It is my understanding that the CDC is having a meeting later today, Tuesday to determine just how these vaccines that are already in place for distribution, will be prioritized for who gets it first and down the line. Ya know, those vaccines that Trump lied about saying that we should have by the end of the year. You could say he got lucky if there was only one, but we have at least three so far that never should have happened listening to all of you here and all of your pundits that you all worship.
I have heard that in California, Gov Newsom wants to base some distribution simply based on the identity of some people and ignore science in determining who should go first. Makes me wonder if registered repubs will be lowered down the list just because they are repubs. Not out of the question because this would not be unexpected in California.
Anyway, the CDC is set to meet about how to decide who gets these Trump fantasy vaccines.
Only some of the deaths listed by the RKI as "COVID-19 deaths" were actually caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 In Great Britain, too, according to a comprehensive analysis by Public Health England, 48.5 percent of the excess mortality observed between mid-March and mid-November is not attributable to people who die with or from the SARS CoV-2 virus, but to other causes of death. There is an interesting breakdown with regard to the places of death, which is shown in the following figure:
even if covid deaths have been overstated, what on earth is your agenda here? Are you trying to say
the risk of the spread of covid doesn't warrant the social cost of intervention, or
My parents are in a facility that had ZERO cases until early this month. It went from 3 staff to 5 staff to now 30 staff and ~60 residents. My father tested positive 18 days ago and seems to be holding on OK (slight cough...oxygen levels fluctuate at times but has yet to need oxygen). 3 dead last I heard. The speed of the spread was shocking, and they were following protocols pretty closely.
Editorâs Note: After The News-Letter published this article on Nov. 22, it was brought to our attention that our coverage of Genevieve Briandâs presentation âCOVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Dataâ has been used to support dangerous inaccuracies that minimize the impact of the pandemic.
We decided on Nov. 26 to retract this article to stop the spread of misinformation, as we noted on social media. However, it is our responsibility as journalists to provide a historical record. We have chosen to take down the article from our website, but it is available here as a PDF.
In accordance with our standards for transparency, we are sharing with our readers how we came to this decision. The News-Letter is an editorially and financially independent, student-run publication. Our articles and content are not endorsed by the University or the School of Medicine, and our decision to retract this article was made independently. (...)
As assistant director for the Masterâs in Applied Economics program at Hopkins, Briand is neither a medical professional nor a disease researcher. At her talk, she herself stated that more research and data are needed to understand the effects of COVID-19 in the U.S.
Briand was quoted in the article as saying, âAll of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers.â This claim is incorrect and does not take into account the spike in raw death count from all causes compared to previous years. According to the CDC, there have been almost 300,000 excess deaths due to COVID-19. Additionally, Briand presented data of total U.S. deaths in comparison to COVID-19-related deaths as a proportion percentage, which trivializes the repercussions of the pandemic. This evidence does not disprove the severity of COVID-19; an increase in excess deaths is not represented in these proportionalities because they are offered as percentages, not raw numbers.
Briand also claimed in her analysis that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may be incorrectly categorized as COVID-19-related deaths. However, COVID-19 disproportionately affects those with preexisting conditions, so those with those underlying conditions are statistically more likely to be severely affected and die from the virus. (...)
My parents are in a facility that had ZERO cases until early this month. It went from 3 staff to 5 staff to now 30 staff and ~60 residents. My father tested positive 18 days ago and seems to be holding on OK (slight cough...oxygen levels fluctuate at times but has yet to need oxygen). 3 dead last I heard. The speed of the spread was shocking, and they were following protocols pretty closely.
My parents are in a facility that had ZERO cases until early this month. It went from 3 staff to 5 staff to now 30 staff and ~60 residents. My father tested positive 18 days ago and seems to be holding on OK (slight cough...oxygen levels fluctuate at times but has yet to need oxygen). 3 dead last I heard. The speed of the spread was shocking, and they were following protocols pretty closely.
My parents are in a facility that had ZERO cases until early this month. It went from 3 staff to 5 staff to now 30 staff and ~60 residents. My father tested positive 18 days ago and seems to be holding on OK (slight cough...oxygen levels fluctuate at times but has yet to need oxygen). 3 dead last I heard. The speed of the spread was shocking, and they were following protocols pretty closely.
Good news: 30 days of no new (identified) covid cases in the state of Victoria. Border checkpoints between Queensland and New South Wales are being dismantled. People from Victoria won't have to quarantine when entering South Australia or New South Wales as of Dec 1.
Bad news: A covid + person in South Australia broke quarantine and visited a number of businesses. Don't know if they have detected any spread yet.
Sad news: A woman in Victoria who was diagnosed in July, and was no longer an active case, has died and is considered a covid death. The disease that just keeps giving.
Top federal health officials on Sunday forecast a post-Thanksgiving spike in coronavirus infections, deaths and stress on hospitals and medical staff. At the same time, they said that it was still possible to blunt the deadly rise with the tried and true measures of mask wearing and social distancing.
Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, urged Americans to take it upon themselves to âprotect yourself and your family,â even in states and cities where authorities had not required any such measures. During an appearance on CBS Newsâs âFace the Nation,â Dr. Birx seemed to be speaking to the political divide in the country, directly addressing âincredibly independent and fabulous Americansâ who may be skeptical of measures to limit the spread of the virus.
Taking perhaps the strongest line of several top officials who spoke on Sunday, she said that travelers âhave to assume that you were exposed and you became infected and you really need to get tested in the next week.â She urged that travelers avoid anyone in their family over 65 or with underlying illnesses. (...)
Yet the sheer breadth of the current outbreak means that the cost in lives lost every day is still climbing. More than 170,000 Americans are now testing positive for the virus on an average day, straining hospitals across much of the country, including in many states that had seemed to avoid the worst of the pandemic. More than 1.1 million people tested positive in the past week alone.
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âWe are at risk of repeating what happened in April,â Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and a member of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.âs coronavirus task force, said of the death toll.
âOnce you go over the case cliff, where you have so many cases that you overwhelm the system, basically at that point when you fall off that case cliff, youâre going to see mortality rates go up substantially,â he said. âI shudder to imagine what things might be like in two weeks.â
With an inconsistent and shifting response from government officials, the virus surged in the Sun Belt in the summer, and then began rising steadily through the Midwest and the Great Plains â and then all over in recent weeks. The country reached a peak seven-day average of 176,000 reported cases on Wednesday, and there is reason to fear the worst is still coming. Outbreaks continue to grow in Southern California, West Texas and South Florida.
After rising cases has come the new surge of deaths.
One idea I plan to discuss with a doctor is to get booster shots of one or more of the attenuated live virus vaccines. They seem to prime the immune system against all comers.
