This should be a common thing from now on, fear mongering about the next world wide problem

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-warn-diphtheria-is-on-the-rise-could-become-1846430201

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Nearly one-third of all Republicans are opposed to receiving coronavirus vaccinations, according to a growing number of polls, as reports indicate many Americans rejecting the jab have cited former President Donald Trump’s misinformation about Covid-19. 

Those who have said they were "definitely not” planning on getting a coronavirus vaccine suggested the global pandemic had been overblown by the media and the Democratic Party in interviews with the Washington Post for a report published on Monday.

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4 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

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Luckily they can all still vote when they're dead.

Sometimes the trash takes itself out...

17 minutes ago, mr_hunt said:

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It appears this civil war thing is going to work itself out. 

13 minutes ago, BirdsFanBill said:

Luckily they can all still vote when they're dead.

And by mail

2 hours ago, paco said:

CDC releases highly anticipated guidance for people fully vaccinated against Covid-19

 

Good news @mr_hunt! soon we can hang out and touch tips!!!

 

 

 

NEWS FLASH!!!

States That Allowed Indoor Dining or Did Not Require Masks Saw COVID Cases and Deaths Increase

https://people.com/health/restaurant-limits-masks-reduced-covid-cases/

2 minutes ago, Toastrel said:

NEWS FLASH!!!

States That Allowed Indoor Dining or Did Not Require Masks Saw COVID Cases and Deaths Increase

https://people.com/health/restaurant-limits-masks-reduced-covid-cases/

Wow the CDC that wants you to wear 3 masks would find that, what a coincidence

1 minute ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Wow the CDC that wants you to wear 3 masks would find that, what a coincidence

 

 

English. Do you speak it?

I thought the vaccine protected against hospitalizations and deaths?

""But," he continued, "we know what is about to come upon us is the situation with this B.1.1.7 variant," the strain of the virus that "wreaked havoc" in Europe after it first led to mass lockdowns in the U.K. With the strain now picking up in the U.S. — the CDC has identified 3,037 cases of the faster-spreading, and potentially more deadly variant so far — Osterholm said that the same could happen here.

3 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Wow the CDC that wants you to wear 3 masks would find that, what a coincidence

I can't even figure out what angle/side you're taking anymore. I guess you're just flailing at this point.

Just now, EaglesRocker97 said:

I can't even figure out what angle/side you're taking anymore. I guess you're just flailing at this point.

Just saying do you really expect the CDC to say anything different, it is like Trump saying he has internal polling saying he was in the lead, of course that is what they will say

1 minute ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Just saying do you really expect the CDC to say anything different, it is like Trump saying he has internal polling saying he was in the lead, of course that is what they will say

Yes because they are the CDC and not a political campaign.

11 minutes ago, BirdsFanBill said:

Yes because they are the CDC and not a political campaign.

Pretty sure the head of the CDC is a political appointee and can be fired by the President so if you don't think it is political you are naive

3 hours ago, vikas83 said:

They were talking about this on one of the Sunday news shows this week (I think it was Meet the Press). This lunacy of telling vaccinated people to keep wearing masks, physically distancing, etc. is never going to work. This is a step in the right direction, but we need to appreciate that people are self-interested and naturally selfish. Once they can't get sick anymore, they are going to go back to normal life. They can keep asking people to wear masks in federal buildings, on planes, etc. (where the federal govenrment has jurisdiction), but beyond that, people are ready to be free. The idea that people would keep this up AFTER being vaccinated is ludicrous.

The best thing we can do is keep getting shots in arms and letting people live their lives. The morons who don't get the vaccine can deal with Darwin. Once I am vaccinated, the hooker/coke/Vegas binge will be epic. 

Or they can catch the virus and survive it like 99.99% of everyone.  

1 minute ago, Kz! said:

Or they can catch the virus and survive it like 99.99% of everyone.  

Many people that survive have long term effects

18 hours ago, Kz! said:

Or they can catch the virus and survive it like 99.99% of everyone.  

You guys just keep adding 9s after the decimal, even though it's completely false. Cute To my knowledge, the CDC hasn't even published a death rate, but we do know that it was the #1 killer in the U.S. in 2020. So cool that you think this is funny.

 

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COVID-19 has already cut U.S. life expectancy by a year. For Black Americans, it’s worse

Health Feb 18, 2021 12:01 AM EST

In the first six months of 2020, life expectancy in the United States dropped by a full year, according to new federal data. Released Thursday, these latest figures offer a staggering glimpse at the cost of the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, said Elizabeth Arias, a demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics who served as the report’s lead author.

Even the loss or gain of two months of life expectancy in a single year is enough to get the attention of health statisticians who study how Americans live and die.

"This one-year decline in the total population is quite large,” Arias said.

Chart by Megan McGrew/PBS NewsHour

Researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, made the finding by analyzing 99 percent of all U.S. deaths, as well as provisional birth records, between January and June 2020, the time period available by late October. Demographers had to dig through decades of data to find the last time the U.S. life expectancy dropped by a year or more.

Amid the devastation caused by the coronavirus, Black men are experiencing a drop in life expectancy comparable to the years 1942 and 1943, when World War II was worsening. Back then, the average American’s lifespan dropped by 2.9 years, Arias said (CDC did not start tracking racial disparities in life expectancy until 2006). During the 1918 influenza pandemic, U.S. life expectancy sank by 11 years, she added.

In the last decade, demographers and health statisticians were concerned when they saw a spike in fatal drug overdoses linked to opioid use. Those deaths typically claimed much younger people and eroded life expectancy multiple times between 2015 and 2017, alarming researchers at the time.

The most recent numbers are just the beginning of what could be a more dramatic trend. Data for the nation’s second and third virus surges, which infected and killed far more Americans than the first, are still being collected and analyzed. Arias said her agency plans to release preliminary data later in the spring that accounts more fully for how the pandemic altered U.S. life expectancy.

Evidence suggests that not all U.S. COVID-19 deaths in 2020 were correctly tied to their cause, said Samuel Preston, a demographer and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Health experts have said for months that the pandemic’s official death toll is an undercount. And a substantial portion of deaths in 2020 may also have been linked to people delaying medical treatment or forgoing care for non-coronavirus illness because they were afraid of becoming infected with the virus, he said.

"The epidemic is having a lot of impacts over and above” the deaths that are being counted as COVID-related, he said.

Chart by Megan McGrew/PBS NewsHour

These latest CDC data support projections published earlier this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using provisional CDC data on COVID-19 deaths and projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations, that study estimated that U.S. life expectancy had dropped by 1.1 years. Noreen Goldman, a professor of demography and public affairs at Princeton University’s Office of Population Research and co-author on that paper, said she is "fairly convinced” the estimates put forth by both reports "are too low.”

Worsening disparities

Communities of color have suffered disproportionately throughout the pandemic, and these latest numbers further illustrate the magnitude of those disparities. Reflecting the many ways racial inequality in the U.S. has been highlighted over the past year, the life expectancy gap between Black and white people has also widened.

As one example, while the life expectancy of a white man dipped by eight-tenths of a year during the first six months of 2020, three years were shaved off the life of a Black man.

For decades, Black people had been gaining in life expectancy, edging closer to that of white people, thanks in part to long-running trends in increased access to health care, improved social mobility and greater economic stability, Arias said.

It takes a long time for progress in health equity to prolong people’s lives, she said. In 1900, less than a half-century after the end of slavery, Black Americans were dying an average of 14 years sooner than white Americans. By 2019, that gap shrank to 4.1 years.

Chart by Megan McGrew/PBS NewsHour

That gap has expanded again — to six years — six months into the coronavirus pandemic. Significantly higher rates of COVID-19 mortality within the Black community are driving the decrease for that demographic, Arias said.

Such a stark contrast is no blip in the data and exposes long-standing issues in the U.S., Goldman said. People of color are more likely to be essential workers and are, often in industries that experienced deep job cuts or those that could not be performed remotely during the pandemic, Goldman said. They are also more likely to lack access to health care than white people, she said. Goldman added that communities of color have been diagnosed at higher rates than white people with chronic health conditions that are tied to worse outcomes among those infected with COVID-19, such as asthma and diabetes.

"This kind of excess mortality is representing structural inequalities that have existed for a long time that increase both the risk of exposure to virus and the risk of dying from the virus,” Goldman said.

As the nation continues to combat the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Carlos Del Rio, a professor at Emory University, said it is critical that the U.S. focus on building health equity. These latest data underscore that the pandemic has been "bad for the United States, bad for the population and bad for the economy,” he said.

For the country to recover, Del Rio said the Biden administration must continue to build its COVID-19 response upon a foundation of improving equitable access to health care and expanding distribution of coronavirus testing, treatment, facilities and vaccines, particularly to communities of color that have been disproportionately cratered by the pandemic. Improving these numbers "is not just a matter of giving out a vaccine and be done,” he said.

"What we’re seeing here is we have to focus more than ever on health equity,” Del Rio said. "These disparities are unacceptable.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/covid-19-has-already-cut-u-s-life-expectancy-by-a-year-for-black-americans-its-worse

 

Word on the street was more doses would be showing up Tuesday. I'd been checking back periodically on the scheduler and was figuring to check again at 9. It kinda got away from me, though, until I was laying on the couch and came across an article on vaccines and realized it was like 8:55, so I just figured I'd login then. Boom: a whole slate of appointments for Tues. and Weds., and I pinned one down for a time slot to get my first shot right after work and just down the road.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210308131712.htm

7 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

 

Welp, better keep vaccinating if we want to slow the spread of the these variants, and if we gotta get boosters into the mix, so be it.

14 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said:

Welp, better keep vaccinating if we want to slow the spread of the these variants, and if we gotta are boosters to the mix, so be it.

Problem is the boosters have to be tested then everyone has to get them, that is at least a year just for one booster

This was never going to be simple or easy despite what some will say. Follow the guidelines and get the vaccine when you are afforded the opportunity. 

By all means ask questions and read scientific studies as well. Keep in mind that these will be numerous, vary in quality, and produce what may appear as conflicting results at times. 

7 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Problem is the boosters have to be tested then everyone has to get them, that is at least a year just for one booster

I would think they could put out a booster in less time than it took to create a totally brand-new vaccine, but it's a concern, for sure.

10 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Problem is the boosters have to be tested then everyone has to get them, that is at least a year just for one booster

Boosters will be available far sooner then that.