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Former Presidential Candidate Herman Cain has died from covid-19. Cain had been hospitalized in Atlanta on July 1, two days after being told he had tested positive for Covid-19, according to a statement posted to his social media accounts at the time.
10 days prior, he attended a large-ish political event with no mask requirements
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/former-gop-presidential-candidate-herman...
You mean something like this?
https://apnews.com/3acb089e6a333e051dbc4a465cb68ee1
Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Hot take: every college football player in the country will be required to opt out of the 2020 season
The next confirmed case of a teacher contracting COVID from a child at school will be the first one in the world.
Very well put.
We're also one of the last standing who have not gotten even the slightest of grips on the outbreak, nationally.
I believe it was mentioned previously that Slade had interest in coming to VT, but because of some previous behavior and attitude towards VT after committing to PSU, he was told to pound sand
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/coronavirus/article244443257.html?fbc...
Starr County once went about three weeks without a COVID-19 case at the beginning of the pandemic. It banned large gatherings, tested hundreds of residents a day, issued stay-at-home orders and required face masks — many of the same mandates now commonplace across the U.S. The poor and mostly Latino county on the Mexico border was containing COVID-19.
That was then, this is now
But after Gov. Greg Abbott issued orders for the reopening of the state, overriding local control and decision-making, COVID-19 cases surged.
The county has been forced to form what is being compared to a so-called "death panel." A county health board – which governs Starr Memorial – is set to authorize critical care guidelines Thursday that will help medical workers determine ways to allocate scarce medical resources on patients with the best chance to survive.
A committee will deem which COVID-19 patients are likely to die and send them home with family, Jose Vasquez, the county health authority, said during a news conference Tuesday.
"The situation is desperate," Vasquez said. "We cannot continue functioning in the Starr County Memorial Hospital nor in our county in the way that things are going. The numbers are staggering."
I hope I can do that at 79
Check the history of our new commit's head coach and see who he played for in college. This happened because our head coach was an amazing mentor for a young man back when he was at TCU. #Hokies #ThisIsHome #TX2VT @CoachFuente pic.twitter.com/dD1RSKk7jW— Coach Davidson (@Beau_Davidson) July 23, 2020
Gives new light to that quote Fuente had a bit ago about guys we hadn't heard of, or something to that manner
100% COMMITTED🦃‼️#GoHokies pic.twitter.com/JuWvNGyiio— Dawain Lofton (@DawainL) July 23, 2020
Well, I mean I'm not happy about it anything getting cancelled or closed, and I honestly don't know why they did cancel it. There has been absolutely zero slow down in tourists this summer, all the rentals are slammed. So, our leaders obviously are no longer worried keeping anyone or anything out (We're up to 292 total cases now, with 78 of them still being active)
Was this the surf fishing tournament? Seems like the prime example for social distancing.
After Shalva Zalfreund, 64, died Friday, the mayor of her city posted on Facebook the message that she had sent to parents of children in her class weeks earlier, back when she thought she was past the worst of the disease. In it, she said "official sources" had told her she had contracted the virus from a child in her classroom.
Except when people don't play by the rules, and don't GTFO
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/israeli-kindergarten-teacher-who-begged-...
An Israeli kindergarten teacher has died of the coronavirus, two weeks after she made an emotional appeal for parents to keep home children who had been exposed to the deadly virus.
If you don't think that's gonna happen here, you're kidding yourself. Parents gotta get that kid to school so they can go to work
It wouldn't be gone, but it wouldn't be an out of control raging wildfire.
Know how many new cases Italy reported yesterday? 280 with a percent positive rate of 0.5%
Germany? 569 with a percent positive rate of 0.5%
UK? 560 with a percent positive rate of 0.6%
United States? 68,848 with a percent positive rate at 8.6% (a rate that has been steadily increasing since June 16)
EDITED TO ADD:
Those numbers came from this website, lots of handy info there. Another fun tidbit:
In a rolling 7-day average, Italy finds 1 new case for every 214.3 tests done.
Germany finds 1 new case for every 191.9 tests
The UK finds 1 new case for every 168.2 tests.
In the US one new case is found for every 11.7 tests done.
Essentially run them as two different programs with two different staffs and two different sets of students. Parents can choose one or the other.
I think the biggest issue with this is it is still assuming that the decisions only impact the teachers and students.
Let's say I am comfortable sending my kid in for in person learning. Low and behold a couple of weeks in an asymptomatic teacher ends up spreading it to all the kids in her class, without realizing it, some of the kids spread it to their parents (I realize they are not as likely to contract or spread it, but it still happens), so then I've got it from my kid, without knowing it, and I'm going about my business going to work, and the grocery store, and Lowe's, and now a couple of my co-workers have it, and they go home, and their family members catch it, and so on.
It's kinda the story of how we got to where we are now.
And that doesn't even touch on non-teacher school staff
Interesting stuff
Some researchers hypothesize that the virus cannot make its way into the cells of younger children as well as it can into those of adults because children make fewer receptors, called ACE2, which is where the virus docks.
As children grow into adolescence and adulthood, they make more ACE2 receptors. Their risk for infection and sickness from the coronavirus would, theoretically, likely increase. The evidence for this hypothesis is limited. To establish a link, experts would have to demonstrate it in lab mice and then in large studies of people over time.
But a necessary reminder:
"It certainly doesn't seem like young kids play a huge role in transmission, but it's early days in this pandemic. It's not conclusive yet that they don't," Dr. Chiang said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/parenting/coronavirus-children-spread...
Don't take this the wrong way, but it seems as though earlier in the thread you're asking for links to studies that go against your thinking .. but you reference several studies here with no links. Can we get some consistency?
Links to all of your referenced studies, please
Again, bare in mind that we're not talking "clinical trials" as Leonard pivoted to, since there are many peer-reviewed studies on masks:
Agreed...finding out that young kids aren't catching it/transmitting it because they have not been exposed to it would be a hell of a lesson to find out the hard way
Hadn't thought of that song in years, now its back in my head. Damn you.
I wonder if we will start to see more of this post-pandemic. Farley was coming into his Junior year correct? Granted, the number of rising juniors that are already being projected to be 1st rounders may be limited, but if I'm that good, and still have to be one more year removed from high school, I'd consider it, why risk injury, or just add to the typical wear and tear on your body from another season of football?
I remember Clowney was advised to sit out his junior year, but played anyways