Pandemic 2020
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DIY-HP-LED
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Camp Covid, looks like they couldn't pray the plague away.
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Texas church's summer camp ends with 125 kids testing positive for coronavirus (msn.com)
Texas church's summer camp ends with 125 kids testing positive for coronavirus
More than a hundred students and adults tested positive for the coronavirus after returning home from a Texas church's summer camp last month.
Clear Creek Community Church of League City, Texas, issued a statement on Facebook Saturday confirming the news of more than 125 attendees receiving the positive test results. Hundreds more at the camp were exposed to the virus.
The Galveston County Health District was notified of the first positive case tied to the camp on June 27, according to a district statement.
The health district confirmed the youth group did not leave the campground during its stay and did not have contact with counselors from the church. No other campers were on site.
“This is a reminder that COVID-19 is still here, and we have to take precautions,” said Dr. Philip Keiser, Galveston County's local health authority. “If you’re old enough to get vaccinated and haven’t, now is the time. These vaccines are safe and offer the best protection against COVID-19 to you, your family and your community.”
The health district urged camp attendees who feel sick or have been in close contact with someone who was positive for the virus to get tested and quarantine at home while waiting for results.
In response to the outbreak, the Clear Creek Community Church canceled its weekly services until July 11.
"From the beginning of the pandemic, we have sought to love our neighbors by practicing strict safety protocols. We are surprised and saddened by this turn of events. Our hearts break for those infected with the virus. Please pray for a speedy and complete recovery for all of those affected," the church statement read.
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Texas church's summer camp ends with 125 kids testing positive for coronavirus (msn.com)
Texas church's summer camp ends with 125 kids testing positive for coronavirus
More than a hundred students and adults tested positive for the coronavirus after returning home from a Texas church's summer camp last month.
Clear Creek Community Church of League City, Texas, issued a statement on Facebook Saturday confirming the news of more than 125 attendees receiving the positive test results. Hundreds more at the camp were exposed to the virus.
The Galveston County Health District was notified of the first positive case tied to the camp on June 27, according to a district statement.
The health district confirmed the youth group did not leave the campground during its stay and did not have contact with counselors from the church. No other campers were on site.
“This is a reminder that COVID-19 is still here, and we have to take precautions,” said Dr. Philip Keiser, Galveston County's local health authority. “If you’re old enough to get vaccinated and haven’t, now is the time. These vaccines are safe and offer the best protection against COVID-19 to you, your family and your community.”
The health district urged camp attendees who feel sick or have been in close contact with someone who was positive for the virus to get tested and quarantine at home while waiting for results.
In response to the outbreak, the Clear Creek Community Church canceled its weekly services until July 11.
"From the beginning of the pandemic, we have sought to love our neighbors by practicing strict safety protocols. We are surprised and saddened by this turn of events. Our hearts break for those infected with the virus. Please pray for a speedy and complete recovery for all of those affected," the church statement read.
DIY-HP-LED
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COVID and the brain: researchers zero in on how damage occurs (nature.com)
COVID and the brain: researchers zero in on how damage occurs
Growing evidence suggests that the coronavirus causes ‘brain fog’ and other neurological symptoms through multiple mechanisms.
How COVID-19 damages the brain is becoming clearer. New evidence suggests that the coronavirus’s assault on the brain could be multipronged: it might attack certain brain cells directly, reduce blood flow to brain tissue or trigger production of immune molecules that can harm brain cells.
Infection with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can cause memory loss, strokes and other effects on the brain. The question, says Serena Spudich, a neurologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, is: “Can we intervene early to address these abnormalities so that people don’t have long-term problems?”
With so many people affected — neurological symptoms appeared in 80% of the people hospitalized with COVID-19 who were surveyed in one study1 — researchers hope that the growing evidence base will point the way to better treatments.
Breaking into the brain
SARS-CoV-2 can have severe effects: a preprint posted last month2 compared images of people’s brains from before and after they had COVID-19, and found loss of grey matter in several areas of the cerebral cortex. (Preprints are published without peer review.)
Early in the pandemic, researchers speculated that the virus might cause damage by somehow entering the brain and infecting neurons, the cells responsible for transmitting and processing information. But studies have since indicated3 that the virus has difficulty getting past the brain’s defence system — the blood–brain barrier — and that it doesn’t necessarily attack neurons in any significant way.
One way in which SARS-CoV-2 might be accessing the brain, experts say, is by passing through the olfactory mucosa, the lining of the nasal cavity, which borders the brain. The virus is often found in the nasal cavity — one reason that health-care workers test for COVID-19 by swabbing the nose.
Even so, “there’s not a tonne of virus in the brain”, says Spudich, who co-authored a review of autopsies and other evidence that was published online in April4.
But that doesn’t mean it is not infecting any brain cells at all.
Studies now suggest that SARS-CoV-2 can infect astrocytes, a type of cell that’s abundant in the brain and has many functions. “Astrocytes do quite a lot that supports normal brain function,” including providing nutrients to neurons to keep them working, says Arnold Kriegstein, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
In a preprint posted in January, Kriegstein and his colleagues reported5 that SARS-CoV-2 preferentially infects astrocytes over other brain cells. The researchers exposed brain organoids — miniature brain-like structures grown from stem cells in the lab — to the virus. SARS-CoV-2 almost exclusively infected astrocytes over all other cells present.
Bolstering these lab studies, a group including Daniel Martins-de-Souza, head of proteomics at the University of Campinas in Brazil, reported6 in a February preprint that it had analysed brain samples from 26 people who died with COVID-19. In the five whose brain cells showed evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, 66% of the affected cells were astrocytes.
Infected astrocytes could explain some of the neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19, especially fatigue, depression and ‘brain fog’, which includes confusion and forgetfulness, argues Kriegstein. “Those kinds of symptoms may not be reflective of neuronal damage, but could be reflective of dysfunctions of some sort. That could be consistent with astrocyte vulnerability.”
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COVID and the brain: researchers zero in on how damage occurs
Growing evidence suggests that the coronavirus causes ‘brain fog’ and other neurological symptoms through multiple mechanisms.
How COVID-19 damages the brain is becoming clearer. New evidence suggests that the coronavirus’s assault on the brain could be multipronged: it might attack certain brain cells directly, reduce blood flow to brain tissue or trigger production of immune molecules that can harm brain cells.
Infection with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can cause memory loss, strokes and other effects on the brain. The question, says Serena Spudich, a neurologist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, is: “Can we intervene early to address these abnormalities so that people don’t have long-term problems?”
With so many people affected — neurological symptoms appeared in 80% of the people hospitalized with COVID-19 who were surveyed in one study1 — researchers hope that the growing evidence base will point the way to better treatments.
Breaking into the brain
SARS-CoV-2 can have severe effects: a preprint posted last month2 compared images of people’s brains from before and after they had COVID-19, and found loss of grey matter in several areas of the cerebral cortex. (Preprints are published without peer review.)
Early in the pandemic, researchers speculated that the virus might cause damage by somehow entering the brain and infecting neurons, the cells responsible for transmitting and processing information. But studies have since indicated3 that the virus has difficulty getting past the brain’s defence system — the blood–brain barrier — and that it doesn’t necessarily attack neurons in any significant way.
One way in which SARS-CoV-2 might be accessing the brain, experts say, is by passing through the olfactory mucosa, the lining of the nasal cavity, which borders the brain. The virus is often found in the nasal cavity — one reason that health-care workers test for COVID-19 by swabbing the nose.
Even so, “there’s not a tonne of virus in the brain”, says Spudich, who co-authored a review of autopsies and other evidence that was published online in April4.
But that doesn’t mean it is not infecting any brain cells at all.
Studies now suggest that SARS-CoV-2 can infect astrocytes, a type of cell that’s abundant in the brain and has many functions. “Astrocytes do quite a lot that supports normal brain function,” including providing nutrients to neurons to keep them working, says Arnold Kriegstein, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco.
In a preprint posted in January, Kriegstein and his colleagues reported5 that SARS-CoV-2 preferentially infects astrocytes over other brain cells. The researchers exposed brain organoids — miniature brain-like structures grown from stem cells in the lab — to the virus. SARS-CoV-2 almost exclusively infected astrocytes over all other cells present.
Bolstering these lab studies, a group including Daniel Martins-de-Souza, head of proteomics at the University of Campinas in Brazil, reported6 in a February preprint that it had analysed brain samples from 26 people who died with COVID-19. In the five whose brain cells showed evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, 66% of the affected cells were astrocytes.
Infected astrocytes could explain some of the neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19, especially fatigue, depression and ‘brain fog’, which includes confusion and forgetfulness, argues Kriegstein. “Those kinds of symptoms may not be reflective of neuronal damage, but could be reflective of dysfunctions of some sort. That could be consistent with astrocyte vulnerability.”
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printer
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Praise The Lord!
DIY-HP-LED
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And pass the covid.
timmah1979
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Lots of numbers thrown around, please post the CFRs. All these articles seem to leave them out for some reason.
Fogdog
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Lots of TLAs (three letter abbreviations) thrown around, please post the full name at least once. All these new posters seem to leave them out.
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DIY-HP-LED
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They don't include the FFL (Fucked For Life) numbers of those maimed either, those who have neurological and physical issues and the covid long haulers. The CFR is the same as it's always been among the unvaccinated, though there is evidence that the delta variant causes more severe illness, not so much among the vaccinated.
injinji
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I've been ragging my evangelical friends by thanking them for finally doing something about their carbon footprint. When they ask wtf I'm talking about. I tell them their preachers are playing up the dangers of the vaccine and playing down the dangers of the virus. End result is less carbon released into the atmosphere.
DIY-HP-LED
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It's filtering out the actual Christians from those who just say they are to fit in with their tribe. The Bible says, do unto others as you would have them do onto you, not do others in. Love thy neighbor, not fuck thy neighbor, real Christians don't own guns, they turn the other cheek. You get to heaven by attaining a state of grace and the baggage of bigotry and hate ain't allowed through the pearly gates or it wouldn't be heaven. Most of these evangelical born yesterday Christians have as much chance of getting into the divine North Korea as Trump himself, the epitome of the 7 deadly sins.
captainmorgan
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12 months after their symptoms started, only 23% of Covid patients in a new study from Germany were completely free of symptoms.
academic.oup.com
Persistent Symptoms in Adult Patients 1 Year After Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Prospective Cohort Study
Neurocognitive long-COVID symptoms can persist at least for 1 year after acute COVID-19 and reduce life quality significantly. Several neurocognitive sympt
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UncleBuck
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Your mom cfr's me (Comes and Fucks my Rod)
Jimdamick
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I agree, the Pandemic will end sooner or later.
Our next dilemma is climate change, and I believe that it's too late to reverse it.
Maybe slow it down a little, but that's about all we can do now in my opinion
Too fucking late.
Look at California.
If the drought & fires continue, it wil become a wasteland
Fucking scary thought, isn't it.
Every carbon emitting device on this planet should be eliminated, from power plants to cars, if not we are totally screwed
We have the technology, like solar/wind/nuclear/battery powered cars for instance.
Fucking use it
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Jimdamick
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It's been around 8 weeks since I 1st got ill, and I haven't gotten back to normal yet and can't do much.12 months after their symptoms started, only 23% of Covid patients in a new study from Germany were completely free of symptoms.
Persistent Symptoms in Adult Patients 1 Year After Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Prospective Cohort Study
Neurocognitive long-COVID symptoms can persist at least for 1 year after acute COVID-19 and reduce life quality significantly. Several neurocognitive sympt
I envy those that recovered quickly
Covid-19 fucked me hard.
Also when I went to the hospital they told me I had pneumonia, Lyme's disease & Covid, all at once
Fucking trifecta of shit.
Luck of the Irish?
Thats a fucking joke
Anyway, this tune suits my mood
One more Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan
This will make me feel better
Put my feet up, burn one and relax
printer
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Mercy St. Louis sending ventilators to Springfield as hospitalizations spike in Missouri
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients jumped by nearly 27% over the Fourth of July weekend in a hard-hit area of Missouri where immunization rates are low, leading to a temporary ventilator shortfall and a public call for help from respiratory therapists.
The delta variant, first identified in India, is spreading rapidly, straining hospitals in Springfield and raising fresh fears that the situation could soon grow worse as holiday gatherings seed fresh cases. Missouri leads the nation with the most new cases per capita in the past 14 days.
As of Monday, CoxHealth and the city’s other hospital, Mercy Springfield, were treating 213 COVID-19 patients, up from 168 on Friday. As recently as May 24, the two hospitals had just 31 patients.
“After what we’ve seen in the last month everyone is just holding their breath, especially after a holiday weekend like this, knowing that there were large gatherings,” said Erik Frederick, the chief administrative officer of Mercy Springfield.
Many communities that held off on Fourth of July festivities last year held them this year.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson tweeted a picture of himself at a fireworks celebration in the tourist town of Branson, a large crowd behind him. In the surrounding county, just 29.3% of residents have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot, state data shows. That is below the state rate of 44.7% and the national rate of 54.7% but not unlike several other southwest Missouri communities. Some have vaccination rates in the teens.
Parson last week urged people to get vaccinated. But he has consistently declined to enact restrictions to control the spread of the virus, instead asking residents to take “personal responsibility.” Missouri never had a mask mandate, and Parson signed a law last month placing limits on public health restrictions and barring governments from requiring proof of vaccination to use public facilities and transportation.
www.ksdk.com
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients jumped by nearly 27% over the Fourth of July weekend in a hard-hit area of Missouri where immunization rates are low, leading to a temporary ventilator shortfall and a public call for help from respiratory therapists.
The delta variant, first identified in India, is spreading rapidly, straining hospitals in Springfield and raising fresh fears that the situation could soon grow worse as holiday gatherings seed fresh cases. Missouri leads the nation with the most new cases per capita in the past 14 days.
As of Monday, CoxHealth and the city’s other hospital, Mercy Springfield, were treating 213 COVID-19 patients, up from 168 on Friday. As recently as May 24, the two hospitals had just 31 patients.
“After what we’ve seen in the last month everyone is just holding their breath, especially after a holiday weekend like this, knowing that there were large gatherings,” said Erik Frederick, the chief administrative officer of Mercy Springfield.
Many communities that held off on Fourth of July festivities last year held them this year.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson tweeted a picture of himself at a fireworks celebration in the tourist town of Branson, a large crowd behind him. In the surrounding county, just 29.3% of residents have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot, state data shows. That is below the state rate of 44.7% and the national rate of 54.7% but not unlike several other southwest Missouri communities. Some have vaccination rates in the teens.
Parson last week urged people to get vaccinated. But he has consistently declined to enact restrictions to control the spread of the virus, instead asking residents to take “personal responsibility.” Missouri never had a mask mandate, and Parson signed a law last month placing limits on public health restrictions and barring governments from requiring proof of vaccination to use public facilities and transportation.
Mercy St. Louis sending ventilators to Springfield as hospitalizations spike in Missouri
“Unfortunately we are living in a region where the vaccine has not been adopted. It has not been accepted and here we are with hospitals full of COVID patients"
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DIY-HP-LED
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GOP Stoking Vaccine Culture War At The Cost Of American Lives
“One political movement is trying to turn the vaccine into a culture war wedge so that their people don't get vaccinated—so they can stick up their middle finger at the other parts of America at the cost of American lives,” says Chris Hayes.
“One political movement is trying to turn the vaccine into a culture war wedge so that their people don't get vaccinated—so they can stick up their middle finger at the other parts of America at the cost of American lives,” says Chris Hayes.
Jimdamick
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Fuck 'em.Mercy St. Louis sending ventilators to Springfield as hospitalizations spike in Missouri
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients jumped by nearly 27% over the Fourth of July weekend in a hard-hit area of Missouri where immunization rates are low, leading to a temporary ventilator shortfall and a public call for help from respiratory therapists.
The delta variant, first identified in India, is spreading rapidly, straining hospitals in Springfield and raising fresh fears that the situation could soon grow worse as holiday gatherings seed fresh cases. Missouri leads the nation with the most new cases per capita in the past 14 days.
As of Monday, CoxHealth and the city’s other hospital, Mercy Springfield, were treating 213 COVID-19 patients, up from 168 on Friday. As recently as May 24, the two hospitals had just 31 patients.
“After what we’ve seen in the last month everyone is just holding their breath, especially after a holiday weekend like this, knowing that there were large gatherings,” said Erik Frederick, the chief administrative officer of Mercy Springfield.
Many communities that held off on Fourth of July festivities last year held them this year.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson tweeted a picture of himself at a fireworks celebration in the tourist town of Branson, a large crowd behind him. In the surrounding county, just 29.3% of residents have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot, state data shows. That is below the state rate of 44.7% and the national rate of 54.7% but not unlike several other southwest Missouri communities. Some have vaccination rates in the teens.
Parson last week urged people to get vaccinated. But he has consistently declined to enact restrictions to control the spread of the virus, instead asking residents to take “personal responsibility.” Missouri never had a mask mandate, and Parson signed a law last month placing limits on public health restrictions and barring governments from requiring proof of vaccination to use public facilities and transportation.
Mercy St. Louis sending ventilators to Springfield as hospitalizations spike in Missouri
“Unfortunately we are living in a region where the vaccine has not been adopted. It has not been accepted and here we are with hospitals full of COVID patients"
They asked for it & now their getting it
Dumb fucks
Sativied
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One week since almost all restrictions were lifted and the (yesterday's) number of cases almost quintupled to 2250. Add 1400 more today. In Amsterdam also a 500+% increase in cases over the past week, and then 200% increase again today. From ~50 to 500. Hospitalizations, ICU patients and deaths still very low to zero even though it seems inevitable those will rise at least to some extent.
So far though, almost all of the increase is in the age groups under 30, the least vaccinated group. Over 40 the number of cases per 100k population is still stable and very low.
Our gov decided it would be a good idea to motivate youngsters to get vaccinated asap, expecting delta to take over this month. Get vaccinated and you can get access to venues and events where social distancing and masks are no longer required. They decided to not add a waiting period after the Jansen shot (or second other vax shot). Get a shot today, go dancing tomorrow was the unofficial slogan. After all the goal was to get them vaccinated to protect everyone more so than themselves. So that’s what they did, massively.
At least, till they couldn’t keep up with supply. As an alternative, the gov tasked a thirdparty organization called “Testing for Access” with testing people. Get a negative test for free, and you still get to go dancing. This resulted in a huge increase in testing in an age group who before last week had little reason or desire to get tested, and exposed far more cases than expected. The genie was already out of the bottle though. Hordes of horny youngsters were desperate to go out again after such a long lockdown ended. Bars and clubs were just as eager to finally reopen. The Testing for access org failed to fully deliver results on the first day, so kids borrowed QR codes (of negative test or vax) from friends and many venues didn’t check rigorously at the entrance.
One club with a capacity of 600 visitors or so resulted in over 160 cases on one evening. One infected person got a negative test result due to human error and went on to infect dozens in a small bar. A party in Rotterdam led to over 80 new cases. Just a few of these super spreading events made up the majority of the tested cases.
Most of the new cases over the past week were asymptomatic youngsters. Most of them got tested because they were at a known super spreading event, or wanted access without having been vaccinated, and not because they are sick or even had symptoms... yet.
There is now a 2-week waiting period after getting fully vaxxed. Locking the barn after the horse got the flu... They basically achieved the opposite of what they wanted. These super spreading events caused the delta variant to become the dominant variant faster and the number of cases higher sooner than expected.
The next several weeks will show if the nr of deaths and hospitalizations will heavily increase too. If that doesn’t happen, masks will stay off regardless of the number of infections. Still, people are pissed. Because of the increasing number of cases anyone going on holiday abroad will likely have to go into quarantine when they arrive at a destination.
No idea what the next days/week will bring. There’s a festival with 20k maskless packed-together visitors soon. So far everyone still acts as if covid is gone. Haven’t seen a mask in a week.
captainmorgan
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On a positive note, at least tRUmptards won't be breeding anymore.
www.latimes.com
COVID-19 and lasting erectile dysfunction: Here's what we know
There are several possible reasons why COVID-19 can impair male sexual health, health experts say.
www.latimes.com
Sativied
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NL today: 5475 cases, another 66% increase compared to yesterday. 5 hospitalizations, 1 new ICU patient, 2 deaths. Still primarily youngsters who bump the numbers. 10 fold increase nationwide in just a little over a week. Very few areas left with zero infections. Seems more lockdowns are inevitable. That won't go well with the public, people are fed up. Especially those who are vaccinated. As long as it's mostly unvaccinated people who die the vaccinated don't gaf.
In Germany there were 4000 break through cases among fully vaccinated, compared to 975000 cases among the rest. That's a vaccine efficacy of over 99%.
In Germany there were 4000 break through cases among fully vaccinated, compared to 975000 cases among the rest. That's a vaccine efficacy of over 99%.
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