Posted on 05/23/2020 8:51:48 AM PDT by riri
Memorial Day Weekend Corona Virus Thread
If it's temporary, then OK, but I would want to know the long term implications before I dismissed it as "not a big deal".
Oh yeah, to be sure.
A portion of ‘healthy working age’ people with kidney, lung and cardiac problems over and above what we already have is a recipe for single payer.
Not to mention the pain and suffering factor.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L20-0845
“Myasthenia Gravis Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Infection”
(@business)
Hong Kongs worst coronavirus outbreak is showing signs of coming under control with the lowest number of new local infections since its resurgence
https://twitter.com/business/status/1293125527872643072
This revelation about football players having heart issues after Covid reminds me of the baseball pitcher who also had heart issues after Covid: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/02/red-sox-ace-27-wont-pitch-this-season-because-heart-ailment-linked-covid-19/
These are young healthy guys. This bears out the studies of long term heart complications too. Are the folks in charge of health going to let joe public know this because there are a lot of people walking around thinking its just the sniffles for most people.
The gift that keeps on giving.
My son calls it airborne aids.
(@AFP)
#BREAKING Russia says industrial production of new coronavirus vaccine to start in September
(@elpaisinenglish)
Spains Health Ministry on Monday reported 8,618 new coronavirus infections since Friday, of which 1,486 were diagnosed in the last 24 hours. According to health officials, 70% of new cases are among the under-30s, although 10% are among people over 65
https://twitter.com/elpaisinenglish/status/1293099761587953664
Renowned European scientist: COVID-19 was engineered in China lab, effective vaccine unlikely
Professor Giuseppe Tritto, an internationally known expert in biotechnology and nanotechnology, says that the China Virus definitely wasnt a freak of nature that happened to cross the species barrier from bat to man.
New Zealand has been pretty quiet as far as cv goes, but looks like its starting up there again:
Coronavirus: Supermarket chaos as Aucklanders ignore PM’s advice ahead of level 3
One week in from schools reopening:
More Than 800 Students In Cherokee County Must Quarantine Due To COVID-19
The district’s updated note Monday evening said 38 students and 12 teachers and staff tested positive for the virus.
At Etowah High School, nearly 300 students of the 2,400 total student population were quarantining.
4th Louisiana child dies from coronavirus-linked illness even though it’s ‘mathematically rare’
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_613ce6e4-db33-11ea-a663-6f107f896ea1.html
7th grade students quarantined after positive coronavirus case at St. Ann School in Metairie
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_4d458d4c-db49-11ea-bdfc-47f331230c2a.html
Checking in - how are you feeling?
CBS News is so sloppy.
When you click on the tweet that has that headline - "97,000 children..." the embedded article does not even reference 97,000 children.
Here is a link that does reference 97,000 children:
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/11/900861372/at-least-97-000-children-tested-positive-for-coronavirus-in-last-2-weeks-of-july
Kudos to NPR for posting the actual story.
But But...magical T cells will save us all!
Guess prisoners don’t have T cells.
More post-cv stuff:
Rare COVID-19 related illness rising in Louisiana, 4 children dead
https://www.fox8live.com/2020/08/10/rare-covid-related-illness-rising-louisiana-children-dead/
How dystopian and traumatic for kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iDucLoSxjw
No matter what I thought about the seriousness or non-seriousness of cv, I would not put my kid through that.
(@FLCovid)
Testing again low (bad), cases and positivity both up (not good)
Hospitalizations (6,736) back on the decline (good)
Reported deaths (276 Resident) very high, but playing catch-up
Former Paulding school nurse says she resigned over COVID-19 concerns
Maybe our media, which is so focused in bashing trump, and our health agencies which are focused on vaccines, could take the time to simply educate the population on risk factors.
Everyone in the US could have learned of the risk factors of diabetes and obesity months age ago, and had time to lower their BMI:
Mom whose son succumbed to COVID-19 dies; third death from the Fort Braden School community
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