Coronavirus

[Siúil a Rúin]

I read in the NYTimes briefing this morning that infants and young children are being infected with COVID-19 at higher rates in Brazil now. Is this a mutation? Heartbreaking.

This is the link, although I can't access it because I don't pay for NYTimes.
Covid Is Killing Young Children in Brazil, Baffling Doctors - The New York Times

 

[Virtual ghost]

I read in the NYTimes briefing this morning that infants and young children are being infected with COVID-19 at higher rates in Brazil now. Is this a mutation? Heartbreaking.

This is the link, although I can't access it because I don't pay for NYTimes.
Covid Is Killing Young Children in Brazil, Baffling Doctors - The New York Times

Brazilian variant is supposedly one of the more nasty ones.
Plus the idea that children as somehow completely immune to the virus is false. They probably wouldn't die but the damage can be done.

 

[Vendrah]

I read in the NYTimes briefing this morning that infants and young children are being infected with COVID-19 at higher rates in Brazil now. Is this a mutation? Heartbreaking.

This is the link, although I can't access it because I don't pay for NYTimes.
Covid Is Killing Young Children in Brazil, Baffling Doctors - The New York Times

I didn't see lately any news about that here - I also can't read that news either.
I mean, it kills some few children, not much significantly.

But yeah, people here have been with schools open a lot of time, the online schooling didn't lasted more than a few months last year. Teachers had been trying to resist but not with much efficacy.

 

[JAVO]

Something to think about.

 

[Virtual ghost]

For the next pandemic, we need plans not heroes


Some thoughts on the issue.

 

[Virtual ghost]

WHO turns up the heat on vaccine manufacturers

 

[Virtual ghost]

Our third wave is fading and that should be it. Since the effect of the vaccines is kicking in and that in the combination with warmer weather should end the pandemic.

 

[Vendrah]

Our third wave is fading and that should be it. Since the effect of the vaccines is kicking in and that in the combination with warmer weather should end the pandemic.

Don't you think that it could have a 4th wave on Brazil, India specially and Africa?
However for these 3, it would be their 2nd or 3rd wave.
If you look at Brazil, there are 2 or 3 waves depending on how you interpret it.
India no doubt has two waves.
I believe Brazil might have a extended 3rd wave and India will probably have either an extended 2nd wave or a new 3rd one. Africa in the next few years might struggle at least a bit.

South American countries should follow Brazil trends in some extent.

 

[JAVO]

What happens when the department of health and the lottery commission get together?

(Scratching off your lottery card with the needle is not permitted. )

 

[Virtual ghost]

Don't you think that it could have a 4th wave on Brazil, India specially and Africa?
However for these 3, it would be their 2nd or 3rd wave.
If you look at Brazil, there are 2 or 3 waves depending on how you interpret it.
India no doubt has two waves.
I believe Brazil might have a extended 3rd wave and India will probably have either an extended 2nd wave or a new 3rd one. Africa in the next few years might struggle at least a bit.

South American countries should follow Brazil trends in some extent.

I said "our third wave", what means that I talking about 200 mile radius around me. Therefore what will happen on the level of the world remains to be seen.
Especially since need vaccination levels wouldn't be achieved before 2023 at the current vaccination rate.

 

[Virtual ghost]

India's crematorium workers bear the burden of COVID crisis

 

[Totenkindly]

Employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office

 

[SD45T-2]

What happens when the department of health and the lottery commission get together?

(Scratching off your lottery card with the needle is not permitted. )

 

[Virtual ghost]

Over the last month we used something like half of the doses we used from the start. What led to something like 80+% reduction in new cases.
Therefore many regions are now in double digits when it comes to the number of active cases. At this rate we are fully back in normal somewhere in July.

 

[JAVO]

Report: Wuhan Lab Staff Went To Hospital With Covid-Like Symptoms Before Confirmed Outbreak, New Intelligence Finds

Three researchers working at a Wuhan virology lab were hospitalized with Covid-like symptoms weeks before the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in China on December 8, according to newly disclosed U.S. intelligence obtained and reported by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday—corroborating previous State Department findings and casting further doubts on the longstanding assertion that Covid-19 did not escape from a lab.

SURPRISING FACT
Though the virus was first confirmed in December 2019, WHO researchers have since identified more than 90 potential Covid-19 cases dating as far back as October of that year.

CRUCIAL QUOTE
Asked earlier this month whether he was confident Covid-19 developed naturally, Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the nation's top infectious disease experts, responded: "No actually... I am not convinced about that. I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened… Certainly, the people who investigated it say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else, and we need to find that out.”

 

[JAVO]

 

[Virtual ghost]

I really wonder how this incoming economic recovery will look like.
Since so many will be stuck with huge COVID medical bills for quite some time, or they simply couldn't pay their existing medical bills for over a year (due to obvious reasons). What altogether could really drag all of this for quite some time.

 

[Totenkindly]

The bribery continues...

Big Prizes: CVS throws in tropical trips, Superbowl tickets in vaccine push

(Reuters) - U.S. pharmacy chain CVS is helping President Joe Biden's push to get 70% of Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 by Independence Day, promising customers prizes ranging from tropical cruises to a trip to Superbowl LVI if they get shots.

The move by CVS, which has over 9,600 pharmacies across the United States, adds to the range of incentives being offered by states and companies desperate to get vaccination rates up and American life back to some degree of normality.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine earlier this month offered baseball tickets and beer as well as a $1 million prize draw for those who got at least one vaccine dose.

New York's "Vax & Scratch" program is handing out free lottery tickets to adults getting their first dose this week.

The CVS scheme will run from June 1 and feature gift cards and prizes from consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble, dating app Hinge and Norwegian Cruise Line in a series of weekly sweepstakes...

 

[ceecee]

The bribery continues...

Big Prizes: CVS throws in tropical trips, Superbowl tickets in vaccine push

Imagine winning a cruise for getting your COVID vaccines then ending up with a ripping case of norovirus and the entire ship quarantined.

 

[JAVO]

Oh good, we're allowed a little more freedom of thought and discussion now.


Facebook Ends Ban on Posts Asserting Covid-19 Was Man-Made - WSJ

“In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured from our apps,” Facebook said in a statement on its website Wednesday.