BBC: China pneumonia outbreak: COVID-19 Global Pandemic

[hail2skins]

Charlie Sykes on Twitter: "A year ago today https://t.co/w9ugE3FQZp" / Twitter

 

This Trump tweet from March 9, 2020 just crystallizes the whole thing. I vividly remembering going out on a lunch break, seeing this, and my jaw just dropped.....and this was even after the previous three years of nonsense. Two days later, he is announcing a travel ban from Europe.....no big deal, huh?  And then pretty much reduced to a quivering blob of jello a few days after that...."oh its bad, I had to tell Barron:

 

What an erratic fool.

[LD0506]

Screw Abbott, medical personnel in TX should take a vacation 

 

 

in Cancun

[The Evil Genius]

Just go here to see some very smart and some very ignorant posts on this thread a year ago today. 

 

 

[skinsmarydu]

14 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

Just go here to see some very smart and some very ignorant posts on this thread a year ago today. 

 

 

Just 600 pages ago. 

[visionary]

 

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Pepperidge Farm remembers. 

[Larry]

1 hour ago, visionary said:

 

 

Regretfully, not even close.  

[visionary]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[visionary]

 

 

 

 

[88Comrade2000]

Today is the 1 year anniversary of the official declaration of the pandemic.

 

 

[Larry]

Just observing.  He needs to be careful to not make this a matter of "Looking back at a past event".  It's not over.  

[spjunkies]

7 minutes ago, Larry said:

Just observing.  He needs to be careful to not make this a matter of "Looking back at a past event".  It's not over.  

 

He did an outstanding job conveying hope and letting people know that we need to stay extremely cautious going forward. 

[visionary]

 

[CousinsCowgirl84]

it kinda feels like Virginia is behind in the vaccine department. NC is on level 4 and we are stuck on 1b.... 

 

seems pointless to make the vaccine available to everyone may 1.... if there is supply there is supply and if there isn’t should the people most at risk get it..

Edited March 12, 2021 by CousinsCowgirl84

[Ball Security]

34 minutes ago, Rdskns2000 said:

Today is the 1 year anniversary of the official declaration of the pandemic.

 

 

Otherwise known as Rudy Gobert Day.

14 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

it kinda feels like Virginia is behind in the vaccine department. NC is on level 4 and we are stuck on 1b.... 

 

seems pointless to make the vaccine available to everyone may 1.... if there is supply there is supply and if there isn’t should the people most at risk get it..

VA’s vaccination percentage is higher than the nation’s. 🤷‍♂️

[China]

33 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

it kinda feels like Virginia is behind in the vaccine department. NC is on level 4 and we are stuck on 1b.... 

 

seems pointless to make the vaccine available to everyone may 1.... if there is supply there is supply and if there isn’t should the people most at risk get it..

 

Each state is doing things differently and not necessarily in the way that the CDC recommends.  It is difficult to compare states.  But if you want to see how various states are doing things, you can check this (posted in the vaccination thread):

 

 

[China]

States with Republican governors had highest Covid incidence and death rates, study finds

 

States with Democratic governors had the highest incidence and death rates from Covid-19 in the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, but states with Republican governors surpassed those rates as the crisis dragged on, a study released Tuesday found.

 

"From March to early June, Republican-led states had lower Covid-19 incidence rates compared with Democratic-led states. On June 3, the association reversed, and Republican-led states had higher incidence," the study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Medical University of South Carolina showed.

 

"For death rates, Republican-led states had lower rates early in the pandemic, but higher rates from July 4 through mid-December," the study found.

 

The researchers theorized that one reason for the change is that Democrats were in charge of states where people who had the virus first arrived in the country — but Republicans were less stringent about safeguards, which could have contributed to their states' ultimately higher incidence and death rates.

 

"The early trends could be explained by high Covid-19 cases and deaths among Democratic-led states that are home to initial ports of entry for the virus in early 2020," the researchers wrote. "However, the subsequent reversal in trends, particularly with respect to testing, may reflect policy differences that could have facilitated the spread of the virus."

 

The study, which which was published in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Preventive Medicine, examined Covid-19 "incidence, death, testing, and test positivity rates from March 15 through December 15, 2020," when there were 16 million confirmed cases in the U.S. and 300,000 deaths. It focused on per-capita infection and death rates in the 26 GOP-led states and 24 Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., and made statistical adjustments for issues such as population density.

 

But "policy differences" between the Republican and Democratic leaders emerged as a big factor for the reversal of the states' fortunes, the study suggests.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[LD0506]

[China]

Number who think the worst of the pandemic is over shoots up

 

As vaccinations increase and as case and death rates decrease, Americans are feeling much better about where things stand in the COVID-19 pandemic. Many believe the end may be in sight. In the latest Economist/YouGov poll, 44% say the worst of the pandemic is now past, more than twice as many as worry that the worst is yet to come (18%) or that we are currently in the worst phase (16%).

 

 

Worry that things could get worse peaked with surges in cases and deaths, first seen in June and July last year, and then again in the fall, lasting through the holidays.  But Americans believe things have definitely turned around, though there are still concerns among some groups.  

 

A plurality of Democrats say the worst is behind us (35%), but this is only half as many as the number of Republicans (62%) who believe this. Black Americans, who have been especially hard hit by the pandemic, are as likely to believe the worst is yet to come (27%) as to say the United States has left the worst behind (27%).  

 

Click on the link for the full article

[visionary]

 

[China]

Americans seek compensation for failed COVID-19 treatments from U.S. fund

 

In March of last year, Steve Cicala took his wife, Susan, to the emergency room at Clara Maass Medical Center in New Jersey to treat a worsening cough and fever, unaware she had COVID-19.

 

As her breathing and blood pressure deteriorated, she was given azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine and put on a ventilator. Eleven days after being admitted to the same hospital where she had worked for years as a nurse, Susan went into cardiac arrest and died at age 60.

 

Steve Cicala is now the first person known to be pursuing a COVID-19 claim with a decade-old U.S. government fund that has up to $30 billion that can be used to compensate for serious injuries or deaths caused by treatments or vaccines in the fight against the pandemic.

 

COVID-19 presents the first serious test of the Countermeasure Injury Compensation Program (CICP) overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The program so far has denied compensation in 90% of the cases filed prior to the pandemic, mostly for H1N1 flu vaccines.

 

Cicala’s claim has not been previously reported.

 

He could receive around $367,000 from the virtually untapped fund if he can show the treatment caused his wife’s death. He is not alleging negligence against the hospital, which is largely protected from liability by an emergency health law.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

 

[China]

Survivors struggle as scientists race to solve COVID mystery

 

There was no reason to celebrate on Rachel Van Lear’s anniversary. The same day a global pandemic was declared, she developed symptoms of COVID-19. A year later, she’s still waiting for them to disappear. And for experts to come up with some answers.

 

The Texas woman is one of thousands of self-described long-haulers, patients with symptoms that linger or develop out of the blue months after they first became infected with coronavirus. Hers first arrived March 11, 2020.

 

The condition affects an uncertain number of survivors in a baffling variety of ways.

 

“We’re faced with a mystery,” said Dr. Francis Collins, chief of the National Institutes of Health.

 

Is it a condition unique to COVID-19, or just a variation of the syndrome that can occur after other infections? How many people are affected, and how long does it last? Is it a new form of chronic fatigue syndrome — a condition with similar symptoms?

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

My son's university is not even having spring break this year.  They are just giving them a day off in the middle of the week for a few weeks.  Meanwhile...

 

Miami mayor warns Florida is already packed for spring break with too many people on the way: 'We've got a problem'

 

History may soon repeat itself in Florida, where some beaches are already packed with spring breakers, according to CNN.

 

"We're seeing too much spring break activity," Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber told CNN on Saturday. "We've got a problem with too many people coming here. We've got a problem with too many people coming here to let loose."

 

"We are concerned," he said. "It's very challenging."

 

Air travel has risen to its highest level in nearly a year, according to The Transportation Security Administration. On Saturday, a spokesperson for the agency said that TSA had screened about 1.4 million people at airport security checkpoints on Friday, the highest number of passengers since March 15, 2020, when about 1.5 million people were screened, Insider reported.

 

This rise in travel coinciding with the beginning of spring breaks and generally warmer weather, making Florida a popular destination for people who could potentially spread COVID-19.

"We've come a long way as a community in slowing the spread of the virus," Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said on Twitter. "As you enjoy our city and our wonderful weather this weekend, continue your pandemic precautions."

 

In September, Florida lifted all COVID-19 restrictions on all businesses in the state, allowing local governments to enforce stricter protocols however they chose.

 

Ron DeSantis, Florida's governor, recently said that more lockdowns or travel restrictions "ain't happening in Florida," WPTV NewsChannel 5 reported.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[China]

CDC identifies public-health guidance from the Trump administration that downplayed pandemic severity

 

Federal health officials have identified several controversial pandemic recommendations released during the Donald Trump administration that they say were “not primarily authored” by staff and don’t reflect the best scientific evidence, based on a review ordered by its new director.

 

The review identified three documents that had already been removed from the agency’s website: One, released in July, delivered a strong argument for school reopenings and downplayed health risks. A second set of guidelines about the country’s reopening was released in April by the White House and was far less detailed than what had been drafted by the CDC and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A third guidance issued in August discouraged the testing of people without covid-19 symptoms even when they had contact with infected individuals. That was replaced in September after experts inside and outside the agency raised alarms.

 

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky ordered the review as part of her pledge to restore public trust in the beleaguered agency, which had seen its recommendations watered down or ignored during the Trump administration to align with the former president’s efforts to downplay the severity of the pandemic.

 

“I am focused on moving CDC forward with science, transparency and clarity leading the way," Walensky said in a statement Monday. "It is imperative for the American people to trust CDC. If they don’t, preventable illness and injury can occur — and, tragically, lives can and will be lost. This agency and its critical health information cannot be vulnerable to undue influence, and this report helps outline our path to rebuilding confidence and ensuring the information that CDC shares with the American people is based on sound science that will keep us, our loved ones, and our communities healthy and safe.”

 

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