Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

who do you think championed the loss of faith in science and facts, like, I don't know, integrity of our voting system?

who benefits the most if we do not trust our scientists, doctors, or election officials? maybe our enemies?

 

The Lancet just published another vaccine efficacy study. The results are about as good as anyone could hope for. No, the vaccine isn't 100% effective at stopping all infection, but then no vaccine in the history of mankind has ever done that. Breakthrough case isn't a term that was just invented for COVID. But what the vaccine does do is significantly lower the number of overall cases, and does even better at lowering the severity of infection. Bottom line is the best way to prevent COVID infection, prevent hospitalization from COVID, and not dying from COVID is the vaccine.

 

The fascism going on right now is no doubt scary!

 

Our pediatrician is still on board with not vaccinating kids. She says if kids are healthy they just don't need it. Healthy includes being active, eating right (including vitamins). The ones that get hospitalized around here have other risk factors (currently 8 hospitalizations for 0-18 in Alachua).

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

I posted an earlier version of this, I don't think much has changed except the overall numbers have gone up. Hoping overall numbers come down soon but I don't see the percentages changing much.

 

embarrassing

 

1 of 18 deaths at their hospitals yesterday was fully vaccinated. Ages 24 - 93.

99% staffed beds being used. Staffing is limiting factor. Bad time for heart attack or anything else that requires ICU.

Lee County

COVID-19 UPDATE: AUGUST 31, 2021: As of today, Lee Health has: - 626 COVID-19 patients isolated in our hospitals (inpatient). - Of these patients, 14 of them are children being treated at Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida. - Yesterday, we had 62 new COVID-19 hospital admissions and 60 COVID-19 discharges. - 45% of our ventilators and 4% of our ICU rooms are available for use. We have 92 COVID-19 patients on ventilators and 111 in the intensive care unit. - This morning, census was at 99% of staffed operational bed capacity. - Since the start of the pandemic, 927 patients have lost their lives inside our hospitals to COVID-19, including 18 yesterday. OTHER UPDATES: Lee Health experienced another grim milestone yesterday with 18 patients dying of COVID-19. This is a single-day high during the pandemic. These patients ranged in age from 24 to 93, and only 1 of them were confirmed to be fully vaccinated. The amount of death our community has experienced from COVID-19 is tragic, and with the Delta variant, the coronavirus is spreading quicker and killing more people. Today, we have 92 patients with COVID-19 on ventilators, and we know that many of them will not make it home. Most of these deaths could have been avoided through vaccination. Vaccination decreases your risk of getting very sick or being hospitalized and even further decreases your chances of requiring breathing support from a ventilator. Lee Health encourages everyone who has yet to be vaccinated to do so immediately. Lee Health offers COVID-19 vaccines for anyone 12 and older at its walk-in Community Vaccination Clinic, located inside Gulf Coast Medical Center. It’s open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 7:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. and there is no cost for the vaccine.

 

True. Though, I think bad ones have control and define the GOP right now.

 

Agree. Thus my dropping them like a lava filled biscuit.

 

Latest conspiracy about inflating COVID numbers debunked.

Fact Check-CDC lab update on COVID-19 PCR tests misinterpreted

I've been told multiple times in the last few days that "the PCR test doesn't differentiate between COVID and all coronaviruses."

 

You sure are fantastic with your word-smithing to ensure that you are factually correct, in not correct in spirit. You know damned well that there like 3 instances of primary infections occurring in the home since the virus first does not just spontaneously "pop up" in your house. The home is a source of SECONDARY infection, some sick person had to carry it into your home, and you know that as well as I do. If you dramatically reduce the primary infection spread, the secondary infection spread drops as fast if not faster. The Trump-like repetition of lies and half-truths over and over until someone finally believes them is tiresome.

 

The collapse of this country, well underway, is a direct result of willful ignorant and happily hateful from all sides.

 

My reply was "If the number of infected is much lower, then that would obviously make COVID way more deadly and thus worthy of extreme caution, right?" Crickets.

 

It is quite clear by the data masks do not slow the spread of Covid. It easy to see the spikes of high and low compliant communities.

If the mask works though. The number one place it should be worn is where it spreads the most. Especially when you consider the ones you love the most are there.

I just makes no logical sense to watch a family get out of their car with no mask and walk into Publix/Walmart/Bass Pro/etc and put a mask on to then get back in their car and take it off. But it certainly provides theater…

 

2 children, including 1 infant, die of COVID-19 in Jacksonville | firstcoastnews.com

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Two Wolfson Children's Hospital patients, one just two weeks old, are among the latest victims of COVID-19 in the Jacksonville area, according to the hospital's intensive care unit chief.

Michael Gayle, medical director of Wolfson's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Wolfson Children's Hospital and chief of UF Health Jacksonville's Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, cited the deaths during an online town hall webinar Wednesday night.


"In the last 24 hours, we've had two children die," Gayle said. "Children do get less problems with COVID, but they do get severe conditions and we are seeing more and more of them in the ICU."

 

From what I'm hearing locally, the other patient was a student at a St Augustine area high school.

 

Holy shit that is freaking awful. I can't imagine what their parents are going through.

 

I will try to be more precise in the future.

 

Masks aren't a long term exposure solution. Even if you wear them around the house as much as possible, you are still sharing a common space for long periods of time. Unless you are using N95 masks, and properly changing/disposing them, cloth masks aren't likely to help you around the house.

But a cloth mask may help prevent the spread when a family goes into Walmart/Publix/Bass Pro/etc. because most people don't spend hours upon hours in those places. So if that same family is infected with COVID, and they go into the store, and spend 30 minutes shopping, if they all wear a mask properly, the chance of them spreading COVID is reduced. Not down to zero, but reduced nonetheless.

Masks won't help if a family member is infected and the family spend a lot of time around him/her in a closed area with circulated air. Eventually, enough virus particles will get out to infect others. But same person, wearing a mask in a store exposing others for just 30 minutes, different story.

 

SO CONSERVATIVES -
Those of you that laughed at me when the number of dead was 150,000 and I predicted a doubling in no time -

MAN UP!

Covid will surpass 1918 - 1919 numbers / Spanish Flu in the good ole USA.
FYI - That number was 650K.

Sign up boys, sign up!!!