Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Ares are not even doing a sick out, they are just sick.
My wife is just subbing in Sid/pid (sp?). While the kids have zero control over their germs, there are only two of them so she can generally control the situation.

 

Sorry to hear this. Best wishes to your mom and keep us posted. Sending positive vibes for a full recovery

 

As of tonight, Friday 12/11....the FDA has granted Pfizer Emergency Use Authorization for its vaccine (no longer candidate).....

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Meadows told FDA chief to approve by Friday or resign. We can't get rid of this cancer fast enough

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told FDA chief Stephen Hahn vaccine must be authorized Friday or he needs to resign (msn.com)

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn he needed to grant an emergency use authorization for Pfizer/BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine by the end of Friday, and if not, he would have to resign, an administration official and a source familiar with the situation tell CNN.

Another person familiar with matter, who also confirmed the demand that the vaccine be authorized by the end of Friday, said President Donald Trump has been venting about the FDA chief since the vaccine was rolled out in the UK earlier this week.

 

They had been reviewing data since they received it. Unlike other countries, they were actually attempting to do the right thing and make sure we did not have another fiasco like 2009.

 

Posturing. The FDA was going to approve it as soon as the independent committee gave their recommendation.

 

Just grandstanding on behalf of President Tough Guy. The FDA people were working as fast as the could.

 

And people wonder why our education lags in the U.S.

 

Nice to see all the various state imposed restrictions over the past few weeks haven't done shit to curb the spread. Governors making calls based purely on political calculation.

 

While this comment is obviously ridiculous (we don't have access to the world in which no restrictions were passed to see what the alternative infection rate would be), it should be noted that it is an especially weird comment for a disease that would have less than 1,000 cases.

 

Education doesn't lag in the US.

 

I don’t think masks are the end all be all. I will say we require them at work and that we had an asymptomatic guy walk around the building for three days before he knew he was positive.
All his fellow managers and me tested negative. Masks, distance when you can and plenty of hand washing.
The original guy (the only other Gator in the building) is doing ok.
His uncle who he got it from just passed away.

 

Copy and pasting something I previously wrote.


Every time the latest international tests results are released, people moan about the low scores of American students. On average, we score poorly. A year or so later they release enough information that we can see the scores for subgroups. This never gets as much publicity. But the results are pretty consistent, American education is doing a great job with what it has to work with. The problem isn't American education, the problem is American poverty.


In Math, our overall average is 470 (40th out of 73), below the OECD average of 490. But if you look at students in schools with less than 10% free/reduced lunch, their average is 530, good for 7th overall. Our next tier of students, 10-25% free/reduced lunch have an average of 514, putting them 11th overall.


In Reading, our overall average is 497 (24th out of 73), just above the OECD average of 493. The 10% or less kids score 548, putting them 1st in the world. The 10-25% kids were at 542, also putting them 1st in the world (only behind out 10% or less students). Our 25-50% free/reduced lunch students scored a 515, good for 8th (or 10th if you include our other two groups).


In Science, our overall score is 496 (25th out of 73), just above the OECD average of 493. The 10% score is 553, 2nd in the world. 10-25% get 546, also 2nd. The 25-50% group has an average of 518, tied for 10th (or 12th if you include our other two groups).


Now these aren't apples to apples comparisons because we aren't breaking out the rich kids in the other countries. But we know that inequality in the US is far greater than inequality in the other countries at the top of the rankings. Those other countries put a lot more effort into mitigating the effects of poverty on children. Their higher and lower SES students do not perform as differently as ours do. When researchers who have access to data from other countries do similar comparisons, they find that our students, at every breakdown of demographics, are at or near the top in every subject.


The problem with American education isn't in American schools or teachers, it is in American communities and families. The problem with American education is American poverty.


Relevant links:
Programme for International Student Assessment - Wikipedia
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA): 2015 Results - Mathematics Literacy: School Poverty Indicator
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA): 2015 Results - Reading Literacy: School Poverty Indicator
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA): 2015 Results - Science Literacy: School Poverty Indicator

 

BREAKING: Charley Pride Dead at 86 From COVID-19 Complications

 

GOP going to cross ref voter roles with vaccinations to make sure there are not any traitorous science believers in their ranks

 

Today the first vaccines shipped out - FedEx live on MSNBC. Trump spews election fraud nonsense and claims any other president would have needed 5 years to have a vaccine. He is his own worst enemy to the end.

 

What a moron. "It's a virus it's not a pandemic."