Covid-19

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

They should make Restaurants and non essential stores require you to be fully vaxxed.

All entertainment where a group of people congregate... fully vaxxed. 

 

And those with a serious medical exemption... by serious, I mean a legit one... not someone going to a doctor and just getting an exemption because of depression or something...

Edited August 24, 2021 by wanna-b-fanboy

[Tracker]

 

The lambda variant is ominous for what it says about the future trajectory of the pandemic

Just when vaccinated Americans began to see a flicker of hope for the resumption of their pre-pandemic lives, the novel coronavirus started to mutate. Now the dominant strain in many countries, the ultra-contagious delta variant has torn through unvaccinated communities — and even infected some vaccinated folks — around the United States. Far from a surprise, this scenario was predicted back in March by CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who said then that her colleagues had a sense of "impending doom" for the possibility that mutant variants could sweep America.

Experts also know that the delta variant is unlikely to be the last mutation. Viruses cease mutating for no one; and now, another variant appears to be spreading around the world, one that may be even more resistant to vaccines than delta. It is known as lambda.

People are noticing. Forbes Magazine recently ran a story with the title, "It Is Time To Pay Close Attention To The Lambda Variant Now Devastating South America." On the other side of the equator, a Tulsa, Oklahoma ABC affiliate warned its audience that "New Lambda variant could make Oklahoma's COVID situation worse." Headlines regularly tout studies indicating that the variant could be able to evade vaccines, although the articles themselves always note that vaccinated individuals are much less likely to develop serious illnesses that the unvaccinated.

But while the lambda variant may not be more infectious than delta, it prophesies what the future of the pandemic may look like — and reveals why it is important to educate the public about how mutant strains work. For biological reasons, virus mutations have a tendency to crop up as vaccination rates rise. As vaccination rates increase and SARS-CoV-2 has fewer people to infect, it inevitably evolves in a way that lets it thrive in new, less auspicious environments. 

"The virus needs to develop ways to increase its transmissibility as there are less targets to infect," Dr. Jonathan Zenilman, an infectious disease specialist and professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, wrote to Salon. He noted the regularity with which mutations arise: "We have been seeing a progression of increasingly transmissible variants about every two to three months."

In the case of the lambda variant, health experts' concern is that it appears to resist some of our body's immune responses better than other mutant variants which have emerged. According to Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, that, plus its higher infectivity, "puts it on the list of viruses to watch." "Should it mutate in a more favorable form for infectiousness or lethality it could be a real problem," he added. If that happened, scientists would at the very least need to update our vaccines.

At this point, Benjamin emphasized, the delta variant is the priority for now, in part because no one can predict the future of the lambda variant with any accuracy and it has not presently proved itself to be more infectious than delta. In the event that lambda outbreaks happen, we may need to again close schools, businesses and other facilities to protect people.

The lambda variant is ominous for what it says about the future trajectory of the pandemic | Salon.com

Edited August 24, 2021 by Tracker

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[FrostyWinnipeg]

[bustamente]

Just another Hobo with a garbage bag

 

[itchy]

11 hours ago, bustamente said:

Just another Hobo with a garbage bag

 

I was wondering what was going on there yesterday. 

[FrostyWinnipeg]

And here we go...

 

[iHeart]

this is strange, he's making it sound like none of the new cases were VOCs, we literally were having 1 great summer

 

[Stretch]

This is where I miss the detailed daily updates: What is the TPR in Winnipeg? What is the breakdown in these new cases by region? Etc.

[Bigblue204]

10 minutes ago, Stretch said:

This is where I miss the detailed daily updates: What is the TPR in Winnipeg? What is the breakdown in these new cases by region? Etc.

They are missing the TPR for winnipeg, but the breakdown is there in the replies to the tweet.

[Super Duper Negatron]

And this is why removing the mask mandate the last three weeks was asinine.

[Stretch]

2 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:

They are missing the TPR for winnipeg, but the breakdown is there in the replies to the tweet.

Very well then. I'll admit that I just want to be slapped in the face with this info and not have to go looking for it. 😀

[the watcher]

41 cases in Southern.  And so it begins.

[blue_gold_84]

Thanks, covidiots.

[JCon]

7 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

Thanks, covidiots.

Those people are a--holes and have risked so many others because of they're a--holes. 

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

18 minutes ago, JCon said:

Those people are a--holes and have risked so many others because of they're a--holes. 

Are the unvaccinated, kids under 12? 

[JCon]

6 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

Are the unvaccinated, kids under 12? 

I'm sure there are some that are under 12. But, 70% of the 105 cases are not under 12. 

[rebusrankin]

I'd be curious how many are partially vaccinated and how many vaccinated.

Southern Health however is a total mess and its going to be worse when schools reopen.

[bustamente]

Cases will rise and it looks like it might be rapid, lets no freak out, at this point even the tpr doesn't really matter. Hospital icu counts is what we should be looking at and if that goes up you can thank all the special entitled idiots who decided that the vaccine was not important for them to take and didn't trust the science but now need to clog hospital beds and the icu's so that science can keep them alive

[JCon]

3 minutes ago, bustamente said:

Cases will rise and it looks like it might be rapid, lets no freak out, at this point even the tpr doesn't really matter. Hospital icu counts is what we should be looking at and if that goes up you can thank all the special entitled idiots who decided that the vaccine was not important for them to take and didn't trust the science but now need to clog hospital beds and the icu's so that science can keep them alive

But this is a lagging indicator. We know that, as cases go up, we'll see an increase in hospitalizations. Although, those hospitalizations would primarily be around the unvaxxed, which include all children under 12. 

[bustamente]

16 minutes ago, JCon said:

But this is a lagging indicator. We know that, as cases go up, we'll see an increase in hospitalizations. Although, those hospitalizations would primarily be around the unvaxxed, which include all children under 12. 

Dr. Atwal pretty well spelled this out yesterday, there is nothing we can do certain people made their choice because they are the smart ones and now the rest will pay and the healthcare system will be stretched to the limit because of them. All I can do is be double vaccinated wear a mask and sanitize I'm not going to worry about new cases caused by the stupid they don't care about anyone but themselves, unfortunately kids under 12 will get caught up in the wash

[the watcher]

3 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

I'd be curious how many are partially vaccinated and how many vaccinated.

Southern Health however is a total mess and its going to be worse when schools reopen.

I really feel for the health care workers, over worked exposed daily, frustrated..... I include those in charge of Southern Health. How frustrating would that be ,trying to beg, plead, bribe ......All those idiots to get a vax knowing what's coming and the inevitable result.

[rebusrankin]

I'd seriously like to know if any of the 35 were partially unvaccinated. 70 out of 105 is 67% but 33% of the cases being fully vaccinated is higher than any other jurisdiction I have seen. I believe Alberta is 14-15% of cases being fully vaxxed. I mean 70 unvaccinated plus say 10-15 partially vaccinated makes more sense.

[Tracker]

Sturgis was a major 'superspeader' event — just as warnings predicted: report
   
Two years in a row, medical experts warned South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem that the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally could become a superspreader event if COVID-19 precautions and social distancing measures weren't taken. The far-right Republican governor ignored the warnings during both Sturgis 2020 and Sturgis 2021, and the highly infectious COVID-19 Delta variant has been going from bad to worse in South Dakota following this year's event.

In an article published by the Daily Beast on August 26, reporters Jasleen Arneja and Maia Majumder note how dire the situation is in Meade County — where the Sturgis Motor Cycle Rally takes place.

The journalists explain, "In western South Dakota's Meade County, more than one in three COVID-19 tests are currently returning positive — and over the last three weeks, seven-day average case counts have increased by 3400%. This exponential growth in cases is likely attributable to the 81st Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, which drew an estimated half a million visitors to Meade County and its environs from August 6 through 15, potentially acting as a superspreader event."

The Delta variant is potentially deadly all over the U.S., but the current COVID-19 surge has been especially bad in red Sun Belt states with low vaccination rates. The crisis in South Dakota, however, has been occurring in a state that is many miles from the Sun Belt.

Sturgis was a major 'superspeader' event — just as warnings predicted: report - Alternet.org

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Children Now Make Up 36% Of Tennessee’s Virus Cases

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Children now make up 36% of Tennessee’s reported COVID-19 cases, marking yet another sobering milestone in the state’s battle against the high contagious delta variant, Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey said Wednesday.

“We had 14,000 pediatric cases in the last seven days, which is a 57% increase over the week prior,” Piercey told reporters. “Right now, 36% of all of our cases in the state are among children when it’s historically been in the 10 to 15% range.”

According to researchers from Johns Hopkins, Tennessee ranks sixth in the country for new cases per capita. The rolling average number of daily new cases has increased by about 2,200, an increase of 75%, over the past two weeks.

Piercey said the biggest increase has been among school-age children just as many are kicking off the new school year.

This spike has raised calls from some health officials for the state to take more forceful protective measures to prevent the spread the virus among young children, teachers and other staffers.

However, Gov. Bill Lee has thus far resisted such suggestions. Instead, he recently signed an executive order letting parents opt their children out of coronavirus-related mask mandates in K-12 schools just as a few school districts issued mask requirements for students and others.