DEC 6 2021 WH Press Brief.
To be fair, this is all a moving target. The need for testing depends a lot on whether people are a) getting vaccinated, b) following precautions, and c) whether the COVID flavor of the month is mutating further and spreading.DEC 6 2021 WH Press Brief.
Psaki: "Should we send one to every American? "
Reporter: "maybe?"
Psaki: "Now what happens when every American has one? How much does that cost and what happens after that?"
Reporter: "All I know is that other countries seem to be making them available in greater quantities for less money".
DEC 21 2021.
This is a great question and one I don't think is talked about enough as it's a very touchy subject. But the truth is there needs to be a number that is acceptable like there was an acceptable number of dying from influenza each year and we didn't think twice about it.
This too is easily dealt with, so far my ICU doctor friends are questioning if any of the standard interventions like ventilators are even helpful or if it's just them doing their standard practice of throwing everything they can at attempting to save a life.
That's what ICU is for. As a patient, you go there and they throw whatever they can at you in an attempt to save your life. Sometimes nothing works so they make you as comfortable as possible as you die. That's a very difficult thing to watch, and they do this in ICU every day. I watched this first hand once, though I was in and out of consciousness myself, and have no idea of how long they worked to save that guy in the next room, but they worked hard, and didn't give up until there was nothing they could do but watch and comfort his passing.
The COVID ward at my Wife's hospital has stopped throwing patients on ventilators at the first opportunity. They'll only do it now when all other treatments have failed. We've learned quite a bit about how to treat COVID since it first emerged oh so very long ago.
Where I am we have been advised this week to test before going to a public socializing space. You just don't know if some one else in the room isn't able to be vaccinated or could take it back to a vulnerable person - as discovered a while back even the vaccinated can host a full viral load so reducing the ammount of transmission is about more than just being vaccinated.
Hah, we've found an anti-mercaptan test for COVID. Easier than a do it at home test kit, and your nose will hate you a lot less.
Mr. BobFace, as always I appreciate your diligence as TEST Squadrons leading COVID journalist.
I will see what I can do, and also try to remember :)
I appreciate the kind words, I am naught but an aggregator there is no journalism going on here. The bad will still sit alongside the good, but for the Festive season a Spoiler to obscure the horrors of the day would be a holiday courtesy, and I don't want to be on Santas naughty list!
Then, you are doing as much or more "journalism" as most journalists. I mean how can they all have the same story with the same words or variations of the wording of the same stories. Blind luck? Not likely.
I’ve read several articles about Omicron being more infectious than Delta but less deadly. Hopefully this holds true and Covid burns itself out with this variant. Omicron has already supplanted Delta in many countries including the US.
You know what is possible, and maybe even likely. The versions of the common cold that usually infect huge numbers of us every year started as epidemics. That would probably have been 2 to 5 million years before modern humans even evolved. The longer time would be the most likely for Coronavirus variants, because almost all great apes can catch a Beta Corona Virus cold. That's the same family that COVID-19 comes from.
Fingers crossed Santa brings us a Pandemic Free Holiday!!!!
