COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States (28 Apr, as of 06:00 AM ET)

CDC ^ | 28 Apr 2021 | CDC

[BeauBo]

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update)

(Over 300 million doses have been delivered from the factories - 43% of the total population has at least a first shot, 54.5% of adults, 82% of those 65+)

Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 301,857,885 (17,664,000 J&J)

Administered: 234,639,414 (8,124,392 J&J)

People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 142,692,987

Fully Vaccinated: 98,044,421

[dynoman]

A nurse with covid infected the staff and patients at a nursing home in my home town, six patients died. She volunteered for OT at the nursing home, which was where she normally worked, even though she knew she was positive.

Nursing homes were the worst place to be, along with covid wards. I read accounts of people presumed to have covid being put in covid floors and wards. Terrible things were done to our older folks by people who didn’t care and thought they were gods. Some people got their loved ones who hadn’t tested positive for covid out of those places but they had to take draconian action to do it.

[RC one]

You tell a doctor not to intubate a patient with an SPO2 of 50% whose guppy breathing 40 breaths a minute. Good luck finding a new job after you do that.

[dynoman]

I think poor mask hygiene actually made covid spread worse. Mask hygiene was practially non-existent. I know because I was trained and fit tested for masks and respirators as PPE my entire career.

[RC one]

Not in my neck of the woods. We fought Covid and beat its ass. It was kicking our ass at first but we turned it around. We had about 650 deaths by the end of wave 1. Most of them were nursing home type patients with extensive comorbidities. We’ll say that was about a year ago exactly. At that time, we had more deaths than any other county in the state. Between the end of wave 1 a year ago and now, we’ve had another 126 deaths because we upped our game. We are seeing more younger people with it now but they’re surviving. they are being put on ventilators and rotoprone beds though. It is my opinion that as more elderly people die and get vaccinated, the virus will “learn” to better utilize younger people as a host and this will become much more common.

[dynoman]

What I said, the early intervention probably didn’t happen. Make sure and read the EVMS PDF. That’s where they say “avoid intubation if possible”.

[dynoman]

Well, good job!!

I noticed the EVMS has deferred their covid protocol to;

https://covid19criticalcare.com/

[RC one]

I always wear an actual PAPR hood/helmet system in Covid rooms. There’s no way I’m going into a Covid room with just an N95. Others did. I saw plenty of other nurses on my unit get Covid and a couple of them were sick enough to get admitted. They had asthma. I have been in a lot a lot a lot of Covid rooms too. The problem is when you’re in a Covid room and you don’t know it because they’re initial complaint didn’t suggest it but further work up suggested it. I typically erred on the side of just throwing the CAPR on until I had a warm fuzzy feeling in my gut.

[RC one]

I have been fully aware of the intubation controversy for over a year but, like I said, I don't have any control over doctors. They're going to do what they're going to do and I flat out prefer it that way. Honestly, I was one of the first people talking about HCQ. I did a deep dive on the research early in the beginning of this thing and came across this article. But again, I'm just the nurse.

[dynoman]

Interesting! I never really heard of those being worn much.

Here’s FLCCC’s protocols;

https://flccc.net/flccc-alliance-i-maskplus-protocol-english/

Interesting to see IVM listed first. I’ve been taking Vitamin D3, Vitamin C, Quercetin, and Zinc all the way through, but not Melatonin and obviously not IVM.

If I get covid I’m printing off that protocol and taking it with to the clinic.

[dynoman]

I think I’d trust a nurse before many doctors. Especially Fauci. There are a lot of trustworthy doctors on twitter.

[RC one]

you might consider the vaccine. Eventually, Covid will adapt itself to infecting the unvaccinated populations. The vaccinated people will be fine for the most part but as the virus is forced to copy itself inside younger hosts and other subsets of the unvaccinated populations, it will gain mutations that allow it infect these people and these mutations will probably make it somewhat more lethal, specifically, it will increase its affinity for the ACE2 receptor so a smaller dose will become infectious and the same sized dose will become more lethal than it already is. I’m sure it will find other ways too. This is entirely my opinion of course.

[RC one]

Opinions on nurses vary. I have spent over 6 years in college studying nothing but science and some foreign languages and I was a mostly A student except for chemistry class which kicked my butt. I spent another 8 years in the Army and I was an NCO and infantry so I come to the Covid discussion with all that under my belt. Most nurses don’t have any of that. Some do though and they tend to be stronger than most. I think I have more under my belt than a lot of doctors but they have spent a lot of time immersed in subjects that I haven’t been immersed in so I trust them to know more than I do about practicing medicine. I’m happy to be friendly with them but it’s not like we hang out at the country club and talk about the latest advances in medicine. we ain’t buddies. It’s just a job.

[dynoman]

I’m totally against the vaccine at this point. I worked pretty much as normal up until I retired in March of this year. I worked rotating shifts where we shared workstations. I relieved someone who had covid (but hadn’t tested) an entire weekend. The company brought a close contact back to work as essential and I worked with that person in the same room. They were going home every day and their wife had tested positive. The company called people essential so they didn’t have to pay sick leave when the 80 hours of covid pay ran out.

We always cleaned out workstations when we relieved and used a lot of hand snaitizer. We never wore masks.

I may have had covid, some I worked with some who tested positive with zero symptoms.

The worst I felt all year was after we attended a funeral a month or so ago where no one wore masks. My wife’s mom and her husband were at our house and went with. They had been vaccinated. Both my wife and I got what we called nasty head colds with sore throats. My wife’s mom and husband didn’t catch it and no one else at the funeral did either. My wife got tested but it apparently wasn’t covid.

[dynoman]

I should have said I’m totally against *taking* the vaccine, for me only. I’m not against it.

[dynoman]

I have to go, it’s been really nice chatting! Thanks!