Posted on 05/23/2020 8:51:48 AM PDT by riri
Memorial Day Weekend Corona Virus Thread
Three links to a mask study by Duke.
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/07/sciadv.abd3083
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/suppl/2020/08/07/sciadv.abd3083.DC1/abd3083_SM.pdf
Cardinals manager Mike Shildt says COVID-19 outbreak has caused ‘a few visits to the ER’
“By and large, people are in a pretty good spot,” Shildt said Sunday in a radio interview on KMOX/1120 AM. “There are people that have symptoms, and have had a few visits to the ER for some IVs and a little more clarity. Nobody has had to stay. But there are people dealing with – I mean, this is real. And people are experiencing a lot of the symptoms that we hear about, that are associated with this.”
Take with a grain of salt, but:
The incubation period for Covid-19 might be longer than first thought, according to a new study involving people from Wuhan, the central China city where the coronavirus was first detected.
While the common wisdom among health authorities is that the average incubation period is about five days, rising to a maximum of about two weeks, researchers from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Peking University, say the mean value could be higher.
In their study, which used probability modelling and clinical data of more than 1,000 Covid-19 patients who left Wuhan before the city went into lockdown on January 23, the researchers found the mean incubation time was 8.29 days, while the median value was 7.76 days
(@SkyNews)
Wearing a face mask outdoors in some crowded parts of Paris will become mandatory next week, as France battles a surge in coronavirus infections
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1292473879080968192
(@BrettKelman)
Tennessee gained 2,127 new coronavirus infections today on 27,597 tests. Average daily hospitalizations rises slightly to 78. Eight new deaths brings death toll to 1,223.
We now have at least 40,492 active infections (highest ever.)
J.C. Bradbury
@jc_bradbury
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19h
Georgia COVID-19 update (8/9)
Cases: 216,596 (3,169, 1.5%)
Deaths: 4,199 (13, 0.3%), 1.9% of confirmed cases
Hospitalizations: 20,628 (72, 0.4%), 10% of confirmed cases
Positive %: 8.2%
(daily change)
https://twitter.com/jc_bradbury/status/1292557683736838155
Texas
+4,879 cases, seven day average down, new tests also down
7 day positivty rate at new high of 20.31%
Current hospitalizations down 435 to 7,437
https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83
9 students, staff test positive for COVID-19 after Georgia school hallway photo goes viral
Comment: this school is closed until Wednesday
(@CBSNews)
97,000 children reportedly test positive for coronavirus in two weeks as schools gear up for instruction
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1292807912793034752
(@realDonaldTrump)
So now Schumer and Pelosi want to meet to make a deal. Amazing how it all works, isn’t it. Where have they been for the last 4 weeks when they were “hardliners”, and only wanted BAILOUT MONEY for Democrat run states and cities that are failing badly? They know my phone number!
Cold, flu and bronchitis infections fell ‘well below average’ during coronavirus lockdown in England because of social distancing and better hygiene, doctors say
(@breakingmkts)
GERMAN HEALTH MINISTERS AGREE TO BAN SPECTATORS FROM STADIUMS AT BUNDESLIGA SOCCER MATCHES UNTIL AT LEAST END OF OCTOBER DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
(@HarpWizard)
Florida #COVID19 cases and tests 8/10
4,155 new cases, lowest daily count since 6/23; ave 6,650
4M total tests, but only 28,247 new tests, lowest daily count since 6/24; 37K ave tests
Test positivity 17.1% overall, 15.1% peds
Ave daily tests and cases decline in lockstep
Australian Professor: Ivermectin ‘Amazingly Successful’ in Killing Coronavirus
Int J Infect Dis . Vitamin D3 and K2 and their potential contribution to reducing the COVID-19 mortality rate
Today, 05:38 AM
Int J Infect Dis
2020 Aug 5;S1201-9712(20)30624-X.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.07.080. Online ahead of print.
Vitamin D3 and K2 and their potential contribution to reducing the COVID-19 mortality rate
Simon Goddek 1 Affiliations
PMID: 32768697
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.07.080
Abstract
The world is desperately seeking for a sustainable solution to combat the coronavirus strain SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). Recent research from Asian scholars indicated that optimizing Vitamin D blood levels could offer a solution approach that promises a heavily reduced fatality rate as well as solving the public health problem of counteracting the general vitamin D deficiency. This paper dived into the immunoregulatory effects of supplementing Vitamin D3 by elaborating a causal loop diagram. Together with D3, vitamin K2 and magnesium should be supplemented to prevent long-term health risks. Follow up clinical randomized trials are required to verify the current circumstantial evidence.
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S120197122030624X
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29633697
“Heart condition linked with COVID-19 fuels Power 5 concern about season’s viability”
“Myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, has been found in at least five Big Ten Conference athletes and among several other athletes in other conferences, according to two sources with knowledge of athletes’ medical care.”
Ah, so the school will close for in-person learning for two whole days. Yeah, that’ll do it.
On a positive note, compared to the same time period last year, divorce filings in Travis County, TX due to the virus, were down 54%. In Williamson County they were down 41%.
The local Walmart will bring prescriptions out to your car but won’t bring insulin. I don’t understand the problem. They have to take it out of refrigeration whether you’re at the counter or in your car. Looks like they just lost a customer.
This is one of the many reasons so many NFL players are "opting out" of the 2020 season. There will be many more as they see these numbers increase. They will also be taking their social risks a lot more seriously.
These athletes are getting the very best in diagnostic medicine. "COVID longhaulers" are being told "it's just anxiety", and are denied further diagnostic procedures. Expect denial of actual symptoms to be standard practice for "recovered" COVID patients.
For most people, mmmmmmaybe not a big deal.
for an athlete with designs on going pro or just getting a free degree? big deal.
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