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Post by paula53 on Sept 7, 2020 14:33:49 GMT -8
Hikerchik395 my condolences on the passing of your Mother. I think it made her passing easier for her, knowing she had loved ones with her and interacting with her.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 8, 2020 4:34:55 GMT -8
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 8, 2020 4:45:10 GMT -8
Nationwide we are starting to see college sending students home ... again. The CDC is advising against this as keeping students from spreading any on their way back home. abcnews.go.com/US/colleges-students-leave-campus-amid-covid-19-outbreaks/story?id=72776811I’m also curious if year-long leases were again required of students after the Spring ‘20 closings had many paying rent for empty apartments/dorms (though most spring semesters were halfway done)? Could have an effect on local rent and even housing markets if someone’s looking. Syracuse University has done a really good job so far. They tested the residents of the dorm that was quarantined, and didn't find anyone positive. They're testing again this week in case someone wasn't presenting. On the other hand, the county that SUNY-Oneonta is in had 200 cases total from February to mid-August. In a little more than two weeks, after the college kids returned, they've had 600.... nearly 100 of which are in the community. More interestingly, of the community spread, 30% of those in the 18-30 group tested positive, while 0.5% of those in older age groups tested positive. So, again, likely due to partying. The family and I hiked in Ithaca, the home of Cornell University, this past weekend. On campus, I didn't see anyone without a mask. But there were no masks to be seen at the off-campus swimming holes in the gorges we were hiking. Reflecting back though, I guess it's kinda hard to swim with a mask on, and the kids tended to segregate in groups of 10 or less. My wife, who has multiple risk factors, went back to teaching today. She will be teaching in her classroom this week, then remote for the rest of the year. The kids go back Thursday, and are on a hybrid model. From a friend, I heard the Buffalo City School District is supposed to go back to school tomorrow, but they still haven't told the parents if the kids will be in-person or remote. LOL! Great job BCSD.
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Post by sarbar on Sept 8, 2020 6:03:39 GMT -8
I heard the Buffalo City School District is supposed to go back to school tomorrow, but they still haven't told the parents if the kids will be in-person or remote. LOL! Great job BCSD Nothing like that to build confidence...... I meet today with our mentor teachers - the district here doesn't even start until the 14th! My kids are in week 3 of school homeschooling. So odd.
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Post by sarbar on Sept 8, 2020 6:17:34 GMT -8
Last nigh an old friends farm burnt to the ground in E. Wa. Another good friend is under an evacuation watch near Mt. Rainier. The firestorm yesterday was horrible in Washington State.
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Post by hikerchick395 on Sept 8, 2020 16:25:36 GMT -8
Thanks all...I'm glad that the Covid and the fires didn't keep me away. Before all of this, when at home or on the road with a connection, I emailed my mom every evening, keeping the connection and, maybe more important, forcing her to report daily. She was important and I wanted to make her feel like she was a part of my day, every day. But I didn't want her to live in the condition that she ended up in. She had a good life full of adventure. ( rebeccad ..we did a few laps aroung the CA Park lakes)
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 11, 2020 10:32:13 GMT -8
Survey of India’s 9th-largest city finds COVID antibodies in 52% of the populationfortune.com/2020/08/21/covid-antibodies-india-pune-survey-herd-immunity/If the serological survey’s indications are accurate, the actual number of cases in Pune would be 20 times as high as the official number.
Previous serological studies in other parts of India found comparably high antibody levels among the surveyed population, suggesting that India’s official case number is much lower than the actual number of people infected.
A serological survey conducted in Delhi in the first week of August found that 29.1% of Delhi’s population had coronavirus antibodies—an increase of more than six percentage points since the last serological survey of the city in early July. The earlier survey indicated that Delhi’s case count was 40 times as high as its confirmed case number.
One July survey of people across Mumbai, including residents of the city’s densely packed slums, found that 57% had coronavirus antibodies, prompting one scientist to say that those areas “may have reached herd immunity.”
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Post by starwalker on Sept 12, 2020 17:59:18 GMT -8
We have been lucky compared to many of you. This week, we canceled our trip to New England this fall and I quit keeping the football stats for our high school for the first time since 1980.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 16, 2020 5:51:45 GMT -8
Health officials have stressed the importance of masks and physical distancing if Americans want to control Covid-19 -- and get the economy back on track.
With the imminent flu season, such precautions can "doubly protect us from both of those viruses," Yasmin said.
In the Southern Hemisphere, which is just ending its winter months and flu season, several countries have reported astonishingly low flu numbers as people wear masks and social distance.
In Australia, for example, the number of lab-confirmed flu cases plummeted from 61,000 in August 2019 to 107 cases this August. www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/health/covid-flu-together-health-impact/index.html
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Post by balzaccom on Sept 16, 2020 11:10:26 GMT -8
Just got invited to speak at a conference in Spain in October...and visit a region in Italy.
Had to turn them both down because as an American I am not allowed into the Eu as yet...thanks to our tragic track record with the virus...
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 17, 2020 4:41:26 GMT -8
SU has a new uptick in the number of cases. Of the 23 new cases, 20 are directly associated with kids visiting other college campuses over the Labor Day weekend.
County-wide, travel is still accounting for 25-33% of our cases. It makes me wonder how low the community-spread numbers would be if people stopped visiting high-risk places... and why my tax dollars and insurance premiums are supporting their bad behavior.
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Post by davesenesac on Sept 19, 2020 11:19:48 GMT -8
Since early April, I've been suggesting from obvious logic, the mystery of why many that test positive only have mild cases or are supposedly asymptomatic is because of immunity from previous Corona family colds years to decades before. But oddly at least to this person, such seemed to have been ignored by not only media but also online virology experts? Over several months of occasional lurking, info at more serious virology websites to that possibility has increased and this recent link 3 days ago shows it is no longer something news media ought be ignoring. If true, it could have enormous implications to how opening society proceeds and to individuals would be of considerable value knowing they are so protected. Below are a few snippets from this link.
www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3563
It seemed a truth universally acknowledged that the human population had no pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2, but is that actually the case?...
At least six studies have reported T cell reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 in 20% to 50% of people with no known exposure to the virus...
The data forced a change in views at WHO and CDC, from an assumption before 2009 that most people “will have no immunity to the pandemic (H1N1) virus”16 to one that acknowledged that “the vulnerability of a population to a pandemic virus is related in part to the level of pre-existing immunity to the virus.”17 But by 2020 it seems that lesson had been forgotten.
“The conventional wisdom is that lockdown occurred as the epidemic curve was rising,” Gupta explained. “So once you remove lockdown that curve should continue to rise.” But that is not happening in places like New York, London, and Stockholm. The question is why.
In the Singapore study, for example, SARS-CoV-1 reactive T cells were found in SARS patients 17 years after infection...
The immunologists I spoke to agreed that T cells could be a key factor that explains why places like New York, London, and Stockholm seem to have experienced a wave of infections and no subsequent resurgence. This would be because protective levels of immunity, not measurable through serology alone but instead the result of a combination of pre-existing and newly formed immune responses, could now exist in the population, preventing an epidemic rise in new infections...
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 22, 2020 4:57:29 GMT -8
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 22, 2020 5:01:16 GMT -8
many that test positive only have mild cases or are supposedly asymptomatic is because of immunity from previous Corona family colds years to decades before Early on, I read that the reason they think China was "spared" is that the population is constantly exposed to (other) coronaviruses. That could also explain the difference in reaction by age... older people aren't around coronavirus carriers (kids) as much.
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Post by foxalo on Sept 22, 2020 19:11:26 GMT -8
My husband decided it would be nice to have a couple people over for dinner inside two Saturdays ago, two other couples. I was not happy, but I went along with it. It was the first time having anyone over inside since the pandemic started.
I got a text around lunchtime this past Friday that two of our guests had tested positive for COVID. They had started showing symptoms two days after they were at our house.
Being the responsible person I am, I went to it school nurse to tell her the situation. I had to leave school that day. I went straight to get tested and was a wreck all weekend long. I got a call Sunday morning from the doctor saying I was negative. Huge sigh of relief! None of my students had to quarantine.
Unfortunately I'm still in quarantine until Sunday. I can go back to work Monday. I'm missing my daughter's volleyball games all week, but I'm getting to spend some quality time with my kids on their remote days. I needed to do that with them.
We will not have people over again until this is all under control.
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