Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Someone is about to be savaged by a Trumpist local politician. This is a wonderful opportunity for a back-bencher in the state legislature.
But good for him and the university.

 

Meyer: Vaccination status a factor in Jags' cuts

Has the NFLPA already filed the grievance?

 

Exactly. Players have every right to choose not to get vaccinated, but teams have every right to cut whoever they damn well please.

 

It’s an issue about workplace conditions, and the PA will argue that it should be bargained.

 

Has anyone used an at-home test before? Is it good/reliable? I’m about to use one because I found out one of the kids in my class tested positive (we have them for 90-minute blocks each day (long story but it makes sense)). I’m not really worried about me but I have a “vulnerable person” at home and I need to know if I need to isolate from him.

And further background, just tried to get a test through my doctor but I took one Saturday for a possible exposure from earlier in the week and they said the interval between tests was too soon. I’m getting tested through the school tomorrow but I won’t get that until Friday.

 

It will only be as good as your sample. In a general sense they are reliable. The package insert should give you some percentages.

You've had one before, so you know this: Shove it so far in that you think you hit the back of your skull, then slowly twist the swab five times. Pull it out. Don't let it touch anything. If there is a little test tube with a fluid it goes into, be sure that this is all set up in advance. Follow the directions regarding wait time scrupulously.

 

No one could possibly have predicted this.

Pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations in Florida reach record highs

 

You absolutely could’ve predicted this.

As the delta variant spreads through Florida, data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest this could be the most serious and deadly surge in COVID-19 infections since the beginning of the pandemic.

As cases ballooned in August, however, the Florida Department of Health changed the way it reported death data to the CDC, giving the appearance of a pandemic in decline, an analysis of Florida data by the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald found.

On Monday, Florida death data would have shown an average of 262 daily deaths reported to the CDC over the previous week had the health department used its former reporting system, the Herald analysis showed. Instead, the Monday update from Florida showed just 46 “new deaths” per day over the previous seven days.

The dramatic difference is due to a small change in the fine print. Until three weeks ago, data collected by DOH and published on the CDC website counted deaths by the date they were recorded — a common method for producing daily stats used by most states. On Aug. 10, Florida switched its methodology and, along with just a handful of other states, began to tally new deaths by the date the person died.

If you chart deaths by Florida’s new method, based on date of death, it will generally appear — even during a spike like the present — that deaths are on a recent downslope. That’s because it takes time for deaths to be evaluated and death certificates processed. When those deaths finally are tallied, they are assigned to the actual date of death — creating a spike where there once existed a downslope and moving the downslope forward in time.​

Florida changed its COVID-19 data, creating an ‘artificial decline’ in recent deaths — Miami Herald

 

I’m not saying I disagree with his stance. I’m saying the PA will go after him.

And it’s happening.

Meyer's remarks on Jags' cuts spark NFLPA probe