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Florida reports fewer than 10,000 new cases of COVID-19 for second consecutive day

I guess this is good news???
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Of course it is good news. The cases look like they have peaked for now anyway.

UPDATE: See Florida’s curve when it comes to coronavirus cases

Cases were first reported in early March
Jon Jankowski, Digital journalist

Published: July 13, 2020, 7:41 pmUpdated: July 22, 2020, 10:36 pm
Tags: Coronavirus, Florida, Trending
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The state of Florida saw 9,785 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday. (WKMG)
  • ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – July 22 2020

    The state of Florida saw 9,785 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday.

    The Florida Department of Health reports there are 140 new deaths from COVID-19 since Tuesday.

    The state now has a total of 379,619 cases of COVID-19.

    The DOH reports 5,459 people have died from coronavirus in Florida.

    July 21, 2020

    The state of Florida saw 9,440 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday.

    The Florida Department of Health reports there are 136 new deaths from COVID-19 since Monday. The state now has a total of 369,834 cases of coronavirus.
 
Another 1.416 million Americans filed new unemployment claims last week

Another 1.416 million Americans filed for first-time unemployment insurance benefits, up from just over 1.3 million the prior week, to mark the first increase in new claims on a week over week basis since March.

Here were the main results from the report:
  • Initial jobless claims, week ended July 18: 1.416 million vs. 1.3 million expected and 1.307 million during the prior week

  • Continuing claims, week ended July 11: 16.197 million vs. 17.1 million expected and 17.304 million during the prior week
New jobless claims topped one million for an 18th straight week, with the pandemic and social distancing measures driving stubbornly high levels of joblessness since mid-March.

The total number of new claims filed since the week ended March 20 topped 52 million.
 
tresir2012 said:
Glad to hear they are recovering. Did they take or were prescribed any medication do you know to help get over it?
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I’m going to find out. I know that my client who had it was given a nebulizer to take home and was given fever reducer.

My FIL went to the hospital and got tested but they sent him home. Don’t get me wrong. He is sick. Had trouble breathing. Trouble talking on the phone.

But compared to my client who had it, it seems like it was nothing. My client was very ill. Said he’s never felt anything close to it. Like he was drowning. And he was bedridden for a long time. Like I said earlier he called to make sure I wasn’t dead because he felt like if I got it, with my asthma, forget it.

It’s bizarre how it’s hit or miss.

I forgot something super important! My FIL has type O blood! I will see if I can find out the blood type of the rest of them. (Spouse has type O too).
 
155etta said:
This makes me wonder about sauerkraut. I've just learned to lacto-ferment cabbage and I like it so much better than both canned sauerkraut or plain cabbage. MOO.
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I started off making sauerkraut and now I’ve started making kimchi...been eating it incessantly for a few weeks now - maybe my body is subconsciously trying to protect itself!
 
Virginia’s largest school insurer says worker’s compensation is unlikely for teachers who catch COVID-19

Virginia’s largest insurer for local school divisions had a clear message for administrators on Monday: Don’t worry about COVID-related worker’s compensation claims from school employees.

“The burden of proof to determine that’s where you contracted the disease is going to be tough to do,” said Lee Brannon, the senior school specialist for VACORP, during an online summit for the Coalition of Small and Rural Schools of Virginia. As public schools weigh their options for reopening in the fall, Brannon said he’s received questions from “a lot of people” about what would happen if a teacher — or any other school employee — filed for worker’s compensation after contracting COVID-19 on the job.

“You know, have you been quarantined inside your home and the only thing you did was get in your car and drive to the school and drive home each and every day?” Brannon continued. “You did not stop at a gas station, you didn’t get groceries?”

For school employees who do return to work, there are likely to be few protections if they contract the virus, said Mike Beste, a worker’s compensation attorney in Richmond. While most claims involve accidents or injuries, Virginia law does include a category called “occupational disease,” which offers benefits for conditions that can be specifically linked to certain lines of work.
 
MimosaMornings said:
Former Charlotte doctor says she got COVID-19 from her teenager

“A Charlotte mom who worked as an ER doctor for many years has a warning for others – she got COVID-19 from her 14-year old. She said her family had been doing mostly everything right – until she let her kids see some friends.”

Sigh. Seems to be a familiar refrain.
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Yup. That seems to be how my FIL probably got it. His daughter went out on a date. (She’s in her 20’s). Developed strep throat a couple days after the date. Then her dad got sick. He got tested. She hasn’t yet.

It’s super hard to control teens and young adults. I think about myself in my early 20’s. I don’t think I would’ve stayed home. I lived for hanging out.
 
SA55 said:
Continued from my last post where I addressed school situations surrounding me and my family personally.
I work from home, have for past 6 1/2 years and nothing has changed in my job situation. For that I am so thankful. I seriously can't imagine being out of work at the present. Not only do I need to still work, but it's a welcome 8 1/2 hr day that I can't focus on this pandemic. It's always there, but I have to redirect my thoughts to work issues and continue.
I have managed in past 9 years to establish a lovely, modest but extremely peaceful home where I thrive. Although I live alone, in past, before Covid became a day to day reality, weekends were filled with friends and family and as most everyone else - not enough time to do all I needed and wanted to do. This year I see as my life on "pause" and so far, I really am not struggling through this pandemic. I feel extremely blessed that if this pandemic had to happen, I am at the point in my life where there are less interruptions to my "normal" than would have been at other times. I have poured my energy into my garden and landscaping and know that will end later this fall. I do love to read and am slowly building a library of new 2020 releases to have in stock for this winter. Also enjoy painting and am building an inventory of canvases and paints. A healthy supply of PPE, paper products, pet food and human food. I have done all I know to prepare for a "hard" fall and winter.

I am SO thankful for this thread, where I can come and easily find links to the latest developments on this pandemic. I feel a camaraderie among others like myself, that take this virus seriously. There is true empathy for those expressing struggles, whether it be adjusting to isolating or concerns over small businesses. Being a nurse, I follow the Medical sites and truly rely on scientific developments and advice. I am a vocal advocate for masks, social distancing, obsessive hand washing and disinfecting anything that may carry the virus and spreading it among the vulnerable.
Thank you all for being here.
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Beautiful post.
 
Yep. This has been an issue for healthcare workers (and I assume other essentials) since day one

Simply Southern said:
Virginia’s largest school insurer says worker’s compensation is unlikely for teachers who catch COVID-19

Virginia’s largest insurer for local school divisions had a clear message for administrators on Monday: Don’t worry about COVID-related worker’s compensation claims from school employees.

“The burden of proof to determine that’s where you contracted the disease is going to be tough to do,” said Lee Brannon, the senior school specialist for VACORP, during an online summit for the Coalition of Small and Rural Schools of Virginia. As public schools weigh their options for reopening in the fall, Brannon said he’s received questions from “a lot of people” about what would happen if a teacher — or any other school employee — filed for worker’s compensation after contracting COVID-19 on the job.

“You know, have you been quarantined inside your home and the only thing you did was get in your car and drive to the school and drive home each and every day?” Brannon continued. “You did not stop at a gas station, you didn’t get groceries?”

For school employees who do return to work, there are likely to be few protections if they contract the virus, said Mike Beste, a worker’s compensation attorney in Richmond. While most claims involve accidents or injuries, Virginia law does include a category called “occupational disease,” which offers benefits for conditions that can be specifically linked to certain lines of work.
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TravelingBug said:
I'm in AZ and had a test done today so we'll see how long it takes for me currently...

It's really more to rule what's going on OUT as Covid, as they really don't think it is, but because they can't figure everything out for sure and the symptom list has expanded so much they wanted to check just in case. Fully expecting it to be negative.

And just my experience as far as medical facilities here. All but 2 of the Urgent Care facilities in the system I use (second largest here) have been converted into Covid/suspected Covid patients only OR transferred their staff to Covid treatment places because they needed staff. That meant even with an appointment last week a much (much) longer wait (and drive) for UC than usual, and I'm sure means more people not going for care because the wait was so long for non-Covid Urgent Care facilities. And just also was interesting to see personally, particularly just how it has changed in the last month since I was in previously, and also not just go by what my friends working at Mayo and Banner were saying they had been seeing changes wise as medical professionals (plus it was another system) but as a patient.
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Thank you for the on-the-ground details. Keep us posted when you can.
 
10ofRods said:
Unfortunately, it's a retrospective cohort study with no word on how the patients were divided into treatment categories by their doctors. Presumably, some of the patients weren't as sick as others. It would have been interesting to know how many of the ventilated patients, alone, did better on HCQ + Z (which was the most effective treatment but of course, I wouldn't think anyone without pneumonia would get Z - so that's already a confounding variable).

Interestingly and of note is that some of the patients also got a steroid, but this was not disaggregated in the study and several reviewers of this article have said that it will be difficult in future to withhold steroids from patient groups who are getting any other regiment, including HCQ.

No one with heart irregularities was put on HCQ + Z (and heart irregularities are a symptom of more severe CoVid). Some severely ill patients with mild cardiac irregularities did get HCQ by itself. No one over 76 was in the study. The median age of the HCQ only patients was younger than the median age of the No HCQ patients, presumably because their doctors worried about giving older patients with mildly abnormal ECG's the drug. There were also more males in the No HCQ group, which is itself associated with greater mortality.

The study itself says that more study is needed (blind). In short, this study shows that nothing bad happened to less sick, slightly younger, non-cardiac patients when they took HCQ - and they got better at a higher rate.

Since we know from other studies that people with cardiac arrhythmias (both prior to CoVid and first appearing during CoVId) don't do so well, that needs to be disentangled in future study.

The double blind studies do not seem to show the same advantage for HCQ, which is of course the kind of study that actually guides its use.
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Wow. Thanks for breaking that down so succinctly!
 
ArianeEmory said:
Spokane family now planning a funeral instead of a wedding after 25-year-old dies following COVID diagnosis
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That’s very scary. It is unfathomable how this disease can make some feel they’re getting better or only have mild symptoms and then -bam.

I don’t understand how a 25 year old dies suddenly from this but a woman in her 60’s on the transplant list, with an immune disorder, sails through (one of my spouse’s aunts).

I don’t get it. It’s scary.
 
angelainwi said:
Why would they have to lie?
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Because the correct protocol would be to try to get tested and quarantine for two weeks, and tell all of their contacts to tell all of their contacts, etc. People who don't see the virus as an existential threat aren't going to do that. So they lie/deny about potential exposure.
 
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Guess where the busy tourist hub of Niagara Falls is? Yep, western New York. And it is still busy, tourist boats on the river absolutely packed on the US side, very empty on the Canadian side.

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At the famous waterfalls on the U.S.-Canadian border, Canadian ferries are limited to just six passengers per boat, out of a 700 person capacity. But on the U.S. side, the ferries are operating at 50% capacity, according to Maid of the Mist boat tours.

Maid of the Mist's website said it was following the guidance of New York State public health officials. The boats contain markers to keep visitors spaced out, and face coverings are compulsory, among other safety changes, it said.

Mory DiMaurizio, general manager and vice president of Canada’s Hornblower Niagara Cruises, said the limits placed on its business by the Ontario provincial government were “disappointing” and that it was “frustrating” to see the American boats relatively full.

“However we’ve made lemonade out of lemons,” DiMaurizio said, referring to a new VIP cruise the company has created (from the Canadian side) - a near-empty boat, plus a meal and funicular ride included with the ticket. Health precautions include temperature checks and mandatory masks. The popularity of the C$69.95 ($52.00) per person cruise has “actually surprised us,” DiMaurizio said.

Social distancing Canadians eye new sight at Niagara Falls: crowds of Americans
 
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