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

[Buickman]

For me this time, it's like a bad head cold. It's not in my lungs like the first time. But I also have 5 jabs and the ER DR said that probably helped.

 

[faceman]

For me this time, it's like a bad head cold. It's not in my lungs like the first time. But I also have 5 jabs and the ER DR said that probably helped.

My Niece is an RN and has all the shots also. Her Dr. strongly recommended her to stay current with them as well.

 

[Optimus Prime]

More than three years into the pandemic, hundreds of Americans are still dying from COVID-19 every week.

For the week ending Dec. 9, the last week of complete data, there were 1,614 deaths from COVID, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The last four weeks of complete data show an average of 1,488 weekly deaths.

By comparison, there were 163 weekly deaths from the flu for the week ending Dec. 9, according to CDC data.

While high, these COVID death figures are still lower than the high of 25,974 deaths recorded the week ending Jan. 9, 2021, as well as weekly deaths seen in previous winters, CDC data shows.

The current "weekly rate of COVID mortality is similar to what we were getting per day at [the worst] parts of the pandemic. So, proportionally, we're in a completely different place than where we were, thankfully," Dr. Cameron Wolfe, a professor of infectious diseases at Duke University in North Carolina, told ABC News. "But there's still a pretty significant mortality; 1,500 patients dying every week is unacceptable, frankly."

Experts said there are several reasons why people might still be dying from the virus, including not enough people accessing treatments or getting vaccinated as well as waning immunity...............

MSN

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[gummbo70114]

More than three years into the pandemic, hundreds of Americans are still dying from COVID-19 every week.

For the week ending Dec. 9, the last week of complete data, there were 1,614 deaths from COVID, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The last four weeks of complete data show an average of 1,488 weekly deaths.

By comparison, there were 163 weekly deaths from the flu for the week ending Dec. 9, according to CDC data.

While high, these COVID death figures are still lower than the high of 25,974 deaths recorded the week ending Jan. 9, 2021, as well as weekly deaths seen in previous winters, CDC data shows.

The current "weekly rate of COVID mortality is similar to what we were getting per day at [the worst] parts of the pandemic. So, proportionally, we're in a completely different place than where we were, thankfully," Dr. Cameron Wolfe, a professor of infectious diseases at Duke University in North Carolina, told ABC News. "But there's still a pretty significant mortality; 1,500 patients dying every week is unacceptable, frankly."

Experts said there are several reasons why people might still be dying from the virus, including not enough people accessing treatments or getting vaccinated as well as waning immunity...............

MSN

www.msn.com

Had a discussion with my wife the other day regarding the uptick in Covid cases. I’ve been vaccinated, she, on the other hand has only had two and she keeps putting on her facemask whenever she goes into public places, that’s fine and dandy, but I’m not on the lets panic train just yet, so she decided to put on a video that discusses the uptick in Covid cases with some prominent Dr., which, of course I can’t remember his name But at a certain point of the video the doctor starts to talk about the two reasons that it’s not as severe as pass cases one being that it is a variant of another virus that isn’t as strong and the second reason which the wife turn the video off at that time, because this particular video was not supporting her let’s freak out state., She’s always in the the sky is falling group where I on the other hand I’m very comfortable being quadruple vaccinated in being out in public because I have faith in science, she has faith in science also, but no faith in humanity. Can’t say that I blame her.

 

[Eeyore]

I think that today is the anniversary of the basketball player testing positive and sports shutting down

 

[jayd265]

I think that today is the anniversary of the basketball player testing positive and sports shutting down

think it was right around now when i was sent home to work remote for 6 (or 8, cant rem) weeks.

 

[superchuck500]

think it was right around now when i was sent home to work remote for 6 (or 8, cant rem) weeks.

I think it was March 16 that our kids' school decided to shut it down.

The weekend before, March 13, I had tickets to see Sturgill Simpson at an indoor arena show. Neither myself nor friend that I was going with thought it was a good idea, so we bailed. I put the tickets up on stubhub but of course they didn't sell.

A few months later I saw an interview with Sturgill and he said that he actually played that show with Covid - he just didn't know it yet. Three days later he was in the ER.

I was concerned about there being Covid at the show - apparently there was.

 

[Saintman2884]

I think that today is the anniversary of the basketball player testing positive and sports shutting down

It was also around that time that Covid-19 itself went from being a epidemic to the world's first pandemic since the H1N1 "Spanish Flu" virus that broke out and was first reported in 1918 among a sick Army recruit at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas then spread like wildlife to other parts of the globe over the next 2-3 years, before petering out in a less virulent, weakened state in Australia/New Zealand in early 1922. I believe the 2019-20 NBA season was cancelled until around early August and they had a hurried-up play-in NBA Title tournament at Disney Studios in Orlando or IIRC, in Los Angeles.

 

[Saintman2884]

I think it was March 16 that our kids' school decided to shut it down.

The weekend before, March 13, I had tickets to see Sturgill Simpson at an indoor arena show. Neither myself nor friend that I was going with thought it was a good idea, so we bailed. I put the tickets up on stubhub but of course they didn't sell.

A few months later I saw an interview with Sturgill and he said that he actually played that show with Covid - he just didn't know it yet. Three days later he was in the ER.

I was concerned about there being Covid at the show - apparently there was.

By that point, Covid was probably lurking around or omnipresent in most public places in cities, and states all over the nation. Restaurants, supermarkets, parks unless they were empty, beaches, schools, local, state and federal government buildings.

 

[Booker]

Yep. Friday the 13th my company had half the employees work remote to stress test the system, with the other half expected to work remote the following Monday. Over the weekend, as schools were closing, the decision had changed to have everyone go remote. Terrible times.

 

[Saintman2884]

Yep. Friday the 13th my company had half the employees work remote to stress test the system, with the other half expected to work remote the following Monday. Over the weekend, as schools were closing, the decision had changed to have everyone go remote. Terrible times.

If one goes back four years ago to the near-beginning of this thread, its not too difficult to pick up on the varied feelings of dread, unease, frankly terror of the pending medical catastrophe we, as Americans, and billions more were collectively and individually, going to have to find some sort of solace and contentment confronted with this planet's first pandemic since "Spanish Flu" late WWI, 1918-21 virus and a century ago, culturally, politically and economically, our world wasnt nearly as interconnected, intertwined or "globalized" as its become. Looking back, it's amazing the NFL even decided to have a 2020 regular-season although it did give individual players on NFL teams the option of "opting-out" for the season, and more then a few, Pro-Bowl caliber starters did, like Dont'a Hightower of the New England Patriots. I'm not entirely sure Hightower ever came back and played again the following season in 2021.

It was a very frightening, somewhat scary time because even if you fell into the young/middle-age category "demographic" that could fight off infection and maybe survive supposedly, the amount of hell, torment those Covid-infected patients went through in 2020 before vaccines became available was horrific. Even if you did everything right: washed your hands religiously, practiced "social distancing", stayed locked-up at home quarantined for months, their was a still a chance you could get it just by wrong person, relative who didnt know they had it or were asymptomatic, unfortunately gave it to you and you don't know it you're going to live or not.

Especially when you watched cable news outlets announce the weekly death tolls were 25-30,000 people at one point during the summer of 2020.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

When i heard they were going to shut the schools down, i went straight to the grocery store and stocked up. People were looking at me crazy, like does he know something we dont? Why yes, yes i do, i guess they hadn't heard yet. I had a buggy full of stuff. If i had only knew about the TP shortage that was coming....

 

[Doug B]

When i heard they were going to shut the schools down, i went straight to the grocery store and stocked up. People were looking at me crazy, like does he know something we dont? Why yes, yes i do, i guess they hadn't heard yet. I had a buggy full of stuff. If i had only knew about the TP shortage that was coming....

Yep. I ran out and did the same thing on "Tom Hanks Day" (March 11, 2020 ... same day that the NBA suspended games and Tom Hanks announced that he and his wife had COVID.

 

[superchuck500]

By that point, Covid was probably lurking around or omnipresent in most public places in cities, and states all over the nation. Restaurants, supermarkets, parks unless they were empty, beaches, schools, local, state and federal government buildings.

Yes, it was far more widespread than we imagined at that time (though "omnipresent" is an overstatement, I think) but it was still pretty wild to learn that he actually did that show with Covid.

This was before they even had testing, he spend days in the hospital recovering but didn't actually confirm it was Covid until they were able to do an antibody test a few weeks later.

 

[El Caliente]

Yes, today is the anniversary when Rudy Gobert killed the NBA as we knew it.