Posted on 05/12/2020 5:35:05 PM PDT by RaceBannon
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Corona Virus Daily Thread #52 COVID-19 5/12/2020
“For older workers, the pandemic employment plunge may be tougher to pull out of”
‘RIP Fredo’: WH press secretary Kayleigh McEnany dropkicks Chris Cuomo over hydroxychloroquine [video] - https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/05/20/rip-fredo-wh-press-secretary-kayleigh-mcenany-dropkicks-chris-cuomo-over-hydroxychloroquine-video/
Ahhh, thanks for the heads up!
Cutie has more than a few “issues” - https://weartv.com/news/local/desantis-florida-covid-19-dashboard-designer-faces-cyber-sexual-harassment-charges
More details - Rebekah Jones’ firing is the COVID clickbait the media dreams of – but it’s all fake - https://tallahasseereports.com/2020/05/20/rebekah-jones-firing-is-the-covid-clickbait-the-media-dreams-of-but-its-all-fake/
In Shocking Jump, Brazil Reports Nearly 20k Cases In A Single Day: Live Updates
US Deaths Projected To Triple By Year-End Regardless Of Social Distancing: Study
While coronavirus projections have ranged from ‘just a flu’ levels to a ludicrous two million Americans dead, a new study from the University of Washington’s School of Pharmacy has concluded that the number of Americans who will die after contracting the novel coronavirus will more than triple by year-end, even if current social distancing habits are maintained for months to come.
“COVID-19 infection is deadlier than flu — we can put that debate to rest,” said Anirban Basu, University of Washington health economist who authored the study which found that based on the infection fatality rate, 1.3% of those who show symptoms of COVID-19 die, which makes it 13x more deadly than a bad influenza season.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.02.20080036v1
“Background: COVID-19 has rapidly emerged as a pandemic infection that has caused significant mortality and economic losses. Potential therapies and means of prophylaxis against COVID-19 are urgently needed to combat this novel infection. As a result of in vitro evidence suggesting zinc sulfate may be efficacious against COVID-19, our hospitals began using zinc sulfate as add-on therapy to hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
We performed a retrospective observational study to compare hospital outcomes among patients who received hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc versus hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone. Methods: Data was collected from electronic medical records for all patients being treated with admission dates ranging from March 2, 2020 through April 5, 2020. Initial clinical characteristics on presentation, medications given during the hospitalization, and hospital outcomes were recorded. Patients in the study were excluded if they were treated with other investigational medications.
Results: The addition of zinc sulfate did not impact the length of hospitalization, duration of ventilation, or ICU duration.
In univariate analyses, zinc sulfate increased the frequency of patients being discharged home, and decreased the need for ventilation, admission to the ICU, and mortality or transfer to hospice for patients who were never admitted to the ICU.
After adjusting for the time at which zinc sulfate was added to our protocol, an increased frequency of being discharged home (OR 1.53, 95% CI 1.12-2.09) reduction in mortality or transfer to hospice remained significant (OR 0.449, 95% CI 0.271-0.744).
Conclusion: This study provides the first in vivo evidence that zinc sulfate in combination with hydroxychloroquine may play a role in therapeutic management for COVID-19.”
“… “She was putting data on the portal which the scientists didn’t believe was valid data,” DeSantis said. “So she didn’t listen to the people who were her superiors.” “
No surprise.
(She’s still a cutie though...)
I wonder why! After we now hear that viruses don’t crawl around on surfaces or jump from them into your nose.
After everyone has gone berserk with hand sanitizers and Lysol.
I always knew that anyway, but it does make them crazy to be leaping from one set of rules to another.
They just discovered carbon dioxide toxicity, it seems, which is what you get from walking around with a mask on. I thought I was dying.
What the media reports is determined by what their advertisers will pay them to report.
America’s newsman: “Show me where a man gets his cornpone, and I’ll tell you what his opinions are.”
I didn't appreciate being handicapped with a mask while sitting for the Security+ exam at a proctored Pearson VUE test center. It was a distraction that cost me valuable time. I couldn't afford to not pass it at $349 a shot. Fortunately, I passed and it's good for 3 years (renewable with CE).
True but what requirements are there for the news media to tell the general public?
There is much we are not being told.
That’s not nearly as bad as the state of Vermont that closed its not very busy welcome centers and for the convenience of those tho really needed to use them, put up porttapotties instead.
No kidding.
What rocket scientist figured that portapotties were better than the welcome center?
Do politicians have to fail an IQ test to get elected?
Now Cuomo is claiming that his placing of recovering COVID-19 patients in nursing homes was in accordance with CDC guidelines. I have no idea whether that is actually true.
Fortunately, its now coming out that Corona Balogna virus is not as transmissible from surfaces as was once thought, so you won’t necessarily have to routinely disinfect your keyboard, or at least not as often.
Well done. Other than that, I’m not worrying.
Hundreds of Workers Test Positive For COVID-19 at Tyson Foods Chicken Plant In N.C.
Of the 2,244 team members and contractors who work at the facility and were tested, 570 tested positive, the majority of whom did not show any symptoms
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