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[China]

South Dakota Covid cases quintuple after Sturgis motorcycle rally

 

Two weeks after the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, reported Covid infections in the state have risen nearly sixfold.

 

South Dakota counted 3,819 new cases in the past two weeks, including seven deaths, up from 644 cases in the 14 days preceding it. That makes it the state with the largest percent increase in Covid cases in the past two weeks.

 

The state's rate of Covid-19 infections per capita in the past two weeks is in the bottom half of the country, but it's the sharp and sudden increase in case counts that sets it apart.

 

Meade County, home to Sturgis, has counted 330 new cases in the last two weeks, up from the 20 reported in the two weeks before the rally, according to Johns Hopkins University's case count. The 1,550 percent increase comes after the motorcycle rally, which usually draws around half a million people, possibly had its biggest year ever, according to County Sheriff Ron Merwin.

 

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[China]

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[Cooked Crack]

Some spicy language in the tweet

Spoiler

 

 

 

[Chew]

"covid may take our lives.  But it will never. Take. Our freedums!"

 

[China]

1 hour ago, Cooked Crack said:

Some spicy language in the tweet

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Dear God, I had never heard of the FLCCC so I looked it up.  Dangerous pseudoscientists.  I was trying to find the guideline she referenced but didn't see them.  I did watch part of a video where they use a clinical study performed in Brazil to promote the use of ivermectin, despite them noting in the video that the results of that trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association led the researchers to conclude Ivermectin was not effective.

[Ball Security]

On 8/25/2021 at 3:12 PM, Ball Security said:

The day before, FL reported 464 deaths. They are clearly reporting deaths in chunks.

Last seven days: 7, 8, 799, 315, 0, 0, 464.

 

Not saying they aren’t underreporting, but they aren’t claiming single digits everyday either.

 

900+ Covid deaths reported yesterday in FL alone.

7 day average is above 1200 for the country.

[88Comrade2000]

The Supremes said the CDC couldn’t extend the eviction moratorium. Now, this is something that could Dems and Biden in 22 and 24. Millions out on the streets.

[Larry]

1 hour ago, Rdskns2000 said:

The Supremes said the CDC couldn’t extend the eviction moratorium. Now, this is something that could Dems and Biden in 22 and 24. Millions out on the streets.

"All Biden's fault."

[CousinsCowgirl84]

 No wonder Biden had a hard time deciding if he wanted to run for president. A lot of messes to clean up…

 

Hopefully with schools starting back up the people who couldn’t work because of child care issues will be able to work again and pay some rent.  There do seem to be jobs available for people who are looking.

Edited August 27, 2021 by CousinsCowgirl84

[China]

Covid data disappearing in some states even as delta surges

 

Two state government websites in Georgia recently stopped posting updates about Covid-19 cases in prisons and long-term care facilities, just as the dangerous delta variant was taking hold.

 

Data have been disappearing recently in other states, as well.

 

Florida, for example, now reports Covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations once a week, instead of daily, as before.

 

Both states, along with the rest of the South, are battling high infection rates.

 

Public health experts are voicing concern about the pullback of Covid information. Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said the trend is “not good for government and the public” because it gives the appearance that governments are “hiding stuff.”

 

Click on the link for the full article

[88Comrade2000]

10 minutes ago, China said:

Covid data disappearing in some states even as delta surges

 

Two state government websites in Georgia recently stopped posting updates about Covid-19 cases in prisons and long-term care facilities, just as the dangerous delta variant was taking hold.

 

Data have been disappearing recently in other states, as well.

 

Florida, for example, now reports Covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations once a week, instead of daily, as before.

 

Both states, along with the rest of the South, are battling high infection rates.

 

Public health experts are voicing concern about the pullback of Covid information. Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said the trend is “not good for government and the public” because it gives the appearance that governments are “hiding stuff.”

 

Click on the link for the full article

If they Don report it, it's not really happening. Well, the logic they are using buy reality is hitting them over there heads.

[China]

 

 

 

 

[Llevron]

I want to put those last tweets in the Stadium so bad lol

 

(I wont, but I want to) 

[China]

US Surgeon General urges parents and officials take these steps to protect children from Covid-19

 

A return to in-person learning has led to thousands of students having to quarantine across the US, with Covid-19 cases among children surging to levels not seen since winter. With the increased threat, the US surgeon general is urging parents and officials to take measures that reduce the risk of a child's environment.

 

"If they are around people who are vaccinated, everyone in the household gets vaccinated, that significantly reduces the risk to our children," Dr. Vivek Murthy said in a conversation hosted by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

In the classroom, there are layers of protection that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid out to keep children safe -- including wearing properly fitting masks, properly ventilating buildings and regular testing, Murthy said.

"Even though our kids do better, that doesn't mean that Covid is benign, it doesn't mean that it's harmless in our children," Murthy said. "In fact, we've lost hundreds of children to Covid-19."

The misperception that young people don't have to worry about Covid-19 may also be hindering their motivation to get vaccinated, Murthy said.

As of Saturday, teens ages 16 and 17 had the highest rate of infection among all age groups, according to a CNN analysis of data from the CDC. Cases overall have surged across the US, with the daily average of newly reported infections surpassing 155,000.

 

Vaccination is key to protecting against Covid-19 and the serious illness that could come with it. But for many children, vaccination still isn't an option.

 

The stress over safety precautions in schools is growing, as many students have already faced exposure to Covid-19 in the early days of their new school year.

At least 14,746 students and 2,984 employees have tested positive for Covid-19 throughout the 15 largest school districts in Florida since the start of school, according to a CNN analysis.

 

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[Ball Security]

2 hours ago, China said:

Covid data disappearing in some states even as delta surges

 

Two state government websites in Georgia recently stopped posting updates about Covid-19 cases in prisons and long-term care facilities, just as the dangerous delta variant was taking hold.

 

Data have been disappearing recently in other states, as well.

 

Florida, for example, now reports Covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations once a week, instead of daily, as before.

 

Both states, along with the rest of the South, are battling high infection rates.

 

Public health experts are voicing concern about the pullback of Covid information. Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said the trend is “not good for government and the public” because it gives the appearance that governments are “hiding stuff.”

 

Click on the link for the full article

This is a little unfair, IMO.  Should we really expect DeSantis and Kemp to be able to count that high?

[China]

As COVID cases increase, Orange County hospitals running out of space to store the dead

 

The morgues for some hospitals are at capacity and additional refrigeration units ordered to handle the overflow almost are almost full, too, Orange County officials confirmed Thursday at a regular COVID-19 news conference.

 

Requests for additional units and assets to address the shortage are handled by the emergency management division so neither Dr. Raul Pino, director of the Florida Department of Health-Orange, nor Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings had received direct requests, they said. But they confirmed that they had been notified of the need.

 

“I’m not surprised this is happening,” Pino said. “It has happened in the past.”

 

Because of the increase in COVID-19 deaths, hospitals must keep bodies of the deceased longer while they await burial or cremation.

 

In fact, Demings said, “Through our emergency management division, we were notified that even those facilities that offer cremations, that some of them are at capacity and yes, we were made aware that some of our hospitals are at capacity.

 

"So, in terms of the Orange County medical examiner’s office, I know that not just through the COVID-19 deaths but deaths may be up in general across the county.”

 

Officials are working to understand how the county might be able to offer some relief, but that path has not been defined yet, Demings said. Florida has detailed plans for these types of situations, he said.

 

“There are detailed plans within the State of Florida for these types of situations that may occur. It may require a request to the state for additional refrigeration portable units to be deployed,” Demings said. “We just are doing an assessment at this point to determine how critical that is so we don’t have the final answer for today. But we are working through that.”

 

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[China]

Alabama nears 2,900 COVID-19 hospitalizations; 40 waiting for ICU beds

 

Alabama’s COVID-19 hospitalization rate ticked up again Thursday as healthcare workers treated 2,879 inpatients for the disease. Forty-five of those patients are children, according to the Alabama Hospital Association.

 

Alabama has yet to break the COVID-19 hospitalization record set in January when 3,087 inpatients were being treated at once, but the situation in the current surge has become more dire, specifically regarding those in hospital intensive care units.

 

Patients needing ICU-level treatment continue to outpace the state’s availability of designated ICU beds, something that had not become an issue prior to the current surge. There are 1,562 staffed ICU beds, as of Thursday, but 1,602 ICU patients, the hospital association said. That means some 40 patients are still waiting.

 

Two federal health teams have been deployed to Alabama, including one that’s focusing on the Dothan area where hospitals are being overrun by cases. The other is in the coastal counties of Baldwin and Mobile where the Alabama Department of Public Health confirmed it has also relocated two morgue trailers in anticipation of a growing number of deaths.

 

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[88Comrade2000]

1 hour ago, China said:

As COVID cases increase, Orange County hospitals running out of space to store the dead

 

The morgues for some hospitals are at capacity and additional refrigeration units ordered to handle the overflow almost are almost full, too, Orange County officials confirmed Thursday at a regular COVID-19 news conference.

 

Requests for additional units and assets to address the shortage are handled by the emergency management division so neither Dr. Raul Pino, director of the Florida Department of Health-Orange, nor Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings had received direct requests, they said. But they confirmed that they had been notified of the need.

 

“I’m not surprised this is happening,” Pino said. “It has happened in the past.”

 

Because of the increase in COVID-19 deaths, hospitals must keep bodies of the deceased longer while they await burial or cremation.

 

In fact, Demings said, “Through our emergency management division, we were notified that even those facilities that offer cremations, that some of them are at capacity and yes, we were made aware that some of our hospitals are at capacity.

 

"So, in terms of the Orange County medical examiner’s office, I know that not just through the COVID-19 deaths but deaths may be up in general across the county.”

 

Officials are working to understand how the county might be able to offer some relief, but that path has not been defined yet, Demings said. Florida has detailed plans for these types of situations, he said.

 

“There are detailed plans within the State of Florida for these types of situations that may occur. It may require a request to the state for additional refrigeration portable units to be deployed,” Demings said. “We just are doing an assessment at this point to determine how critical that is so we don’t have the final answer for today. But we are working through that.”

 

Click on the link for the full article

My sister’s hospital Advent Health has run out of morgue space.

[China]

Model predicts 100,000 more COVID deaths unless U.S. changes its ways

 

The U.S. is projected to see nearly 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths between now and December 1, according to the nation's most closely watched forecasting model. But health experts say that toll could be cut in half if nearly everyone wore a mask in public spaces.

 

In other words, what the coronavirus has in store this fall depends on human behavior.

 

"Behavior is really going to determine if, when and how sustainably the current wave subsides," said Lauren Ancel Meyers, director of the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium. "We cannot stop Delta in its tracks, but we can change our behavior overnight."

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

Good luck with that.

 

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[MrSilverMaC]

2 hours ago, China said:

Model predicts 100,000 more COVID deaths unless U.S. changes its ways

 

The U.S. is projected to see nearly 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths between now and December 1…

That seems like a very conservative model to me.
 

December 1st is about 100 days away and given that the average has been over 1k a day for at least the last two weeks, I believe, hitting at least 100k is basically guaranteed.
 

With the lemmings showing no signs of reigning in their suicidal urges, that average is going to climb to over 3k, and maybe 4K, a day at some point in the not too distant future.

 

The holidays are their extra justification for traveling around the country to gather in large maskless groups and be a spike unto itself.

 

Just going off what I see in Phoenix every day, I’d say we’ll be lucky to not hit 200k +.

 

maybe 1/10 people I see there wear a mask in any given situation.

 

I’m really starting to believe covid is the gop leaders’ way of combating climate change.

Edited August 28, 2021 by MrSilverMaC

[CousinsCowgirl84]

1 hour ago, China said:

Model predicts 100,000 more COVID deaths unless U.S. changes its ways

 

The U.S. is projected to see nearly 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths between now and December 1, according to the nation's most closely watched forecasting model. But health experts say that toll could be cut in half if nearly everyone wore a mask in public spaces.

 

In other words, what the coronavirus has in store this fall depends on human behavior.

 

"Behavior is really going to determine if, when and how sustainably the current wave subsides," said Lauren Ancel Meyers, director of the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium. "We cannot stop Delta in its tracks, but we can change our behavior overnight."

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

Good luck with that.

 

 

Mask mandates need to come back

[Larry]

2 hours ago, China said:

But health experts say that toll could be cut in half if nearly everyone wore a mask in public spaces.

Might as well just build a "no" into the model. 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 28, 2021 by Califan007