Coronavirus Thread 2


U.S. will let air carriers suspend more flights, warns on refunds

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/12/21255768/poll-governors-reopen-popular-coronavirus-pandemic

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has taken an aggressive stance on reopening, and he’s not as popular as some more cautious state leaders.

A Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 8,086 US adults, with a margin of error of 1 percentage point, showed that state leaders like Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine — who each took swift action to shut down their state’s economies quickly and have prioritized public health throughout the pandemic — are incredibly popular in their home states.

Almost 8 in 10 (79 percent) of adults in California approved of Newsom’s handling of the pandemic, while 86 percent of Ohioans approve of DeWine’s handling of the pandemic.

On the flip side, of the dozen states included in the polling, people appear less happy with some Republican governors who acted slowly in response to the virus and are now rushing to reopen the economy. In Georgia, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp was one of the last governors to shut down for public health, and he’s now taken the lead among states looking to reopen. His coronavirus response approval rating sits at just 39 percent. Likewise, in Florida, 60 percent of adults give Gov. Ron DeSantis a positive rating, but one that’s far below his more cautious conservative counterpart, DeWine.
 

Republican Veteran Finally Says What We All Know Regarding Trump’s Coronavirus Response: “If Barack Obama Was POTUS, This Would Not Have Happened”

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Republican Veteran Finally Says What We All Know Regarding Trump's Coronavirus Response: "If Barack Obama Was POTUS, This Would Not Have Happened"

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“If Barack Obama was the president of the United States, this would not have happened,” Schmidt said. “We would have had competent professional people. We would have done what we needed to do early. What would have happened is what happened during the Ebola crisis. We would have had someone like Ron Klain in charge of it, not the confederacy of dunces that we see running around the West Wing.”
 
This is a suspicion that I have had since the Federal Government started giving us the breakdown of the mortality data. One factor that the Elderly, Nursing Home Patients and Blacks have in common is Vitamin D deficiency (sorry, melanin is not protective here). It is well known that Vitamin D is important in good immune health...

Study: Vitamin D deficiency may be linked to COVID-19 mortality — how a common vitamin could become pivotal

Abby HaglageMay 14, 2020, 9:12 AM CDT

A new study from researchers at Trinity College Dublin has hypothesized that vitamin D deficiency may be linked to higher mortality rates from COVID-19. Published in the Irish Medical Journal, the report analyzed vitamin D levels of older people in countries heavily affected by the coronavirus and found that places with high death rates from COVID-19, including Italy and Spain, also had rates of vitamin D deficiency.

Countries such as Norway, Finland and Sweden, although typically less sun-filled, actually showed lower rates of vitamin D deficiency as well as lower mortality rates from COVID-19. The researchers suggest that “supplementation and fortification of foods” could be why vitamin D is at healthy levels there — and that “optimizing” vitamin D levels elsewhere may prevent serious coronavirus complications.

Vitamin D is critical for bone and muscle health and has shown effectiveness in combating depression. Nicknamed the “sunshine vitamin,” it is naturally produced by the skin when exposed to sunlight, but it can also be absorbed through vitamin-D-rich foods, such as salmon and whole eggs, as well as supplements. Deficiency in this vitamin, which is more common among black people, can lead to problems like bone issues and hair loss and can compromise the immune system.

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Study: Vitamin D deficiency may be linked to COVID-19 mortality — how a common vitamin could become pivotal

Multiple studies have hypothesized that vitamin D deficiency may put individuals at higher risk of serious complications from COVID-19. Experts weigh in on whether it makes sense to buy the supplement.
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SHADY AND I LOVE IT!
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View: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/05/19/pelosi-trump-weight-hydroxychloroquine-ac360-bts-vpx.cnn
 
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Trump Says Fox News Isn't the Same and He's 'Looking for a New Outlet' after Host Warns Against His Medical Advice
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...nst-his-medical-advice/ar-BB14ibAU?li=BBnb7Kz

Donald Trump believes Fox News is "no longer the same" after host Neil Cavuto urged caution over the use of hydroxychloroquine, which the president is taking as a preventative against COVID-19.

The president criticized the network and said he is "looking for a new outlet" after Cavuto's message, in which he warned of potential risks of taking the drug for vulnerable groups.

Cavuto cited a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) study of the drug on veterans hospitalized with COVID-19, which saw a higher mortality rate among those treated with the drug alone. He said: "Those with vulnerable conditions, respiratory conditions, heart ailments, they died."

For people in a "risky population," he said: "It will kill you."

Trump said yesterday he has been taking hydroxychloroquine for around one and a half weeks. He said his evidence for its efficacy was that he received "a lot of positive calls about it."
 
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Florida Health Department officials told manager to delete coronavirus data before reassigning her, emails show

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...igning-her-emails-show/ar-BB14jm81?li=BBnb7Kz

One day before a top Florida Department of Health data manager was taken off her role maintaining the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, officials had directed her to remove data from public view that showed Floridians reported symptoms of the disease before cases were officially announced, according to internal emails obtained by the Tampa Bay Times.

According to the emails, department staff gave the order shortly after reporters requested the same data from the agency on May 5. The data manager, Rebekah Jones, complied with the order, but not before she told her supervisors it was the “wrong call.”

By the next morning, control over the data was given to other employees, according to an email Jones posted Friday on a public listserv. Jones, the department’s Geographic Information Systems manager, wrote that she was no longer the point person for questions about the department’s “Florida’s COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard.” She implied her removal was an act of retribution.
 
Spring is usually harvest time for Big Sam Williams and other New Orleans musicians.

Mr. Williams and his band, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, expected to play more than 25 shows at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in late April. During those weeks he can bring in $50,000, a big part of his annual income and enough to sustain him when the humid summer quiets the city’s streets.

This year the Funky Nation is in his driveway, socially distanced and streaming live on Facebook for tips.

 
very Single Worker Has Covid at One U.S. Farm on Eve of Harvest

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...farm-on-eve-of-harvest/ar-BB14L8Ww?li=BBnb7Kz

All of the roughly 200 employees on a produce farm in Tennessee tested positive for Covid-19 this month. In New Jersey, more than 50 workers had the virus at a farm in Gloucester County, adding to nearly 60 who fell ill in neighboring Salem County. Almost 170 were reported to get the disease at a tomato and strawberry greenhouse complex in Oneida, New York

The outbreaks underscore the latest coronavirus threat to America’s food supply: Farm workers are getting sick and spreading the illness just as the U.S. heads into the peak of the summer produce season. In all likelihood, the cases will keep climbing as more than half a million seasonal employees crowd onto buses to move among farms across the country and get housed together in cramped bunkhouse-style dormitories.

The early outbreaks are already starting to draw comparisons to the infections that plunged the U.S. meat industry into crisis over the past few months. Analysts and experts are warning that thousands of farm workers are vulnerable to contracting the disease.
 

Virus taking hold in rural, old plantation region of Alabama


Sparsely populated Lowndes County, deep in Alabama's old plantation country, has the sad distinction of having both the state’s highest rate of COVID-19 cases and its worst unemployment rate.

Initially spared as the disease ravaged cities, the county and other rural areas in the state are now facing a “perfect storm:” a lack of access to medical care combined with poverty and the attendant health problems, including hypertension, heart disease, lung disease, kidney disease and diabetes, that can worsen the outcomes for those who become sick with the coronavirus, said Dr. Ellen Eaton.

“I think a lot of people fell into this idea that we were immune because we’re not in tight spaces like in New York and New Jersey, and we’re in wide-open areas,” said Eaton, who specializes in infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

But no longer. Lowndes and nearby poor, mostly black counties in rural Alabama are facing an increase in confirmed infections. Their outbreaks are also affecting urban areas, since many of the sick need to be transferred to city hospitals.
 
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New coronavirus cases reported at reopened Tesla factory. This doesn’t look great for Elon Musk.
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https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/6/9/21285625/coronavirus-tesla-elon-musk-fremont-factory

In news that should surprise no one, workers at the Tesla factory reportedly have the coronavirus. Two anonymous workers told the Washington Post that “several cases” of Covid-19 had been confirmed at both the company’s Fremont, California, production plant and nearby at its smaller seat-assembly factory. Musk very publicly defied local officials when reopening his factories a few weeks ago.

Tesla has not yet confirmed the report, and the company did not respond to Recode’s request for comment. The Washington Post also did not say how serious the cases were, nor specify how many workers contracted the virus or when.

Still, it’s a bad look for Tesla and for Musk, the company’s founder and CEO. The company closed its factories in March after disagreements with the local Alameda County Sheriff and the Fremont Police Department. There was then a fight to reopen the factories in May, when Musk defied local health officials, Tesla sued Alameda County, and then the factories just reopened before being given the blessing to resume operations in defiance of Alameda County health orders last month. The lawsuit was later dropped.

The Alameda County Public Health Department eventually allowed the reopening of the Fremont facilities as long as Tesla agreed to certain safety measures, including having fewer workers per shift and requiring them to wear masks. The agency told the Washington Post that it didn’t know of any reported cases from the Tesla factories but did not respond to Recode’s requests for further information.
 
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Actor-comedian D.L. Hughley tests positive for coronavirus after collapsing onstage in Nashville | CNN

Actor, comedian and former CNN anchor D.L. Hughley collapsed Friday night on stage while performing, publicist Yvette Shearer said.
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People are going to stop playing with this thing. It's not business as usual no matter what trump and these Republican governors are saying. In the clip that I saw, I didnt see anyone wearing a mask. Everyone at that show should be quarantined.Those stale ass jokes aren't worth risking my health/life.
 
I read somewhere that one of the Dole plants has had over 200+ infections and still hasn't closed. LaGrange is being hit hard by it due to all of the manufacturing plants. Kia has shut down 2 or 3 times. One of their suppliers they say it's pretty bad with all of the cases. My brother and I made the sacrifice of telling my mom to go ahead and retire to get her up out of there but she's stubborn.
 
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