Florida reported 1,727 Covid-19 deaths in its newest weekly report, probably the most on file. A decide blocked Florida from imposing Governor Ron DeSantis’s ban on masks mandates in faculties, clearing the best way for educators to require face coverings in school rooms with out the specter of retaliation by the state. The origins of the coronavirus pandemic are nonetheless unsure and an absence of cooperation from China is hampering the hassle to ever know the reality, the U.S. intelligence group mentioned in a report launched Friday. President Joe Biden mentioned his administration is contemplating whether or not to begin booster photographs of the vaccine as quickly as 5 months after folks obtain a second dose. Quickly after Biden made the feedback, a White Home official mentioned there had been no change within the plan to manage boosters after eight months. Apple Inc. is making its strongest push but for workers to get vaccinated, urging all U.S. employees to get photographs as quickly as potential now that the Meals and Drug Administration has began formally approving the injections. International Tracker: Instances prime 215.1 million; deaths cross 4.47 millionVaccine Tracker: Greater than 5.17 billion doses administeredSky might be the restrict for surcharges on unvaccinated workersThe worst locations to beas delta spreads are in southeast AsiaThe hybrid work revolution is already reworking economiesSeptember promised return to regular that continues to elude U.S. Individuals who contract the delta variant of Covid-19 are greater than twice as prone to be hospitalized as these contaminated with the alpha pressure, in accordance with a U.Ok. examine, elevating the prospect of a higher burden on well being providers this winter. The overview of greater than 43,000 Covid-19 instances in England, most of whom had been unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, was printed in The Lancet Infectious Ailments journal Friday, and highlighted the safety photographs present towards hospitalization from each variants. The deaths are probably the most since Florida has been issuing the reviews. At a each day common of 247 reported deaths, that will additionally surpass the earlier excessive for the complete pandemic in John Hopkins College information. The info relies on when the dying was reported, not when it occurred. New instances amongst residents rose about 1% to 151,749 within the week ended Aug. 26. General, the instances have been comparatively flat for the previous two weeks. Alabama despatched cell morgue vans to 2 hard-hit counties, for the primary time in pandemic, the state’s prime well being officer mentioned. “There was no room to place the our bodies,” Scott Harris mentioned at a briefing, AL.com reported. In a state with one of many U.S.’s lowest charges of vaccination, Harris mentioned there was a scarcity of 40 beds in intensive care models — and that 5 of 45 youngsters hospitalized statewide had been on ventilators. “A lot of what we’re seeing is preventable,” he mentioned. “All of us have the power to stop it. Go get vaccinated and put on your masks.” Infections Soar Amongst Georgia Kids Infections amongst Georgia youngsters greater than doubled from the earlier excessive since faculties reopened in the beginning of the month, state information present. The seven-day common for infections in that age group surpassed 2,000 on Friday, up from barely greater than 360 on Aug. 2. The earlier file in that age group was nearly 870 in mid-January. The group with the steepest enhance is between 10 and 17, the information present. Most native faculty districts in Georgia now require masks, the Related Press reported, after a ban on native mandates from Governor Brian Kemp was watered down amid rising instances.
Proof their is a GOD…Radio host Mr. Anti-Vax dies of Covid AND joining him in hell is talk radio host Marc Bernier and Texas anti-mask anti vax movement leader Caleb Wallace
Anti-vaxx radio host hospitalized with COVID. He “regrets” that now that he’s fighting for his life.
Ati-vax radio host Marc Bernier has died after being hospitalized for COVID-19
Marc Bernier worked as a broadcast journalist for 46 years. Following his hospitalization on August 10, Bernier fought the coronavirus for three weeks until he passed. Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, who appeared several times on Bernier’s show, referred to the news as a “death in the family.” “I’m numb,” he said, noting that while he and Bernier didn’t always agree, they remained friends over the years, according to the News-Journal. Bernier’s death comes months after he vowed on the air that he would never get the coronavirus vaccine. “Are you kidding me? he responded when asked in December if he would consider getting the jab, according to News-Journal.
Texas anti-mask anti vax movement leader dies of covid19
Tens Of Thousands Of School Children Already In Covid Quarantine—20,000 In Mississippi Alone
Just days into the new academic year, tens of thousands of students are under quarantine in school districts across the U.S.—with many states where mask mandates are banned reporting some of the most severe outbreaks—as the delta variant continues to drive skyrocketing infections among children. Thousands of the students in quarantine or isolation are in school districts across Florida, a state sanctioning schools that impose mask mandates even as it leads the country in coronavirus-linked child hospitalizations (admitting an average of 56 children a day). One school district alone has more than 8,000 students and 300 staff quarantining or isolating: Hillsborough County Public Schools, which includes Tampa, has scheduled an emergency meeting Wednesday to consider defying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state-wide ban on mask mandates.
Tennessee, Texas and South Carolina, states where Republican governors have similarly restricted schools from mandating masks, all have thousands of students quarantining, with the latter two already seeing some districts temporarily close due to outbreaks.
Texas, where the state Supreme Court this week ruled to allow Gov. Greg Abbott’s order banning masks in schools and temporarily blocked two counties from imposing their own mandates, has seen four different school districts close in recent days as cases surge. Though they don’t have the same restrictions on mask mandates, a number of states with vaccination rates below the national average also have high numbers of students and school staff quarantining after their return to school, including Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi. Mississippi appears to have more children quarantining for Covid-19 exposure than any other state in the country—about 20,000 (or 4.5% of the entire public school population) as of Tuesday—and had its fifth child die from the virus last week: a 13-year-old eighth grader who died a day after testing positive.One school district in Iowa, where mask mandates are also banned, is not requiring students to quarantine if they have been exposed to a person who has Covid-19. “At this time, our public health authorities have informed us that the district may not quarantine students,” Erick Pruitt, the superintendent of Ankeny, the sixth-largest district in Iowa, wrote in a letter to parents in July.9. That’s how many states have enacted measures that prohibit schools from requiring mask mandates: Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Arizona (though Arizona’s doesn’t go into effect until Sept. 29). Arkansas also imposed a mask mandate ban, but it was halted by a state court while a challenge moves forward and the governor has also said he regrets the action. “We’re living out the nightmare of the Covid pandemic, where so many people in our county, including members of our staff and others, are being impacted,” Rosalind Osgood, the chairwoman of Florida’s Broward County School Board, one of a number of districts defying DeSantis’ executive order, told CBS on Sunday. “We believe that we have a constitutional obligation to protect the lives of our students and staff.” The heated battles over coronavirus safety protocols in schools come as the hyper infectious delta variant drives massive surges in infections among children. Reports from the American Academy of Pediatrics show kids are making up an increasingly large proportion of the U.S.’s total infections, with the 120,000 children who tested positive last week comprising nearly a fifth of all new cases. Weekly Covid-19 cases among kids have jumped more than 200% from mid-June. The number of children hospitalized with the coronavirus is also on the rise, hitting a new pandemic high of 297 admitted each day over the past week, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The trend is the most prevalent in Southern states, many of which have hit new records for child hospitalizations amid the delta surge. Masks mandates in schools are actually broadly popular. An Axios/Ipsos poll published Tuesday found most Americans (69%) support school mask requirements for students, teachers and staff. However, support is much lower among Republicans: only 44% back the mask orders versus 92% of Democrats. A low number of respondents (33%) support the policies imposed in Republican states banning schools and local governments from issuing their own mandates.
Mamas don’t let your children go back to school. The masks and ha ha social distancing won’t work. If you want to kill them drown them in the bathtub… its a kinder death.
Fauci supports vaccine mandates in US schools…12,000 kids hospitalized… 100,000 infected
- Dr. Anthony Fauci said he’s in support of COVID-19 vaccination mandates for kids going to school.
- Fauci said vaccine mandates for students aren’t new.
- Currently, only those above the age of 12 are eligible to be vaccinated.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he thinks it’s a “good idea” to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for kids attending school. “We have mandates in many places in schools, particularly public schools, that if in fact you want a child to come in — we’ve done this for decades and decades requiring (vaccines for) polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis … So this would not be something new, requiring vaccinations for children to come to school,” Fauci said. COVID-19 cases and infections have been rising, including among children, as the more transmissible Delta variant spreads. The Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve any COVID-19 vaccine for use in those under the age of 12. Pfizer’s vaccine recently received full FDA approval for use on those older than 16. Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told NPR that Pfizer is expected to present clinical trial findings for those aged 5 to 11 years old to the FDA next month. However, he says it could take months after that to approve emergency use of the vaccine for kids. “I’ve got to be honest, I don’t see the approval for kids – 5 to 11 – coming much before the end of 2021,” Collins said. Some parents have been so concerned about the spread of Delta that they are asking pediatricians to vaccinate their kids under 12 prior to FDA approval. A Los Angeles pediatrician previously told Insider that until there is FDA approval, they won’t be vaccinating anyone under 12. The Centers for Disease Control has recommended that those over 12 get vaccinated to help stop the spread of the virus.
Israel offers booster shots to all vaccinated citizens
JERUSALEM, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Israel on Sunday began offering a COVID-19 booster to children as young as 12, and its prime minister said a campaign that began a month ago among seniors has slowed a rise in severe illness caused by the Delta variant. Announcing the decision, top Israeli health officials said the effectiveness of the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech (PFE.N), (22UAy.DE) vaccine waned six months after administration, making a booster necessary. “The third dose brings us to the level of protection achieved by the second dose, when it was fresh,” said Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health at Israel’s Health Ministry.
“That means, people are 10 times more protected after the third vaccine dose,” she told a news conference, where the expanded booster drive was announced.
Those eligible for the third shot can receive it provided at least five months have passed since their second jab – a timeframe shorter than an eight-month interval in effect in the United States, which is considering cutting the waiting time. Hoping to curb the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, Israel began administering the booster to its older population a month ago and has been gradually lowering the age of eligibility. It stood at 30 before Sunday’s announcement. So far 2 million people out of a population of 9.3 million have received three doses. “There are already results: the increase in severe morbidity has begun to slow,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement. “But we have to complete third doses for all of our citizens. I call on those aged 12 and up to go out and immediately take the third shot.” Israel and other countries have pressed ahead with booster plans despite opposition from the World Health Organization, which said more of the world should be vaccinated with a first dose before people receive a third. The United States has said it will offer booster doses to all Americans, citing data showing diminishing protection. Canada, France and Germany have also planned booster campaigns.
Biden looks to shorten booster timeline to 5 months
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President Joe Biden said U.S. regulators plan to give booster shots of Covid-19 five months after their primary vaccinations have ended, increasing the schedule for a third injection by about three months.
Biden, who spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday, said health officials plan to follow that country’s lead on boosters.
“We are reviewing the advice you gave that we should start earlier,” Biden said, adding that officials were debating whether the deadline should be shorter. “Should it be as little as five months and that’s under discussion.” Approval for the booster shots is expected to come around Labor Day after federal health officials had time to review data from other countries and vaccine makers that indicated the effectiveness of the drug. a booster dose six months after a previous dose.
In adults 60 years and older, a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine provided 4 times more protection against delta variant infection than the previous two-dose regimen, according to the Department of Health. ‘Israel.
Distribution of the booster injections following clearance from the Food and Drug Administration and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to begin on September 20. The Biden administration and the vaccine makers have indicated that there should be enough doses for any fully vaccinated adult seeking a third dose.
Coronavirus Delta variant doubles risk of hospitalization
The Delta variant of the coronavirus almost doubles the risk of hospitalization compared with the Alpha variant, according to a study published in British academic journal The Lancet that focused on people who had not been vaccinated.
The study, released late Friday, “confirms previous findings that people infected with Delta are significantly more likely” to require hospitalization than those with Alpha, “although most (NOT ALL) cases included in the analysis were unvaccinated.
Researchers analyzed 43,338 COVID-19 cases in England between March 29 and May 23. Only 1.8 percent of the studied cases had received two vaccine doses, 24 percent had received one shot and 74 percent were unvaccinated. The Delta variant is now dominant in the majority of EU countries, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said in July; it also accounts for 98 percent of all COVID cases in the U.K., Dabrera said.
$15 drug gets COVID patients off oxygen support in under week – study
Fourteen out of 15 severe COVID-19 patients who were treated in an investigator-initiated interventional open-label clinical study of the drug TriCor (fenofibrate) didn’t require oxygen support within a week of treatment and were released from the hospital, according to the results of a new Hebrew University of Jerusalem study. Fenofibrate is an FDA-approved oral medication. The results were published on Researchsquare.com and are currently under peer review. Specifically, the team that was led by HU’s Prof. Yaakov Nahmias carried out the study at Israel’s Barzilai Medical Center in coordination with the hospital’s head of the Infectious Disease Unit, Prof. Shlomo Maayan, and with support from Abbott Laboratories. The 15 treated patients all had pneumonia and required oxygen support. They were also older with multiple comorbidities, ranging from diabetes and obesity to high blood pressure. In addition to standard of care, the patients were given 145 mg/day of fenofibrate for 10 days. “The results were dramatic,” Nahmias told The Jerusalem Post. “Progressive inflammation markers, which are the hallmark of deteriorative COVID-19, dropped within 48 hours of treatment. Moreover, 14 of the 15 severe patients didn’t require oxygen support within a week of treatment.” The 15th patient was off oxygen within 10 days. When looking at the data on other similar severe patients, less than 30% of them on average are removed from oxygen support within a week. In other words, fenofibrate could dramatically shorten the treatment time for severe COVID patients. “We know these kinds of patients deteriorate really fast, develop a cytokine storm in five to seven days and that it can take weeks to treat them and for them to get better,” Nahmias said. “We gave these patients fenofibrate and the study shows inflammation dropped incredibly fast. They did not seem to develop a cytokine storm at all.” Cytokine storms are aggressive inflammatory responses to illness. In general, patients who do not require oxygen can be treated at home,” he said. “Additionally, despite the high number of COVID deaths in Israel and abroad, the majority of severely sick patients survive.
“If you look over a 28-day period, I would have expected all of them to survive with or without the drug,” Nahmias explained. “The question is how fast we can get them home or how quickly we can get a severe patient to a mild condition.” All of the patients completed a 10-day home treatment after discharge and, according to Maayan, “no drug-related adverse events” were reported. FENOFIBRATE WAS approved by the FDA back in 1975 for long-term use and is considered safe. Moreover, it is an inexpensive pill, Nahmias said. It costs less than $1.50 a day, meaning the entire treatment per patient was around $15. Nahmias has been studying the use of fenofibrate for treating COVID-19 almost since the start of the pandemic. He first ran a pre-clinical trial and then a multi-center retrospective study, both of which supported the effectiveness of the drug. “Viruses are parasites,” Nahmias explained. “They cannot replicate by themselves. They have to get inside a human cell and hijack their machinery to replicate.”
Working with collaborators in the United States, Nahmias demonstrated that the coronavirus prevents the burning of fat in lung cells, resulting in large amounts of fat accumulating inside lung cells – a condition the virus needs to reproduce. Fenofibrate, he hoped, would reverse that effect, and eliminate virus replication. “By understanding how the SARS-CoV-2 controls our metabolism, we can wrestle back control from the virus and deprive it of the very resources it needs to survive,” Nahmias told the Post, noting that this also may help explain why patients with high blood sugar and cholesterol levels are often at a particularly high risk to develop COVID-19. The professor is now involved with a series of Phase III studies being carried out in South America, the United States and Israel. Those studies are placebo-controlled and double-blind. Nahmias said his team had been struggling to get patients enrolled in the study before the onset of the Delta variant, but efforts are now progressing more rapidly. He hopes that results could be available as early as within the next two months. In the meantime, the drug is available, and physicians can decide to give treatment with it based on available data. “There are no silver bullets,” he said, “but fenofibrate is far safer than other drugs proposed to date, and its mechanism of action makes it less likely to be variant-specific.”
Wuhan’s Covid patients face serious health problems year after recovery
Most symptoms of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients are resolved within 12 months, however, around one half still experience at least one persistent symptom, a study of 1,276 patients from Wuhan, China, published in The Lancet, has found. Around one in three people still experienced shortness of breath and lung impairments persisted in some patients, especially those who had experienced the most severe illness with COVID-19 (at 12 months, 35.7% patients who underwent additional lung health tests had diffusion impairments—reduced flow of oxygen from the lungs to the bloodstream [87/244]). Overall, COVID-19 survivors were less healthy than people from the wider community who had not been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (matched for age, sex and pre-existing conditions). Professor Bin Cao, from the National Center for Respiratory Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, China, said: “Our study is the largest to date to assess the health outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 survivors after 12 months of becoming ill. While most had made a good recovery, health problems persisted in some patients, especially those who had been critically ill during their hospital stay. Our findings suggest that recovery for some patients will take longer than one year, and this should be taken into account when planning delivery of healthcare services post-pandemic.”
Long-term effects of COVID-19 have been widely reported and are an increasing concern. A previous study (by the same researchers) reporting outcomes from 1,733 hospitalized COVID-19 survivors after six months found that around three-quarters of patients had persistent health problems. The new study includes 1,276 patients from the same cohort to assess their health status after 12 months. Patients had been discharged from Jin Yin-tan Hospital in Wuhan, China, between 7 January and 29 May 2020. They underwent detailed health checks at six and 12 months (taken from the date they first experienced symptoms of COVID-19) to assess any ongoing symptoms and their health-related quality of life. These included face-to-face questionnaires, physical examinations, lab tests, and a six-minute walking test to gauge patients’ endurance levels. The average (median) age of patients included in the study was 57 years. Patient outcomes were tracked for an average (median) of 185 days (six-month check) and 349 days (12-month check). Many symptoms resolved over time, regardless of the severity of initial COVID-19 disease. The proportion of patients still experiencing at least one symptom after one year fell from 68% at six months (831/1,227) to 49% at 12 months (620/1,272). This decrease was observed regardless of the severity of COVID-19 the patients had experienced when hospitalized. Fatigue or muscle weakness was the most commonly reported symptom with around half of patients experiencing this at six months (52%, 636/1,230), falling to one in five patients at one year (20%, 255/1,272). Almost one third of patients reported experiencing shortness of breath at 12 months, which was slightly higher than at six months (30% at 12 months [380/1,271] vs 26% at 6 months [313/1,185]). This was more prevalent in patients who had been the most severely ill and had been on a ventilator during their time in hospital (39%, 37/94), compared to those who had not required oxygen treatment (25%, 79/317). At the six-month check, 349 study participants underwent a lung function test and 244 of those patients completed the same test at 12 months. The proportion of patients experiencing diffusion impairment did not improve from six months to 12 months and this was seen across all groups regardless of how ill they had been when hospitalized (Scale 3, no supplemental oxygen required during hospitalization: 21% at 6 months [12/57], 23% at 12 months [13/56]; Scale 4, required supplemental oxygen: 26% at 6 months [32/124], 31% at 12 months [36/117]; Scale 5-6, required ventilation during hospitalization: 57% at 6 months [39/69], 54% at 12 months [38/70]). Also at the six-month check, 353 study participants given a chest CT scan. Around one half of them showed lung abnormalities on their scan and were offered a repeat scan at 12 months (52.7%, 186/353). Of the 118 patients who completed the scan at 12 months, the proportion of patients with abnormalities decreased substantially across all groups but was still high, particularly in the most critically ill group.
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