BBC: China pneumonia outbreak: COVID-19 Global Pandemic

[TheGreatBuzz]

1 hour ago, China said:

Marine Corporal Discharged over Refusal to Wear a Mask

 

Marine Cpl. Whitney McHaffie refused to comply with a mask mandate and doesn't want to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

 

A month after the Defense Department's mask mandate for unvaccinated troops went into effect, she was booted from the military, possibly making her the first service member to be forced out of the service for violating COVID-related rules.

 

McHaffie, who served at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, went viral on social media after appearing in a video with Josh Mandel, a former Ohio state treasurer who is currently in his second run for the Senate. The video, in which she tells her story of being swiftly booted from the Corps for disobeying the mask mandate, had more than 400,000 views as of Tuesday morning.

 

Vaccines are now mandatory for troops, but were not at the time of McHaffie's discharge.An indoor mask mandate for unvaccinated troops was in effect at the time.

 

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As a active-duty military member (though sharing my own personal opinion), this pisses me off.  She was given a general discharge.  In my personal opinion, she deserved an Other-Than-Honorable discharge which could result in her being ineligible for many veteran’s benefits.  She repeatedly disobeyed a lawful order.  She will now be eligible to use taxpayer dollars for all kinds of benefits including the GI Bill.  This disgusts me and shows a lack of spine in the senior leadership.  In order to make an example of someone, you have to actually do it.  Now this just tells people that want to get out before their contract ends that there is a way to work the system.

[Jabbyrwock]

2 hours ago, Jumbo said:

 

i think it's an unspoken group awareness that everyone who winds up as a reg here fits that description

 

I think you should put up a warning sign that is obvious and unmistakable.  I dunno...something like one of the mods having their avatar being Howard the Du...

 

Nevermind...'tis a silly idea anyway.

[Jumbo]

7 minutes ago, Jabbyrwock said:

 

I think you should put up a warning sign that is obvious and unmistakable.  I dunno...something like one of the mods having their avatar being Howard the Du...

 

Nevermind...'tis a silly idea anyway.

 

 

i got this far by not giving warnings

 

straight outa anchorage

 

 

 

[China]

Nurse in North Georgia walks out of hospital amid overwhelming COVID-19 unit

 

For the first time this year, CBS46 took an inside look at a COVID-19 unit in North Georgia.

 

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center is at capacity, the staff is tired, and people are dying.

 

CBS46 was in the ICU while two COVID-19 patients died within the first 15 minutes of our crews being there.

 

Hospitals don't usually open their doors like this for our cameras, but that's how bad things are right now.

 

CBS46 met Amber Rampy, a nurse who has spent the last 20 months in the COVID-19 unit at Northeast Georgia Medical Center.

 

Rampy told CBS46 she just can't take it anymore.

 

"I just left on Friday because I can’t do it anymore. I just can't,” Rampy said.

 

Like many medical professionals, she thought the worst of the pandemic was behind her.

 

"Although I’m used to people dying, I’m just not used to this many,” Rampy said.

 

73 have died at the hospital where she works just this month. That doesn’t include the two who died while CBS46 was there Monday.

 

Click on the link for the full article and video

[China]

False COVID Cure Flagged By FDA, CDC Finds A Market On Amazon

 

deworming drug that is being falsely peddled as a cure for COVID-19 has found itself a dangerously wide new marketplace--Amazon.

 

The drug, known as ivermectin, has been called out by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a dangerous substance that does nothing to cure or treat COVID-19. However, CNBC reported on Tuesday that forms of the drug, including pills and paste variants, are showing up on Amazon’s search results alongside reviews that lead to COVID-19 misinformation websites.

 

Amazon has not yet addressed the recent news report about ivermectin being pushed to customers through its search algorithm. The company has previously come under fire for COVID-19 misinformation attached to some of its products, forcing it in February to add a notice that would direct customers to the CDC for additional information on any COVID-19-labeled product. However, several of the ivermectin products being sold on Amazon do not appear to carry this label.

 

Ivermectin can be used by humans in small doses to treat parasites such as head lice, but is more widely used to deworm large animals including horses and cattle. Despite this, it has been pushed by misinformation sites as an alternative treatment for COVID-19.

 

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[China]

108 cases of COVID MIS-C in Alabama children: What to know about multisystem inflammatory syndrome

 

The Alabama Department of Public Health is asking parents to be on the lookout for signs of a potentially dangerous syndrome seen in some young COVID patients.

 

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, is a condition where different body parts, including the heart, lungs, kidney, brain, skin, eyes or gastrointestinal organs, become inflamed. It’s not clear what causes MIS-C but many of the young patients were either diagnosed with COVID or around someone who was.

 

As of Aug. 31, the syndrome has been identified in 108 pediatric COVID cases in Alabama though that number is likely higher as MIS-C is not a reportable condition.

 

No MIS-C deaths have been reported in Alabama. There have been 4,404 cases of MIS-C in the U.S., including 37 deaths. While the condition can be serious, most children, according to the CDC, have gotten better with medical care.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

 

So dumb and this guy has millions of followers.

[Ball Security]

19 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

So dumb and this guy has millions of followers.

I call BS.  He’s lying.

[China]

WHO monitoring new coronavirus variant named 'Mu'

 

The World Health Organization has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu", which was first identified in Colombia in January 2021.

 

Mu, known scientifically as B.1.621, has been classified as a "variant of interest", the global health body said Tuesday in its weekly pandemic bulletin.

 

The WHO said the variant has mutations that indicate a risk of resistance to vaccines and stressed that further studies were needed to better understand it.

 

"The Mu variant has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape," the bulletin said.

 

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[Ball Security]

On 8/27/2021 at 10:29 PM, 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."

 

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Good luck with that.

 

 

This model stated that the seven day average would approach 1400, but be slightly lower, by mid-September.  Well, here we are on Sept 2, and the 7 day average is 1418. Cases are still going up (210k+ reported yesterday).  7,675 deaths since this article.  We’ll eclipse 100k deaths by Halloween.  All before winter starts.

[China]

Let's let all the Ivermectin proponents know about this so they can fly to Brazil and get bitten by a venomous snakes:

 

Brazilian viper venom shows promise as drug to combat COVID-19

 

Brazilian scientists have discovered that a native viper’s venom can be used as a drug to help combat COVID-19, Reuters reported.

 

In the scientific journal Molecules, scientists shared results from a study on monkey cells showing that a molecule from a Brazilian jararacussu pit viper can inhibit the virus’s ability to multiply by 75 percent. 

 

A molecule in the venom can connect to the enzyme of the virus, PLPro, which is vital to the reproduction of the virus, according to Reuters. 

 

"We were able to show this component of snake venom was able to inhibit a very important protein from the virus," University of São Paulo professor Rafael Guido told the news agency. 

 

Scientists will now evaluate the efficiency of different doses of the molecule, seeking to determine if it can prevent the virus from entering cells, Reuters noted.

 

The discovery also sparked some concerns. Herpetologist Giuseppe Puorto said that he worries about people traveling around the country trying to be cured by the viper’s venom. 

 

"We're wary about people going out to hunt the jararacussu around Brazil, thinking they're going to save the world. ... That's not it!" Puorto told Reuters. "It's not the venom itself that will cure the coronavirus."

 

The jararacussu pit viper is also one of the largest snakes in Brazil, measuring up to 6 feet, 2 inches, Reuters reported. 

 

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[TradeTheBeal!]

As I understand, we’ve been able to isolate many, many medicinal compounds from venomous plants and animals over the last 40 years or so.  It’s a fairly common practice.

[China]

30 minutes ago, TryTheBeal! said:

As I understand, we’ve been able to isolate many, many medicinal compounds from venomous plants and animals over the last 40 years or so.  It’s a fairly common practice.

 

Yes, they even made a movie about it 30 years ago.

[TradeTheBeal!]

7 minutes ago, China said:

 

Yes, they even made a movie about it 30 years ago.

I think Tool has made like 6 albums about it.

[Captain Wiggles]

 

[Yohan]

 

[China]

Patients overdosing on ivermectin backing up rural Oklahoma hospitals, ambulances

 

A rural Oklahoma doctor said patients who are taking the horse de-wormer medication, ivermectin, to fight COVID-19 are causing emergency room and ambulance back ups.

 

“There’s a reason you have to have a doctor to get a prescription for this stuff, because it can be dangerous,” said Dr. Jason McElyea.

 

Dr. McElyea said patients are packing his eastern and southeastern Oklahoma hospitals after taking ivermectin doses meant for a full-sized horse, because they believed false claims the horse de-wormer could fight COVID-19.

 

“The ERs are so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting to facilities where they can get definitive care and be treated,” he said.

 

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[China]

Crowded U.S. Jails Drove Millions Of COVID-19 Cases, A New Study Says

 

If the U.S. had done more to reduce its incarceration rate, it could have prevented millions of COVID-19 cases.

 

That's the conclusion of researchers who conducted what they say is the first study to link mass incarceration rates to pandemic vulnerability. Many of those preventable cases, they add, occurred in communities of color.

 

The U.S. jail and prison system acts as an epidemic engine, according to the study from researchers at Northwestern University and the World Bank.

 

That engine is driven by a massive number of people who, despite some counties' efforts to trim jail populations, have been cycling between cramped detention facilities and their home communities.

 

After analyzing data from 1,605 counties, the researchers linked an 80% reduction in the U.S. jail population to a 2% drop in the growth rate of daily COVID-19 cases.

 

Such a substantial drop in the incarceration level could have been achieved by instituting alternatives to jail for nonviolent offenses, according to the researchers — Dr. Eric Reinhart of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Daniel Chen of the Toulouse School of Economics and the World Bank.

 

That 2% reduction is a conservative estimate, but it still represents a dramatic potential shift, Reinhart told NPR.

 

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[skinsmarydu]

257 people dead of covid in GA in the first 2 days of September. 

That's 10 more than the entire month of July. 

[China]

Florida's COVID update: 1,338 more fatalities; average daily reported deaths reaches record high

 

Florida on Thursday reported 21,723 more COVID-19 cases and 1,338 additional deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.

 

All but 38 of the newly reported deaths, about 97%, occurred after Aug. 5, according to the Herald analysis. About 70% of the newly reported died in the past two weeks, the analysis showed. The majority of deaths happened during Florida’s latest surge in COVID-19 cases, fueled by the delta variant.

 

In the past seven days, on average, the state has added 325 deaths and 22,308 cases each day, according to Herald calculations of CDC data. This is a record high.

 

The jump in the number of reported cases and deaths is due to the newest way deaths and cases are counted. The CDC implemented the change earlier this month, causing occasional one-day aberrations like the 902 additional deaths on Monday and 901 more deaths reported Aug. 26.

 

In all, Florida has recorded at least 3,291,225 confirmed COVID cases statewide and 45,909 deaths.

 

The Herald publishes the number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after each update by the agency.

 

On Aug. 10, the Florida Department of Health changed the way it reported new cases and deaths to the CDC. Cases and deaths used to be logged as total new cases reported on a single day. Now, Florida is reporting cases by the “case date,” according to the CDC, rather than the date the case was logged into the system. The result of this change is a lag in cases by date and a number of cases back-filling over time.

 

There were 14,949 people hospitalized for COVID-19 in Florida on Thursday, according to data reported to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services from 255 Florida hospitals. That is 228 fewer patients than Wednesday’s COVID patient population.

 

COVID-19 patients accounted for 25.89% of all hospital patients.

 

Of the hospitalized in Florida, 3,340 people were in intensive care unit beds, a decrease of 25. That represents 50.22% of the state’s ICU hospital beds from 255 hospitals reporting data.

 

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[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[Renegade7]

Sometimes I wonder if we ever get ahead of this, or Mu breaks through and vaccines are always one or two variants behind.

[Ball Security]

7 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

Sometimes I wonder if we ever get ahead of this, or Mu breaks through and vaccines are always one or two variants behind.

One thing I did read that, as things stand now, Mu will have a difficult time taking hold in the US because of the prevalence of Delta.  Now if we ever get control of Delta, will Mu thrive here? Dunno.

[China]

Delta, Mu...sounds like a bad fraternity.

[Renegade7]

14 minutes ago, China said:

Delta, Mu...sounds like a bad fraternity.

 

"Kapa Kapa Kapa, or KKK for short..."