Coronavirus: Thread

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GovCorp still trying to FUD especially as winter approaches
the non-free northern hemisphere, BA.2.75 their newest claim.
Now with almost everyone telling them to fuck off about Corona,
they'll need to design and launch a much nastier bug to maintain
power, but only if it doesn't kill them first...




As Mask Mandate Looms, LA Hospital Officials Mock COVID "Media Hype"

In a press conference dripping with a mix of exasperation and
dry-witted sarcasm, two officials at one of the largest hospital
systems in Southern California threw a bucket of cold water on media
and government efforts to whip the public into a state of fear over
the latest Covid-19 uptick.

Their remarks came on the same day that Los Angeles County health
director Barbara Ferrer declared the county had moved into a "high"
level of Covid transmission. Two consecutive weeks in that status
would trigger the reimposition of an indoor mask mandate on the nearly
10 million people who still choose to live there.

The press conference featured Brad Spellberg, the chief medical
officer of Los Angeles County + University of Southern California
Medical Center (LAC + USC), along with epidemiologist Paul Holtom.

Spellberg kicked off the duo's ridicule of Covid fearmongering with an
exasperated description of the Covid situation: "It's just the same.
It's not changed. It's been the same. It's like...two months of the
same."

He backed up his characterization with charts depicting county cases
and the hospital's own Covid admission data.

    "The numbers at [LAC+USC] Covid-positive tests have continued to
go up, but this isn't because we're seeing a ton of people with
symptomatic disease being admitted...we're seeing a lot of people with
mild disease in urgent care and [emergency department] who go home and
do not get admitted.

    Of those who are admitted, they're 90% of the time not admitted
due to Covid. Only 10% of our Covid-positive admissions are admitted
due to Covid. Virtually none of them go to the ICU, and when they do
go to the ICU, it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated."

As for the worst kind of Covid-ICU situation, Spellberg said, "We
haven't seen one of those since February. It's been months." He said
today's Covid patients in intensive care are more typically associated
with conditions like electrolyte abnormalities or auto-immune attack
of the nerves that may or may not be Covid-driven.

    LAC+USC full July 14 vid:

    "Only 10% of our COVID positive admissions are admitted due to
COVID. Virtually none of them go to the ICU, and when they do go to
the ICU it is not for pneumonia. They are not intubated... we have not
seen one of those since February."

    HT @Campbels12. pic.twitter.com/AThaOxHGn3
    — Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) July 16, 2022

"It is just not the same pandemic that it was, despite all the media
hype to the contrary...I mean - a lot of people have bad colds is what
we're seeing," Spellberg concluded.

Epidemiologist Paul Holtom sarcastically chided Spellberg: "I would
really have to work to burst that soothiness bubble...maybe we can
turn to the media, which is trying to burst that bubble by talking
about a new variant that was was described in India...[and is]
'sweeping' the country and now the United States."

A screenshot of headline from Deadline.com: New Mutant Covid Variant
>From India, BA.2.75, Detected In California & 6 Other States, Raising
Concern About Fall 2022 Wave

He continued:

    "Certainly, if the experience of our hospital is reflective of
across the county, which I believe it is, we're just seeing nobody
with severe Covid disease. As of this morning, we have no one in the
hospital who had pulmonary disease due to Covid. Nobody in the
hospital....NOBODY. Nobody who had Covid-19 disease as we would see it
in the past. So I guess it is hard to get a little more excited."

The epidemiologist noted that Los Angeles County could soon reimpose
an indoor mask mandate "based on numbers." However, he said,
"certainly, there's no reason from a hospitalization-due-to-covid-push
perspective to be worried at his point."

Holtom transitioned away from the Covid portion of the press
conference by administering a final dose of humor: "I'm so tired about
not being worried about Covid for week after week, the very least we
could do is bring up another potential pandemic and get worried about
it, because at least that way we have something to be worried about!"