Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

So serious illness doesn't matter now? Only deaths?

Also from the article you posted:

"It’s a depressing numbers game: If 100 children become infected, one or two might end up in the hospital. Push the caseload up to 180,000—the number of kids diagnosed with the virus nationwide during the week ending Aug. 19—and at least 1,800 are likely to get sick enough to need hospitalization."

 

If he dies it wouldn't be from the Ivermectin if that's your question.

Personally I don't believe Ivermectin does much if anything for patients with Covid from what I've seen. But it won't kill you unless you take massive doses of it just like Tylenol won't kill you unless you take massive doses.

 

Again, the CDC director said the reason for uptick in hospitalizations are from RSV. This isn't complicated.

 

Again, the CDC has the data of who is in the hospital WITH Covid and who is in the hospita BECAUSE of covid. Release that data and then everyone can know for sure. BUT, RSV is a huge contributor to the increase in hospitalizations. Anyone arguing otherwise has an agenda.

 

Kids being back in school will result in a lot more being tested. When a quote says we have surpassed the fall’s surge numbers, what does that mean numbers wise for hospitalizations. A lot of semantics. Certainly and unusual out of season spike in RSV should prompt a deeper look at interplay with covid.

Sort of like only 10% of ICU beds left.. well how many are normally open? How many beds are normally in play. I need someone to do the higher math as I already put my shoes on.

 

Not what Walensky said: "But the - because the absolute number of cases is so high (again this is regarding COVID) - the absolute number of children who are coming to the hospital is so high"

Walensky goes on to say the problem of pediatric hospitals getting flooded is further exacerbated by an increase in RSV.

 

I posted the CDC Director saying its mostly RSV. You keep up thinking its just covid.

 

No, champ, you didn't. But good effort. Pat yourself on the back for a trying to read.

 

I see you skipped the part about "many of the hospitalizations that are accumulating in pediatric hospital beds are infected with RSV."

Weird that you missed that part...

 

Solid use of the English language there sport.

 

No I didn't. Her first sentence was about covid. She goes on to explain that "many" (not most as you claim) pediatric hospitalizations are due to RSV (which makes the overcrowding a bigger issue). But she 100% says that more kids are being admitted to the hospital with Delta covid because more kids are getting Delta covid. And of course they are! More are being infected. So more are going to the hospital. That's how math works, kiddo.

 

No reason why a kid can't have both RSV and COVID. Nowhere does the CDC or AAP experts say this. Also, RSV is not a big driver in pediatric hospitalizations on a normal basis here in the US. But having both infections can cause worse symptoms.

Just because more kids are showing up in hospitals with RSV, doesn't mean COVID isn't a major factor. The two aren't mutually exclusive. You don't have one or the other.

 

Wow, we have the AAP and the CDC saying covid hospitalizations aren't up a crazy amount like some on here are saying but hey, lets believe some posters who stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Keep up the good fight sport.

 

What you are saying isn’t what Walensky said. Nor with the data posted. But, that’s Ok. Everyone else understands it.

 

3rd conservative radio host who condemned vaccines dies of Covid

 

Haven't seen anything in writing yet, but my wife just got a notice that her sub teacher pay will double starting next week as Cobb County deals with teacher shortages amid an impressive surge in covid cases.
Not really a big deal for us, it is her "volunteer job" as she just subs for special needs teachers that are her friends. Been brutal here and an incompetent school board doesn't help.

 

Maybe we can post more of these. Sounds fun.

 

Yeah, if only they required masks, everything would be great...

 

It's his schtick, if he keeps repeating it, and being slightly annoying, he can get everyone else to give up or lose their temper, and then he can feel like the winner (see post #26395).

I don't really understand why winning is more important than learning the truth, but some people are wired differently.

 

People like this are why vaccination sights in GA are having to shut down due to anti-vaxxer's threats. It's insane.