Fauci says the US's record-high COVID-19 cases put it in a precarious position: 'No matter how you look at it, it's not good news'

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Fauci says the US's record-high COVID-19 cases put it in a precarious position: 'No matter how you look at it, it's not good news'

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• The US hit new daily peaks for COVID-19 cases on Friday and Saturday, with reports of more than 80,000 new cases per day. 
• "Now we're at the highest baseline we've ever been, which is really precarious," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading expert on COVID-19, said in an interview Monday.
• Fauci said in September that Americans needed to "hunker down" as the weather turned cold or face increased outbreaks.
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When it comes to daily COVID-19 cases, the US is experiencing "the worst that we've ever had," Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday during an interview with Yahoo Finance. The country hit new daily peaks on Friday and Saturday, with reports of more than 80,000 new cases per day. 

"Now we're at the highest baseline we've ever been, which is really precarious," the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the nation's top expert on the COVID-19 pandemic said. "No matter how you look at it, it's not good news."

In September, Fauci said Americans would need to "hunker down and get through this fall and winter" or else play a game of whack-a-mole with the virus as blips and outbreaks pop up. Since the weather has turned colder, new COVID-19 cases have sharply risen. New COVID-19 cases clocked in at 82,929 on Friday and 83,851 on Saturday, breaking the previous record of 74,818 set in July, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

 

Gallery: Dr. Fauci Warns of 'Trouble' Ahead (ETNT Health)

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"Luckily, despite the fact that we are dealing with a very, very challenging period right now, even more so as we enter the cooler months of the fall and the colder months of the winter, that vaccines are proceeding at a very good pace," Fauci said on Monday.

Results from vaccine trials will be available at the end of November or beginning of December, Fauci said. And last week, Gilead's remdesivir was approved for use on COVID-19 patients.  

In the face of surging infections, Fauci reminded Americans that measures like universal mask-wearing, avoiding crowds and indoor public settings, and handwashing could go a long way in stemming outbreaks. 

"We can do this. I'm absolutely convinced that as a nation, if we pull together and do some fundamental common-denominator public-health measures, that we can get through this with a lot of help in the future from vaccines and adequate therapies," Fauci said.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has surpassed 43 million cases worldwide, the US has experienced the worst toll of any country. There have been nearly 8.7 million reported cases in the US and about 225,000 reported deaths, according to Johns Hopkins data.

Watch the full interview with Fauci over at Yahoo Finance.

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Hospitals in nearly every region report a flood of covid-19 patients

Joel Achenbach, Karin Brulliard, Brittany Shammas, Jacqueline Dupree 6 hrs ago

 

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Hospitals in many regions of the country — the Upper Midwest, the Mountain West, the Southwest and the heart of Appalachia — are seeing record levels of patients suffering from covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

%7B© Wisconsin Department of Administration/Reuters In Milwaukee, a field hospital has been set up at the state fairgrounds to treat covid-19 patients.

More than 42,000 people were hospitalized nationally with the virus Monday, a figure that is steadily climbing toward the midsummer peak caused by massive outbreaks in the Sun Belt. In the places hit the hardest, this is nudging hospitals toward the nightmare scenario of rationing care.

The country is not there yet, but the recent rise in confirmed coronavirus infections — which set a single-day record Saturday of more than 83,000 — is an ominous leading indicator of an imminent surge of patients into hospitals. The pattern of this pandemic has been clear: Infections go up, hospitalization rates follow in a few weeks, and then deaths spike.

The medical community vividly remembers the crisis in New York hospitals in the spring and the catastrophe in northern Italy, where the oldest patients were left untreated so that doctors could try to save younger patients. In Utah, the president of that state’s hospital association, Greg Bell, has warned that within two weeks, the hospitals may have to start rationing care among the most seriously ill patients in intensive care units.

El Paso reached 100 percent hospital capacity Sunday and is setting up field hospitals to handle the overflow of patients. University Medical Center in the Texas city has established a mobile unit in its parking lot to hold covid-19 patients who are almost ready to go home. Officials are hoping to transfer non-covid-19 patients to Children’s Hospital next door. The hospital has 198 covid-19 patients; during the July surge, the maximum was 64.

State officials have dispatched 100 nurses and five doctors to the hospital to help, but the hospital has asked for 45 more nurses, said Joel Hendryx, the chief medical officer.

“Our doctors and nurses have been doing this for over seven months, so talk about covid fatigue,” he said.

The border city, which has seen an explosive outbreak in the past few weeks, reported 1,443 new infections Monday — more than double the cases reported Sunday in more-populous New York. County Judge Ricardo Samaniego on Sunday imposed a 10 p.m. curfew, with exceptions for work or emergencies. Violators will face a fine of $500.

Forty-one states and Puerto Rico have more hospitalized covid-19 patients now than at the end of September, and 22 of those states have seen increases in excess of 50 percent, according to health data analyzed by The Washington Post.

“The data is just going up on hospitalizations, and we are going to run into trouble — it looks like almost inevitably,” Ross McKinney, chief scientific officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, said Monday.

Rural America is particularly vulnerable. In the entire state of North Dakota, only 25 intensive care unit beds remained staffed and available Monday in the 11 hospitals that have ICUs, according to state data.

Even hospital officials in places not yet in a full-blown crisis are looking with concern at the national trends, worried about a potential drain of experienced nurses who may be lured to other parts of the country to help combat outbreaks.

“WE’RE HEADED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION,” declared a two-page advertisement Sunday in the Tulsa World newspaper, placed by Saint Francis Health System, which operates seven hospitals across Oklahoma. The ad featured a graph that showed the number of coronavirus patients soaring in recent weeks. “We were doing better when we were in this together,” the ad said.

The goal was to prod the public to follow practices such as mask-wearing to limit viral spread, according to Jake Henry Jr., president and chief executive of Saint Francis.

“What we’re seeing is not sustainable,” Henry said Monday.

He said exhausted medical workers get discouraged when they see people in public who are not wearing masks. The city of Tulsa has a mask ordinance — signs are posted outside businesses reminding customers — but suburban jurisdictions do not, nor does the state.

“We’d just like to get everybody going in the same direction,” Henry said.

The pandemic, and President Trump’s handling of it, have emerged as the defining issues of the presidential race, and polling suggests that the crisis is a major drag on the president’s prospects for a second term. Hospitalizations are rising sharply in three electoral battleground states: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In Milwaukee, a field hospital has been established at the state fairgrounds to treat overflow covid-19 patients.

Ohio, a traditional bellwether state in presidential elections, joins the other three battlegrounds on a list of the 10 states with the greatest increases in covid-19 hospitalizations since Sept. 30, according to The Post’s data.

Ohio set a new high Monday for hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic. Seven other states Monday also set records: Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Mexico, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Montana tied its record.

In West Virginia, Clay Marsh, an intensive-care physician who serves as the state’s coronavirus czar, said many people who postponed elective surgeries in the spring, during the initial outbreak, are now taking up some of the hospital capacity. Officials are closely watching the high rate of new infections and know that at some point it might be necessary to stop doing elective surgeries and other procedures that are not urgent, Marsh said.

A midsummer spike in infections affected mainly younger adults, but much of the recent surge has been in older people, Marsh said. He said he believes there has been a gradual spread from younger people to their elders, including community spread in houses of worship and in nursing homes.

“We’re seeing that covid positivity is moving toward an older population, and we have a very vulnerable older population,” Marsh said. “That’s the population we’ve always been very nervous about.”

In Michigan, hospitalizations have jumped 80 percent in recent weeks, causing particular concern in the more rural parts of the state, where some hospitals “are being inundated with patients,” said Gary Roth, chief medical officer for the Michigan Health and Hospital Association.

“Are we getting concerned regarding the increasing numbers, the surging of patients coming into the hospitals? Absolutely,” he said.

At hospitals across the state, the greatest worry is about health-care workers who have only just begun to recover from the stress of the first coronavirus surge.

“One thing that we’ve noticed, particularly in the areas that got hit hard by covid, is it caused a lot of scar tissue for our health-care workers,” said David Wood, chief medical officer at Beaumont Health in southeast Michigan, where hospitals neared capacity during the spring. “Seeing the amount of death in such a short period of time, by what seemed like an entity that we had no defenses against, has made it more difficult to get the health-care workers necessary to want to come back and be back in that same position.”

At University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City, the hospital had about 20 covid-19 patients at the end of August. The numbers started rising three to four weeks ago, with 52 covid-19 patients Monday, said Russell Vinik, chief medical operations officer.

The hospital is mostly using existing staffing, and the workers are overtaxed, Vinik said. Nurses are on mandatory on call, and a third team has been added to staff a surge intensive care unit that opened two weeks ago.

“This is doable for a short period of time, but for a long period of time, it really wears down our staff,” Vinik said. “They are physically and emotionally exhausted.”

He lamented that mask-wearing “is still not as compliant as we’d like, particularly outside Salt Lake County. We have big families in Utah, and big family gatherings, and what we’ve seen is the majority of the transmission comes from household gatherings. That’s a culture that needs to change, to make some sacrifices.”

The fall surge nationally has been propelled by colder weather, the reopening of schools and colleges, the broad migration indoors, patchy-at-best adherence to mask-wearing and other public health guidelines, and the general chaos and confusion of the national response.

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Study Shows Covid-19 Antibodies Waning Over Time, Suggesting Immunity May Wear Off

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LONDON—A large English study showed the number of people with Covid-19 antibodies declined significantly over the summer, suggesting that getting the virus may not confer long-lasting immunity from future infection.

The survey of 365,000 adults in England who tested themselves at home using a finger-prick test showed the proportion of people testing positive for Covid-19 antibodies declined by 26.5% between June 20—12 weeks after the peak of infections in the country—and Sept. 28.

The results also suggested that people who didn’t display symptoms were likely to lose detectable antibodies before those who had showed symptoms. The study, conducted by Imperial College London and the Ipsos Mori polling organization, was funded by the British government, which announced the results and published the study on Monday night. The results haven’t yet been reviewed by other experts.

Doctors don’t yet know whether antibodies confer any effective immunity against reinfection by Covid-19. But even if they do and the results of this survey are confirmed, it suggests the prospect of widespread long-term herd immunity to the virus will be difficult to achieve. Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a population develop an immune response, either through previous infection or vaccination, so that the virus can’t spread easily and even those who aren’t immune have protection.

The findings showed 18-24 year olds lost antibodies at a slower rate than those aged 75 and over. The smallest decline of 14.9% was of people aged between 18 and 24 years, and the largest decline of 29% was of people aged 75 and over.

The study reflects earlier smaller trials and suggests that antibodies to the virus decline over 6-12 months after infection, as in other seasonal coronaviruses such as the common cold. The study doesn’t indicate whether other types of immune responses—such as that contributed by so-called T cells—would help protect against reinfection.

The study showed 6% of the population of England had antibodies on June 20, compared with 4.4% on Sept. 28. At the end of September, 9% of people displayed antibodies in London, compared with just 1.6% in the least affected region in the southwest of England.

Among ethnic groups, 13.8% of Black people tested with antibodies at end-September and 9.7% of Asians—mainly South Asians. This compared with 3.6% of white people. Minority ethnic groups in the U.K., as in the U.S., have suffered disproportionately from the virus.

The authors admitted the trial had limitations. “It included nonoverlapping random samples of the population, but it is possible that people who had been exposed to the virus were less likely to take part over time, which may have contributed to apparent population antibody waning,” they said.

Write to Stephen Fidler at stephen.fidler@wsj.com

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"Brain fog" ... the discovery of dangerous effects of the Corona virus on the patient

2020-10-27

Yes Iraq: Follow up

Coronavirus survivors may be at risk of permanent brain damage, as a study shows that in the worst cases, infection can lead to a cognitive decline equivalent to the aging of the brain for ten years or an 8.5-point drop in IQ.

And the British newspaper "The Times" quotes scientists that the "brain fog" that many sufferers reported after weeks and months of recovery from illness, could be one of the more serious symptoms of cognitive deficit.

The research, which included 84,285 people who recovered from "Covid-19", found that the damage to the brain had occurred in varying levels according to the severity of the disease. More work is needed to determine how long this effect will last.

 

 

Low IQ

The patients most affected, that is, those who were treated in intensive care or who required artificial respiration, suffer an 8.5-point drop in their IQ, or an aging brain equivalent to ten years.

 

Adam Hampshire, from the School of Medicine, Department of Brain Sciences at Kings College London, and lead author of the study, said the “shocking” findings did not only apply to patients who ended up in hospital.

The study showed that those who did not have breathing difficulties but were diagnosed with the virus also suffer cognitive decline after recovery. And those who recovered at home experienced an average disability equivalent to old age or five years of age or a drop of four points in IQ.

 

 

Dr. Hampshire said the results are consistent with the "brain fog" reported by many people who, even after months of recovery, say they are unable to focus on work or focus on what they did before.

 

Bad results

The team from Imperial College, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago and King's College London also found that Corona virus survivors scored poorly on tests of reasoning, meaning of words, spatial orientation, attention preservation and processing their emotions, compared to those who were not affected by it.

 

The British newspaper said that the results of this study should serve as a "clear call" for more work on how "Covid-19" affects the brain.

 

9 challenges

Study participants were asked to conduct nine challenges to assess their cognitive ability, and the results were then analyzed by a team of experts. People were not told that the study was assessing the effect of "Covid-19" until after the test was over.

 

Of the 84,285 people who participated, 60 reported being put on a ventilator due to “Covid-19” and 147 were taken care of in hospital without a respirator.

 

There are another 176 who required medical care at home for breathing difficulties, 3,466 who had difficulty breathing but received no medical help and 9,201 reported their illness without breathing symptoms.

 

The study authors concluded that the time any patient spends in intensive care or on an artificial respirator has an effect on cognitive function.

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[Johnny Dinar]

Thanks Mary, but we all know Fauci is wrong and our president is not only smarter than the generals, but he is smarter then the medical experts too...

 

And it looks like from early signs that some people are getting it twice much sooner than anticipated... Fun times...

[Johnny Dinar]

You realize, this will now count as a pre-existing condition... 

[Mary B]

An expert talks about the possible impact of "Covid-19" on child fertility

13:27 - 27/10/2020

 

  

The information / Baghdad ... The
academic, Laila Namazova-Paranova, Chair of the Executive Committee of Pediatricians in Russia, has warned of what it called the consequences of children being infected with the emerging coronavirus.
In her speech during the round table meeting organized by the All-Russian People's Front, the doctor indicated that the results of examining children who were infected with the emerging coronavirus showed a 30% decrease in their cognitive functions, and indicated a potential risk of declining fertility for future generations, even if they were infected from Without symptoms.

She said, "There are serious changes that occur in the sperm of boys after they are infected with the emerging coronavirus," and urged the need to follow up on children who have been infected with "Covid-19".

https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/10/27/502055/

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On 10/27/2020 at 7:37 AM, Johnny Dinar said:

Thanks Mary, but we all know Fauci is wrong and our president is not only smarter than the generals, but he is smarter then the medical experts too...

You forgot that he is all knowing and also can walk on water!!!!🤣🤣

[nstoolman1]

We also know Fauci is in the back pocket of Bill Gates so I would not trust a thing he says. 

I trust the Drs of emergency rooms that actually treat this and know the truth. 

 

[nstoolman1]

I am guessing by the laughing emoji JD doesn't believe in actual practice over guess work. His loss.

[nstoolman1]

And now he is confused. 

[Johnny Dinar]

Imagine how upset Trump gets when he can't fire Fauci... I bet he hates it.