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Post by domeplease on Jan 10, 2021 12:50:52 GMT -5
--01-07-21: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/these-3-states-have-the-worst-covid-outbreaks-in-the-entire-world/ss-BB1cyncg?li=BBnbfcL These 3 States Have the Worst COVID Outbreaks in the Entire World.--01-08-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-reports-new-daily-record-tops-4000-coronavirus-deaths-for-the-first-time/ar-BB1cA2s8?li=BBnb7Kz US reports new daily record, tops 4,000 coronavirus deaths for the first time.--01-08-21: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-cdc-just-issued-this-grim-warning-about-the-covid-surge/ss-BB1cAa2L?li=BBnbfcL The CDC Just Issued This Grim Warning About the COVID Surge
The first week of the new year hasn't brought any pandemic relief for the United States. Jan. 2 saw the highest number of new cases in a single day, with 291,384 new cases reported, and Jan. 6 saw the highest number of deaths in a single day, with 3,865 fatalities reported.
Now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a grim warning about the COVID surge, predicting the coming weeks to likely be the worst of the entire pandemic.
--01-08-21: www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-07/national-guard-refrigerated-trucks-help-manage-covid-deaths?utm_source=sfmc_100035609&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=37207+Essential+California+1%2f8%2f21&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.latimes.com%2fcalifornia%2fstory%2f2021-01-07%2fnational-guard-refrigerated-trucks-help-manage-covid-deaths&utm_id=20997&sfmc_id=3384599 As bodies pile up at hospital morgues, National Guard and refrigerated trucks arrive to help. |
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Post by domeplease on Jan 12, 2021 15:52:57 GMT -5
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Post by domeplease on Jan 15, 2021 12:25:23 GMT -5
*** A MUST READ--01-13-21: WE HAVE A VERY DIFFICULT TIME JUST TRYING TO LOCKDOWN A BURB:
China Places Over 22 Million on Lockdown Amid New Covid Wave When a handful of new coronavirus cases materialized this month in a province surrounding Beijing — apparently spread at a village wedding party — the Chinese authorities bolted into action. a group of people standing in a room: Testing for the coronavirus on Tuesday in Shijiazhuang, China, one of three cities in Hebei Province that are on lockdown. They locked down two cities with more than 17 million people, Shijiazhuang and Xingtai. They ordered a crash testing regime of nearly every resident there, which was completed in a matter of days. They shut down transportation and canceled weddings, funerals and, most significantly, a provincial Communist Party conference. By this week the lockdowns expanded to include another city on the edge of Beijing, Langfang, as well as a county in Heilongjiang, a northeastern province. Districts in Beijing itself, the Chinese capital, also shut down. More than 22 million people in all have been ordered to remain inside their homes — double the number affected last January when China’s central government locked down Wuhan, the central city where the virus was first reported, in a move that was then seen as extraordinary. --01-13-21 I HAVE WARNED PREVIOUSLY THAT WE MUST GET THE VIRUS UNDER CONTROL TO AVOID MORE MUTATIONS THAT COULD BE VERY DEADLY:www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/ohio-researchers-say-theyve-identified-two-new-covid-strains-likely-originating-in-the-us.html Ohio researchers say they’ve identified two new Covid strains likely originating in the U.S. Ohio researchers said Wednesday that they’ve discovered two new variants of the coronavirus, one of which has become the dominant strain in Columbus, Ohio. The new strain prevalent in the city appears to spread more easily, the researchers said. “This new Columbus strain has the same genetic backbone as earlier cases we’ve studied, but these three mutations represent a significant evolution,” Dr. Dan Jones, lead author of the study, said. AND—01-15-21: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/new-covid-variant-in-us-may-now-be-dominant-form-scientists-say/ar-BB1cMO4d?li=BBnb7Kz New COVID Variant in U.S. May Now Be Dominant Form, Scientists Say
Scientists say they have identified a new variant of SARS-CoV-2—the virus which causes COVID-19—in the United States that may be the most dominant form in the country.--01-14-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/post-covid-lungs-worse-than-the-worst-smokers-lungs-surgeon-says/ar-BB1cKDpR?li=BBnb7Kz Post-COVID lungs worse than the worst smokers' lungs, surgeon says.--01-14-21: us.yahoo.com/news/covid-19-infection-gives-immunity-001216996.html COVID-19 infection gives some immunity, but virus can still be spread, study finds.--01-14-21: www.newyorker.com/news/california-chronicles/what-the-san-francisco-bay-area-can-teach-us-about-fighting-a-pandemic?utm_campaign=wp_todays_worldview&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_todayworld What the San Francisco Bay Area Can Teach Us About Fighting a Pandemic. |
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Post by domeplease on Jan 16, 2021 16:53:55 GMT -5
--01-15-21: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-cdc-just-issued-this-horrifying-covid-warning/ss-BB1cMseE?li=BBnbfcL --01-15-21: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-new-covid-variant-has-been-discovered-in-brazil-%e2%80%94-heres-what-we-know-so-far/ar-BB1cMKe4?li=BBnbfcL A new Covid variant has been discovered in Brazil — here's what we know so far.--01-15-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/does-wearing-2-masks-protect-against-covid-19-better-than-one-heres-what-experts-say/vi-BB1cMTUk Does Wearing 2 Masks Protect Against COVID-19 Better Than One? Here's What Experts Say.--01-15-21 BRAVO—NO JAB—NO JOB: www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/this-company-threatened-to-ax-workers-refusing-the-vaccine-by-threatening-a-no-jab-no-job-policy/ar-BB1cMnXG?li=BBnbfcL --01-16-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-races-to-catch-up-with-other-countries-in-covid-sequencing-research/ar-BB1cN8va?li=BBnb7Kz
DUE TO THE SURGE HERE IN BAJA SOUTH BCS:
--01-15-21 BUT THEY DID NOT CLOSE DOWN BARS/RESTAURANTS (STUPID) BUT DID PUT IN A 7:00PM CURFEW (BRAVO): Due to the increase in Covid infections in BCS, they suspend pedestrian use of the boardwalk, cinemas, churches, gyms and more ... The State Health Safety Committee reported this afternoon that the considerable increase in Covid19 infections continues in #BCS, which is why it was determined that La Paz, Comondú and Loreto go further back at the traffic light, to alert level 5, critical. This determines the # suspension, starting tomorrow, of the following activities: -Pedestrian activity on the boardwalk (that is, only vehicular traffic is allowed).
-Religious and worship activities
-Boat rides
-Sport fishing
-Cinemas, drive-ins and theaters
-Libraries, Museums and art galleries
-Car wash establishments, furniture, etc.
-Agencies of tourist activities, ecotourism and camps
-Beauty salons
-Furniture, appliances, and the like
-Electronics stores
-Jewelers
-Trade of perfumery and cosmetic items
-Retail of toys, video games
-Hunting repair
-Retail of cell phone accessories
-Gym and sports centers
-Flower shops
-Gift shops
-Stationery
-Retail trade of haberdashery and bonnet articles
-Printing workshops and the like
-Manufacture and sale of textiles
-Tailor shops, sewing workshops and the like
-Retail trade of new balances, electrical appliances, electronics and household goods
-Retail trade of sporting goods and equipment
-Retail of hats
-Retail trade of fishing articles
-Bookstores
-Internet cafe
-Retail trade of magazines and newspapers
-Sale of lottery tickets, sports tips and other raffle tickets
- Retail trade of musical instruments
-Instrumental music (only in restaurants, not for parties)
-Retail of lingerie and sex toys
-Photo studio; video recording
-Pawnshops |
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Post by domeplease on Jan 18, 2021 15:07:47 GMT -5
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Post by domeplease on Jan 23, 2021 15:24:50 GMT -5
--01-21-21: us.yahoo.com/news/cheap-generic-drug-reduces-covid-150300202.html Cheap, 'generic' drug reduces COVID-19 death risk by 75 percent, trials suggest.--01-23-21: us.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/01/23/n95-mask-covid-19-pandemic-gupta-lead-pkg-vpx.cnn See expert's plan to end pandemic in four weeks.--01-23-21: us.yahoo.com/entertainment/cdc-director-says-covid-vaccines-232541712.html With Donald Trump's fake reserves and ongoing issues with distribution, the CDC's new director announced this week that it may be a few months until the COVID-19 vaccine is available for the general public.
The prediction made by director Dr. Rochelle Walensky contradicts the Trump administration's previous claim that the vaccine would be widely available by the end of February or early March.
According toWalensky via the Today show, that's not happening. Currently, the Biden administration is dedicated to the goal of distributing 100 million doses in the first 100 days.
"I don't think late February we're going to have the vaccine in every pharmacy in this country," Walensky said. "We're going to stick to that plan, but also want to be very cognizant of the fact that after 100 days, there are still a lot of Americans who need vaccine, so we have our pedal to the metal to make sure we can get as much vaccine out there."
State stockpiles are low since the Trump administration lied about its plan to hold second doses in reserve. In the U.S. more than 16 million people have received the first dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, and nearly 3 million have been fully vaccinated.--01-23-21 SAD: us.cnn.com/2021/01/22/politics/republican-idaho-governor-covid-19-emergency-declaration/index.html Idaho's Republican governor blasts his own party's efforts to end his Covid-19 emergency declaration.--01-21-21 SAD – DID NOT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americans-dying-faster-of-covid-19-than-our-soldiers-did-in-wwii/ar-BB1cTxOJ?li=BBnb7Kz Americans dying faster of COVID-19 than our soldiers did in WWII. |
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Post by domeplease on Jan 25, 2021 18:59:10 GMT -5
TWO MUST READS:
--NYT Article 01-22-23:
I took a 1,600-mile road trip this week that has left me even more amazed at how poorly the United States has handled the coronavirus — and more worried about how much work the Biden administration has to do to get it under control. I want to tell you that story this morning.
The U.S. now faces two main virus problems. First, our efforts to minimize the virus’s spread remain halfhearted, with many Americans refusing to wear masks or practice social distancing.
Second, the early stages of the mass vaccination campaign have been a mess, far behind schedule and full of frustration for people trying to get shots.The second of those problems was the reason for my road trip. I live in the Washington, D.C., area, where the vaccine rollout has been even slower than in most places. I hear maddening anecdotes from neighbors and friends all the time, and I imagine you’ve heard similar anecdotes. Many Americans who qualify to receive the vaccine — like people over 65 — don’t know what they are supposed to do to sign up. When they try, they often find that all the slots are filled. My mom, who’s 74 and has been living with my family for the last few months, was one of the people trying to figure out how to get her shot. And it felt impossible. Fortunately, she had an alternative. She normally lives in Colorado, a state with a somewhat better vaccine rollout. By checking repeatedly online, she got an appointment in Colorado. So the two of us got in the car and spent a couple of days driving west (to spare her the risk of contracting the virus on a plane). My sister, who lives in Denver, drove east, and we met halfway, in St. Louis. I then drove back to Washington, and my sister and my mom drove to Denver. We are all grateful that she is about to receive her first shot. But it’s worth pausing to reflect on what an indictment of our society this story is. The world’s richest, most powerful country has almost 20 million vaccine doses that are sitting unused. Meanwhile, people are desperately trying to sign up — and often failing. Many families don’t have the resources or flexibility to make it a full-time project. For some, the consequences of the bungled rollout will be fatal. More than 3,000 Americans a day have been dying from Covid-19 recently. Some of them would not have contracted the virus if the Trump administration and state governments had kept the vaccination program anywhere close to on schedule. President Biden announced his plans yesterday for a “full-scale wartime effort” to speed things up — including the construction of mass-vaccination centers, the involvement of drugstores and an accelerated manufacturing program. You can read the details here, as explained by The Times’s Sheryl Gay Stolberg. How well Biden succeeds will help determine how many Americans survive this pandemic. The other big factor will be how hard the country tries to reduce the virus’s spread while the vaccines are being rolled out. In the short term, masks and social distancing probably matter even more than vaccines. “The brutal truth is it’s going to take months before we can get the majority of Americans vaccinated,” Biden said yesterday. But I came home from my trip shaken by what I had seen.
Almost everywhere I stopped — gas stations, rest stops and hotels, across Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois — there was a sign on the door saying that people had to wear masks to enter. And almost everywhere, most people ignored the sign.
At a Fairfield Inn in Ohio, a middle-aged couple sat unmasked on a lobby sofa for hours, drinking beers and scrolling through their phones.
The hotel staff evidently did nothing about it. At a convenience store in Indiana, a hand-drawn sign on the door read: “Face masks are required. Please do not enter without one!!” Customers did anyway.
Nationwide, about half of Americans are not wearing masks when in close contact with people outside their households, according to a survey released yesterday by the University of Southern California.
Wearing a mask isn’t much fun. It’s hard to speak clearly, and if you wear glasses, the fogging is annoying.
But the inconvenience sure seems worth the benefits.
Study after study has shown that masks reduce the virus’s spread. Yet millions of Americans have decided they would prefer more Covid — for their communities and potentially for their families and themselves — to more masks. |
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Post by domeplease on Jan 26, 2021 16:33:11 GMT -5
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Post by domeplease on Jan 29, 2021 16:11:29 GMT -5
--01-27-21 I WOULDN’T MIND AS LONG AS IT FELT GOOD!!!: slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/china-covid-tests-anal-swab-coronavirus.html China Is Now Requiring COVID-19 Tests Taken by Anal Swab.--01-28-21: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/if-you-have-these-4-symptoms-you-might-have-the-new-covid-strain/ss-BB1daRKz?li=BBnbfcL If You Have These 4 Symptoms, You Might Have the New COVID Strain.--01-27-21 ONCE AGAIN THEY RE-OPENED TOO SOON: www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/have-we-learned-nothing-california-faces-backlash-for-lifting-stay-home-order/ar-BB1d9nXM?li=BBnb7Kz 'Have we learned nothing?' California faces backlash for lifting stay-home order California’s decision to lift its stay-at-home order is drawing backlash from health experts and frontline workers who warn that a premature reopening could prolong the crisis and further devastate hard-hit communities. Citing projections that hospital capacity would improve in coming weeks, the governor, Gavin Newsom, announced Monday that he was rescinding the statewide shutdown order. The move returned counties to a tiered system of localized re-openings and allowed certain sectors to partially resume business, including salons, restaurants and churches. “Have we not learned anything?” said Marcia Santini, a nurse at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), medical center, who was infected and hospitalized with Covid-19 last month. “A fireman doesn’t put out half of a fire and hope the rest goes out on its own. Our numbers will shoot back up again and we’ll just keep infecting each other.” --01-27-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/harvard-health-expert-makes-case-for-everyone-to-wear-n95-masks/vi-BB1d8lOc
Harvard health expert makes case for everyone to wear N95 masks--01-27-21: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/regeneron-says-study-shows-its-monoclonal-antibody-cocktail-works-against-coronavirus-variants/ar-BB1d8NrJ?li=BBnb7Kz Regeneron says study shows its monoclonal antibody cocktail works against coronavirus variants. |
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Post by inger on Jan 29, 2021 17:28:02 GMT -5
--01-27-21 I WOULDN’T MIND AS LONG AS IT FELT GOOD!!!: slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/china-covid-tests-anal-swab-coronavirus.html China Is Now Requiring COVID-19 Tests Taken by Anal Swab.--01-28-21: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/if-you-have-these-4-symptoms-you-might-have-the-new-covid-strain/ss-BB1daRKz?li=BBnbfcL If You Have These 4 Symptoms, You Might Have the New COVID Strain.--01-27-21 ONCE AGAIN THEY RE-OPENED TOO SOON: www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/have-we-learned-nothing-california-faces-backlash-for-lifting-stay-home-order/ar-BB1d9nXM?li=BBnb7Kz 'Have we learned nothing?' California faces backlash for lifting stay-home order California’s decision to lift its stay-at-home order is drawing backlash from health experts and frontline workers who warn that a premature reopening could prolong the crisis and further devastate hard-hit communities. Citing projections that hospital capacity would improve in coming weeks, the governor, Gavin Newsom, announced Monday that he was rescinding the statewide shutdown order. The move returned counties to a tiered system of localized re-openings and allowed certain sectors to partially resume business, including salons, restaurants and churches. “Have we not learned anything?” said Marcia Santini, a nurse at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), medical center, who was infected and hospitalized with Covid-19 last month. “A fireman doesn’t put out half of a fire and hope the rest goes out on its own. Our numbers will shoot back up again and we’ll just keep infecting each other.” --01-27-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/harvard-health-expert-makes-case-for-everyone-to-wear-n95-masks/vi-BB1d8lOc
Harvard health expert makes case for everyone to wear N95 masks--01-27-21: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/regeneron-says-study-shows-its-monoclonal-antibody-cocktail-works-against-coronavirus-variants/ar-BB1d8NrJ?li=BBnb7Kz Regeneron says study shows its monoclonal antibody cocktail works against coronavirus variants.01-27-21 I WOULDN’T MIND AS LONG AS IT FELT GOOD!!!: slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/china-covid-tests-anal-swab-coronavirus.html China Is Now Requiring COVID-19 Tests Taken by Anal Swab. I can’t help it. I have visions of the USA starting this with long lines of people with their asses out the window of their cars. All future cars to be built with tubing going up through the seat cushions do they can drive over an oil pit with a technician under the car. Huge Q-Tips going in. Huge Q-Tips going out... servicing the obese from the hatchback... Dome trying to sneak into line for seconds... |
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Post by domeplease on Jan 31, 2021 14:16:36 GMT -5
01-27-21 I WOULDN’T MIND AS LONG AS IT FELT GOOD!!!: slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/china-covid-tests-anal-swab-coronavirus.html China Is Now Requiring COVID-19 Tests Taken by Anal Swab. I can’t help it. I have visions of the USA starting this with long lines of people with their asses out the window of their cars. All future cars to be built with tubing going up through the seat cushions do they can drive over an oil pit with a technician under the car. Huge Q-Tips going in. Huge Q-Tips going out... servicing the obese from the hatchback... Dome trying to sneak into line for seconds... = SO DAMN FUNNY!!! Thanks Inger!!!
***MUST READ: us.yahoo.com/news/eyes-covid-19-drug-resistant-194626483.html
With All Eyes on COVID-19, Drug-Resistant Infections Crept In
As COVID-19 took hold over the past year, hospitals and nursing homes used and reused scarce protective equipment — masks, gloves, gowns. This desperate frugality helped prevent the airborne transfer of the virus.
But it also appears to have helped spread a different set of germs — drug-resistant bacteria and fungi — that have used the chaos of the pandemic to grow opportunistically in health care settings around the globe.
These bacteria and fungi, like COVID-19, prey on older people, the infirm and those with compromised immune systems.
They can cling tenaciously to clothing and medical equipment, which is why nursing homes and hospitals before the pandemic were increasingly focused on cleaning rooms and changing gowns to prevent their spread.
That emphasis all but slipped away amid an all-consuming focus on the coronavirus. In fact, experts warn, the changes in hygiene and other practices caused by the COVID-19 fight are likely to have contributed to the spread of these drug-resistant germs.
“Seeing the world as a one-pathogen world is really problematic,” said Dr. Susan S. Huang, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California at Irvine Medical School, noting that the nearly singular focus on the pandemic appears to have led to more spread of drug-resistant infection.
“We have every reason to believe the problem has gotten worse.”
--01-29-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-variant-detected-in-us-for-first-time-as-another-spreads-across-the-country/vi-BB1ddi6r
--01-29-21: NOT GOOD FOR DO ME: mexiconewsdaily.com/news/coronavirus/mexico-remains-at-bottom-of-list-of-worst-countries-to-be-in-during-covid/
Mexico remains at bottom of list of worst countries to be in during Covid
Mexico remains the worst country to be in during the coronavirus pandemic, according to an updated analysis by the Bloomberg news agency.
On a monthly basis since November, Bloomberg has graded 53 countries with economies larger than US $200 billion to determine where the virus has been handled most effectively with the least amount of disruption to business and society.
It uses 10 different indicators to assess the coronavirus situation in individual countries, including growth in virus cases, the overall mortality rate, testing capabilities, the capacity of the local health system, the impact of virus-related restrictions on the economy and freedom of movement.
--01-29-21: 247wallst.com/healthcare-economy/2021/01/28/covid-19-these-are-the-20-counties-where-the-most-people-have-died/
COVID-19: These Are the 20 Counties Where the Most People Have Died.
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Post by inger on Jan 31, 2021 20:57:13 GMT -5
Real life experience: The lady that owned our house before us is the director of a good-sized and prestigious nursing home. In the early Covid months they had two managers that had being skiing in the mountains and either one or both had brought Covid back with them. Breckinridge and nearby towns were among the first Colorado towns to be overrun with the virus because it was announced just as ski season was beginning in earnest.
Other that, they have had no COVID in the buildings. She said she has kept her toe on the law, requiring 6+ feet of space, masking. That’s it. She has never banned visitors, deliveries of flowers, candies, gifts, cards.
In her opinion, the most common reason this virus spreads is people who breach the 6’ limit without a mask and engage in conversation for 15 minutes or longer. She doesn’t feel that the occasional droplet of saliva is going to disperse enough of the germ to infect.
We can argue what she says, but she has access to every bit of medical news that any profession will get, and her personal success in keeping her facility clear of the disease...
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Post by domeplease on Feb 2, 2021 15:33:52 GMT -5
--02-01-21 WE SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS 9-Months AGO—BRAVO: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-cdc-just-made-this-a-federal-crime-as-of-tonight/ss-BB1dhMKt?li=BBnbfcL#image=1Travelers and transit hubs fall under the new requirement. The new nationwide ruling, which goes into effect at midnight on Feb. 2, will require anyone traveling by airplane, train, subway, bus, taxi, or ship to wear a face covering while doing so, as well as requiring them to wear a mask inside airports, subway and train stations, bus terminals, seaports, ferry terminals, and other transit hubs. The ruling also requires those using ride-share services such as Uber and Lyft to wear a mask a well. ***VERY CONCERNING: us.yahoo.com/news/clinical-trials-raise-fears-coronavirus-040855671.html New clinical trials raise fears the coronavirus is learning how to resist vaccines New data showing that two COVID-19 vaccines are far less effective in South Africa than in other places they were tested have heightened fears that the coronavirus is quickly finding ways to elude the world’s most powerful tools to contain it. The U.S. company Novavax reported this week that although its vaccine was nearly 90% effective in clinical trials conducted in Britain, the figure fell to 49% in South Africa — and that nearly all the infections the company analyzed in South Africa involved the B.1.351 variant that emerged there late last year and has spread to the United States and at least 30 other countries. --01-31-21: us.yahoo.com/news/dangerous-coronavirus-strains-may-incubate-192505798.html Dangerous new coronavirus strains may incubate in COVID-19's sickest
Among the 100 million people around the world who have battled coronavirus infections, scientists are turning to the case of a 45-year-old COVID-19 patient in Boston to understand how the virus is able to outwit humans.
During his 154-day illness — one of the longest on record — the patient's body became a crucible of riotous viral mutation. He offered the world one of the first sightings of a key mutation in the virus’ spike protein that set off alarm bells when it was later found in strains in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil.
In the U.K. strain, the genetic change known as N501Y is thought to help enhance the virus’ transmissibility by about 50%.
In the South Africa strain, it may reduce the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. Tests of its effect on the Brazil variant are still in progress.
The Boston patient is now being viewed as an important harbinger of the coronavirus' ability to spin off new and more dangerous versions of itself.
Though he died over the summer, the medical file he left behind is helping experts anticipate the emergence of new strains by focusing on the role of a growing population of patients with compromised immune systems who battle the virus for months.--01-30-21 DISGUSTING edition.cnn.com/2021/01/30/us/new-york-vaccine-disparities/index.html White people traveled to a hard-hit Latino neighborhood in New York and took many of the Covid-19 vaccine appointments.***--01-21-31: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-updates-experts-urge-faster-vaccinations-and-efforts-to-curb-spread-in-response-to-virus-variants/ar-BB1dgeeR?li=BBnbfcL Coronavirus updates: Experts urge faster vaccinations and efforts to curb spread in response to virus variants.
--01-30-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-watchdog-report-reveals-how-terrible-trumps-covid-response-truly-was/ar-BB1deHZT?li=BBnb7Kz New watchdog report reveals how terrible Trump’s COVID response truly was.--01-30-21 AMERICA NEEDS TO DO THE SAME ASAP: mexiconewsdaily.com/news/coronavirus/canada-imposes-mandatory-quarantine-for-travelers/ Canada imposes mandatory quarantine for travelers, suspends Mexico flights.--02-01-21: www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/study-makes-horrible-new-coronavirus-prediction-that-has-so-many-people-worried/ar-BB1dhSr2?li=BBnb7Kz New COVID-19 strains from the UK and South Africa are in the U.S. and are already spreading across multiple states.
The new strains are 50% more contagious than the original strain but aren’t believed to be more deadly.
A new projection from the University of Washington predicts that the COVID-19 death toll will reach 619,000 by May 1. |
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Post by domeplease on Feb 4, 2021 17:03:02 GMT -5
--02-02-21: us.yahoo.com/news/im-doctor-singapore-covid-19-135100878.html Business Insider Tequila: "Could WE have gotten Americans to do what the Citizens & Govt. of Singapore did?"
"Tequila you have to stop LAUGHING SO HARD--it is NOT Polite to LAUGH at Millions of Stupid Americans!!! So i guess yoiur laughter is your answer to my question???"
I'm a doctor in Singapore. Our COVID-19 cases have been low since last fall - here's what we're doing right. Dr. Lim Hui Ling, 51, is the medical director for the International Medical Clinic in Singapore. Lim says going through the 2002-2003 SARS pandemic helped prepare her and other healthcare workers to deal with COVID-19.
She also credits fellow Singaporeans for helping stop the spread of the virus by willingly wearing masks, social distancing, and using a contact tracing app.When I first heard about COVID-19 in January 2020, I thought it would blow over like the swine flu or bird flu have in the past. As we all know now, that wasn't to be the case. One year later, I'm dressed head-to-toe in scrubs, and each afternoon I change into full PPE gear to treat patients at the acute clinic we hold at our centre. Patients attend the acute clinic if they have a fever or difficulty breathing, which are symptoms of COVID-19. I've been a family doctor at the International Medical Clinic since 2002. While all my appointments normally are face-to-face, I'm now seeing my patients at the clinic and over Zoom. As a council member of the College of Physicians, I also help advise other doctors how to cope with the crisis. Singapore was the first country in Asia to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. After its approval, I was given my first dose of the vaccine on January 14. I did experience a couple of side effects after having the vaccine. The next day my arm was quite sore, and I couldn't lift it to comb my hair. I also had a bit of fever, which came on in the afternoon and lasted until bedtime. However, when I woke up two mornings after receiving the shot, I felt absolutely fine - in fact, I decided to do some gardening. I'm scheduled to receive my second dose on February 4. There are 26 doctors in my clinic, and we've seen only three positive COVID-19 cases during the entirety of the pandemic. But we are always on our toes, aware that the next patient we may see may be suffering from the virus. This isn't my first brush with a virus. From November 2002 to July 2003, Asia was hit by the SARS pandemicc. It didn't last as long as COVID-19 has, but it was scary. Healthcare workers died, including people I knew. SARS gave us the blueprint on how to deal with COVID-19. It was a huge learning curve for many of us who hadn't experienced anything like it before, and it also gave us the blueprint on how to deal with COVID-19. The Ministry of Health gave national guidance on managing COVID-19 patients, which we modified to work for our clinic. Due to SARS, we had the experience of infection control, we knew how to split the clinic, how to triage patients, and we always have PPE stockpiled in our warehouse. As Singapore is a small country, it was able to pivot quickly to combat COVID-19.
The government was quick to close its borders, implement mandatory mask wearing and social distancing, and introduced the Trace Together app in March 2020, which people must use to enter stores, hospitals, and even taxis, in order to keep track of where someone has been if they should contract the virus.
The government also made good use of buildings that were standing empty. Exhibition centres were turned into community isolation facilities and empty hotel rooms were used for Stay At Home notices to quarantine incoming visitors for two weeks.
The virus started to spread during Chinese New Year of last year. The country went into lockdown from April 7 to June 1, but now we're getting back to normal. The government announced that we would go through three phases, and we moved into phase three on December 28 after new infection rates had already been low for months. All the shops, restaurants, and beauty salons are now open and people can also go to the movie theatre. Parks stayed open during the pandemic so that everyone had somewhere to exercise. We still have to socially distance and wear masks, but we can now meet in groups of up to eight people. Singapore's population had a big hand in helping stop the spread of the virus. Most people have been acting very responsibly and trust in the regulations we're asked to follow. The ministers who run the COVID-19 task force are good communicators, so there's been no confusion and everyone is clear about which phase we're in and what we need to do. Everyone wears a mask, apart from one or two people who make the papers when they don't. And everyone does their best to socially distance and most people stick to the rules about not gathering in large groups. Thanks to Singapore's control of the outbreak, this year we'll be able to visit our parents for Chinese New Year in a few weeks, although the rest of our celebrations will be done via Zoom. I feel fortunate to live in this surreal little bubble, where most people I know care about working together towards a communal goal. And when the borders reopen, I can't wait to start traveling again --02-03-21: www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/covids-south-dakota-rampage-created-a-failed-experiment-in-herd-immunity/ar-BB1dlMcp?li=BBnb7Kz Covid’s South Dakota Rampage Created a Failed Experiment in Herd Immunity.--02-03-21: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-governor-of-the-state-second-hardest-hit-by-the-coronavirus-probably-shouldnt-be-bragging-about-it/ar-BB1dlUKH?li=BBnb7Kz The governor of the state second-hardest hit by the coronavirus probably shouldn’t be bragging about it.--02-03-21 IMPORTANT READ: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-coronavirus-70percent-to-85percent-of-americans-need-to-be-fully-vaccinated-for-a-return-to-normal-fauci-says-so-far-its-less-than-2percent/ar-BB1dlqbh?li=BBnb7Kz US Coronavirus: 70% to 85% of Americans need to be fully vaccinated for a return to normal, Fauci says. So far it's less than 2%. |
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Post by chiyankee on Feb 5, 2021 10:08:24 GMT -5
The Yankees helping out:
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