MESO-Rx
Anabolic Steroids
Can touching a barbell in the gym get you sick with the coronavirus?
- Thread starter Michael Scally MD
- Start date
A staff member dressed as a smiling, red-nosed Christmas tree strolled through the emergency department at a San Jose hospital on Christmas Day, hoping to provide holiday cheer.
Days later, a coronavirus outbreak swept through the Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center, eventually infecting 43 employees and killing one.
Hospital officials now say the “air-powered” Christmas costume is likely to blame for the 44 positive tests, all recorded between Dec. 27 and Friday. Experts said the fan inside the costume could have blown coronavirus-laden droplets throughout the department.
“Obviously this is a highly unusual situation involving a well-intentioned staff member acting on their own without advance notice or approval,” said Irene Chavez, the hospital’s senior vice president and area manager, in a statement to The Washington Post. “Any exposure, if it occurred, would have been completely innocent, and quite accidental, as the individual had no covid symptoms.”
Late on Sunday, the hospital announced that a registration clerk in the emergency department had died of covid-19, NBC Bay Area reported. The woman was among the staffers who worked in the emergency department on Christmas Day and later tested positive. Employees told the station that they were devastated by the loss and described her as an “absolutely wonderful woman.”
Keep the schools open
Well, here I am with the first “In the Pipeline” post of 2021, and damn itall, I’m right back to the stuff I was writing about last time. I still expect this year to be the time when we beat back the coronavirus pandemic, and (as a minor side effect for me) to be the year when I can spend more time blogging about other things than viruses and vaccines. But that time is not yet.
No, definitely not. There are a lot of things happening right on top of each other at the moment, and it’s impossible to say yet how they’re going to balance out. …
I have every expectation that the pace of vaccination will pick up. But the other factor at work is the new coronavirus variant. Since I wrote that post, it’s become even more clear that yes, B.1.1.7 is indeed more infectious. The data from the UK are no longer consistent with its numbers being due to any sort of statistical accident, and it’s now been reported in numerous countries and several US states. At this point, it seems likely that it may follow the same pattern in those areas – and in the US – that it did in the United Kingdom, spreading more rapidly until it becomes the dominant strain in these populations.
That’s not good. …
I do not know how to make this decision. I really don’t. We have degrees of harm, probabilities of harm, logistics, timing, public health capabilities, politics and more to consider, and not a lot of time in which to consider them. Anyone who uses the phrase “no-brainer” to describe this call should be dropped from your list of people to take advice from. This is the opposite: it’s a decision that all our brainpower may still not be sufficient to make clear. But we’re going to have to make it anyway.
Brazilian president rhetorically claims coronavirus vaccine could turn people into alligators
Bolsonaro contracted COVID-19 earlier this year.
The Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro shocked even his staunchest supporters this week with an expletive-filled tirade against the COVID-19 vaccine, despite 7.1 million cases of the virus in the country and over 185,000 deaths.
"I’m not going to get [the vaccine]. Some say I’m setting a bad example. Hey a–hole, oh idiot, what are you saying about the bad example, I already had the virus, I already have antibodies. Why should I get the vaccine again?" Bolsonaro said in a speech captured by the news service UOL to a crowd in Porto Seguro.
[...]
"And another thing that has to be made very clear," Bolsonaro charged. "There in the Pfizer contract, it is very clear that we (Pfizer) are not responsible for any side effect. If you become an alligator, it is your problem. … And what is worse, tampering with people’s immune systems."
Source: Brazilian president rhetorically claims coronavirus vaccine could turn people into alligators
Similar threads
