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Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:58 pm On the radio, one reporter talked about an interaction with an EMT who had sat in the hospital parking lot with his patient for four hours, in "line" to get into the ER. He had to keep running back to the ambulance for tanks of oxygen (maybe the hospital should invest in those vibrating pagers they use at Outback).

In the meantime, other calls were coming in and there wasn't a damn thing he and his team could do until the hospital accepted the guy they were monitoring.

(Seriously, now I'm picturing a staffer standing at the drive-through ER drop-off with a clip board asking "How many? It's a four hour wait. Ok, you'll stay? Name please? Here's your pager. Please return here when it vibrates)

70 percent of adults in the European Union have been fully vaccinated.

By Elian Peltier
Aug. 31, 2021

Around 70 percent of adults in the European Union have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, E.U. officials said on Tuesday, a milestone that puts the bloc among the world’s leaders in vaccinations despite a sluggish start earlier this year and worrying discrepancies among member states.

After a fumbling start, the European Union overtook the United States in vaccinations last month, as campaigns taken together across the bloc’s 27 countries grew at a faster pace than anywhere else in the world. Tuesday’s announcement marked the meeting of a self-set deadline that once seemed far out of reach.

While the vaccination rate has slowed this month, it has yet to reach a ceiling that some experts and officials feared it would hit over the summer. Taking children and teenagers into account, more than 55 percent of the overall E.U. population has been fully vaccinated, compared with 52 percent in the United States, 61 percent in Israel, and 64 percent in Britain.

Those figures, however, mask wide differences between E.U. countries — ones that the authorities in Brussels may struggle to address, because each member country runs its own vaccination campaign.

While more than 80 percent of adults have been fully inoculated in Belgium, Denmark and Portugal, and more than 75 percent in countries like Spain and the Netherlands, the figure falls to 45 percent in Latvia, 31 percent in Romania and 20 percent in Bulgaria.


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/worl ... rcent.html

RVInit wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 1:30 pm Enemies of the USA have it made - they don't have to raise a finger or use much of their own resources or effort. Except to lift their glass, take a drink, and congratulate themselves for their good fortune.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:54 pm Relate the number of deaths to the population count and the current numbers are therefore still about just a third of the Great Flu.

103.2 million (1918)
333.3 million (2021)

(numbers from Google)

Unlike today, there was no vaccine for the 1918 flu. There was also no CDC or national public health department. The Food and Drug Administration existed but consisted of a very small group of people. Additionally, there were no antibiotics, intensive care units, ventilators or IV fluids.

Scientists hadn’t even seen a virus under a microscope. They didn’t have the technology and they knew almost nothing of virology ....

Lani wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:23 am

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:54 pm Relate the number of deaths to the population count and the current numbers are therefore still about just a third of the Great Flu.

103.2 million (1918)
333.3 million (2021)

(numbers from Google)

The article discusses the population difference. But also the medical difference -

Unlike today, there was no vaccine for the 1918 flu. There was also no CDC or national public health department. The Food and Drug Administration existed but consisted of a very small group of people. Additionally, there were no antibiotics, intensive care units, ventilators or IV fluids.

Scientists hadn’t even seen a virus under a microscope. They didn’t have the technology and they knew almost nothing of virology ....

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed Sep 22, 2021 11:21 am Dying to own the libs. The big question is...will it work?