Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

agreed, I didnt think you are supposed to stand the reflecting pool. Where is the capital police to enforce these policies.

 

they were de-funded

 

It’s Jenny’s fault. She did it first.

 

so, i guess just like all the protesters in washington today, like the floyd protesters will of course not get covid even though they were packed like sardines, only republicans who do not social distance are criticized by the media.

 

Been that way since the start of the pandemic. It’s to be expected at this point.

 

please show me a post where someone was defending protestors not wearing masks and/or staying distant. I don't recall one and I read most posts here. On the contrary, I have read a lot of your posts bemoaning statements that just don't exist anywhere but in your imagination.

 

who has defended protestors not following guidelines? why do you and yours keep flailing at this non-existent position?

 

I do not have the ability to search through all the posts, but several people commented that the protesters, rioters and looters, monument topplers, etc made little to no difference is spreading covid.

 

Find the media chastising the protestors in June for not social distancing. Good luck with that. Contrast that to the Jewish funeral in NY that got shut down for being near each other and then the media ripping churches for holding services. It’s ok to admit there was a double standard. It is real but I guess if you pull a Costanza and believe the lie you make it true...

 

Those people were likely referencing research that showed little evidence of protests being a vector.

Black Lives Matter Protests Didn’t Contribute to the COVID-19 Surge

 

Doctors find possible case of COVID-19 reinfection in US

The patient was first diagnosed with coronavirus in April after he had a sore throat, cough, headache, nausea and diarrhea, the researchers wrote in a pre-print study posted Thursday. He got better around April 27, and he tested negative for the virus twice afterwards.

He continued to feel well for about a month. Then on May 31 he sought care for fever, headache, dizziness, cough, nausea and diarrhea. Five days later, he was hospitalized and required ongoing oxygen support. He was tested again for COVID-19 and the results were positive.

The Nevada researchers examined genetic material from both coronavirus specimens collected from the man. Their analysis suggests he had two distinct viral infections.

 

Anyone want to take a guess at when Colleges and Universities re-opened in North Carolina?

 

If we are going to have a full season of college football, players are going to have to social distance, not socialize as kids normally do, wear masks, and hope that non-atheletes are respomsible.

More than 1,200 students test positive for COVID-19 at major university

As of Saturday, more than 1,200 students and 166 employees and staff have tested positive for COVID-19 at the University of Alabama.

Positive tests among students have more than doubled since the university unveiled its COVID-19 tracking dashboard early this week. The dashboard, which includes case counts, positivity rates, isolation and space occupancy, is similar to what many state health departments use to report coronavirus data to the public.

In recent days, students have shared photos on social media of crowds and lines outside of bars in Tuscaloosa, where the university is located. Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox responded by issuing an executive order to close bars for 14 days, from Aug. 24 to Sept. 8.

While many universities have opted for remote-only learning because of the pandemic, large outbreaks linked to colleges and universities have been increasingly commonplace at schools that encouraged students to return to campus. In addition to the University of Alabama, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Central Florida are among the schools reporting spikes in COVID-19 infections among students and staff.

 

That isn’t good, it goes against the theory of antibodies likely lasting 6 months to a year. The Hong Kong guy was 6 months, so that actually makes sense, lined up with how long some were speculating immunity would last.

This one would be worse news as it implies very short term immunity, but it’s just 1 guy, so hopefully just a fluke. If there wasn’t some immunity I think they would already have many documented cases of reinfection by now.

 

without data to tell us how many of those people, if any, are hospitalized due to the virus, these kind of headlines are designed for panic and articles are Pretty much worthless. If like most students getting tested upon coming to campus, the headline could read...

“1200 perfectly healthy students who had No idea they were sick tested positive upon return to campus. No one would have even known they were Covid positive if not for student testing protocols’.

 

This shows community spread on the Alabama campus. 1366 students and faculty in a very short time. Concerned the president of the University and mayor of Tuscaloosa. The mayor closed bars as a result of this. You see, the spread has consequences beyond the individual sick. And every where there is spread, the speed finds itself to others who get sick and hospitalized. And deaths follow. Your assumption of 1200 asymptomatic people are not evident on the link. And, your focus on just the sock person and accusation of panic just show: a) an argument of a false binary choice between responsible behavior and panic; b) a profound lack of understanding of the contagious nature of the disease and the consequences of community spread; and c) that 180,000 deaths plus others with long term consequences apparently don’t move you at all.

 

One virologist came out with an opinion of when Covid-19 will end: never. It's apparently THAT contagious. He compares it to the measles, which had a vaccine developed in 1963, and the vaccine was enhanced in '68 and '71, and is still not eradicated half a century later.

I'm an Infectious Disease Doctor and Here's When COVID Will 'End'

 

Anybody up for a diversion? I was supposed to be returning tomorrow from a 3 week trip to London and Scotland with a overnight pub crawl tour to end the trip in Dublin before the flights home. That was our big family trip scheduled for this summer. Our first trip to Europe was last year, We started in Barcelona (great miles priced tickets to get to Europe on Iberia out of Miami for the five of us) where we spent 5 nights touring Barcelona and taking a day trip out to Montserrat. Nest stop was Norway for 8 nights and then Ireland for 4.

We'll start this virtual vacation at Sagrada Familia. Church has been under construction for 800 years and still isn't complete. Current completion date estimated 2025 +/-. Finally got a building permit last July, and I thought Collier County was tough. Designed by Gaudi who was architect and engineer. No EU trip for us so I guess revisiting last year's trip is next closest thing at this point. I really, really miss travel.

Rate this post a like or fistbump or ?? if people want the trip to continue and I will try and do a post per night for a diversion.