who tested positive.

Stupidest county in California (and one of the richest/most "educated" - they have college degrees and obviously learned nothing).

 

[nightowl1975]

Rev. Jesse Jackson Moved to Rehab, Wife Transferred to ICU After Contracting COVID-19
More at link
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., was transferred to a rehabilitation facility, and his wife, Jacqueline, was moved to the intensive care unit at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital as both continue to battle COVID-19, according to a statement issued by family Friday afternoon.

As the civil rights leader's "COVID-19 symptoms abate," he was moved to the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab to begin intensive occupational and physical therapy for his Parkinson's disease, the couple's son Jonathan Jackson said.

Jacqueline Jackson, 77, is breathing on her own and receiving increased oxygen in the ICU, but is not on a ventilator. Jacqueline Jackson has not been vaccinated, according to longtime family spokesman Frank Watkins. He declined to elaborate.

Fascinating that he is vaccinated but she is not. I’m curious as to the logic there. Hopefully she pulls through. It’s difficult even as a medical professional to continue to remain compassionate for those who willingly refuse to be vaccinated.

 

[nightowl1975]

Eight-year-old Bobby Campbell wanted more than anything to go back to school in person this year. But he’s acutely aware of the importance of masks in reducing COVID’s spread, as his second grade science project last year showed.

“He doesn’t understand why it isn’t happening at schools,” his mother Carmen Campbell, a physician in Plano, Texas, says.

Twenty minutes away from Bobby, in Garland, Texas, Kimi Hudgins Gray is terrified that her 15-year-old son, who is attending a special career school program in person, could infect his 6-year-old sister. She has a rare inherited disease that could make COVID deadly to her.

“Today alone I have cried five times because my child deserves a safe and free public education just like any other child,” Gray says. “It just shows me that nobody truly cares about her life.”

Both Gray and her best friend Britany Quick, who has children too young to be vaccinated and a husband and grandmother who have medical conditions that make them more vulnerable to COVID-19, are participating in a case filed by the Southern Center for Child Advocacy against (Governor Greg) Abbott.

The slew of lawsuits began in Arkansas, where Governor Asa Hutchinson has said he regrets signing the anti-mask legislation into law. Now at least five states are facing lawsuits.

“It makes me question my own sanity,” Hawthorne says. “It seems incredibly surreal to me that I'm fighting my own governor to try to take care of the health and safety of my community, of all of us.”

Gray, the mother whose daughter has a rare disease, takes it even more personally.
“Abbott is signing our kids’ death certificates, kids like mine,” Gray says. “He's banning a simple piece of cloth that could protect thousands of kids’ lives and the lives of their families.”

As kids head back to school, battles over masks are pitting parents against governors

Instead of fighting a losing battle with some of these governors, the simplest approach to protecting your own child and family would be to wear an N95 or KN95. Don’t expect others to protect you because clearly some just aren’t going to do it. Protect yourself. We’ve had KN95’s at the check out of local grocery stores for months and months now. Buy them. Wear them. It’s what medical professionals are wearing around known covid positives during aerosol-generating procedures when the patient obviously has no mask on at all. These masks protect the person wearing them. If everyone else isn’t going to step up, take steps to protect yourself and your family.

 

[Cool Cats]

A police captain who refused the vaccine and took the anti-parasitic ivermectin to combat COVID-19 dies from the virus

Sat, August 28, 2021, 12:13 PM

Wayne County sheriff announces COVID-19 death of Captain Joe Manning

After the announcement of his death, Facebook posts made by Manning circulated on social media.
In one post, Manning shared an image that said, "I am not vaccinated by choice and that's my right."

In another, Manning encouraged people to stock up on the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, frequently used to deworm horses, and increasingly being taken by people in a misguided attempt to treat or prevent COVID-19.

"OK Folks Wayne Feed and Seed has some liquid and paste Ivermectin get it while supplies last," Manning wrote on Facebook.

Manning also wrote on Facebook that he had taken ivermectin himself, and criticized Facebook for disciplining him for spreading misinformation, The Independent reported.

 

[Cool Cats]

Sat, August 28, 2021, 6:25 AM
Meet a Pennsylvania mom set to lose her unemployment benefits because she can't send her kid back to school. 'They should not end any benefits until at least there is a vaccine for all ages.'

Amanda Rinehart, 33, loved her job in hospitality.
She had just been promoted when the pandemic took its toll on her career. In October 2020, she had to quit to care for her son while he attended school virtually. Her 8-year-old is too young to be vaccinated, and the Delta variant is a concern for kids returning to school and the parents that take care of them.

Rinehart is one of the millions of parents and mothers whose entire livelihood was disrupted by the pandemic, that's a third of all mothers who live with school-aged kids in the US.

Rinehart has been on a federal unemployment program, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), which extends how long workers can receive benefits. The problem is it's expiring on September 6 without any permanent replacement.

© Provided by Business Insider Amanda Rinehart.

I'm honestly not sure what I'm going to do financially.
My son will continue to be virtual this year for the fact that he is high risk for Covid, and that there is no vaccines for these children under 12 years old.

The instructions for the online schooling, the parent needs to be in the room with the child during class for any complications or technical difficulties that they would be having.

With the unemployment benefits, I was staying afloat.

I feel like they should not end any benefits until at least there is a vaccine for all ages of the people in America.

To be a parent in this pandemic is very scary.
My son got a rhinovirus a couple of years ago and he was in the hospital for quite a few days, and then is very lucky to be home. So who knows what COVID-19 would do to him?

There's no way that these kids are going to keep a mask on all day, nor social distance. They're children, it's going to be nearly impossible. So kids that have underlying medical conditions, it's dangerous for them to go and possibly be exposed to COVID-19.

Obviously, when there's a vaccine available for my son, he will return to school and I will be able to return to work with joy.

My long-term plan is absolutely to return to work after there's a safe vaccine for these kids.

 

[Skigh]

Thousands of anti-vaxxers take to central London to continue campaign against Covid vaccines | Daily Mail Online




Thousands of anti-vaxxers have taken to the streets of central London in protest as they continue their campaign against mandated vaccines and Covid passports.

Demonstrators purportedly from The Save Our Rights UK group, armed with St George's flags, placards, banners and megaphones, spent the afternoon marching through the capital.

The collective had previously promoted the 'medical freedom march', which would be 'standing against mandated vaccines and vaccine passports, as the large crowd, understood to be in the thousands, gathering in Hyde Park.

Pictures and video shared online showed the large group, understood to be in the thousands, progressing past Vauxhall Bridge.

The demonstrations mark part of a coordinated worldwide protest, seen also in cities in Italy and France, at governments' decisions to impose mandatory vaccinations for members of society.

Thousands march through London in protest against vaccine passport

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[jjenny]

Fascinating that he is vaccinated but she is not. I’m curious as to the logic there. Hopefully she pulls through. It’s difficult even as a medical professional to continue to remain compassionate for those who willingly refuse to be vaccinated.

She had some sort of health condition and didn't get vaccinated because of it.

 

[jjenny]

Instead of fighting a losing battle with some of these governors, the simplest approach to protecting your own child and family would be to wear an N95 or KN95. Don’t expect others to protect you because clearly some just aren’t going to do it. Protect yourself. We’ve had KN95’s at the check out of local grocery stores for months and months now. Buy them. Wear them. It’s what medical professionals are wearing around known covid positives during aerosol-generating procedures when the patient obviously has no mask on at all. These masks protect the person wearing them. If everyone else isn’t going to step up, take steps to protect yourself and your family.

N95s aren't even made for children. For them to really be that protective, they have to fit very well.

 

[jjenny]

Thousands of anti-vaxxers take to central London to continue campaign against Covid vaccines | Daily Mail Online

Their body, their choice, but when they end up in a hospital, they are preventing other people from getting the care they need-at least here in the US hospitals are getting filled up.
Don' believe in vaccines-fine-but then stay home when infected. But they don't stay home. They end up filling up hospitals preventing everybody else from getting care.

 

[ilovewings]

Their body, their choice, but when they end up in a hospital, they are preventing other people from getting the care they need-at least here in the US hospitals are getting filled up.
Don' believe in vaccines-fine-but then stay home when infected. But they don't stay home. They end up filling up hospitals preventing everybody else from getting care.

It is so unfair-- these selfish people cause the death of others and they could care less

 

[Cool Cats]

Wisconsin school board member says families will 'become spoiled' with free lunch program

Sat, August 28, 2021, 6:00 AM
At nearly every Wisconsin public school, all students will be able to eat free meals this academic year, same as they did last year under a federally funded program responding to the pandemic.

But not in Waukesha, located approximately 20 miles from Milwaukee.

Administrators opted into the program last year but school board members intervened and hit the brakes this time around

Students pick up cereal breakfast before school at Bethune Academy in Milwaukee, where meals are free for all students. The School District of Waukesha opted to end a federally funded program this fall that would continue providing free meals for all students.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's decision to extend the Seamless Summer Option during the pandemic to offer free meals year-round has allowed for more COVID-safe practices by eliminating the need to collect payments and allowing meals to be served more easily in classrooms or outside.

Joseph Como, president of the school board said "Whatever you want to believe normal means I would say this is part of normalization."

Board member Karin Rajnicek said the free program made it easy for families to "become spoiled." Another said he "feared there would be a slow addiction to the service."

Waukesha students from low-income families will still be able to apply for free or reduced-price meals under the traditional National School Lunch Program.

In addition, as was practice before the pandemic, young students in grades lower than high school who come to school without a packed lunch, money or an accepted lunch program application, may be given cheaper meals of cheese sandwiches, finance director Sheri Stack said. Their guardians will be charged for them.

 

[SouthAussie]

Instead of fighting a losing battle with some of these governors, the simplest approach to protecting your own child and family would be to wear an N95 or KN95. Don’t expect others to protect you because clearly some just aren’t going to do it. Protect yourself. We’ve had KN95’s at the check out of local grocery stores for months and months now. Buy them. Wear them. It’s what medical professionals are wearing around known covid positives during aerosol-generating procedures when the patient obviously has no mask on at all. These masks protect the person wearing them. If everyone else isn’t going to step up, take steps to protect yourself and your family.

I wonder what the reality is of getting your children to keep their masks on at school, when other children don't have masks on and the school is not requiring it.

I would think the chances are pretty slim. Children don't like not being like the other kids. They don't like to be the ones who are set apart, and perhaps teased (or bullied) for their differences.

As I have stated before, a good thing about school uniforms is that they are a leveller. No rich kids in beautiful clothes, no poor kids in whatever their parents can afford, just all kids in the same school uniforms. I think the same will apply for masks.

 

[ilovewings]

So I go to get my hair done: prior to today, I am usually the only client in the morning. Now I had assumed that all persons in the salon would be masked up--- Uh, nope. I was shocked. There is no mandate here in Michigan for masks now that the Republican legislature has cut Governor Whitmer off at the knees. My stylist always wears a mask as do I. Not all of his clients do though-- He was telling me one of his clients told him that he won't get the vaccine because he knows he can be traced through the injection (rolling eyes); another of his clients is a nurse- not vaccinated: Says, oh, it is just a virus like any other. (SMH)---Most clients and stylists in the salon were not masked. I guess most of these people are totally clueless regarding the transmissibility of Delta. Sigh. I am in Michigan -for now, it is not too bad here but it is getting worse by the day and I expect as long as people carry on like there is no pandemic, Michigan will get worse.

 

[LadyL]

You would think they would have allowed these shelter dogs to be rescued. They shot them instead. Absolutely sickening.

15 rescue dogs, including 10 puppies, killed by council in Australia over COVID-19 concerns

A local government in the state of New South Wales in Australia faced criticism after reports surfaced they ordered 15 dogs killed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among shelter workers.

On Sunday, The Sydney Morning Herald reported the Bourke Shire Council, located in the northern part of New South Wales, shot and killed 15 impounded dogs so volunteers at another shelter wouldn't travel to pick up the animals. Of the 15 dogs, 10 were puppies, and one had just given birth to a litter.

disgusting
my heart hurts