death tribble Posted December 31, 2020 Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 It was touch and go but deaths in America exceeded 350,000 before the end of the year. Indonesia has less cases than the Netherlands. Weird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 assault, Matt the Bruins, BarretWallace and 2 others 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 42 people in West Virginia were mistakenly given Regeneron’s Covid-19 antibody treatment through an IV drip instead of the getting the Moderna vaccine through a jab in the arm, the West Virginia National Guard announced Thursday. Apparently, the neither the people giving the treatment nor the people receiving the treatment noticed that anything was going wrong as they sat there waitng for an IV bag to drain into their arms. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/31/west-virginia-mistakenly-gives-42-peoplegiven-regeneron-iv-covid-treatment-instead-of-vaccine-shot-west-virginia-national-guard-says-.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 15 hours ago, unclevlad said: I believe the Moderna is a 2-shot vaccine too, so 500 people means 1000 doses. It's two shots, but it would likley be 500 doses. My hospital got one shipment for the first round, and will get a second for the next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 I'm glad they arrested the guy and may charge him with 3 felonies. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/31/us/wisconsin-coronavirus-vaccine-vials/index.html Pattern Ghost 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 Nice charges too...recklessly endangering safety and adultering a prescription drug. Plus the less direct-sounding charge of criminal damage to property. The most serious, it appears, is recklessly endangering safety. It's a class F felony, so 12 1/2 years. One can expect the prosecutors to ask that the sentences to be served consecutively, and the other 2 are still mutli-year felonies. I suspect the fact that he was also a pharmacist will mean even a judge who might be lenient, go harsh. And he can kiss his pharmacist license goodbye forever once he gets out...which is neither a cheap nor easy degree to earn. (Even if his license would withstand felony convictions, no board is ever going to let it stand for *these* felonies.) I suspect that whomever holds his student loans will have to completely write them off, if they haven't been paid off. Or possibly, if his parents cosigned, he may have just hosed them. Yeah, we don't know what he was thinking or what he thought he could accomplish, but he's going to get a very harsh lesson in Consequences 101. Matt the Bruins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 Britain is over 2.5 million cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 Why is the Jakartan patient facing charges and a potential 10 years in prison? There's no dereliction of duty or endangering unwilling people that he's directly responsible for, unlike the nurse he was banging, even if it was a spectacularly bad idea to be involved. Is it now a crime to have sex while suffering an illness in Indonesia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 1 hour ago, death tribble said: Britain is over 2.5 million cases. While it has not been conclusively proven, it does appear that the B.1.1.7 London variant of covid is about 50% more contagious than previous types. Which ultimately translates to a higher death toll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 9 minutes ago, Matt the Bruins said: Why is the Jakartan patient facing charges and a potential 10 years in prison? There's no dereliction of duty or endangering unwilling people that he's directly responsible for, unlike the nurse he was banging, even if it was a spectacularly bad idea to be involved. Is it now a crime to have sex while suffering an illness in Indonesia? The patient knew he had a very contagious and potentially deadly disease, and deliberately engaged in activity that would spread that disease to another person, and thence to everyone that person comes in contact with. That's endangering the public health. Michael Hopcroft, pinecone and Cygnia 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted January 1, 2021 Report Share Posted January 1, 2021 I was watching the Rose Bowl college football game (which has so far been barely a contest) and saw many shots of fans in the stadium ()how many there were I'm not entirely clear) and most shots featured several people who are not using their masks -- as if they wore them to get in and pulled them down once they thought the ushers weren't looking. We're talking hundreds if not thousands of people unmasked. I see a super-spreader event on the horizon if nobody's careful I wonder how many other bowl games this is happening at.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 2, 2021 Report Share Posted January 2, 2021 3 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said: I was watching the Rose Bowl college football game (which has so far been barely a contest) and saw many shots of fans in the stadium ()how many there were I'm not entirely clear) and most shots featured several people who are not using their masks -- as if they wore them to get in and pulled them down once they thought the ushers weren't looking. We're talking hundreds if not thousands of people unmasked. I see a super-spreader event on the horizon if nobody's careful I wonder how many other bowl games this is happening at.. Texas. That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Old Man Posted January 2, 2021 Report Share Posted January 2, 2021 In addition to being more virulent, the London variant of covid (B.1.1.7, aka Variant of Concern (VOC) 202012/01) affects kids: Quote The SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7, now designated Variant of Concern 202012/01 (VOC) by Public Health England, originated in the UK in late Summer to early Autumn 2020. We examine epidemiological evidence for this VOC having a transmission advantage from several perspectives. [...] Phylodynamic modelling additionally indicates that genetic diversity of this lineage has changed in a manner consistent with exponential growth. [...]Third, we examine growth trends in SGTF and non-SGTF case numbers at local area level across England, and show that the VOC has higher transmissibility than non-VOC lineages, even if the VOC has a different latent period or generation time. Available SGTF data indicate a shift in the age composition of reported cases, with a larger share of under 20 year olds among reported VOC than non-VOC cases. This matches what they're seeing in London hospitals: Covid wards 'full of children' for first time in pandemic, warn nurses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted January 2, 2021 Report Share Posted January 2, 2021 If news of it affecting kids is actually believed, it might end up actually slowing the spread of the pandemic in the US if it panics parents into insisting their kids stay at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 2, 2021 Report Share Posted January 2, 2021 The new strain appears to be more contagious than the previous one, but there's no evidence yet that it's more "virulent," i.e. more severe and dangerous in its effects. TrickstaPriest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted January 2, 2021 Report Share Posted January 2, 2021 33 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: The new strain appears to be more contagious than the previous one, but there's no evidence yet that it's more "virulent," i.e. more severe and dangerous in its effects. Back before the first publicized mutation in March, my dad was trying to tell me that mutations of the virus are a good thing because someone he'd heard on Fox News said that mutations meant the virus would get less severe in its effects. (And by extension, getting everybody infected with the virus so there was more chance of mutation was a great thing to happen.) I had to try to explain to him that the mutations are more or less random. It could get less virulent, it could get more. It could get more contagious and stay just as virulent. A couple of weeks later they had the news story that the mutation (IIRC the one that came through Europe and hit NYC so hard) took only 1/10th the amount of virus to get someone sick than the original strain did. And at the time, they'd been saying on MSNBC and CNN that the original strain was already as contagious as measles. There's a lot of really sick individuals out there. And most of them are guest "experts" on Fox News. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 2, 2021 Report Share Posted January 2, 2021 Chloe Bennet has covid. As does Larry King. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 3, 2021 Report Share Posted January 3, 2021 So does Mick Foley and I posted that on the WWE thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 3, 2021 Report Share Posted January 3, 2021 85 million cases worldwide but 60 million recoveries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted January 3, 2021 Report Share Posted January 3, 2021 Part of a conversation... Other guy, sarcastically, "Lockdowns have a great record of success. Just look at California and New York." Me: "Sir, the wounded soldier lost half of his blood despite the bandages!" "My God! Send out the word! No more bandaging wounded soldiers! Bandages don't work!" TrickstaPriest, tkdguy, Lord Liaden and 1 other 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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csyphrett Posted January 4, 2021 Report Share Posted January 4, 2021 On 1/1/2021 at 10:23 AM, Grailknight said: I'm glad they arrested the guy and may charge him with 3 felonies. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/31/us/wisconsin-coronavirus-vaccine-vials/index.html Ever since the Tylenol thing, product tampering has led to worse charges than what he got indicted with. This is not new. This guy is an idiot CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted January 4, 2021 Report Share Posted January 4, 2021 That's not the most outrageous claim I've heard. Apparently some folks think the vaccine will change a person's DNA and turn him or her into an alien! Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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