on coping with C19 lockdown

[TN1965]

When Africans asked for COVID shots, they didn't get them. Now they don't want them | Reuters

It's noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a tablet.

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When Africans asked for COVID shots, they didn't get them. Now they don't want them | Reuters

As the old Jamaican proverb says: Wanty wanty, can't getty. Getty getty, no wanty.

[TN1965]

A new study claims Medicare-for-all could have saved more than 200,000 lives during the pandemic

https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2022/6/16/23169845/us-covid-19-deaths-medicare-for-all-universal-health-care

...a new study from a group of scholars at Yale and UMass-Amherst says the US had more deaths per capita than most economic peers due to something more specific: the lack of universal health care.

[jeremyp]

The Pig Bar-B-Q says it all....

Amid backlash from political rivals, medical professionals and senior federal government officials alike, DeSantis on Monday morning reaffirmed his decision not to preorder newly authorized COVID-19 vaccines or offer them at state health departments.

“We are not going to have any programs where we’re trying to jab 6-month-old babies with mRNA,” he said during a news conference at The Pig Bar-B-Q in Callahan. “We still have not ordered it. We’re not going to order it.”

Florida is the only U.S. state that did not pre-order COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 5 before the Food and Drug Administration authorized them. After the FDA granted an emergency use authorization on Friday, the state allowed health care providers to place orders for the vaccines, something providers in other states had been able to do since June 3.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coro...qiq-story.html

[NotDutra5]

For anyone not aware "the jab" is a term used by anti-vaxxers as a negative term. It was used in this sense by DeSantis and not unexpectedly.

[gh]

For anyone not aware "the jab" is a term used by anti-vaxxers as a negative term. It was used in this sense by DeSantis and not unexpectedly.

the pro-vax circles I travel in almost exclusivvely refer to "jab" in a positive sense.

[KevinR]

I personally take pride in each of my "Fauci Ouchies".

[bambam1729]

the pro-vax circles I travel in almost exclusivvely refer to "jab" in a positive sense.

Until COVID, with 40 years of clinical medicine going back to 1980, I had never heard the term "jab" used to refer to an injection or shot of any type.

[gm]

Until COVID, with 40 years of clinical medicine going back to 1980, I had never heard the term "jab" used to refer to an injection or shot of any type.

I heard it in Britain way back when, not here.

[Trickstat]

Yes, "jab" is the word most commonly used in the UK. I think for most people here, "shot" is more associated with whisky, vodka, tequila etc.

[NotDutra5]

If they want me to explain it, I will.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2022/06/22/publix-wont-give-covid-vaccine-to-children-under-5/

Publix won’t give COVID vaccine to children under 5

The Lakeland grocery chain said it will not explain its decision “at this time.”

[jeremyp]

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/...POST-NLETTER01
Meanwhile in Florida....again!

WEST PALM BEACH — MorseLife, a high-end nursing home, will pay a $1.75 million settlement after being accused of illegally giving some of the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccines to its wealthy donors instead of the vulnerable patients and staff they were meant for, federal investigators said last week.

The bosses of MorseLife Health System, a nonprofit nursing home on David S. Mack Drive just south of the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, had ordered the inoculation of hundreds of well-connected, well-off benefactors in late December 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Meanwhile in California:

Los Angeles County’s coronavirus case rate hit its highest point in nearly five months over the Fourth of July weekend.

The trends underscore what could be weeks of increases in infections and hospitalizations, with the latest Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, appearing to be among the most contagious yet.

[NotDutra5]

My sister in law Monday. My wife today. Both positive and with cold like symptoms. We were all together as a family on Sunday which has us worried about my 89 year old MIL/FIL but no symptoms from them at this point. My grandchildren have also both been here for the last two days. Me and the grandchildren are all negative to this point.

My SIL is double boosted (her husband is symptom free but positive). My wife, me and MIL/FIL are single boosted and have been discussing getting the 2nd booster.

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BA.2 Proves the Pandemic Isn’t Over, but People Are Over It

Two years of dealing with Covid-19 have made people tired of taking precautions, getting tested and asking about other people’s status

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ba-2-proves-the-pandemic-isnt-over-but-people-are-over-it-11650212885?mod=WSJ_ACQ_NA_TW_US_CONTENT_CP_PAID&twclid=2-5bnrkumnhc4ayl3irtds388uv

[jeremyp]

BA.2 Proves the Pandemic Isn’t Over, but People Are Over It

Two years of dealing with Covid-19 have made people tired of taking precautions, getting tested and asking about other people’s status

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ba-2-proves-the-pandemic-isnt-over-but-people-are-over-it-11650212885?mod=WSJ_ACQ_NA_TW_US_CONTENT_CP_PAID&twclid=2-5bnrkumnhc4ayl3irtds388uv

My daughter went to a convention in London 2 weeks ago. Everybody in her group got Covid, presumably the 5 variant, and still have symptoms. Like a bad lingering cold.