[COVID NEWS] The situation is horrific but help is on the way

By artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 6:30pm |

I already love her! She is not kidding that it will get worse before it gets better but I am so hopeful now that we will have clear leadership at the CDC. Welcome @RWalensky ! https://t.co/oHt8qBEb2h
— Nurse Linda (@NurseLinda13) January 13, 2021

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Feds have switched to advocating dropping priority age from 75+ to 65+. I know NYC did this last night. If you are 65 to 75, check your state and county, they may have as well! In NYC they don't have enough shots yet but they've opened the registration to get in line to 65+

https://t.co/nR8UaBgtta
— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) January 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 8:24pm

4,022 deaths today and 130,383 hospitalized

Wide body jets hold up to 412, so the deaths are equivalent to 9 nearly full jumbo jets going down today in the U.S. with no survivors..

Or you could also do deaths by police of all colors of skin: four times the number died from Covid in one day, today, than were killed all year by U.S. police for all reasons (999 killed in 2020).

Our daily update is published. States reported 1.8M tests, 219k cases, 130,383 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 4,022 deaths. pic.twitter.com/SVEqztd3tJ
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) January 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 9:35pm

Joe Biden 5 minutes ago:

We’re in the teeth of this crisis, and we need to take immediate action to get the virus under control. That’s why tomorrow, I’ll be laying out my vaccination and economic rescue package to beat COVID-19 and build back better. https://t.co/YRzJ5nlkDm
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 01/13/2021 - 10:43pm

CDC is predicting more than 90,000 U.S. deaths in the next three weeks:

“More than 38,000 Americans have died of Covid-19 in the first two weeks of the new year. Another 92,000 are projected to die from the virus over roughly the next three weeks..” We have become desensitized to mass death, & it’s incredibly dangerous. https://t.co/IldvCRInSb
— Laura Miers (@LauraMiers) January 14, 2021

so staying inside arguing about freedom of speech, anarchist terror attacks, Trump and impeachment, the GOP vs. the Dems, police, whatever, is fine with them

by artappraiser on Thu, 01/14/2021 - 2:47pm

Trump hits 10m cases by inaug day
Should be impeached for that too.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 01/14/2021 - 2:55pm

One year ago today https://t.co/UpO9VsxaQa
— Anthony L. Fisher (@anthonyLfisher) January 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/15/2021 - 1:41am

Israel, which has vaccinated the largest share of its population, says positivity rates in covid tests fell 33% two weeks after people received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. And the health ministry says just 0.06% of recipients had side effects. https://t.co/dPxMP0t4GB
— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) January 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/15/2021 - 1:58am

France is extending a 6 p.m. curfew to the entire nation. Via @business
— alain servais (@aservais1) January 15, 2021

STAY FUCKING HOME!

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/15/2021 - 3:23am

WSJ on new flight rules, free to read:

The CDC will require preflight testing as Covid-19 cases continue to soar and new, more infectious strains of the virus emerge. Here is what you need to know about the new protocols before you travel.

This article is free to read.
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 13, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/15/2021 - 8:04pm

White House #COVID19 Task Force moving box...

“Coronavirus GS1 April-August 2020 (scanned)” is written on boxes loaded onto a truck on Thursday, Jan 14, 2021 in Washington, DC.

➡️ All such presidential records are archived for perpetuity, and can be used in investigations. pic.twitter.com/JU8D2v2TCY
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/15/2021 - 8:31pm

Pretty much complete FUBAR on the vaccine delivery and rollout by Trump WH.

Promising to release reserve vaccines that don’t even exist is even worse.

All this after they turned down 100 mil extra doses from Pfizer earlier as well. #COVID19 is winning. We are not. https://t.co/3YDRWtdpRL
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 16, 2021

2) To be clear, we did have a reserve, but that was depleted by Dec. but Alex Azar promised to send more vaccines from reserve this week... except there was none anymore. Nobody knows how they could just make up a falsehood on such a reserve if there was none anymore! https://t.co/t8jYwq3dtT
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/15/2021 - 8:58pm

rumors of Azar resigning are incorrect

Trust in @ddiamond https://t.co/wdrwf8pl1y
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) January 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 01/15/2021 - 9:40pm

Meanwhile India guns for 300m by August

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/16/india-begins-worlds-bigges...

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 8:01am

I saw that. Makes us look bad, of course. Very good if true. WE'LL SEE, they sure botched the lockdown thing to put it mildly, don't count your chickens before they hatch...

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 5:41pm

Effects on city planning

https://finance.yahoo.com/finance/video/slowing-down-covid-19-vaccine-17...

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 8:54am

Exactly! I.E. Pfizer now saying EU can't get until March 31; this seems to be the general zeitgeist: promises not delivered. It's great that they invented them so quickly. Still: pie in sky. Meanwhile: mutations happen. People travel. Mutation moves to other countries. Lockdown after lockdown after lockdown. No back to "old normal."

This Debbie Downer will be pleasantly surprised if things manage a new and different normal from old normal and current normal in a year. I'd just like a better bead on what that is going to be. Especially if globalism remains virtual only for quite some time (I imagine you care about that, too.) I am hoping that Biden does the truth to power thing on that front so we can get a better bead on it all. Once again, there is an upside to him being so old: not as many reasons to spin people on what's really up.

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 5:55pm

yes horrific

Los Angeles situation here is dire. Ambulances circle for hours, unable to find ERs that can accept patients. Hospitals running out of O2. ICU capacity at zero. Patients lie in hallways & tents. National Guard has arrived to manage the flood of bodies.
https://t.co/ILUrnY93C3
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 3:03am

California surpasses New York as epicentre of US Covid crisis https://t.co/tss2hILAf7
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) January 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 6:42pm

WATCH: CNN's Brianna Keilar Breaks Down While Reading Emotional Last Goodbyes of Covid Victims in Moving Tribute https://t.co/sYaGGFAzlo
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 16, 2021

One not so minor side effect of the pandemic is how this is going to change culture as far as mourning, funerals and memorials are concerned. Many are becoming used to the idea of people dying alone and giving up on any closure rituals, not just because there is no body but one cannot gather in person anymore either. A memorial service a couple years down the road doesn't have the same punch. A tribute on zoom must be choreographed and has no chance hugs and quietly expressed memories in the moment..

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 7:42pm

an even more moving on air breakdown

Sobering—CNN reporter @sarasidnerCNN crying on air after seeing devastation at California 10 hospitals full of #COVID19 patients and witnessing countless parking lot funerals. This reporter has been to war zones & covered bombings. But COVID is next level. pic.twitter.com/yXEFikXUzc
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 12, 2021

I saw it live and will never forget it.

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 7:47pm

Psssst... pass it on:

COVID LUNG is worse than smoker’s lung.

"Post-COVID lungs look worse than any type of terrible smoker's lung we've ever seen. And they collapse. And they clot off. And the shortness of breath lingers” says Dr @BKendallMD. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/h3PrzzN3rR
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 17, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 8:27pm

London lockdown working dramatically, including graphs

pic.twitter.com/3LVwV1gaZh
— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) January 16, 2021

NEW (and pretty important): Covid hospital admissions fall in London and the south east for first time since Xmas https://t.co/PkgAq1Bsq8
— Alastair McLellan (@HSJEditor) January 13, 2021

It has been 312 days since the WHO declared a pandemic https://t.co/1y11VnZVGE
— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) January 16, 2021

It's the right thing and I'm glad they may finally be arriving to better policies even at this absurdly late stage, but it does grate after a year of vErY cLeVeR people telling everyone that these sorts of things simply were not possible in the UK.
— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) January 16, 2021

Huge anti-restriction sentiment coming... Soon! Soon... soon? https://t.co/amYMkmu1nd
— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) January 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 8:34pm

Around 500 people 65+ are dying per day in California. (~75% of all deaths.) In total, 6 million people in CA are 65+. CA currently has 2 million unused vaccine doses.

Thousands of avoidable deaths. This is a failure of managerial competence and should be a bigger scandal. https://t.co/mSRNGE8dVs
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) January 16, 2021

We're basically the old Soviet Union now. Nothing works. https://t.co/uUEwMUNjT9
— Noahtogolpe (@Noahpinion) January 17, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 11:15pm

Biden has plans to use FEMA and National Guard on this problem:

To get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible, we need more clinics across the nation. That’s why my administration will harness the full resources of the federal government to establish thousands of community vaccination centers. https://t.co/c551gKJZwa
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 16, 2021

Only 5 more days and he can start doing it!

Next question: where's the rest of the vaccines gonna come from?

by artappraiser on Sat, 01/16/2021 - 11:32pm

Biden Official Warns U.S. Virus Deaths Will Pass 500,000 Within Weeks

States are reeling after the Trump administration’s vaccine promises unravel.

The world is bracing for a surge of virus variants that are more contagious.

current headlines at NYTimes.com- COVID LIVE COVERAGE PAGE, here's the links

by artappraiser on Sun, 01/17/2021 - 5:38pm

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