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The pro-lockdowners will have a lot to answer for when all is said and done.......
www.telegraph.co.uk
www.telegraph.co.uk
One in four young people feeling 'unable to cope' as lockdown takes toll on mental health
Crisis has taken 'devastating toll' on teenagers and young adults and many are losing hope for the future, Prince's Trust warns
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Lockdown 'killed two people for every three who died of coronavirus' at peak of outbreak
Estimates show 16,000 people died through missed medical care by May 1, while virus killed 25,000 in same period
www.telegraph.co.uk
Still holding steady at #46. Seems like the pace of 65 and over shots is starting to pick up in San Diego. Let's hope we can turn the corner on getting shots out to the public.
www.beckershospitalreview.com
States ranked by percentage of COVID-19 vaccines administered: Nov. 30 - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis
Wisconsin has administered the highest percentage of COVID-19 vaccines it has received, according to the CDC's COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration data tracker.
www.beckershospitalreview.com
Still holding steady at #46. Seems like the pace of 65 and over shots is starting to pick up in San Diego. Let's hope we can turn the corner on getting shots out to the public.
States ranked by percentage of COVID-19 vaccines administered: Nov. 30 - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis
Wisconsin has administered the highest percentage of COVID-19 vaccines it has received, according to the CDC's COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration data tracker.
Even though they are allowing them to register for shots in Ventura County, 75+ are still being turned away even if they have an appointment (but if you are a dentist, good to go).
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May have been?Here's a load of bad news including how CA takes care of money.
Billions Lost In Fraudulent EDD Payments; Overseas Crime Syndicates Cash In
SAN FRANCISCO — While millions of Californians are battling each day to put food on the table amid the idled COVID-19 economy, payments from the state earmarked to help them have been ripped off to the tune of nearly $10 billion, according to a security firm hired to investigate the fraud. KPIX 5 has been among the leaders in investigating the EDD payment crisis. Blake Hall, founder and CEO of ID.me told the Los Angeles Times, that California may have paid out nearly $10 billion in phony coronavirus unemployment claims — more than double the previous estimate. Some of that money has gone to organized crime in Russia, China and other countries. At least 10% of claims submitted to the state Employment Development Department before controls were installed in October may have been fraudulent. Read More/a>
Bay Area COVID-19 Roundup: Virus Variant Discovered In Santa Clara; Chaotic COVID Vaccine Rollout; Billions Lost In Fraudulent EDD Payments
With a surge in coronavirus cases, the information you need to know is coming fast and furious. Here's a roundup of the COVID stories we've published over the weekend.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Rogue antibodies could be driving severe COVID-19
Evidence is growing that self-attacking ‘autoantibodies’ could be the key to understanding some of the worst cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
www.nature.com
Wow she just blew my mind. Says the experimental label is probably not going to be removed for 1-2 years. If so, they can't mandate it.
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Sounds pretty ominous. Guessing there is some correlation to a age, but not good news.
Can anyone make sense of this slide? What is California doing it with its IC U and hospital capacity?
The allegation is that California is deliberately lowering ICU capacity to justify purple plus lockdowns. I'm more wondering what is going on inside the hospitals. On the one hand, it's very clear the hospitals are stressed, there are horror stories of people dying, people who under other circumstances might be hospitalized to be safe are being sent home, there's been some scrubbing of elective procedures, and of ambulances being diverted to other hospitals. On the other hand, there hasn't been a whole lot of reporting of people being turned away from medical care, declarations that hospitals have collapsed, actual rationing of care where some people are just written off to die (despite LA now being either at or past peak and supposedly ICU capacity at 0%), and the nurses still have time to do tik tok.
My family is largely medical (except for us lawyer siblings) but none of them are active ER. But from what I can gather the hospitals are very stressed but no where near collapse. It's like a very very bad flu season. Hospitals are typically stressed in such times January-March though not usually this much except when a once in a decade flu even comes along. Anyone any first hand insight for what's actually going on? My impression is that it is bad, but there's also a whole lot of exaggeration going on.
The allegation is that California is deliberately lowering ICU capacity to justify purple plus lockdowns. I'm more wondering what is going on inside the hospitals. On the one hand, it's very clear the hospitals are stressed, there are horror stories of people dying, people who under other circumstances might be hospitalized to be safe are being sent home, there's been some scrubbing of elective procedures, and of ambulances being diverted to other hospitals. On the other hand, there hasn't been a whole lot of reporting of people being turned away from medical care, declarations that hospitals have collapsed, actual rationing of care where some people are just written off to die (despite LA now being either at or past peak and supposedly ICU capacity at 0%), and the nurses still have time to do tik tok.
My family is largely medical (except for us lawyer siblings) but none of them are active ER. But from what I can gather the hospitals are very stressed but no where near collapse. It's like a very very bad flu season. Hospitals are typically stressed in such times January-March though not usually this much except when a once in a decade flu even comes along. Anyone any first hand insight for what's actually going on? My impression is that it is bad, but there's also a whole lot of exaggeration going on.
Some quick thoughts:
- Not sure we can compare ICU capacity versus a regular year given the likelihood the number has also dropped due to reduction in other ailments as a result of the lockdown. I don't have data here, but that would be one thing I'd look into.
- I wonder how easy hospital transfers are. It makes me worry about a single ICU capacity for all of SoCal. Like it's not telling the whole story. Some hospitals may be more impacted than others. This might explain the different stories one might be hearing.
- All of my Doctor friends work in SF. They are absolutely swamped. Much of this is related to additional process due to covid. But this goes beyond ER work.
- I've also heard many nurses don't want to shift to ICU work -- they can do this via union protections. I can't say I blame them. Perhaps there's issues related to this.
On the upside, I think our numbers, at least in NorCal, are starting to drop. I think by March we will all be in the Orange Tier.
Useful! Thanks!
VC numbers are starting to drop too. LA is past peak as well. VC, unlike LA, is no where near a point you can make the herd immunity argument and if the holidays were the central issue VC should still be continuing to accelerate as it makes its way through families.
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Same thoughts as Norcal Dad- all our RN friends say that yes- they are very busy. Partly due to an increase of patients and partly due to additional processes' due to covid. Plus, mental fatigue is very real.
I don't know how easy it is, but I know for a fact that it is happening fairly regularly within one hospital system. LA and IE to San Diego.
Just FYI while the Southern California region has been reporting 0% for ICU capacity for a few weeks, San Diego has been as high as 20% during this period. It's currently at 12%. No clue how the math works for the region.
Supposedly VC reported a negative number a few days, so who knows.
The other head scratcher if 0 really means zero wouldn't the press stories be that people are dying in the hallways unable to obtain medical care?
Common Core math? (BTW I'm not opposed to the analytical concept of Common Core, but the implementation and execution of it is horrific.)
I'm opposed to it because I have no idea how to help my kids with their homework sometimes. I usually just say "Can't you just add it? Back in my day, we didn't need no stinking boxes to add two numbers"
I'm mostly kidding here...
How did you do long division? Or find square roots?
ICU and Hospital capacity calculations for the Regional Stay at Home order are based on non-surge capacity. Hence the discrepancy between the actual beds available vs. 0% capacity reporting/basis for the regional health orders.
Figures. That's so stupid. They are basically lying again for propaganda's sake. Thanks for info!
We can all feel your pain. I once wrote a note to the elementary teacher in the margins of my daughter's math homework something to effect of I'm a CPA and I have no clue how to do this homework. Smarter than a 5th grader, nope, not me.