Coronavirus

[donbusch]

Here we go again ..... the refrigerated trucks for bodies r back as morgues & funeral homes r filling up in Texas & Arizona. Time to face reality for those whiners bitching about how the shutdowns & social distancing have violated their God-given freedoms as Americans.

Our disastrous coronavirus response has even taken away our freedom to have a dignified death & funeral.

Refrigerated trucks requested in Texas and Arizona as morgues fill up due to coronavirus deaths

"The hospital system as a whole, as we said, is under severe stress," said San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[sene5hos]

We are starting to have the results of the number of people, the vast majority are young, who tested positive for COVID-19 in bars in Montreal. Brief 45 new cases.

Unfortunately the managers do nothing. The money starts to come back so we don't want to lose that, but if it increases too much, we will extend the list of constraints, or worse.

 

[sene5hos]

Updates, coronavirus in USA

COVID-19 Cases Are Yet Again Surging

The U.S. just recorded over 80,000 new daily coronavirus cases for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

www.thecut.com

Over the past four months, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. has risen dramatically, and the U.S. currently has the largest outbreak in the world. As of July 16, more than 3.4 million people across every state, Washington, D.C., and four territories have tested positive for the disease, and more than 137,000 people with the virus have died.

Now, 40 states are still seeing an increasing number of new coronavirus cases each day, with younger people accounting for a growing percentage of new infections. (According to data from the Times, there are only two states, Delaware and Maine, where new cases are currently declining).

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious-disease expert, has cautioned that despite the optimism from the Trump administration — which has repeatedly downplayed the seriousness of the current outbreak, with Trump recently claiming falsely that “99 percent” of cases are “totally harmless” — the nation is still “knee-deep in the first wave” of the pandemic.
Testifying before the Senate on June 30, Fauci said that the recent spikes in cases “put the entire country at risk.” The WHO has warned that if current measures in the U.S. are not able to stop the spread of the virus, further lockdowns may be necessary.

 

[EagerBeaver]

DeSantis: Media Is To Blame For Covid Spike in Florida

This guy is a real piece of work, still can't believe he snookered Yale and Harvard into giving him degrees:

Gov. Ron DeSantis blames media for Florida's Covid-19 response - CNN Video

CNN's Brianna Keilar points out the inaccuracies in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' argument that the media stopped asking about coronavirus in May and is to blame for the public becoming complacent and cases rising.

www.cnn.com

 

[sene5hos]

Georgia governor sues to stop Atlanta mask mandate

“I am not afraid of the city being sued,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms had declared in instituting a mask requirement in the city.

www.politico.com

Discussion about the spread of coronavirus.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp sued Thursday to stop Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms from mandating masks be worn in the city to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The legal actions comes after prominent Democratic mayors in the state pledged to challenge an executive order by Kemp barring local mask mandates.
Bottoms defiantly declared, “I am not afraid of the city being sued.”

Kemp made that a reality, writing on Twitter that his lawsuit "is on behalf of the Atlanta business owners and their hardworking employees who are struggling to survive during these difficult times."
"We will fight to stop these reckless actions and put people over pandemic politics," Kemp wrote.

On Wednesday, Kemp banned localities from ordering people to wear masks in public to stop the spread of coronavirus. Mayors across the state hit back at Kemp and accused him of playing politics during a pandemic.

It's because of a Republican governor like him that things are going so badly in the USA.

 

[MAXHD]

Really interesting to read the first weeks of comments of this tread...

 

[EagerBeaver]

Russian spies seeking Covid Vaccine Research:

Coronavirus: Russian spies target Covid-19 vaccine research

The UK, US and Canada say state-backed hackers tried to steal coronavirus vaccine research.

www.bbc.com

 

[The Nature Boy]

Damn, 77,000+ New cases just yesterday. That’s a lot. Whatever America’s doin isn’t working

 

[EagerBeaver]

UConn Announces Its Covid 19 Testing Strategy:

UConn announces COVID-19 testing strategy for fall semester

I am hoping most other universities will follow this lead.

 

[cloudsurf]

There are other unknowns like how long complications will last or even how long they take to manifest themselves. Science still doesn`t know how long antibodies last. Mutations should be another concern. What happens in the coming flu season when the common flu starts interacting in people with the coronavirus

 

[IamNY]

Promising news on a vaccine:

Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response

Study shows the vaccine is safe, but it is still too soon to know if it can stop people from being infected.

www.bbc.com

 

[EagerBeaver]

Ronny DeSantis Presser Interrupted by Angry Protesters, he literally is made to stop talking:

Protestors interrupt Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' coronavirus briefing - CNN Video

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' press briefing on his state's response to the pandemic was met with loud protests, including shouts of "Shame on you Ron DeSantis!"

www.cnn.com

 

[EagerBeaver]

Pfizer Vaccine could be available in 2020! And available to United States citizens at no cost. The US government will own the vaccine if it's approved:

US government and Pfizer reach $1.95 billion deal to produce millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses | CNN

The US Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense announced on Wednesday a $1.95 billion agreement with Pfizer to produce 100 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine in the United States. The deal also allows the US government to acquire an additional 500 million doses.

www.cnn.com

 

[IamNY]

US passes the 4 million mark:

US coronavirus cases surpass 4 million

The number of coronavirus cases in the US has surpassed 4 million, with nearly 144,000 Americans now killed by the global pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University. The grim toll makes the co…

nypost.com

 

[cloudsurf]

What concerns me is that some scientists are now saying that antibodies fade after as little as 3 months.
If immunity lasts only a few months then how effective will be herd immunity or even a potential vaccine.
There is so much more to learn about this no ordinary flu .
One solution may lie in discovering how a bat`s immune system works and protects them against so many varieties of virus

 

[IamNY]

I was watching an interview with Dr. Birx yesterday and she mentioned that all antibodies fade over time. So I'm not so sure it's a new problem or or if it's one that's always been there.

I think this explains it, although it will fade it doesn't necessarily stop protecting you:

Virus antibodies fade fast but not necessarily protection

New research suggests that antibodies the immune system makes to fight the new coronavirus may only last a few months in people with mild illness

abcnews.go.com

 

[ShyMan]

^^^^^

The science is encouraging -- our highly evolved bodies will protect us after we train them with the proper vaccines.

Can You Get Covid-19 Again? It’s Very Unlikely, Experts Say (Published 2020)

Reports of reinfection instead may be cases of drawn-out illness. A decline in antibodies is normal after a few weeks, and people are protected from the coronavirus in other ways.

www.nytimes.com

Can You Get Covid-19 Again? It’s Very Unlikely, Experts Say
Reports of reinfection instead may be cases of drawn-out illness. A decline in antibodies is normal after a few weeks, and people are protected from the coronavirus in other ways.

. . . .

"People infected with the coronavirus typically produce immune molecules called antibodies. Several teams have recently reported that the levels of these antibodies decline in two to three months, causing some consternation. But a drop in antibodies is perfectly normal after an acute infection subsides, said Dr. Michael Mina, an immunologist at Harvard University.

Many clinicians are “scratching their heads saying, ‘What an extraordinarily odd virus that it’s not leading to robust immunity,’ but they’re totally wrong,’” Dr. Mina said. “It doesn’t get more textbook than this.”

Antibodies are not the only form of protection against pathogens. The coronavirus also provokes a vigorous defense from immune cells that can kill the virus and quickly rouse reinforcements for future battles. Less is known about how long these so-called memory T cells persist — those that recognize other coronaviruses may linger for life — but they can buttress defenses against the new coronavirus.

“If those are maintained, and especially if they’re maintained within the lung and the respiratory tract, then I think they can do a pretty good job of stopping an infection from spreading,” said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University."

 

[ssj3]

Pfizer Vaccine could be available in 2020! And available to United States citizens at no cost. The US government will own the vaccine if it's approved

If Pfizer’s vaccine is available at or around the same time as AstraZeneca’s that would be huge. For 2020, it’s estimated that 100M doses will be available from each manufacturer. And both vaccines seem to elicit antibody and CD8+ T-cell production which is a big positive as well.

They will just need to ensure that antibody dependent enhancement doesn’t occur with the dose they choose to be manufactured or else we’ll have a much bigger problem on our hands.

 

[IamNY]

Bring in the glory holes for safe sex, just not in Quebec:

Sorry Everyone, Unlike BC, Quebec Isn't Recommending Glory Holes For Safe Pandemic Sex

Here's what you need to know about having sex right now.

www.mtlblog.com

 

[The Nature Boy]

Fake news! Liberate!

Hospital must choose who's "sent home to die" amid pandemic