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2021-08-17 at 3:52 PM UTCDoctors fight "two pandemics": COVID surge and misinformation
CBS News
Intensive Care Units in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are in need of additional wards after being filled with coronavirus patients. As of Tuesday morning, the Baton Rouge General Medical Center had 180 COVID patients and more than 70 of them were in the intensive care unit. They're operating seven expanded COVID wards, and doctors say the hospital may need two more by the end of the week.
Karri Oakes and her husband Jeffrey are both in the ICU with COVID-19. The couple has been married for 27 years and has caught COVID-19 twice. They were not hospitalized last time, and the couple said they wanted to wait to get vaccinated.
"We thought that the fact that we had it last year would give us some additional protection this year," Jeffrey told CBS News' David Begnaud.
"The Delta variant is really, really nasty. And anyone who thinks that they can just come through this, they're wrong," Karri added.
Dr. Chris Thomas's ICU is full of patients like the Oakes. Some are scared or regretful, like 42-year-old Ronald Banks, who has a three-month-old at home but is now hospitalized with COVID.
"I was laying on my kitchen floor. And I couldn't breathe. I realized I should have got that vaccine," Banks said.
More COVID patients are expected to arrive over the next few days, and almost all of them will probably be unvaccinated. This frustrates health workers who believe they are fighting the pandemic as well as the misinformation being put out there about COVID vaccines.
"We have two pandemics. We have a pandemic of a Delta virus that's ravaging our community. And we have a pandemic of misinformation.
These people are smart, they're making what I think they believe are sound decisions as it relates to the vaccine," said Dr. Thomas, a critical care specialist at Baton Rouge General. "And I'm not frustrated with them anymore. I'm just frustrated that we've got to the point where we allow misinformation to equal medical science. They're not the same. We're losing the battle of misinformation. And it's important to win that battle."
It's a battle Thomas and his colleagues are trying to win by building rapport with patients even as the war against COVID continues with no end in sight.
"We took an oath. We said we were going to help people. They have to get home. So you come here every day to get them to their homes as much as possible," Thomas said.
Across Louisiana, the number of hospitalized COVID patients is now at an all-time high. Thomas told Begnaud he's personally struggling more with this surge, not just because the Delta variant is so challenging but also because he's seeing younger patients. -
2021-08-17 at 7:31 PM UTCThe people getting the gene therapy are infecting themselves and spreading Covid all over the place.
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2021-08-17 at 8:18 PM UTCAnd they're all looking to lay a big ole wet one right on your lips and then tonsil wrestle with you.
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2021-08-18 at 4:54 AM UTCMAGAts
All
Getting
A mask
INSIDER
As COVID spreads across the US, some Trump properties are actually requiring guests and staff to mask up
cteh@businessinsider.com (Cheryl Teh)
Several Trump properties are requiring that their guests and staff alike wear masks.
Properties include the Trump International Beach Resort in Miami, Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis is currently battling schools on mask mandates for children.
A Mar-a-Lago staff member told Insider he had "no clue" if there was a mask requirement on the property.
While COVID-19 cases surge across the US, many businesses are requiring their staff and customers to mask up - including several Trump properties.
According to advisories posted on the properties' websites, several Trump hotels are mandating that guests and staff wear masks indoors.
The Trump Hotel in Miami requires facial coverings to be worn in public spaces - even while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to fight against mask mandates for children amid a swell in Florida's COVID-19 infections.
"Our Trump International Beach Resort team understands the seriousness of the risks associated with the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19," said a notice on the hotel's website. "Facial coverings are required in public space, social distancing required at all times, limited capacity for outlets. These regulations will be enforced by both city and county inspectors during unannounced visits."
The Trump International Hotel in Waikiki similarly requires workers to wear face masks on the property and recommends that guests do the same, per a health advisory that can be found on its website. According to this health and safety plan, guests have also been advised on "proper mask usage" and social distancing.
"We will continue to be vigilant by following guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local and state authorities," read the document.
Meanwhile, a staff member at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, who declined to be named, told Insider over the phone that he had "no clue" if there was a mask requirement for guests. Earlier this year, local Floridian officials threatened the resort with $15,000 in penalties over mask-mandate violations after videos emerged of unmasked guests, including Donald Trump Jr., at a New Year's Eve party.
The face mask requirement does not appear to be consistent across the Trump-linked properties. For one, the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is no longer requiring fully-vaccinated guests to wear masks, per a notice on its website. However, like many businesses across the US, the property says that guests will "still see (its) associates in face masks."
The Trump Hotel in Vegas said in a notice that vaccinated guests and visitors can move around the property without masks. However, an unnamed front desk worker told CBS this week that the Las Vegas property does have a mask mandate indoors.
"We do have a mask mandate in place for inside - it's been in effect for the past couple of weeks," the worker told CBS while declining to be named.
It is unclear when each mask guideline for the properties was imposed. It is also unclear if the other Trump-linked hotels in New York and Washington, DC, or the former president's golf clubs across the country, also require staff to wear masks.
The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
The Trump Organization's compliance with local mask mandates does not comport with the past defiant stance that Donald Trump struck against mask-wearing. When he was president, Trump refused for months to wear a face-covering during public appearances. Most memorably, the former president removed his mask on the steps of the White House when he returned from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after contracting COVID-19.
The US is currently seeing a troubling surge in COVID-19 cases, particularly with the spread of the contagious Delta variant. The case surge prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend that even the fully vaccinated should wear masks indoors.
At press time, the US recorded a total of 37,133,674 COVID-19 infections, with a daily average of 139,872 new cases, per the New York Times COVID case tracker. -
2021-08-18 at 9:11 AM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 MAGAts
All
Getting
A mask
INSIDER
As COVID spreads across the US, some Trump properties are actually requiring guests and staff to mask up
cteh@businessinsider.com (Cheryl Teh)
Several Trump properties are requiring that their guests and staff alike wear masks.
Properties include the Trump International Beach Resort in Miami, Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis is currently battling schools on mask mandates for children.
A Mar-a-Lago staff member told Insider he had "no clue" if there was a mask requirement on the property.
While COVID-19 cases surge across the US, many businesses are requiring their staff and customers to mask up - including several Trump properties.
According to advisories posted on the properties' websites, several Trump hotels are mandating that guests and staff wear masks indoors.
The Trump Hotel in Miami requires facial coverings to be worn in public spaces - even while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to fight against mask mandates for children amid a swell in Florida's COVID-19 infections.
"Our Trump International Beach Resort team understands the seriousness of the risks associated with the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19," said a notice on the hotel's website. "Facial coverings are required in public space, social distancing required at all times, limited capacity for outlets. These regulations will be enforced by both city and county inspectors during unannounced visits."
The Trump International Hotel in Waikiki similarly requires workers to wear face masks on the property and recommends that guests do the same, per a health advisory that can be found on its website. According to this health and safety plan, guests have also been advised on "proper mask usage" and social distancing.
"We will continue to be vigilant by following guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local and state authorities," read the document.
Meanwhile, a staff member at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, who declined to be named, told Insider over the phone that he had "no clue" if there was a mask requirement for guests. Earlier this year, local Floridian officials threatened the resort with $15,000 in penalties over mask-mandate violations after videos emerged of unmasked guests, including Donald Trump Jr., at a New Year's Eve party.
The face mask requirement does not appear to be consistent across the Trump-linked properties. For one, the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is no longer requiring fully-vaccinated guests to wear masks, per a notice on its website. However, like many businesses across the US, the property says that guests will "still see (its) associates in face masks."
The Trump Hotel in Vegas said in a notice that vaccinated guests and visitors can move around the property without masks. However, an unnamed front desk worker told CBS this week that the Las Vegas property does have a mask mandate indoors.
"We do have a mask mandate in place for inside - it's been in effect for the past couple of weeks," the worker told CBS while declining to be named.
It is unclear when each mask guideline for the properties was imposed. It is also unclear if the other Trump-linked hotels in New York and Washington, DC, or the former president's golf clubs across the country, also require staff to wear masks.
The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
The Trump Organization's compliance with local mask mandates does not comport with the past defiant stance that Donald Trump struck against mask-wearing. When he was president, Trump refused for months to wear a face-covering during public appearances. Most memorably, the former president removed his mask on the steps of the White House when he returned from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after contracting COVID-19.
The US is currently seeing a troubling surge in COVID-19 cases, particularly with the spread of the contagious Delta variant. The case surge prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recommend that even the fully vaccinated should wear masks indoors.
At press time, the US recorded a total of 37,133,674 COVID-19 infections, with a daily average of 139,872 new cases, per the New York Times COVID case tracker.
You don't need to worry, you couldn't afford to stay at any of my hotels. -
2021-08-18 at 12:34 PM UTCkek
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57830617The BBC has been told there have been around 100 cases on the aircraft carrier, which is part way through a world tour.
Several other warships in the fleet accompanying it are also affected.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said all crew on the deployment had received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine and the outbreak was being managed.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-18 at 1:28 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra kek
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57830617
hard evidence that 3 shots or more are needed. -
2021-08-18 at 8:40 PM UTC
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2021-08-18 at 9:08 PM UTCAnd once the seal is broken the Great Dreamer will awake from his slumber and the world as we know it, will cease to exist.
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2021-08-18 at 9:43 PM UTCPh'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagnThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-19 at 3:37 AM UTC
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2021-08-21 at 5:45 PM UTCAIN'T NO FIXIN' STUPID REPUBLICANS
Business Insider
Republican lawmaker attends anti-vaxxer rally just days after his unvaccinated wife died of COVID-19, reports say
jzitser@businessinsider.com (Joshua Zitser)
A GOP lawmaker attended an anti-vaxxer rally shortly after losing his wife to COVID-19, the Daily Beast reported.
State Rep. Chris Johansen and his late wife Cindy had not been vaccinated, the Bangor Daily News said.
Cindy Johansen died on August 10, according to reports, but her husband has not publicly confirmed her passing.
A Republican lawmaker in Maine who reportedly lost his unvaccinated wife to COVID-19 attended an anti-vaxxer protest just over a week after her death, according to the Daily Beast.
State Rep. Chris Johansen, who has vocally opposed coronavirus restrictions, joined GOP lawmakers at the Augusta rally to protest Democratic Gov. Janet Mills's mandate that all healthcare workers get vaccinated, Newsweek reported.
At the Tuesday event, a Republican colleague reportedly compared Mills to Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who performed cruel experiments on jedi prisoners at death camps during the Holocaust, the Daily Beast said.
According to the media outlet, Johansen's wife, Cindy Johansen, died a week earlier on August 10.
Although Chris Johansen has not publicly confirmed his wife's death, a Maine Republican Party spokesperson told the Daily Beast that she had passed away.
The Aroostook County Democrats posted a condolence message on Facebook on August 15.
Per the Bangor Daily News, neither Johansen nor his late wife had been vaccinated against COVID-19.
She reportedly started experiencing symptoms in late July. Cindy Johansen shared several Facebook posts alluding to her COVID-19 diagnosis, and on August 7, her husband wrote: "It was all bad news today. Cindy has suffered several major setbacks."
Insider reached out to Johansen for comment, but he did not immediately respond to our request. -
2021-08-22 at 6:20 AM UTCMaybe they'll
All have to
Get a ventilator before they get
A clue
Business Insider
A South Carolina GOP leader who called face masks an 'illusion' has died from COVID-19
ydzhanova@businessinsider.com (Yelena Dzhanova)
The leader of a South Carolina GOP group died from COVID-19 after making fun of masks.
Pressley Stutts also cheered on unvaccinated doctors and criticized vaccine mandates.
Then after landing in the ICU for treatment, Stutts called the coronavirus "hell on earth."
The GOP leader of a South Carolina county died from COVID-19 after pushing false statements about the disease and downplaying restrictions like mask-wearing.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Pressley Stutts, chair of the Greenville Tea Party, had been a vocal skeptic of coronavirus-related guidance and safety ordinances released by national health agencies. Last year, he called face masks an "illusion" in a Facebook post and falsely claimed the people in the US "have a 99.999% of not dying from the Wuhan virus."
He also cheered on unvaccinated doctors and nurses and criticized vaccination mandates. "Mandates and coercions DO NOT WORK especially when they come to us from a government that has repeatedly lied to the American People time and time again," he wrote.
Pressley - from an ICU hospital bed - continued to downplay the coronavirus. After being admitted into the hospital in early August, he wrote in a Facebook post that "COVID is nothing to fool with and in as much as possible, it is up to you to take the best precautions for you and your family to avoid getting it."
About two weeks later, Pressley called the virus "hell on earth" in another post.
"When you have to take every single ounce just to get your next breath, you know you are in the battle for your life!" he wrote in that Facebook post. "I IMPLORE YOU....PLEASE PRAY THAT GOD MOVES MIGHTILY IN MY BODY. ISOLATED. DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER I CAN ENDURE WITHOUT YOUR PRAYERS. SERIOUSLY!"
Pressley's final Facebook post, published on August 13 just days before his death, said he was going on a ventilator. He also promised to "wake up from this short rest and be back in the game soon." -
2021-08-22 at 7:23 AM UTC
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2021-08-23 at 10:55 AM UTCvaccine trip report: currently I've hacked into the bill gates microchip and I'm hanging out with zuck and epstein in the metaverse smoking NFTs
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2021-08-23 at 12:11 PM UTCM ake
A ll Black People
G et the fuck out of america and go back to
A frica
Trump booed at Alabama rally after telling supporters to get vaccinated
Allan Smith
Sun, August 22, 2021, 5:29 PM
Former President Donald Trump was booed at a rally Saturday in Alabama after he told supporters they should get vaccinated.
"And you know what? I believe totally in your freedoms. I do. You've got to do what you have to do," Trump said. "But I recommend take the vaccines. I did it. It's good. Take the vaccines."
Some boos rang out from the crowd, who were largely maskless.
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2021-08-23 at 12:28 PM UTC
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood M ake
A ll Black People
G et the fuck out of america and go back to
A frica
Trump booed at Alabama rally after telling supporters to get vaccinated
Allan Smith
Sun, August 22, 2021, 5:29 PM
Former President Donald Trump was booed at a rally Saturday in Alabama after he told supporters they should get vaccinated.
"And you know what? I believe totally in your freedoms. I do. You've got to do what you have to do," Trump said. "But I recommend take the vaccines. I did it. It's good. Take the vaccines."
Some boos rang out from the crowd, who were largely maskless.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-booed-alabama-rally-telling-161600080.html
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2021-08-23 at 1:58 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny You’ve ignored me every time I actually took the time to read your copy pasta and links in the past so before I waste my time commenting on that article I’d like to ask if you’ve actually read it, and if you have what you think it’s actually saying.
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2021-08-23 at 4:17 PM UTCMaybe now these
Assclowns will finally
Get
A jab
The New York Times
F.D.A. Grants Full Approval to Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine
Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland
Pfizer said it presented the Food and Drug Administration with data from 44,000 clinical trial participants in United States, the European Union, Turkey, South Africa and South America.© Saul Martinez for The New York Times Pfizer said it presented the Food and Drug Administration with data from 44,000 clinical trial participants in United States, the European Union, Turkey, South Africa and South America.
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for people 16 and older, making it the first to move beyond emergency use status in the United States.
The decision will set off a cascade of vaccine requirements by hospitals, colleges, corporations and other organizations. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will be sending guidelines to the country’s 1.4 million active duty service members mandating that they be vaccinated, the Pentagon announced on Monday.
United Airlines recently announced that its employees will be required to show proof of vaccination within five weeks of regulatory approval. Oregon has adopted a similar requirement for all state workers, as have a host of universities in states from Louisiana to Minnesota.
The approval comes as the nation’s fight against the pandemic has intensified again, with the highly infectious Delta variant dramatically slowing the progress that the country had made over the first half of the year. The Biden administration hopes the development will motivate at least some of the roughly 85 million unvaccinated Americans who are eligible for shots to get them.
President Biden is planning to commemorate it in a speech urging vaccination scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Eastern time on Monday afternoon. “If you’re not vaccinated yet, now is the time,” the president said on Twitter.
“While millions of people have already safely received Covid-19 vaccines, we recognize that for some, the F.D.A. approval of a vaccine may now instill additional confidence to get vaccinated,” Dr. Janet Woodcock, the acting F.D.A. commissioner, said in a statement. “Today’s milestone puts us one step closer to altering the course of this pandemic in the U.S.”
Pfizer said it presented the F.D.A. with data from 44,000 clinical trial participants in United States, the European Union, Turkey, South Africa and South America. The company said the data showed the vaccine was 91 percent effective in preventing infection — a slight drop from the 95 percent efficacy rate that the data showed when the F.D.A. decided to authorize the vaccine for emergency use in December. Pfizer said the decrease reflected the fact that researchers had more time to catch people who became infected.
A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which has been tracking public attitudes during the pandemic, found that three of every 10 unvaccinated people said that they would be more likely to get vaccinated with a shot that had been fully approved.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will continue to be authorized for emergency use for children ages 12 to 15 while Pfizer collects the necessary data required for full approval. A decision on whether to authorize the vaccine for children younger than 12 could be at least several months away. So far, more than 92 million Americans — 54 percent of those fully inoculated — have gotten Pfizer shots. Most of the rest received Moderna’s vaccine.
Dr. Peter Marks, the F.D.A.’s top vaccine regulator, said that the Pfizer vaccine’s licensure followed a rigorous review of hundreds of thousands of pages of data and included inspections of the factories where the vaccine is produced. “The public and medical community can be confident that although we approved this vaccine expeditiously, it was fully in keeping with our existing high standards for vaccines in the U.S.,” he said.
Health experts and state officials welcomed the development. With the Delta variant driving up caseloads across the country, “full approval could not come at a more important time,” said Dr. Richard Besser, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“It is time for schools, businesses, health care facilities, and other indoor places where people congregate to mandate Covid-19 vaccines for admittance for all who are vaccine-eligible,” he added.
Some experts have estimated that full approval might convince just five percent of those who are unvaccinated to get shots. Even if that’s so, “that’s still a huge slice of people,” Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the chief health officer for Mississippi, a state that is particularly hard hit by the Delta variant. He said licensure will help “shake loose this false assertion that the vaccines are an ‘experimental’ thing.”
The F.D.A. is in the midst of a decision-making marathon related to coronavirus vaccines. The next major one looming for regulators is whether or not to authorize booster shots. The Biden administration said last week that pending the agency’s clearance, it will offer third shots to adults who got the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines eight months after their second injection, starting Sept. 20. Third shots are already authorized for some people with immune deficiencies, but the risk-benefit calculus is different for the general population.
Federal health officials said that both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s vaccines, which rely on similar technology, wane in potency over time. That trend, they said, is converging with the rise of the particularly dangerous Delta variant, making those who completed their vaccinations at the start of the year increasingly vulnerable to infection.
Some health experts have challenged the decision to recommend booster shots as premature, saying the data shows that the vaccines are holding up well against severe disease and hospitalization, including against the Delta variant. Boosters would only be warranted if the vaccines were failing to prevent hospitalizations with Covid-19, some of those experts have said.
Regulators are still reviewing Moderna’s application for full approval of its vaccine. That decision could take several weeks. Johnson & Johnson is expected to apply soon for full approval.
