So are they revising the Friday number? The CDC reported 23,903 for Friday already so if 56,000 is for 3 days instead of 2
So does the CDC. That’s what the tweet from FL DOH was disputing. They said the 28,317 being reported by multiple media outlets was wrong because it covered multiple days.
The “it’s a world problem” is not going to go well. I do expect a bigger vaccine push…and boosters in the US…and then don’t be surprised if a certain Xenophonic travel policy arrives…
It looks like vaccinations are up again all over. Delta has scared to beejeebus out of everyone and changed many a heart of an anti-vaxxer. This could have all been over if everyone had been more careful last year and gotten their vaccinations in a timely manner.
"Out of state medical personnel " = A nice way of saying staffing agencies bringing in immigrant nurses, etc to fill openings. That's normal in operations. Some RNs pre covid from the Philippines took care of my family and friends. They are very caring to others.
Makes me wonder... if COVID were a hemorrhagic disease like Marburg or Ebola, with the accompanying horrifying visuals, would this be scary enough for the refuseniks to finally start taking this pandemic seriously? I've never seen a case of the above diseases, but I have seen Congo-Crimea hemorrhagic fever. It is terrifying. These diseases strike down the young and healthy just as readily as the old and infirm.
If Covid had a 80% mortality rate, yes the dynamic would be entirely different. Yet, when directives to quarantine the nurse from Maine during the last Ebola scare, her refusal to quarantine was celebrated as "speaking truth to power".
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A High School friend's mother was totally paralyzed due to polio, and used an external chest "compressor" to breathe - she was confined to a hospital bed, which could be moved into a converted school bus with a generator, so she was able to travel once a year. Her husband took incredible care of her until he died suddenly (MI) in the 70s. Her health declined, and she began to have hospitalizations. Her son had to set up the Iron Lung - once it had been found stored away in the basement - because most nurses/doctors on staff had never seen one.
A relatively small problem compared to the spread to the rest of the country. It should still be of concern, but a relatively small minority on the southern border is not what is driving the majority of increased case numbers, unless they all flocked to AR, AL and FL, where I am sure [/sarc] they would be welcomed.
The fresh fruits and veggies that I eat, the food that is cooked for me in a restaurant, the manual labor to build our country back up including low paid tourism jobs , construction , etc , I thank all people that labor in these jobs including migrants. The late foodie Anthony Bourdain once said without migrant labor, the food and beverage industry in our country would collapse.
