Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic
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This should be fun
storyteller
Superstar
Our Covid mitigation efforts might have wiped out one of the four lineages of flu, and we probably could eliminate another (these two don't infect other animals so they can't replicate without human spread). It's sort of on the periphery of COVID-related news but it's a pretty clear example of how things like masking and social distancing impact airborne illnesses and spread.
Nature article: Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Link to the full paper: https://rdcu.be/cHman
Nature article: Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Link to the full paper: https://rdcu.be/cHman
Remember when the media was trying real hard to push the "Florida reopened and has less cases than California" narrative?
California just keeps on winning despite the hate from the right and silence from the left.
Eternal Tecate
Superstar
I'm learning Chinese I'll leave it at that
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
Oh boy.
All of the "whatever happened to the flu" people are about to lose their shyt lol
Captain Crunch
Veteran
Florida also has one of the highest(if not the highest) amount of senior citizens.
It's a travesty that someone who resided in the White House, is reduced to tweeting misleading information.
Fun fact, for the last month(if not longer), Florida and California have almost identical ICU capacities.
Weekly Hospitalization Trends - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
If the Queen died from COVID, I can't imagine the heat Boris would get... because didn't he just get rid of Mandates? 
Captain Crunch
Veteran
If the Queen died from COVID, I can't imagine the heat Boris would get... because didn't he just get rid of Mandates?
The mandates had minimal effect on "stopping the spread". Dr. Fauci; Dr. Andy Slavitt, and other medical experts have all said COVID is a virus that most of us will get anyway.
Why should Boris catch heat for ending the mandates, when the mandates didn't really do shyt, and Queen Liz is over a decade past the UK life expectancy (UK life expectancy is 81)? Elizabeth should have been dead at least 14 years ago, if we're basing it on average UK residents.
florida doesn't include covid cases or covid deaths in their reports if the individual is a non-resident.
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
Captain Crunch
Veteran
Even if that's true, it's still unfair to compare one of the oldest states in terms of population of 65+(FL is at least top 3 in shares of population that's 65+), to one of the more younger states(CA is somewhere ranked btwn 30-40 on states w/ senior citizens).
Not too mention y'all still discounting the fact that FL's hospitalizations numbers have been in line w/ California for at least a month(from January to now)
I don't feel like looking up my old posts, but I showed a few months back using John Hopkins, that Florida had similar or better hospitalizations numbers than CA and other restriction states in either Fall 2021/December 2021.
Florida improving their hospilaztion rates after Delta surge(July/August '21), might have been due to DeSantis prioritixation of early treatments. Florida up until several weeks ago, had centers where you can get Regeneron.
Captain Crunch
Veteran
Way to cherry pick my points bro
So a top 3 state of share of elderly population, had a higher death rate than a state that's ranked 30-40 on elderly population? I'm so shocked that the state w/ more elderly ppl, had a higher death rate?
In spite of that, Florida's ICU capacity has been on par w/ California's since at least November.
Weekly Hospitalization Trends - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
Weekly Hospitalization Trends - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
Turns out you don't need to put unnecessary restrictions, you can just let ppl live their lives, and provide treatment to people who need/desire it.