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Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorNorth, Feb 25, 2020.

  1. G8trGr8t

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    Long covid in children

    Children get long Covid, too, and it can show up in unexpected ways - CNN

    It has kept him from staying at school all day. He has to limit how much he plays baseball with the other neighborhood kids. Even playing Fortnite for too long can leave him feeling sick the next day.


    He's one of potentially millions of kids with long Covid.

    "My stomach hurts. It's kind of hard to breathe. You have a stuffy nose. It's just an absurd amount of things that you can feel," Jack Ford said. "It's really annoying at times. It's not like a cold, you know, it feels like Covid
     
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  2. buckeyegator

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  3. ncargat1

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  4. AzCatFan

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    I'd say you have a problem understanding statistics. Omicrom did cause a rise in deaths of people vaccinated. But Omicron hit at a time with the highest vaccination rate. Over 70% of the total population in most areas, and higher when adjusted for age, where the majority of deaths occur.

    The bottom line is it still safer being vaccinated. From the article:

    The data also show that unvaccinated people remain at far higher risk than the vaccinated, and are far more likely to die if they do become ill, and they are at more risk than people who have had their booster shot.
     
  5. buckeyegator

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  6. littlebluelw

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    Played golf today with a buddy that’s had covid 3 times, twice since being vaccinated. First time kicked his butt. Pre vaccinated. Last two like a three day head cold.
    His golf game still sucks so vaccinating and immunities dont help that!
     
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  8. mutz87

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    The story is completely made up. Word to the wise, when you see things like this, don't accept it on face value, go look up some other sources to confirm the veracity because otherwise this is how mis & disinfo virally spreads. And those propagating it rely on people not paying close attention.
     
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  9. flgator2

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  10. mutz87

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    Vaxxed comprised 40% of the deaths, but 66% of the US pop. The unvaxxed death rate was still 10x higher than the vaxxed rate. NTM, as @ncargat1 pointed out, a very large majority of vaxxed deaths were elderly & those with multiple comorbidities. The lesson here is get vaccinated--and boosted if you haven't already.
     
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  11. AzCatFan

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    Here's the truth on the Pfizer dump. The study isn't new. It's from Dec, 2020. By April, 2021, both the CDC and British equivalent had confirmed studies that showed the vaccine date for pregnant and breast feeding women.
     
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  12. ncargat1

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    Uh oh....now the American Medical Association is in on it.

    Alternatively, here in the real world, in reviewing over 150,000 births in Sweden and Norway, there was no measurable increase in abnormal births with vaccinated mothers vs. not.

    From JAMA Network Publication:

    Association of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination During Pregnancy With Pregnancy Outcomes
     
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  13. BigCypressGator1981

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    Nobody cares
     
  15. ncargat1

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    And, on the other hand, data continues to mount that women infected during pregnancy are seeing higher than normal rates of still births and birth defects. So yeah, let's keep talking these women out of protecting themselves and the developing fetus.

    On a related note of not protecting the fetus and still births, does this mean these unvaccinated women who had still births related to a COVID infection will now go to jail in Louisiana? Just checking.

    SARS-CoV-2 Placentitis and Intraparenchymal Thrombohematomas Among COVID-19 Infections in Pregnancy
     
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  16. gatordavisl

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  17. flgator2

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    Your response shows me that you care
     
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  20. duggers_dad

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    For those still keeping score, last week in Canada there were 227 COVID deaths. 226 of them were vaccinated.