You folks over in SWMO may have things going great, at least according posters on here. But over in this neck of the woods not so much. A young man that is part of my daughter's extended family is an EMT in PB and he said he wen to work at 3:30 am Monday morning and is still on duty. He said last night there were 9 ambulances lined at PBRMC waiting to unload patients when they could take them. He said they're being told the closest place with a bed for covid patients is Texarkana.
Covid running rampant in the semo area.
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I still don't think the majority of people realize how bad covid could become this winter. Remember, last winter's covid spread in the US missed most of the winter flu season months. We are facing a potential long 3-4 months.
And one of Bidens top Covid guys supports sending vaccine to other countries before all Americans who want the vaccine gets it....
Associative ties only justify a government's giving some priority to its own citizens, not absolute priority," Emanuel wrote with his co-authors.
He says as soon as the US reaches herd immunity with rates below 1% we have a moral responsibility to start shipping vaccine to other countries.
We paid for developing it and producing it,,,until all Americans have the vaccine that want it that’s just wrong,
Welcome to Bidens Globalism
We have not paid Pfizer anything, but I am sure Trump says we did so it is OK.
My understanding - In July, Trump pledged $2 Billion to Pfizer for the first 100 million doses with an option on the next 500 million doses, and to work together on logistics in distribution, but the US hasn't pre paid for the research and development.
Missouri is now at it's highest infection rate since the beginning.
Surely there is somewhere closer than Texarkana this should take covid cases. I know St.Louis is covered up and Cape is pretty bad too. I don't have clue what the hospitals around Springfield are like now. The last time P.B was full I know some folks from here got in at Jonesboro, Ar.
Trump pledges a lot of things, how many time doe she deliver.
I don't recall which poster it was that said his daughter works in a hospital in that area and they are laying people off because they don't need the help. I've heard this repeatedly throughout this thang.
I suspect the issue is not that a lot of hospitals don't have any rooms, more like they won't take a bunch of covid patients from a hundred or more miles away because they want to keep some beds open for their own area.
I'm pretty sure the more people they connect with the more cases you get, the more cases you get the chances of hospitalizations go up, and the more hospitalizations you have the more the chances of deaths occurring. I'm quite sure we can't stop it but we sure can cut in to the numbers.
I agree not everybody can stay home, and just me thinking out loud not advocating either way, but when do we decide that playing sports is not worth the risk versus just working and providing for your family.
My dad mentioned this the other day, but I cannot find a reference to it, do you have a link to the story?
The model allows the country that produces the vaccine to hold onto enough of a supply to reach a threshold for herd immunity ("Rt below 1"). Beyond that, the model supports distributing the vaccine internationally, which means giving away or selling doses of the vaccine before it's available to every citizen in that country, Emanuel explained to Scientific American.
“Reasonable national partiality does not permit retaining more vaccine than the amount needed to keep the rate of transmission (Rt) below 1, when that vaccine could instead mitigate substantial COVID-19–related harms in other countries that have been unable to keep Rt below 1 through ongoing
Emanuel’s paper was published back in September
So this is based on a paper he wrote and nothing he has said recently? I am just trying to figure this out.
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