LD0506 Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 8 hours ago, Larry said: Oh, come on. Anybody who was going to commit suicide over this team would have done it 20 years ago. I did I walked it off 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 11 minutes ago, LD0506 said: I did I walked it off IKR? I'm shocked that my husband spent 20+ years with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 The Clintons both tested positive for covid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjinhan Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 On 3/21/2022 at 5:22 PM, Fergasun said: I am actually kind've pissed that rather than fight the emotionals (like the person in the WSJ op-ed) public health officials have just resigned themselves to allowing more waves and likely deaths... AND many people are okay with other people dying. I guess I am a person that is falling down middle of the line.. I am definitely a believer in the vaccines, masks, and all that stuff... but lets be real.. when does this all end? At this point, I think the world does have to accept the fact that COVID will be around with us forever and like the flu, in a form that is more manageable than the original COVID outbreak. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 25, 2022 Author Share Posted March 25, 2022 Well, scientists have finally figured out how to beat Covid...just get tuberculosis. Why Tuberculosis May Protect Against COVID-19 Though the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic (possibly? hopefully?) may be behind us, so too might be our immunity to the virus, whether it’s through vaccination or through natural infection. In February, the CDC announced that while vaccine boosters were 91 percent effective in preventing hospitalization after two months, that number slipped to 78 percent after four months. The jury is still out on whether a fourth booster is necessary. As this plays out, a bizarre yet interesting wrinkle has emerged: tuberculosis infection somehow prevents coronavirus infection. In a new study published Thursday in the journal PLOS Pathogens, researchers at the Ohio State University found that mice infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis were resistant to falling sick after exposure to the alpha variant of COVID. “This research might explain why some [people] have never gotten COVID,” Dr. Shira Doron, a hospital epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center who was not part of the study, told The Daily Beast. “[And whether] there are any treatments or preventative measures we could leverage.” Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 I wonder what ever prompted them to run that experiment... "I know, let's give them TB and then see if they'll catch Covid!" "Darn tootin'...I'll get the syringe!" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 25, 2022 Author Share Posted March 25, 2022 So I came across this: Mapped: America's COVID shuffle In new U.S. census data showing migration from July 2020 to July 2021, five of the top 10 counties in numeric growth were in Texas — Collin, Fort Bend, Williamson, Denton and Montgomery counties. The others were in Arizona (Maricopa County) ... California (Riverside County) ... Florida (Polk and Lee counties) ... and Utah (Utah County). The three largest numeric losers were L.A. County ... New York County (Manhattan) ... and Cook County, Ill., which includes Chicago. Click on the link for the full article And when I read that and looked at the map included in the link I thought, why does it necessarily have to do with COVID? It looks to me like a result of an aging population and that people are moving south when the get old and retire. So I looked it up and sure enough the places where there is population growth (migration) is also where the population is getting older. Not convinced it has anything to do with COVID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 27, 2022 Author Share Posted March 27, 2022 Uninsured Americans now to be charged up to $195 per COVID test by some providers: report Several testing providers will no longer provide COVID-19 tests for free to uninsured Americans, even if they are symptomatic, saying they will begin to charge between $100 and $195 dollars for PCR tests, ABC News reported. Quest Diagnostics, which is one of the country's largest COVID-19 testing providers, told ABC News that patients will now be billed $125 per PCR test if they are not on Medicare, Medicaid or private insurance Quest has started telling partners and clients that it will no longer be able to reimburse for uninsured claims due to a lack of congressional funding, ABC noted. Walgreens told the outlet that it is "hopeful for a path forward that ensures uninterrupted access to COVID-19 services," from Congress, while CVS told ABC that it is "fully confident" that Congress and the Biden administration will find a solution. However, ABC noted that if Congress does not agree to supplement COVID-19 funding, uninsured patients may be stuck with the full bill for PCR testing, or companies will have to take on the costs themselves. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that in the first half of 2021 more than 31 million Americans did not have health insurance. Click on the link for the full article I guess that's one way to keep Covid numbers down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergasun Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 This is part of $15B or so of funding that the GOP removed from the budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 28, 2022 Author Share Posted March 28, 2022 Looks like we hit a million deaths in the US. What a grim milestone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 28, 2022 Author Share Posted March 28, 2022 Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years China began its most extensive coronavirus lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation’s “zero-COVID” strategy. Shanghai, China’s financial capital and largest city with 26 million people, had managed its smaller previous outbreaks with limited lockdowns of housing compounds and workplaces where the virus was spreading. But the citywide lockdown that will be conducted in two phases will be China’s most extensive since the central city of Wuhan, where the virus was first detected in late 2019, confined its 11 million people to their homes for 76 days in early 2020. Millions more have been kept in lockdown since then. Shanghai’s Pudong financial district and nearby areas will be locked down from Monday to Friday as mass testing gets underway, the local government said. In the second phase of the lockdown, the vast downtown area west of the Huangpu River that divides the city will start its own five-day lockdown Friday. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 11 hours ago, China said: Looks like we hit a million deaths in the US. What a grim milestone. Always fun to go back read the first 15 or so pages of this thread. Also, I suspect we hit a million a lot earlier, but that's the official count isn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ball Security Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 (edited) One thing I’ll miss about the pandemic is the space people gave each other in the Chipotle line. We’ve officially moved back to pre-pandemic levels. Edited March 28, 2022 by Ball Security 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 I miss the reduced # of people inside the grocery store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 28, 2022 Author Share Posted March 28, 2022 Can COVID make your brain shrink? We have known for some time now that COVID-19 can affect the nervous system. Some people who contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus have suffered from a number of neurological complications including confusion, strokes, impaired concentration, headaches, sensory disturbances, depression, and even psychosis, months after the initial infection. Now, researchers at the University of Oxford have conducted the first major peer-reviewed study comparing the brain scans of 785 people, aged 51 to 81 of whom 401 had contracted COVID and 384 had not. There were, on average, 141 days between testing positive for COVID and the second brain scan. The study revealed that, when compared to the scans of a control group, those who tested positive for COVID had greater overall brain shrinkage and more grey matter shrinkage and tissue damage in regions linked to smell and mental capacities months after the initial infection. Although the research does shed some light on the ongoing symptoms of long COVID, I would caution against generalising the findings to the population at large before more research is conducted. Researchers said even though the effects were more pronounced in older people who had been hospitalised for their symptoms, even those with mild symptoms had some changes. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 Chinese city orders all indoor pets belonging to COVID-19 patients in one neighborhood to be killed A Chinese city briefly ordered all indoor pets belonging to COVID-19 patients in one neighborhood to be killed. The Anci district of Langfang city, in northern China, on Wednesday ordered the "complete culling of indoor animals" of coronavirus patients, the state-run China News Service reported. The work had stopped by 5 p.m. local time Wednesday, the China News Service reported, citing a staff member for the Langfang Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It is not clear how many animals were killed. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that pets can get COVID-19 from humans but that the risk of pets spreading the disease to people was "low." China has been aggressively pursuing a zero-COVID strategy since the start of the pandemic. Click on the link for the full article 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 30, 2022 Author Share Posted March 30, 2022 CDC Drops Covid-19 Health Notice For Cruising The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has dropped its travel health notice for cruising, just over two years after the Covid-19 pandemic began. Click on the link for the full article Meanwhile... Cruise ship reports COVID-19 outbreak in San Francisco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 31, 2022 Author Share Posted March 31, 2022 COVID pandemic’s end may bring turbulence for US health care When the end of the COVID-19 pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for a cumbersome U.S. health care system made more generous, flexible and up-to-date technologically through a raft of temporary emergency measures. Winding down those policies could begin as early as the summer. That could force an estimated 15 million Medicaid recipients to find new sources of coverage, require congressional action to preserve broad telehealth access for Medicare enrollees, and scramble special COVID-19 rules and payment policies for hospitals, doctors and insurers. There are also questions about how emergency use approvals for COVID-19 treatments will be handled. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted April 1, 2022 Author Share Posted April 1, 2022 American teens' health behaviors suffered a lot during pandemic From increased drug and alcohol use to high levels of reported abuse and feelings of mental distress, the pandemic wreaked some major havoc on the health of American teenagers, according to a CDC report released Thursday. Why it matters: The stress and social isolation of the pandemic cut across age groups in ways we're still trying to understand. But this nationally representative survey from the first half of 2021 is the most comprehensive federal look to date specifically looking at the experience of teens. "These data echo a cry for help," said CDC acting principal deputy director Debra Houry in a statement. "The COVID-19 pandemic has created traumatic stressors that have the potential to further erode students' mental wellbeing." By the numbers: The survey of more than 7,700 high school students was taken between January and June 2021. The teens reported high levels of mental distress, risky health behaviors, economic instability and abuse. Mental distress: For instance, more than 40% of teens said they persistently felt sad or hopeless during the past year, the survey found. Economic instability: 29% said a parent had lost a job during the pandemic and one in four said they'd experienced hunger. 2% said they'd experienced homelessness. Risky behaviors: Among the 43% of students who said they consumed alcohol, about 30% said they drank more during the pandemic and 22% said they drank six or more times in the past month. Among the third of respondents who’d ever used an illicit drug, 31% said they'd used more drugs during COVID. Abuse: More than half (55%) reported they experienced emotional abuse by a parent or other adult in the home, including being the target of swearing or insults and more than one in 10 said they'd experienced physical abuse. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted April 1, 2022 Author Share Posted April 1, 2022 Covid: Record 4.9 million people have the virus in UK That is some 4.9 million people, up from 4.3 million people the week before. ONS officials say that is the highest number seen since its survey began at the end of April 2020. The surge in infections is being driven partly by the contagious Omicron BA.2 sub-variant and people mixing more. The figures for the week ending 26 March are thought to give the most accurate reflection of what's happening with the virus in the community. The ONS survey tests thousands of people randomly in households across the UK - whether or not they have symptoms. Kara Steel, senior statistician for the Covid-19 infection survey, said: "Infection levels remain high, with the highest levels recorded in our survey seen in England and Wales and notable increases among older age groups." The latest data comes on the day that most people in England will have to start paying for Covid-19 tests. The government's "living with Covid" plan means free testing will only continue for certain groups - including some people with weakened immune systems, people admitted to hospital and health and care staff. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 But don't worry. We're certain that the number of people testing positive will go down, just as soon as we start charging people to get tested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Just saw on MSNBC that 1 in 13 people in the UK are positive for covid right now. Yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 As US Nears 1 Million Covid Deaths, One Hard-Hit County Grapples With Unthinkable Loss Eric and Toby Delamarter are two of the roughly 300 people who have died of covid in Mifflin County, where cows grazing in pastures and Amish horse and buggies are frequent sights. The county 60 miles northwest of Harrisburg leans heavily Republican — 77% of votes cast in 2020 were for Donald Trump — and the former president’s downplaying of covid-19 found fertile ground there. Mifflin has one of the highest covid death rates among U.S. counties with at least 40,000 people, according to government data compiled by Johns Hopkins University — 591 deaths per 100,000 residents as of mid-March, compared with 298 deaths nationally. Mifflin County offers a snapshot into how one hard-hit community moved from skepticism about the scientific reality of the covid virus, and then about the vaccine, to coping with unbearable loss and processing the trauma. Roughly 8 in 10 deaths nationwide from April to December 2021 were among the unvaccinated, according to the latest analysis of data from 23 states and New York City and Seattle by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 Good grief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Big shock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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