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notice for every skin color

artappraiser — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 04:34:47 +0000

notice for every skin color

Don’t get shot in a country with lots of guns bc there’s no ICU, surgical, or emergency capacity. Also, no heart attacks, strokes, broken bones needing surgery, cancer, car accidents, none of that during COVID surges bc you just might die before they can treat you. https://t.co/S3Lprm9v4q
— Yam Anderson (@brownandbella) August 15, 2021

(BTW advice works in places like Syria, Afghanistan and Haiti, too!)

Unvaccinated America, In 5

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:17:26 +0000

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Unvaccinated America, In 5 Charts: current headline story at FiveThirtyEight.com

Vaccines have proven to be effective against the delta variant, but unvaccinated Americans can open the door for more dangerous mutations. https://t.co/fIX58JQeYS
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) August 13, 2021

“People who are not getting vaccinated mistakenly think it’s only about them. But it isn’t. It’s about everybody else, also.”

-Dr. Anthony Faucihttps://t.co/twojdwPKxg
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) August 13, 2021

A definitive piece needs to

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:09:54 +0000

In reply to wow big Supreme Court news

A definitive piece needs to be written about how depend the GOP has been on having the Court prevent policies that are about posturing with the base but deeply unpopular from ever happening. https://t.co/3Xdhvrkd16
— Jon Walker (@JonWalkerDC) August 12, 2021

‘This is real’: Fear and hope

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 23:01:28 +0000

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^ continues with a lot more like the story of Jordyn below BUT LETS NOT LOSE ALL SENSE OF PRIORITIES, it's much more important to worry about long dead male sharecroppers in the 1930's with untreated syphilis, is it not? Jordyn must have done something way more sinful

caption Jordyn’s mother and father, Caylenn and Ricky Franklin, are comforted by pastor Leanell McClenton, rear, on Aug. 6, as her brother, Jaydon, 10, looks on. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)

Jordyn

Jordyn Franklin had been counting the days until the start of school. She was not just a good student but a great one, and picked up countless awards for the top grades in math (her favorite subject), science, spelling and numerous other subjects over the years. The rising sixth-grader from West Memphis loved rapper Megan Thee Stallion and singer Queen Naija, and aspired to be a judge one day.

On Friday, July 30, she seemed to have a sinus infection so her mother called the pediatrician’s office, which couldn’t see Jordyn until Monday. She didn’t eat much over the weekend and her family recalled “she wasn’t 100 percent,” but she also didn’t have obvious signs of being very ill.

But as they were getting ready to leave for the doctor’s appointment, the 11-year-old slumped over on the couch and said she “felt like she was on fire,” her aunt, Kirsten Clark, said. Jordyn’s mother called 911, and an ambulance took her to the nearest hospital.

Clark waited outside the emergency room with Jordyn’s 10-year-old brother Jaydon. She remembers only snippets of what the doctor told her when he came out to talk to them: “Could not get her stabilized on the ride … Ten minutes with no oxygen … Coded her three times … Did everything we could … Going to let the parents spend some last moments with her in there.”

Clark said most of her family, including her own teenage son, had not been vaccinated even though they are conscientious mask wearers. She said she expected everyone would get the shots now.

“This is real,” she said. “To people who just don’t believe it, this is real. Jordyn always wanted to be famous — YouTubing famous, not this way.”

On Friday night, one week to the day after Jordyn started feeling ill, family and friends held a vigil in her honor at Jackson-Wonder Elementary School, where she had spent so many happy years. The mayor came, the fire chief, too, and they brought a firetruck. The town released balloons into the air in her favorite color — purple, three of them with her initials.

Jordyn’s mother, Caylenn Franklin, wailed into the night. “I did everything I could baby, I’m so sorry baby,” she said. “I love you, I miss you.”

‘This is real’: Fear and hope

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 22:46:39 +0000

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‘This is real’: Fear and hope in an Arkansas pediatric ICU

As the delta variant surges, some experts worry we may be entering the most dangerous moment in the pandemic for children

By Ariana Eunjung Cha @ WashingtonPost.com,Today at 3:32 p.m. EDT

LITTLE ROCK — It had started on July 1 when she could no longer smell her uncle’s cologne.

Caia Alexx Morris, 13, had been sitting on the couch texting friends, and as other family members joked about the overpowering scent, it hit her that she had no idea what they were talking about. She had no other symptoms at the time. But two days later, she was diagnosed with covid-19 and on a ventilator, and has been in intensive care ever since.

“Thirty-four days,” her mother Angela Morris reflected last week while at Caia’s bedside at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. 816 hours. 48,960 minutes. And counting. “This is a nightmare.”

Outside Room No. 5 on the third floor, where Caia lay with a stuffed frog in one hand and a stuffed seal in the other, a crowd of doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists and other specialists buzzed around her and other sick children. The hospital had started the day with 23 covid patients, 10 in intensive care. Five of those were on ventilators and three were on heart-and-lung bypass machines of last resort. It wouldn’t be long before more sick kids were on the way

You always have times when you cry,” Shonda Grappe, a pediatric intensive care nurse, said a few hours into her shift. “Everyone is feeling this.”

The hyper-contagious delta variant has changed much of what we thought we knew about the coronavirus and children — that kids might get infected, but they were extremely unlikely to become seriously ill. Today, as delta infections mount, some front line doctors suggest children are being hospitalized at higher rates and with more serious illnesses because of the new variant — a still-unproven hypothesis. What is indisputable is that in a swath of low-vaccination states stretching from Florida, South Carolina and Texas, up to Indiana and Missouri, the first large wave of pediatric cases is hitting hard — overwhelming hospitals, dominating political debates over mask and vaccine mandates and throwing school reopening plans into disarray.

Linda Young, a respiratory therapist at the hospital for nearly 37 years, said these latest children with covid appear to be progressing to respiratory distress much faster and in less predictable patterns: “I have never seen anything like this.” Even healthy children are being hospitalized, she said, something she had not seen in previous waves.

[graph]

Amid the delta-fueled coronavirus surge, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported a nearly sevenfold increase in new child covid infections in one month: In the first week of July, there were 12,000 cases nationwide. By the first week of August, the number had grown to 96,000 — representing about 15 percent of all new infections.

As of Thursday, 1,785 children with suspected or confirmed covid-19 cases were hospitalized across the country, according to a Washington Post analysis. Florida leads the country in child hospitalizations — with 247 children with covid-19 admitted last week, a rate of 35 new admissions a day.

Doctors at major children’s hospitals say nearly all of their patients are unvaccinated. They are either under age 12 and not yet eligible for the coronavirus shots, or teens who put off the vaccine.

While those numbers are still a fraction of adult hospitalizations — and children’s deaths remain rare — they represent the highest rate of new pediatric admissions of any point in the pandemic. And there is growing evidence that even mild or asymptomatic infections in children could lead to long-haul illness, just as in adults.

In a letter this week to acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Janet Woodcock, the pediatricians’ group urged federal authorities to approve the shots for younger kids as soon as possible: “In our view, the rise of the delta variant changes the risk-benefit analysis.”

Combined with a highly unusual spike in the number of children admitted with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a flu-like illness that usually strikes in the winter, and parainfluenza viruses — and in some cases, co-infections with covid-19 — many children’s hospitals are overwhelmed.

“After many months of zero or few pediatric covid cases, we are seeing infants, children, and teens with covid pouring back into the hospital, more and more each day … I worry that we will run out of beds and staff,” Heather Haq, a pediatrician for Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, tweeted recently.

Michael Smit, a pediatric infectious-disease expert at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, said he fears things may get even worse over the next few months with vaccines for 5- to 11-year-olds delayed until later in the year.

“We have months more to go,” he warned. “We’re in a real danger period between now and then.”

‘Different’

Most respiratory viruses like the flu hit the very old and the very young with equal vengeance. SARS-CoV-2 has always been different. There have been about 400 children in the United States who have died from the virus, compared with more than 600,000 adults — and we still haven’t figured out exactly why.

The delta variant, which now represents about 97 percent of U.S. cases, seems almost like another virus than the one that spread from central China last year. Studies suggest it has a shorter incubation period — three to four days, instead of five to six — and that it may result in higher viral loads, which may explain its super transmissibility.

Whether it leads to more severe disease is a matter of intense debate. Doctors and nurses on the front lines report that infected children appear to be sicker than earlier in the pandemic. And several studies, including a report based on data from Scotland, suggested the variant doubles the risk of hospitalization regardless of a patient’s age. But the evidence is still mostly anecdotal and some contend co-infections with other viruses, and the larger number of stricken kids may account for what doctors are seeing.

Mark Williams, dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, said that even the first signs of illness look distinct — “more like a typical cold or pneumonia,” than they did a year ago. These include a sore throat, for example

I am not an academic, but I

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:15:06 +0000

In reply to U.S. Navy Petty Officer

I am not an academic, but I can tell you that selfishness and dereliction of duty did not make this country great. ⁦@Schwarzenegger⁩ https://t.co/FXInA0S8Dc
— Bhumi Tharoor (@bhumikatharoor) August 13, 2021

Japan tweet above not

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 06:23:01 +0000

In reply to but wait, pp.here's a

Japan tweet above not hyberbole:

Warning of Covid ‘disaster’ in Japan as cases explode https://t.co/wWRyUhQYKg
— The Guardian (@guardian) August 13, 2021

new at NYTimes-picture story

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 06:20:02 +0000

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new at NYTimes-picture story for dummies about vaccination and Delta variant

In a simulation, we modeled Delta-driven Covid outbreaks in two communities, one with a high vaccination rate and another with a low rate. Their levels of serious illness and death were starkly different.

Here's how vaccines can make a difference. https://t.co/6kHrUJaTGo
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 13, 2021

sorta like the briefing books "activists" used to make for Trump, they probably will not believe them because, you know: gummint, cops, medicine, you can't trust any of them

this will be costing all of

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 06:07:26 +0000

In reply to [COVID news] Anti-Vax Radio Host Who Called Fauci a ‘Power Tripping Lying Freak’ Dies of COVID

this will be costing all of us big bucks, the insurers who agree to cover it will get their money back one way or another:

As Covid-19 case numbers spike, the US has seen a 1,200% increase in orders for monoclonal antibody treatments in the past month, the US Health and Human Services Department said. About 75% of them are coming from US regions with low vaccination rates. https://t.co/bK5FWbOyEH
— CNN (@CNN) August 13, 2021

NEW COVID APPROACH: Florida

artappraiser — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 05:38:17 +0000

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NEW COVID APPROACH: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out a new state treatment plan to help fight COVID-19, announcing that the state will start dispensing monoclonal antibodies and the drug Regeneron through mobile clinics.
https://t.co/Sq1ye1nTIG
— WPLG Local 10 News (@WPLGLocal10) August 12, 2021

DeSantis creates mobile units to give out antibody treatments for COVID-19 https://t.co/1CnDmHDlhE pic.twitter.com/iG3K5WPSQA
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) August 12, 2021

Suspicious that Ron DeSantis is suddenly pushing Regeneron so hard

Costs $1500 per dose while vaccines are FREE. Company has a history of kickbacks

Is this another case of insider trading?

He had a call with Regeneron’s CEO last week. Any campaign donations involved?
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) August 12, 2021

Tho Li's questioning is good, to be fair, it's dishonest to call vaccines "free" here as tax money has been paying for those and they have not been cheap and they are in the same boat of emergency use authorization, though vaccines have a heckuva lot more anecdotals now espec. as to containing spread

Company with a checkered history https://t.co/hqM1dho0Mh
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) August 12, 2021

DeSantis has promoted Regeneron on Twitter twice in the past 24 hours, in addition to touting the treatment in a televised speech a few hours ago.

Why not prevent Covid entirely through masks and vaccines, instead of scrambling to treat it in such an expensive manner? https://t.co/n2TnJJfh9Z
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) August 12, 2021