COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (3 Viewers)

[SaintInBucLand]

Yeah, I think the benefits of Vitamin D are pretty clear, so while it certainly isn't a vaccine substitute, it's a good supplement. I got vaxxed and also been taking Vitamin D supplements. Just getting out in the sun helps too.

For sure, sun exposure a little before noon has been a regular thing for me for a while, even before I started fasting. Even when I had covid back in early August, I would be sure to go outside in the sun around 11am.

 

[bonnjer]

Great, if true.

Scientists say they've developed a COVID test that works in 4 minutes

Researchers say their test is as accurate as PCR lab tests, which are highly accurate but usually take several hours to carry out.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Saint_Ward]

Case trends are great. We're now dealing the max deaths, but it seems to have peaked.





Overall getting better, heat map doesn't show it as well, because case count was so high. But, some areas doing better.



This data is way behind. showing early and late december.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Have/Are other schools doing this? Terrible idea if true
=====================

Teresa Sperry beamed with pride in September when she told her father about the job she’d been assigned by her fifth-grade teacher.

Days earlier, the teacher had made Teresa the “class nurse,” putting the Virginia girl in charge of walking sick classmates to the nurse’s office, waiting for them to be treated and, at times, returning to the classroom to retrieve their backpacks if Hillpoint Elementary School officials sent them home, her father, Jeff Sperry, told The Washington Post.

“I asked her, ‘So is this your job?’ ” Sperry recounted. “And she gave me several examples of people that day she took to the nurse’s office.”

Sperry, who was driving Teresa and her brothers home from school, was infuriated. The school never asked for her parents’ consent, he said, and he feared for his unvaccinated daughter’s health as the delta variant spread across the country in the coronavirus pandemic’s second year.

Those worries mounted when, days later, Teresa returned home from school with a 102-degree fever and a headache. Within a week, she was dead.

On Sept. 27, Teresa became one of the first children in Virginia to die of covid-19. Her death certificate states that she died of cardiac arrest caused by coronavirus complications.

“My daughter was 10, and the vaccine wasn’t out,” yet for children, Sperry, 41, told The Post. “Of all the people in the world who could have done that job, she was unprotected.”.

Teresa contracted the virus weeks before federal public health authorities approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 — but her parents say she would have received it as soon as possible.

The Sperrys will never know whether Teresa, whose story was first reported by the Virginian-Pilot and WAVY, caught the coronavirus at school. Suffolk Public Schools completed an investigation into Teresa’s death that revealed that a teacher assigned the girl the “class nurse” job on Sept. 21.

The teacher, though, denied that Teresa was asked to escort sick children to the nurse’s office and said the girl never accompanied students who exhibited symptoms of the coronavirus to the clinic, according to a three-page report reviewed by The Post.

Teresa’s parents said they had to file a public records request to obtain a copy of the report. Dissatisfied by the district’s investigation, they are now demanding a new probe from administration officials and the release of dozens of records including emails, interviews and surveillance video they say the school declined to release when they filed their public records request.

“They aren’t being honest,” Teresa’s mother, Nicole Sperry, also 41, told The Post. “What Teresa told us does not match the report.”..........

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[Goatman Saint]

Not at mine. It’s an instant boot out the door and take yourself to the nurse. See ya, then I sanitize anything near that person

 

[gboudx]

The ISD my wife teaches in, and our youngest goes to high school starts today. No mask mandate either. They have a Covid Dashboard and I've jotted down the numbers for today to compare to next week. Let's see how this goes.

I charted from 1/5/22 to today. Looks like the peak coincides with the overall trend for DFW. This is totals for Students and Staff for overall ISD.

 

[Tapxe]

What a bottle of ivermectin reveals about the shadowy world of COVID telemedicine

An anti-vaccine group known for spreading medical disinformation is writing prescriptions for unproven COVID-19 treatments, with the help of a doctor whose medical license was revoked in Alabama.

www.npr.org

In other words, Cullen was ordering a battery of expensive genetic tests remotely, without ever seeing or speaking to the patients she was testing. It was so bad, Hunter says, that she was ordering prostate cancer screenings for female patients, who do not have prostates.

Sounds like a perfect person to have responsible for your healthcare. /sarcasm off

 

[Sailorsaint]

What a bottle of ivermectin reveals about the shadowy world of COVID telemedicine

An anti-vaccine group known for spreading medical disinformation is writing prescriptions for unproven COVID-19 treatments, with the help of a doctor whose medical license was revoked in Alabama.

www.npr.org

Sounds like a perfect person to have responsible for your healthcare. /sarcasm off

And definitely someone I would want to advise me on life threatening illnesses...

 

[nolaswede]

I don't think I saw this posted, unless I missed it. The FT did an analysis projecting what the US's hospitalisation rate would have looked like, had vaccination kept up with the levels seen in other countries, like Denmark:



As usual, worth clicking through to the thread. There's also a graph of comparative case fatality rates:



It's still good relative to what it was without vaccination, but it's clear that lower vaccine uptake, at what might not seem that significant a difference if you're just eyeballing the figures, has a pretty significant impact in practice.

I’m a big fan of the vaccines, and hope that everyone will get one. However, not sure our numbers would have been as low as it was in Denmark! Unfortunately, we are are not too healthy over here and obviously those were more affected by the virus!

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

A few days ago I suggested that the Dem governors who suddenly started to drop mask mandates must have seen some pretty bad poll numbers.

NYT confirms that was certainly the case in NJ

It was Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey who began the effort last fall, weeks after he was stunned by the energy of right-wing voters in his blue state, who nearly ousted him from office in what was widely expected to be an easy re-election campaign. Arranging a series of focus groups across the state to see what they had missed, Mr. Murphy’s advisers were struck by the findings: Across the board, voters shared frustrations over public health measures, a sense of pessimism about the future and a deep desire to return to some sense of normalcy.

worth reading the whole thing

Dropping Indoor Mask Mandate, New York Joins Blue States Easing Covid Rules (Published 2022)

After a scare in November, New Jersey’s governor and other Democratic leaders held back-channel talks over lifting mandates and helping voters impatient with restrictions reclaim a sense of normalcy.

www.nytimes.com

 

[SaintInBucLand]

One of my rugby buddies sent me this.. What the heck is going on in New Zealand?

 

[DaveXA]

One of my rugby buddies sent me this.. What the heck is going on in New Zealand?

Looks more like the Peacemaker intro. Just need the music to go along with it and we're good.

 

[EGLSShin]

Now can we officially can it with covid? The NFL's own commissioner wasn't wearing a mask at the superbowl. A bunch of celebs caught on film weren't wearing masks. Politicians caught on film weren't wearing masks. California is still the most strict covid state left, it was a bad look for Cali last night, especially if you're a struggling business due to the crushing mandates.

 

[jrdbrn]

Now can we officially can it with covid? The NFL's own commissioner wasn't wearing a mask at the superbowl. A bunch of celebs caught on film weren't wearing masks. Politicians caught on film weren't wearing masks. California is still the most strict covid state left, it was a bad look for Cali last night, especially if you're a struggling business due to the crushing mandates.

They had a negative PCR test bro...

I gave up on COVID after seeing countless stadiums packed with people all year and that is OK.

 

[superchuck500]

My kids' school went to mask-optional today. My kids are vaccinated and had Omicron at Christmas. We asked them and of course they wanted no longer to wear the mask, so we said fine. We told them they need to bring a mask in case there's a situation where they might need it (the announcement said they will still wear them in large indoor assemblies), and that they should understand and respect that other families are still going to want their children to wear a mask - and that's just fine.