COVID-19 2020

The person in Minnesota who got Omicron & had mild symptoms received a booster shot in early November

https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1466456052229197826

Starsky wrote:
Some in the media seem to want to make everyone panic and some have gotten into a bit of a disaster flick loop where they get almost excited by new developments

can confirm

Biden Administration is moving to make free at home tests available to Americans.
All insured Americans to get tests paid for 100% by insurance companies.
50 million at home tests will be freely available at community sites on top of 20,000 free testing sites.
I've probably said it like a hundred times, but think if this had been done in April of 2020…we'd probably have a much lower death toll
flame on

well i believe had "but her emails" won the response would have been a lot better, but the backlash from the free thinking states\faux news thinkers  would have be swifter..  can you imagine the response to anything from her administration being greeted well at all in red states?

One wonders if H had won would Trump have run again and won?


I think losing to H would have hurt Trump’s “I am a winner” brand but of course he would have alleged fraud.

I have come to believe covid in the US would have been a shit show regardless… I mean tons of people have died from covid under Biden and that’s with the vaccines

I think there's some kind of twisted time warp going on here…or as site admin, kosmo knows how we're going to respond even before we hit post.

Starsky wrote:
I have come to believe covid in the US would have been a shit show regardless… I mean tons of people have died from covid under Biden and that’s with the vaccines

there are degrees of shit show… would have been a smaller shit show had H been prez and we all followed the science - but, as you point out, a shit show nonetheless.  you know, maybe 300K dead instead of 400K.

3 Omicrons in Maryland, all in Baltimore.

The Hold Steady's merch guy tested positive for Covid.
He also sings one song with the band, and sang it Saturday night, it's called "Stay Positive."

This is both a terrifying and depressing read. Kinda crazy how fast the country got, err, crazy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/comments/rakxun/my_career_of_treating_patients_has_ended/

i wonder if trumpers will point to this as the reason why covid got so bad in this country, as opposed to inane (lack of) policies and general anti-scienceness on the right:

The Coronavirus Attacks Fat Tissue, Scientists Find
The research may help explain why people who are overweight and obese have been at higher risk of severe illness and death from Covid.

That means the number of Americans who have died from the virus could be closer to 1 million, not the roughly 793,200 deaths officially recorded as of Thursday.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-us-is-undercounting-covid-deaths-researchers-say-now-they-have-a-tool-to-figure-out-why/ar-AARDINd?

Well I only been saying this forever

you say a lot of things

Boo

Fourth wave is here….and in most places..we are a little behind Europe (as usual) and ahead of South America…

World

A couple of PG County Schools and at least one DC school already back to virtual.

…wastewater samples show that the new omicron variant is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the Florida county that is home to the nation’s largest theme park resorts.

https://wtop.com/life-style/2021/12/omicron-is-dominant-in-wastewater-samples-in-florida-county/