Coronavirus (home, colleges, live)

[Finper]

Originally Posted by suzy_q2010

Yeah, embalmers are the go to experts on the vaccines.

Not news: blood clots when the heart stops beating, and those clots can have varying appearances.

Blood stops flowing when you die but doesn’t clot

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Finper

Blood stops flowing when you die but doesn’t clot

Not quite. Blood does not clot in sudden death. However:
“ After death the blood generally clots slowly and remains clotted for several days. In some cases, however, fibrin and fibrinogen disappears from blood in a comparatively short time and the blood is found to be fluid and incoagulable soon after death.

Fibrinolytic Activity of Human Blood after Death.“

[tikkasf]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJ_Media

[CA4Now]

Peter Chin-Hong is a professor of medicine and an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco.

"...the FDA’s recent authorization of new boosters is good news. These shots contain half the original vaccine formulation and half instructions to target the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron strains — which currently account for almost all COVID-19 infections and serious disease. This is a chance to make a real dent in the legions of vaccinated folks, particularly older people, experiencing breakthrough infection.

There are still tens of millions of Americans who still haven’t received a single booster — or any vaccine at all. A lack of vaccination will continue to drive deaths. But whether a routine annual booster shot will make us nimble against future variants depends on what happens as the virus evolves. If we have learned anything from this pandemic, it should be to treat this shape-shifting threat with humility."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...ion-california

[Tulemutt]

4 ways the world messed up its pandemic response — and 3 fixes to do better next time.
[i] A new report issued by the Lancet Commission looks at the first two years of the pandemic to consider what the world did right (spoiler: not much), what the world got wrong, and how we can end this public health emergency and prepare for future ones. According to the commission, the failures cost us 17.7 million unnecessary deaths globally. (Not to mention the many people still struggling with the long-term consequences of a prior infection with COVID-19.) Here are four ways the world messed things up:

Countries failed to coordinate and cooperate. …

Nations didn't do their homework.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...cet-commission

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

… Create a combo platter of preventive and curative measures: Vaccination-plus!
According to the report, the optimal strategy for bringing the pandemic to an end involves a combination of mass vaccination, testing, treatment for both new infections and long COVID, installing public health measures like face masks and social distancing, and financial and social supports to ease periods of isolation and quarantine for individuals. "We have to be prepared and make sure that we will leave no one behind in the future," says Cuevas Barron.

…
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...cet-commission

The authors of this report sound like high-class lockdown monkeys and social-welfare advocates.

OK, I'll confess, after being Covid-free either for the length of the pandemic or February 2020 (I was probably ill with Covid), I tested positive this past Friday. I had some extremely mild symptoms the Saturday night before and part of Sunday. Those passed, and I was spurred to take the test only because a work colleague tested positive last Thursday and after that my wife and older son. I was feeling well enough to pay a moderately powerful game of singles tennis both on Labor Day and Sunday three days ago. Not a whiff of a symptom and a body temp in the 97's. This morning I finally tested negative.

I think the severity does depend on a cocktail of physical fitness, a good immune system, vaccines and boosters. Not being locked down, as the bolded recommendations above hint at.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

The authors of this report sound like high-class lockdown monkeys and social-welfare advocates.

OK, I'll confess, after being Covid-free either for the length of the pandemic or February 2020 (I was probably ill with Covid), I tested positive this past Friday. I had some extremely mild symptoms the Saturday night before and part of Sunday. Those passed, and I was spurred to take the test only because a work colleague tested positive last Thursday and after that my wife and older son. I was feeling well enough to pay a moderately powerful game of singles tennis both on Labor Day and Sunday three days ago. Not a whiff of a symptom and a body temp in the 97's. This morning I finally tested negative.

I think the severity does depend on a cocktail of physical fitness, a good immune system, vaccines and boosters. Not being locked down, as the bolded recommendations above hint at.

Well, maybe the authors aren’t “high-class lockdown monkeys and social welfare advocates” … maybe, on the other hand, they are very intelligent people quite more qualified than anonymous social media protestors to study the issues and report.

You know, I’m (really) very happy for you that your health and immune system etc all helped you have a light case. But that’s truly irrelevant to the report.

[wp169]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

The authors of this report sound like high-class lockdown monkeys and social-welfare advocates.

OK, I'll confess, after being Covid-free either for the length of the pandemic or February 2020 (I was probably ill with Covid), I tested positive this past Friday. I had some extremely mild symptoms the Saturday night before and part of Sunday. Those passed, and I was spurred to take the test only because a work colleague tested positive last Thursday and after that my wife and older son. I was feeling well enough to pay a moderately powerful game of singles tennis both on Labor Day and Sunday three days ago. Not a whiff of a symptom and a body temp in the 97's. This morning I finally tested negative.

I think the severity does depend on a cocktail of physical fitness, a good immune system, vaccines and boosters. Not being locked down, as the bolded recommendations above hint at.

Everyone I know who got Omicron is vaccinated, me and my neighbors who are unvaccinated never got it.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by wp169

Everyone I know who got Omicron is vaccinated, me and my neighbors who are unvaccinated never got it.

Which anecdote proves exactly nothing.

[citizensadvocate]

Prehaps I should have posted this on National city data threads or forums, i.e I always question how come local and state governments and transit agencies felt they had to do emergency meetings in April to lift their own mask mandates overnight when the federal judge struck down theirs. Where they afraid the judges orders mandate them to follow suit or be in contempt of court even under separation of powers? fyi The state of CA and most counties and cities within already had their own mask mandates in the affected areas i.e airports, train station, bus depots, etc, since June of 2020 long before Joe Biden instigated his on federally juristication airspace(which was out of the state's juristication) and rail/interstate transportation and hubs in all states. Therefore should had been unaffected. Unless inside an aircraft after it takes off from California or onboard an Amtrak train. LA County followed suit but reinstigated their mask mandate just four days later in all airports, trains, and buses, and stations.

Uber and Lyft as well as some private companies which had some weird restrictions in connection i.e no front seat use which I doubt was part of Biden's mask order also lifted it overnight following the judges decision. Which puzzled me. The whole thing was toothless though Uber and Lyft drivers are indepedent contractors and could always legally carry as many passengers as there are seatbelts in a vehicle per contract. Also the TSA admitted themselves that they had no practical enforcement mechanism for Biden's order aside from where there are TSA checkpoints which limits to air travel and airports. What would had happened if an airline decides to annouce all mask off after takeoff, especially on bush flights? I was surprised how sheepish agencies were to the tooth less wolf/tiger.

Interestingly how the TSA itself is finally starting to make mask wearing optional for its own agents. They kept them on for two three months after the judge struck it down. Same with Apple the company for Apple related staff.