I don't have a link but I heard on CNN that Pfizer says we may need a booster shot anually like the flu shot...... I can live with that. Science will get better in time so the big pharmaceuticals can obliterate all those variants.
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RonaldJosephCote wrote:
I don't have a link but I heard on CNN that Pfizer says we may need a booster shot anually like the flu shot...... I can live with that. Science will get better in time so the big pharmaceuticals can obliterate all those variants.
This is true...but it really depends on the vaccinations worldwide. If people all get vaccinated in a short enough timeframe to completely halt the virus, it may not be needed, but if people keep extending the virus' trips around the world and mutation opportunities, then yeah, it will become like the flu almost assuredly.
Difference in oxygen reserve in old and young covid-19 patients
When should you seek medical attention if you have COVID-19? Sooner than you might think (msn.com)
Throughout the pandemic, Toronto emergency physician Dr. Lisa Salamon has seen a certain type of patient show up over and over — younger adults with COVID-19 who aren't gasping for air and seem to be breathing fine.
That is, until medical teams check their oxygen levels.
"When they come in, their oxygen saturations are really low, but they have a larger reserve because they're young and healthy," said Salamon, who works with the Scarborough Health Network.
Some COVID-19 patients are even falling seriously ill so quickly that they die before getting medical attention, Ontario's chief coroner Dr. Dirk Huyer said recently — noting that in April, at least 25 people died in their homes instead of in hospitals.
So if you get COVID-19, when should you speak to your family doctor or head to your local emergency department?
New South Wales health authorities are desperate to find patient zero and link them to the state's first new case of community-transmitted coronavirus in five weeks.
A man in his 50s from south-east Sydney had been "very active in the community" before testing positive on Wednesday, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.
Health authorities believe he's been infectious since last Friday but the biggest fear is they have no idea how he contracted COVID-19 or where from.
The puzzle of not knowing the source of an outbreak...
By
Rachel Pannett
Foreign Correspondent
May 6, 2021 at 2:19 a.m. EDT
SYDNEY — A barbecue enthusiast who went on a Sydney-wide search for grilling supplies while infected with the coronavirus has triggered new restrictions in Australia's largest city, which is now battling new cases after a month without local transmission.
Authorities are mystified as to how the man, who is in his 50s, became infected. He was not a border or quarantine worker and had not recently returned from overseas. His wife also tested positive.
“We know for a fact there’s at least one person, if not more, walking around with the virus, not knowing they have it or potentially having attended many events and venues and that’s why it’s important for us to have a proportionate response,” Gladys Berejiklian, the premier of New South Wales, said Thursday as she announced three days of restrictions in the Sydney area.
The unnamed man crisscrossed the city while infectious in recent days, visiting four barbecue stores, miles apart, and a butcher shop. He dined at several restaurants and took in a movie at a local theater. People who came into contact with him, including the state's treasury chief, were asked to self-quarantine and get tested.
Sydney residents, who have been able to go to football games, dance, drink and sing mask-free since coronavirus restrictions were eased a few months ago, quickly remarked on the absurdity that Australia’s national pastime, barbecuing, should be the cause of fresh restrictions.
Starting Thursday evening, residents of Sydney and nearby areas won’t be able to have more than 20 people in their homes. Masks will be compulsory on public transportation and in indoor spaces, including shopping centers, theaters, retirement homes and hospitals. Singing indoors, including in churches, will be banned, along with dancing in clubs. Patrons also must be seated when drinking at pubs.
The new cases come as Australia faces legal challenges to contentious border restrictions.
On Wednesday, Gary Newman, a 73-year-old Australian stuck in Bangalore, challenged the federal government’s decision to pause flights from virus-stricken India. Anyone, including Australian citizens, who arrives in the country before May 15 after visiting India in the previous 14 days can face up to five years in prison, a $50,000 fine or both.
His lawyers will challenge the ban on multiple grounds, including that it is unconstitutional.
While Australia largely quashed the virus, its vaccine rollout has been plagued by delays. Far fewer residents have been inoculated, proportionally, compared with the United States and Britain.
Lab results have shown the sequence from the Sydney man’s case matched that of a traveler from the United States who caught the virus in hotel quarantine in April. Tracers haven’t been able to establish a link between the two, however, raising concerns there may be more undetected cases.
Authorities asked thousands of residents to seek testing for any mild cold symptoms after fragments of the coronavirus were detected in sewage in several Sydney suburbs.
Mystery outbreaks are especially troubling for authorities because of the virus’s resilience and ability to spread with no clear source. When the virus reappeared in New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, in August after three months, it spread to more than 100 people. The source of the outbreak was never determined.
Still no deaths from Covid (if someone 95 dies is it old age or Covid only the internet knows) I think it is from being 95
ericthatwho wrote:
Still no deaths from Covid (if someone 95 dies is it old age or Covid only the internet knows) I think it is from being 95
Type something like: deaths from heart attack test positive ffor covid-19 - Bing
See the results :
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How are COVID-19 deaths counted? It’s complicated | AAMC
For those who die — from a heart attack, for instance — the role of COVID-19 might never be determined unless there’s a reason to run a post-mortem test for the disease, Raja explains. As for those killed by traumas such as accidents and assaults, a test wouldn’t matter.
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Why the Heart Attack Death Rate Has Doubled During COVID-19
2020-08-12 · Researchers say people are more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack during the COVID-19 pandemic because many aren’t going to the hospital after experiencing symptoms of heart trouble…
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COVID-19 and the heart: What have we learned? - Harvard ...
2021-01-06 · Compared to the general population, people with cardiovascular disease (CVD) were more than twice as likely to contract severe forms of COVID-19. In the last six months, death rates from COVID-19 have dropped significantly, but CVD remains a major predictor of poor outcome. What have we learned about heart disease and COVID-19 in that time?
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Fact check: UK has two different measures to record COVID ...
A post has claimed that if a person dies of a heart attack after testing positive for COVID-19, their death will be labeled as a virus-related death, but that if they die from a heart attack after...
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CDC DATA: 200,000 “COVID Deaths” May Actually Be Flu ...
2020-12-28 · This includes 124,000 deaths “involving” COVID who also had flu, 53,000 who had heart attacks of the kind which are mostly caused by long-term narrowing and hardening of the arteries, around 10,000 cancers, and 26,000 kidney (renal) failures. Below: CDC page showing deaths need only “involve” COVID to be listed as a COVID death.
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How COVID-19 Deaths Are Counted - Scientific American
2020-05-19 · Another complication for assigning a cause of death for COVID-19 is that some younger people have died of strokes and heart attacks and then tested positive for …
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How are COVID-19 deaths counted? | Live Science
2020-05-18 · Another complication for assigning a cause of death for COVID-19 is that some younger people have died of strokes and heart attacks and then tested positive for …
ericthatwho wrote:
Still no deaths from Covid (if someone 95 dies is it old age or Covid only the internet knows) I think it is from being 95
Sometimes it's a heart attack. Anne-Marie Hutchins died August 26, 2020, after having a heart attack. Strange things happen
A Port Coquitlam woman whose sister died of a heart attack after visiting a COVID-19 testing centre is calling for Fraser Health to be held accountable after nursing staff failed to recognize the woman’s symptoms and told her to self-isolate.
On Aug. 25, 2020, Anne-Marie Hutchins was experiencing chest pains and difficulty breathing, so she went to a Chilliwack COVID-19 assessment centre to get tested, according to her sister Christine Hutchins.
When she arrived, nurses swabbed her and sent her home to await the results. According to the COVID-19 screening form seen by the Tri-City News, the attending nurse noted Anne-Marie suffered from tachycardia — a medical term that refers to someone with a heart rate above 100 beats per minute — but that no further medical assessment was required.
When the Chilliwack mother of two went home, the chest pains, light-headedness and shortness of breath continued. She became hypotensive and her heart rate skyrocketed, according to sister Christine Hutchins. Twenty-six hours later, Anne-Marie was rushed to hospital, and at 9:01 p.m. the day after she was told to go home, she was dead.
wsswan wrote:
I had two shots a couple months ago and did have a little problem with diarrhea a week or so after each shot. I feel liberated now whether I am or not.
I guess you might have had the Pfizer vaccine?
This Side Effect Is Far More Common With the Pfizer Vaccine, Data Says (bestlifeonline.com)
While other gastrointestinal side effects were reported among those who got the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, neither had significant reports of diarrhea following inoculation. However, diarrhea was one of the top 10 most common side effects reported among those who got the Pfizer vaccine. According to The Guardian, 11.1 percent of people reported diarrhea after their first dose from Pfizer, and 10.4 percent reported the side effect after their second shot.
As the three COVID vaccines approved in the U.S. become available to more people, many are wondering what side effects will come with their shot from either Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. While there aren't huge differences between the side effects people experience with each COVID vaccine, there are some notable variations. To give you a better idea of what to expect, The Guardian used clinical trial data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to create graphics demonstrating the most commonly reported side effects of each of the three approved vaccines
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Thank you for the good information. I had already looked into it so I knew about it, but it will be helpful for others. Yes I did have Pfizer. Good observation!
ericthatwho wrote:
Still no deaths from Covid (if someone 95 dies is it old age or Covid only the internet knows) I think it is from being 95
Who to believe...healthcare professionals around the world, or an internet troll? Decisions, decisions.
The ignorance is staggering. But I don't know what kind of drug he's talking about that is in short supply?
Follow-up on ''causes of death''
Globally, COVID-19 has caused approximately 6.9 million deaths, more than double what official numbers show, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
In the IHME estimation of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths to date, we have used officially reported COVID-19 deaths for nearly all locations. As of today, we are switching to a new approach that relies on the estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19. There are several reasons that have led us to adopt this new approach. These reasons include the fact that testing capacity varies markedly across countries and within countries over time, which means that the reported COVID-19 deaths as a proportion of all deaths due to COVID-19 also vary markedly across countries and within countries over time. In addition, in many high-income countries, deaths from COVID-19 in older individuals, especially in long-term care facilities, went unrecorded in the first few months of the pandemic. In other countries, such as Ecuador, Peru, and the Russian Federation, the discrepancy between reported deaths and analyses of death rates compared to expected death rates, sometimes referred to as “excess mortality,” suggests that the total COVID-19 death rate is many multiples larger than official reports. Estimating the total COVID-19 death rate is important both for modeling the transmission dynamics of the disease to make better forecasts, and also for understanding the drivers of larger and smaller epidemics across different countries.
Our approach to estimating the total COVID-19 death rate is based on measurement of the excess death rate during the pandemic week by week compared to what would have been expected based on past trends and seasonality. However, the excess death rate does not equal the total COVID-19 death rate. Excess mortality is influenced by six drivers of all-cause mortality that relate to the pandemic and the social distancing mandates that came with the pandemic. These six drivers are:
a) the total COVID-19 death rate, that is, all deaths directly related to COVID-19 infection;
b) the increase in mortality due to needed health care being delayed or deferred during the pandemic; c) the increase in mortality due to increases in mental health disorders including depression, increased alcohol use, and increased opioid use;
d) the reduction in mortality due to decreases in injuries because of general reductions in mobility associated with social distancing mandates;
e) the reductions in mortality due to reduced transmission of other viruses, most notably influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and measles; and
f) the reductions in mortality due to some chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and chronic respiratory disease, that occur when frail individuals who would have died from these conditions died earlier from COVID-19 instead.
To correctly estimate the total COVID-19 mortality, we need to take into account all six of these drivers of change in mortality that have happened since the onset of the pandemic.
Somebody's not paying attention...
https://news.yahoo.com/pfizer-moderna-shares-plummet-biden-204800783.html
How can shares of Moderna plummet in a manner similar to Pfizer when *they had already pledged to allow competitors to reproduce their vaccine for free months and months ago*?
Sometimes people assume that a smarter set of people invest in the stock market. Nope. Same people 
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Same people 
Not good. One interesting point here is the company Moderna has made profit for the first time in its existence with this vaccine . Another is waiving patent will not improve the situation of poorer countries overnight. Just in case someone thought it could
Waiving vaccine patents won’t help inoculate poorer nations - The Washington Post
The Moderna vaccine illustrates the limits of freeing up intellectual property. Moderna announced in October that it would not enforce IP rights on its coronavirus vaccine — and yet it has taken no steps to share information about the vaccine’s design or manufacture, citing commercial interests in the underlying technology. Five months later, production of the Moderna vaccine remains entirely under the company’s direct control within its owned and contracted facilities. Notably, Moderna is also the only manufacturer of a U.S.- or British-approved vaccine not yet participating in Covax, a global-aid-funded effort (including a pledged $4 billion from the United States) to purchase vaccines for use in low- and middle-income countries.
It is true, however, that activist pressure — including threats to infringe upon IP rights — can encourage originators to enter into voluntary licensing arrangements. So the global movement to liberate the vaccine patents may be useful, even if some advocates make exaggerated claims about the effects of waivers on their own.
One reason patent waivers are unlikely to help much in this case is that vaccines are harder to make than ordinary drugs. Because most drugs are simple chemical compounds, and because the composition of the compounds is easily analyzable, competent chemists can usually reverse-engineer a production process with relative ease. When a drug patent expires, therefore — or is waived — generic companies can readily enter the market and produce competitive products, lowering prices dramatically.
Vaccines, in contrast, are complex biological products.
Update on my sickness, ITS HEALED YAYYYY. Turns out it wasn’t COVID thankfully, but a tonsil inflammation. It just took some antibiotics and it healed pretty quickly. POGGERS.
Update on MY sickness.....I'm still neurotic & paranoid, but the voices are gone. Yayyy.
Update on the current public health crises. And why everyone needs to get vaccinated with one vaccine or another, better sooner than later
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMebX7XNc/
Here's what happened behind the scene starting about a yr ago.....https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2021/05/05/race-for-the-vaccine-to-premiere-saturday-may-15/
This thread doesn't die. It is in fact the only Covid thread that has lived
. It does that by not having a bunch of junk in it, so no need to post stuff just to bump it. It will come back naturally when some news story comes out or some milestone is reached, etc.