Current Events > Coronavirus 21: Relapse

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19 New cases in Hawaii.

I expect this number to get a lot worse when various universities here open up for the Fall. The biggest public State university has basically stated that dorm occupancy is maxed (2000), and that students who weren't lucky with the housing lotto find off-campus housing (about another ~1000).

Also going on a honor system, in that students are trusted to travel only from the dorms to campus for 14 days.

HiddenRoar posted...

19 New cases in Hawaii.

I expect this number to get a lot worse when various universities here open up for the Fall. The biggest public State university has basically stated that dorm occupancy is maxed (2000), and that students who weren't lucky with the housing lotto find off-campus housing (about another ~1000).

Also going on a honor system, in that students are trusted to travel only from the dorms to campus for 14 days.

*speechless*

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*spits tobaccy*
This heres all a buncha libral hocus pocus, I tell you hwhat. They just won't us ta stay at home in November so they get all them votes fer that Biden feller

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145 new cases in my county today compared to 26 yesterday. Im hoping some were just not reported yesterday...Even tho our new cases are trending down our hospital are using Alaska tents as additional ICU now

https://twitter.com/Cate__Johnson/status/1283490629268512771?s=19

Getting yourself killed to own the libs. Or something.

Idk. Why are people so fucking stupid when it comes to masks, that they're willing to die in a police shootout over not wearing one?

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Eevee-Trainer posted...

https://twitter.com/Cate__Johnson/status/1283490629268512771?s=19

Getting yourself killed to own the libs. Or something.

Idk. Why are people so fucking stupid when it comes to masks, that they're willing to die in a police shootout over not wearing one?

That's just.. wow

Eevee-Trainer posted...

https://twitter.com/Cate__Johnson/status/1283490629268512771?s=19

Getting yourself killed to own the libs. Or something.

Idk. Why are people so fucking stupid when it comes to masks, that they're willing to die in a police shootout over not wearing one?

Ok....That is the stupidest reason to get into a shootout with police.

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https://twitter.com/nationalpost/status/1284151212837830657

Learned nothing from New York, Italy, Spain, Wuhan...

Gotta love the GOP.

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1284287495069409280?s=21

Feels like everyday is the new record now

new corona cases for oregon 17th of july 2020: 307 new cases and 5 deaths
highest cases by county: Multnomah (88), Marion (39), Umatilla (38), Washington (37)

there's also 6 more county cases announced today. 5 off one family and 1 other case which likely wont show up in the numbers till tomorrow
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Texas is gonna have like 60,000 people that don't give a fuck at the NASCAR race tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes

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#407 is gone, but does
"Getting yourself killed to own the libs. Or something."

apply when you consider it occurred in Canada?

CobraGT posted...

*speechless*

They uploaded a new post; an estimated 8000 will arrive from the U.S. mainland and international (mainly the former), for higher education (all or most universities, public and private, in Hawaii).

One silver lining is that Hawaii Island and Maui is not participating in the "modified quarantine" plan (but interisland travel is allowed, travelers are not required to quarantine anyways, so...)

"Daily Health Checks" will be the conducted and is the responsibility of the universities participating, but all it consists of is a temperature check (which we all know can be bypassed with a Tylenol or two) and a questionnaire.
Students will be expected to report immediately to health officials if they start experiencing any symptoms associated with COVID within those 14 days upon arrival (*rolls eyes*)

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hockeybub89 posted...

Texas is gonna have like 60,000 people that don't give a fuck at the NASCAR race tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes

What race is this?

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Just thought of something.

If Biden wins and actually starts taking COVID-19 seriously and gets shit taken care of, that's just going to make all the conspiracy fuckheads say "SEE I TOLD YOU IT WAS JUST A HOAX TO GET RID OF TRUMP"

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PrideOfLion posted...

I told my dad it was a stupid ass idea

they never listen till it's too late :(. hopefully he survives from this with more wisdom to take a pandemic more seriously.

new coronavirus cases for july 18th 2020: 353 new cases, 3 deaths
highest cases by county: Multnomah (87), Washington (47), Lane (37), Umatilla (35)
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damn, i wonder what the next goalpost is after florida,texas, and arizona pass NYC covid deaths

soulunison2 posted...

damn, i wonder what the next goalpost is after florida,texas, and arizona pass NYC covid deaths

No California?

HiddenRoar posted...

No California?

ti's interchangeable with NYC, I listed red states cuz NIMBYisms

Cases and hospitalizations in Arizona seem to have plateaued, but still very high. Hopefully things will start to get better in the coming weeks.

umax555 posted...

New cases and hospitalizations in Arizona seem to have plateaued, but still very high. Hopefully things will start to get better in the coming weeks.

i hear that's because testing can't keep up with cases

soulunison2 posted...

i hear that's because testing can't keep up with cases

Hospitalizations seem to have plateaued too which wouldn't be explained by the inability to keep up with testing. So that gives me a little bit of hope. Mask wearing has increased a ton since they were mandated a few weeks back, so that may have helped.

umax555 posted...

Hospitalizations seem to have plateaued too which wouldn't be explained by the inability to keep up with testing. So that gives me a little bit of hope. Mask wearing has increased a ton since they were mandated a few weeks back, so that may have helped.

Do hospitals wait for the tests to come back before admitting?

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GregShmedley posted...

https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1284578662336126976?s=19

Welp, this narrative is coming back...

So Texas' 'real' numbers could be lower than what's being reported by the news?

HiddenRoar posted...

So Texas' 'real' numbers could be lower than what's being reported by the news?

I mean, their ICUs are almost full or are full by now, which is the important part and it's bad enough that their moron governor was finally like "ummm we might have to do something about this".

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Stop believing the tweets of crazy people

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https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1284707375585341440?s=19

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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1284593816943628288?s=21

I dont know why anyone ever thought differently.

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1284871846995910656

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LameFAQs posted...

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1284593816943628288?s=21

I dont know why anyone ever thought differently.

Just think if this had not been published until after schools opened. *assuming most schools will not*

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CobraGT posted...

Do hospitals wait for the tests to come back before admitting?

I know at least many of the hospitals are doing rapid tests on every patient that gets admitted

DundiesAward posted...

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1284871846995910656

My fear is that governor Ducey and the general public will declare victory again too early. We need to keep the mask mandates in place for at least another couple months (or ideally until there's a vaccine).

umax555 posted...

ideally until there's a vaccine

the virus ain't going to get stamped out easily. as long as there's 1 person >< we'll all get infected.
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There are no ICU beds available at 49 Florida hospitals

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-19-20-intl/h_4568646d74f57c7a13f0215b05bb0054

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Oxford releases their early stage phase 3 trial data tomorrow. Crossing my fingers its positive news to have some semblance of normalcy by 2021...

Turtlemayor333 posted...

Stop believing the tweets of crazy people

??
I was reading an Atlantic article and at the bottom (where they recommend more articles), there was the same thing as the tweet.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conflating the results of two different types of coronavirus tests, distorting several important metrics and providing the country with an inaccurate picture of the state of the pandemic. Weve learned that the CDC is making, at best, a debilitating mistake: combining test results that diagnose current coronavirus infections with test results that measure whether someone has ever had the virus. The upshot is that the governments disease-fighting agency is overstating the countrys ability to test people who are sick with COVID-19. The agency confirmed to The Atlantic on Wednesday that it is mixing the results of viral and antibody tests, even though the two tests reveal different information and are used for different reasons.
This is not merely a technical error. States have set quantitative guidelines for reopening their economies based on these flawed data points.
Several statesincluding Pennsylvania, the site of one of the countrys largest outbreaks, as well as Texas, Georgia, and Vermontare blending the data in the same way. Virginia likewise mixed viral and antibody test results until last week, but it reversed course and the governor apologized for the practice after it was covered by the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Atlantic. Maine similarly separated its data on Wednesday; Vermont authorities claimed they didnt even know they were doing this.

The widespread use of the practice means that it remains difficult to know exactly how much the countrys ability to test people who are actively sick with COVID-19 has improved.

Also nice to know this bit:
A negative test result means something different for each test. If somebody tests negative on a viral test, a doctor can be relatively confident that they are not sick right now; if somebody tests negative on an antibody test, they have probably never been infected with or exposed to the coronavirus. (Or they may have been given a false resultantibody tests are notoriously less accurate on an individual level than viral tests.) The problem is that the CDC is clumping negative results from both tests together in its public reporting.

*had not heard this one before* https://www.wbez.org/stories/profile-of-a-killer-unraveling-the-deadly-new-coronavirus/1278dba9-4db5-488d-8fbd-efb3d0bce1f3

"Kidneys and livers fail in some patients, and blood clots put limbs at risk of amputation."

"Hundreds of studies are under way, testing existing medicines and experimental ones. So far, only one a common steroid called dexamethasone has been shown to increase survival."

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CobraGT posted...

*had not heard this one before* https://www.wbez.org/stories/profile-of-a-killer-unraveling-the-deadly-new-coronavirus/1278dba9-4db5-488d-8fbd-efb3d0bce1f3

"Kidneys and livers fail in some patients, and blood clots put limbs at risk of amputation."

"Hundreds of studies are under way, testing existing medicines and experimental ones. So far, only one a common steroid called dexamethasone has been shown to increase survival."

Didn't the 40 something year old Broadway actor who died within the last week or two receive an amputation or two during his very long fight with covid? I want to say he was in the hospital for two months or something like that. His particular experience sounded very horrific and I feel like I remember him dealing with other issues beyond amputation(s).

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TommyG663513 posted...

Didn't the 40 something year old Broadway actor who died within the last week or two receive an amputation or two during his very long fight with covid? I want to say he was in the hospital for two months or something like that. His particular experience sounded very horrific and I feel like I remember him dealing with other issues beyond amputation(s).

Yep, he for sure had to have at least one amputation done. He was in the hospital for just over three months.

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

Yep, he for sure had to have at least one amputation done

the information is confirmed. if look on the internet could find the actor who had a whole bunch of procedures done to save his life but it wasn't enough including the amputation.

oregon coronavirus information for july 19th 2020: 436 new cases, 3 deaths
highest cases by county: Multnomah (123), Umatilla (78), Washington (57), Marion (46)
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Man. I mean, I understand why we can't have answers to these questions, because science takes time and all, but it's so frustrating not knowing why some of these extreme cases end up happening. Like, certainly a vast majority of cases don't end up resulting in amputations and the like, but why did it happen for some?

Are we any closer on having an estimate as to how many people who "recover" end up with permanent (or long term) organ damage? Like, is it practically a guarantee, or is that also something of an outlier?

Something else I frequently wonder is, when people talk about "asymptomatic cases", does that mean some people get it and never show noticeable symptoms, or does that just referring to people who do eventually develop symptoms normally but are still contagious beforehand? I don't really understand that part.

I dunno. This past week, a couple things that hit close to home happened, and I've been slightly rattled. Unfortunately, I think it's inevitable I'm going to get it eventually, because my three coworkers actively think coronavirus is not a big deal and they refuse to wear masks or alter their lives in any way to be safe. I try my best to keep myself safe from them, but I don't think it will be enough in the long run.

MRW1215 posted...

Unfortunately, I think it's inevitable I'm going to get it eventually

i'm probably going to get it tomorrow. i don't want to go to a gathering (even if it's a small one with less than 5 people) there's cases in this county and i don't trust going anywhere that isn't the supermarket/car with roommate i live with.
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Went to pick up a pizza at Little Caesars and not one employee was wearing a mask. Every other restaurant I've been to since this all started has has everyone in masks. Wish it was a requirement here but that's the price you pay for living in a red state I suppose.

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https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1285299379746811915?s=21

^LOL

Tired-Insomniac posted...

Went to pick up a pizza at Little Caesars and not one employee was wearing a mask. Every other restaurant I've been to since this all started has has everyone in masks. Wish it was a requirement here but that's the price you pay for living in a red state I suppose.

Which state, if I may?

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PatrickMahomes posted...

Which state, if I may?

Nebraska

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