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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of August 2
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
Rather frustrating there's no mention of how many of those 10,207 hospitalised are vaccinated, other than 17 children at one hospital - "But none of the patients with COVID-19 at Nicklaus Children’s on Friday were vaccinated".
It may be too early to have peer reviewed studies of the vaccine - delta relationship, but presumably there are records of whether people hospitalised are vaccinated or not.
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-941fcf43d9731c76c16e7354f5d5e187
Delta may have changed things slightly since that data from May, but I doubt it would be that dramatic a change. IMO it's probably still very likely that the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths are amongst the unvaccinated.
Living in Florida sucks right now.
Alarm as US Covid cases above 100,000 a day for first time since February
Some school districts defy U.S. governors on mask rules
Some CA schools are mandating COVID tests while others aren’t
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CDC internal presentation. There's a lot in there, but I found slide 4 particularly fascinating as a demonstration of just how hard it is to do statistics correctly.
It seems like whenever you see a percentage you should think "percentage of what" and consider how that skews what you're seeing. So in slide 4:
"Percentage of Hospitalizations" - okay, this matters for what hospitals are seeing, but they are seeing a skewed picture based on who needs to go to the hospital.
It would be good to normalize these numbers based on the general population, maybe broken down by age groups.
Panic-Buying And Transport Lockdowns. In Wuhan, It Feels Like Early Pandemic Again
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US Has Shipped 110 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses to 65 Countries
(See the article for a chart of how much to each country.)
I was talking it over with my chiropractor, and she noticed that a lot of the health issues I'm having right now are inflammation based. I've also have had Covid in the past, and I wonder if the two are related... Not that in my body has had Covid symptoms for the past year and a half, but the inflammatory response is stronger/longer lasting than usual.
One of my coworkers who had COVID in the summer of 2020 ended up having to take a medical leave in the spring of 2021. She didn’t have “long COVID”, but she said she had to go on leave because a lot of her more minor pre-existing issues flared up post-COVID and never really went away. She said that her doctor described COVID as “turning up the heat” on nearly every body system.
This is an anecdote of one and far from medical expertise, obviously, but I share it because it sounds like your situation with inflammation might be similar to hers. I hope you’re able to find answers and relief.
Philippines to Reimpose Lockdown in Capital; Stocks Plunge