White House outlines new strategy to fight COVID-19, including an initiative that allows Americans to get tested at a pharmacy and get free antiviral pills if they test positive https://t.co/g4ireXyVzQ pic.twitter.com/2f8xEiQ1tJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 3, 2022
U.S. coronavirus death toll hits 955,000
— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) March 2, 2022
U.S. government agencies start dropping mask requirements https://t.co/8zLGvi9ymW pic.twitter.com/QlPTv38m5H
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 3, 2022
Here's the link https://t.co/ilHS4m8BqD
It's the comprehensive plan we've needed for some time, now needs to get executed (some important components rely on getting funded)— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 2, 2022
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Covid pushed global health institutions to their limits. Now, people are calling for ways to reinvent the World Health Organization https://t.co/NUXRjCiBSz
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 3, 2022
Too early for China to seek 'coexistence' with COVID – govt expert https://t.co/h0o1jIpIFL pic.twitter.com/ufw4WSMNuo
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 3, 2022
Hong Kong has the highest deaths per capita in the world and still rising pic.twitter.com/PFPSmvLQc5
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 2, 2022
Hong Kong reported a record daily high of 56,827 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday and 144 deaths, as a worsening outbreak overwhelms healthcare facilities and sees authorities scramble to contain cases in the Asian financial centre. https://t.co/NzEtAXrJue
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 3, 2022
PHOTOS: Hong Kong has ramped up its testing capacity with the help of inflatable mobile laboratories, as the city grapples with tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases daily. https://t.co/f5TeSCFSoy
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 3, 2022
Hong Kong transport operators, supermarkets cut services as COVID cases surge https://t.co/IrR6xX7jsF pic.twitter.com/ocACuangDj
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 3, 2022
Ah, nice touch. The government has nothing to do with this outrageous mess, it's a color revolution, outsiders making them look bad. Nothing to do with the total lack of preparation and poorly conceived rules.
Of course. https://t.co/DT2ODuSuw0
— ClaraFerreiraMarques (@ClaraDFMarques) March 3, 2022
Japan set to extend coronavirus limits, ease border rules https://t.co/z0dTewt0iz pic.twitter.com/Rhc6H9tlcc
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 3, 2022
Japan is set to loosen border controls to allow more people to enter the country, especially students, while extending infection control measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus in several areas, including Tokyo…
Some 150,000 foreign students have been kept out of Japan since 2020, along with workers desperately needed by an ageing nation with a shrinking population, prompting warnings of labour shortages and damage to Japan’s international reputation.
While the number of new coronavirus cases has started to fall, hospitals remain under stress as they battle the Omicron variant of COVID-19. February was also the deadliest month of the pandemic so far, with 4,856 fatalities, a tally by national broadcaster NHK showed.
The central government has received requests from five prefectures, including Kyoto and Osaka in western Japan, to extend infection control measures set to expire on Sunday, chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Wednesday.
Ten other prefectures, including Tokyo, are expected to seek an extension of two to three weeks of measures that include shorter business hours for restaurants and limits on alcohol sales, local media reported…
Western Australia state reopens two years into the pandemic https://t.co/orvXeYR1ke
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 2, 2022
New Zealand police will review hours of cellphone footage taken by themselves, the media and the public to identify lawbreakers. Meanwhile, crews began the cleanup of Parliament’s grounds after a protest there against coronavirus vaccine mandates. https://t.co/Grx9UeElyY
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 3, 2022
New Zealand's Ardern faces down frustration over pandemic curbs https://t.co/tIKVJQXtwH pic.twitter.com/TXCZ69n743
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 3, 2022
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sought to cool simmering resentment over the slow unlocking of the country’s pandemic restrictions on Thursday, a day after police cleared a weeks-long Canada-style protest outside parliament…
In a special session of parliament to discuss the protest, the most violent in decades in the normally peaceful city, Ardern promised things would change, but gave no timeframe for easing curbs…
A one-time poster child for tackling the coronavirus, New Zealand’s swift response to the pandemic and its geographic isolation kept the country largely COVID-19 free until the end of last year, winning Ardern strong support. Total deaths stand at just 56.
However, anger over vaccine mandates for people working in sectors such as health and education and strict border closures have put pressure on the government to now soften its stance in line with much of the rest of the world…
The country of 5 million has a high COVID vaccination rate, with more than 95% of the eligible population double vaccinated. More than 70% of people have had a booster dose.
COVID-19 cases were restricted to fewer than 15,000 in total by end-2021 through a strict elimination approach, but the arrival of the Omicron variant has seen cases top 20,000 a day, reaching a cumulative total of nearly 150,000 on Thursday.
The government says restrictions that have frayed the public’s patience are set to stay in place until at least mid-March, when the Omicron surge is expected to peak…
Russian capital Moscow will no longer require locals to use QR codes to prove they are vaccinated or immune to COVID-19 and is dropping all restrictionsat entertainment and sport venues, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Thursday. https://t.co/UGtJvftdmQ
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 3, 2022
New data shows at least 30% more coronavirus deaths have occurred in the most deprived areas of England since the turn of the year.https://t.co/zCRLcprIZW
— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) March 2, 2022
Mexico reported 304 more fatalities from COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total death toll since the pandemic began to 318,835, according to health ministry data. https://t.co/N4cjMIL325
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 3, 2022
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A World Health Organization (WHO) panel on Wednesday backed the use of Merck & Co Inc's COVID-19 antiviral pill for high-risk patients. https://t.co/N98dfHjpaC
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 3, 2022
… The expert panel conditionally recommended the pill, molnupiravir, for patients with non-severe disease who are at high risk of hospitalisation, such as the immunocompromised, the unvaccinated, older people and those with chronic diseases.
The recommendation was based on new data from six clinical trials involving 4,796 patients.
Since molnupiravir’s U.S. authorization in December, demand for the pill among COVID-19 patients has taken a hit from comparatively low efficacy and potential safety issues for certain groups…
The panel said that young and healthy patients, including children, and pregnant or breastfeeding women should not be given molnupiravir due to potential risks such as defects in a developing fetus, as shown in animal studies.
The WHO guidelines, published in the British Medical Journal, said no recommendation on molnupiravir’s use has been made for patients with severe or critical illness as there was no trial data for the group.
The panel also updated its guidance for the use of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc’s (REGN.O) COVID-19 antibody cocktail. It now recommends the drug only for people who are not infected with Omicron as new preclinical data has shown it is not effective against the variant…
Pfizer’s new COVID-19 pill can take months to make. Company officials say they plan to expand production this year.
Why does it take so long? @thpmurphy explains: https://t.co/MqPgaWxmIi pic.twitter.com/8NNuynIkL5
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 2, 2022
This is how the coronavirus steals the sense of smell: The virus doesn't infect nerve cells that detect odors. Instead, it attacks nearby supporting cells https://t.co/8wqpirkbqD pic.twitter.com/XzLgpYnMJX
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 3, 2022
How Covid directly infects the male genital tract https://t.co/Kb6XgxrVlq whole body PET in non-human primates explains mechanism of erectile dysfunction @HopeLab_NU @NUFeinbergMed @NorthwesternU pic.twitter.com/9Cmd5B2HP0
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 2, 2022
Why omicron is more infectious than other coronavirus variants: I thought this was a well-written summary just out in @ScienceNews a bit technical for a lay person possibly but even a non-scientist can get the drift https://t.co/jLmcizC3oO
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) March 2, 2022
COVID-19-related restrictions on people's movements and interactions may be linked to a sharp decline in cases of mosquito-borne dengue fever in 2020, offering new insight into how it might be controlled, according to a study. https://t.co/Vm7NjM7dfJ
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 3, 2022
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Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4 https://t.co/ET9YkICHn1 pic.twitter.com/oW8ajreUru
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 3, 2022
Wow – Sen. Tim Kaine has long covid.
“I tell people it feels like all my nerves have had like five cups of coffee." It's a “24/7” tingling sensation, he says.
Introduces legislation to study it: https://t.co/dmyOXdcrY5
— Elena Schneider (@ec_schneider) March 2, 2022
'Inventing Anna' Sorokin sues over COVID boosters while in ICE custody https://t.co/YqciNTLsIv pic.twitter.com/2DWD6kGQkJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 3, 2022
Anna Sorokin, a German woman convicted of posing as a wealthy heiress to scam banks, hotels and New York socialites, has sued federal immigration authorities for refusing to provide COVID-19 booster shots to her and other detainees facing deportation.
Sorokin, who is the subject of Netflix’s new drama, “Inventing Anna,” and three other detainees represented by the American Civil Liberties Union filed the complaint in Washington, D.C. federal court on Tuesday. They say U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is violating the constitutional rights of medically vulnerable detainees by ignoring their requests for booster shots…
According to Tuesday’s complaint, Sorokin tested positive for COVID-19 in January, a month after her written request for a booster shot was ignored, and suffered from a high fever, persistent cough and other symptoms. Sorokin has a chronic kidney infection and other medical issues, according to the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs are seeking to represent a nationwide class of detainees who are 55 or older or who have medical conditions that place them at higher risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19…
ICE has said that tens of thousands of its detainees have received COVID-19 vaccines, but Tuesday’s lawsuit says the agency has not adopted any policy regarding booster doses…
Shit like this is getting people killed pic.twitter.com/fa2beyYni5
— Frankie Huang 黄碧赤? (@ourobororoboruo) March 2, 2022
Baud
Maybe we can give China Dr. Oz to make things even.
germy
(screenshot of his statement about losing IQ points)
OzarkHillbilly
And the GOP gave us the stupid.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
171 new cases on 3/2. Damn, still going up.
Matt McIrvin
I’ve been wondering about all the reports about Vladimir Putin taking extreme COVID precautions, basically completely isolating himself from human contact. Only just occurred to me that he might be unvaccinated out of mistrust of anyone sticking a needle in him.
New Deal democrat
Nationwide cases are down to 58,000. This is slightly below the worst peak in 2020 up until November, but is lower than at any point in 2021 except for March and May through July. Deaths declined to 1725, a 1/3rd decline from peak, but still well above average for 2020 and 2021. Aside from holiday distortions, deaths have recently been declining at roughly 50 per day. This is nevertheless a much slower rate of decline than in cases. For deaths the best region is the Northeast, down 65% from peak. The worst is the South, down less than 30%. The South was the region that clearly did the worst during Omicron, with a higher death rate at peak compared with any other region, which only ended 2 weeks ago.
US Census regions vary between 13 (Northeast) to 20 (West) cases per day per 100,000. This is on par with most Canadian provinces, which vary between 8(BC) and 24(NS) cases.
PR has resumed its place as the best US jurisdiction, at 7 cases, followed by LA, IN, MD, CT, OH, SD, NY, PA, and DC with 11 cases. The worst State (leaving aside NE’s huge data dump) is ID, at 82 cases, followed by ME, MT, AK, KY, WV, NH, IA, NV, and NC with 25 cases.
The only States showing increases are IA, ID, NV, and WA. Several of these appear to be data dumps.
Other noteworthy States include CA at 17, TX at 16, FL at 17, IL at 13, and NJ at 14. In general even the best Jurisdictions remain above their summer 2020 and 2021 levels.
Since deaths have tended to have longer peaks than cases, it may be that the laggard South is the reason why deaths in the US have not declined more.
OzarkHillbilly
As best I can tell, he’s been demented for a long long time.
OzarkHillbilly
@Matt McIrvin: Not sure why he’d worry about it as there’s no vaccine against sociopathy.
Baud
I wonder why.
YY_Sima Qian
On 3/2 Mainland China reported 54 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic), 37 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Guangdong Province reported 28 new domestic confirmed & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases. As the province does not breakdown recoveries between domestic & imported cases, I cannot track the count of active cases in parts of the province.
Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed (both previously asymptomatic, both mild) & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Fangchenggang, all the new domestic positive cases are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine. The outbreak at Fangchenggang is of Omicron BA.2 Variant. 32 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 153 active domestic confirmed (108 at Baise, 44 at Fangchenggang & 1 at Nanning) & 12 active domestic asymptomatic cases (all at Fangchenggang) in the province. 1 zone at Fangchenggang is currently at Medium Risk.
At Shaoyang in Hunan Province there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city, part of the transmission chain spreading from Shenzhen in Guangdong.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 7 new domestic confirmed cases. 27 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 320 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Tianjin Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (mild), a traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine. There currently are 21 active domestic confirmed cases (15 mild & 6 moderate) in the city. 1 massage parlor is currently at High Risk.
Shandong Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 6 active domestic confirmed cases (all at Qingdao) & 1 active asymptomatic (at Yantai) cases in the province. 1 residential compound at Qingdao has been elevated to Medium Risk.
Shanxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. There currently are 18 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the province, all part of the transmission chain spreading from Hohhot in Inner Mongolia.
Hebei Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at Handan, There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (at Handan) & 1 active asymptomatic case (at Shijiazhuang) in the province.
Huludao in Liaoning Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 191 active domestic confirmed cases in the city (all presumed Delta). 1 village at Suizhong County is currently at High Risk.
Heilongjiang Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 21 active domestic confirmed& 43 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hunchun in Yanbian Prefecture Jilin Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed (all mild) & 7 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 1 from voluntary screening & 9 are traced close contacts. There currently are 7 active domestic confirmed & 11 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Hainan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 1 active confirmed (at Sanya) & 1 active domestic asymptomatic (at Chengmai County) cases in the province.
Shanghai Municipality reported 3 new domestic confirmed & 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 7 traced close contacts of the domestic confirmed case reported on 3/2, all members of the same old lady dance group, who have been practicing in the activity center designated as Medium Risk on 3/2. 1 domestic asymptomatic case is a quarantine hotel worker, a traced close contact of a domestic asymptotic case reported on 2/27. There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed & 15 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 supermarket has been elevated to Medium Risk. An activity center & a supermarket are currently at Medium Risk.
Hubei Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed cases (1 mild & 3 moderate), all at Wuhan, 3 are traced close contacts already under centralized quarantine & 1 is a bus driver that tested positive during regular screening. There currently are 32 active domestic confirmed (24 mild & 8 moderate, all at Wuhan) & 8 active domestic asymptomatic (7 at Wuhan & 1 at Huanggang) cases in the province. 4 residential buildings & 1 hotel at Wuhan are currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. 18 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 78 active domestic confirmed & 30 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Sichuan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. There currently are 36 active domestic confirmed & 13 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Xiamen in Fujian Province there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city, a person who entered centralized quarantine to care for in under aged child arriving from overseas.
At Henan Province 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 3 active domestic confirmed cases remaining.
Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 9 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 47 active domestic confirmed & 109 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the province.
Imported Cases
On 3/2, Mainland China reported 160 new imported confirmed cases (24 previously asymptomatic, 12 in Guangdong), 106 imported asymptomatic cases, 5 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 119 confirmed cases recovered (40 imported), 28 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (27 imported) & 26 were reclassified as confirmed cases (24 imported), & 3,757 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 3,094 active confirmed cases in the country (1,843 imported), 20 in serious condition (2 imported), 1,298 active asymptomatic cases (951 imported), 9 suspect cases (all imported). 86,697 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 3/2, 3,141.473M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 5.875M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 3/3, Hong Kong reported 56,827 new positive cases (2 imported & 58,825 domestic), 144 deaths (only 10 fully vaccinated).
On 3/3, Taiwan reported 71 new positive cases, 66 imported & 5 domestic.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 27,500 new Covid-19 cases yesterday in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 3,496,090 cases. It also reported 115 deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 32,942 deaths – 0.94% of the cumulative reported total, 1.03% of resolved cases.
Malaysia’s nationwide Rt stands at 1.00.
139 confirmed cases are in ICU, 79 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 27,557 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 3,169,669 patients recovered – 90.7% of the cumulative reported total.
Nine new clusters were reported yesterday, for a cumulative total of 6,798 clusters. 475 clusters are currently active; 6,323 clusters are now inactive.
27,072 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. 428 new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 97,534 doses of vaccine on 2nd March: 26,923 first doses, 1,389 second doses, and 69,222 booster doses. The cumulative total is 67,416,313 doses administered: 27,059,395 first doses, 25,753,663 second doses, and 14,810,832 booster doses. 82.9% of the population have received their first dose, 78.9% their second dose, and 45.4% their booster dose.
Anyway
Bullshit AP radio reporter- “Desantis is strongly against mask mandates” without mentioning the students he yelled at were wearing masks voluntarily. $$^%$+%
Fuck the MSM
YY_Sima Qian
Inevitably, as the cost of maintaining “Dynamic Zero COVID” mounts in face of Omicron BA.2, the Chinese authorities are starting to evaluate when & how to start relaxing restrictions.
“Dynamic Zero” & strict controls/quarantines at the border absolutely should still be maintained when there is a tsunami in Hong Kong & very high prevalence across most of SE Asia & NE Asia, as well as only 50% of the > 80 cohort have been fully vaccinated. However, since the CCP party state dominates all levers of power in China, it is the regime’s responsibility to get the vaccination rate of the elders much higher, just like it is the regime’s responsibility to negotiation for licensed production of Paxlovid pills, approve & ramp up the domestic production of the BioNTech vaccine, accelerate the development of pan-coronavirus vaccines (or approve foreign ones), etc.
Kay
It’s good, I think that’s he’s doing this. Kind of the flip side of shrieking at high school students and demanding they take off their masks for a photo op. A lot of people say they have lingering effects. They should at least be taken seriously.
Anyway
Oz and his opponent in the PA senate primary are ruining my Jeopardy experience with their outlandish and nasty ads. I am good at hitting mute but sometimes can’t reach the remote on time.
Peale
@germy: before COVID his senses were so strong that he could apparently see what kind of virus he had.
I’m so glad he’s no longer gay. Was an embarrassment to my tribe. He can go and embarrass someone else’s tribe now.
Anyway
Mary G. Hope you’re doing better this morning.
Baud
@Peale:
?
Kay
@Anyway:
The worst part of that video is the DeSantis aides grinning as he pitches his hissy fit. They love bullies on the Right. They admire that.
debbie
@Anyway:
Does he have kids?
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Milo became ex-gay last year.
Peale
@Baud: haven’t you heard. Milo cured himself. The gay fascist thing wasn’t paying the bills so much. So now he’s an ex gay fascist.
Baud
@Steeplejack:
Thanks. I congratulate the gays.
Baud
@Peale:
Conservative christians have money to burn. It’s a good financial move.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Baud: Yes, what Oz’s point? A lot of pandemics start out in China, 1/4 of the worlds population and all that.
Baud
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
“Vote for me because I’m the biggest racist in the GOP primary.”
YY_Sima Qian
@Baud: Anti-Chinese red-baiting looks to be the centerpiece of the GOP’s strategy for the mid-terms, again, disguised as anti-CCP & anti-autocracy, but in reality more of their brand of authoritarianism, militarism & crony capitalism.
Anyway
@debbie:
Wikipedia says DeSantis has 3 kids.
If a Dem politician had yelled at kids it would be covered so differently. I can’t stand the different standards for Rethugs.
Baud
@YY_Sima Qian:
Every race gets its turn.
Baud
@Anyway:
QFT.
The Thin Black Duke
@Baud: “It follows a scheme, if you dig what I mean.”
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Steeplejack: Why do suddenly I find myself skeptical about Milo’s claim of having Covid Deminta?
YY_Sima Qian
@Baud: & yet a portion of Chinese Americans (including some of those originating from Hong Kong & Taiwan) are all in on Trumpism, due to a combination of cultural conservatism, economic libertarianism, anti-CCPism & brainwashing by Falun Gong media. That will not protect them from harassment/threats by the racists & xenophobes, however.
Nelle
@OzarkHillbilly: GOP gave us Putin and treason.
OzarkHillbilly
@Nelle: The GOP didn’t give us Putin, Putin bought and paid for them fair and square.
Nelle
@OzarkHillbilly: you are right. Conveyed? Injected? Into American political bloodstream?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@YY_Sima Qian: Probably a big hunk of religion along with that. American God Botherers here believe as a matter of faith that disease is the Wrath of God, all Chines are godless Commies in their mind so therefor China must be a minion of Satan and Covid was made in the same factory in China were dinosaur fossils are faked.
debbie
@Anyway:
Plenty shameful that a father would yell at kids, period.
Ken
Creates the funny image of him taking twice-daily tests to monitor his IQ level, like it was blood sugar or O2 levels.
(Well, I thought it was funny.)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
On the positive side; if DeSantis is that easily to troll that a bunch of kids can do it by accident I suspect DeSantis’ 2024 presidential ambitions will end up in a Cris Christie style face plant.
Baud
@YY_Sima Qian:
钻石和丝绸
Kay
Go dad.
sdhays
@YY_Sima Qian: It’s been really amazing and depressing to see how people see Tramp as “tough on China” when he was and is nothing more than racist and a load mouth.
The Tramp years have a been a horrible lesson in how much humans can just see what they want to see.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Greece: according to Kathimerini, yesterday’s 6pm report listed 15,557 new cases, 57 dead, and intubated ICU cases down to 399.
The Minister of Health announced that outdoor masking mandates will be lifted on Saturday.
I’m planning to restock my FFP2 masks and keep on using them whenever I know or suspect I’ll be in an indoor public place, and continue to use surgical masks routinely out of doors.
Soprano2
@germy: That’s nuts, he says he got a “vaccine-enhanced” version of Covid. There is no such thing.
I read an article about a new health clinic that opened here last November. It’s run by an orthopedic surgeon who was fired from Mercy because he refused to get vaccinated. They specialize in all those quack treatments for Covid. His wife, who runs the clinics (there are 2 of them now, and they’re going to try to go national with this idiocy) says she’ll go to jail before she’ll change the way she treats patients. I want to tell her lady, there are all kinds of holistic clinics everywhere and no one is closing them down. As long as they have an M.D. on staff they’ll be able to do pretty much whatever they want. I don’t know how long they’ll be viable since they don’t take any kind of insurance or Medicare/Medicaid in order to keep anyone from telling them how to treat patients.
Soprano2
@Kay: I agree, good for him. I’m hoping this will help others with poorly-understood auto-immune diseases like chronic fatigue. I know someone my age who has that, and it’s debilitating. Doctors still don’t know much about it. I have another friend who became disabled from something the doctors were never able to figure out; she thinks it was from a tick bite.
Soprano2
@Kay: Almost seems like it was planned, doesn’t it? I wish all of the students had kept their masks on, but it’s hard to stand up for yourself against the governor no matter what age you are.
YY_Sima Qian
@Baud: I had to search Wikipedia for Diamond & Silk. I have been away from the States for too long!
YY_Sima Qian
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Religion is part of it.
Soprano2
@sdhays: I’ve taken to telling the TFG supporters that they mistake belligerence and bellicosity for strength.
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2: They will last until the filing of the first malpractice lawsuit.
Steeplejack
@sdhays:
Are we talking about the Donald “tough on China” Trump whose daughter was being awarded Chinese trademarks practically on a weekly basis?
Baud
@YY_Sima Qian:
I apologize for bringing them to your awareness.
@Soprano2:
A lot of people on our side make the same mistake.
VOR
@Kay: They accuse liberals of wearing masks as a way of virtue signaling. But yelling at people wearing masks is vice signaling, a way to assure his intended voters that he is indeed the asshole they yearn for.
Everyone knew TFG was an asshole back in 2015, but he was THEIR asshole who hated the same people they did. DeSantis seems to want some of that same flavor.
Soprano2
The good news here is that the 7-day case average is 42, which is close to what it was in October 2021. Not good enough, but a lot better. The vaxx rate is slowly, slowly going up. However, they increased February deaths from 11 to 22. Omicron still wasn’t as fatal as Delta, but I figure the vast majority of those deaths were preventable.
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: Did you hear that our state lege must have slept at a Holiday Inn, because they’ve decided they can practice medicine? They’re trying to pass a law that would mandate that unvaccinated people couldn’t be denied organ transplants! Since when did they become doctors?
And yeah, my first thought was what would happen when someone who got treated at that clinic dies? I wonder if that doctor can even get malpractice insurance.
lowtechcyclist
@OzarkHillbilly:
I used to wonder: if they say Covid is some sort of hostile action by China, why is it some sort of liberal plot to defend against it?
Then I remembered: the libs are the true enemy, and the only way Russia or China or any other country matter is if they can be used to own the libs.
lowtechcyclist
And they love ex-gays. None of them seem to stay ‘ex’ all that long, but probably long enough for Milo to rake in some of that sweet grift money.
Lacuna Synecdoche
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Because the idea of Milo having dementia raises the question: How could they tell?
LongHairedWeirdo
Respectfully, dickhead, there was plenty of cause to study long covid *BEFORE* it got personal.
Want me to apologize? I’m sorry to any assgrabber who thinks with his dick, not his head, for using “dickhead” to describe something so *foul* that even a serial assgrabber gets to feel insulted by the comparison.
WE HAVE BEEN SUFFERING ALL ALONG – THAT IS WHAT MAKES YOU A DICKHEAD. You just didn’t make it a priority, until if affected *you*.