I pray for the best. my uncle was taken off a vent and was able to finally go home but he has a long road to recover fully from covid.Update on my cousin’s FIL
He had been on the vent for 3 days (I think?) his kidneys showed some improvement so they delayed dialysis for now.
They were able to wean him down to 60% on the vent and are debating waking him up to see how well he can breathe on his own.
The topic was H1N1.
www.cnbc.com
The first milestone I will be happy to see (even if it had no real importance) is when number vaccinated in a day exceeds number of new covid cases in a day. I will feel the vaccine is in the lead then. Arbitrary, but one I look forward in seeing in the future.Pretty good news. 30-40% of Americans will have antibodies one way or another by the end of the month.Dr. Gottlieb sees 30% of people in U.S. getting Covid and 10% vaccinated as of end of January
"You're starting to get to levels of prior exposure in the population where the virus isn't going to spread as readily," Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC.
Wow that’s good news
Hmm, just relooked at @DCBaker post with number positive and number vaccinated in Florida. The number vaccinated does exceed number positive on a day to day basis. For the world it likely does not.
I wouldn't say it didn't kill anyone, but that wasn't what the content of the discussion was about.
I know you like to take every opportunity to discredit anything I type, but did you even bother to read the content of the conversation. It really had nothing to do with comparing the viruses. I was basically just agreeing with The Mom that there was very little concern about H1N1 in the schools.
Once we get to 1M+ people vaccinated a day (long term goal may be 2 to 3 times that), god willing, we will have many more people vaccinated a day then testing positive or even positive but asymptomatic and untested. By the end of January if we have 10% of population vaccinated and then the JnJ vaccine comes through I think we could see a quick ramp up in Feb/Mar. By only needing 1 shot and done that vaccine is more suited to mass vaccine sites where you vaccinate until you run out. There’s a lot less logistics to worry about. We will be into the phase 1C group by then with many millions eligible and hopefully the states will have their kinks worked out and plenty of money to fund vaccine sites. I think we have a real opportunity to catch up. A lot hinges on getting that JnJ vaccine approved before end of Feb. It seems kinda crazy that so much rides on a 3rd vaccine considering we were just praying one would work out this summer. We will get there one way or the other it’s just a matter of how fast.
That seems to happen a lot around here. At this point it’s mostly all been said on Covid itself. Some people think it’s no big deal, some think it is. Nobody is changing their mind.
If we can get past all the costly planning, impact studies, litigation and other red tape and get a line up and running and if it can gain enough ridership to be meaningful even if it loses money, it’s good.
The reason the conversation continues is that the situation across the country continues to devolve.
You‘re right that you can’t continue furlough forever. But they didn’t fight too hard to continue it after the government stopped paying. They didn’t even push for the PPP to continue, as far as I’m aware.
Fear of appearing to “go backward” has probably kept lots of people from doing the right thing.
I get that and don’t disagree, but there are people who just don’t agree. If you think Covid is no big deal you aren’t going to change your actions or hurry to get a vaccine. It is what it is. We can’t make everyone think the same way. I have no issue with people having different opinions. Most of the people here who generally downplay Covid also say they follow the rules when in public. What I have a bigger problem with is government leaders downplaying it. There are many people who still base their actions on what recommendations public officials put out. I think it’s dangerous for a governor or the president to downplay Covid. They should be encouraging people to follow recommendations unilaterally. Mixed messages are a big part of the problem.
I have changed my mind on things posted here.. once I do a deep dive into what someone said and researching it. It’s always good to keep a open mind. The problem is some are so dug into their belief of what’s is right and what should be done that makes for a lot of the frustration and back and forth here.