Corona Virus Update

Sounds like Biden has the right idea.

 

‘The last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking’: Biden blasts Texas, Mississippi for ending mask mandates, loosening restrictions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...0.SBO45tHfruFODiGzsRfvsIkdwOAjIY293W-hoOI2CR0

He is right.

Wrong move on Texas and miss. part. The politicians are appeasing the votes. and ignoring the health of same voters. Where there s an uptick in cases and deaths ....it is on those same (Neanderthal ) - politicians. It is way too early to unmask..or reduce protocols.

 

Maybe Biden ought to go to South Dakota and Montana and complain to governors Kristi Noem and Greg Gianforte.

 

Poll: Most Americans back Biden’s virus response (msn.com)
The poll shows that 70% of Americans back his handling of the virus response, including 44% of Republicans. Fewer approve of his handling of the economy, at 55%. (March 5)
The majority of the American people know that Biden is doing right by them.

 

TBH Trump wasn't a hard act to follow was he?

 

Senators worked throughout night to reach deal in coronavirus relief package (msn.com)
I hope and they as well was worth it. It will be like that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

No he really wasn't. There would be more people dying if Trump was at the helm.

 

South Dakota reaches 1,900 deaths due to the coronavirus (msn.com)
South Dakota people aren't following the rules relating to COVID-19. The Sturgis Rally didn't require masks and probably not this year.

 

Senate passes $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill. Here's what's next. (msn.com)
Thanks, this country needed that.

 

This comes very late in the pandemic, is it too late for many businesses?

 

I'm not going to bet on it.

 

These are the U.S. states and territories with mask mandates:

Alabama | American Samoa | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | District of Columbia | Guam | Hawaii | Illinois | Indiana | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Ohio |Oregon | Pennsylvania | Puerto Rico | Rhode Island | U.S. Virgin Islands | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming

These are the U.S. states and territories without mask mandates:

Alaska | Arizona | Florida | Georgia | Idaho | Iowa | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | North Dakota | Northern Mariana Islands | Oklahoma | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee |Texas

 

do you know if they are using very much oxygen concentrators? Should that conentrators be used more times?

 

I've just read that in Denmark they have halted the usage of Astrazeneca vaccines because of some collateral effects.

https://www.reuters.com/article/hea...of-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-idUSS8N2JV04G

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...nds-use-astrazeneca-vaccine-blood-clot-fears/

Let's wait for more information.

 

IMO there is some politics going on here. As the EU is struggling to get supplies it is convenient to say they are suspended for other reasons.
We have already seen similar things in France and Germany that then quietly disappear.

 

COVID-19: Blood clot reports in Europe prompt investigation into Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...tion-into-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-12242530

That could be concerning.

 

I think I read somewhere that one of the concerns with one of the vaccines was that it caused the opposite effect -blood would not clot. I wonder if this is all just coincidences

 

These vaccines are so new. Some unexpected "side effects" might come into play. We just need more time and constant evaluation. and data gathering.

 

From the link

 

"Reports of blood clots received so far are not greater than the number that would have occurred naturally in the vaccinated population."

 

March 11, 2020: The Day Everything Changed

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/11/9756...ampaign=news&utm_id=57917635&orgid=&utm_att1=

Hard to beleive it has been a year.......and yet it feels a lot longer

Hoping with fervor that a year from now we all will be in a much better place.

In general the numbers are getting better........and let's hope they continue in that trajectory.

This seems to call for a moment of reflection.......... in memory of all those that have passed from this awful virus.

 

I drove past a restaurant today and the parking lot was pretty much full. I don't know whether that would be the right thing to do that would too early. Maybe many more restaurants will have full parking lots in the weeks and months to come. Now that the COVID 19 may soon be on its way out.

 

First of all: no panic.
Then ... ok panic!

I'm joking [this was "viral humor"!].

Seriously we can say that there have been problems [a mas has died in Italy, just to add an other negative case], but statistically they are irrelevant. Looking at numbers, the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe, like the others.
Anyway it's important to underline this "little problem" because we have to be aware that a vaccine is not the Grail.
We will have to deal with side effects in the brief term an with potential structural problems in the long term. But it's still early to think about this.

 

Like your virtual humor.!!

You are right.......it is still early days. ...and we need to be prepared for the unexpected.........and even set backs. But so far the light is getting a bit brighter now.

 

Biden projects hope, says all adults to be vaccinated by end of May (msn.com)
After a grim winter that saw the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 rise past half a million, President Biden will seek to foster -- and benefit from -- a national surge of optimism about the pandemic, the economy and the country's condition in a White House speech Thursday evening.

 

Now that almost a year has past, dealing with COVID-19, This Pandemic is supposed to be under control I just hope. Plenty of events were cancelled because of it and We got ourselves a new President that will do something about it. The Previous one said like nothing to worry about. We were led into a fantasyland of wishful thinking and it only got worse. You know what I'm talking about