2020-2021 Corona Virus

[Annarchy]

We had to deal with black fungus, when we first bought our house. Nasty, nasty stuff.. but we got it taken care of.  

[Jeepers]

Sorry if Ambergris already reported on this. I haven't had a chance to read everything yet. I'm having computer eyes and don't want to risk a headache.  Sorry about the double spacing too. 

 

Vietnam detects highly contagious new coronavirus variant as infections surge

Variant is a mix of coronavirus strains first detected in the United Kingdom and India, country’s health minister says

May 29, 2021 at 8:26 a.m. EDT

 

Vietnam’s Health Ministry announced Saturday that it had detected a highly transmissible new variant of the coronavirus that has helped fuel a recent wave of infections in the country.

 

Genetic sequencing indicated that the new variant was a mix of the coronavirus strains first detected in the United Kingdom and India, said Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long, according to the VnExpress newspaper.

 

The minister said the new variant was particularly contagious via air and viral cultures have revealed it replicates extremely quickly, the newspaper reported.

 

“The new variant is very dangerous,” Long said in a statement.

The Health Ministry didn’t return a Saturday afternoon request for comment.

 

Scientists said further study was needed to determine the effect of a variant in “real-world settings.”

 

“A lot of different mutations happen as the virus is transmitted and most of them are not of clinical significance,” said Todd Pollack, a Hanoi-based infectious-disease expert for Harvard Medical School. “Just because they say [the new variant] has features of one and the other … doesn’t mean they got together in one patient and spit out some combined hybrid ‘supervirus.’ ”

 

There were seven known coronavirus variants in Vietnam before Long’s announcement, according to Reuters.

 

Vietnam, which has reported around 6,400 coronavirus infections and 47 deaths, has been one of the world’s coronavirus containment success stories. A well-run public health-care system, quarantine camps operated by the military and strict, targeted lockdowns kept case numbers low until late April, when a spike in infections began.

 

Many of the recent infections were detected in two industrialized provinces in northern Vietnam, where factory employees often work in proximity. Plants there that manufacture for such global brands as Apple have implemented social distancing measures, Reuters reported. Such factories are key to Vietnam’s export sector, which has boomed amid trade tensions between the United States and China.

 

Restrictions are also in place in Hanoi, the capital, and Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s economic hub.

 

Singapore and Taiwan, which had effectively eliminated transmission of the coronavirus at the start of the year, recently reintroduced curbs as infections return.

 

Many countries that managed the pandemic with “non-pharmaceutical interventions are finding that more transmissible variants are more difficult to control with these measures,” Pollack said. “This is the biggest challenge that [Vietnam is] facing since covid-19 came onto the scene.”

 

Vietnam is operating one of the slower inoculation programs in the world, with fewer than 0.1 percent of its 103 million residents having been fully vaccinated as of Friday. It has approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Sputnik V shots and recently signed a deal to buy more than 30 million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses. Vietnam is also developing its own Nanocovax vaccine, whose final-stage trials are set for completion in the second half of the year.

 

Hanoi has a rocky relationship with Beijing and, unlike many other middle income nations, it has not approved the use of Chinese-developed vaccines.

 

Vietnam detects highly contagious new coronavirus variant as infections surge - The Washington Post

 

 

 

[Ambergris]

Yes, Jeepers.  I have been watching Al Jazeera and the South China Morning Post for a couple of months, waiting to see where this would show up.  I expected it in Egypt actually, but Vietnam was on my second-tier short list. 

The Chinese Synopharm vaccine is only about 30% useful in females against the Indian variant, it seems, so Vietnam rejecting it is just as well.  Looks like the Synopharm vaccine would be next to useless against something with Indian resistance and hybrid vigor.  Hopefully, the Vietnamese vaccine will be better than the oak leaf pills my great great grandfather peddled.  

[Homesteader]

Too little, too late but at least it's now a law on the books.  "The Senate approves Rand Paul's (R-KY) amendment to a bill that bans all gain of function research in China from receiving US funding by unanimous voice vote."  (Forbes Breaking News)

[Ambergris]

For the week ending May 29, the US has averaged 21,422 reported new cases per day, 655 deaths per day, 23,358 hospitalizations per day attributed to Covid.

 

Remember the flu season we didn't have?  Well, the southern hemisphere isn't having one either.  This means the flu shots for next year will be much more of a dice roll than usual, because the usual thing is that next year's northern hemisphere shots are based on this year's southern hemisphere flu variant.  Which there isn't one.  

  

[Ambergris]

Countries reporting the most new infections each day 
INDIA              194,953

BRAZIL             60,594

ARGENTINA     31,083

COLOMBIA       21,753

USA                   21,422

Countries reporting the most deaths each day  
INDIA            3,815

BRAZIL          1,836

USA                 655

COLOMBIA      503

ARGENTINA    490

[Ambergris]

Mon, May 31, 2021

WHO wants Covid variants to be given Greek alphabet names

Global health leaders have announced new names for Covid-19 variants using letters of the Greek alphabet.  Many variants of Sars-CoV-2 - the virus that causes Covid-19 - have been identified around the world.  They include B.1.1.7, known in the UK as the Kent variant and around the world as the UK variant - but now labelled by the WHO as Alpha. The B.1.617.2 variant, often known as the Indian variant, has been labelled Delta, while B.1.351, often referred to as the South African variant, has been named Beta. The P.1 Brazilian variant has been labelled Gamma.

 

[Ambergris]

New reported infections
May 30  7-day average
Countries reporting the most new infections each day 
INDIA              175,167

BRAZIL             60,685

ARGENTINA     31,378

COLOMBIA       22,432

USA                  17,361

 

Countries reporting the most deaths each day  
INDIA          3,523

BRAZIL        1,848

USA               606

ARGENTINA  516

COLOMBIA   510

 

 

In trouble: Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Bahrain, Afghanistan, Cambodia, and really most of the poor and/or densely populated places in Asia and the Middle East; Bolivia and Paraguay(thinly populated, isolated, and thus protected until now), Uruguay (a tropical jewel city/state with a tiny country around it, basically), Argentina, Colombia, Trinidad & Tobago, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil; Angola, Namibia, Uganda, Egypt, Burundi, maybe others in Africa; Fiji and still Papua New Guinea.

 

Today is one of the days when India is reporting one of every three cases of Covid that is reported in the world.  Which might be about as accurate as when the US was reporting one out of three cases that was being reported in the world.  More accurate?  Less accurate?  Who knows?  At least we can compare the ups and downs in these numbers.  Also, we have hospital figures and death figures, which are much more concrete.

 

On May 26, the US reported 1000 new deaths. On May 28, the US reported 634, which is close to the average of the prior couple of weeks.  This indicates a correction of paperwork on May 26, because an actual uptick in deaths would have lasted more than one day.  Bear in mind this correction will, like a leap year, mess up the week's average.  

 

 

 

 

 

[Ambergris]

Countries reporting the most new infections each day 
INDIA           164,291

BRAZIL          61,467

ARGENTINA 32,915

COLOMBIA   23,115

USA              17,552

Countries reporting the most deaths each day 
INDIA           3,388

BRAZIL        1,881

USA              604

ARGENTINA 525

COLOMBIA   519

Where the population has been vaccinated

Most recent data as of May 30, 2021

State	First dose	Fully vaccinated	Total doses
United States	50.8%	41.0%	296,912,892
Vermont	70.7%	56.6%	778,794
Hawaii	66.9%	47.8%	1,592,196
Massachusetts	66.7%	54.0%	8,081,349
Maine	63.6%	55.0%	1,493,486
Connecticut	63.5%	53.7%	4,048,712
Rhode Island	61.2%	51.9%	1,166,826
New Jersey	60.6%	49.1%	9,150,101
New Hampshire	60.1%	49.6%	1,406,869
Pennsylvania	58.6%	43.9%	12,648,220
New Mexico	57.9%	48.0%	2,154,695
Maryland	57.6%	48.2%	6,163,133
Washington, D.C.	57.2%	46.5%	791,412
California	57.0%	43.3%	38,517,344
Washington	56.9%	46.9%	7,681,161
New York State	56.0%	47.2%	19,761,096
Virginia	55.5%	45.5%	8,403,979
Illinois	55.2%	40.2%	11,718,643
Oregon	55.1%	45.6%	4,087,801
Delaware	54.9%	43.5%	944,812
Minnesota	54.5%	46.2%	5,429,911
Colorado	54.4%	45.6%	5,640,374
Wisconsin	51.2%	44.6%	5,489,190
Puerto Rico	51.1%	37.4%	2,721,924
Iowa	49.4%	44.0%	2,854,445
Florida	49.4%	39.3%	18,864,968
Michigan	48.9%	42.3%	8,720,932
Nebraska	48.6%	42.5%	1,706,314
South Dakota	48.3%	42.5%	777,353
Kansas	46.9%	38.5%	2,330,805
Kentucky	46.5%	38.6%	3,657,162
Arizona	46.4%	36.2%	5,983,627
Alaska	46.2%	39.4%	612,892
Ohio	46.0%	40.3%	9,930,040
Nevada	45.8%	37.0%	2,518,129
Utah	45.3%	32.5%	2,589,348
Montana	45.3%	38.4%	868,824
Texas	44.4%	35.7%	23,095,348
North Carolina	43.5%	36.2%	8,164,473
Missouri	42.3%	34.5%	4,689,451
North Dakota	42.2%	36.6%	614,692
Indiana	41.9%	35.5%	5,120,352
Oklahoma	41.6%	33.8%	2,962,779
South Carolina	41.0%	33.9%	3,786,610
West Virginia	40.9%	34.1%	1,319,864
Georgia	39.9%	32.1%	7,610,659
Arkansas	39.6%	31.3%	2,083,064
Tennessee	39.3%	31.9%	4,862,445
Idaho	37.7%	32.9%	1,240,621
Wyoming	37.2%	32.0%	397,488
Alabama	36.1%	29.3%	3,025,283
Louisiana	35.9%	31.4%	3,095,398
Mississippi	34.3%	27.4%	1,786,563

How the number of cases changed in the last week

For the week ending Sunday, May 30, 2021

	CASES TO DATE		ONE-WEEK TOTAL
State	Total cases	Per 100K	New cases	Per 100K	1-wk chg.
United States	33,422,704	10,067	142,500	42.9	–20.7%
Vermont	24,209	3,880	103	16.5	–53.8%
Washington, D.C.	48,898	6,929	150	21.3	–26.1%
Nebraska	223,304	11,544	420	21.7	–23.5%
Connecticut	347,137	9,737	812	22.8	–39.8%
New Jersey	1,016,135	11,440	2,047	23.0	–38.5%
Oklahoma	452,777	11,443	947	23.9	–3.7%
Maryland	459,989	7,609	1,506	24.9	–34.1%
Alabama	543,405	11,083	1,281	26.1	–37.2%
Massachusetts	706,945	10,257	1,803	26.2	–41.9%
Hawaii	36,246	2,560	379	26.8	–82.0%
Wisconsin	674,003	11,576	1,581	27.2	–42.6%
Virginia	675,392	7,913	2,363	27.7	–16.9%
South Dakota	124,162	14,035	251	28.4	–6.0%
Iowa	401,783	12,735	919	29.1	–33.1%
California	3,789,942	9,592	11,843	30.0	+45.1%
New Hampshire	98,726	7,261	423	31.1	–32.5%
New York State	2,089,782	10,742	6,281	32.3	–32.3%
Tennessee	862,401	12,628	2,317	33.9	–23.5%
Kansas	313,997	10,778	1,000	34.3	–22.6%
Georgia	1,126,373	10,609	3,663	34.5	–16.9%
Mississippi	317,407	10,665	1,135	38.1	–27.3%
Texas	2,949,912	10,174	11,391	39.3	–7.7%
Ohio	1,101,934	9,427	4,634	39.6	–27.7%
Arkansas	341,351	11,311	1,214	40.2	–10.4%
South Carolina	593,092	11,519	2,111	41.0	–11.6%
Alaska	70,208	9,597	306	41.8	–30.1%
North Dakota	109,935	14,426	332	43.6	–33.5%
Nevada	323,748	10,511	1,396	45.3	–23.0%
New Mexico	202,821	9,673	953	45.4	–21.8%
Rhode Island	151,743	14,324	485	45.8	–44.4%
Minnesota	601,384	10,664	2,618	46.4	–39.7%
Delaware	108,821	11,175	456	46.8	–66.6%
Utah	406,027	12,665	1,550	48.3	–18.8%
Illinois	1,384,056	10,922	6,170	48.7	–33.4%
Pennsylvania	1,206,440	9,424	6,238	48.7	–35.2%
Florida	2,320,818	10,806	10,483	48.8	–42.8%
North Carolina	1,001,154	9,546	5,400	51.5	–15.8%
Indiana	744,113	11,053	3,507	52.1	–25.8%
Idaho	192,012	10,745	944	52.8	–18.6%
Missouri	618,052	10,070	3,247	52.9	+3.3%
Michigan	991,941	9,933	5,506	55.1	–45.5%
Kentucky	458,275	10,258	2,485	55.6	–23.6%
Maine	67,738	5,039	759	56.5	–40.0%
Montana	111,809	10,461	606	56.7	+17.0%
Arizona	881,089	12,105	4,357	59.9	+16.1%
Oregon	201,260	4,772	2,571	61.0	–14.4%
Louisiana	470,685	10,125	2,870	61.7	–3.8%
Puerto Rico	266,143	8,333	2,647	82.9	–9.7%
Wyoming	60,144	10,392	484	83.6	–16.7%
West Virginia	161,287	9,000	1,552	86.6	+22.5%
Colorado	542,889	9,427	5,488	95.3	–3.7%
Washington	435,849	5,724	8,355	109.7	+73.0%

 

deaths in the last week

For the week ending Sunday, May 30, 2021

	DEATHS TO DATE		ONE-WEEK TOTAL
State	Total deaths	Per 100K	New deaths	Per 100K	1-wk chg.
United States	594,754	179	4,514	1.4	+13.7%
Alaska	369	50	0	0.0	–100.0%
Vermont	255	41	0	0.0	–100.0%
Nebraska	2,249	116	1	0.1	–111.1%
Delaware	1,661	171	2	0.2	–75.0%
Utah	2,301	72	11	0.3	–65.6%
Maine	825	61	5	0.4	–72.2%
Rhode Island	2,708	256	4	0.4	+0%
Hawaii	500	35	6	0.4	+200.0%
Connecticut	8,230	231	18	0.5	–53.8%
Arkansas	5,832	193	15	0.5	–34.8%
Iowa	6,055	192	20	0.6	–31.0%
Idaho	2,090	117	10	0.6	–9.1%
Alabama	11,146	227	34	0.7	–54.1%
Massachusetts	17,872	259	49	0.7	–30.0%
Washington, D.C.	1,132	160	5	0.7	–28.6%
New Hampshire	1,353	100	9	0.7	–25.0%
Kansas	5,076	174	19	0.7	+0%
North Dakota	1,512	198	5	0.7	+66.7%
Puerto Rico	2,501	78	27	0.8	–25.0%
Virginia	11,173	131	67	0.8	–23.9%
Washington	5,765	76	63	0.8	–17.1%
New York State	52,983	272	152	0.8	–14.1%
California	62,927	159	325	0.8	+21.3%
Tennessee	12,441	182	61	0.9	–10.3%
South Carolina	9,732	189	48	0.9	+54.8%
Montana	1,613	151	10	0.9	+100.0%
Minnesota	7,426	132	56	1.0	–24.3%
Arizona	17,628	242	73	1.0	–18.0%
South Dakota	2,010	227	9	1.0	–10.0%
Indiana	13,620	202	67	1.0	–8.2%
Texas	51,705	178	277	1.0	–1.1%
Mississippi	7,310	246	31	1.0	+24.0%
Wyoming	719	124	6	1.0	+500.0%
North Carolina	13,078	125	120	1.1	+25.0%
Oregon	2,668	63	46	1.1	+31.4%
Nevada	5,586	181	34	1.1	+54.5%
West Virginia	2,792	156	20	1.1	+81.8%
Missouri	9,434	154	74	1.2	–49.3%
Louisiana	10,576	228	54	1.2	+22.7%
Ohio	19,861	170	152	1.3	–16.0%
New Jersey	26,207	295	116	1.3	–10.8%
Florida	37,512	175	305	1.4	–25.4%
Pennsylvania	27,263	213	173	1.4	–21.4%
Wisconsin	7,830	135	82	1.4	+127.8%
Illinois	25,185	199	184	1.5	–10.7%
Kentucky	6,782	152	66	1.5	+10.0%
Colorado	6,718	117	86	1.5	+22.9%
Georgia	20,837	196	176	1.7	+13.5%
Michigan	20,376	204	236	2.4	–32.6%
New Mexico	4,263	203	132	6.3	+633.3%
Oklahoma	7,291	184	373	9.4	+832.5%
Maryland	9,607	159	600	9.9	+669.2%

 

 

 

[Mt_Rider]

On 6/1/2021 at 7:49 AM, Ambergris said:

WHO wants Covid variants to be given Greek alphabet names

 

   Is this why they are no longer handing out Greek names to hurricanes if they run thru A B C alphabet?

 

MtRider 

 

 

 

[Midnightmom]

I think they are changing the names of the variants to Greek

On 6/1/2021 at 6:49 AM, Ambergris said:

Mon, May 31, 2021

WHO wants Covid variants to be given Greek alphabet names

 

Global health leaders have announced new names for Covid-19 variants using letters of the Greek alphabet.  Many variants of Sars-CoV-2 - the virus that causes Covid-19 - have been identified around the world.  They include B.1.1.7, known in the UK as the Kent variant and around the world as the UK variant - but now labelled by the WHO as Alpha. The B.1.617.2 variant, often known as the Indian variant, has been labelled Delta, while B.1.351, often referred to as the South African variant, has been named Beta. The P.1 Brazilian variant has been labelled Gamma.

 

 

I think there are nefarious reasons behind this change. It certainly makes if more difficult to determine the COUNTRY of origin of the variant and that would make it more difficult for the lay-person to track its path, etc. 

[Jeepers]

I agree Midnightmom. That and the fact that 'some people' were crying racist when we identified the variant by the country of origin. 

[Homesteader]

How many true cases of Covid 19 are there? (June 4, 2021, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom)

 

The CDC seems to be changing its definition of a “case. ”For over a year, they’ve counted all PCR positive tests, even those that it took up to 45 cycles to find a speck of virus. But now that the CDC is investigating breakthrough Covid-19 cases after vaccination, they only want specimens where the virus was found after 28 or fewer cycles. Apparently, these are the only tests they see as positive. Scientists have been cautioning against high cycle thresholds for a year. So how many true cases have there actually been?This is something that we will discover in years to come.“COVID-19 Breakthrough Case Investigations and Reporting,”CDC, Last reviewed May 14, 2021, https://bit.ly/2RLn2Ql“Predicting Infectious SARS-CoV-2 from Diagnostic Samples,”Jared Bullard, MD, et al, Clinical Infectious Disease, May 22, 2020: https://bit.ly/2R43DcU

[Ambergris]

NY Post:

Fears have been sparked after cases of deadly black fungus from the Indian COVID variant have been found outside India.  Medics in Chile reported a case of virus-related fungus, with scientists in Uruguay logging a patient there suffering with the condition.  The Chilean Society of Infectology said: “Cases of fungal infections have been detected since the start of the pandemic but the frequency has increased and serious cases have risen.”

India, which is being ravaged by variants, is battling hundreds of black fungus infections.  About 750 patients in Delhi have been recorded, and more than 50 deaths.  The rare condition is caused by molds known as mucromycetes which can kill people whose immune systems are weak.

When the spores – which occur naturally in the environment — are breathed in, they attack the lungs and sinuses before spreading to the face and the brain.  Mucormycosis causes blurred or double vision, chest pain and breathing difficulties.  It is thought the condition has exploded in India due to a lack of drugs available to treat it.  Patients with suppressed immune systems are most at risk — and scientists fear a rise in infections is being triggered by steroids used to treat ill COVID patients.

Medics in India are now seeing around five or six cases a day, but would usually see three or four a year.  It comes after we told how thousands of patients in India have had their eyes removed after an outbreak of black fungus.  Around 60 percent of patients treated in hospital have had at least one eye removed after the second wave of coronavirus caused an explosion of the creeping fungal disease.
“In this battle of ours, another new challenge of black fungus has also emerged these days,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted on Friday.  India has the second-highest tally of COVID-19 cases in the world and has been reporting around 250,000 infections and 4,000 deaths daily.  Mucormycosis mainly affects people who have health problems or take medicines that lower the body’s ability to fight germs and sickness.  It can be life-threatening in diabetic or severely immunocompromised individuals, such as patients with cancer or organ donor recipients.   In COVID patients, it’s more prevalent in patients who are on ventilatory support.  Doctors think this may be due to the use of steroid drugs, which are used to treat severely ill COVID patients.  Steroids reduce inflammation caused by an overactive immune response fight off coronavirus.  

It comes as the Indian variant threatens UK ministers plans to scrap social distancing, but keep face masks and work from home guidance in place after June 21.  The mutation is behind almost three quarters of all cases in the UK and has been found in more than 250 of England’s 300-plus authorities.   But the success of the UK’s vaccine rollout is believed to be responsible for recent low death tolls — despite rising cases of the Indian mutation in the UK.

[Ambergris]

Countries reporting the most new infections each day  
INDIA             137,947

BRAZIL            64,211

ARGENTINA   30,425

COLOMBIA     25,068

USA                15,687

Countries reporting the most deaths each day  
INDIA              3,081

BRAZIL            1,685

MEXICO            815

ARGENTINA     530

COLOMBIA       526

 

Notice Mexico: the new country on the list.

[Mt_Rider]

On 6/4/2021 at 12:05 AM, Jeepers said:

I agree Midnightmom. That and the fact that 'some people' were crying racist when we identified the variant by the country of origin. 

 

Hmph!  Truth is just so evil! 

 

MtRider    

[Ambergris]

Countries reporting the most new infections each day 
INDIA          130,648

BRAZIL         62,261

ARGENTINA 29,537

COLOMBIA   26,279

USA              15,491

Countries reporting the most deaths each day
INDIA             2,970

BRAZIL          1,685

MEXICO           757

ARGENTINA    536

COLOMBIA      525

(And again the USA is not on this list)

 

How the number of cases changed in the last week

For the week ending Sunday, June 6, 2021

	CASES TO DATE		ONE-WEEK TOTAL
State	Total cases	Per 100K	New cases	Per 100K	1-wk chg.
United States	33,522,313	10,097	99,609	30.0	–30.1%
Vermont	24,252	3,887	43	6.9	–58.3%
New Hampshire	98,877	7,272	151	11.1	–64.3%
South Dakota	124,261	14,046	99	11.2	–60.6%
Nebraska	223,558	11,557	254	13.1	–39.5%
Maryland	460,789	7,622	800	13.2	–46.9%
Virginia	676,741	7,929	1,349	15.8	–42.9%
California	3,796,336	9,608	6,394	16.2	–46.0%
Massachusetts	708,083	10,273	1,138	16.5	–36.9%
Connecticut	347,748	9,754	611	17.1	–24.8%
Oklahoma	453,552	11,462	775	19.6	–18.2%
Wisconsin	675,150	11,596	1,147	19.7	–27.5%
New Jersey	1,017,904	11,460	1,769	19.9	–13.6%
South Carolina	594,130	11,539	1,038	20.2	–50.8%
New York State	2,093,759	10,763	3,977	20.4	–36.7%
Tennessee	863,840	12,649	1,439	21.1	–37.9%
Iowa	402,489	12,757	706	22.4	–23.2%
Minnesota	602,686	10,687	1,302	23.1	–50.3%
Ohio	1,104,648	9,450	2,714	23.2	–41.4%
Rhode Island	151,992	14,348	249	23.5	–48.7%
Georgia	1,128,931	10,633	2,558	24.1	–30.2%
Washington, D.C.	49,068	6,953	170	24.1	+13.3%
Hawaii	36,616	2,586	370	26.1	–2.4%
Mississippi	318,189	10,691	782	26.3	–31.1%
Illinois	1,387,648	10,951	3,592	28.3	–41.8%
Pennsylvania	1,210,213	9,453	3,773	29.5	–39.5%
Kansas	314,855	10,808	858	29.5	–14.2%
Michigan	994,935	9,962	2,994	30.0	–45.6%
New Mexico	203,472	9,704	651	31.0	–31.7%
Delaware	109,126	11,207	305	31.3	–33.1%
North Carolina	1,004,669	9,579	3,515	33.5	–34.9%
North Dakota	110,199	14,461	264	34.6	–20.5%
Texas	2,959,933	10,208	10,021	34.6	–12.0%
Alaska	70,469	9,633	261	35.7	–14.7%
Arkansas	342,433	11,347	1,082	35.9	–10.9%
Missouri	620,299	10,107	2,247	36.6	–30.8%
Maine	68,232	5,076	494	36.8	–34.9%
Arizona	883,821	12,143	2,732	37.5	–37.3%
Oregon	202,995	4,813	1,735	41.1	–32.5%
Florida	2,329,867	10,848	9,049	42.1	–13.7%
Montana	112,260	10,504	451	42.2	–25.6%
Indiana	746,972	11,096	2,859	42.5	–18.5%
Idaho	192,795	10,788	783	43.8	–17.1%
Alabama	545,585	11,127	2,180	44.5	+70.2%
Kentucky	460,412	10,305	2,137	47.8	–14.0%
Louisiana	472,981	10,174	2,296	49.4	–20.0%
Utah	407,642	12,715	1,615	50.4	+4.2%
West Virginia	162,232	9,052	945	52.7	–39.1%
Nevada	325,392	10,564	1,644	53.4	+17.8%
Washington	440,057	5,779	4,208	55.3	–49.6%
Colorado	546,874	9,496	3,985	69.2	–27.4%
Puerto Rico	268,596	8,410	2,453	76.8	–7.3%
Wyoming	60,623	10,475	479	82.8	–1.0%

 

Deaths in the last week

For the week ending Sunday, June 6, 2021

	DEATHS TO DATE		ONE-WEEK TOTAL
State	Total deaths	Per 100K	New deaths	Per 100K	1-wk chg.
United States	597,462	180	2,708	0.8	–40.0%
Alaska	369	50	0	0.0	N/A
California	62,735	159	-192	0.0	correction
Nebraska	2,249	116	0	0.0	–100.0%
New Hampshire	1,355	100	2	0.1	–77.8%
Vermont	256	41	1	0.2	N/A
Wyoming	720	124	1	0.2	–83.3%
Kansas	5,084	175	8	0.3	–57.9%
Utah	2,311	72	10	0.3	–9.1%
South Carolina	9,754	189	22	0.4	–54.2%
Connecticut	8,245	231	15	0.4	–16.7%
Hawaii	505	36	5	0.4	–16.7%
Nevada	5,600	182	14	0.5	–58.8%
Mississippi	7,325	246	15	0.5	–51.6%
Oregon	2,691	64	23	0.5	–50.0%
Tennessee	12,476	183	35	0.5	–42.6%
North Dakota	1,516	199	4	0.5	–20.0%
Iowa	6,072	193	17	0.5	–15.0%
Arkansas	5,846	194	14	0.5	–6.7%
Maryland	9,645	160	38	0.6	–93.7%
Oklahoma	7,316	185	25	0.6	–93.3%
Puerto Rico	2,519	79	18	0.6	–33.3%
Massachusetts	17,911	260	39	0.6	–20.4%
Washington, D.C.	1,136	161	4	0.6	–20.0%
Idaho	2,101	118	11	0.6	+10.0%
North Carolina	13,151	125	73	0.7	–39.2%
Minnesota	7,465	132	39	0.7	–30.4%
Virginia	11,236	132	63	0.7	–6.0%
New Mexico	4,280	204	17	0.8	–87.1%
New Jersey	26,279	296	72	0.8	–37.9%
Louisiana	10,615	228	39	0.8	–27.8%
Texas	51,937	179	232	0.8	–16.2%
New York State	53,132	273	149	0.8	–2.0%
Rhode Island	2,717	257	9	0.8	+125.0%
Colorado	6,770	118	52	0.9	–39.5%
Washington	5,836	77	71	0.9	+12.7%
Florida	37,717	176	205	1.0	–32.8%
Ohio	19,980	171	119	1.0	–21.7%
Missouri	9,495	155	61	1.0	–17.6%
Indiana	13,685	203	65	1.0	–3.0%
Arizona	17,700	243	72	1.0	–1.4%
Maine	839	62	14	1.0	+180.0%
Pennsylvania	27,408	214	145	1.1	–16.2%
Alabama	11,198	228	52	1.1	+52.9%
West Virginia	2,813	157	21	1.2	+5.0%
Illinois	25,352	200	167	1.3	–9.2%
Georgia	20,986	198	149	1.4	–15.3%
South Dakota	2,022	229	12	1.4	+33.3%
Delaware	1,677	172	16	1.6	+700.0%
Montana	1,632	153	19	1.8	+90.0%
Michigan	20,588	206	212	2.1	–10.2%
Wisconsin	7,954	137	124	2.1	+51.2%
Kentucky	7,091	159	309	6.9	+368.2%

 

People in hospitals in the last week

For the week ending Sunday, June 6, 2021

	CURRENTLY HOSPITALIZED
State	Avg. this week	Per 100K	1-wk chg.
United States	19,975	6	–12.8%
Vermont	2	0	–70.7%
New Hampshire	30	2	–35.6%
Connecticut	94	3	–24.4%
Alaska	19	3	+11.5%
Iowa	90	3	–19.7%
Hawaii	39	3	–8.1%
Oklahoma	116	3	–18.5%
Puerto Rico	97	3	–26.1%
Massachusetts	205	3	–17.5%
Nebraska	63	3	–15.1%
California	1,337	3	–6.5%
North Dakota	28	4	–27.3%
Wisconsin	238	4	–13.7%
Kansas	119	4	+0.1%
South Dakota	39	4	–19.6%
Utah	142	4	–3.9%
South Carolina	232	5	–14.2%
Rhode Island	48	5	–28.2%
Minnesota	262	5	–23.4%
Delaware	47	5	–18.3%
New York State	949	5	–22.2%
New Mexico	103	5	–13.0%
Maryland	323	5	–20.3%
Oregon	227	5	–15.0%
Montana	57	5	–11.5%
Virginia	465	5	–9.7%
Alabama	263	5	–3.4%
Texas	1,590	6	–17.0%
New Jersey	500	6	–18.8%
Ohio	658	6	–12.0%
Mississippi	169	6	–6.9%
Maine	78	6	–32.1%
North Carolina	623	6	–9.9%
Idaho	108	6	–11.2%
Arkansas	188	6	–4.1%
Louisiana	292	6	+7.2%
Tennessee	444	7	–13.8%
Kentucky	307	7	–9.0%
Washington	536	7	–6.8%
Nevada	227	7	–9.5%
Wyoming	44	8	–4.0%
Arizona	555	8	+1.0%
Illinois	999	8	–24.9%
Colorado	477	8	–10.2%
Florida	1,826	9	–10.0%
Washington, D.C.	60	9	–6.5%
Georgia	909	9	–14.7%
Michigan	928	9	–27.1%
Indiana	663	10	–12.7%
Pennsylvania	1,315	10	+5.5%
West Virginia	189	11	–12.0%
Missouri	647	11	–1.3%

 

 

 

 

[TheCG]

I got called up for jury duty.  In a room of about 150 people, I think maybe 4 were wearing masks.  They're having everybody line up outside the building and turn in a COVID pre-screen form...that they completely ignore as long as you tell them you have a cold, based on what I heard from others.  They do still have capacity reduced from 300 to 150 in the sorting room.  I have to go back for jury selection tomorrow.

[Ambergris]

The Delta/Indian variant now accounts for about 6% of new infections in the US.  The Delta variant has already become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the UK.  A study by Public Health England found that the Pfizer vaccine is 88% effective against the Delta two weeks after the second shot, but just one dose of the Pfizer vaccine was only 33% effective against this strain.

 

41% of the people in the UK are fully vaccinated.  As of Thursday, only three fully vaccinated people were hospitalized there. 

 

There have been hints of trouble in Russia for a week or so.  Now they are reporting an upswing in cases,  sometimes topping 10,000 cases and averaging 9,200 cases a day, meaning 44 infections per 100k people.  Putin says it's nothing to worry about, but he doesn't let out news without a reason.  Watch how the new stories develop, and watch how the money flows.

Edited June 9, 2021 by Ambergris

[Midnightmom]

 

 

This article is from a subscription service and you may not be able to read the whole thing if you follow the link, so I am adding a PDF of the article to this post.

 

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Weight-Adjusted Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin Boosted Survival of Ventilated COVID-19 Patients by 200 Percent: Study

BY TOM OZIMEK

 

June 9, 2021 Updated: June 9, 2021

biggersmaller 

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A new study has found that the use of weight-adjusted hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin (AZM) improved the survival of ventilated COVID-19 patients by nearly 200 percent.

The observational study, which hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed, was based on a re-analysis of 255 patients on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) during the first two months of the pandemic in the United States.

The researchers found that when the HCQ–AZM combination was given at higher dosages to treat ventilated COVID-19 patients, the risk of death was about three times lower.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/weight-adjusted-hydroxychloroquine-and-azithromycin-boosted-survival-of-ventilated-covid-19-patients-by-200-percent-study_3851028.html

 

Weight-Adjusted Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin Boosted Survival of Ventilated COVID-19 Patients by 200 Percent_ Study.pdf

[Ambergris]

USA TODAY
People hospitalized with COVID-19 now have one overwhelming thing in common. They're not vaccinated.
Elizabeth Weise and Aleszu Bajak, USA TODAY
Wed, June 16, 2021, 5:38 AM
In Minnesota, the HealthPartners system has seen a “precipitous decline” in COVID-19 hospitalizations, says Dr. Mark Sannes, an infectious disease physician and senior medical director for the system, which operates nine hospitals and more than 55 clinics. But now, nearly every admitted patient he does see is unvaccinated.

“Less than 1% of our hospitalized COVID patients are vaccinated," he said.

In Ohio, at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, only 2% of the COVID-19 patients admitted in the last month were vaccinated, said Dr. Robert Salata, the hospital's physician-in-chief.

And at Sanford Health, which runs 44 medical centers and more than 200 clinics across the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa, less than 5% of the 1,456 patients admitted with COVID-19 so far this year were fully vaccinated, said spokesperson Angela Dejene.

Falling rates of COVID-19 across the United States mask a harsh reality – the overwhelming majority of those getting sick and being hospitalized today are unvaccinated, while vaccinated people are vanishingly rare.

Hospitals in states with the lowest vaccination rates tend to have more COVID-19 patients in intensive care units, according to hospital data collected in the past week by the Department of Health and Human Services and vaccination rates published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Wyoming, Missouri, Arkansas and Idaho currently have the highest percentage of COVID-19 patients on average in their ICUs; those states all have vaccinated less than 40% of their population.

Medical centers say there's also an obvious change in the age of their sickest patients, as older people are much more likely to be vaccinated than younger.

"We're all seeing the same thing – when someone does get sick and comes to the hospital, they're much more likely to be young and unvaccinated," said Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Cathy Bennett, president and CEO of the New Jersey Hospital Association, said the picture is the same in her state.

"As COVID vaccinations rolled out across New Jersey, there’s been a major shift in the ages of patients admitted to the hospital," said Bennett. "Unlike last spring, when those 65 and older accounted for the majority of hospitalizations, we’re now seeing more young people hospitalized with COVID."

In Ohio, Salata said the shift should be reassuring, showing the vaccines work.

"It sends a very strong message to the hesitancy people out there because the data speaks for itself," he said.

'It's not all about you'
Doctors say there are multiple reasons people aren't yet vaccinated. There are the hesitant, who still have questions and sometimes fall prey to misinformation, and the opposed, who often harbor anti-government or anti-science sentiments.

"We've had a little success when we've spoken to them on a one-to-one basis. We can give them the information that they need to make their decision," said Dr. Gerald Maloney, chief medical officer for hospital services at Geisinger health network, which runs nine hospitals in Pennsylvania.

Some still can't easily access vaccine, either because it's not available nearby or because they can't get time off work.

And while the U.S. government paid for all vaccines and vaccinations so no one should be charged, others remain fearful they will be on the financial hook for a shot, Maloney said.
Last week, Health and Human Services secretary Secretary Xavier Becerra clarified in a letter that providers may not bill patients for COVID-19 vaccines.

There's still a lot of work to be done to create the trust necessary for these groups to embrace vaccination, Maloney said.

"The people who say, 'It's my body, my choice?' Well, it's not all about you," he said. "It's also about the people that you're around."

At this point, every vaccination is a win, one more person who can't pass the virus along. That's especially true in families where children can't be vaccinated and are still at risk.

At Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio, “we have not seen any kiddos who have been admitted to the hospital who have been vaccinated,” said Dr. Michael Bigham, a pediatric intensivist in the critical care unit.

Among children 11 and younger, who can’t yet get the vaccine, having vaccinated family members is keeping them out of the hospital, and protecting them against MIS-C, the multisystem inflammatory syndrome that can be a rare but dangerous aftereffect of a COVID-19 infection in children.

“Most of the kids we’re seeing in the hospital with COVID or MIS-C had COVID in their household, maybe a parent or a grandparent, and most of those individuals had not been vaccinated,” he said.

The message from health care workers is unanimous: They just aren't seeing many vaccinated people get sick.

In New Jersey, the percentage of COVID-19 hospitalizations among those ages 18 to 29 has increased 58% since the beginning of the year. By comparison, the percentage of COVID-19 hospitalizations among the 65 and older age group – with a statewide vaccination rate of more than 80% – declined by 31.2%.

The numbers are no coincidence, Bennett said.

"Vaccination," she said, "works in preventing severe COVID illness."

[Homesteader]

14 hours ago, Ambergris said:

"The people who say, 'It's my body, my choice?' Well, it's not all about you," he said. "It's also about the people that you're around."

 

This is where I have to disagree. It 'IS' my body and my choice on an experimental drug that's not approved by the FDA. Abortion, on the other hand, always kills a person, on purpose.  

[Midnightmom]

On 6/16/2021 at 4:39 AM, Ambergris said:

The message from health care workers is unanimous: They just aren't seeing many vaccinated people get sick.

 

No, there just seeing (saw) a lot of vaccinated people suffer some unusual, dangerous, and sometimes deadly side effects!

And, nobody knows what the long term effects or efficacy of this GENE MANIPULATION THERAPY is going to be. 

[Midnightmom]

PDF of complete article is attached.

 

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New Study Links Ivermectin to ‘Large Reductions’ in COVID-19 Deaths

BY TOM OZIMEK

 

June 21, 2021 Updated: June 21, 2021

biggersmaller 

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The use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin could lead to “large reductions” in COVID-19 deaths and may have a “significant impact” on the pandemic globally, according to a recent pre-print review based on peer-reviewed studies.

For the study (pdf), published June 17 in the American Journal of Therapeutics, a group of scientists reviewed the clinical trial use of ivermectin, which has antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, in 24 randomized controlled trials involving just more than 3,400 participants. The researchers sought to assess the efficacy of ivermectin in reducing infection or mortality in people with COVID-19 or at high risk of getting it.

New Study Links Ivermectin to ‘Large Reductions’ in COVID-19 Deaths.pdf

[The WE2's]

We don't believe any of them...period!  Everything is "covid" now...and these dumb assertions of "variants" ... they never could get even the "seasonal" flu right!  This is not a vaccine...there's not one drop of the virus in it.  It's all chemicals the "science" has put together.  Regular flu shorts have some of the virus in it...this does not.  If you're poked then you shouldn't have to worry about those of us who say nope.  It's "control" ... wear a mask, don't wear a mask, don't take supplements and other currative meds, wear a mask, wear two masks, get a shot but still wear a mask.  Try to intimidate those who won't conform. That's it.  We will continue in our beliefs.  This concoction they say is 98% effective.  The recovery rate for the virus is 98% and above.  Now they're telling people that they'll need "booster" shots.