Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Unfortunately they did not. Did you upload them or put them on a hosting site and link them?

 

Some major increases in drug use while in lock down. Those aren't weed tests, but some serious drugs. Another issue with having people locked down.

 

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/f...fNaTs=&utm_content=birkmeyer&utm_source=hasu&

Hospitalizations down across the board for major illnesses. Wonder if that contributes to the excess deaths we've seen this year?

"Hospital admissions fell precipitously with the declaration of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with several reports of hospitals operating at less than 50% capacity.1–3 Volumes fell in part because hospitals purposefully curtailed elective surgery and other non-critical medical services. But hospitals have also reported puzzling declines in admissions for acute medical illness, including stroke and acute myocardial infarction.4–8 In addition to their implications for hospital solvency,9 falling hospitalization rates could portend substantial harm to public health if patients defer care for life-threatening conditions.

Early evidence on how the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected US hospital admissions has thus far been limited to individual hospital systems,8 Veterans Affairs patients,10 or elderly patients participating in bundled payment programs.11 Much less is known about variations in admissions by age, insurance coverage, and sociodemographic group in this initial period of decline and during the first “rebound” in health care utilization in June/July 2020.12

Given the widespread uncertainty, public anxiety, stay-at-home orders and other restrictions imposed during the initial phase of the pandemic in April 2020, we hypothesized that many patients with acute medical illness, life threatening or not, stayed home out of fear of contagion or concerns about access at COVID-19-overrun hospitals.13 We also sought to gain insights on the extent to which patients continued to avoid hospital care as the first phase of the pandemic receded after April, restrictions eased, and businesses opened in many states."

 

Trump super-spreader event.....

 

Tampa international is offering antigen tests.

 

You also get tested by donating blood. Cholesterol screening too. Ive done it a couple times since March.
Also donated platelets. That sucked. It’s two hours and my entire arm was bruised and swollen for a couple weeks.

 

Another college death from complications related to having developed Covid-19 (yeah, I know, can't happen - especially to a kid who was an athlete in good health). The family has asked for the information to be released to help alert the rest of the student body at App State that they need to take this virus seriously. It ruins lives!

A separate article noted that the "complications" was form of swelling around the brain that became so severe as to require removing him from the ventilator. He passed away shortly after that. This complication has been reported by doctors in New York City, Detroit and Los Angeles in low numbers, but usually younger (25-50 years old) patients.

If you are so inclined, it would be nice to keep his family in your prayers.

19-year-old App State sophomore dies from COVID-19 complications

 

Sounds similar to those post viral complications some very young children rarely get. Multisystem Inflamatory Syndrome. Might be the same deal that also causes the myocarditis in slightly older age groups (and needs to be monitored very closely in athletes even post infection).

 

That’s a tragedy. But it’s about as common as a kid getting hit by a car. Just as tragic.

College student killed in Providence hit-and-run | Boston.com

 

We have idea how rare this is only 6 months into a pandemic.
Also, a major difference between deaths. A hit and run is a random act that the victim had no control over. A spreading virus induced infection is NOT a random event and one that is now proven to be very much controllable with modest precaution and just some common sense from everyone. Sadly, both young and old in this country continue to be proudly ignorant, and in so doing creating more and more of these so-called uncommon events.

 

Have you ever posted about a college student dying of any other communicable disease? Just curious.

 

Yeah, you are right. We should celebrate needless death and we should stop inconveniencing people so we can pass our kids off on someone else so we do not have to deal with them and so we can go out and act like morons getting publicly intoxicated. I will get with the right wingers and start celebrating that ONLY 200,000 meaningless people are dead and calling for more ignorance in our society.

 

How dare you post about coronavirus news in the US in a thread titled
“Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts”

 

Just saying. The second college student passing with covid you read about this morning obviously has you severely on tilt. Please don’t start researching needless college deaths in general. You may need professional help.

 

FSU COVID humor. Ignore the misleading title.

 

Both things have about the same likely hood of happening to a college aged kid. That's the point. Other than scare tactics. I mean, are we going to post about every college kid that dies from the flu? There is no ignorance, just looking at the facts. Try it sometime. It's useful.