Posted on 05/23/2020 8:51:48 AM PDT by riri
Memorial Day Weekend Corona Virus Thread
Georgia child, 7, dies of coronavirus as state’s death toll surpasses 4,000
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Governor Mike DeWine
@GovMikeDeWine
UPDATE: In a second COVID-19 test administered today in Columbus, Governor Mike DeWine has tested negative for COVID-19. First Lady Fran DeWine and staff members have also all tested negative. “
I wonder what test the President uses?
And what one Dewine uses.
North Carolina reports first death tied to child care COVID-19 cluster
...the state said a staff member at a child care facility called Grace Filled Beginnings in Plymouth, located in Washington County, has died.
Grace Filled Beginnings first appeared on the Department of Health and Human Services cluster list last week, and at the latest check, the facility has eight staff members and two children with confirmed infections.
Coronavirus crisis in Spain: Up to 580 outbreaks with 6,900 related cases
According to the latest figures from the Spanish Health Ministry, nearly 100 new Covid-19 hotspots have been detected in the past week
Romania added 1,378 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest single-day number since the start of the pandemic.
https://www.romania-insider.com/coronavirus-cases-aug-7-2020
NHS must not stop normal care when a second wave of Covid-19 hits - or tens of thousands of patients may die, leading medics warn
In early March the NHS told hospitals to scrap as many operations as possible and turf out patients on their wards to make way for an influx of Covid-19 patients.
The move was successful and hospitals were not overwhelmed by the effects of the virus. But cancer charities fear tens of thousands more patients will die in the next year because they had their tumours diagnosed too late or missed completely
https://www.wired.com/story/could-a-janky-jury-rigged-air-purifier-help-fight-covid-19/
This is a great idea if you’re back to work in an office or building that doesn’t have any really good UV treatment system.
(@ABC)
Hard-hit Florida has 47 hospitals with no available intensive care unit beds, according to the state’s Agency for Healthcare Administration.
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1291774847832535041
Florida adds 7,686 new #COVID19 cases today and 180 deaths.
Percent positivity of new cases for August 6 was back in the double digits, at 10.12%
https://twitter.com/angell_lyn/status/1291771447002701824
(@vmsalama)
NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio says he will hold NYC schools to a high standard and if the city’s infection rate goes above 3%, he will go back to virtual learning.
(@SkyNews)
BREAKING: The French Government says it has recorded 2,288 new confirmed #COVID19 cases in the past 24 hours.
It is a significant jump from the 1,604 cases recorded on Thursday.
If your oldest has the ability to handle it, I’d encourage him to go to med school and then specialize in pulmonary or cardiology.
Neither JH or any other reliable data source reported "over 2,000 deaths" yesterday. They reported between 1,203 and 1,250. It's possible these 750+ mystery deaths are OLD deaths that were missed some time ago, but this is not a spike in NEW deaths as implied by the sensational headline.
3 of the past 4 days have shown a week over week decline in deaths. We appear to have peaked, and if the next couple days continue this week over week decline, we might be seeing the beginning of the end of this wave.
I sure hope so!
https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1291860659118804992
Good thread.
And why it seems that the infection ‘stops’ around 20%. Basically that’s the low hanging fruit that can’t avoid being infected or doesn’t change their behavior and gets infected. As long as the other portion of the population plays hard to get...the infection will run out of hosts.
Mind you, I don’t buy the argument that 20% is the top end of herd immunity for this virus because ‘waves hands’ T-cell/humoral/etc resposes.
Otherwise...what explains this whole neighborhood’s lack of those ‘waves hands’ other responses?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/health/queens-antibody-testing-coronavirus/index.html
“The data, first reported by The New York Times Thursday, shows that more than 68% of people tested positive for antibodies at a clinic in Corona, Queens, while only 56% tested positive at another clinic in Jackson Heights, Queens. CityMD, which operates dozens of walk-in clinics in New York, “
Because for those ‘waves hands’ other responses to work, you’d have to convince me that entire neighborhoods lacked them for some reason. Else those neighborhoods wouldn’t have ever achieved 60%+ antibody positivity.
Don’t we all. Looks like today was also down from last Friday, though slightly higher than yesterday. The downward movement from last week is significant, but I hate to call it a trend as it seems every time I do, the “trend” reverses. Unfortunately, the numbers don’t go down as fast as they go up.
Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in COVID-19 Patients – An MRI-based 3-month Follow-up Study
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30228-5/fulltext
I think what keeps me vigilant is what is happening in South America given they are in the middle of winter now and what that could foretell for the US.
The death rates are concerning but it is the life-altering long term affects that plague so many people. I know all viruses have the ability to do that, but it seems cv hits a greater number with after effects. And there seems to be no rhyme or reason yet as to who will will recover completely and who won’t. I hope scientists in the US are working to understand why this is.
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Former Florida State center Michael Ojo died on Friday after collapsing during training in Serbia, his former team Red Star Belgrade said. He was 27.
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Ojo was reported to have tested positive for the coronavirus, but also that he had recovered
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-ojo-former-florida-state-center-dies-age-27/
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