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09-01-2020, 11:48 AM | #43997 | |
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Instead we are running at 37 and 40 cycles and using these results to shut down businesses. Incredible. |
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09-01-2020, 11:51 AM | #43998 |
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09-01-2020, 11:53 AM | #43999 | |
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My oldest daughter took a couple of college classes through the high school, all of her staples through homeschooling, and still had time to work a full-time job. She MAYBE did 3 hours of school a day (sometimes more, sometimes less, since it's all based on workload and not some predetermined schedule) and ended up with test scores in the 99th percentile and offers to attend college pretty much wherever she wants. |
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09-01-2020, 11:54 AM | #44000 |
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https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2.../28/2008281117
Good news on the vaccine front. Basically, none of the mutations will cause any difference in an immune response so we shouldn't have much trouble with it. |
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09-01-2020, 12:01 PM | #44001 | |
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I wish we could see the phase 3 data in real time. |
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09-01-2020, 12:11 PM | #44002 |
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I read that AstraZeneca has begun their Phase 3 trial in the US and A.
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09-01-2020, 12:29 PM | #44003 |
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(CNN)A White House coronavirus task force report sent to officials in Iowa this week warns of dire new case increases across rural and urban areas of the state and calls for a mask mandate, the closure of bars and a plan from universities as the pandemic intensifies in the Midwest.
CNN has obtained the 9-page August 30 report for the state, first reported by the Des Moines Register, from the Iowa Department of Public Health. The task force releases state-by-state reports each week to governors' offices, and has so far declined to make them publicly available. The report says that Iowa is in the task force-defined "red zone" and warns that the state has the highest rate of cases in the US, which increased by 77.4% from the previous week. "Iowa is in the red zone for cases, indicating more than 100 new cases per 100,000 population last week, with the highest rate in the country. Iowa is in the red zone for test positivity, indicating a rate above 10%, with the 5th highest rate in the country," the report says, an increase in both cases and test positivity over the last week. The report offers recommendations to Iowa, including strongly encouraging a mask mandate. Iowa does not currently mandate masks. "Mask mandates across the state must be in place to decrease transmission," the report says. It also says bars "must be closed" and indoor dining "must be restricted to 50% of normal capacity in yellow zone and 25% of normal capacity in red zone counties and metro areas." In the report, the task force points to universities as a major factor contributing to the virus' spread. "University towns need a comprehensive plan that scales immediately for testing all returning students with routine surveillance testing to immediately identify new cases and outbreaks and isolate and quarantine," the report says. The three counties with the highest numbers of cases also have large student populations, including Iowa State University in Story County and the University of Iowa in Johnson County, as well as Polk County, which contains Iowa's largest metro area, Des Moines. The report comes less than two weeks before Iowa State University will welcome crowds to its stadium for its season opener football game. Though social distancing will be observed, a letter from the school's athletic director estimated "there will be approximately 25,000 fans at the first game." The task force report suggests red zone counties should limit gatherings to 10 or fewer people. The test positivity rate for Iowa State students in the second week of testing is 28.8%. At the University of Iowa, there have been 935 self-reported cases in students and employees since the semester began on August 18. There are also concerns, per the task force's report, about spread in nursing homes, calling the number of nursing homes with more than one resident testing positive "concerning." |
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09-01-2020, 12:42 PM | #44004 |
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This is the chart that Dr. Norman from the KDHE should have used instead of the two charts with a different axis on each chart to make one look worse than the other
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09-01-2020, 12:43 PM | #44005 |
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Bars in the red zone counties are already closed. They've been closed, in some cases, for weeks and won't even begin to open until September 20th, if things relax. Almost all restaurants are at 50% capacity or less and maintaining 6 feet of separation. Most of the college towns already have plans in place.
This article from CNN is essentially saying we need to do things in Iowa that we're already doing. Furthermore, it's kind of interesting that they don't mention red zone counties that don't have any college, like mine. The reason we're a hot zone is because a government-protected manufacturing entity isn't following protocol and forcing people to work while they are sick or face discipline, including termination. |
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09-01-2020, 12:47 PM | #44006 |
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09-01-2020, 12:48 PM | #44007 |
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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...ry/3449153001/ White House coronavirus experts warned Iowa leaders Sunday, Aug. 30, that the state has the country's steepest coronavirus outbreak, and the state should close bars in 61 counties and test all returning college students for the virus. The recommended actions are significantly stronger than ones put in place by Gov. Kim Reynolds, who last week ordered bars closed in six counties. |
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09-01-2020, 12:53 PM | #44008 |
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The COVID Pandemic Could Lead to 75,000 Additional Deaths from Alcohol and Drug Misuse and Suicide
Alongside the thousands of deaths from COVID-19, the growing epidemic of “deaths of despair” is increasing due to the pandemic—as many as 75,000 more people will die from drug or alcohol misuse and suicide, according to new research released by Well Being Trust (WBT) and the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care. The brief notes that if the country fails to invest in solutions that can help heal the nation’s isolation, pain, and suffering, the collective impact of COVID-19 will be even more devastating. Three factors, already at work, are exacerbating deaths of despair: unprecedented economic failure paired with massive unemployment, mandated social isolation for months https://wellbeingtrust.org/areas-of-...ring-covid-19/ |
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09-01-2020, 12:56 PM | #44009 |
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09-01-2020, 12:57 PM | #44010 | |
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This new recommendation expands the 6 (or 22) to 61. That makes a lot more sense now. |
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