Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

I am not going to bother quoting anyone in particular, but the ignorance on this thread is impressive. It has to be trolling, no one is that if ignorant.
Anyone surprised about how poorly this is going?

 

Until the numbers level off again we just don't know. Hope for the best prepare for the worst.

 

It just keeps changing over time.

 

Care to make another prediction?

 

Hey, one county in Florida accounts for 25 per cent of the cases in the state? Guess what party the Mayor belongs to? Guess who has endorsed him in his run for Congress? Do some research and report. Edit: here is a hint:
Coronavirus: Miami-Dade mayor says ‘this thing is everywhere,' calls on community to ‘take responsibility'

 

Here is one: Bevin will not be holding a victory party this November.

 

The article was careful to emphasize "natural heard immunity". The Dr. Daniel Griffin was the person I was referring to as well. However, he and the panel on the podcast were very quick to point out that viruses have ways to subvert a human's natural immune response that do not subvert a vaccine promoted response. So, until much more research is done, people should not be casually throwing out the "so long her immunity hopes" because we simply do not know enough to even comment on that.

 

They touched on this topic in the podcast I was listening to and next week will discuss it more in depth when Anthony Fauci joins the discussion. Four items that they touched on were as follows:

1. Everyone learned from the mistake in New York with nursing homes - 50% of NY deaths were in nursing homes
2. Basic care has improved - not using ventilators until zero choice left, turning patients frequently in beds, use of steroids at the proper does and time, and the biggest....pushing anti-coagulants (recent study showed 37% of all Covid patients develop pulmonary embolisms)
3. Improved medication knowledge (even those drugs not FDA approved), but they have stopped "cocktails" - they felt this "throw the kitchen sink approach" early was killing more people than it was helping.
4. Age of those infected is much, much lower than back in March.

 

Could the second infection be a mutated version? Therefore easier to infect.

 

One of the biggest treatment differences between then and now is they no longer just throw someone on a ventilator; I've heard at least a half dozen doctors interviewed this week alone talking about how much better the treatment is, and that ventilators are now a last resort. They're learning plenty; just think how much faster this could be over with a modicum of common sense... just trust the science already.

 

Where are you getting that info from? Google shows a different figure of 709. Has a good graph and deaths are trending down even as cases are going up (and I think some positive factor is causing that; not a lack of time between positive test and death).

Sorry, link is too long to post, but just in google put in Coronavirus deaths, United States.

 

Worldometer

 

Not that different from Google (when looking at death rate to infection rate), just curious.

 

my bad, was referring to the mo^^n in Michigan, a democrat

 

yes. the strength of the spike has increased. Natural evolution to survive is become more infectious while becoming less lethal

Mutated coronavirus shows significant boost in infectivity | Scripps Research

JUPITER, FL — A tiny genetic mutation in the SARS coronavirus 2 variant circulating throughout Europe and the United States significantly increases the virus’ ability to infect cells, lab experiments performed at Scripps Research show.

“Viruses with this mutation were much more infectious than those without the mutation in the cell culture system we used,” says Scripps Research virologist Hyeryun Choe, PhD, senior author of the study.

The mutation had the effect of markedly increasing the number of functional spikes on the viral surface, she adds. Those spikes are what allow the virus to bind to and infect cells.

“The number—or density—of functional spikes on the virus is 4 or 5 times greater due to this mutation,” Choe says.

 

If true, that's really, really not good.

 

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