SARS-2-CoV (COVID-19)

[xsubsailor]

I guess I need to start watching the local news again. When did this happen ?

Additionally, the state of Tennessee issued new quarantine guidance for household contacts of a positive person. The household contact’s 14-day quarantine period will not begin until the positive person in the household has completed their minimum 10-day isolation. The Hamilton County Health Department updated their policy on the date the State issued the guidance.

This new guideline means household contacts will often need to stay home for a minimum of 24 days, depending on onset of symptoms, which could extend the quarantine period longer. It is imperative to follow this guidance closely as the virus can be incubating during this time frame, said officials. Leaving quarantine too soon can result in the spread of COVID-19

 

https://www.chattanoogan.com/2020/8/18/413760/Hamilton-County-Has-1-More-Coronavirus.aspx

[TGO David]

I received the bad news that a friend from high school passed due to COVID-19 this morning.  She and her brother were twins, her being the oldest by a few minutes.

[Chucktshoes]

3 minutes ago, TGO David said:

I received the bad news that a friend from high school passed due to COVID-19 this morning.  She and her brother were twins, her being the oldest by a few minutes.

Sorry to hear that. My condolences. 

Edited August 19, 2020 by Chucktshoes

[E4 No More]

2 minutes ago, TGO David said:

I received the bad news that a friend from high school passed due to COVID-19 this morning.  She and her brother were twins, her being the oldest by a few minutes.

Sorry to hear that. Kudos that you'd keep a friend that long. When I left high school I wanted to forget everything about it.

[Oh Shoot]

TN average daily deaths (updated 2PM daily):

March (over last 11 days of month starting 3/21 with first death) 2.0
April 5.8
May 5.3
June 8.0
July 14.7
Aug through 8/19   20.6

- OS

[hipower]

5 hours ago, E4 No More said:

Sorry to hear that. Kudos that you'd keep a friend that long. When I left high school I wanted to forget everything about it.

When I left high school, I felt the same way. Wasn't part of any popular group and really didn't fit in. My folks were just blue collar workers and I didn't make the cut. 

I started to do a public FO! to them all, but some semblance of sense came in and stopped me from doing it.

Some 30 years later, I ran into a few of them and started a conversation. I won't say we became instant buds, but I have managed to get a few good people I can talk with from that group now.

Even giving some thought to moving back to that little community. My remaining family is there, and my wife is the last of her family but for her step-mother. Might just happen. If we all survive this current mess.

So sometimes things do change for the better.

[quedz]

On 8/12/2020 at 9:55 PM, jgradyc said:

I take 5,000IU of D3 daily so I'm curious to see my D3 levels. 

@jgradyc   Any surprises?

Edited August 22, 2020 by hughd

[Oh Shoot]

Previous high TN death in a day was on 8/6/20: 42

New record today: 61!

- OS

Edited August 21, 2020 by Oh Shoot
wrong day in date

[Grayfox54]

Glad to report that Shelby County has been on a steady decline in active cases for about a week now. Dropping by as much as 100 or more a day. Current active case count is 3261. Just a week or so ago it was climbing to near 5000. Maybe we've hit the peak. One can only hope. 

Sadly, the death toll continues to rise and now stands at 346. 

[Moped]

Knox  County has lowered their daily count, but it constantly fluctuates. Yesterday there 127, but today it was 47. Deaths continue to rise. We are at 52.

[Oh Shoot]

26 minutes ago, Moped said:

Knox  County has lowered their daily count, but it constantly fluctuates. Yesterday there 127, but today it was 47. Deaths continue to rise. We are at 52.

Students back on campus and Football Time in Tennessee will surely remedy the situation, eh?

- OS

[xsubsailor]

President Trump plans to hold a news conference Sunday evening regarding a potential major therapeutic “breakthrough” for treating the coronavirus.

The president will announce the development at 6 p.m., accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Dr. Stephen Hahn, head of the Food and Drug Administration, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany posted on Twitter late Saturday.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-to-reveal-coronavirus-breakthrough-therapeutic-wh-press-secretary-says

[Moped]

On 8/22/2020 at 12:01 AM, Oh Shoot said:

Students back on campus and Football Time in Tennessee will surely remedy the situation, eh?

- OS

No doubt.

[DaveTN]

2 hours ago, xsubsailor said:

President Trump plans to hold a news conference Sunday evening regarding a potential major therapeutic “breakthrough” for treating the coronavirus.

I hope it is something serious and not just some more "very close" BS. Or a scam to get people to tune in.  But I doubt its anything as big as vaccine, I don’t think anyone could keep that quiet.

 

 

[Oh Shoot]

On 8/21/2020 at 11:33 PM, Moped said:

Knox  County has lowered their daily count, but it constantly fluctuates. Yesterday there 127, but today it was 47. Deaths continue to rise. We are at 52.

According to lastest IHME projection, we're still just getting started statewide, which of course will affect Knox proportionately, and maybe worse just because of UTK.

- OS

[Oh Shoot]

On 8/21/2020 at 5:42 PM, Oh Shoot said:

Previous high TN death in a day was on 8/6/20: 42

New record today: 61!

- OS

TN average daily deaths (updated 2PM daily):

March (over last 11 days of month starting 3/21 with first death) 2.0
April 5.8
May 5.3
June 8.0
July 14.7
Aug through 8/26 : 22.4

Total deaths: 1,648

IHME projection: over 5,000 TN deaths by Dec. 1

- OS

[Chucktshoes]

Their parents must be so proud. 
 

 

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/education/2020/08/27/6-ut-fraternities-and-sororities-have-been-placed-interim-suspension-breaking-covid-19-rules/5644227002/

[peejman]

They're getting every penny's worth of that $100,000 piece of paper. 

[TNMTBik3r]

I've stayed out of this thread until now, but guess it's time to contribute as I have first hand experience with COVID now.....

My wife has several family members in Louisiana and Mississippi who went through COVID over the past few months. My parents and sis.-in-law contacted in it July. They all recovered without issue but the experiences varied.

2+ weeks ago my mother-in-law had out-patient surgery so my wife went over to help clean the house and stuff after (on the 15th). The couple of days leading up to that weekend, MIL was feeling ill but her doctor said the symptoms including out of breathe were due to the tube they had run down her throat. She went back in to see the DR. on that Friday and received a COVID test. My wife arrived Saturday and met her father for lunch, and while at lunch received the call her mother was positive.

My wife didn't go to their house and wasn't around her mother - just came back home. A few days later though her father came down sick, and tested positive. A week later (22nd) my wife started feeling ill and had a fever, and on Sunday had "flu-like" symptoms so she isolated to the bedroom. Tuesday afternoon we received her positive test. She is finally feeling better today but still easily out of breathe and coughing.

All week I stayed away as best as possible except when bringing stuff upstairs to my wife. I slept in my office, took care of both kids, and felt fine. Wednesday I had a headache and a stuffy nose which kind of came and went throughout the day and into Thursday.

Thursday night at dinner I realized I couldn't smell or taste the food. Or smell anything else. Pizza tastes the same as a cookie, water, mt. dew and bourbon all the same....cannot smell ANYTHING we have at the house including candles, Hoppes, etc.

I haven't been tested and don't intend to bother. I am pretty certain I have it though due to the sudden loss of smell and taste coupled with the allergy / sinus infection symptoms but no obvious fever (I can almost always tell) and n coughing or chest congestion.

If it wasn't for the obvious loss of senses, I wouldn't know I was sick. And not able to smell or taste certainly sounds odd (I laughed when my wife first realized she couldn't), but experiencing it yourself is very disconcerting. 

Edited August 29, 2020 by jonathon1289

[peejman]

Glad everyone recovered reasonably, hope you do too. 

[MacGyver]

There president of Meharry Medical posted this study on the mounting evidence for Vitamin D maybe being of help (especially to folks who are older, overweight, or black).

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(20)30268-0/fulltext#.X005agRPJE4.twitter

[Oh Shoot]

TN average daily deaths (updated 2PM daily):

March (over last 11 days of month starting 3/21 with first death) 2.0
April 5.8
May 5.3
June 8.0
July 14.7
Aug 22.5

total deaths 1754

IHME projection for total TN deaths based on current projection scenario by December 1, 2020:  5,926

- OS

[xsubsailor]

You just don't know what to believe anymore  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new report detailing how many COVID-19 deaths in America also involved other underlying health conditions.

According to the report, only 6% of the COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. list COVID-19 as the only cause of death. 94% of COVID-19 deaths involved at least one other underlying health condition, and on average involved "2.6 additional conditions or causes of death."

 

https://disrn.com/news/new-cdc-report-says-94-of-covid-deaths-had-underlying-conditions

[Oh Shoot]

19 minutes ago, xsubsailor said:

You just don't know what to believe anymore  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new report detailing how many COVID-19 deaths in America also involved other underlying health conditions.

According to the report, only 6% of the COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. list COVID-19 as the only cause of death. 94% of COVID-19 deaths involved at least one other underlying health condition, and on average involved "2.6 additional conditions or causes of death."

 

https://disrn.com/news/new-cdc-report-says-94-of-covid-deaths-had-underlying-conditions

That report is like saying that a heart attack is not "the only cause of death" if you also had high blood pressure or were overweight. Or insulin shock not the only cause of death if you of course were diabetic and needed to take the shots in the first place. Lung cancer not the only cause of death if you also smoked. Etc.

It's not only "lying with statistics" but also simply twisting definitional meaning of the language.

Like any number of our critical institutions,  DJT has totally corrupted the CDC, NIH, and FDA.

The movie Idiocracy was overly optimistic.

- OS

 

[Omega]

1 hour ago, Oh Shoot said:

That report is like saying that a heart attack is not "the only cause of death" if you also had high blood pressure or were overweight. Or insulin shock not the only cause of death if you of course were diabetic and needed to take the shots in the first place. Lung cancer not the only cause of death if you also smoked. Etc.

It's not only "lying with statistics" but also simply twisting definitional meaning of the language.

Like any number of our critical institutions,  DJT has totally corrupted the CDC, NIH, and FDA.

The movie Idiocracy was overly optimistic.

- OS

 

Yea, no.  The administration started looking at the numbers and wanted to investigate how numbers were reported, and they decided not to be caught lying, so corrected their data to reflect more realistic data.