Coronavirus 2019-nCoV

[ShockerFever]

Sedgwick County specifically, is exploding with hospitalizations at the moment. Very good time to stay home.

I’ve been told a large majority of those new hospitalizations are from patients coming from rural areas in western Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Not that it helps with the lack of ICU beds, but just stating a fact.

[Kung Wu]

I’ve been told a large majority of those new hospitalizations are from patients coming from rural areas in western Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Not that it helps with the lack of ICU beds, but just stating a fact.

Yes (not sure if it's majority but there has been an influx of out of towners). This is the first time I have felt its time to shut the schools down. But the crying wolf syndrome we created has exhausted everyone's patience and resources when they really need them the most. We shut down way too early and now we're gonna pay for it.

[C0|dB|00ded]

Yes (not sure if it's majority but there has been an influx of out of towners). This is the first time I have felt its time to shut the schools down. But the crying wolf syndrome we created has exhausted everyone's patience and resources when they really need them the most. We shut down way too early and now we're gonna pay for it.

Fauci: 'If it looks like you're overreacting, you're probably doing the right thing'

I spend a decent amount of time in downtown Wichita and I have been hearing nonstop sirens for days now.

It's likely too late to avoid what is to come my friend. We needed to bridge the gap with steady leadership and intense government contact tracing/testing until we had the vaccine circulating through society. There are two spikes when you lock down: the typical community spread and what I call the inter-family spread.

The early shutdown was correct and stifled spread. The follow up should have been national unity and 100% mask mandates across the country with continual positive education about how the community will solve this problem if we all work together + the necessary punitive measures for deniers.

Late and subsequent shutdowns are only necessary (and have a much lower risk/reward) when the country becomes too laxed in their infection-limiting behavior. You likely won't see large outbreaks in the countries that have done so well thus far. They have the community engaged and an iron fist standing by the moment somebody decides they don't believe in the dumb ol' Coronavirus.

[ShockerFever]

It’s spectacular that a country of 1 billion people at the virus’s original epicenter has had about 1000 cases since March. Totally legit.

[C0|dB|00ded]

What in the HELL happened in Kansas yesterday? 80 deaths? If we start seeing numbers like this in a state w/ 3M population, this country is in for a world of hurt.

[pinstripers]

Should have ended tuesday

[wufan]

She's 20 years old.

She was Covid positive.

Covid causes very unusual clotting.

You're right, she probably died of high cholesterol.

PS. Covid-19 is real. The election is over. You can stop pretending like it isn't. The Dims have nothing to gain by padding the numbers now.

P.P.S. That sound you just heard is the sound of all your conspiracy theories crashing down around you. Don't be frightened. You're free now and your family is safer because of it.

The clotting is not unusual. It is a symptom. It sometimes leads to death, but unusual, it is not.

[wufan]

My mom, two aunts, two uncles, two cousins and grandmother all got Covid this week. They were together for a reunion around my grandfathers death (anniversary not funeral). So far everyone is doing okay.

[wufan]

Four of my chemists and two of techs got Covid this last week. So far everyone is doing okay.

[Shockm]

My mom, two aunts, two uncles, two cousins and grandmother all got Covid this week. They were together for a reunion around my grandfathers death (anniversary not funeral). So far everyone is doing okay.

But they weren’t 20, and your uncles weren’t female, so it’s not the same.

[ShockerFever]

What in the HELL happened in Kansas yesterday? 80 deaths? If we start seeing numbers like this in a state w/ 3M population, this country is in for a world of hurt.

In case you haven’t noticed, Kansas reports like every other day or every two days. An increase for sure, but the 7-day rolling average is at 20.

There have been a lot of nursing home clusters again.

But yes, panic away.

[Shockm]

It appears that a possible Covid cluster has seeped into City Hall, our Commission, and City Manager. How much is unknown at this time. I hope it isn't because of carelessness and not wearing the masks they have imposed on all of us. I skeptical if this cluster will be listed in the newspaper when they publish the County wide clusters. I hope everyone is making gains toward health.

[1979Shocker]

Coronavirus: The lost six weeks when US failed to contain outbreak - BBC News

[C0|dB|00ded]

The clotting is not unusual. It is a symptom. It sometimes leads to death, but unusual, it is not.

https://www.wsaw.com/2020/10/27/critical-care-doctors-seeing-more-blood-clotting-after-covid-19-acute-illness/

Critical care doctors seeing more blood clotting after COVID-19 acute illness

“I had a patient who recovered very well from his pneumonia, went home, and then about a week or to 10 days later, developed a pulmonary embolism, had to be readmitted, treated and now he’s doing well, but that’s a pretty common scenario,” Dr. Lahren recalled.

He and Dr. Deb Mojumder, a neurologist in the same unit, are seeing an increase in strokes too.

“Many of them I see have significant risk factors for stroke," Dr. Mojumder stated. "So the question is, is it because of a clotting disorder that is caused by coronavirus, or is it just because of the risk factors?”

While he said that answer is hard to determine right now, he has been seeing some unusual stroke cases in people who have had COVID-19. He said one of his patients who was intubated for a long time was found to have had two strokes in the same area of the brain, which is not typical. He compared it to lightning striking twice in the same area.

"Which kind of suggests there is something unusual going on in the clotting mechanism or maybe the coronavirus is causing some inflammation conditions in the blood vessels,” he suggested.

“Since this is a new disease that nobody knew about 10 months ago, we’re learning every day about what to do for treatment, about what’s the best way to handle these patients," Dr. Lahren said referring to learning about the blood clotting commonality. "We’re learning that we have to anticoagulate (sic) them more aggressively and longer than we would normally do for someone who is critically ill.”

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-blood-clot-in-artery-stent-procedure-ttsh-13273058

Doctors from TTSH successfully treat 'unusual case' of blood clot in artery of COVID-19 patient

Doctors at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) have successfully treated a COVID-19 patient who developed a blood clot in the aorta and was at risk of losing his toes or leg. The medical team later became the first in the world to publish research on the topic.

The patient, a 39-year-old Bangladeshi worker who was hospitalised in May, was “a bit of an unusual case”, with a blood clot in his thoracoabdominal aorta, said TTSH head of general surgery Adjunct Assistant Professor Glenn Tan on Tuesday (Oct 13).

The thoracoabdominal aorta extends from the chest to the abdomen and is part of the aorta, which is the biggest artery in the body.

Developing a blood clot in the aorta is unusual because the blood flow in the aorta is typically very high as it comes straight from the heart, said Dr Tan, who was the presiding surgeon.

Blood clots have caused complications in other COVID-19 patients. In June, a 41-year-old man died from a blood clot in an artery in his lungs, two weeks after he recovered from the virus and was discharged.

In May, the Ministry of Health issued an advisory to all doctors to be “watchful” for possible cardiovascular issues in COVID-19 patients.

Noting that about one in 1,000 COVID-19 cases in Singapore experienced “cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks and blood clots”, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said doctors should take extra precautions.

When the COVID-19 pandemic first struck, most doctors thought it was “just a respiratory illness”, said Dr Tan.

“But as we went on, we found that it caused more problems. It caused problems in clotting and not just in the arteries, but in the veins as well. Not just in the legs, there were also clots in the heart, some people had risks of heart attacks, clots in the brain that can cause strokes,” he added.

“I think we have been fortunate because most of our patients have been in the younger age group and less severely unwell,” said Dr Tan, when asked how common blood clots are in COVID-19 patients.

According to the surgeon, it has been found that these patients develop antibodies that cause their blood to become “sticky”. Some of them also see inflammation in the blood vessel wall, causing a predisposition to blood clots.

“But until now we are still not very clear about ... how it happens. We still don’t know, we are still unclear about this. At the moment most parts of Europe and America have reported this, we still have only theories but no confirmed definite cause of it.”

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/peculiar-and-unexpected-lung-damage-found-in-the-autopsies-of-covid19-patients/

"Peculiar And Unexpected" Lung Damage Found In The Autopsies Of Covid-19 Patients

Autopsies performed on people who died from Covid-19 have revealed "peculiar and unexpected" lung damage caused by SARS-CoV-2. The new study, reported in the Lancet's journal eBioMedicine today, could help to explain why people who recover from the disease still suffer from lingering symptoms long after first falling sick with the disease, a phenomenon dubbed “long-Covid.”

Researchers from King’s College London, the University of Trieste, and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biology in Italy analyzed the organs of 41 patients who died of Covid-19 at the University Hospital of Trieste in Italy between February and April 2020.

They found that just under 90 percent of the patients showed unusual characteristics in the lungs that were different from the ones you’d typically see in a straight-forward pneumonia death. For starters, the blood vessels of the lungs were riddled with extensive blood clotting. A study released earlier this week also revealed why blood clots are a common feature of Covid-19, suggesting the disease triggers the release of autoimmune antibodies that cause blood clotting.

Secondly, they also noticed many of the lung cells were abnormally large and had many nuclei. They argue this is the result of the fusion between different cells into single large cells, caused by a process known as syncytia.

The researchers conclude with a discussion about how their study could help pave the wave for new treatments for Covid-19. For example, they say that they are searching for a possible drug that could block the viral spike protein that causes cells to fuse, which could stop the formation of unusually clumped large cells. They’re also investigating whether or not these abnormal cells affect blood clotting and inflammation.

https://news.emory.edu/stories/2020/...and%20clotting.

Emory doctors study link between thickness of blood, clotting and inflammation in COVID-19 patients

After noticing unusual blood clotting in many patients diagnosed with COVID-19, doctors at Emory University believe there may be a connection to the thickness of their blood, known as hyperviscosity, with inflammation and clotting. The correspondence, which links hyperviscosity and severity of illness, has been published in The Lancet’s online first section.

“It has been a mystery why so many patients with COVID-19 have had atypical blood clots. We realized we needed to think beyond our typical testing strategies to understand why this might be happening,” says Cheryl Maier, MD, PhD, assistant professor of coagulation and transfusion medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and medical director of Emory’s Special Coagulation Laboratory.

“Despite prescribing medications to prevent blood clots to COVID-19 patients, clotting still occurred, which is quite unusual,” says Maier “One thing that stood out was the extremely high levels of fibrinogen, a big sticky protein that increases with inflammation and is a key building block for making blood clots.” Maier realized that fibrinogen can also increase plasma viscosity, so the team turned to viscosity testing, which uses an old-fashioned laboratory test with glass tubes to help determine blood thickness.

[pinstripers]

OK, I been sickly for a couple days, and then today, no taste or smell