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Fox News host slams '''power drunk''' Fauci | The Post Millennial
Fox News host slams '''power drunk''' Fauci | The Post Millennial
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The US just hit a record average of daily new Covid-19 cases
The US hit a seven-day average of 254,496 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University data -- blowing past the country's previous record of about 251,989 daily cases, reported on January 11.
The record comes amid a rapid acceleration of infections that the US -- and the rest of the world -- has seen since last month.
Tuesday's seven-day average is still in progress and may rise when the day ends.
And experts predict that the Omicron variant -- the most contagious strain of coronavirus yet -- is going to make the start of 2022 very difficult.
"January is going to be a really, really hard month. And people should just brace themselves for a month where lots of people are going to get infected," said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health.
Medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner believes the US could "see half a million cases a day -- easy -- sometime over the next week to 10 days."
Most people who are vaccinated and boosted won't get severe illness, but that won't be true for the unvaccinated, Jha said.
"A lot of people who have not gotten a vaccine are going to end up getting pretty sick, and it's going to be pretty disruptive," Jha said. "My hope is as we get into February and certainly by the time we get into March, infection numbers will come way down, and it'll also start getting (into) spring, and the weather will start getting better. And that will also help."
Despite calls from experts for Americans to get their vaccines and boosters, the rate of booster doses getting administered has fallen in recent weeks -- while only 32.7% of the country's fully vaccinated population is boosted.
In addition to getting vaccinated and boosted, people can protect themselves by taking precautions in public, Jha said.
"I would urge people to wear a higher quality mask any time they're in a place with lots of people and they're going to be indoors for any extended period of time," Jha said.
A surgical mask might be fine for a quick grocery store trip in an empty store, but for other events, a well-fitting N95 or KF94 mask provides better protection, he said.
Looking ahead to New Year's Eve on Friday, small gatherings of fully vaccinated people will be safe, Dr. Anthony Fauci said. But people should avoid large parties where they don't know the vaccination status of all guests, he said.
"When you are talking about a New Year's Eve party where you have 30, 40, 50 people celebrating, you do not know the status of the vaccination, I would recommend strongly: Stay away from that this year," said Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"There will be other years to do that. But not this year."
Pediatric hospitalizations nearing previous record
Holiday gatherings, like those over Christmas and New Year's, have some health care workers worried about the impact on children in the coming weeks -- especially those who are too young to be vaccinated.
"We've just had all of these kids mixing together with everybody else during Christmas," said Dr. Claudia Hoyen, the director of pediatric infection control at UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Ohio.
"We have one more holiday to get through with New Year's, and then we'll be sending everybody back to school. Everybody is kind of waiting on the edge, wondering what we'll end up seeing."
Nationwide, pediatric Covid-19 hospitalizations are nearing the record high set in September.
On average, roughly 305 children were admitted to the hospital with Covid-19 on any given day over the week that ended December 26, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Department of Health and Human Services.
That's more than a 48% jump from the previous week's average and just 10.7% lower than the peak average of 342 children who were admitted to hospitals with the virus that was recorded at the end of August and early September.
In New York City, where cases are surging and the average percent positivity rate is continuing to trend upward, pediatric hospitalizations increased five-fold over a three-week period.
In Chicago, hospitalizations at one children's hospital have quadrupled. At Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, close to half the Covid-19 tests are coming back positive.
At Texas Children's Pediatrics & Urgent Care in Houston, the chief medical officer is concerned about the current surge, he said.
"What's concerning on the (pediatric) side is that, unlike the adults -- where they're reporting for the number of adults getting infected relatively low numbers getting hospitalized -- what we're really seeing, we think, is an increasing number of kids being hospitalized," Dr. Stanley Spinner said.
Children are an easy target for the virus, said Dr. Juan Salazar, physician in chief at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford.
"It's affecting larger communities and it's certainly affecting children in a way that we hadn't seen before," he said. "And that's new compared to last year."
CDC updates isolation guidelines
Days after updating its guidance on isolation time for health care workers who test positive for Covid-19, the CDC updated its guidance for the general population.
The agency shortened the recommended time for isolation for people with Covid-19 to five days, if asymptomatic, followed by five days of wearing a mask when around others. The prior guidance advised 10 days of isolation.
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Fucking ROLLING STONE rag?
You couldn't find one from VOX as back up?
Can you say fake news on the rape story from UVA?
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I don't care of someone wants to take the experimental shot.
Just don't mandate it for me or keep me from working without it.
MMR and those shots are indeed vaccines that were needed.
This crap we don't need.
Our kids should NEVER be getting the shot when the normal flu is more deadly for them.
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Child hospitalizations are surging in this Chicago hospital. Only one of the young patients was fully vaccinated, doctor saysComment
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Most of the child hospitalizations in chicago are due to gunshots. Every morning on the news we get the new overnight tally. They are not doing shit about it. Every day and night there skyrocketing highway shootings. They say that the murder rate would be many times worse than it is because doctors have more technology now compared to years ago and they are able to save most of them.Comment
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Biden says Covid surge needs to be solved at state level, vows full federal supportComment
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Since the beginning of December, the number of new COVID-19 cases in Florida has jumped.
"Florida has had a 228% increase in cases ... At the beginning of the month, we saw just under 10,000 cases in an entire week, and over the past four days alone, we've seen 36,000 cases," said Dr. Jason Salemi, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Southern Florida.
Researchers at the University of Florida released a model that projects the omicron variant will lead to 40,000 new cases a day in Florida by its February peak. That's around 75% higher than what the state saw during the peak of the delta variant.Comment
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