Coronavirus One Year, And More, Later
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This is why my son sat in the ER with crippling stomach pain from surgical adhesions for 8.5 hours the other night. They never did see him before he finally just left.
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Florida-
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This is actually much worse than running out of ventilators - it was realized early on that vents weren't as helpful or necessary as people thought. The "happy hypoxia" of COVID (low blood oxygen without CO2 buildup) means that oxygen cannulas and even CPAPs are better than the highly invasive step of putting someone on a ventilator and the damage that causes (inflating and deflating the lungs like a balloon is not very good for the patient). With news like this (and the ICU beds running out) it seems that we are on the brink. At this point I would think that a nationwide mandate that vaccinated patients get priority for medical treatment (of any kind) would be a good idea. Not that I believe it will happen.
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LBJ Hospital has tents but it doesn't have enough staff to use them.
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Amazing thread involving epidemiological maths.
https://twitter.com/EpiEllie/status/142 ... 33189?s=20
https://twitter.com/EpiEllie/status/142 ... 33189?s=20
Dr Ellie Murray, ScD is on vacation
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THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST:
The CDC’s recent announcement that the Delta variant has an average reproductive number of 6-9 has a lot of people concerned & many are asking me about whether this means we need COVID boosters.
Let’s talk through the math of how we might decide!
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Nice introduction to the mathematics of epidemiology. Shows pretty clearly why this delta outbreak is exploding so quickly even though we have vaccines now. Not to mention making the point that they aren't enough to get out of the pandemic without masking and social distancing as well.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:55 pm Amazing thread involving epidemiological maths.
https://twitter.com/EpiEllie/status/142 ... 33189?s=20Dr Ellie Murray, ScD is on vacation
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THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST:
The CDC’s recent announcement that the Delta variant has an average reproductive number of 6-9 has a lot of people concerned & many are asking me about whether this means we need COVID boosters.
Let’s talk through the math of how we might decide!
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Schools reopening this week. In another week we may look back on the situation now as the good old days.
Gov. Abbott looking to get nurses from other states. I doubt he will have much success.
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Thanks for this.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:55 pm Amazing thread involving epidemiological maths.
https://twitter.com/EpiEllie/status/142 ... 33189?s=20Dr Ellie Murray, ScD is on vacation
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THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST:
The CDC’s recent announcement that the Delta variant has an average reproductive number of 6-9 has a lot of people concerned & many are asking me about whether this means we need COVID boosters.
Let’s talk through the math of how we might decide!
We are even worse off than I thought.
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https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/08 ... acilities/
Pennsylvania is actually doing pretty well with this surge. According to Gov. Wolf, we have 63 percent vaxxed and 99 percent of over 65 vaxxed, but cases are also going up here. So it's good to be proactive. I'm so glad we have a Democratic governor (if not legislature) here during these awful times.HARRISBURG (KDKA) – Pennsylvania is requiring employees at state-run health care and high-risk congregate care facilities to get the COVID-19 vaccine or undergo weekly testing.
Gov. Tom Wolf announced the new initiative Tuesday. It affects about 25,000 employees working in facilities like state hospitals, veterans homes and state correction institutions.
Employees will have to be vaccinated by Sept. 7, or else they’ll have to get tested for COVID-19 weekly. All new external hires will be required to get vaccinated before they can start working.
Wolf also announced an incentive for state employees under his jurisdiction. Starting in October, those employees will be able to get a paid day off.
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Back-to-School started today locally. There is an eerie sense of tension from some friends with kids trying to understand how this is going to play out with DeathSantis' no-mask policy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... k-mandates
All this, and more, but no mask mandate. WTH?The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, appealed for out-of-state help to fight the third wave of Covid-19 in his state amid dire warnings while two more of the state’s largest school districts announced mask mandates in defiance of the increasingly hardline Republican.
Abbott’s request came on Monday as a county-owned hospital in Houston raised tents to accommodate their coronavirus patient overflow.
Private hospitals in the county already were requiring their staff to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the Dallas and Austin school districts announced Monday that they would require students and staff to wear face masks. The Houston school district had announced it would implement a mask mandate for its students and staff later this week if its board approves.
The Republican governor has directed the Texas department of state health services to use staffing agencies to find additional medical staff from beyond the state’s borders as the Delta wave began to overwhelm its present staffing resources.
He also has sent a letter to the Texas Hospital Association to request that hospitals postpone all elective medical procedures voluntarily.
Hospital officials in Houston said last week that area hospitals with beds had insufficient numbers of nurses to serve them.
Abbott also directed the state health department and the Texas division of emergency management to open additional Covid-19 antibody infusion centers to treat patients not needing hospital care and to expand vaccine availability to the state’s underserved communities.
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That's brilliant!The Republican governor has directed the Texas department of state health services to use staffing agencies to find additional medical staff from beyond the state’s borders as the Delta wave began to overwhelm its present staffing resources.
I can't see any possible flaws with this strategy!
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Voluntarily unvaxxed Covid patients need to stop taking up hospital beds. They made their anti-science decision (as much as the right now claims that the left is anti-science, WTF?), they need to deal with the consequences and not expect everyone else to coddle them. Show some freaking personal responsibility for once, conservatives.
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Good luck with Texas finding out of state nurses. Maybe they can get them from Florida.