August 4, 2021

50% of children hospitalized with COVID will end up in the ICU says neonatologist

https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1422245345854205952?s=20


“What we’re seeing is the children, about 50% of them, will need to be in the ICU. They need breathing support, whether that’s oxygen, extra pressure, sometimes even breathing tubes. Children do die from covid.” --Louisiana neonatologist describes the situation at his hospital.


In red states without mask mandates or mandatory teacher vaccination , this will be a tragedy when school starts

August 4, 2021

Well, this doesn't sound good #DeathSantis

https://twitter.com/lesleyabravanel/status/1422712020751818756?s=20


Major South Florida hospital reporting 526 people with #COVID19 today. Source there tells me they expect that number to hit the 800’s any day now. They topped out at 650 last summer. 99% unvaccinated & majority under 50. This is all on
@GovRonDeSantis
.

August 4, 2021

F.D.A. Aims to Give Final Approval to Pfizer Vaccine by Early Next Month

WASHINGTON — With a new surge of Covid-19 infections ripping through much of the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has accelerated its timetable to fully approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine, aiming to complete the process by the start of next month, people involved in the effort said.

President Biden said last week that he expected a fully approved vaccine in early fall. But the F.D.A.’s unofficial deadline is Labor Day or sooner, according to multiple people familiar with the plan. The agency said in a statement that its leaders recognized that approval might inspire more public confidence and had “taken an all-hands-on-deck approach” to the work.

Giving final approval to the Pfizer vaccine — rather than relying on the emergency authorization granted late last year by the F.D.A. — could help increase inoculation rates at a moment when the highly transmissible Delta variant of the virus is sharply driving up the number of new cases.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/us/politics/pfizer-vaccine-approval.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20210803&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta&regi_id=72416910&segment_id=65265&user_id=20a86bb77f8705e060212c90659bdb01

August 3, 2021

New York to require all workers and customers in indoor dining establishments

indoor fitness centers and indoor entertainment venues to be vaccinated. What about bars?

August 2, 2021

'They're all gone': Florida woman loses fiance, mother and grandma in 5 days to COVID-19

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —

A Florida woman is devastated after losing her fiancé, mother and grandmother all in the course of five days to COVID-19. Tiffany Devereaux and her family live in the Jacksonville area about 30 minutes south of the Georgia/Florida border. Devereaux lost her grandmother last Saturday, her fiancée last Monday and her mother last Wednesday.

“I had to skip going to my Meemaw’s funeral yesterday so I could get to the hospital to say goodbye to my Momma,” Devereaux told WJXT through tears.

Devereaux’s fiancé, 35-year-old Britt McCall, worked for the Duval County school system with his father, 60-year-old Mark McCall. Family members told CNN Mark McCall also became infected and died early Friday. His mother is still in the hospital.

Devereaux told WJXT that her 85-year-old grandmother was vaccinated, but already in poor health. The rest of the family was not. She also tested positive for the virus, but had mild symptoms. Devereaux said she now plans to get vaccinated and is encouraging everyone else to as well.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/theyre-all-gone-florida-woman-loses-fiance-mother-grandma-5-days-covid-19/7T4FKTW6HZE4ZFNTMXBBK73COA/

August 1, 2021

'It just went boom': Florida ICU's swamped with younger COVID victims

As the Herald report notes, the new flood of victims flooding in are even sicker than before -- and also younger.

Pointing out that every bed in Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital is filled at the moment, the report notes that every patient was unvaccinated and now suffering the devastating effect of COVID-19.


"The youngest patient, a 27-year-old woman on a ventilator, had to be resuscitated with a bag valve mask after her blood oxygen saturation levels crashed. The oldest, a 71-year-old man, has been in the ICU for two weeks. He has been in a coma for three days. When he awakens, if he awakens, he will be a widower. The man's wife, also hospitalized with COVID-19, died two days earlier," the report states. "Many healthcare workers at Jackson Memorial thought the end of the pandemic was in sight, largely due to the effectiveness of the vaccines. Then the delta variant took hold, particularly in areas with low vaccination rates, and cases are surging again, only at a faster clip."

According to Alix Zacharski, manager of the medical intensive care unit at Jackson Memorial, the critically-ill patients they are seeing are way younger -- and way sicker -- than they were during the first wave of COVID victims. "Unlike last year, we're getting a very young population, which is extremely concerning because this time we're now getting young people without pre-existing conditions," Zacharski admitted. "So that's scarier."

https://www.rawstory.com/florida-desantis/

I had to use Raw Story as a source because this Miami Herald article is subscriber only.


Florida breaks record for COVID-19 hospitalizations day after it recorded most new coronavirus cases
The Sunshine State had 10,207 people hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 cases.

https://abc7.com/health/florida-breaks-record-for-covid-19-hospitalizations/10923348/

August 1, 2021

Paying fifty bucks for a fake vaccination card when the vaccination is free. Smh.

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1421946115310637063?s=20

Paying fifty bucks for a fake vaccination card when the vaccination is free. Smh.



Fake COVID-19 vaccination cards are 100% a thing at Lollapalooza in Chicago. You can get it with a single-day wristband for $50. I have confirmed that it does work.

July 31, 2021

The largest single day increase in cases in Florida ever occurred today- 21, 683

https://twitter.com/NewsGuyGreg/status/1421577483099459588?s=20


Florida: 21,683 NEW COVID-19 cases Friday.

THE largest single day increase in cases in Florida ever.

(FL didn’t report on New Year’s Day)

110,477 new cases last week (new high)

108 deaths in last day.

Hospitalizations: 10K+

FL + Rate: 18.2%

SEE: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/?fbclid=IwAR2ez_xZcyw8XCB7SJXbJzpD_dBfRl09pfP7TfrFNKvBAbsK0CPc7rd35cc#trends_dailytrendscases

July 29, 2021

Wow, Florida has 17, 589 new COVID cases today

https://twitter.com/AaronParnas/status/1420818407914708996?s=20

BREAKING: Another 17,589 new COVID-19 cases reported in Florida.

This is the highest number of cases since early January.

The Governor, meanwhile, was in Utah yesterday.


Aaron Parnas is the Press Secretary for Miami Dade Democrats.



Greater Jacksonville leads Florida, nation in COVID resurgence

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Nassau County has the highest rate of COVID-19 cases per capita of any large metropolitan county in the United States, according to a News4Jax analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Baker, Clay and Duval counties are also in the top five counties in large metropolitan areas in America, based on the rate of new infections in the last seven days.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2021/07/28/greater-jacksonville-leads-florida-nation-in-covid-increases/

July 27, 2021

"What were you fighting for?" Officer Hodges: "Democracy and the future of this country"

This is one of the most emotional hearings I've ever watched. I was teary -eyed through Officer Fanone's , Gonell's, and Hodge's testimonies and lost it when Officer Harry Dunn testified Trump supporters called him a fucking n-word. (because Blue Lives Matter! unless they're Black)

This hearing is really laying out the despicability of Trump supporters .


Bravo to all these heroes!