It's #COVID19 official
"Today @CDCDirector Walensky endorsed the #CDC Advis Comm on Immunization Pracs’ recommendations for booster shots to include all adults ages 18 years & older who received a @pfizer -BioNTech or @moderna_tx #vaccine at least 6 mos after their 2nd dose." pic.twitter.com/iMkaOCDRjV— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 19, 2021
Another 105,000 new cases in the US today, 7-day avg up 28% for the past week, hospitalizations continuing to rise. The new (5th wave) has begun. pic.twitter.com/jXB6h9ngoJ
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 19, 2021
Opinion by Leana S. Wen: How to assess the covid-19 risk from holiday gatherings? Here are four things to consider. https://t.co/2mCeiqexLW
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 17, 2021
If you're flying✈️ for the Holidays???, you might want to read the #COVID19 info in this article… https://t.co/x3BLMxDnJ9
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 19, 2021
Takeaways from this article on covid and air travel: Keep your mask on while those around you are eating. Keep the air vent on full blast. And try to board last, so others are not leaning over you shoving their bags into the overhead bins. https://t.co/z2R4dYtG0L via @WSJ
— Bill Dedman, investigative reporter and author (@BillDedman) November 17, 2021
The US will build manufacturing capacity to massively export mRNA vaccines around the globe. Right from every perspective. https://t.co/OgnaZxXlod
— Andy Slavitt ?????? (@ASlavitt) November 18, 2021
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Poor countries won’t get boosters anytime soon, as rich countries forge ahead with booster vaccination campaigns https://t.co/R1r5XywKDC
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 20, 2021
China has given 76.3% of population complete COVID-19 vaccine doses https://t.co/Wm6UU8Yoqf pic.twitter.com/LaGW7X26Lb
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 20, 2021
Japan: From vaccine hesitancy to vaccine success https://t.co/sCdoqLZiV5
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 20, 2021
British journalist, living in Tokyo:
It seems hard to believe now, but at the beginning of June, I was seriously contemplating flying to the United States to get a Covid vaccine.
With just seven weeks to go until the Olympics, only 3.5% of Japan’s population had been fully vaccinated. While friends in the UK were merrily posting vaccine selfies on social media, here in the capital Tokyo, we were joking we might not see a needle till Christmas.
With the Olympics about to open, it seemed astonishing the Japanese government had bungled the vaccine rollout so badly.
Six months later, it couldn’t be more different.
Not only has Japan succeeded in overcoming the early chaos, it’s managed to get a higher percentage of its population vaccinated than almost anywhere else on Earth. Some 76% of Japanese are now fully immunised.
The Olympics was key…
Singapore relaxes tight COVID-19 social curbs from Monday https://t.co/du8ANxozrT pic.twitter.com/aKDCJV6zT4
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 20, 2021
… From Monday, limits on social interactions and dining out will be expanded to five people from the current rule of up to two vaccinated people, government ministers told a news conference on Saturday…
Singapore’s daily COVID-19 cases have fallen below 3,000 on average. About 85% of the island nation’s 5.45 million people have been vaccinated.
The number of infections fell to 1,734 cases on Friday from a record daily count of 5,324 in late October.
Business events in Singapore are already bouncing back.
Singapore hosted top executives of big global companies this week at a host of conferences, marking its gradual return to normalcy and underscoring the contrast with long-time rival Hong Kong, which is sticking with some of the toughest quarantine rules in the world…
Russia on Saturday confirmed 37,120 Covid-19 infections and a record-tying 1,254 deaths https://t.co/tHlwlDYjRg
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 20, 2021
As hospitals in Europe fill with unvaccinated #COVID19 patients, rage is rising against them — not only because their #vaccine refusal prolongs the #pandemic, but because it denies care to those suffering other serious ailments.https://t.co/Kg0wMqNWqh
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 19, 2021
Czechs report highest daily coronavirus cases since pandemic start https://t.co/ufFMTuQRXa pic.twitter.com/rGfH7IFhVq
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 20, 2021
Dutch police open fire in the port city of Rotterdam as a protest against coronavirus restrictions descends into rioting. The city's mayor describes it as an "orgy of violence." By @mikecorder https://t.co/zS11IHpbDD
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) November 20, 2021
Austria will be the first country in western Europe to reimpose a full coronavirus lockdown this autumn – and will mandate its whole population to get vaccinated as of February https://t.co/IiIg7yy9MG pic.twitter.com/jZqRymab0s
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 19, 2021
French islands of Guadeloupe placed under curfew amid COVID unrest https://t.co/ytmy57kuvZ pic.twitter.com/BbcKRNHzcj
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 20, 2021
Canada authorises Pfizer Covid vaccine for children aged 5-11 https://t.co/wmTxzqUvN8
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 19, 2021
This appears relevant for unvaccinated MLB players trying to enter Canada to play the Blue Jays next season. https://t.co/9FgFURNIbh
— James Wagner (@ByJamesWagner) November 20, 2021
Disney Cruise Line becomes first to add vaccine requirement for kids as young as 5 https://t.co/0qfpQscJef
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 18, 2021
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COVID-19 vaccine boosters provide highly effective continued protection against breakthrough COVID-19 infections, serious illness, hospitalization & death.
IDSA supports @US_FDA & @CDCgov decision to expand eligibility for everyone age 18 & older: https://t.co/kU6BnasifM pic.twitter.com/Alvr7SuWR4
— IDSA (@IDSAInfo) November 20, 2021
Graphic-heavy thread:
First look at the only randomized trial of a booster vaccine data (Pfizer) today https://t.co/UEa1OUDvzU
95% efficacy vs symptomatic infections, consistent across all age, sex, race, ethnicity and comorbid condition subgroups
Benefit seen very early pic.twitter.com/bSarj5263t— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) November 19, 2021
Here's the deal. The "booster" is turning out to be more than a boost for waning efficacy. It's both true that we should prioritize this globally—health-care workers and high-risk people everywhere first—and that it's a no-brainer at the individual level. https://t.co/Rb6Og3W74d
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) November 17, 2021
Yep. A lot of childhood vaccines are three-dose primary series. Some have a few boosters, but most of them do not need annual ones. We don't yet know where this one will end up, but this seems like the least of our problems. https://t.co/oaRSzH96Me
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) November 17, 2021
Pregnant women with COVID-19 face increased chances for stillbirths compared with uninfected women, and that risk spiked to four times higher after the delta variant emerged, new government data show. https://t.co/tNX7RvvQdh
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 19, 2021
Canadian: "Up to 80% of those infected by #SARSCoV2 report losing their sense of smell. The likely targets of the virus are supporting cells in the nose that support growth of the nerve cells that allow us to smell."
Can this #COVID19 effect be cured?https://t.co/D6CyTkNAg2— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 19, 2021
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Michigan cases up 83%: State health officials recommend all residents older than 2 wear masks in indoor public areas. Michigan is confronting a severe rise in cases. The mask advisory was issued to hamper viral spread ahead of the holidays https://t.co/5Ahcqet4FY
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 19, 2021
Emails obtained by @AP show that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s legislative counsel warned that a bill limiting public health measures during the COVID pandemic would violate federal law. The legislature passed the bill anyway and the governor signed it. https://t.co/T63PtXpkud
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 19, 2021
A Black-owned medical and life sciences products company in Canton, Mass. is donating two million masks to Greater Boston communities hit hardest by the pandemic to try to reduce the spread of COVID-19 during the holidays.@hannah_reports for @GBHNews ? https://t.co/BL9Y5ZT3pP pic.twitter.com/SnnioeeFGk
— GBH (@GBH) November 19, 2021
Texas court says hospital can’t be forced to offer ivermectin to covid patient on ventilatorhttps://t.co/V9aUxxQ3r3
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 19, 2021
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— Jean-Michel Connard ?? (@torriangray) November 17, 2021
Cermet
Interesting that the third Pfizer dose not only increases anti-bodies but the diversity and quality of antibodies. Nice – really nice. Glad I have the booster and yes, my body really reacted to that booster 12 hours later. I do believe what that study found.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
The Monroe County website says 558 new cases yesterday; NYSDOH says 463 new cases.
And we’re still about a week out from Thanksgiving.
YY_Sima Qian
On 11/19 China reported 3 new domestic confirmed (none previously asymptomatic) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Dalian in Liaoning Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases (1 mild & 1 moderate), 1 is a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine since 11/15 & the other from mass screening. 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 286 active domestic confirmed & 37 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 2 communities are currently at High Risk. 12 residential compounds, 17 residential buildings & 16 villages are currently at Medium Risk.
At Ejina Banner in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed cases remaining.
At Xi’an in Shaanxi Province there currently are 5 active domestic confirmed cases remaining.
At Yinchuan in Ningxia “Autonomous” Region 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed cases remaining.
Gansu Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a personal already under centralized quarantine. 6 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 42 active domestic confirmed (23 at Lanzhou, 16 at Tianshui, 2 at Zhangye & 1 at Jiayuguan) & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases (at Lanzhou) cases remaining in the province.
At Hebei Province 10 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 72 active confirmed & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Changsha in Hunan Province there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case remaining.
At Zunyi in Guizhou Province there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases (both moderate) remaining in the city.
Jilin City in Jilin Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, from screening of persons already under home quarantine. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Beijing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 residential compound remains at Medium Risk.
At Rizhao in Shandong Province 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 8 active domestic confirmed & 5 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
At Sichuan Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 26 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Chongqing Municipality 1 domestic confirmed case recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic was released from isolation. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining.
At Changzhou in Jiangsu Province there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases remaining.
At Xining in Qinghai Province there currently are 10 active domestic confirmed case remaining.
Heilongjiang Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 20 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 168 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
At Shangrao in Jiangxi Province 2 domestic confirmed case recovered & 4 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed & 21 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 township & 1 residential compound remain at Medium Risk.
At Zhejiang Province the domestic asymptomatic case (at Hangzhou) was released from isolation.
Henan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 72 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 some asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 28 active domestic confirmed & 29 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the prefecture. 1 zone & 2 villages at Ruili, plus a village at Yingjiang County are currently at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases
On 11/19, China reported 20 new imported confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic), 15 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 71 confirmed cases recovered (18 imported), 27 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (22 imported) & 1 was reclassified as confirmed case (imported), & 1,889 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,206 active confirmed cases in the country (388 imported), 12 in serious condition (1 imported), 487 active asymptomatic cases (345 imported), 2 suspect cases (both imported). 36,664 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 11/19, 2,422.908M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 6.729M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 11/20, Hong Kong reported 3 new positive cases, all imported.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 5,859 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 2,581,747 cases. It also reports 45 deaths as of midnight, for an adjusted cumulative total of 29,937 deaths – 1.16% of the cumulative reported total, 1.19% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 1.01.
420 confirmed cases are in ICU, 169 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 4,970 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,482,289 patients recovered – 96.2% of the cumulative reported total.
One new cluster was reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,878 clusters. 240 clusters are currently active; 5,638 clusters are now inactive.
5,840 new cases today are local infections. 19 new cases today are imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 105,103 doses of vaccine on 19th November: 6,549 first doses, 16,848 second doses, and 81,706 booster doses. As of midnight, the cumulative total is 51,842,386 doses administered: 25,657,350 first doses, 24,964,238 second doses, and 1,407,762 booster doses. 78.6% of the population have received their first dose, while 76.4% are now fully vaccinated.
p.a.
Are legal eagles up yet? Any chance in US for class actions against conservative media over covid lies? I’m not actually hoping for success, but make them go to court to cost them $$$. In a just world: ⚰
New Deal democrat
As expected, The weekly average os US cases and deaths declined yesterday, with the day after Veterans Day out of the mix. Deaths are flat at about 1150, while cases are about 92,400, still 15% above their recent lows. Regionally, he West remained flat, the South increased slightly, and the Northeast and especially the Midwest continued to strongly increase.
On the bright side, the trend in CA has continued to decrease. On the negative side, even the most vaccinated States in the Northeast have continued to increase. In the Midwest, SD has increased, while ND is if anything continuing to decline slightly. Cases are rising in the border States of the South, and are flat to slightly rising in the Deep South. Only FL shows a very slight decline.
Of all the information above, it is most noteworthy that the States earliest hit by Delta in late June have begun to increase again, with the States with relatively cooler climates, MO and AR, leading the way, and only the warmest, FL, showing a slight decline.
So Delta is managing to find and infect those it didn’t get before, and climate seems to be dispositive (with thoroughly previously infected SD being a significant exception, at least for now. Despite the Sturgis rally, since February SD’s cumulative infection rate is not much higher than VT’s). This is especially so since heavily vaccinated New England now has more cases per capita than the recalcitrant Deep South.
Internationally, the UK increased, and the EU increased even more. But Canada decreased closer to 6 per 100,000. Needless to say, Canada shows that climate is by no means the whole story. Indeed, so far eastern Canada has almost entirely escaped a Delta wave.
Nicole
My kid’s school offered a Zoom presentation this week in the evening about the school’s mandate (the 12 year olds are already required to be vaccinated; the 5-11s must have had their 2nd shot by the time school resumes in January after break). The presentation was really good, and what really stuck out to me is that vaccination means the end of quarantining a classroom of kids. Our school has had 3 positive cases since September in the lower grades that required each of their classes to go to remote learning for a week. Once the entire student body is vaccinated (there may be a few kindergarteners who will just be turning 5 in December, but then they’ll have to get vaccinated too), if there is a Covid case, no one has to quarantine; just monitor for symptoms and go get a test 3-5 days in. Which is, while maybe not to the kids’ liking, huge for working parents.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
I don’t understand some people. My daughter in laws are furious because my daughter and her husband institutes that anyone who comes to visit their baby, due in the early Spring, get a flu shot and a COVID booster. They say my daughter is being disrespectful. Of course they are also shaming my daughter for deciding not to breastfeed so apparently they have a lot of boundary issues.
they care more about their right gets than their grand daughter’s health I guess….
rikyrah
My sister got her Moderna booster yesterday??????
rikyrah
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone:
?????????? for your daughter.
rikyrah
@Nicole:
Sounds wonderful??????
All school districts should do it
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid:
Sue them into oblivion?
Dog Mom
Got a Moderna booster yesterday – the site was busy with all ages. . . little bit of a sore arm today and slight stuffiness and headache, but so thankful I could get it done. Should I call myself a ‘BoostedBlood’?
Nicole
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone: I’m sorry your daughter is dealing with that, and it goes without saying she’s doing the right thing, putting her baby’s safety first.
As a grumpy middle-aged person myself, I am not a fan of older people thinking they are somehow entitled to respect from younger folk. I am in the “respect needs to be earned,” and that includes from your own kids. If you can’t act in a way that merits respect, why should you be awarded it? And refusing to take basic steps to protect an infant is definitely not behavior deserving of respect.
Also (and I say this as someone who breastfed myself) I don’t think it ultimately makes a ticky’s worth of difference whether a baby gets breast milk or formula. Whatever works best for the parent(s) is the right choice. A friend of mine had a really rough time with breastfeeding and her boyfriend, who was very opposed to her switching to formula, actually managed to bs his way into a phone call with an academic whose field of study was breast milk. The academic was very honest and said breast milk is not “perfect”; it’s just the best evolution has managed up until now and that it wouldn’t make a long-term difference in a child’s development. The important thing is that babies get enough nutrition, not that it be produced by the mother. Again, props to your daughter for doing what works best for her.
Nicole
@rikyrah:
I agree with you 100%. There is a small contingent of “parents with concerns” and I really have no sympathy. I’m so tired of being told, by the media and everywhere else, it feels like, that my (legitimate) fears about my child getting Covid and bringing it home, or being one of the ones who gets very sick, are less important than anti-vaxxers’ completely irrational fears about a vaccine. I’m so tired of being told I need to coddle these people’s feelings.
MagdaInBlack
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone: I had in-laws like that. No boundaries what so ever. Bless your daughter for drawing lines and sticking to them. It’s tough.
Citizen Scientist
@Cermet: did you get Pfizer previously or Moderna? Wondering whether I should get M due to some evidence that getting a different version for the booster is slightly better.
BC in Illinois
A family story. Something my sister-in-law told me, in response to a family text-chain which my daughter had concluded with the comment, “Pandemics suck, on so many levels.”
Story: My SIL was at a pharmacy, waiting for a prescription, when a woman came in, agitated, saying she needed her vaccine (2nd shot?) and needed it today. She got some kind of push-back but she was insistent that she needed the shot TODAY. She got an appointment for later that afternoon.
As she was getting ready to leave, my SIL (a soft-spoken woman, who will nonetheless speak, albeit softly) said “Thank you” to the woman. The woman asked “What? Why?” and my SIL said, “Thank you for going out of your way to get vaccinated.” She said that her husband, my older brother, died of Covid last year [August 2020, pre-vaccine] and she appreciates people doing what they can to prevent the disease,
So the woman says “_____ that! I just need to get the shots, or I’ll lose my job.”
And she leaves, so my SIL didn’t get a chance to say, “Well then, thank your employer, Bitch.”
otmar
Our gov pulled the emergency brake. Lockdown and a vacc mandate in February.
Meanwhile, everybody is encouraged to get the 3rd shot.
Percysowner
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone:
Good Grief. I voluntarily updated my DTAP when my daughter got married because there would be kids at the wedding. If I were a new mother today, I’d be requiring ALL vaccinations be boostered before my anyone could see my newborn.
I’m officially 2 weeks out from getting my Pfizer booster for my Moderna vaccination. I had no reaction this time. If I have to get boosters every 6 months to a year, no problem.
Scout211
@Nicole:
The red county where we live here in California is sending a letter to Governor Newsom claiming that the school districts in the county would lose 50% of in-person students if the Governor goes through with the vaccine mandate next year. Letter.
They want the Governor to reinstate the former loosey-goosey religious and other vague reasons for exemptions to the vaccine mandates.
Sigh. Does anyone really believe this? 50%? Can that many working parents stay home to homeschool their unvaccinated kids? Really? This just seems highly unprofessional of county Superintendents of schools.
I’m glad we didn’t raise our kids in this county.
Mousebumples
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone: good ideas all around. I know i encouraged a Whooping Cough booster for anyone around my daughter, born pre Covid. Might need to go that route….
I’m anxiously waiting until my 2 year old can get the shot, and working on persuading my husband (who doesn’t like needles) to get a booster. If my daughter (unvaccinated) and i (high risk health group) weren’t at higher risk, I wouldn’t say he needed it. Just glad it’s authorized, so I can work my persuasion skills…
Sloane Ranger
Sorry for not updating from the UK for a couple of days. Thursday’s are my day for volunteering at the local museum and I had lunch with an old friend I haven’t seen in 2 years yesterday. We live in different county’s now and usually meet up a few times a year for lunch and a catch up, but COVID put a stop to that. The restaurant we went to was empty when we went in and only one other couple came in throughout the entire time we were there. It hardly seemed worth their while to open but I’m glad they did as the place we usually use had closed during the pandemic! Anyway, the UK in figures yesterday,
We had 44,242 new cases on Friday. This is an increase in the rolling 7-day average of 13.1%. New cases by nation,
England – 37,006 (down 2309 from Thursday)
Northern Ireland – 1690 (up 9 from Thursday)
Scotland – 3090 (down 145 from Thursday)
Wales – 2456 (down 120 from Thursday).
Deaths – There were 157 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. The rolling 7-day average is down by 4.8%. 123 deaths were in England, 7 in Northern Ireland, 19 in Scotland and 8 in Wales.
Testing – 993,405 tests were performed on Thursday, 18th. The rolling 7-day average is up by 0.8%. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that day was 673,424.
Hospitalisations – As of Thursday, 18th, 8079 people were in hospital and 923 were on ventilators. As of 15 November, the rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions was down by 4.5%.
Vaccinations – As of Thursday, 18th, 50,707,953 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine, 46,108,608 had had 2 shots and 14,266,368 had had a 3rd shot/booster. This means that 88.2% of all people in the UK aged 12+ have had 1 shot, 80.2% have had 2 and 24.8% have had a 3rd shot/booster.
Starfish
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone: They should all shut it and also get a pertussis booster. See. Percysowner has the type of energy that I am talking about.
Fair Economist
I thought Austria was going to “lockdown for the unvaccinated”? And, at least for now, I’d think that would be fine. Add in outdoor masking and it should be manageable. Full lockdowns are, genuinely, very costly, and I’d think the added benefit is not worth the cost – especially since most of the benefit goes to the anti-vax assholes who have kept us in this mess.
Matt McIrvin
@Fair Economist: what we have in most of the US is effectively lockdown for the vaccinated, since they’re the ones who actually care about whether they get infected and the disease-ridden are deliberately running loose. At this point I see flouting of pandemic controls as a deliberate strategy to limit participation in public life to the political right. It’s of a piece with the Rittenhouse business.
mrmoshpotato
But will he be extra nice to us and just throw himself into the Sun?
soapdish
My FIL lives in NH and suffers from a myriad of issues related myeloma including reduced kidney function. Fortunately both my in-laws are vaccinated/boosted and avoid people whenever possible. He has been feeling even more under the weather than usual for the past few days so he got some routine blood work done early. Yesterday morning his doctor called and said he should go to the ER because his calcium levels were exceedingly high which (if I understood what my wife was telling me) carries a much higher risk of stroke or heart attack and if my google-fu is on point can also be very hard on his failing kidneys.
It looks like he’s going to have to end up on some kind of dialysis, which isn’t a surprise but we were hoping he could stave that off for a while longer. However, he’s currently resting and in stable condition on a gurney in a hallway because all the available rooms in the hospital are filled with COVID patients.
Live Free Or Die, indeed.
Fuck every single one of those people who are willfully unvaccinated. Fuck all of them.
Soprano2
@New Deal democrat: Thanks for these summaries, they’re helpful to understand what’s happening with Covid across the country.
Soprano2
@soapdish: I feel your pain, I went through something similar with my mother.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Greece is still several weeks away from reciprocal recognition of US vaccines. I was somewhat disheartened to read the reports that J&J appeared less effective as a booster than either of the mRNA shots, but when the bureaucracy leaves you stuck for choice, I guess you’ve gotta take what you can get, right? (I’m also among those who got slammed about twelve to fifteen hours after the booster shot – woke up the next morning with a 100-degree fever, aches, cough, the whole bit. It passed by the following morning.)
Anyway, Greece’s numbers are still ugly. Day-to-day, new cases and deaths are down, but hospitalizations and intubations are still climbing.