Positive *Informative* Covid News

[knowlesjam]

Putting here as it might be positive for some....

Canada's top doctor has advised some people to consider wearing masks during sex and avoid kissing due to COVID-19.

Canada's top doctor advises some to consider wearing masks during sex - UPI.com

Canada's top doctor has advised some people to consider wearing masks during sex and avoid kissing due to COVID-19.

www.upi.com

Heh...I expect there would be some two-maskers out there...you know, just in case the first one fell off.

 

[jcisuclones]

Here’s some positive news: after three weeks since I’ve had symptoms, I’ve gotten my sense of smell back.

Bad news: my beer **** in the morning is going to be raunchy and I have not missed the smell of that.

 

[isutrevman]

 

[BCClone]

Story county reporting 12.5% today. 14 day now at 21.1%. A drop of 1.1%. Still trending the right direction. By Wednesday it most likely starts dropping hard.

EDIT: Whoops, must not have been fully awake. I changed it to Story county like I Meant.

 

[pdxclone]

Polk county reporting 12.5% today. 14 day now at 21.1%. A drop of 1.1%. Still trending the right direction. By Wednesday it most likely starts dropping hard.

Story Co is going to be another week of steady decline then drop a lot. Not because the mask mandate but because the dump of antigen tests and the symptomatic only testing will be out of the calculations.

 

[BCClone]

Story Co is going to be another week of steady decline then drop a lot. Not because the mask mandate but because the dump of antigen tests and the symptomatic only testing will be out of the calculations.

Yeah, I corrected my post. Not sure why I put Polk instead of story for county. Must still have been sleepy.

 

[kcbob79clone]

Since Covid was devastating to the jobs and stock markets positive news in these areas are welcome too.

First-time claims for unemployment benefits fell below a million again last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. This happened before -- in early August -- before claims reversed course and bounced higher.

Another 881,000 Americans filed initial claims for benefits last week on a seasonally adjusted basis. Normally, the fact that so many people filed for unemployment last week would not be a reason to celebrate. But these are not normal times, and this is another sign that the jobs market is gradually recovering.

Continued jobless claims, which count people filing for benefits for at least two weeks in a row, also offered some good news: It stood at a seasonally adjusted 13.3 million, falling by more than 1 million from the prior week.

The stock market is close to the value that it was before Covid.

Both of these prove that America is tough and resilient. With the numbers for Covid continuing to trend in the right direction overall (even with the hotspots) , with an increase in awareness of hygiene Covid spread and potentially flu spread will be down, and with multiple vaccine possibilities in the very near time frame, IMO the future is looking pretty good.

 

[kcbob79clone]

Roche receives USA emergency approval for coronavirus vs flu test. Very similar symptoms could lead to misdiagnosed patients, this test prevents that.

Roche receives U.S. emergency approval for coronavirus vs. flu test

Drugmaker Roche on Friday said it had received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a test to quickly detect whether a patient has SARS-CoV-2 or one of two forms of influenza

www.reuters.com

 

[kcbob79clone]

UK quarantine could be slashed to 7 days with new swab test

Quarantine could be slashed to 7 or 8 days with coronavirus swab, Transport Sec suggests

THE quarantine period for travellers returning from countries not on the coronavirus “safe list” could be slashed to seven or eight days if they are tested, the Transport Secretary sugg…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[kcbob79clone]

Honestly didn't know which thread to put this in. Woman tested positive in a June test, however, she died in February. Worse yet, if that is possible, is she was told to quarantine for 10 days, but got the letter 2 months after the test.

 

[jcisuclones]

Here’s some positive news: after three weeks since I’ve had symptoms, I’ve gotten my sense of smell back.

Bad news: my beer **** in the morning is going to be raunchy and I have not missed the smell of that.

Update: it was absolutely ghastly.

 

[kcbob79clone]

Update: it was absolutely ghastly.

Hope you continue on your road to recovery.

 

[jcisuclones]

Hope you continue on your road to recovery.

I'm perfectly fine, and I'd say 100% recovered now. Only had brief, mild symptoms. Worst part was losing my sense of smell, because it happened right before I harvested my hops, and couldn't smell them.

 

[madguy30]

I'm perfectly fine, and I'd say 100% recovered now. Only had brief, mild symptoms. Worst part was losing my sense of smell, because it happened right before I harvested my hops, and couldn't smell them.

What's weird is I don't remember the smell/taste things when I would have had it in March even during my heavier symptoms (short fever).
I was pretty nervous about some family connections at the time with how heavy it was coming on so maybe didn't really notice.

 

[Clonehomer]

1/ Very Reassuring U.S. Return To Campus C19 News: ZERO reported C19 hospitalizations despite >11,000 students testing C19+, i.e., being declared “C19 cases”

This is not surprising at all and should be a top story. It won't be.

Absolutely good news. Hopefully we'll start to see the cases come down next and all the anxiety will start to die down as well. Cause while the students appear safe, there are faculty and staff that interact with those students that may not be so lucky.

 

[Acylum]

What's weird is I don't remember the smell/taste things when I would have had it in March even during my heavier symptoms (short fever).
I was pretty nervous about some family connections at the time with how heavy it was coming on so maybe didn't really notice.

There are some good articles on how much symptoms can vary among individual cases. This is a very strange virus.

 

[BCClone]

There are some good articles on how much symptoms can vary among individual cases. This is a very strange virus.

Been some talk that there could be a couple different strains with slight variations. That would make a vaccine even more difficult. Even a 30% effectiveness, give it twice and that would give you 51% of those who get it. That would make a pretty good herd.

 

[larrysarmy]

Good thread on national stats (improving)

 

[simply1]

Good thread on national stats (improving)

Some dude with 1800 followers on twitter and not verified is your goto expert?

 

[aauummm]

Some dude with 1800 followers on twitter and not verified is your goto expert?

The "some dude" as you call him is just passing along data and referencing data from The COVID Tracking Project run by The Atlantic on their website https://covidtracking.com/ and their Twitter blog.

As you will notice on their website their data is also used by CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS News, Johns Hopkins, etc. The COVID Tracking Project is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation as well as other foundations.

You can check the data out for yourself at The COVID Tracking Project