The accuracy of this. pic.twitter.com/6u917TxoqU
— Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) September 7, 2021
The #Covid19 toll so far in the U.S.: +40M confirmed cases, +650,000 deaths.
Global estimates: 222M cases, nearly 4.6M deaths. pic.twitter.com/dyLOiPvKvd— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) September 8, 2021
The US had +157,759 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total to nearly 41.4 million. The 7-day moving average declined to 150,401 new cases per day. pic.twitter.com/yeYtw1cNjw
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 9, 2021
New hospital admissions in the US due to COVID-19 are down -2.5% from a week ago. pic.twitter.com/Mi5dMqVeOD
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 9, 2021
The summer that was supposed to mark America’s independence from COVID-19 is instead drawing to a close with the U.S. more firmly under the tyranny of the virus, with deaths per day back up to where they were last March. https://t.co/DlANiWectX
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 8, 2021
The US reported +1,700 new coronavirus deaths today, bringing the total to 671,183. The 7-day moving average rose back to 1,199 deaths per day. pic.twitter.com/IOY11hyWuN
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 9, 2021
Since United Airlines announced that vaccines would be required for employees last month, more than half of its unvaccinated employees have gotten their shots. Employees who do not get vaccinated by Sept. 27 risk termination or unpaid leave. https://t.co/N3XYEszyXm
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 8, 2021
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The head of the World Health Organization is calling on rich countries with large supplies of coronavirus vaccines to refrain from offering booster shots through the end of the year, expanding a call that has largely fallen on deaf ears. https://t.co/Pbuu9HCPcd
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 8, 2021
Japan to extend COVID emergency curbs in Tokyo, other areas https://t.co/JInPI2anuU pic.twitter.com/OKBpCfsblZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 9, 2021
By the end of August, South-East Asia had recorded some 217,000 deaths from covid, about 2.6 times its total just three months earlier. Yet the real figure is probably much higher https://t.co/zqB43SReLp
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) September 9, 2021
Sydney pubs to open in mid-Oct as end of COVID lockdown looms – with cases set to rise https://t.co/2WbYuO8Vp5 pic.twitter.com/XV6rSbcf0U
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 9, 2021
Iran's health ministry says 8m COVID-19 vaccines arriving tomorrow, and a further 10m next Sunday.
Source of the imports not specified, but that's a pretty substantial shot in the arm – literally. https://t.co/puFaaWC7Du
— Ali Vaez (@AliVaez) September 8, 2021
If I got to ask German politicians one question at the moment it would be:
What have you done and what are you going to do to increase #covid19 vaccine uptake?
It‘s one of the most pressing issues right now and Germany is doing badly. Shocking how little we are taking about this. pic.twitter.com/ibQAdoPGtx— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) September 8, 2021
AstraZeneca bosses warn against rush for Covid booster jabs https://t.co/79zOC1LOWX
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 8, 2021
Moving too quickly to give people Covid booster jabs would deprive scientists of data on how well the vaccines work, AstraZeneca bosses have said.
“We do not yet know whether that third dose is clinically needed,” they say in the Telegraph.
It has already been announced that half a million of the most vulnerable in the UK will be offered a third dose.
But a separate booster programme, planned for September, has yet to be confirmed…
In their article, AstraZeneca chief-executive Pascal Soriot and biopharmaceuticals-research-and-development executive-vice-president Sir Mene Pangalos say giving the most vulnerable, who may not have built up a full immune response from the first two, a third, top-up dose is “sensible”.
But any decision to give a third, booster jab “to large swathes of the population”, to extend their protection from the first two, must be based on clinical data, which is only a few weeks away from being published…
The WHO says Covid during pregnancy is a dire threat in Latin America. The pandemic could “wipe away 20 years of hard-fought gains” in reducing maternal mortality https://t.co/YjybPkyjv8
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 8, 2021
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The Delta variant first detected in India remains the most worrisome. But scientists are tracking new mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19 to see what may one day take its place https://t.co/isCXpvA4Gj pic.twitter.com/BhNMIDtBYt
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 9, 2021
New research shows low uptake of FDA-authorized monoclonal antibody treatments for Covid. Monoclonal antibodies remain the only outpatient treatment for symptomatic patients. The laboratory-made proteins mimic the body's ability to block the virus https://t.co/iOhfsqiaMb pic.twitter.com/evieCvHyPB
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 9, 2021
U.S. FDA declines emergency use approval for Humanigen's COVID-19 drug https://t.co/qgSNRvI2v1 pic.twitter.com/f0nvLQY3XI
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 9, 2021
Platelets may be key to blood vessel damage in Covid. Led by researchers at NYU, a new study reveals that protein signals emitted by platelets—cell fragments that contribute to blood clotting—cause inflammation & abnormal clotting when exposed to SARSCoV2 https://t.co/KsGs6OI3GY pic.twitter.com/ju0eFJ4wRV
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 8, 2021
This is the very fundamentals of evolution by natural selection: random chance, combined with selective pressure, can make evolution move in a *direction.*
Which is to say: vaccinated people, stop complaining and wear your friggin’ mask indoors. YOU are the selective pressure.
— Erin Ross (@ErinEARoss) September 8, 2021
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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) September 9, 2021
Louisiana hospitals were already overwhelmed by COVID-19 when Hurricane Ida delivered another catastrophe. Medical facilities usually evacuate before big storms. This time, their patients were too sick. So the staff stayed — and prayed. https://t.co/nBhAgJCiTq
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 8, 2021
Vermont:
State troopers accused of making fake vaccination cards resign after colleagues turn them in https://t.co/GCrK1ISjDT
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 8, 2021
Hospitals in California’s Central Valley have been increasingly overwhelmed by the 4th surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, with officials scrambling to transfer some critically ill patients more than 100 miles away because local ICUs are full.https://t.co/54SkCanviW pic.twitter.com/KdMOtZMXLa
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 8, 2021
Students at a school in Manchester, MI, instigated by parents, refuse to comply with the mask mandate and enter school. This is the next phase – school boards can enact policies, but someone also has to enforce them. pic.twitter.com/KLhqgUP8or
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 8, 2021
'Premature, avoidable deaths' have been attributed to hydroxychloroquine use for Covid.
New research strongly supports ending these prescriptions due to lack of benefit & potentially fatal heart complications. In 2020, 890k HCQ prescriptions—a 9-fold jump over 2019—were written https://t.co/67c5WG0JAH pic.twitter.com/nWrtVmKdxK
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 9, 2021
louder for the "what's the harm?" crowd https://t.co/RQWzwclcSa
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) September 9, 2021
Texas news station, so that might get some attention in the (im)proper demographic. I’m assuming the effects are temporary, or there would have been much more of a backlash in West Africa, where the study was done:
… Researchers at three universities in Nigeria studied the effects of Ivermectin, which is used to treat river blindness and other medical conditions in humans, on men’s sperm counts. According to their study, 85 percent of men who take Ivermectin become sterilized…
The researchers found that 85 percent of all male patients treated in a particular center with ivermectin in the recent past who went to the laboratory for routine tests were discovered to have developed various forms, grades and degrees of sperm dysfunction…
“There was a significant drop in the sperm counts of the patients after their treatment with Ivermectin,” the study’s authors concluded…
Bottom line, vaccines are the best way to combat COVID-19.
“I get that people are scared, I get that people are worried,” said Alozie. “But it puzzles me that people would use something with such little data compared to something that has such great data and we know works.”
He could get vaccinated. https://t.co/eeJBdr1AYn
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 8, 2021
Baud
I wish the reporting on fatalities would distinguish between innocent deaths and effective suicides.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
NYS Dept of Health says 96 new cases for 9/7; the Monroe County site says 127.
Mary G
That last tweet from the outraged auntie, who’s run for governor of Missouri, has the biggest ratio on a tweet I’ve ever seen – 8,000 responses which at least on my feed are all “he needs to take the vaccine, asshole” to only 320 likes. Are the MAGATs finally accepting reality?
Only 338 new cases in Orange County today, hospitalizations down with plenty of room to help the Central Valley with their overflow. Test positivity rate down to 5.4%. They have added a chart of which variants are found when, {{ETA the whole dashboard has the same URL. so you have to use the tiny right arrow at the bottom of the page seven times}}} and Delta is still the big kahuna.
YY_Sima Qian
On 9/8 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Guangzhou in Guangdong Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 2 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, both associated w/ leak at a quarantine hotel for overseas arrivals.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases there. 1 village in Ruili remains at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province did not report any new positive confirmed cases. 5 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 10 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Hunan Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There are currently are 62 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Henan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 35 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Hubei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 3 domestic confirmed case recovered & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 28 active domestic confirmed (11 mild & 17 moderate) & 1` active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Shanghai Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
Imported Cases
On 9/8, China reported 28 new imported confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic), 9 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 37 confirmed cases recovered (22 imported), 20 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (16 imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases, & 1,160 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 786 active confirmed cases in the country (624 imported), 8 in serious condition (all imported), 376 active asymptomatic cases (348 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 12,490 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 9/7, 2,124.582M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 5.557M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 9/8, Hong Kong report 2 new positive cases, both imported (from the Philippines & South Korea, both had been double vaccinated w/ BioNTech).
Brachiator
If the effects are temporary, researchers may have stumbled onto a potential male birth control pill.
soapdish
So what’s the over/under on when people start taking ivermectin as birth control?
lowtechcyclist
How about if we wear our masks, and complain about the fuckheads who won’t get vaxxed and won’t wear masks?
soapdish
@Brachiator: Hahaha same page.
Jackie
My stubborn, bullheaded daughter, in Florida, FINALLY got vaccinated!!! Tears of relief and overjoy from me! I had been bombarding her with pleas and statistics and news articles to no avail – she just didn’t trust the possible long-term effects and had dug in her heels. She sent me a photo of her completed two Moderna doses late yesterday – along with a text message saying “ Now will you stop bombarding me with Covid spam?!?!??” 20 added years to my life are melting away!
Zevon speaks for all of us.
NotMax
Vietnam now the 52nd country reporting more than 500k total cases.
Tony Jay
I guess all those times we suggested the gobshites were punching themselves in the junk, they really were listening.
Please proceed, deadnuts.
Baud
@Jackie:
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Soprano2
I heard that our regular customer whose aunt and uncle made their 12-year-old an orphan because they didn’t want to get a free shot (both in their early 50’s with no co-morbidities) got vaccinated. She’s a Trumpie, a couple of months ago I heard her complaining that she didn’t care if other people got vaccinated, she just wished they’d quit bugging people like her about it. So I guess one good thing came from that tragedy.
NotMax
Locally,
raven
Suck it the fuck up and get the shot like all the other shots you got!
raven
@NotMax: Wonder how many can go out on the Dir Hard!!!!
WereBear
Only because they HAVE TO. Or lose something THEY want.
NotMax
@raven
From the link:
“Commercial recreational boating shall operate at no more than 50% capacity, down from 75%.”
debbie
@Mary G:
I just listened to a report on NPR which characterized the Biden Administration’s COVID policies as stumbling and incoherent. There was only mention of the vaccine resistant and it was a single adjective, something like stubborn.
debbie
In Ohio, the new case numbers are practically back to worst levels. Hospitalizations were usually between 100 and 200. Last night, more than 400 hospitalizations were reported and this is worrying the already worried medical experts.
Meanwhile, it will be interesting to monitor the herd-culling effect of the OSU–Oregon game scheduled for Saturday. The stadium holds more than 100,000…
evodevo
@Baud:
Yes, this…a good friend of ours, married to a fundie preacher and anti-vaxxer, just lost him to covid last week. He wasn’t a mouth-breather….just a religious fanatic….I sent a sympathy card, but really, these people are just asking for it, and while I am sorry for her loss, it was totally unnecessary. The Vax has been free and quite available in our town for months….our state is now in the midst of a covid crisis because of these people….not as bad as TX or FL or TN, but still…we are shutting down our store after several weeks of reopening and it’s all their fault ….
charon
@raven:
I think DD unlikely, you pretty much need a felony conviction from a court martial for that. Even a BCD unlikely I think.
Peale
Would it be too much to ask Reuters to provide the “known and potential benefits” and “known and potential risks” for lenzilumab in its blurb?
evodevo
@Peale:
And also, how about the cost? mabs are notoriously horribly expensive…
New Deal democrat
The failure by the CDC to collect and disseminate this data daily, in easy visualized form, is one of their three big mistakes this year (the other being when they dropped their recommendation for wearing masks indoors, and failure to study the true seroconversion rate in the US). If the unvaccinated could *see* every single day, that maybe only 1 out of 100 hospitalizations or deaths (e.g.) was a vaccinated person, it would lead a bigger number of them to get the jab.
Eric Topol has been absolutely harping on this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1434520561661583376
In other news, yet another study of what % of the US population may actually have been infected concludes that it was about 33% last December:
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/09/07/covid-19-infected-many-more-americans-in-2020-than-official-tallies-show/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Since last December the “confirmed” number was 14M cases vs. 40M now, that suggests that the true infection number now may be well over 50%.
Which returns us to the failure of the CDC to study this, because it tells us how close or far we are from herd immunity.
In still other news, US cases still down w/w, but still with lots of erratic data due to the Labor Day weekend. Still looks like Delta is migrating to the more northern unvaccinated States.
Spanky
I’ve never felt particularly inclined towards sexy time while I’m shitting my guts out, so in a sense I’d say Ivermectin is already used as birth control, albeit inadvertently.
Peale
@debbie: I too would like a clearer policy from Biden. Something like “unvaccinated adults will be executed en masse on November 1” would clear things up on what their public health goals are. Less muddle. Less stumbling. But can I get this level clarity? No. They just get all mealy mouthed about how it would be counter productive to public health goals to have a policy that leads to the deaths of 20 million people. Sigh.
raven
@NotMax: Die Hard is a six pack, he’s gonna have trouble making it on three.
raven
@charon: If he gets nailed for disobeying a direct order who knows? The military can’t be letting people pick and choose.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 19,307 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 1,919,774 cases. It also reports 323 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 19,486 deaths – 1.01% of the cumulative reported total, 1.16% of resolved cases.
There are currently 242,802 active and contagious cases; 904 are in ICU, 430 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 24,855 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 1,657,486 patients recovered – 86,34% of the cumulative reported total.
27 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,022 clusters. 1,450 clusters are currently active; 3,572 clusters are now inactive.
19,730 new cases today are local infections. Sarawak reports 3,118 cases.
Selangor reports 2,700 cases. Sabah reports 2,298 cases. Penang reports 2,243 cases. Johor reports 2,032 cases.
Kelantan reports 1,438 cases. Kedah reports 1,355 cases. Perak reports 1,341 cases.
Terengganu reports 910 cases. Pahang reports 661 cases. Kuala Lumpur reports 513 cases. Melaka reports 340 cases. Negeri Sembilan reports 207 cases. Perlis reports 108 cases. Putrajaya reports 28 cases. Labuan reports 15 cases.
Six new cases today are imported.
Chief Oshkosh
@Brachiator: Well…maybe. But the malformed sperm may result in further issues.
dr. bloor
@Brachiator:
@soapdish:
Eh, none of the guys using Ivermectin were getting laid anyways.
Chief Oshkosh
@raven: Well, he’s a blue-suiter, so you may need to translate the for him.
Chief Oshkosh
@debbie: So they’re not even pretending anymore. NPR, at best, used to mean “Nice Polite Republicans.” Now I don’t know what it means. Come to think of it, I don’t really care. I can’t recall the last time I listened to NPR. Another nice thing destroyed by conservatives buying it off.
Chief Oshkosh
@New Deal democrat: The CDC has a decades-long history of ineffective public communication. I’ve always wondered if it because they fundamentally view any communication role they have as professional-to-professional within the medical and public health fields. I agree that take – professional communicators (i.e., supposedly the elected politicians who have authority over the CDC) should be communicating to the public. Additional proof (for me, anyway) is seen in just about every press conference or interview that Walensky does. She is likely a fantastic CDC chief, but I swear, I’m usually more confused after watching her interactions with the press than when I started.
Ohio Mom
Fun to see Dr. Glaucomaflecken here. I visit his Twitter almost daily. The tiktok posted here is relatively sappy, most of the time he’s more acerbic.
On topic: the Cincinnati area is back where it was last November and the numbers keep climbing. We have just barely over half vaccinated and few mask wearers (except in a few schools requiring them). It’s going to be a long winter.
Soprano2
Have you noticed the lengths they go to in order to not mention that most of the willfully unvaccinated are MAGA Republicans? They finally did mention the word “Republican” once, but mostly they make it sound like this is something that “just happens”, what can we do about it, no one is really to blame? I saw a tweet yesterday highlighting how an article at Vox also did this. The press seems to be really invested in pretending that at this point the pandemic isn’t being driven by the willfully unvaccinated. Thus the obsession about the relatively rare breakthrough infections
I also am impatient with the reporters who expect science to be static, as if once a scientist proclaims something they can never, ever change their mind based on new evidence. Doing this is characterized as “confusing” and “perplexing”.
Soprano2
Makes you wonder why they aren’t doing this, it would be extremely beneficial.
charon
@raven:
Well, maybe – that’s your view, opinions vary.
My view is if the military starts giving out less than Honourable Discharges over that, there would be such screeching over the media and conservamedia the military would not want that kind of publicity.
The brouhaha would probably piss off Biden, too, never a good idea to P.O. the boss.
Soprano2
*sigh* That woman scolding the vaccinated is IMHO misdirecting her ire. If she wants to completely prevent mutations, that means everyone will be wearing masks and distancing forever, which is not going to happen, plus I don’t think you can prevent a virus from mutating no matter what you do. The danger of a mutation happening in the way she says (she’s not a doctor or a virologist, either) is tiny compared to the danger of a mutation happening due to people who are willfully unvaccinated, or because of the unavailability of vaccines in many other countries. Why not direct your concern there, and quit constantly scolding people who did what is good for them and society? Don’t get me wrong, I wear a mask wherever it’s required or where it would be prudent, but I’m fully vaccinated and don’t have young children or immunocompromised people living with me, so I’m not going to wear a face mask everywhere. We are not going to achieve zero covid – that ship sailed in April 2020, I think, never to return.
WaterGirl
@Jackie: What a relief. Sticker for you above.
raven
@charon: Pick this up sometime. They are nowhere near this,
Chief Oshkosh
@Soprano2: I agree that she’s picking the wrong fight, but
is sort of a red herring. While your statement that a virus will mutate as it replicates within a host is true, the issue here is that even the vaccinated can transmit the virus. If a vaxxed person picks it up from an unvaxxed person who had hosted it long enough to produces variants, then the newly-infected vaxxed person can pass the variant along to other people. And so here we are.
We should have gone into another hard lockdown once delta arrived — other countries have (e.g., some regions Australia). That’s just another ship that has sailed.
Percysowner
Columbus mask order to require masks for all publicly accessible indoor spaces
Currently Ohio forbids Public Health Officers from requiring masks, so the mayor and the city are stepping in.
New Deal democrat
@Soprano2: The book ”Premonition” makes the case that the CDC has become a foot-dragging, hollowed out institution for at least several decades. Pandemics require quick decisions easily and effectively communicated to the public made with very incomplete data, and the CDC is simply incapable of doing that.
Soprano2
@Chief Oshkosh: But her argument is “OMG a vaccinated person could theoretically have a mutated form of the virus and give it to other people, so all you vaccinated people need to wear masks as if you’re unvaccinated”, evidently until some unspecified time in the future when the chance of getting Covid is close to zero. The evidence shows that vaccinated people who do get Covid – which is relatively rare, although the press fixation on it makes it seem a lot more common than it actually is – are infectious for far shorter period of time than the unvaccinated, and are less infectious that the unvaccinated. The odds of what she theorizes are extremely tiny. Does that justify us having to wear face masks everywhere forever? I don’t think it does. We are not going to achieve zero risk of getting Covid.
I know that my viewpoint on this isn’t shared by that many of the people who comment here, but I think it’s counterproductive to say “Go get vaccinated, but you still have to live your life completely as if you are unvaccinated”
As for going to a hard lockdown due to delta, we NEVER had hard lockdowns in this country except for a few places; that was never going to happen no matter what. Plus, I wish the people who promote that would at least acknowledge the downsides of these hard lockdowns – business and school disruption, social isolation – rather than pooh-poohing them. Acting as if these lockdowns have no cost is not helping their case any.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — There were 6,836 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday with 12 new reported deaths of someone who had tested positive. Test positivity rate is 10.8%. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 87, up five from yesterday while hospitalisations are 828, up 45.
There were just over 10,000 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Wednesday) with about 25% of them first-doses. This brings the total in the adult (18+) population to 91.4% first-dose and 84.4% fully vaccinated. The first-dose vaccination rate for 16 and 17-year-olds is now 60.6%. We should see this group starting to receive their second vaccinations soon.
Soprano2
@New Deal democrat: I think the CDC needs to hire people who know how to do promotions. I think they are probably resistant to that, because scientists tend to believe that if you present data to people they will follow it. You have to present the data in a way that people can easily understand it. I agree with whoever said the current head of the CDC isn’t that good at clear communication with the public; she needs to hire someone who can do that for her, and do it better.
charon
Kidney damage happens, and it can show up without noticeable long COVID symptoms.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1435779145510834177
Jon Marcus
Re the ivermection-sterility thing, Snopes sez no. I’m inclined to trust them (and the FDA). Medical misinformation is bad, whatever the slant.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ivermectin-sterility-in-men/
Ken
@Jon Marcus: So the evidence that ivermectin causes male sterility is as good as the evidence it works against COVID…
Edmund Dantes
As to clearly showing data on hospitalization, I know the major medical center in northern Maine is doing just that as I saw it pop up on my Facebook feed from friends that still live there.
it’s a nice staged graphic that shows the three levels of admittance to hospital. Yellow silhouette for vaccinated and sick, grey for unvaccinated and sick.
Patients hospitalized. Then icu sick. Then on ventilator. Yellow doesn’t make too big of a splash. They update it everyday on their Facebook page.
I am starting to see more hospitals do it.
Jay
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-the-fucking-vaccine-already-you-fucking-fucks
NSF
Jackie
@WaterGirl: That’s perfect! She’s a puppy lover!?
smith
NPR has long since become Fox News for educated people. The language is nicer, but the message is the same.
smith
@Soprano2: One criterion that is almost never mentioned in the ongoing Mask Wars is the background level of community infection. In my opinion, it’s the most important one: if there is a high level of transmission where you live, wear the mask. If it’s low, you can take it off.
Fair Economist
I wish people would stop talking about “herd immunity”. There’s no such thing as herd immunity against a respiratory virus – secreted immunity fades too quickly; you can catch them again and again, roughly once a year for pre-existing human coronaviruses and probably even faster for SARS2, the most infectious known coronavirus. “Herd immunity” was intentionally mis-used by denialists at the start to excuse not acting against the biggest health threat in a century, and their endless repetition has gotten a lot of people to believe that particular fairy tale is real.
Near-universal vaccination will tremendously reduce both the rate of new cases and the average severity of cases that happen. It’s a great thing. But it’s never going to give us “herd immunity”, because that doesn’t exist for a virus like this. Eradication is possible, as China and New Zealand have demonstrated, but it will require aggressive public health measures on top of extensive vaccination.
Steeplejack
Re the Matthew Yglesias tweet about the poor Air Force dude: Saundra McDowell’s tweet is getting dragged up and down the Internet, e.g.:
Quiltingfool
@Soprano2: I was in Springfield Tuesday; I dropped off a sewing machine for routine maintenance and then went to 2 fabric stores. I figured Springfield shops would be more “mask required” than Lake of the Ozarks. Well, no. The sewing machine store was adamant about mask wearing in December; but not anymore. I was the only one there with a mask. Same for the fabric stores. I wonder if the change was in some part due to the ages of the women in those places – they were “my people”, 60 years and older. Maybe, like me, they are vaccinated and don’t feel they need to wear a mask (but I do wear a mask, so…)
I do know this, though. I hate wearing a mask. I am sympathetic to people who have to wear one all day long. I am so damned mad at people who refuse vaccinations for all the stupid reasons they glean from FB. My favorite reason is “it hasn’t been studied enough,” especially when that reason is espoused by people who don’t know diddly-shit about the immune system, vaccines or viruses.
Lord, give me patience or an unregistered handgun. (h/t to Grandma on the show Mike and Molly).
Fair Economist
@Jon Marcus:
It’s not quite so simple. There are a couple of animal studies showing severe male reproductive damage from Ivermectin, as well as an approximately equal number showing very marginal damage (but still generally a little). The differences are large enough that I strongly suspect one side is fraudulent, but there’s no way for me to know which. I’d like to see some verifiable research on the topic, and I hope we’ll get some.
dr. bloor
@Jay: A work of staggering eloquence.
Also, I had no idea that “ass caterpillar” was a thing.
Steeplejack
@Soprano2:
That was at LGM: “Murc’s Law, Pandemic Edition.” Worth reading. The Vox piece being called out is wretched.
Murc’s law: “The widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics.” – Urban Dictionary
Chris T.
@Amir Khalid:
Does the change in (or non-) formatting signify something?
In any case, I see this is somewhat consistently below 20k now, where it was around 22k for a while – does this mean the R number is now below 1.0? ?
Ruckus
@Jon Marcus:
A simple question.
The medical drug is taken in medical dosage. Are the people taking horse dewormer taking the proper dosage? What is the proper dosage of horse dewormer for a fully grown non mature adult human? They are taking a drug in a delivery form that has not been tested in humans (I’m assuming, why would it have been tested in humans) they are quite likely to be taking it in incorrect dosages. There is no way to test this properly.