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[On the Level]

i think you overestimate the care required for a COVID patient - even in or out of ICU.  They are not very complex care cases until they are ventilated.  even ventilated they are quite stable mostly.

 

Until they die

 

Why bother to intubate or put them in ICU?  Very stable.  Not complex.  BS.

Edited by On the Level, 21 September 2021 - 10:15 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

This is CDC data:

 

 

if you are a young person (0-17), you have a 127 x chance of dying from something other than COVID.  439 vs. 56,092

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 September 2021 - 02:55 AM.

[Mike K.]

COVID-19 emerged following research pursuits related to the inoculation of bats in the Wuhan area, as part of efforts to make a novel coronavirus more adaptable/dangerous to humans? And those at the heart of the accusations then used The Lancet to try to discredit claims that the virus was unleashed because of a botched experiment, which it looks like the US foresaw and refused to fund? And the scientists who put their names down as backing the rebuttal letter in The Lancet on the origins of COVID-19 have ties to the Wuhan lab?

https://www.telegrap...-nanoparticles/

Nearly all Lancet scientists who publicly trashed Covid lab leak theory have links to Wuhan research, report says
https://www.google.c...eport-says/amp/

[amor de cosmos]

A site run voluntarily by two B.C. moms has quickly become one of the only sources of information on COVID-19 exposures in schools this year, after the province announced it would only publicize information if it turned into a cluster or outbreak.
 
Kathy Marliss heads the BC School COVID Tracker, which crowdsources letters and emails sent to individual parents and publishes their exposure information in a mass 78-page online spreadsheet. The result is a semi-comprehensive look at COVID-19 exposures, clusters and outbreaks in schools across B.C., dating back to September 2020.
 
When the Richmond mom started the site a year ago, it was to create an accessible database for concerned parents, drawing on publicly-available health documents. This school year though, those documents are usually only being sent to the caregivers of students at the highest risk of having been exposed, leaving the rest of the school community in the dark.
 
“We’re furious because that little bit of information we got was our only life line for making informed decisions,” said Marliss, who has two children and an immunocompromised husband.
 
Marliss and a Vancouver Island mom now spend hours each every day collecting and verifying messages from parents and school administrators across the province, informing them of exposures in their schools. Of course, relying on voluntarily-submitted information means the BC School COVID Tracker will likely never capture the full picture.

https://www.nanaimob...al-information/

Fully-vaccinated people in BC will no longer have to self-isolate after COVID-19 exposure
https://www.victoria...id-19-exposure/
 

　　中新社北京9月22日电 (记者 孙自法)中国科学院科技论文预发布平台(ChinaXiv)9月22日发表一项基于新的大数据分析方法得到的溯源结果显示，美国新冠“零号病人”大概率出现在2019年9月前后，最早是罗德岛州首例感染发生概率50%的日期为2019年4月26日，远早于美国官方公布的全美首例确诊日期2020年1月20日。

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　　在最新这项大数据分析工作中，科研人员基于已公开数据并根据传染病模型和统计方法，建立最优化模型，对美国部分州和中国武汉市、浙江省等地的疫情起源时间进行了推断。该研究论文提出，结合数学模型和人工智能技术对传染病进行定性和定量分析，可以揭示传染病流行规律。目前，根据传染病模型和数据进行疫情预测的研究比较多，但是利用大数据分析的方法建立数学模型“倒推”疫情变化的研究，中外都比较少。

China News Agency, Beijing, September 22 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The Chinese Academy of Sciences' pre-publishing platform for scientific and technological papers (ChinaXiv) published a traceability result based on a new big data analysis method on September 22, showing that the United States' COVID-19 "patient zero" The high probability appears around September 2019. The earliest date of the first 50% infection in Rhode Island is April 26, 2019, which is much earlier than the official U.S. date of the first confirmed case in the United States, January 20, 2020. day.

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In the latest big data analysis work, researchers have established an optimized model based on published data and according to infectious disease models and statistical methods, and inferred the origin time of the epidemic in some states in the United States, Wuhan, Zhejiang and other places in China. . The research paper proposes that combining mathematical models and artificial intelligence technology to carry out qualitative and quantitative analysis of infectious diseases can reveal the epidemiology of infectious diseases. At present, there are many studies on epidemic prediction based on infectious disease models and data, but there are relatively few studies on the use of big data analysis to establish mathematical models to "reverse" epidemic changes.

http://www.chinanews...2/9571374.shtml

Llama antibodies have 'significant potential' as potent COVID-19 treatment
https://medicalxpres...ial-potent.html
 
Although the evidence suggests the use of saline inhibits viral replication, it does not afford full protection against infection, let alone a cure. "It's very simple and cheap. It's already used prophylactically against other respiratory diseases, and it could minimize the severity of COVID-19 by reducing viral load. It could be added to safety protocols without replacing the use of face coverings, social distancing and vaccination," Guzzo said.
https://www.news-med...SARS-CoV-2.aspx
 
According to a preprint study posted online on Sept. 14, which hasn't been peer-reviewed yet, as many as 400,000 people each year in South and Southeast Asia might pick up SARS-related coronaviruses directly from bats. The study focused on South Asia and Southeast Asia because of the high human-bat overlap there.
https://www.webmd.co...-bats-to-people

New study to test third COVID-19 vaccine for people with weakened immune systems
https://medicalxpres...ned-immune.html
 

BERLIN: Germany will stop paying compensation to unvaccinated workers who are forced into quarantine by coronavirus measures as it is unfair to ask taxpayers to subsidise those who refuse to get inoculated, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Wednesday (Sep 22)/
 
The rules, which will be implemented by the governments of Germany's 16 federal states, will take effect by Oct 11 at the latest, Spahn said, confirming the details of a draft document seen earlier by Reuters.
 
The rules will affect people who test positive for the virus and those returning from trips to countries designated "high risk" for COVID-19, which now include Britain, Turkey and parts of France, among others.
 
Unvaccinated travellers from such countries are required to quarantine for at least five days. Those who have been vaccinated or have recently recovered are not required to do so.
 
Critics have said such rules would be equivalent to a mandate for COVID-19 vaccinations because many workers cannot afford to stay at home without pay.
 
"We should see this differently," Spahn told a news conference. "It's about fairness. Those who protect themselves and others via a vaccination can rightly ask why we should have to pay somebody who ended up in quarantine after a holiday in a risk area."

https://www.channeln...ine-pay-2194776

New Zealand says it may not get to zero COVID-19 cases again
http://alriyadhdaily...ddafdbaaf3ae18a
 

In 2018, Peter Daszak, the British-born zoologist and president of the EcoHealth Alliance, the US organisation known for funneling millions of dollars in US National Institutes of Health funding into risky research at the Wuhan lab, submitted a funding request to DARPA – the Pentagon’s top-secret military research agency, to deliberately release genetically-modified coronavirus particles into wild Chinese bat populations, leaked grant proposal papers suggest.
 

The $14.2 million funding request, published by DRASTIC Research, a loose collection of independent scientists investigating Covid-19’s origins, is said to have sought the cash to create airborne, skin-penetrating coronavirus particles and spread them into bat caves in China’s Yunnan province, ostensibly to inoculate the animals against illnesses that could jump to human beings.

The complex nano-particles were said to contain “novel chimeric spike proteins.” Situated on the outside of the coronavirus, the spike protein the means by which SARS-CoV-2 enters human cells.

https://sputniknews....1089302051.html

At an Overrun ICU, ‘the Problem Is We Are Running Out of Hallways’
https://khn.org/news...ffing-shortage/
 

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will announce on Wednesday (Sep 22) that the US plans to donate an additional 500 million Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to the rest of the world, bringing its total commitment to 1.1 billion, officials said.
 
Biden will relay the news at a virtual summit to be held on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, where he will challenge world leaders to vaccinate 70 per cent of every country by September 2022.
 
The donations are being made "free of charge, no strings attached," a senior administration official said ahead of the meeting.
 
"For every one shot we have administered in this country to date, we are now donating three shots to other countries," she added.
 
In his first speech to the UN as president on Tuesday, Biden told delegates that the United States had put more than US$15 billion towards the global COVID-19 response and shipped more than 160 million doses to other countries.
 
The United States and other wealthy countries have been criticised by the World Health Organization (WHO) for their plans to roll out booster shots for elderly and high-risk populations, while much of the world faces a severe shortage in doses.
 
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Washington will seek to rally the world around three goals: Increasing vaccine supply; saving lives now by resolving the oxygen crisis and access to testing, medicine and therapeutics; and lastly improving future preparedness.
 
On vaccines, Biden will set an "ambitious target, which will require all countries to step up, so that every country, including low income and low middle income countries can achieve 70 per cent vaccination before UNGA (United Nations General Assembly) of next year," the official said.

https://www.channeln...s-world-2194526

Lawyer Forces Ivermectin on Hospitals—and Drives Docs Crazy
https://www.thedaily...s-doctors-crazy
 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Tuesday that he’s chosen a researcher at the UCLA School of Medicine to be the state’s next surgeon general. Joseph Ladapo, a Harvard-educated physician who has questioned whether Covid-19 vaccines could help end the Covid-19 pandemic, will be the state’s top public health official.
 
Last year, Ladapo wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, where he called masking a “distraction.” He cited certain randomized clinical trials and said, “Most have shown that wearing a mask has little or no effect on respiratory virus transmission.”
 
And in June, Ladapo and a co-author wrote in the Journal, “The risks of a COVID-19 vaccine may outweigh the benefits for certain low-risk populations, such as children, young adults and people who have recovered from COVID-19.”
 
This assessment is not shared by the broader medical community.
 
Like DeSantis, Ladapo is also against mandating masking and vaccinations. After being introduced by the governor, he spoke and took questions.
 
“Florida will completely reject fear,” Ladapo declared. “Fear is done.”
 
At one point, he was asked a question (that was inaudible) about vaccines.
 
“Vaccines are up to the person,” responded the new surgeon general. “There’s nothing special about them compared to any other preventive measure. So, absolutely. Great things about vaccines for Covid-19, prevent the risk of serious illness. Fantastic. People get to make a choice about what they want to do with that information.”

https://www.mediaite...urgeon-general/
 
Michael Flynn: The 'Deep State' is plotting to spike your salad dressing with the COVID vaccine
https://www.rawstory...salad-dressing/

[todd]

“B.C. resumes notifying parents about COVID-19 school exposures after outcry”: https://www.cbc.ca/n...sures-1.6184815

[Ismo07]

Nearly all Lancet scientists who publicly trashed Covid lab leak theory have links to Wuhan research, report says
https://www.google.c...eport-says/amp/

 

Might that be because they have experience there, so they actually know what's going on?

[On the Level]

 

 

Michael Flynn: The 'Deep State' is plotting to spike your salad dressing with the COVID vaccine
https://www.rawstory...salad-dressing/

 

What is with the States these days?  They have all gone crazy.

[Nparker]

...What is with the States these days?  They have all gone crazy....

It's been a slow build-up to the current level of crazy for about 40 years now.

[todd]

^ about 100 million more people in the last 40 years down there


they have about 300 million more people than us how do you get that many people to agree and act proper in a proper democracy

[Danma]

Michael Flynn: The 'Deep State' is plotting to spike your salad dressing with the COVID vaccine

https://www.rawstory...salad-dressing/

 

I gotta say, that's very Kraft-y of them.

[todd]

I heard it causes caesars.

[Victoria Watcher]

Ontario reports 463 new COVID-19 cases, smallest increase in five weeks

 

 

https://globalnews.c...22-coronavirus/

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 September 2021 - 11:48 AM.

[Danma]

I heard it causes caesars.

Don't believe these conspiracy theories! You'd have to be a crouton to believe that stuff!

[sebberry]

Cheesy pun time alert!

[Ismo07]

Ontario reports 463 new COVID-19 cases, smallest increase in five weeks

 

 

https://globalnews.c...22-coronavirus/

 

It does seem like we are on the downward side of this Delta wave....  Few more vaccinations coming.

[todd]

Cheesy pun time alert!

I am feta up.

[sebberry]

Got my BCDL renewed today.  Some anti-masker in the 'walk in' line (no appointment) decided he had a medical exemption for mask wearing and insisted multiple times that he was above everyone else when the lady behind the counter offered him a mask.  She told him to wait and then served me. She had to take a breather for a second - my guess is they've had people act up before and she seemed to be anticipating the worst.

 

Anyway, after my appointment I saw him riding his bicycle in circles in the parking lot, so I don't think he had any issue breathing through a piece of cloth.

[Mike K.]

Might that be because they have experience there, so they actually know what's going on?

Exactly!

[Belleprincess]

Got my BCDL renewed today. Some anti-masker in the 'walk in' line (no appointment) decided he had a medical exemption for mask wearing and insisted multiple times that he was above everyone else when the lady behind the counter offered him a mask. She told him to wait and then served me. She had to take a breather for a second - my guess is they've had people act up before and she seemed to be anticipating the worst.

Anyway, after my appointment I saw him riding his bicycle in circles in the parking lot, so I don't think he had any issue breathing through a piece of cloth.

The reason they do that is because people let them get away with it. It’s unfortunate that people aren’t honest because it ruins it for the few people that are actually exempt

[amor de cosmos]

Father urges people to get vaccinated after daughter, 29, dies of COVID-19
https://www.timescol...d-19-1.24359860
 

A technology developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has led to the discovery of an “ultra-potent” monoclonal antibody against multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, including the delta variant.
 
The antibody has rare characteristics that make it a valuable addition to the limited set of broadly reactive antibody therapeutic candidates, researchers reported Sept. 15 in the journal Cell Reports.
 
The technology, called LIBRA-seq, has helped speed up the discovery of antibodies that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2. It also enables researchers to screen antibodies against other viruses that have not yet caused human disease but which have a high potential of doing so.

https://news.vumc.or...olated-at-vumc/
https://www.scienced...10922121911.htm
 

Drug repurposing is no quick fix for developing new treatments for disease, including COVID-19, and there are inherent dangers and pitfalls with translating drugs such as chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and similar compounds to treat COVID-19, say a team of experts.
 
The potential challenges and opportunities with drug repurposing are highlighted in a paper authored by a cross-section of Australian drug discovery and translation experts, including from the pharmaceutical industry, academia, and investors.
 
The paper, published in Science Translational Medicine, comes as drug repurposing has been thrust into the global spotlight as a potential way to fast-track new treatments for COVID-19.
 
While there is an assumption that drug repurposing was an efficient and effective way to deliver new drugs to the market, the study's lead author and former Global Head and Vice-President of Hematology/Oncology Research at Amgen, California, and current co-founder of Boston-based Parthenon Therapeutics, Dr. Glenn Begley, said there were only a few examples of successful drug
repurposing by academic groups.
 
Dr. Begley said the regulatory process still requires a clear commercial value proposition, defined intellectual property, an established understanding of how the drug is metabolized, as well as rigorous preclinical and clinical studies to define dose and schedule in the new indication.
 
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"Drug repurposing is seldom as trivial as taking the approved drug and performing a clinical trial in a different disease using the same dose and dosing schedule," Dr. Begley said.
 
"It requires new preclinical safety and efficacy studies, appropriately designed phase I and 2 studies, regulatory authority oversight and typically the establishment of new IP. The failure rate, costs and time involved is similar for new drug development. It's no quick fix."

https://medicalxpres...cea-covid-.html
https://theconversat...ext-time-168192

FDA authorizes Pfizer’s Covid-19 booster for people over 65 or at high risk
https://www.statnews...r-at-high-risk/

U.S. COVID-19 daily deaths increase to highest level since March: CNN
http://www.ecns.cn/n...wm3129228.shtml
 

Public health campaigners on Monday pressed President Joe Biden to do far more to help poor countries vaccinate their populations against COVID-19, including by investing heavily in global manufacturing, pushing harder for a suspension of patents, and facilitating the transfer of key technology.
 
While applauding as "admirable" Biden's effort to ensure that 70% of the world's population is vaccinated within the next year, more than 60 advocacy organizations warned in a new letter that such an objective will remain out of reach unless he takes ambitious action to "ensure equitable vaccine distribution."
 
"We cannot 'donate' our way to safety," the letter reads. "The massive global shortage of highly effective vaccines can only be addressed by increasing production. As of this week, just over 3% of people in low-income countries, many of whom are also facing devastating surges from deadly variants, have received any dose of COVID-19 vaccine."
 
Signatories to the letter include Public Citizen, Health GAP, National Nurses United, the Africa Faith and Justice Network, the Bangladesh Krishok Federation, Médecins Sans Frontières USA, and dozens of others.
 
In their letter on Monday, the diverse coalition of advocacy groups specifically called on Biden to:

• Support the inclusion of $25 billion for global vaccine manufacturing in Democrats' emerging budget reconciliation package;
• Use the Defense Production Act to force U.S.-based vaccine manufacturers such as Pfizer and Moderna to share vaccine technology and know-how with low-income countries;
• Quickly redistribute excess vaccine doses to poor and middle-income nations; and
• Actively pushing U.S. allies such as Germany, the United Kingdom, and Canada to support a temporary suspension of intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics.

"Short of such action," the groups warned, "the pandemic will continue its devastation, driven by a lack of political will to truly engage in a global, collective effort to protect everyone, everywhere."

https://www.salon.co...-world_partner/
 

death threats against hospital staff is probably a good enough reason to ban that guy from their whole network. they should just call the cops to remove him if he ever sets foot on any of their properties:

She thought of the abuse she’d received from one man’s angry family members, who had berated her for not treating him with ivermectin, a deworming drug falsely promoted as a cure in conspiracy circles but that the FDA has warned against using in COVID patients. She thought of how police had to remove the man’s family after his son-in-law told her, “If you don’t do this, I have a lot of ways to get people to do something, and they’re all sitting in my gun safe at home.”

 

Her eyes welling with tears, she took a selfie and sent it to her fiancé: “It’s going like this,” she wrote.

 

Like other medical workers in her state, Carvalho is exhausted and exasperated. Idaho currently has the lowest vaccination rate in the country, and the number of vaccine doses administered hasn’t been climbing significantly — but infections have. As of Saturday, there were 686 patients hospitalized in the state with COVID, 180 of them in ICUs. That’s hundreds more than what flooded hospitals during the previous surge in December 2020, before safe and effective vaccines were widely available.

 

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Carvalho and her colleagues cannot fathom how they’ve ended up in this situation. She has anger — certainly — but that requires too much energy. She’s mostly just sad and burned out.

 

“I think it’s just kind of a hopeless feeling,” she told BuzzFeed News after finishing her shift on Tuesday evening. “Last year at this time, I was very anxious about COVID, and I was just hoping and hoping for the day when we’d have a vaccine. It never occurred to me that there would be a day when we have a vaccine, and I’m actually more anxious now because we have something that can really prevent this and people aren’t taking it.”

 

Currently, 50 of the 51 COVID patients in ICUs part of the St. Luke's Health System — a chain covering southeastern Idaho, eastern Oregon, and northern Nevada — are unvaccinated. Hospitalizations have soared. In July, there were 33 patients with COVID across all the St. Luke's hospitals. This week, there were 289. Currently, more than two-thirds of all patients in St. Luke’s facilities are being treated for the same virus, Jim Souza, St. Luke’s chief physician executive, told reporters in an online briefing on Tuesday.

 

"That’s an unprecedented event in modern medicine,” he said.

 

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If things truly reach their worst in Idaho, the crisis standards guide doctors in triaging which patients receive care and which won’t. They involve a complex calculation of health factors in order to save the most lives possible. In the event of a tie, doctors may have to resort to a lottery system. Hospitals may even institute a universal do-not-resuscitate order for all patients who suffer cardiac arrest — although this has not yet happened in Idaho and would never apply to children.

 

Susie Keller, the CEO of the Idaho Medical Association, told BuzzFeed News she’s been hearing nightmarish stories from members who are beginning to confront these rationing decisions — about who gets an ICU bed, a COVID patient or someone with cardiac arrest.

 

“It’s not a sudden nightmare. It’s a nightmare we’ve seen coming, and our physicians have been warning about this,” Keller said. “We have not yet hit our peak.”

https://www.buzzfeed...-standards-care

 

On Wednesday night, Sean Hannity interviewed former U.S. Army Lt. Col. Paul Douglas Hague, who said he resigned his commission after the Department of Defense mandated service members be vaccinated against Covid-19.
 
Hague’s wife posted his resignation letter on Twitter earlier this month. In it, he said, “First, and foremost, I am incapable of subjecting myself to the unlawful, unethical, immoral, and tyrannical to sit still and allow a serum to be injected into my flesh against my will and better judgment.”
 
Hague went on to say the Covid vaccine hasn’t been adequately studied, saying, “I cannot and will not contribute to the fall of this great nation and its people.”
 
He alleged the mandate is part of a “Marxist takeover of the military and United States government at their upper echelons.”
 
U.S. service members are required to receive a slew of vaccines, which Hague noted had been administered to him. But in the world war against Covid, for him, the vaccine mandate was a bridge too far.
 
The Lt. Col. resigned just two years shy of receiving a pension, which Hannity noted.

https://www.mediaite...igns-from-army/
 

Hospitals across Montana are being overwhelmed by unvaccinated patients as the state's death toll rises and county health officials keep resigning as backlash by Covid-deniers has required police to intervene.
 
On Friday, Sanders County Health Officer Nick Lawyer resigned after being blamed for the death of a man's wife who did not receive Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine.
 
Only days later, on Tuesday, Butte-Silver Bow announced Health Officer Karen Sullivan would be retiring.
 
Another resignation of one of Montana's 56 health officers was announced only the next day.
 
"On Wednesday afternoon at their quarterly meeting, The Blaine County Board of Health accepted the resignation of Health Officer and Public Health Nurse Jana McPherson-Hauer, effective Friday, October 15th," Josh Margolis reported for Hi-Line Today.

https://www.rawstory...national-guard/

Edited by amor de cosmos, 23 September 2021 - 09:27 AM.