[News] Coronavirus

A place to discuss the now-global coronavirus outbreak.

Double lung transplant? Holy crap, I wouldn't have though that was even possible.

Of course for the vast majority of Americans, it's not possible, since it requires taking out multiple mortgages on your various vacation homes.

Chairman_Mao wrote:

A COVID patient goes home after rare double-lung transplant

On July 5, he performed a similar operation on a second COVID patient, Brian Kuhns, 62, from Lake Zurich, Illinois.

Kuhns spent 100 days on life-support machines before receiving the transplant. Before becoming ill, he had thought COVID was a hoax, his wife, Nancy Kuhns, said in a statement issued by the hospital.

Brian Kuhns said, “If my story can teach you one thing, it’s that COVID-19 isn’t a joke.”

These assholes who think it’s a “hoax” until they literally need new lungs can seriously f*ck off.

How much is he now going to donate to various COVID-19 relief funds?

Mr GT Chris wrote:

How much is he now going to donate to various COVID-19 relief funds?

I’m going to say less than or equal to the amount he donates to the political right that convinced him Covid-19 was a hoax.

Victoria has introduced a curfew and stage 4 coronavirus restrictions for Melbourne

  • From 6:00pm on Sunday, metropolitan Melbourne will come under stage four restrictions.
  • Melburnians will only be allowed to shop for food and necessary supplies within 5 kilometres of their home.
  • Exercise will be limited to one hour once per day, within 5km of home.
  • A curfew will apply from 8:00pm to 5:00am each night.

Iowa, Governor Reynolds says while scientists say face-masks help stop the spread, 'others' say the opposite. So mask use will continue to be optional in Iowa. Big win for 'others' I guess? Hope they feel better in Iowa seeing their wrong ideas held up equal to science.

It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to be the governor with the lowest approval rating for how they're handling the pandemic.

Also I wish that at the next press conference she did every reporter asked her to enumerate who the 'others' were and then painstakingly explain why they were equally qualified as epidemiologists and public health officials to talk about wearing masks during a pandemic.

There's a reason so many of us here have taken to referring to her as "Covid Kim"

And with scientists, there is ALWAYS at least one who will be contrarian. Whether due to a different reading of the data, a different belief that they can’t shake, general orneriness/contrarianism, or a desire to have 15 minutes of fame. In science, we often rely on the statistically most likely, in this case the preponderance of the conclusions drawn from many studies.

So, I’m sure she and Gohmert cAn find some whacko to say he caught COVID from a mask and that masks are dangerous.

The CDC has identified five states they believe will see massive increases in case numbers in the next few weeks. Tennessee is on that list.

Well, sh*t.

firesloth wrote:

And with scientists, there is ALWAYS at least one who will be contrarian. Whether due to a different reading of the data, a different belief that they can’t shake, general orneriness/contrarianism, or a desire to have 15 minutes of fame. In science, we often rely on the statistically most likely, in this case the preponderance of the conclusions drawn from many studies.

So, I’m sure she and Gohmert cAn find some whacko to say he caught COVID from a mask and that masks are dangerous.

This reminds me of this scene from Big Bang Theory.

Glad they broke up, I couldn't handle him making out with his sister anymore.

trichy wrote:

The CDC has identified five states they believe will see massive increases in case numbers in the next few weeks. Tennessee is on that list.

Well, sh*t.

And we are starting school next week! Yay! Expect cases to skyrocket, and schools to be closed and go completely online by the end of September. Joy, joy.

trichy wrote:

The CDC has identified five states they believe will see massive increases in case numbers in the next few weeks. Tennessee is on that list.

Well, sh*t.

Apparently, lots of testing doesn’t make running a state at a slow boil any safer. Kinda sets it up for worst case scenario.

Living it here in MO.

Just got the Alumni email for Queens College here in Charlotte, NC. They've decided to go 100% remote for the fall semester, no on campus students or classes. Definitely the right call (in my opinion).

Alabama HS principal says:

Ok, that was better than I expected

TCU (Texas Christian University) had two police resign this week because they refused to pick up a student that was positive from the hospital today.

It was a resign or fire type of deal anyway. There are so many fat leopards because there are just too many easy to eat faces these days it’s stunning.

UK diners treated to half-price meals ahead of feared second coronavirus wave

The UK Government is begging Britons to open their wallets, so Boris Johnson is doing the same.

His Government has started paying 50 per cent of diners' restaurant bills to encourage them to spend, ahead of a feared second wave of COVID-19.

"I think it's a great idea," diner Lewis Stanford told the ABC as he ate lunch in south London.

"These businesses need an injection to get everyone out and about."

A fellow diner, Poppy Green, said she never expected the Prime Minister would be paying half her restaurant bill.

"Good on him! Who would have thought? A conservative prime minister. But I agree. Well done, Boris."

Well done Boris! By the way, I’d ask him when he thinks the first wave ended...

He's bribing people to go out and get infected?

What the f*ck is wrong with your government, UK?

From correlating credit card records with infection rates, it appears that dining out is one of the riskiest things you can do. More than any other thing they tested for, spending at indoor restaurants correlated very strongly with spikes in hospitalizations about two weeks later.

So he's pretty much saying, "oh, wow, there's a forest fire coming. Quick, let's pile up all this brush around our houses!"

Soak your houses in gasoline to keep it wet so it won't catch on fire.

Sounds little different from the Republican "vacation voucher" idea that was flown to throw into the new stimulus bill. Not sure which is which, but the US and UK sure seem like the nation-state incarnations of Tweedledee and Tweedledum now.

I don’t want to leave Japan out in case anyone missed this gem of a campaign:

Japan's controversial Go To Travel campaign kicks off as criticism and concerns grow

The ¥1.35 trillion campaign was originally designed to promote domestic travel by anyone to any destination they wished with an up to a 50 percent discount via deals and vouchers issued from September. But after a spike in coronavirus cases in Tokyo, the government announced a sudden decision to exclude travel to and from the capital late last week.
For the rest of the nation, however, the central government continues to encourage people to go out and about, taking necessary social distancing and safety precautions. Adhering to social distancing rules already in place in restaurants and public facilities is a requirement for hotels, traditional inns and other businesses participating in the Go To Travel campaign.
“The Go To campaign is part of the government’s effort at a staged reopening of the economy. When people check in to a facility, they’ll get their temperature checked and they’ll be expected to practice social distancing at mealtimes,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Wednesday.

Sign me up!

This reminds me, I'm taking this week off as a vacation from work, and when I told someone as I picked up dinner, they asked "Oh! Going anywhere?" and I just stared at them.

Prederick wrote:

This reminds me, I'm taking this week off as a vacation from work, and when I told someone as I picked up dinner, they asked "Oh! Going anywhere?" and I just stared at them.

Yeah.

Malor wrote:

From correlating credit card records with infection rates, it appears that dining out is one of the riskiest things you can do. More than any other thing they tested for, spending at indoor restaurants correlated very strongly with spikes in hospitalizations about two weeks later.

Do you have this study? I would love to be able to share it with some friends who think eating out is no big deal.

EDIT- Found it!

Mr GT Chris wrote:

Victoria has introduced a curfew and stage 4 coronavirus restrictions for Melbourne

  • From 6:00pm on Sunday, metropolitan Melbourne will come under stage four restrictions.
  • Melburnians will only be allowed to shop for food and necessary supplies within 5 kilometres of their home.
  • Exercise will be limited to one hour once per day, within 5km of home.
  • A curfew will apply from 8:00pm to 5:00am each night.

I suppose as a USAmerican I should tend to my own knitting, but I'm still very curious just what's going so wrong in Melbourne and Victoria that's not happening "nearby" in NSW and SA.

VIC and Massachusetts have almost the same population, and on an average recent day MA has had, loosely, 400 new cases. That's roughly the same as I'm seeing out of Victoria. And we in MA are considered to be doing kind of C+/B- in the US; VIC just stands out because it's 95% of Australian cases. Most of the US would *love* to be as "bad" as Melbourne.

As to why it's so different- I guess one thing is that Australia can both legally and practically close state borders in a way the US just can't, which kept Melbourne's problems local. BBC also speculated that it might be private security not doing as good a job as police, failure to communicate to non-English-speaking communities, and maybe just some bad luck.

This is the first day of school in Paulding County, Georgia.

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JC wrote:
Malor wrote:

From correlating credit card records with infection rates, it appears that dining out is one of the riskiest things you can do. More than any other thing they tested for, spending at indoor restaurants correlated very strongly with spikes in hospitalizations about two weeks later.

Do you have this study? I would love to be able to share it with some friends who think eating out is no big deal.

EDIT- Found it!

Isn't this common sense though? There's so many vectors of contacting the virus in that type of environment. You'd have to spend all your time scrubbing things down to make sure you have a shot of being safe.