MichaelE wrote:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
MichaelE wrote:
https://archive.is/5P5Ni
Sajid Javid: World leaders have acted like panicked shoppers hoarding
lavatory paper
Health Secretary’s comments, made in a research paper, accuse
governments of ‘herd behaviour’ in the face of Covid pandemic
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Dominic Penna
3 July 2021 • 9:30pm
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Sajid Javid confirms final stage of lockdown is 19 July, pledging an
'exciting new journey'
Sajid Javid accused world leaders of “herd behaviour” in their response
to the coronavirus pandemic and likened them to panicked shoppers who
hoarded toilet paper, The Telegraph can reveal.
The new Health Secretary made the comments in a research paper in
December 2020 that he produced in his role as a senior fellow at Harvard >>>> Kennedy School.
Mr Javid, who this week ruled out any further extension of Covid
restrictions beyond July 19, also spoke of the need for the economic
responses to the virus to be “overhauled”.
His comments are likely to add to the optimism of some Conservative MPs >>>> that Mr Javid will take a less hardline approach to lockdowns than his >>>> predecessor Matt Hancock, who resigned last week.
Governments of democratic industrialised nations demonstrated “herd
behaviour” by allowing the existing policies of other countries to
dictate their virus response, the former Chancellor argued.
“Many factors that took place during Covid provided heightened
conditions for herd behaviour ... crisis, fear, volatility and
uncertainty all increase [its] likelihood,” Mr Javid wrote.
“Or the interaction between global leaders’ identity grouping and
decision making, as the fact that other types of herd behaviour were
observed in most populations – e.g. hoarding of toilet paper – and the >>>> market (massive volatility).
“If indeed herd behaviour took place, it would be important to consider >>>> how this behavior can negatively impact equilibria, for example giving >>>> ‘first movers’ outsized influence in a final equilibrium.”
Eastern countries have responded better than West
Mr Javid’s research concludes that “behavioural differences in human >>>> contact” explain why South Korea and Taiwan’s rates of infection have >>>> been significantly lower than those in Western countries.
He cited mask-wearing, “obesity differences in East versus West” and the
contrast between bowing and hugging as factors that account for the
higher levels of cases, hospitalisations and deaths in the UK and Spain. >>>> On Britain’s multiple lockdowns, he wrote: “The magnitude of the impact
of Covid-19 is due in part to the economic and social pain that various >>>> forms of lockdown have caused.
“It is already clear that although the governments of developed
countries had pre-existing, detailed plans to respond to a pandemic, few >>>> have managed this particular crisis well. The way we prepare for public >>>> health shocks of this nature will need to be overhauled.”
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An aversion to trade-offs – including weighing up the needs of the
economy against the health of the population – was among the “dangerous”
biases shown by politicians during a crisis, he added.
Other trade-offs identified in the research include health versus
privacy, health versus property rights and “optimism bias versus risk >>>> averseness”.
Mr Javid said the about-turns that had characterised much of the UK
Government’s response to the virus were an “essential feature of good >>>> policy making” in light of new and changeable information, but added >>>> politicians must do more to defend U-turns’ “healthy role within
democracies”.
Taking to the Despatch Box on Monday, he told MPs that no date of
restrictions was risk-free and that Britons must learn to live with the >>>> virus.
“Make no mistake, the restrictions on our freedoms must come to an end,”
he said. “We owe it to the British people not to wait a moment longer >>>> than we need to.”
Mr Javid’s appointment to his new role has cheered lockdown sceptics on >>>> the Tory back benches. He was the most high-profile Conservative
politician to call for a reopening of the economy in May 2020.
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The following month, Mr Javid authored a separate report for the Centre >>>> for Policy Studies think-tank which offered 63 different recommendations >>>> about restoring economic growth.
He used his introduction to the research paper to insist that the focus >>>> of the ministers “must shift from safeguarding the economy to rebuilding >>>> it”.
Proposals included significant temporary cuts to employer’s National >>>> Insurance, major planning law reform and fast-tracking plans for
infrastructure projects.
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the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, & Delta
lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current COVID
vaccines no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, not only don't have
COVID-19 but are rapture (Luke 17:37) ready and pray (2 Chronicles
7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in Heaven continues to
give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so
that we'd have much more of His Help to always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including especially caring to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John 15:12 as shown by http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) with all glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm117_ ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
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Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewToutsHunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory to
GOD, Who causes us to hunger (Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us
right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby removing the http://HeartMDPhD.com/VAT
from around the heart
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
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Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
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HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
MichaelE wrote:
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/30/australians-will-be-able-to-freely-travel-overseas-when-80-of-the-population-is-vaccinated-morrison-says
Australians will be able to freely travel overseas when 80% of the
population is vaccinated, Morrison says
But theres no indication when that target may be met in the updated
national pandemic exit plan released on Friday
Explainer: What you need to know about the four-phase roadmap out of Covid >>> Planes at Sydney airport
Qantas planes parked at Sydney airport in December 2020. Phase C of the
national pandemic exit plan will see all restrictions lifted on outbound >>> travel for vaccinated Australians. Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images >>> Daniel Hurst
@danielhurstbne
Fri 30 Jul 2021 06.34 EDT
Vaccinated Australians will be able to head overseas again to visit
family and friends when 80% of the adult population is fully vaccinated
under a national pandemic exit plan, the prime minister says.
But theres no target date for when that might happen and one premier
has already suggested they might not follow the revamped roadmap agreed
to by state and territory leaders on Friday.
The country is currently in phase A. Lockdowns will be less likely
under phase B which will be triggered when 70% of the adult population
has been vaccinated against Covid. That could happen by the end of 2021, >>> Scott Morrison said, but that is entirely up to how the nation responds >>> to this challenge were setting for ourselves.
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Morrison revealed the triggers to move to the next two phases the 70%
and 80% vaccination rates after Friday afternoons national cabinet.
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However, in a sign of continuing tensions in the federation, the West
Australian premier, Mark McGowan, later told reporters his state
reserves the right to lock down even after that 70% adult vaccination
target was reached.
Morrison conceded states and territories retained the power to take a
more cautious approach.
He also conceded invoking short, sharp lockdowns at the very early
stages of an outbreak was currently the best health and economic
response to the highly infectious Delta variant an approach that has
been favoured by many states and territories.
But Morrison stopped short of expressing regret for his past comments
applauding the New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, for
resisting a hard lockdown when Delta case numbers were rising in Sydney
in June.
We all humbly learn from these things and we make the adjustments and
get on with it, Morrison said.
Phase A: vaccinate, prepare and pilot
Addressing reporters outside the Lodge in Canberra, Morrison said he and >>> state and territory leaders had reached in-principle agreement on an
updated version of the four-stage opening up plan.
Australia remains in phase A, called vaccinate, prepare and pilot, in
which the aim is to strongly suppress the virus for the purpose of
minimising community transmission. That includes ramping up vaccination
rates and deploying early, stringent and short lockdowns if outbreaks
occur.
At present, just 18% of Australians aged 16 and over have received two
vaccine doses.
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Phase B: vaccine target 70%
The planned benchmark, based on yet-to-be-released modelling by the
Doherty Institute, for moving to phase B of the plan is when 70% of the
eligible population (those aged 16 and over) have received both doses of >>> a Covid vaccine.
Morrison said the plan allowed for individual states and territories to
move into the next phase at slightly different times. First, the entire
nation would need to reach the 70% target overall, and then the state or >>> territory in question would move into the phase when it individually
achieved the same target.
So, it is like a two-key process, Morrison said.
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Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning >>> He said he hoped Australia could move to phase B called the
vaccination transition phase by the end of 2021. That phase aims to
minimise serious illness, hospitalisation and fatality as a result of
Covid-19 with low-level restrictions.
Under phase B, lockdowns would be less likely but still possible. It >>> would include an easing of restrictions on vaccinated residents, with
those details yet to be decided.
Inbound passenger arrival caps would return to their previous levels for >>> unvaccinated returning travellers, and then on top of that, there would
be additional capacity for vaccinated returning travellers.
Phase C: vaccine target 80%
The planned trigger for moving to phase C is more than 80% of over-16s
having received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Then, leaders would
only ever pursue highly targeted lockdowns.
Phase C would also see vaccinated residents being exempted from all
domestic restrictions, the abolition of caps on vaccinated Australians
returning from overseas, and the lifting of all restrictions on outbound >>> travel for vaccinated Australians.
Morrison didnt reveal when this was likely to occur.
Final phase: target not yet determined
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Leaders have not yet set a trigger point for the final phase when
restrictions would be loosened even more because, they said, it was
too soon to assess the situation.
When asked whether there was anything stopping individual states from
taking a more conservative approach and delaying moving to the next
phase once they reached the specified triggers, Morrison said the
residents in those jurisdictions would be very disappointed if they
were held back along those lines.
There was certainly a good consensus today that this has to be a
national plan and that we had to move together, hence why we took the
decision that the whole country has to get there on average first before >>> any individual state can move into that next phase, the prime minister
said.
Drawing a comparison with the United Kingdom, he added: This is not
about freedom days and things like that. Weve always been in Australia
taking our own path to this. We have made our own Australian way through >>> this.
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Morrison declined to say whether he envisaged losing the next election,
due by mid-2022, if Australia was unable to reach the 70% target, saying >>> he did not intend to respond to that part of the question. But he said
he believed we can get there by the end of the year to 70%.
He said he had been greatly encouraged by the increased take-up of the >>> AstraZeneca vaccine.
Earlier on Friday, the defence minister, Peter Dutton, made a direct
appeal to people across Australia not to wait for the Pfizer vaccine,
saying the Delta variant can spread very quickly and you only need
one or two super-spreader events before you lose control of this thing. >>>
Dutton implored people not to listen to some of the rubbish online and
to the extremists in this debate who promoted hesitancy about
AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca is safe and people should have that vaccine as >>> quickly as possible, Dutton said.
Labors health spokesperson, Mark Butler, had previously said it would
be an utter disgrace if Morrison did not release the Doherty
Institutes modelling after Fridays national cabinet meeting.
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At a Senate Covid committee hearing on Friday, officials revealed there
were currently 1,279 returned travellers staying at the Howard Springs
quarantine facility in the Northern Territory, well short of the maximum >>> capacity of 2,000.
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The number is likely to ramp up in August, when 18 facilitated flights
are due to arrive, including two Australian Olympic Committee-organised
flights that will bring about 360 passengers who are part of the
Australian Olympic team.
The Department of Foreign Affairs says there are currently 38,523
Australians registered as seeking to return home from overseas, but it
notes that includes 6,039 who reported not wishing to come back until at >>> least October.
The 38,523 figure includes 4,569 people who are considered to be vulnerable.
In Indonesia which recorded a record 2,069 Covid deaths on Tuesday
about 780 Australians are registered as wishing to return home. The
Australian government hopes to arrange a facilitated flight to carry
people from Denpasar to Howard Springs on 18 August.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
Denpasar & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda &
Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
COVID vaccines no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
MichaelE wrote:
http://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1432314977956859906
"Even with vaccine mandate in place, Amherst is keeping its dining
hall closed and is barring students from going into town for
anything other than essential business like banking or pharmacy.
Am curious, are other colleges taking similarly stringent
steps?" -- Alec MacGillis
"It's pretty insane to put such harsh restrictions in place on a
campus where **everybody is fully vaccinated**. Some people
have really lost the plot." -- Nate Silver
Full COVID vaccination while helpful for survival, is not as
protective as "harsh restrictions" at preventing infection by
COVID-19, which does invade the brain (i.e. "COVID brain fog") to
cause cognitive impairment (i.e. loss of IQ by about 10 points) even
in otherwise asymptomatic students.
Source:
https://twitter.com/WDJW/status/1432742514889568265
Until when do we need harsh restrictions?
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda &
Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
COVID vaccines no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
MichaelE wrote:
http://patch.com/california/los-angeles/mystery-emerges-among-covid-19-patterns-los-angeles-county
Officials are trying to understand why some of LA's highest coronavirus
case rates are currently in communities with high vaccination rates.
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During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
communities that have higher than average vaccination rates.
During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. (Mario
Tama/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA While unvaccinated people continue to become infected, >>> hospitalized and killed by the coronavirus at dramatically higher rates, >>> a peculiar pattern is developing in Los Angeles County that has health
officials puzzling for an explanation.
During a two-week period ending Nov. 6, several of the Los Angeles
County communities with the highest rates of coronavirus cases are also
communities that have higher than average vaccination rates. Authorities >>> aren't quite sure why that would be. Differences in behavior or waning
immunity from vaccines may be factors. People in those communities may
also have lower levels of natural immunity due to historically low
levels of coronavirus exposure.
Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said authorities are >>> trying to examine what factors are in play in individual communities
that have above-average vaccination rates but still had among the
highest new-case rates. One common denominator appears to be age.
Younger people are driving this pandemic, Ferrer said.
The median age of people becoming infected ranges from 26 to 36, meaning >>> young people are driving the numbers. More than half of the county's
confirmed COVID-19 cases to date have been among people 18 to
49-year-old, according to county health officials.
"I will say the one thing that does jump out -- the average ages were
very low in all these communities," she said. "This is, essentially, in
the communities with the highest rates, this is a pandemic that is in
fact fueled by younger people."
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Given the young median age of infected people, "we know that
intermingling both socially and at work sites is contributing," she said. >>>
"Whoever you are and wherever you live, whether you live in a community
with a high vaccination rate or with not-so-high vaccination rates, the
most important thing you as a person are going to need to do is get
yourself vaccinated, the people you love vaccinated, and then be
sensible about precautions around intermingling while transmission rates >>> remain relatively high across the county," Ferrer said.
Of the 10 communities that had the highest rate of new cases, seven had
vaccination rates that exceed the countywide rate, according to Ferrer.
She insisted, however, the numbers don't mean vaccines aren't effective. >>>
"If you're not vaccinated, you've got a much higher risk of ending up
infected, ending up in the hospital and tragically passing away. That's
crystal clear and it hasn't really changed for months now," Ferrer said
during a media briefing.
She said current figures show unvaccinated people are nine times more
likely than vaccinated people to get infected, and 67 times more likely
to be hospitalized.
Communities such as Lancaster, Palmdale, Studio City and Santa Clarita
were among the 10 Los Angeles County areas that had the highest rates of >>> new COVID-19 infections during a two-week period that ended Nov. 6, even >>> though most of the areas that made the list have above-average
vaccination rates, the county's health director said Thursday.
The top two communities on the list with the highest new case rates --
Lancaster and Palmdale -- have below-average rates of fully vaccinated
residents, at 58% and 66%, respectively. But Studio City, with the
third- highest new case rate, has a 79% vaccination rate, and Santa
Clarita, placing fourth on the list, has a 75% vaccine rate.
The countywide number of fully vaccinated residents is 73%.
Of the other communities on the top 10 list of highest new-case rates,
only Willowbrook, at 62%, falls below the countywide vaccination rate.
"Some of our communities that have right now these higher case rates are >>> in fact communities that have really decent coverage in terms of
vaccination ... and they still have a problem with high case rates,"
Ferrer said.
She said a variety of factors could be at play in different communities, >>> among them the possibility that some areas had large numbers of people
who were never previously infected with COVID-19 and remain
unvaccinated, leading to higher current infection numbers.
"That certainly is possible, although we have to look at more data to
draw that conclusion," Ferrer said.
The county reported another 26 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, raising the
overall virus-related death toll to 26,949. Another 1,088 cases were
reported, giving the county a cumulative pandemic total of 1,515,324.
The rolling average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus
in the county was 1.1% as of Thursday.
According to state figures, there were 611 COVID-positive patients being >>> treated in county hospitals as of Thursday, down from 616 on Wednesday.
Of those hospitalized, 148 were in intensive care, down from 155.
Ferrer said 82% of county residents aged 12 and over have received at
least one dose of COVID vaccine, and 73% are fully vaccinated. Of the
county's overall population of 10.3 million people, 71% have received at >>> least one dose, and 63% are fully vaccinated.
She said the number of people who received a first dose of vaccine in
the past week jumped up sharply, due primarily to the expansion of
vaccine availability to include children aged 5-11.
Black residents continue to have the lowest vaccination rates, at 54%,
followed by Latina/o residents at 59%, whites at 72% and Asians at 80%.
Of the roughly 5.99 million residents who were fully vaccinated as of
Nov. 16, 75,249 have subsequently tested positive for the virus, for a
rate of 1.26%, Ferrer said. Of the vaccinated population, 2,528 have
been hospitalized, for a rate of 0.042%, and 422 have died, a rate of
0.007%.
Ferrer noted that the county has not seen a spike in COVID infections
following Halloween, unlike the situation last year when cases began
rising sharply. She said she is hopeful that residents will continue to
exercise caution over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.
"We will need to take a cautionary note from what we're currently seeing >>> in other parts of the United States and in other parts of the world
right now," Ferrer said. "In the Mountain West and throughout Europe,
cases are rising and hospitals are once more flooded with COVID cases,
almost all of them among unvaccinated people. These trends remind us
that the virus is much more easily transmitted when people are indoors
and intermingling without protection from vaccines and other mitigation
measures."
City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://bit.ly/convince_it_forward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu &
Delta lineage mutations combining to form hybrids that render current
COVID vaccines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/11/what-do-we-do-about-covid-now >>>
What Do We Do About COVID Now?
Americas battle with the pandemic has been more damaging than we like
to think. And it is still ongoing.
By Dhruv Khullar
April 3, 2022
If I look at the mass, I will never act, Mother Teresa once said. If
I look at the one, I will. During the pandemic, weve all grappled with >>> this dynamic. Our country is on the cusp of a grim milestone: soon, a
million people in the United States will have died of covid-19. Yet for
many Americans this reality seems vague, abstracta group problem for
which we must take individual responsibility. We struggle to see the
crisis were in.
COVID as flowers blooming on tree overlooking the city
Illustration by Joo Fazenda
Part of the problem is fatigue. Another is that the coronavirus has
exacted its toll unevenly. covid is relatively unthreatening to younger
people, but has killed one in seventy-five older Americans; residents of >>> long-term-care facilities make up less than three per cent of the
population, but have accounted for about one in five covid deaths. The
death rate for Blacks and Hispanics has been twice that for whites. And, >>> owing to divergent immunization rates, people in the reddest counties
have been dying at more than three times the rate of those in the
bluest. For some of us, the pandemic may feel over, but more Americans
died of covid in 2021 than in 2020. So far in 2022, the virus has taken
another hundred and thirty thousand lives.
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It can be hard to grasp the meaning of such numbers. We might come to
terms with them by noting that U.S. life expectancy has now fallen by
nearly two yearsthe sharpest single-year decline since the Second World >>> War. We might count lost time, years forgone with family, friends, and
colleagues. An eighty-year-old who died during the pandemic lost an
average of almost eight years of life; a forty-year-old lost nearly four >>> decades. This means that a million deaths will have expunged tens of
millions of years of lifea mass erasure of new, strange, and wonderful
possibilities.
One of the most prevalent false beliefs about the pandemic is that the
government has exaggerated the number of deaths; in fact, the official
count is an underestimate. Since the pandemic began, at least a hundred
thousand more people have died in this country than would have during
normal times. Many of these excess deaths are uncounted covid
fatalities. Others are the result of missed care for conditions such as
heart attacks and strokes. Drug overdoses have risen to record levels;
skipped cancer screenings and childhood vaccinations will add to the
viruss collateral damage in the years to come. The truth is that
Americas battle with covid-19 has been more damaging than we like to
think. And it is still ongoing.
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In parts of the country, cases are rising again. Reopening plays a role. >>> So does B.A.2, a subvariant of Omicron that is now dominant in the U.S.
and around the world, and is thought to be thirty to fifty per cent more >>> contagious than B.A.1, the version that swept across the U.S. this
winter. B.A.2 doesnt appear to be more lethal, and vaccines remain
effective at averting the most serious consequences of infection; still, >>> it promises to cause breakthrough infections, and presents a serious
threat to the elderly, the immunocompromised, and the unvaccinated. Last >>> month, B.A.2 nearly tripled coronavirus cases in the U.K.; at one point, >>> one in thirty older Britons was thought to be infected. covid
hospitalizations and deaths rose, though not as dramaticallyprexisting >>> immunity softened the blow.
Its not clear exactly how Americas B.A.2 story will unfold. Our
vaccination rates are lower than those of many European nations: just
two-thirds of Americans are fully vaccinated, and although the F.D.A.
has now approved a second booster for people over fifty, just sixty per
cent of them have received their first. Meanwhile, many states have done >>> away with most pandemic restrictions, and people are increasingly
returning to their pre-pandemic routines. Still, because immunity
against B.A.1 appears to protect against B.A.2, the U.S. may escape the
worst consequences: according to one estimate, nearly four in five
Americans have some Omicron immunity.
In 2020, when the virus arrived, the governments response was halting
and disorganized. With time, however, something like consistency
emerged: Americans knew what was allowed and what wasnt. Were now
reverting to the Wild West phase. The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention has indicated that less than one per cent of the population
currently needs to wear masks. Some states are shutting down their
testing and vaccination sites. Earlier this year, the Biden
Administration asked for thirty billion dollars in pandemic funding, but >>> Congress agreed only to some fifteen billion, and has so far failed to
authorize even that. As a result, the federal government has reduced
shipments of monoclonal antibodies to states and delayed the purchase of >>> more antiviral pills. It no longer has the funds to pay for tests or
vaccines for uninsured Americans, or to secure booster shots for the
fall. Politicians and policymakers hold powerful tools for curbing the
virus; increasingly, they are declining to use them. Theyre also
stymied by the murkiness of our moment: the country contains within it
such a diversity of immunity, vulnerability, and attitude that no policy >>> prescription seems to fit.
Amid the uncertainty, individuals, organizations, and institutions must
do their best. This means giving people the resources to confront covid
not as an abstraction but through the decisions of daily life. During
moments of high viral spread, this effort might entail providing rapid
tests in the workplace, time off after exposure, outdoor spaces for
events, high-grade masks for all who want them, ??and a culture that
respects varying levels of risk tolerance and medical vulnerability.
Decades of behavioral-science research have revealed that our
decision-making depends crucially on our environment; even as
politicians discard mitigation measures, communities at school, work,
church, and elsewhere can make it easier for people to do the right thing. >>>
For individuals, fighting the pandemic can feel a bit like combatting
climate change. Why recycle when policymakers allow carbon emissions to
rise inexorably? And, indeed, to defeat this and future pandemics, well >>> need investments in ventilation and air-filtration systems, paid sick
leave, disability benefits, disease-surveillance programs, and more. But >>> its also true that individuals retain some agency. We can get booster
shots and persuade others to do so; we can make plans for accessing
monoclonal antibodies or antiviral pills. When cases rise, as they will, >>> we can consider how we might lower the chances that well pass on the
virus to someone for whom the consequences could be catastrophic. After
two years of ebbs and flows, of surges, variants, vaccines, and
boosters, our choices matter, perhaps now more than ever. ?
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
Michael Ejercito wrote:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62265648
UK Covid cases continue to rise
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Stock image of a young woman wearing a face mask and holding a smartphone >>>> IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
Around 3.8m people - one in 17 of the UK population - has coronavirus, >>>> latest figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest.
That's up by a quarter of a million - 7% - on the week before when there >>>> were 3.5m Covid infections recorded.
The number of people testing positive across the UK has been rising
since the start of June but the rate of rise is showing signs of slowing >>>> down.
Other, more recent figures, hint cases may be on the way down.
The ONS data is always a couple of weeks behind the curve for new
infections but this big dataset gives the most accurate overview for the UK.
Other data sources, such as the government Covid dashboard - which is
more current but reflects far fewer Covid test results - suggest that
for England the number of new infections may already have peaked.
Graph of Covid infections
In the latest report, for the week ending 13 July, the ONS estimates
Covid rates were:
One in 17 in England - up from one in 19 the week before
One in 17 in Wales - the same as the previous week
One in 20 in Northern Ireland - down from one in 17
One in 15 in Scotland - up from one in 16
Many of the recent cases have been caused by fast-spreading sub-variants >>>> of Omicron, called BA.4 and BA.5.
Nearly eight out of 10 Covid infections in the UK are now caused by BA.5. >>>>
People are still able to catch the infection even if they have had Covid >>>> before.
But vaccines are still doing a good job of helping protect people from >>>> getting very sick with the virus.
The ONS data is collated by testing thousands of people from UK
households - whether they have symptoms or not - to estimate how much
virus is around.
Kara Steel, senior statistician for the Covid-19 infection survey, said >>>> there were some uncertain trends in the latest data across Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland.
She added: "It is too early to say if this most recent wave is starting >>>> to peak, but we will continue to closely monitor the data."
Graph of Covid hospitalisations. Data from the UK Government dashboard >>>> Separate data shows, on average, week on week, hospital cases have
started to ease in Scotland and England.
In England on 18 July, there were, on average, about 1,720 new hospital >>>> admissions with a positive Covid test, each day.
The week before, the figure was 1,861.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
Source: >https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5VyagspE-j4/m/P5gzq6yVEAAJ
Positive control on USENET: >https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as circling eagles don't have COVID) and
pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6) Father in
Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy Spirit
(Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to always >say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways including >especially caring to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12
as shown by http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest ) with all glory ( >http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !
Suggested further reading: >https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ
Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test
Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://tinyurl.com/HeartVAT from around the heart
...because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,
HeartDoc Andrew <><
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2022/07/25/um-med-students-walk-out-on-anti-abortion-keynote-speaker-dr-kristin-collier/
UM Med Students Walk Out On Anti-Abortion Keynote Speaker Dr. Kristin
Collier
July 25, 2022 at 3:42 pmFiled Under:Kristin Collier, University of
Michigan, white coat ceremony
(CNN) Dozens of incoming University of Michigan medical students
walked out of their medical school induction ceremony Sunday to protest
a keynote speaker with anti-abortion views.
As Dr. Kristin Collier, an assistant professor of internal medicine at
the university, began delivering her keynote speech, several dozen
students abruptly stood up and began filing out of the auditorium, video >>> shows. Some audience members can also be seen leaving.
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Before Sundays White Coat Ceremony, in which incoming medical students
are cloaked with their first medical coats, some students had petitioned >>> the school to replace Collier with another speaker, citing her
anti-abortion views.
While we support the rights of freedom of speech and religion, an
anti-choice speaker as a representative of the University of Michigan
undermines the Universitys position on abortion and supports the
non-universal, theology-rooted platform to restrict abortion access, an
essential part of medical care, the petition reads.
Medical student Elliott Brannon, who helped organize the petition, told
CNN more than 300 medical students signed it. The walkout and petition
were mostly organized by incoming medical students with the support of
current students, Brannon said.
This is not simply a disagreement on personal opinion, the petition
said. (T)hrough our demand, we are standing up in solidarity against
groups who are trying to take away human rights and restrict medical care. >>>
Collier, who also directs the medical schools program on health,
spirituality and religion, has previously expressed anti-abortion views, >>> including in a May 4 tweet.
(H)olding on to a view of feminism where one fights for the rights of
all women and girls, especially those who are most vulnerable. I cant
not lament the violence directed at my prenatal sisters in the act of
abortion, done in the name of autonomy, the tweet read, later adding,
Liberation that costs innocent lives is just oppression that is
redistributed.
The university told CNN Collier was chosen to be the keynote speaker by
members of the medical schools Gold Humanism Honor Society. In a
statement, the university stood by the decision to keep her as the event >>> speaker.
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The White Coat Ceremony is not a platform for discussion of
controversial issues, the statement said. Its focus will always be on
welcoming students into the profession of medicine. Dr. Collier never
planned to address a divisive topic as part of her remarks. However, the >>> University of Michigan does not revoke an invitation to a speaker based
on their personal beliefs.
The university also reiterated that its reproductive care still includes >>> abortion.
The University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine remain committed to
providing high quality, safe reproductive care for patients, across all
their reproductive health needs. This includes abortion care, the
statement said.
Following the Supreme Courts decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion >>> remains legal in Michigan. While the state had a 1931 abortion ban on
the books, the restriction is temporarily blocked by a state court.
CNN reached out to Collier for comment but has not received a response.
Collier said during the ceremony that she was honored to be chosen to
speak. Before giving a speech to the new students about how to survive
and flourish in the medical field, she appeared to nod to the controversy. >>>
I want to acknowledge the deep wounds our community has suffered over
the past several weeks, she said. We have a great deal of work to do
for healing to occur and I hope that for today, for this time, we can
focus on what matters most, coming together to support our newly
accepted students and their families with a goal of welcoming them into
one of the greatest vocations that exists on this earth the vocation
of medicine.
"'Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending decades of federal
abortion rights' thereby reminding us that abortions are the terrible
consequence of #TerriblyHungry people misbehaving terribly like
#Jan621 Insurrectionist #HangryDJT and motivates us to redouble our
efforts to #ConvinceItForward to stop being #Hangry in hopes of
stopping the #MourningInAmerica" -- HeartDoc Andrew
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLbY86WqEQE&lc=Ugz7f-yaXdea7oYt3dR4AaABAg
Shorter more shareable link:
https://tinyurl.com/RoeWadeOverturned
Suggested further reading:
http://bit.ly/h_angry (2 Kings 6:29)
Instead of hangry, I am simply wonderfully hungry (
http://bit.ly/Philippians4_12 ) and hope you, Michael, also have a
healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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