Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

THat is because Trump drove traditionally red areas blue on 2016. Like Orange County.

 

39-14 in 2014. Yeah, very right leaning LOL.

 

Just don’t address the nonsense anymore.

 

Say this: she should visit a COVID ward and not wear a mask. Big merit to visit the sick. Put her money where her mouth is

 

A friend of my MIL is a teacher. She had a student come to school for multiple days running a fever even though his parents were told to keep him home. Of course he tested positive and now everyone is freaking out. It's a tough situation for everyone.

 

Say this: she should visit a COVID ward and not wear a mask. Big merit to visit the sick. Put her money where her mouth is

 

Agree. Reluctantly I blocked several posters and it's refreshing. I try to guess who you guys are responding to and I bet I'm betting 1.000

 

Was it not the chart you chose to post that totaled nearly 200K covid deaths? Oh the embarrassing inconvenience of evidence. ROTFLMAO. I certainly won't be waiting around for that herd MENTALITY to kick in. Good luck with that. Game Set Match. Just go home. And wear a mask. Pretend to have empathy.

 

Trump didn’t just fail. He knew the problem and chose to lie about it and has doubled down on his lies. He is unfit for office. Let’s not sugarcoat it.

 

I just don’t waste my time. The problem is that I am catching up after the religious holiday for me and I have to read the nonsense. Folks who work on statistics are posting their explanations of statistical rigor and peer review, and they get mocking responses. The issue catching up is reading through it and not getting worthwhile analysis. This poster made up a word that is an insult and repeatedly uses it and the mods don’t delete the posts. Spams the board. When the games start, I plan on spending more time in the Den. For Sure.

 

instinct is to correct misinformation so I have to use ignore to override my compulsion to refute nonsense

 

He will

 

would just create one more patient that health care workers and other innocent people would have to risk being exposed to

 

You still here, sorry I forgot about you. Still thinking people under 75 are young people? Lol. Stay safe in the basement.

 

Not one patient. She would be a super spreader. And would never do it. Because that woman is stupid and a liar. Btw: love the vacation photos G-d really knows how to do beautiful!

 

invest in dialysis centers. lot of kidney damage to even younger people resulting in more and more dialysis patients

Mount Sinai Researchers Warn Increase in Chronic Kidney Disease Linked to COVID-19 | Mount Sinai - New York

• New York, NY
• (September 03, 2020)

The results of a large -scale study of nearly 4,000 patients lead by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggest that nephrologists will need to prepare for a significant uptick in patients with chronic kidney disease, the result of exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. The study was published today in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

“We are grappling with a great deal of uncertainty as to how the virus will impact the kidneys in the long haul,” says principal investigator, Girish Nadkarni, MD. “We may be facing an epidemic of post-COVID-19 kidney disease, and that, in turn, could mean much greater numbers of patients who require kidney dialysis and even transplants.” Dr. Nadkarni is Co- Director of the COVID Informatics Center, Clinical Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

"In light of the data we have collected about acute kidney injury (AKI) and other kidney abnormalities associated with COVID-19, our first priority must be to identify patients early and disrupt the progression of kidney disease. We are currently using machine learning to build models that can predict outcomes such as these which will be assessed within Mount Sinai and disseminated to other hospitals across the country," adds Benjamin Glicksberg, PhD, a senior author of the study, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health.

The need is urgent. “For patients with kidney failure, the prospect of dialysis is one that is life-long, unless a transplant is possible,” says Dr. Nadkarni. “It is terribly hard on the patient, requiring clinic visits three times a week for up to four hours at a time. It is also staff intensive and very costly.”

In their study, Dr. Nadkarni and a team of Mount Sinai researchers describe troubling consequences of COVID–19 on the kidneys, including AKI, which occured in 46 percent of hospitalized patients, one fifth of whom required dialysis. Most striking, in-hospital mortality was 50 percent among patients with AKI, versus 8 percent of patients hospitalized with COVID -19 who did not develop AKI. Only 30 percent of patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19 and developed AKI survived and experienced renal recovery.

 

thanks. all the albums I have uploaded are here. as much as I try and learn to do urban and people photography, I always find myself focusing on landscapes and wildlife. want to do more dive photography but wife wants to do more urban trips while I want beaches and mountains.

bluewaterfever’s albums | Flickr

Australia has some decent dive photo's (got a LOT to learn about dive photography), Colorado, Moab, Arizona has some great redrock pictures if I say so myself. Good for the next time you are stuck on a conference call you really don't need to be on. Have a few other trips I need to sort through and upload

 

fat greasy political hands force CDC to retract guidance re: covid being primarily spread through aerosols. ALl self respecting medical professionals should go on strike at CDC at this point

CDC changes, then retracts, web posting on how virus spreads

NEW YORK (AP) — The top U.S. public health agency stirred confusion by posting — and then taking down — an apparent change in its position on how easily the coronavirus can spread from person to person through the air.

But officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say their position has not really changed and that the post last week on the agency’s website was an error that has been taken down.

It was “an honest mistake” that happened when a draft update was posted before going through a full editing and approval process, said Dr. Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director for infectious diseases.

The post suggested that the agency believes the virus can hang in the air and spread over an extended distance. But the agency continues to believe larger and heavier droplets that come from coughing or sneezing are the primary means of transmission, Butler said.

 

do you know that it has now been proven that even young children can pass covid on to other kids and adults? Add how in hades can you be okay with a potus whose lies likely led to an additional 100k deaths that didn't need to happen if he would have told the truth and followed the playbook?

Kids caught the coronavirus at child care centers and infected family members, CDC report says

Twelve kids who likely caught Covid-19 at three child care centers in Utah went on to spread the virus elsewhere and infected some parents and siblings, according to a new study published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The authors of the study note that research had previously shown that kids 10 years and older could spread the virus in schools. The new study is evidence that even younger kids, including an 8-month-old baby, can still spread the virus, despite not getting severely sick from Covid-19, the researchers said.

The study looked at outbreaks that occurred in three child care centers in Salt Lake City, between April and July. Using contact tracing data collected at the time of the outbreaks, the researchers used the data to “retrospectively construct transmission chains” to determine precisely how the virus spread. A total of 83 kids attended the three child care centers included in the study, the researchers said.

Among the three outbreaks, the researchers said 12 kids were infected with Covid-19 at the child care centers, though three of them never developed symptoms and nine developed just mild symptoms. The study says those 12 kids came into contact with 46 people not associated with the child care facilities and appear to have infected 12, or more than a quarter, of them. Those infected by the kids include six mothers, one of whom was hospitalized, three siblings and three others, the study says.

“Transmission was observed from two of three children with confirmed, asymptomatic COVID-19,” the researchers wrote, providing more evidence that those who do not have Covid-19 symptoms can still spread the virus. “COVID-19 is less severe in children than it is in adults, but children can still play a role in transmission