I'm sure it is with the best of intentions:
"Amid sterner warnings of virus spread, state reopens field hospital" by Matt Stout and Priyanka Dayal McCluskey Globe Staff, November 13, 2020
Governor Charlie Baker on Friday issued a markedly grave warning for residents to change their behavior in the face the "sustained and troubling” resurgence of the coronavirus that, in Central Massachusetts, is beginning to test the limits of the health care system.
Underscoring the serious turn, Baker said the state will reopen its first field hospital in roughly five months, a 240-bed facility at the DCU Center in Worcester that should be primed to accept patients the first week of December, if need be.
If they are reopening it, it means they never dismantled it as we were told.
The announcement came on the heels of a steady spike in the numbers of new infections in Massachusetts that is approaching those seen during the first peak of the virus in the spring.
The numbers are distorted and out of context if not outright lies, and if it is accurate and truthful reporting then the entire lockdown, mask, and distancing thing has been an abysmal failure.
We are beyond Orwell at this point because this is surreal.
Coronavirus infections have grown seven-fold since Labor Day. Baker indicated he wants to avoid the type of tight restrictions he imposed in the spring, namely closing schools or businesses, but he said residents need to take personal responsibility, cautioning that casual social interactions many take for granted are helping spread the virus. The threat, he said, creates the potential for the holidays — and the cozy family gatherings that mark them — to turn into a super-spreader season.
But not Biden celebrations or the endless $ocial ju$tu$ protests that are essential.
“We’re living in a pandemic. I know some people would prefer to think otherwise,” he said, “but it’s true and it’s real and it’s all over the country.”
Fuck him!
He sounds like a kid who still believes in Santa and the Easter Bunny to convince you it's true.
Baker added bluntly: “In Massachusetts we have most people doing the right thing most of the time, but that’s not enough,” and UMass Memorial’s chief executive, Dr. Eric Dickson, pleading with the public to wear masks and limit social activity to help slow the transmission of COVID, said, “We need everyone doing the right thing everyday.”
These f**king tyrannical bastards want 100% compliance, and they are not going to get it.
How quickly, or where, the state could establish other field hospitals is unclear, but a spokesman for the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority said Friday the site is not currently under consideration to become a field hospital. Three other field hospitals created in the spring, in Dartmouth, Lowell, and Bourne, closed without seeing a single patient.
They never "closed" them, folks.
The pre$$ is lying.
Months later, the state is also in a better position to respond, officials said, with a massive increase in testing capacity. Hospital resources are also not as taxed. In Central Massachusetts, for example, of the 100-plus patients now hospitalized with COVID-19, just nine are on ventilators, said Dickson. In the spring, when COVID-19 was ravaging older populations, Dickson said, the number was closer to 30 or 40.
F**k you and your faulty and flawed test that has to be recycled over and over to pick up false positives that are not COVID-19 specific, etc, etc, and they need to be aggressive about extensive testing, which is important because it empowers officials and ordinary people to stop outbreaks before they start and so they can identify infected individuals and separate them from others and trace their contacts.
I get sick of saying it because the same tests further the lying narrative put out by these evil f**ks, and how surprising it is to read about the preparedness when it was just the other day that the Globe reported that the "shortages of personal protective equipment are back, especially among rural hospitals, nursing homes, and private medical practices that lack access to the supply networks that serve larger hospital chains," along with staff shortages even though "the United States is on somewhat better footing now than in the earliest days of the pandemic because states and hospitals have their own stockpiles, but" who cares about the endless contradictions in official statements when the industry is in a much better position right now than it was back in the spring when the virus cases were soaring?
Not the Globe, that's for sure!
Hospitals, which largely escaped the devastating spring surge without experiencing the worst-case scenarios, also have learned how to quickly add beds and make space for additional COVID patients, said Steve Walsh, president of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association.
Yeah, remember when it was too weeks to flatten the curve and that's all.
It's like all the wars: victory is just around the corner and yet it never comes!
Now we are being treated to a second simulated script as the government ignores seasonal flu and calls everything COVID.
The comeback of the virus has prompted Baker to tighten restrictions, including limiting private indoor gatherings to 10 people and advising people to return home by 10 p.m.
Baker's curfew.
Baker said Friday he wants to keep schools and businesses open, arguing they’re not driving the spread of COVID-19, and he said businesses, schools, and colleges have been largely following the rules and doing their part to curb the spread.
This is reaching the point of sheer lunacy with these liars!
“We’ve done more than 10,000 inspections of operating businesses in Massachusetts that serve customers of one kind or another,” he said, “and the number that had been found in violation of our rules is very small,” but the data is pointing to an increasingly troubling reality.
“This merciless virus has undoubtedly impacted practically everybody one way or another here in Massachusetts," Baker said Friday.....
Except for the slugs in state government who have not been laid off or anything and the rest of the ruling cla$$ that continue to prosper of this abominable lie of COVID!
The virus is so merciless it has a 99.99% survival rate and you need to be tested to know you even had it, so f**k him.
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Since that story was printed, it is alleged that two House members tested positive for the virus, and cleaning crews were brought in to sanitize offices at the State House Friday night, according to an e-mail sent to House members obtained by the Globe.
You have to love the word "obtained." Made it sound like the gumshoe propagandists had to work to get it when state authority dropped it in their lap.
Pfffft!
"Baker tells businesses they’re not to blame for the rise in COVID-19 cases" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, November 13, 2020
That's strange because he just got done calling out those under 30 for the recent spike.
Governor Charlie Baker sought to assure state business leaders on Friday that their workplaces aren’t driving the recent steep increase in COVID-19 cases.
In a virtual speech delivered to the Associated Industries of Massachusetts trade group, Baker described the broad shutdowns he imposed on the economy last spring as bitter but necessary medicine. It’s a step he hopes he doesn’t have to take again. “The thing that’s driving these cases,” Baker said, “is not work. [It’s] social gatherings.”
But not demonstrations or Biden celebrations, etc.
The governor said he fears what will happen when families and friends gather indoors at Thanksgiving. He said Canada’s Thanksgiving holiday last month led to a surge of COVID-19 cases in that country.
“I’m scared to death about Thanksgiving,” Baker said. “I’m not kidding when I say that.”
Thanks for the warning after canceling Halloween and trick-or-treating over the case count models, and during the pandemic, all manner of activities have been canceled, making it hard to know what to look forward to, but people across the country are coming up with creative solutions to salvage Halloween, making sure that kids won’t miss the thrill of filling buckets and pillowcases with candy as the restrictions have forced many people to think outside the box, but the casedemic raged on, threatening to all but shut down his favorite holiday.
Was just as well anyway since rain, snow, and howling winds ushered in a cold Halloween and people had to wear coats over their costumes and at the drive-in as scaled-down Halloween celebrations amid coronavirus pandemic were a priority that haunted drive-in movies in Abington while a Chelmsford family’s Halloween display grew frightfully fun even as Walsh urged caution in Halloween trick-or-treating and Wellesley offered socially distant options for Halloween this year and Somerville slipped into the red with the rest of the nation.
They literally scripted the plot just in time for Halloween, as witches rose from the dead.
AIM chief executive John Regan said some of the group’s members have told him they would not be able to recover from a second shutdown. From Regan’s perspective, Baker believes that the vast majority of employers are following strict safety protocols.
“Because of that, he is reluctant to make that draconian step” of a second shutdown, Regan said. “He has said … that they’ll go where the data takes you. Let’s hope the data doesn’t take us there,” but Baker hasn’t been afraid to impose new restrictions on businesses to curb the increasing spread of the coronavirus. Among those: a curfew requiring the shutdown of restaurants and entertainment venues at 9:30 p.m. The new rule, which took effect last week, allows diners to stay open until 10, as long as table service ends by 9:30. (Many Northeast states have adopted similar restrictions.)
Restaurants have asked the Baker administration for at least an extra hour at night on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, but so far have had no luck.
Served you up a big plate of tyranny, huh?
Richard Brackett, managing partner at The Federal in Waltham, said his steakhouse could be crushed by losing an extra wave, or “turn,” of customers caused by the early curfew. He cited state data showing that less than 1 percent of COVID cases can be traced back to restaurants. “We’re asking for one hour a day, three hours a week,” Brackett said.
They don't care; the purpose is to put you out of business in favor of the Great Re$et abomination.
Bob Luz, chief executive of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, has led the charge for that extra hour, but he also worries the restrictions could get even tighter. For example, he said, Pittsfield just became the first city in Massachusetts to completely ban sit-down dining this fall. “The administration is being very cautious at this point,” Luz said.....
It's his job to be an optimist and is sure Baker will come through with extra jobless benefits if the Feds fail to come through.
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I wish the State Police or Boston those in would fulfill their oath and imprison the good governor in the brig because everyone knows further restrictions will be ordered back into effect and that challenges still loom:
"Two Halloween parties with hundreds of guests dancing and drinking inside warehouses were broken up by New York City authorities this weekend, as officials strive to curb behavior that they worry could fuel a second wave of the pandemic. A party in Brooklyn with nearly 400 people was broken up by city sheriffs early Saturday morning. About 24 hours later, the sheriff’s office shut down another party with more than 550 people in the Bronx. Twenty-eight people — including party organizers, D.J.s and security guards — and two businesses face a variety of charges in connection with the parties, including a failure to protect health and safety in violation of the city’s health code. It was not clear if organizers failed to understand or simply ignored the dangers of large indoor gatherings, given the months of warnings from experts and officials....."
Together, the parties speak to the continuing challenges of keeping the spread of the coronavirus in check, particularly as the winter approaches and people grow tired of restrictions on crowds. That danger is only increasing as the weather cools and several holidays approach says the New York Times.
"Authorities in South Carolina broke up a party where at least 2,000 people were gathered without taking precautions to prevent spreading the coronavirus, fire officials said. The gathering occurred Saturday at an apartment complex during the University of South Carolina’s football game, Columbia Fire Department spokesman Mike DeSumma told The State. Fire department photos show a huge crowd of young people with little evidence of face masks or social distancing. Some people threw bottles at crews as they arrived to answer a medical call, DeSumma said. Sheriff’s deputies and university police helped break up the party after fire officials declared it an imminent danger....."
Looks like bully cops to me.
"As health officials in Washtenaw County, Mich., recorded hundreds of new coronavirus cases in recent weeks, they found a common thread: the University of Michigan campus, where officials have blamed the rising infections on students ignoring coronavirus restrictions. On Tuesday, local health authorities issued an emergency stay-at-home order for the campus in Ann Arbor, Mich., mostly restricting undergraduates to their residences unless they’re getting food, doing an essential job or going to class. Athletics, though, are exempt — meaning that the Wolverines’ football team will keep preparing for a road game in Minnesota on Saturday and an Oct. 31 home opener against rival Michigan State University. Although the Michigan stadium won’t feature a large crowd, some officials worry that the home game will fuel new cases anyway because of Spartan fans who travel to Ann Arbor and Michigan supporters who gather for watch parties....."
Linda Vail, health officer in Ingham County, Mich., which includes MSU’s campus, said Tuesday in a briefing with reporters, “The problem is going to be that people are going to gather, most likely indoors. You’re going to have a lot of indoor gatherings, which could result in another spike in transmissions,” and after the order landed, some students lashed out at classmates for not following bans on large gatherings and mandatory mask rules but at least no football players are sidelined by infections despite the sacking of Liberty at UMass.
Don't let the false positives throw you for a loss. The odds are nothing will happen, and if it does there are contingencies but it is not time to use them yet, and there is enough flexibility remaining in the schedule for the league to proceed — with due caution, of course. The Patriots’ defense was good, but to get a win against the Broncos, it needed to be great and Cam Newton won’t make excuses for the Patriots' loss to the lowly Broncos because they looked like a team that hadn't been able to practice much in the past week and were limited was the Patriots’ offense -- which only underscores the Patriots' lack of help on offense and the fact that they have had to shuffle on offensive line due to injuries.
It's almost as if a spell has been cast over them.
Related:
Billerica football team gets a chance to try new turf field under the lights
MIAA committee recommends there be no official winter postseason events
Because by March, “we’re not going to be allowed to leave [Berkshire County]!”
How fearsome!
Here is a piece of candy to calm you down!
Also see:
Cause of death was, you guessed it, COVID.
No stay of execution for him!
Going to have to looking for a new home with the help of Home Depot and Trump as many renters and homeowners find themselves staring down thousands of dollars in debt despite the fact that the Boston-area housing market was a scorcher in September and extending the eviction moratorium would finish Ralph Gants’s last project before COVID kills us all.
"Health officials are investigating a COVID-19 cluster stemming from a wedding held on Martha’s Vineyard during Columbus Day weekend, the first such cluster on the island. A total of nine people have now tested positive following the wedding, said Tisbury Health Agent Maura Valley. The Island Boards of Health initially learned of the cluster when a wedding guest tested positive for the virus on Oct. 20, Valley said in a telephone interview Wednesday. Contact tracing led them to the other cases, she said. Seven of the nine people who have tested positive for the virus tested positive on the island, Valley said. Of the nine who tested positive, five were workers at the Oct. 11 wedding and four were guests, including two people who tested positive off-island. “Although this outbreak is unfortunate, the wedding is only one of many public gatherings held on the Island and should also serve as a reminder that we must remain vigilant in observing COVID safety guidelines,” a statement from the Island Boards of Health released Tuesday read. Of the seven cases on the island, two people have been released from isolation, Valley said....."
Should have gotten married in Maine instead of on Martha’s Vineyard, and what is with all the needles outside?
"Mass. hospitals better prepared for a second virus surge; ‘We still face some pretty significant challenges,’ said one hospital system head. Chief among them: people’s behavior over the holidays" by Priyanka Dayal McCluskey Globe Staff, November 14, 2020
Massachusetts hospitals are bracing for another surge in coronavirus cases, preparing to quickly add beds and ramp up treatment should the number of seriously ill patients soar again as it did last spring.
Doctors and hospital officials are concerned about the growing numbers — hospitalizations in the state have nearly quadrupled since Labor Day — but so far, they don’t expect a sudden crush of patients who require life-saving treatment like last March and April. Around the United States, however, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations hit all-time highs last week, with over 69,000 reported as of Saturday, including more than 13,000 people in intensive care.
COVID case numbers are also spiking again in Massachusetts — 2,841 new cases were confirmed on Saturday, and the state has passed 10,000 deaths in total — but there are important differences from the surge in the spring, and the experience in other parts of the country.
In Massachusetts, the rate of hospitalizations is rising more slowly than the rate of new cases, and more gradually than earlier in the pandemic. The people testing positive now tend to be younger and less likely to require hospitalization and intensive care. The death rate has improved, and because doctors now know more about COVID-19 and how to treat it, patients often recover more quickly and spend less time in hospital beds.
What a "merciless" virus!
The comparison with other parts of the country is complicated, with the differences due at least in part to local restrictions and people’s behavior.
Better put on your waders.
Some states, like Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Wyoming, are experiencing their first major surge and haven’t flattened the upward curve of the outbreak yet. Massachusetts' stay-at-home advisory, restrictions on gatherings, and closures of bars and indoor spaces are more stringent than in most other locales, and Massachusetts residents appear to be better at adhering to public health recommendations to wear masks and maintain distance from others, helping to keep transmission of the virus here below the levels now seen in many other states, hospital and state officials say.
Do you like it when the tyrants stroke you?
Local hospital leaders have been preparing for a second surge for months, and they’re more confident going into the winter now that they’ve had experience with COVID-19 and time to stock up on protective gear, medical equipment, test kits, and drugs.
Reading this is literally making me sick.
“We are stronger now than we were then because of fighting through that first wave,” said Dr. Kevin Tabb, chief executive of the Beth Israel Lahey Health hospital system, “but I don’t want to sugarcoat it: We still face some pretty significant challenges. The burden of responding to COVID is monumental for the people that do it on a daily basis.”
Dr. Paul Biddinger, head of emergency preparedness at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Mass General Brigham hospital system, said internal models predict a modest rise in hospitalizations, not the sharp climb seen in the spring. The models don’t yet indicate exactly when the next peak will occur, or how big it will be, but the increase in hospitalizations should remain slow and steady if people continue wearing masks and keeping distance from others.
They are still basing decisions on the wildly inaccurate models?
F**king CRIMINALS!
“We hope that a second surge will be less than what we went through in the first — ideally, dramatically less, but that requires us all to continue to follow restrictions," Biddinger said. “What we are all afraid of is changes in public behavior over the holidays, especially because of Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, [and] there are lots of people who are indoors with families, without masks," he said. "That really is a very significant risk for substantially changing community transmission, which would really accelerate the surge that we’ve seen.”
This really is getting sickening, and they can f**k off.
For now, hospitals are not planning widespread cancellation of routine appointments and procedures to make room for COVID-19 patients as they did in the spring, under direction from the state. Governor Charlie Baker said last week that state officials are “doing everything in our power to avoid that scenario happening again.”
Who in the world would want to go to hospital now?
After a lull in COVID-19 cases over the summer, hospital leaders have resumed regular communication with one another, and say that if cases rise precipitously again, they will work to balance the burden across Boston and the state so that no single hospital becomes overwhelmed.
Keep them the f**k out of my town and county.
If needed, they say, they again can add ICU beds and redeploy doctors and nurses. State officials also are planning to set up new field hospitals, as they did earlier this year to manage the potential strain on the health care system. The first will be at the DCU Center in Worcester, which functioned as a field hospital in the spring, and will be available for patients again the first week in December.
That "strain" never came, and you are being told the same lie again!
The camps are being constructed because the 5G is about to be turned on and COVID symptoms are eerily similar to radiation sickness!
Another big change: This time as cases rise, an effective vaccine may be in sight — and distribution could begin in time to combat the winter surge, said Dr. Eric Dickson, chief executive of UMass Memorial Health Care, which was a test site for the Pfizer vaccine candidate.
“It’s this race to keep the transmission rate low enough that we can manage the care while we work to get the vaccine done," Dickson said. “I think we’ll be vaccinating people in January."
Whether they need it or not!
Massachusetts hospitals also have spent the past several months building up their stores of personal protective equipment and are not as desperate for masks and other supplies as they were in the spring — though health care facilities in other states are scrambling to find enough protective gear.....
That was it for me, and yeah, “for the most part I'm tired” of the Globe's contradictory bullshit and lies!
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Time to lockdown again:
"With cases rising, is Massachusetts avoiding a lockdown because it doesn’t have to, or can’t afford to?
In Europe, robust stimulus plans are softening the blow of wider lockdowns. The United States has no such backstop" by Tim Logan and Shirley Leung Globe Staff and Globe Columnist, November 13, 2020
Just a few weeks ago, much of Europe was where Massachusetts is now in responding to a resurgent virus, restricting some but not all business activity in the hopes that those regulations would be enough to contain infections.
They were not, and now countries from Ireland to Italy, England to Germany, have closed up much of their economies, a hard but effective step that is starting to slow the spread in Europe. It could prove even harder in the United States.
But they are playing football anyway!
The key difference is that European countries have backed up their more stringent closures with stimulus spending that softens the blow on workers and the economy. In the United States, similar programs kept the economy afloat in the spring and summer, but their absence now is robbing governors such as Charlie Baker and local mayors of a crucial backstop for the day when they may have to directly confront the question of a harsh lockdown.
OMFG!!!!
As if that money belongs to them!
$crew you, Globe!
As the number of new infections has mounted, Baker has struck an increasingly ominous tone, but he has so far stopped short of tightening the restrictions that he rolled out in early November, which include curfews, early closings for restaurants, and smaller indoor gatherings.
Now shutting down is no longer shutting down according to the Globe!
The seven-day average of new cases in Massachusetts is higher per capita than in Germany, but below the US national average and lower than that of other European countries — about half that of Italy, for example, according to data tracked by Applied XL and Stat. Still, the spike in cases is approaching those seen during the first peak of the virus in the spring, with new infections well over 2,000 a day over the past week.
Many experts fear the coming winter and holiday celebrations could quicken the spread even more, and they’ve stepped up their responses. On Monday in New York City, for example, Mayor Bill de Blasio was warning of widespread restrictions if a resurgence in cases is not brought under control. By Friday, governors from Vermont’s Phil Scott to New Mexico’s Michelle Lujan Grisham were announcing new restrictions to stop COVID’s spread.
Yeah, the $atani$ts in charge and their political minions don't want any joy of any kind while others are resisting.
Still, most officials here are loath to lock down again with the state’s economy just barely treading water: In Massachusetts alone, hundreds of thousands of people remain out of work, and industries from restaurants to hotels to tourism are seeing little sign of a rebound.
The reality, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a professor of economics and public policy at Northeastern University, is that businesses won’t really bounce back until the virus gets knocked down, and that could be an argument to take another hit, hopefully for just a few weeks, and shut down more fully.....
We were told two weeks to flatten the curve and spare the health system, and the false promises from these fucks never end!
In fact, things only seem to get worse despite their efforts if this slop is to be believed!
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Related:
"As COVID-19 cases have risen in Massachusetts and around the country, a public still hearing the echo of “flatten the curve” has begun bracing for — and dreading — a potential wintertime shutdown. So far, though, elected officials, including Governor Charlie Baker, have largely resisted saying if they would issue a new round of stay-at-home orders, and, increasingly, public health experts say they might not need to....."
Now roll up your sleeve:
"Missing from state plans to distribute the coronavirus vaccine: money to do it" by Abby Goodnough and Sheila Kaplan New York Times, November 15, 2020
With the prospect that a coronavirus vaccine will become available for emergency use as soon as next month, states and cities are warning that distributing the shots to an anxious public could be hindered by inadequate technology, severe funding shortfalls and a lack of trained personnel.
Good.
While the Trump administration has showered billions of dollars on the companies developing the vaccines, it has left the logistics of inoculating and tracking as many as 20 million people by year’s end — and many tens of millions more next year — largely to local governments without providing enough money, officials in several localities and public health experts involved in the preparations said in interviews.
Public health departments, already strained by a pandemic that has overrun hospitals and drained budgets, are racing to expand online systems to track and share information about who has been vaccinated; to recruit and train hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses and pharmacists to give people the shot and collect data about everyone who gets it; to find safe locations for mass vaccination events; and to convince the public of the importance of getting immunized.
They are ramping up the terror and f**k off, you fa$ci$ts!
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have sent $200 million to the states for the effort, with another $140 million promised in December, but state and local officials said that was billions of dollars short of what would be needed to carry out their complex plans.
“We absolutely do not have enough to pull this off successfully,” said Dr. Thomas E. Dobbs III, the state health officer of Mississippi. “This is going to be a phenomenal logistical feat, to vaccinate everybody in the country. We absolutely have zero margin for failure. We really have to get this right.”
Health departments have asked Congress for at least $8.4 billion more for “a timely, comprehensive, and equitable vaccine distribution campaign”; the CDC director, Dr. Robert Redfield, has said that at least $6 billion is needed, but negotiations for further funding are caught up in the stalemate between House Democrats and the Trump administration over the coronavirus stimulus bill.
“There’s a lot of anxiety,” said Rebecca Coyle, executive director of the American Immunization Registry Association, which has been helping states prepare. “I don’t think we are ready today.”
Congress has allocated $10 billion to Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort subsidizing vaccine companies’ clinical trials and manufacturing costs. Dr. Mandy Cohen, the secretary of health and human services in North Carolina, said her state had received just $6 million for distributing and promoting the shot. She expects $3 million more by the end of the year and called the money “a down payment” for what is likely to be $30 million worth of work over the first year of vaccine distribution.
Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that more than anything, insufficient funding would slow the rate of vaccination, particularly among disadvantaged populations that are harder to reach.
“The speed at which we vaccinate the population in Maine is directly dependent on the funding,” he said. “We will still get the job done, but it will take longer if I can’t train the people to give it.”
There are myriad other costs too — including, Shah noted, paying for secure convoys to transport the vaccine once it gets to states. “We can’t just throw it into Bob’s pickup truck and drive it down the road,” he said.
One official working on distribution plans at the CDC, who did not have authorization to speak publicly, said the slow drip of money had made it difficult for states to carry out plans and to hire for vaccine-related jobs. “It’s unfortunate and inefficient to do it this way,” the official said.
Preliminary plans that almost every state has shared with the CDC offer a glimpse of urgent preparations for a mass vaccination campaign larger than the United States has never seen. Although the vaccine will be available to only a very small slice of Americans at first, probably starting with health care workers, access could expand rapidly over the first half of 2021.
They had them on the shelf, and the time to kill is fast approaching.
Michigan is enlisting pharmacies to tell their customers with chronic conditions — like diabetes, asthma and high blood pressure — about the vaccine, as they will be prioritized to get it. Tennessee is recruiting more than 1,000 volunteer doctors and nurses to help administer the vaccine initially. Nebraska is making plans to promote it on gas station video screens and in robocalls. New Hampshire — the only state without an online immunization registry — is scrambling to build one to track which residents have received the shot and to report the information to the CDC.
The first vaccine that is likely to be authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, made by Pfizer, comes with especially daunting logistical challenges, including the fact that every recipient will need a booster shot three weeks after the initial dose. Keeping track of which people need the follow-up dose, and getting them to return for it, are among the steepest hurdles that public health officials face. So is a requirement that providers report, for every dose administered, demographic and other data to their state within 24 hours; states, in turn, will quickly report it to the CDC.
A new federal platform, called the Immunization Gateway, aims to connect state vaccine registries so they can share information with one another — for example, if someone gets an initial coronavirus vaccine in New York and then goes to Florida for the winter, a doctor there can look up that person’s first dose information in order to give the correct second dose, but most registries have not yet connected to the platform. Between that and another new federal platform to track vaccines, public health officials are haunted by the spectacular crash of HealthCare.gov, the federal online insurance marketplace set up under the Affordable Care Act, when it went live in 2013 after being finished in a rush.
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To ease the burden on health departments, the federal government is contracting with CVS and Walgreens pharmacies to vaccinate residents of nursing homes and other long-term-care centers around the country, but it could be difficult to reach those in isolated regions, and some might opt out of the program. Last week, the administration announced it would contract with pharmacies across the nation to provide the vaccine generally, as they do with flu shots, once supplies of it increase next year.
Will we have that option?
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Yeah, we “need a vaccine, now.”
Related:
The findings suggest the state should take more dramatic steps to stop the spread of the virus by temporarily halting indoor dining and closing gyms, because imploring residents to avoid large gatherings won’t be enough to keep them healthy, one of the researchers said Saturday.
Yeah, the tyranny is for your own good!
Now go protest or celebrate Biden's alleged win.
Their virus rate in schools is below the closing line for now, and before leaving the state I once again call on the State Police to arrest and imprison the a$$hole governor. There has to be at least one good cop still on the force. They can either put him under house arrest or confine him to a hotel where they can take their chances going to great lengths to get guests through the doors in a bid to salvage a historically bad year for the industry while we get a new one.
{@@##$$%%^^&&}
Time to head north:
"Citing COVID spike, Vermont governor closes bars, bans multi-household gatherings" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, November 13, 2020
They are going to "tighten the screws" in Vermont.
In a dramatic escalation in the fight against COVID-19, Governor Phil Scott of Vermont on Friday issued an executive order closing bars and clubs and banning multi-household gatherings of any size, telling reporters the surge across the country is “exploding” and “coming to our doorstep.”
Scott announced the strict new order during a news conference, adding that restaurants will have to close at 10 p.m. for dine-in service, all recreational sports except “school-sponsored sports activities” will be suspended, and college students returning home will have to quarantine for a minimum of seven days.
That means they are KIDNAPPING the KIDS!
If I were you I would NEVER COME BACK, kiddo!
“We continue to see a rise in cases,” said Scott, a Republican, “which is concerning to all of us.”
Proving there are tyrants in both parties.
It was a striking reversal for a state that had fared far better than the rest of New England since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in the spring. Month after month, the numbers in Vermont looked far rosier than in Massachusetts, where Boston and other cities were hit hard early.
The Green Mountain State seemed like an oasis to outsiders, many of whom reportedly descended on Vermont from neighboring states and bought properties for safe harbor during the pandemic, but the surge of cases sweeping the country seems to have finally made its way to Vermont, which at one point this summer enjoyed a 43-day stretch with no deaths from the virus. The contagion, federal statistics show, has spread far more rapidly in Vermont in recent weeks.
That's according to the state’s seven-day moving average of new cases, which at this point is arguable given the flawed and faulty tests, 90% false positives on-infectious cases, and I get sick of repeating myself.
All these politicians spewing these distorted or simulated "cases" -- remember when it was two weeks to flatten the curve that never came and now it's nearly nine months later -- are f**king criminals who should hung for treason.
Clusters and outbreaks have been linked to private social gatherings including baby showers, tailgate parties, barbecues, and other multi-household events, and the state is “at a tipping point," Scott said, stressing that “we still have an opportunity” to stanch the “alarming case growth.”
On Thursday, the state Department of Health said anyone who attended two Halloween parties on Oct. 31 in Marshfield, Vt. and Milton Vt. should get tested for COVID-19; it requested the same for anyone who participated in bowling league games at Spare Time in Colchester, Vt. on Nov. 4 and Nov. 5.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine urged Vermont residents to wear face coverings, practice physical distancing, stay home if they feel sick, avoid non-essential travel, and cooperate with contact tracers if they call.....
NOPE.
--more--"
Time to turn east?
The border war between Massachusetts and New Hampshire over housebound commuters' payroll taxes intensified on Friday when Governor Chris Sununu declared that his administration would challenge the Baker administration in federal court.
Can't head south in either direction:
Related:
Looks like another cull is underway.
Time to put this post on ice:
I'm told “hockey is a game that could facilitate transmission of COVID-19 for several reasons. It’s played indoors, the plexiglass shields around the rink limit ventilation, and the exertion of the players mean they are breathing heavily while close to each other — either during play or on the bench, and also in the locker rooms,” said Dr. Paul Sax, clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The Vermont Department of Health is investigating an outbreak among members of youth and adult recreational hockey and broomball teams playing at a facility in Montpelier....."
Yeah, never mind the face shields, gloves, and other equipment they are wearing and the lack of positive tests during the sham NHL playoffs as I am waiting for a whistle:
"A hockey referee who tested positive for COVID-19 may have exposed of hundreds of people at games he officiated last weekend in Maine and New Hampshire, a public health official said Thursday. Dr. Nirav D. Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, disclosed the information during his regular remote briefing with reporters. Shah said the referee, whom he didn’t name, officiated eight games Saturday and Sunday. The games were played at the Biddeford Ice Arena in Biddeford, Maine; North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, Maine; and Merrill Faye Arena in Laconia, N.H He said the referee’s Biddeford games were played at 8:35 a.m. and 10:05 a.m. Saturday, and Sunday games were played at 7:40 a.m., 9:20 a.m., 11 a.m., and 1 p.m. The official’s North Yarmouth Academy games were played Sunday between 6:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m., and the single Laconia game started at 5:45 p.m. Saturday, according to Shah. “If you or a family member was on the ice for one of these games, you should consider yourself a close contact of someone who has COVID-19,” quarantine for 14 days and also get tested, he said."
It was COVID that killed Travis Roy, hockey player, son, and friend.
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The Globe is of the idea that we should cancel Thanksgiving this year because it is stressful enough even if a scaled down version is no huge loss and you don't get to see your Aunt Lorraine.
All I am going to say is UN-F**KING-REAL!
The Globe says COVID-19 is putting a damper on Christmas during this pandemic winter, but maybe this will warm you up:
"Rudolph and his still-shiny nose are getting a new home, and it’s bound to be a lot nicer than the Island of Misfit Toys. The soaring reindeer and Santa Claus figures who starred in in the perennially beloved stop-motion animation Christmas special “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” are going up for auction. Auction house Profiles in History announced Thursday that a 6-inch-tall Rudolph and 11-inch-tall Santa used to animate the 1964 TV special are being sold together in the auction that starts Nov. 13 and are expected to fetch between $150,000 and $250,000."
That's what the Globe Santa is planning on buying you this holiday season?
One could say Trump's removal via vote fraud is an early Christmas present for the Globe.
