{COVID-19} Pandemic Vomit VI

[Tyche]

I'm gonna devil's advocate the increased rate of child admissions. A lot...a whole lot...of the covid admissions are incidentally positive covid cases with coexisting RSV. RSV is fucking rampant and if these kids aren't getting full viral panels (which they should be, per CSC guidelines), it's gonna get missed. And I'm assuming that any diagnosis with coexisting covid is getting counted toward that total, even if the RSV is the chief concern.

[archibaldcrane]

I'm gonna devil's advocate the increased rate of child admissions. A lot...a whole lot...of the covid admissions are incidentally positive covid cases with coexisting RSV. RSV is fucking rampant and if these kids aren't getting full viral panels (which they should be, per CSC guidelines), it's gonna get missed. And I'm assuming that any diagnosis with coexisting covid is getting counted toward that total, even if the RSV is the chief concern.

How did influenza completely disappear but RSV is still prominent despite, well, everything we're doing to stop COVID?

[archibaldcrane]

i suppose i keep forgetting that most places aren't doing anything anymore to stop covid

[Sirious]

Well well well if it isn't the consequences of my actions.

Texas Gov. Abbott, who banned mask mandates, tests positive for Covid

But just like all the rest, the best medical care possible, won't even bat an eyelash in discomfort. Edit, awe it was already on the last page, sad.

[Tyche]

i suppose i keep forgetting that most places aren't doing anything anymore to stop covid

Daycares and shit. These kids are pretty young. Infants and young toddlers that wouldn't be masked anyway.

[kuronosan]

Not gonna lie, anecdotally....Bam, Regeneron, remdesivir...they dont seem all that game changing.

They're not

I'm gonna devil's advocate the increased rate of child admissions. A lot...a whole lot...of the covid admissions are incidentally positive covid cases with coexisting RSV. RSV is fucking rampant and if these kids aren't getting full viral panels (which they should be, per CSC guidelines), it's gonna get missed. And I'm assuming that any diagnosis with coexisting covid is getting counted toward that total, even if the RSV is the chief concern.

I'll talk to my friends in pediatrics but, they're probably not

[Tyche]

But we have began building a scrooge mcduck vault from billing those drugs.

[Guitarman]

https://www.kptv.com/news/90-of-oreg...lock_id=994431

There were 66 ICU beds available in all of Oregon Tuesday as COVID-19 hospitalizations spiraled to a record 838 patients - 86 more than what the state reported Monday.

The Oregon Health Authority recorded 2,941 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 Tuesday and 15 more deaths. That brings the total number of cases to 245,758, with 2,964 total deaths.

Capacity for non-ICU beds is even more dire, OHA said: 93.4 percent of all adult non-ICU beds are full in Oregon as of Tuesday. Of the 838 people hospitalized with COVID-19, 222 are in intensive care, up 16 from Monday.

2,941 new cases in Oregon today. For reference, we went full lockdown early in 2020 once we hit 300. That was considered a lot for us. Delta is decimating the population here.

[Gwynplaine]

This is a thread about the potential risk of too few pediatric resources for kids this upcoming school season and it applies to vaccinated blue states as well. I hope this is wrong jesus christ. If I were a parent of a vaccine ineligible child right now I would simply not send them to school until they can be fully vaxxed.

https://twitter.com/denise_dewald/st...808449029?s=20

TLDR:

"Pediatric beds cannot be staffed by adult-trained providers, because children are not little adults.
Their normal vital signs are different. They have different fluid and medication requirements (depending on weight or height). They get different diseases and complications.

But we don’t know what the average hospital stay for children with the delta variant will be.
If the average stay is actually 4 days (not unreasonable, based on anecdotal reports from the field), we would need 23,000 pediatric hospital beds and 6,800 PICU beds.

Recall that the USA only has about 27,500 pediatric beds and 4,500 PICU beds.
Either way, those sorts of numbers would vastly overwhelm our pediatric hospitals’ capacities."

[Gwynplaine]

A tale of two tweets and a lesson in short-term thinking.

March of 2020 Texas gov Abbott opens up everything all at once with no mask requirements since the pandemic appears to be winding down. Texas US senator/governor candidate Beto O'Rourke tweets that it will be a "death warrant" for Texans, and the right-wing fascbots come out to mock him since the deaths went down.

Flash forward to today:
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/stat...484061697?s=20
https://twitter.com/SuiJurisInEsse/s...892770311?s=20

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/sta...728849416?s=20

[Vaspinne]

Soooooo breaking the 700k deaths mark projected for when?

[Zealot]

Man if we came this far and still let another 75,000 people die that would be just a dark comedy at this point.

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[Lucavi]

Soooooo breaking the 700k deaths mark projected for when?

Oh as soon as possible, baby. Stack em' up. People want to play politics? Here we go.

[Mertron]

https://twitter.com/pff_dlee/status/...558638593?s=21

https://twitter.com/thejasonkirk/sta...889362947?s=21

[Cail]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/educa...mask-mandates/

Florida education officials determined Tuesday that the Broward and Alachua county school districts violated state law by requiring students without medical exemptions to wear masks and voted unanimously to consider penalties.


Penalties that could be imposed on the districts by the Florida Board of Education, appointed by the governor, would be the first since Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) threatened to withhold money from districts that require face coverings, saying parents should decide whether their children wear masks at school. Advancing the fight between DeSantis and school districts, the board decided that the school officials should be investigated and possibly punished, after Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran argued that the districts were not complying with the law.

Corcoran also pushed back against the Biden administration, which wrote to him and DeSantis last week saying federal funds could be available to school administrators who faced repercussions from the state.


“My recommendation is every school superintendent have to comply with the law, whether they agree with it or not,” Corcoran said.


In an emergency online meeting, board members questioned the district’s superintendents, at times combatively. Parents, teachers and officials, including state Sen. Gary Farmer (D) and Agriculture Commissioner and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried, called during the public comment period, expressing a range of heated opinions from disdain for mask mandates to support for the counties facing penalties.


“Shame on all of you,” Fried told the board. “How embarrassing that you may be more afraid of the governor than you are for the lives of our children and teachers who are already getting sick and dying in record numbers.”

[Byrthnoth]

Are schools moving classes outside?

Masks are fine, but outside classes seems simpler and far more effective. Tents, fans, and space heaters is probably still going to be more effective for teaching than Zoom school.

[Salodin]

No, ever since the parkland shooting Florida schools are strictly indoors, with the doors locked. Windows should be locked too, but they let that one slide more often.

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[Tymon]

America, where the alternative to getting killed by the virus isn't viable because then you'll just get shot.

[Sepukku]

America, where the alternative to getting killed by the virus isn't viable because then you'll just get shot.

Locking the doors wont stop the school shootings either, I reckon

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1427985693486243840