Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) (SARS-CoV-2) [2020]

The local traffic here has been back to pre-pandemic levels for a few months already. Same when looking at the parking lots of stores when I drive by.

Thanksgiving is going to produce horrible results. In the US the airlines are having to remove most of their seat restrictions in order to get passengers on flights. Some rows are even going to have the middle seat filled. The impact of this holiday wont show until the end of year Christmas holiday begins for many.

All in all, the numbers come middle of January are going to be even more horrific, catching up from all the holiday festivities.

 

Watch the brief video clip in the reply to see how bars and restaurants are not following guidelines and leadership isn't doing anything about it.

 

Why are we not hearing more info about this?
Surely someone has made an app or soemthing?

 

How the hell can _asymptomatic_ cases be detected based on cough? Cough is a symptom...

 

Moderna: Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection

So, you cannot cough without being ill?

 

Of course you can make a 'faked' cough, but any audible cues of infection would have to mean that there is mucus buildup, inflammation etc that somehow restricts airways. I just can't make that successfully associate with the word 'asymptomatic' in my head.

 

Impact of Canadian Thanksgiving giving a preview of what's to come from US Thanksgiving.

 

Nothing to see here. Everything is fine.

 

Well yay! Just got a text from our town hall saying they're shutting down again due to the recent surge in covid cases. Granted we're a tiny little exoburg out in nowhere, but that makes it almost more notable imho. No one is doing anything out here, but now they're starting to notice again.

My brother in law is home from the hospital and doing well. He's on an inhaler and steroids and my sister is playing "hide from the family" in her house since she's the only person there who hasn't had it.

Slightly OT, but is it me or did DeWine's sign language interpreter look like a sister of his or something?

 

‘Ignore the leaders’: Trey Gowdy tells Fox News viewers to hold holiday gatherings despite COVID-19

Any guesses on how many thousands of people he just killed?

 

If you count like them, it would be millions*


11,600 ~= Over a Million.

 

None. Hoever gets infected because of this chose to do so willingly.

 

Hospitals overrun as U.S. reports 1 million COVID cases in a week

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/h...s-1-million-covid-cases-in-a-week/ar-BB1b4q7f

Murray, Utah — The United States has surpassed 11 million coronavirus cases — that's 1 million new infections in just one week and 2 million since the beginning of the month. Hospitals are reaching a breaking point as they treat nearly 70,000 COVID-19 patients.

In Utah, records continue being shattered, and cases are skyrocketing. A quarter of new test results are now positive. As intensive care units fill up, health care workers are feeling the strain.

"We're tired. Mentally, physically, emotionally exhausted," said nurse Nate Smithson, who works at Intermountain Medical Center — Utah's largest hospital. For some patients there, the cold COVID-19 reality still isn't real.

"They deny it. Their family members deny it," said Smithson.

Janine Roberts is also a nurse at the same hospital. She told CBS News, "We have these patients who literally are on life support. We're working super hard to get them better, finally helping them to wake up, and then the first thing they're trying to communicate is that it's all a hoax."

Meanwhile, Dr. Brandon Webb, with Intermountain Healthcare, said there continues to be pushback over the state's new mask mandate.

 

South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist COVID-19 'not real'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ts-still-insist-covid-19-not-real/ar-BB1b3Ljm

A South Dakota emergency room nurse on Monday expressed frustration that many of her patients don't believe they are dying of COVID-19.

Jodi Doering's tweet went viral on social media over the weekend after she tweeted about patients who "don't believe the virus is real ... while gasping for breath on 100% Vapotherm."

"It wasn't one particular patient, it's just a culmination of so many people," Doering told CNN's "New Day." "And their last, dying words are, 'This can't be happening. It's not real.' "

South Dakota reported 821 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, with 62,521 current confirmed cases statewide. The state health department reports 20 percent of hospital beds are currently occupied with COVID-19 patients.

"People want it to be influenza, they want it to be pneumonia," Doering said. "We've even had people say, 'You know, I think it might be lung cancer.' ... Even after positive results come back, some people just don't believe it."

Doering said multiple patients target nurses like her with their "anger and hatred."

"They call you names and ask why you have to wear all that 'stuff' because they don't have COVID because it's not real," she tweeted on Saturday.

 

More than 1M kids in the U.S. have had Covid-19

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-than-1m-kids-in-the-u-s-have-had-covid-19/ar-BB1b45lX

As of last Thursday, a total of 1,039,464 young people, including infants and teens, had tested positive for the coronavirus. The weekly report on pediatric cases is a collaboration between the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association, and uses state health department data to track pediatric cases nationwide.

"As a pediatrician who has practiced medicine for over three decades, I find this number staggering and tragic," Dr. Sally Goza, president of the AAP, said in a statement. "We haven’t seen a virus flash through our communities in this way since before we had vaccines for measles and polio."

The new numbers also reflect the largest one-week increase in pediatric Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began. Last week alone, nearly 112,000 children were diagnosed. Pediatricians believe the true number of children infected with the virus is much higher, because the illness is often mild in kids and may go undetected.

The geographic breakdown illustrating the rise in cases among children mirrors that of adults. Pediatric cases are spiking in the Midwest. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin each have reported more than 25,000 cases of Covid-19 since the pandemic began.

In Southeastern states, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and both of the Carolinas have also each logged more than 25,000 pediatric cases. Elsewhere in the country, only Arizona and California have met that threshold.

While severe complications are rare among children, they are possible. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows 1,163 children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with a serious condition linked to Covid-19 called multisystem inflammatory syndrome. Twenty of those children have died.

 

Chris Cuomo Erupts at Scott Atlas for Encouraging Large Thanksgiving Gatherings Amid Covid Spike: ‘What the Hell Are You Doing Here?!’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/c...-what-the-hell-are-you-doing-here/ar-BB1b4qs8

CNN’s Chris Cuomo fired back at Trump White House Covid adviser Scott Atlas, after the latter publicly encouraged family members to get together during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, despite the skyrocketing Covid rates and hospitalizations across the country.

Atlas’ comments came during an earlier appearance on Fox News on Monday night, when he all but urged elderly people — who are the most susceptible to dying from Covid-19 — to celebrate in person with their relatives. Saying it may be many people’s “final Thanksgiving,” Atlas, who is not an epidemiologist, angrily dismissed public health advice to isolate during this latest pandemic surge, saying: “What are we doing here?”

“What the hell are you doing here?!” a visibly upset Cuomo shot back, as the Atlas clip finished. “Yeah, it could be their last Thanksgiving if you expose them to people who aren’t wearing masks, who weren’t socially distancing, who haven’t been doing so, who haven’t been tested because they don’t want to get in on the con of Covid. You want to hide on state news, you do it. But some day, you are going to have to deal with real questions.”

 

Unbelievable how far people will go, holding on to their political beliefs. Not that it hasn't happened many times before though, in the course of history.

 

This one just breaks my bloody heart and makes it seethe in anger at the same time! People keep asking what's the big deal about politicians pushing misinformation, THIS IS WHAT THE BIG DEAL IS!

Damn it, we can do better than this. I wish we would.

 

Meanwhile Republican figures in the last two days have encouraged people to have large Thanksgiving gatherings, both Trey Gowdy and Scott Atlas.