COVID-19 (f/k/a "the Coronavirus")

[pacearrow02]

https://mobile.twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1381571299739369475

Mentioned this in another thread how the overly negative media coverage has led to irrational fear amongst many in America.

Glad to see some are starting to raise awareness to it.

[The Sultan]

Exactly.  First, the more you continue to talk like that, the more people are going to treat you like a chicken little and ignore your advice.  Second, you have to give people hope.  Third, vaccines were never meant to completely rid the world of Covid.

[jsglow]

Fourth, medical 'experts' enjoy the power trip as much as any politician.  Dr. Fauci and Dr. Walensky really enjoy going to the virtual cocktail parties they had never been invited to before.  You think they are giving up the limelight?

[shoothoops]

I won't dispute your point about the headline.

However, the significance of, for example, the anxiety is the brief time window of the diagnosis. You noted the general rate of anxiety as 18%, but that includes people who may have been diagnosed at any point over a period of years. This study noted that 17% of post-COVID patients were diagnosed with anxiety disorder within a six-month period. That is a huge blip on the radar, and it could last for many years as anxiety disorder is frequently a chronic condition. In other words, many of these cases may be added on top of the already epidemic numbers of mental illnesses that we are seeing in the country.

In any event, as you said, it would be great if this leads to increased funding for treatment of mental illnesses. That is desperately needed in this country.

And, hopefully the removal of social stigmas too. I don't immediately go to a more or less severe place when I see terms such as brain or psychiatric disorders.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Fourth, medical 'experts' enjoy the power trip as much as any politician.  Dr. Fauci and Dr. Walensky really enjoy going to the virtual cocktail parties they had never been invited to before.  You think they are giving up the limelight?

NERDS!!!!!!

[GooooMarquette]

And, hopefully the removal of social stigmas too. I don't immediately go to a more or less severe place when I see terms such as brain or psychiatric disorders.

Absolutely.

[rocky_warrior]

Friend of my wife, around Boulder.  Uber healthy, ~40, studying for FNP, was vaccine hesitant, ended up with Covid, hospitalized on 4/8/21, 5 days of O2 + antibiotics, dexamethasone, and remdesivir (3 shots).  Plus some Lovenox to avoid clotting.  Doing a little better now.

She was probably a little lax in thinking it didn't affect younger healthy people.

Get your vaccines, and be cautions to avoid spread afterwards folks.  We can get through this soon, just don't be stupid, or careless towards your fellow humans.

[Warriors4ever]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-56729607

One person returning from South Africa in February caused an outbreak of the South African variant. And the person did the right thing when symptoms appeared by isolating and testing.

[GooooMarquette]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-56729607

One person returning from South Africa in February caused an outbreak of the South African variant. And the person did the right thing when symptoms appeared by isolating and testing.

Interesting story.

And they need better copy editors. "Covid: South Africa variant surge probaby due to person travelling from Africa." Ouch!

[pacearrow02]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/13/covid-outside-safety/#click=https://t.co/E7ShxaPfkD

[GooooMarquette]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/13/covid-outside-safety/#click=https://t.co/E7ShxaPfkD

Yep. Get out, go for a walk, ride your bike. Better alone or in a small group than in a big crowd, but either way, better than in bars and house parties.

[pacearrow02]

Yep. Get out, go for a walk, ride your bike. Better alone or in a small group than in a big crowd, but either way, better than in bars and house parties.

If you're by yourself whether indoor or outdoor pretty sure you're safe.

[GooooMarquette]

If you're by yourself whether indoor or outdoor pretty sure you're safe.

Indeed.

[shoothoops]

87,000 COVID-19 patient study with 5 million control patients in federal data base, increase risk of death six months after diagnosis:

https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/coronavirus/covid-19-survivors-have-increased-risk-of-death-six-months-after-diagnosis-study-finds/article_afa7c9b6-76e8-5290-b850-ab9571b9d327.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true

[The Sultan]

It's just like the flu...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/23/us/covid-19-death-toll.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

[MU82]

Charges should be brought against Cuomo and some of his staffers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/cuomo-aides-nursing-home-deaths.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20210428&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=headline&regi_id=108420427&segment_id=56739&user_id=d36dcf821462fdd16ec3636710a855fa

The effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office to obscure the pandemic death toll in New York nursing homes was far greater than previously known, with aides repeatedly overruling state health officials over a span of at least five months, according to interviews and newly unearthed documents.

Mr. Cuomo's most senior aides engaged in a sustained effort to prevent the state's own health officials, including the commissioner, Howard Zucker, from releasing the true death toll to the public or sharing it with state lawmakers, these interviews and documents showed.

A scientific paper, which incorporated the data, was never published. An audit of the numbers by a top Cuomo aide was finished months before it became publicly known. Two letters, drafted by the Health Department and meant for state legislators, were never sent.

The actions coincided with the period in which Mr. Cuomo was pitching and then writing a book on the pandemic, with the assistance of his top aide, Melissa DeRosa, and others.

[Hards Alumni]

Charges should be brought against Cuomo and some of his staffers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/cuomo-aides-nursing-home-deaths.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20210428&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=headline&regi_id=108420427&segment_id=56739&user_id=d36dcf821462fdd16ec3636710a855fa

The effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office to obscure the pandemic death toll in New York nursing homes was far greater than previously known, with aides repeatedly overruling state health officials over a span of at least five months, according to interviews and newly unearthed documents.

Mr. Cuomo's most senior aides engaged in a sustained effort to prevent the state's own health officials, including the commissioner, Howard Zucker, from releasing the true death toll to the public or sharing it with state lawmakers, these interviews and documents showed.

A scientific paper, which incorporated the data, was never published. An audit of the numbers by a top Cuomo aide was finished months before it became publicly known. Two letters, drafted by the Health Department and meant for state legislators, were never sent.

The actions coincided with the period in which Mr. Cuomo was pitching and then writing a book on the pandemic, with the assistance of his top aide, Melissa DeRosa, and others.

Yup.

[GooooMarquette]

Charges should be brought against Cuomo and some of his staffers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/nyregion/cuomo-aides-nursing-home-deaths.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20210428&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=headline&regi_id=108420427&segment_id=56739&user_id=d36dcf821462fdd16ec3636710a855fa

The effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office to obscure the pandemic death toll in New York nursing homes was far greater than previously known, with aides repeatedly overruling state health officials over a span of at least five months, according to interviews and newly unearthed documents.

Mr. Cuomo's most senior aides engaged in a sustained effort to prevent the state's own health officials, including the commissioner, Howard Zucker, from releasing the true death toll to the public or sharing it with state lawmakers, these interviews and documents showed.

A scientific paper, which incorporated the data, was never published. An audit of the numbers by a top Cuomo aide was finished months before it became publicly known. Two letters, drafted by the Health Department and meant for state legislators, were never sent.

The actions coincided with the period in which Mr. Cuomo was pitching and then writing a book on the pandemic, with the assistance of his top aide, Melissa DeRosa, and others.

Agreed. Plenty of others did awful stuff through ignorance and naïveté. It appears that Cuomo did awful stuff intentionally and methodically.

[MU82]

Agreed. Plenty of others did awful stuff through ignorance and naïveté. It appears that Cuomo did awful stuff intentionally and methodically.

Agreed. I don't know enough about all the legalese to know if he actually did anything illegal. But obviously, it was unethical and immoral, and he should not be governor of any state.

[warriorchick]

Apparently it cures cancer.

https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/cancer-covid-remission-treatment-viruses.html

[MarquetteDano]

Apparently it cures cancer.

https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/cancer-covid-remission-treatment-viruses.html

Oh man.  The populist politicians and conspiracy theorists are going to love this article.

[rocket surgeon]

Agreed. Plenty of others did awful stuff through ignorance and naïveté. It appears that Cuomo did awful stuff intentionally and methodically.

come on gooooo, another "they all do it" ?   

also, would be nice if the teachers unions would stay out of the medical field and try to stick with what they...well let's just say, let the CDC do their thing.  trying to be fair by posting from a source most of you can agree with, without crying "faux news" or something

https://news.yahoo.com/american-federation-teachers-union-influenced-141822843.html

[The Sultan]

come on gooooo, another "the
also, would be nice if the teachers unions would stay out of the medical field and try to stick with y all do it" ?   
what they...well let's just say, let the CDC do their thing.

So you're a believer in the CDC now?

[GooooMarquette]

come on gooooo, another "they all do it" ?   

also, would be nice if the teachers unions would stay out of the medical field and try to stick with what they...well let's just say, let the CDC do their thing.  trying to be fair by posting from a source most of you can agree with, without crying "faux news" or something

https://news.yahoo.com/american-federation-teachers-union-influenced-141822843.html

I never said "they all do it." I said "plenty of others" did awful things...and that is completely true. I also said that what Cuomo did was much worse.

[mu_hilltopper]

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