Aaaaannnnd, that would be me, my husband, and our two daughters.
Yeah, what is up with that? Is it common to test positive 7 weeks after first diagnosis, but without symptoms? The autopsy confirmed no pneumonia.
@jym626 - I believe George Floyd tested positive on April 1. Highly unlikely that he’d still be contagious. The autopsy finding may have been caused by RNA fragments. Not sure how that happens but I’ve heard it talked about on TWiV a few times.
Of course, poetic justice would be fine with me but it’s rarely that neat.
@suteiki77 - yes, the NY Times article references the earlier Chinese study. I remember the Chinese study finding that type O blood was somewhat protective too.
Hastings Law school in SF has filed suit against the city. The conditions in the tenderloin area have deteriorated rapidly since COVID. Not that the area has been anything but grungy for decades.
https://www.uchastings.edu/2020/05/04/uch-lawsuit-over-tenderloin-conditions/
Suit also relies on violation of ADA laws - impassability of sidewalks, danger to health and safety.
Yesterday I posted about a possible suit against the city of Santa Cruz for violation of ADA law in it’s closure of beaches and the need to be recreating during open hours.
Maybe a pattern is emerging and ADA will be the hammer with which cities are pummeled into behavior changes.
LA has plenty of testing sites for residents available at no charge. (of course, they have all been closed due to the protests.)
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In this new version of COVID-KD associated with previous exposure to the coronavirus, children of African descent were over-represented. This was true in the U.K. and in U.S. cities heavily affected by the pandemic.
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This comment gives me no reason to believe that children of African descent are genetically more susceptible to this syndrome. Both in the UK and US, people of African descent are vastly much more likely to be infected. It could be that African-American kids, e.g., are more likely to get covid Kawasaki because they’re more likely to live with a low-income worker who brought covid home.
OH now allows gatherings of up to 300 people.
Is 300 a new change today? Or does it refer to banquet facilities that may operate like restaurants maintaining 6 feet between tables with no congregate areas like dance floors for wedding receptions, etc?
https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/static/responsible/Restaurants-and-Bars.pdf
The 300 is for events like weddings…in Ohio.
The problem is…most people who had planned events like this of 300 people or so for June, July and August have already postponed or canceled their events. These catering and event facilities are really having financial issues.
And yes, the social distancing still applies. My understanding from those in the business…no appetizers, no dancing, tables spread apart, etc. They aren’t sure how that’s all going to work.
Excuses, excuses.
More than enough people at the lock down protests to be a super spreader event.
And the Floyd protesters were mostly young people, unlike the lockdown protesters. They aren’t at risk so nothing to worry about. Or they’ll have a mild case. Nothing to worry about.
So what if a bunch of young people are out at bars, or in a big pool bar. They aren’t at risk. No masks, so what. Masks don’t work. I’m not wearing a mask because some bozo public health official or my Governor says I have to.
Social distancing is so yesterday.
I’m invincible.
Looks like the Lake of the Ozarks pool party on Memorial Day did not lead to more cases. Per St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Had no idea he tested + April 3. Found this on an NPR link:
@Nrdsb4 My husband, myself and both D’s are also A blood type!
If that holds, that’s great news. As would be if the masked clients of the masked symptomatic hair stylists keep testing negative. It would give some good information about the efficacy of masks and the likelihood of spreading COVID outside, or at least outside in hot sunny weather.
I don’t think anyone on this thread ever claimed a properly fit tested N95 mask doesn’t provide substantial protection from the virus.
All before the protests started.
“But recent weeks have seen counties push back on the orders, in some cases reopening sections of the economy in defiance of orders from Gavin Newsom, California’s governor.
“David Eisenman, the director of the Center for Public Health and Disasters at UCLA, said some of the rise was to be expected as counties accelerate plans to reopen and warm weather draws Californians to beaches and parks. An increase in testing, too, could play a role.”
“It’s not terribly surprising, given the timing. It’s to be expected as more people are moving and interacting in the community,” said Eisenman.”
“But he said it was impossible to pinpoint which factors are most directly responsible for the rise – especially in the weeks ahead, when cases of people who have attended mass protests could show up.”
“The state’s overall increase masks local flare-ups, including an outbreak in southern California’s Imperial county that’s seen nearly 900 new cases and 11 new deaths in the past two weeks.”
“The Imperial Valley has a horrendous outbreak going on right now,” Dr George Rutherford, UC San Francisco epidemiologist and infectious diseases expert told the Los Angeles Times.”
“In southern California, home to most of the state’s cases, Los Angeles county tallied almost 10,000 cases just last week, including a single-day record of 2,050 cases, according to data from the state’s public health department.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/03/california-covid-19-cases-rise-reopen-protest
I am almost 64 years old and the only time I’ve had the flu was in 1968 and guess where I got it, yep, Hong Kong! I vowed I’d do anything to never be that sick again! This was in reply to a very early post, don’t know where this will show up on the thread
It’s equally comical in the other direction. Surely, the people most opposed to even a gradual re-opening, such as you and katliamom, should be vehemently opposed to the protests and horrified by the selfish behavior of the protesters who aren’t social distancing.
Those California numbers are pretty meaningless without information about percentages of positive. I know in late May I was reading about spikes but then read that percentages of positive cases were falling. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/21/coronavirus-more-new-cases-than-ever-in-california-but-theres-an-easy-explanation/
I have no idea if this is still true but don’t know why these articles think raw numbers are important.