Covid-19

[FrostyWinnipeg]

In other Covid news...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/nasal-spray-treatment-for-covid-19-in-the-works-thanks-to-a-llama-named-fifi-1.5597259

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/rowdy-celebrations-erupt-in-norway-as-covid-19-restrictions-end-1.5601080

 

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50 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

In other Covid news...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/nasal-spray-treatment-for-covid-19-in-the-works-thanks-to-a-llama-named-fifi-1.5597259

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/rowdy-celebrations-erupt-in-norway-as-covid-19-restrictions-end-1.5601080

 

And if you think this will make an iota of difference to the anti-vaxxers.....

 

                                      

 

 

                                                

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Anti-Vax MAGA Cartoonist Says He’s Treating Severe COVID With Beet Juice

Ben Garrison, the MAGA world cartoonist who has posted a load of anti-vax propaganda during the pandemic, says he’s come down with a bad case of COVID—and is turning to beet juice to save himself. Garrison made a name for himself during the Trump years with viral cartoons that were heavy with conspiracy theories and depicted the exercise-avoiding ex-president as a hyper-masculine, square-jawed beefcake. Speaking to Gizmodo, Garrison confirmed he and his wife have caught COVID and revealed his ineffectual self-treatment. “We’re taking Ivermectin and various vitamins including a lot of zinc,” Garrison said, who also revealed that he’s been guzzling beet juice. Unlike the vaccine, none of his named treatments have been proven to do anything to treat or prevent falling sick with the coronavirus. However, Garrison remains defiant in his views, saying: “We will never take their foul spike protein-producing jabs, which are neither safe nor effective. They’re not real vaccines.”

Anti-Vax MAGA Cartoonist Says He’s Treating Severe COVID With Beet Juice (thedailybeast.com)

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[FrostyWinnipeg]

Manitoba #COVID19 patients in hospital: 77 (up 11 from Friday) In ICU: 19 (up 4) Total patients in ICU (COVID and non-COVID): 86 (up 5)

 

Five-day Manitoba #COVID19 test-positivity rate: 2.7 per cent (up 0.7 percentage points) Tests completed Sunday: 2,480

Edited September 27, 2021 by FrostyWinnipeg

[iHeart]

oh man

 

[Super Duper Negatron]

Winnipeg still holding steady. Southern Health: take a bow.

[Noeller]

Just put a bubble over the Bible Belt and be done with it.....frick sakes. 

[WildPath]

56 minutes ago, Noeller said:

Just put a bubble over the Bible Belt and be done with it.....frick sakes. 

At least they are providing plenty of evidence that vaccines and restrictions work?

Unfortunately also that having pockets of unvaccinated people that don't care about restrictions can mess with anything resembling herd immunity.

 

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

Uhg- heart wrenching. 

I really feel for the Medical staff that have to go through this:

 

 

[the watcher]

44 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

Uhg- heart wrenching. 

I really feel for the Medical staff that have to go through this:

 

 

I don't know how hospital staff have managed to deal with this for so long. Bloody hero's they are.

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A daily pill to treat COVID could be just months away, scientists say daily antiviral pills for treating COVID-19 might be available by late fall or winter

Within a day of testing positive for COVID-19 in June, Miranda Kelly was sick enough to be scared. At 44, with diabetes and high blood pressure, Kelly, a certified nursing assistant, was having trouble breathing, symptoms serious enough to send her to the emergency room.

When her husband, Joe, 46, fell ill with the virus, too, she really got worried, especially about their five teenagers at home: "I thought, 'I hope to God we don't wind up on ventilators. We have children. Who's going to raise these kids?"

But the Kellys, who live in Seattle, had agreed just after their diagnoses to join a clinical trial at the nearby Fred Hutch cancer research center that's part of an international effort to test an antiviral treatment that could halt COVID early in its course.

By the next day, the couple were taking four pills, twice a day. Though they weren't told whether they had received an active medication or placebo, within a week, they said, their symptoms were better. Within two weeks, they had recovered.

"I don't know if we got the treatment, but I kind of feel like we did," Miranda Kelly said. "To have all these underlying conditions, I felt like the recovery was very quick."

The Kellys have a role in developing what could be the world's next chance to thwart COVID: a short-term regimen of daily pills that can fight the virus early after diagnosis and conceivably prevent symptoms from developing after exposure.

"Oral antivirals have the potential to not only curtail the duration of one's COVID-19 syndrome, but also have the potential to limit transmission to people in your household if you are sick," said Timothy Sheahan, a virologist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill who has helped pioneer these therapies.

Antivirals are already essential treatments for other viral infections, including hepatitis C and HIV. One of the best known is Tamiflu, the widely prescribed pill that can shorten the duration of influenza and reduce the risk of hospitalization if given quickly.

The medications, developed to treat and prevent viral infections in people and animals, work differently depending on the type. But they can be engineered to boost the immune system to fight infection, block receptors so viruses can't enter healthy cells, or lower the amount of active virus in the body.

At least three promising antivirals for COVID are being tested in clinical trials, with results expected as soon as late fall or winter, said Carl Dieffenbach, director of the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who is overseeing antiviral development.

"I think that we will have answers as to what these pills are capable of within the next several months," Dieffenbach said.

The top contender is a medication from Merck & Co. and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics called molnupiravir, Dieffenbach said. This is the product being tested in the Kellys' Seattle trial. Two others include a candidate from Pfizer, known as PF-07321332, and AT-527, an antiviral produced by Roche and Atea Pharmaceuticals.

They work by interfering with the virus's ability to replicate in human cells. In the case of molnupiravir, the enzyme that copies the viral genetic material is forced to make so many mistakes that the virus can't reproduce. That, in turn, reduces the patient's viral load, shortening infection time and preventing the kind of dangerous immune response that can cause serious illness or death.

So far, only one antiviral drug, remdesivir, has been approved to treat COVID. But it is given intravenously to patients ill enough to be hospitalized, and is not intended for early, widespread use. By contrast, the top contenders under study can be packaged as pills.

Sheahan, who also performed preclinical work on remdesivir, led an early study in mice that showed that molnupiravir could prevent early disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. The formula was discovered at Emory University and later acquired by Ridgeback and Merck.

Clinical trials have followed, including an early trial of 202 participants last spring that showed that molnupiravir rapidly reduced the levels of infectious virus. Merck chief executive Robert Davis said this month that the company expects data from its larger phase 3 trials in the coming weeks, with the potential to seek emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration "before year-end."

Pfizer launched a combined phase 2 and 3 trial of its product Sept. 1, and Atea officials said they expect results from phase 2 and phase 3 trials later this year.

If the results are positive and emergency use is granted for any product, Dieffenbach said, "distribution could begin quickly.

A daily pill to treat COVID could be just months away, scientists say | Salon.com

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[FrostyWinnipeg]

New cases by region
 Southern - 17
 Winnipeg - 16
 Prairie Mountain - 4
 Northern - 3
 Interlake-Eastern - 2

First-dose uptake - 84.8% (+0.1%)
Second-dose uptake - 80.3% (+0.1%)
1,976,138 doses administered now.
1,580 administered yesterday.

Regions below 50% uptake
RM of Hanover - 49.8% (+0.1%)
Winkler - 41.3% (no change)
RM of Stanley - 24% (no change)

Of the 13 patients in ICU with active cases of COVID-19, 11 are unvaccinated and two are partially vaccinated. There are not fully vaccinated patients in ICU. 
   45 active hospitalizaitons — 33 are unvaccinated, eight fully vaxxed and four partially vaxxed.

Total active caseload is 613. 
   No vaccine: 397
   Fully vaccinated: 152
   Partially vaccinated: 64
 

Edited September 28, 2021 by FrostyWinnipeg

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[HardCoreBlue]

8 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

 

Now this is good to hear. I hope these types of stories start to take over the conversation. 

[Noeller]

Meanwhile, on the latest episode of As The Alberta Turns.......

-NFLD Premier says today that they offered "whatever help they might need" to Alberta, and were told that no help was necessary and to "stand down". This, while AB has new records for active cases, hopitalizations (184% capacity), and ICU (also well over capacity)....

-A group of "rogue" MLAs are starting a new movement called The Free Alberta Strategy, which aims to see Alberta become a soverign land. These MLAs say they have lost faith in the premier

-Press conference this afternoon at 3:30MST featuring the premier, at least 3 MLAs, and the CMOH........

 

Sigh.....

[rebusrankin]

Sovereign Land, yeah not going to happen. 

[SpeedFlex27]

13 minutes ago, Noeller said:

Meanwhile, on the latest episode of As The Alberta Turns.......

-NFLD Premier says today that they offered "whatever help they might need" to Alberta, and were told that no help was necessary and to "stand down". This, while AB has new records for active cases, hopitalizations (184% capacity), and ICU (also well over capacity)....

-A group of "rogue" MLAs are starting a new movement called The Free Alberta Strategy, which aims to see Alberta become a soverign land. These MLAs say they have lost faith in the premier

-Press conference this afternoon at 3:30MST featuring the premier, at least 3 MLAs, and the CMOH........

 

Sigh.....

Thie Kenney government is exhausting. This reminds me of how Trump governed America. Everyday this government just lurches from one crisis to another. 

[Super Duper Negatron]

Just looked at Sask's numbers, This wave is their biggest so far? Yikes!

[Jpan85]

Scott Moe might be worse than Jason Kenney

 

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

1 hour ago, Noeller said:

Meanwhile, on the latest episode of As The Alberta Turns.......

-NFLD Premier says today that they offered "whatever help they might need" to Alberta, and were told that no help was necessary and to "stand down". This, while AB has new records for active cases, hopitalizations (184% capacity), and ICU (also well over capacity)....

-A group of "rogue" MLAs are starting a new movement called The Free Alberta Strategy, which aims to see Alberta become a soverign land. These MLAs say they have lost faith in the premier

-Press conference this afternoon at 3:30MST featuring the premier, at least 3 MLAs, and the CMOH........

 

Sigh.....

Damn... that is a special breed of stupid in that province.

[Noeller]

9 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

Scott Moe might be worse than Jason Kenney

 

I think he is.....Moe is actively evil. Kenney is just stupid, BUT he's also fighting against the truly crazy within his party. Moe is actively pushing the agenda of the truly crazy. Word leaked last week that Kenney refused to step down after a leadership review because he was concerned that the truly crazy within the party would take over. So if Kenney is the voice of reason? Holy f***, things are really scary and bad......

The presser coming up at 3:30 is apparently to make it illegal to protest/picket in front of hospitals (it already was, they just didn't enforce it) not because of the anti-COVID protesters (they haven't had one in weeks and there aren't any planned) but because they are concerned the doctors and nurses are going to start picketing to complain about how they've got absolutely no support from the government (who've been trying to roll back wages on HCWs for more than a year now)..... this government is pure evil. 

As for any COVID mitigation measures....absolutely none coming. They're of the mind that we should let it roll over the province as fast as possible in order to achieve herd immunity, even though science has thoroughly debunked that. The lunatics are running the asylum and it's a complete nightmare living here...

4 minutes ago, Noeller said:

I think he is.....Moe is actively evil. Kenney is just stupid, BUT he's also fighting against the truly crazy within his party. Moe is actively pushing the agenda of the truly crazy. Word leaked last week that Kenney refused to step down after a leadership review because he was concerned that the truly crazy within the party would take over. So if Kenney is the voice of reason? Holy f***, things are really scary and bad......

The presser coming up at 3:30 is apparently to make it illegal to protest/picket in front of hospitals (it already was, they just didn't enforce it) not because of the anti-COVID protesters (they haven't had one in weeks and there aren't any planned) but because they are concerned the doctors and nurses are going to start picketing to complain about how they've got absolutely no support from the government (who've been trying to roll back wages on HCWs for more than a year now)..... this government is pure evil. 

As for any COVID mitigation measures....absolutely none coming. They're of the mind that we should let it roll over the province as fast as possible in order to achieve herd immunity, even though science has thoroughly debunked that. The lunatics are running the asylum and it's a complete nightmare living here...

further.........

 

[JCon]

And some people wanted to hand the keys to the country ro these a-holes.