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2021-09-22 at 3:18 AM UTC
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2021-09-22 at 9:49 AM UTChitler was a jedi lover like trump
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2021-09-22 at 11:04 AM UTC
This is what years of media gaslighting does to people. -
2021-09-22 at 11:08 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-09-22 at 11:27 AM UTCfuck them stay home and wear your mask you anti science bitch you were never a hero and I hope you die TRUMP SCUM!!!! BITCH!!! WHORE!!!! KIKE LOVER!!!!
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2021-09-22 at 11:35 AM UTC
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2021-09-22 at 2:10 PM UTCI just found out 2 days ago that I am going to be a grandfather for the fifth time.
People
Florida Man Dies of COVID 20 Minutes Before Becoming a Grandfather: 'I Broke Down,' Says Daughter
Julie Mazziotta
A Florida man set to become a grandfather died from COVID-19 just 20 minutes before his first grandchild was born.
Shane O'Neal, 40, had been "super excited" about the arrival of his grandson, his daughter, Kylie Dean, told USA Today.
"Every time he'd go to the store, he'd pick up some baby clothes or baby toys," she said.
But in early August, the same week he had planned to get vaccinated, O'Neal tested positive for COVID-19. He had no preexisting conditions, but after a week with the virus he was hospitalized and intubated.
"He has made sure to mention to every single nurse that took care of him before his intubation, and he said, 'My daughter's 37 weeks pregnant. My daughter's 38 weeks pregnant. I'm gonna have my first grandbaby.' He wanted everybody to know," Dean told First Coast News.
Doctors advised putting O'Neal on an ECMO machine, a device that takes over the functions of the heart and lungs, but Dean and the hospital were unable to find an available ECMO machine anywhere in the country, due to the high number of hospitalized COVID patients.
And early in the morning on Sept. 3, at approximately 3:30 a.m., O'Neal died from COVID-19. A half hour before then, his doctor had called Dean, who was in labor, to tell her that her father would soon die.
"He was like 'I'm really sorry to tell you this right now, but your father just, despite all efforts, he's basically not going to make it," she told USA Today.
"I broke down and was literally sobbing. And my family and friends are standing at my window, watching me just literally break," she said. "That's probably the best way to describe it. I felt broken."
Soon after, at 3:49 a.m., Dean gave birth to her son Preston.
Dean said she'll always remember her father as "supper funny" and "a great dad" who "did anything and everything for me and my brother."
And Dean said that she sees O'Neal in her son.
"My dad would do the 'I love you' sign in sign language. And I've looked at Preston's hands, just at random times, and he has that sign on his hands, like the 'I love you sign,'" she said. "I don't know if it's coincidence, but it always brings me back to my dad when I see it." -
2021-09-22 at 2:33 PM UTCI hope him and his entire family dies from covid bunch of mutant freaksThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-09-22 at 2:50 PM UTC
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2021-09-22 at 3:16 PM UTCThat poor, poor grandchild.
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2021-09-22 at 3:32 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-09-22 at 3:34 PM UTC
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2021-09-22 at 3:57 PM UTC
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2021-09-22 at 4:07 PM UTCI hope everyone gets covid and dies and that the vaccine doesn't work and those people all die and only the meek and holy remain
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2021-09-22 at 8:47 PM UTCCovid vaccines are on the way for younger children. Here's why they're different
By Maggie Fox and Amanda Sealy, CNN
Vaccine maker Pfizer said Monday tests have shown its Covid-19 vaccine works well in children ages 5 to 11.
It's now discussing these findings with the US Food and Drug Administration, and Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA commissioner who is also on the board of Pfizer who may not have direct knowledge but who certainly has the basis to make an informed guess, says kids 5 and older could be getting Covid-19 shots by the end of October.
But the vaccines these younger kids get will almost certainly be different than the shots teens and adults have been getting, at least in terms of the dose. Here's why it's different, and what you need to know about Covid-19 vaccines for younger people:
Smaller doses work well in younger kids
Children have different immune systems from adults. Knowing this, Pfizer tested varying doses in its trials of children 5 to 11. Kids, it turns out, have a strong immune response even to lower doses. So children under 12 will almost certainly be getting a 10-microgram dose of vaccine, compared with a 30-microgram dose for adults.
In fact, most adults could get by with lower doses, too, says Dr. Robert Frenck, who leads vaccine trials at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
"We looked at 10 micrograms, 20 micrograms and 30 micrograms in adults," Frenck told reporters.
"We found in 18- to 55-year-olds, a 10-microgram dose gives a very good immune response," he added.
"But the 65 and above, they did not respond as well to the lower doses and so that's why we chose that 30-microgram dose, across the adult age range from 18 to above."
Frenck said there wasn't any time -- nor any reason -- to finesse the dosing last year. "During a pandemic we wanted to get a vaccine out quickly," he told CNN's John Berman.
"We knew we needed the 30 micrograms for the 65 and above to get the best immune response and we also knew that the 30 micrograms was well tolerated in the younger adults. So we just used that one dose for everybody."
So even older children won't miss out if they get the smaller dose.
"My guess is that if we gave a 12-year-old a 10-microgram dose that they would still have a similar immune response as a 30-microgram dose, but we don't have the data for that," he said.
For the youngest children -- children under 5 -- doctors are testing a 3-microgram dose of vaccine.
This lower dose keeps side effects to a minimum
Frenck said so far, the Pfizer vaccine appears very safe in younger children. "What we found is that the side effects in the children really mirrored exactly what we saw in adults," he said.
"So the most common thing is pain at the injection site. Also having headache, and maybe fatigue. Fevers and chills were unusual -- only around 10 to 11% of the children having those. Similar to the adults, or identical to the adults, is that side effects lasted a day or two and then people were back to normal."
Many parents may be worried about reports of a rare heart inflammation called myocarditis, which has been seen with both Moderna's and Pfizer's vaccines.
"And so the myocarditis -- which means swelling of the muscles of the heart -- we have seen that as a rare side effect has been associated with it looks like the second dose of either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine," Frenck told reporters.
"Rare meaning in the likelihood of a few per 100,000, so it's still like a 99.999% chance that this won't happen. It's been almost all in teenage boys, and it's been mild been treated with Motrin (ibuprofen), and they've gotten better."
The only two side effects that did not appear in clinical trials were the rare instances of myocarditis that were easily treated, and blood clotting seen among mostly older women who got the Johnson & Johnson or the AstraZeneca vaccine, Frenck noted.
"Beyond the clinical trials now, we've given literally hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine to adults and teenagers throughout the country," Frenck said.
"If we haven't seen anything with the hundreds of millions of doses, we're not going to see anything -- so I think parents should feel comfortable that this vaccine has been given to lots and lots and lots of -- literally to hundreds of millions of people, and that it continues to show a very good safety profile."
People can get the Covid-19 vaccine alongside flu vaccines and other immunizations
"You can get any vaccines together that's necessary," Frenck said.
"The only restrictions is if we have live viral vaccines, like with chickenpox and measles, if they don't get those on the same day we'd like to space them at least a month apart. But for the Covid vaccines, they can be given with the flu vaccine," he added.
"If you're a teenager and you're looking to need to get your meningococcal vaccine or your HPV vaccine or your TDaP (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis or whooping cough vaccine), you can get all of them at the same time. There's no need to space -- our immune system can handle all the vaccines at the same time."
Other Covid-19 vaccines are in the pipeline
"For now we're evaluating the Moderna vaccine -- we're working with National Institutes of Health," Frenck said.
"We finished the enrollment of the 6 to 11 years of age, and it's now on a planned to pause just to review the data and look at the dosing," he added.
The Moderna vaccine, which is authorized for people 18 and older, has been formulated at a higher dose than Pfizer's -- 100 micrograms, compared to a 30-microgram dose for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine -- although both of these vaccines use a technology called mRNA or messenger RNA to deliver instruction to the immune system.
Moderna has filed with the FDA for emergency use authorization for children 12 to 17. It expects to have data ready on younger children later this year.
Johnson & Johnson says it is in "active discussions with regulatory authorities regarding our development plan and trial designs" for teens and children and expects to start trials in the fall.
Plus, Frenck said, companies are beginning to test nasal spray formulations of the vaccine -- needle-free vaccines that resemble the FluMist vaccine given to prevent influenza.
Vaccinating kids will help control the pandemic
"I do think vaccinating children will have a significant impact on helping control the pandemic," Frenck said.
"If you look at the number of cases, the percentage of cases in the United States over the last couple of weeks, it's been closing in on 30% of the new cases have happened in children under 18. Children under 18 only make up about 20% of the population, so we're actually now having a disproportionate percentage of cases in children," he noted.
While kids mostly experience mild disease and are far less likely to end up in the hospital than adults, they can and do get severely ill. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 548 children have died of Covid-19 in the US so far.
"If we could get the 40% of people that aren't vaccinated vaccinated, that would give us more bang for our buck than trying to get boosters into everyone now," Frenck told CNN. -
2021-09-22 at 8:53 PM UTCthey are gonna die before they get the shot
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2021-09-23 at 9:11 AM UTC
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2021-09-23 at 10:07 AM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 R eading comprehension issues still, Donald?
Too bad that you probably won't be able to watch this story on Faux News.
You're funny with your "he's not trump so he'll do" mentality.
I bet you'll even trust that dithering old cabbage with your money an all. Oh wait, you already have.
lol
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2021-09-23 at 10:20 AM UTC
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2021-09-23 at 3:29 PM UTCMay all
Alaskans
Get
A jab
Reuters
Alaska, overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, adopts crisis standards for hospitals
By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska, which led most U.S. states in coronavirus vaccinations months ago, took the drastic step on Wednesday of imposing crisis-care standards for its entire hospital system, declaring that a crushing surge in COVID-19 patients has forced rationing of strained medical resources.
Governor Mike Dunleavy and health officials announced the move as the tally of newly confirmed cases statewide reached another single-day record of 1,224 patients amid a wave of infections driven by the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant among the unvaccinated.
The Delta variant is “crippling our healthcare system. It’s impacting everything from heart attacks to strokes to our children if they get in a bike accident,” Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska’s chief medical officer, said at a news conference with Dunleavy.
Idaho, another one of several largely rural states where COVID-19 cases have overwhelmed healthcare systems in recent weeks, activated its own crisis-care standards statewide last Thursday, citing a spike in hospitalizations that "has exhausted existing resources."
Alaska’s health and social services commissioner, Adam Crum, announced that he signed an emergency addendum extending to the whole state standards of crisis care announced last week at the state’s largest hospital, Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage.
The new document limits liability faced by providers for crisis-level medical care in all Alaska hospitals.
Moreover, it acknowledges the realities of rationed care statewide, with scarce medical supplies and staff prioritized in a way that denies normal levels of care to some patients for the sake of others, depending on how sick they are and their chances for recovery.
Some critically ill patients, for example, have had to be treated outside intensive care units where they would typically be admitted, Zink said.
“Care has shifted in Alaska’s hospitals. The same standard of care that was previously there is no longer able to be given on a regular basis. This has been happening for weeks,” Zink told reporters.
To cope with the COVID-19 influx, Alaska has signed an $87 million contract to enlist hundreds of healthcare workers from out of state, officials said.
About one-fifth of Alaska hospital patients are infected with COVID-19, according to state data. But that figure understates the burden placed on the system as a whole as it "squeezes out" capacity to treat victims of car accidents, strokes, heart attacks and other ailments, Dunleavy said.
Paradoxically, back in April, Alaska had ranked among the top states getting COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of residents, helped in large part by efforts of the state's pandemic-conscious indigenous population.
Alaska has since slipped below the national average, with just 58% of residents aged 12 and older fully vaccinated, according to the state database. The vaccination slump coincided with significant political resistance to public health requirements.
In May, voters in Anchorage, the state’s largest city, elected a new mayor, Dave Bronson, who campaigned against health mandates and has repeatedly expressed his refusal to get vaccinated. Dunleavy has opposed any vaccine mandates.
At Wednesday's news conference, the Republican governor defended his positions, citing Alaska's third-lowest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the nation per capita.
