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Coronavirus Facts and Information thread:

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One Of America’s Most Conservative States Is Now Threatening To Send COVID Patients Who Don’t Isolate To Prison For Up To Five Years

As per NBC News, things have gotten so bad in Mississippi that the state’s Department of Health has threatened fines and even jail time to anyone who tests positive for COVID and doesn’t quarantine for at least 10 days. Failure to do so could result in one of two forms of punishment:


Failure to do so could result in fines and jail time. Dobbs’ order mentions two possible levels of violation. One, a refusal to obey a health officer, comes with a $500 fine and, possibly, six months behind bars.


But the order says that where a life-threatening disease is involved in a refusal to obey, violators could face a fine of up to $5,000 and possibly five years behind bars.
 
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Sorry guys but I can't get Worldometer to work.

It's been really buggy for about a week now.

I'm going to have to find some other site to get statistics from and I won't be able to update this thread until I do.
 
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Globally, as of 5:33pm CEST, 27 August 2021, there have been 214,468,601 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 4,470,969 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 25 August 2021, a total of 4,953,887,422 vaccine doses have been administered
 
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I had not realized how far back this went - even to the dawn of the USA:

Mandatory immunization for the military: As American as George Washington

Critics argued it was playing God, and it was banned in several colonies. Though the death rate was much lower than “natural” infection, it was still dangerous and patients did occasionally die. (The much safer vaccination method using cowpox — the word vaccine derives from the Latin word for cow — would not be developed until 1796.) Plus, because the idea had come from an enslaved African, some alleged it was a trick to get White masters to kill themselves.
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But inoculation had its supporters, too. Benjamin Franklin supported it constantly in his Philadelphia newspaper. John Adams went through it in 1764; his wife and children followed suit in the summer of 1776. Even Martha Washington underwent the procedure that summer, further convincing her husband of its efficacy.
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“I have determined that the troops shall be inoculated ... Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure, for should the disorder infect the Army in the natural way and rage with its usual virulence we should have more to dread from it than from the Sword of the Enemy.”
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The measure was not popular among the soldiers, according to the Library of Congress.
 
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An 88 year old part-time professor refuses to put his life on the line for a student who won't mask in his class because he's seriously at risk if he gets COVID. Good for him. It's too bad the rest of the class had to scramble to fulfill a requirement, as well, but it's a great model illustrating how one person's deeds affects many others negatively.

UGA professor quits on the spot after student refuses to wear mask properly in class
 
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More people are poisoning themselves with horse-deworming drug to thwart COVID

In humans, the FDA has approved ivermectin tablets to treat conditions caused by parasitic intestinal worms as well as topical formulations for some external parasites, like head lice. But it's critical to note that the ivermectin drugs available to people involve relatively small doses and are in formulations known to be safe for human use. The over-the-counter livestock drugs, on the other hand, are not formulated for human use and have much larger doses for the animals' much larger bodies. At higher concentrations, ivermectin begins to interfere with not just nematode ion channels, but other types of critical channels in humans and animals, like neurotransmitter channels. This can be extremely dangerous.
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The reason why some people believe it can be used to thwart COVID is because of some trials in a petri dish:

Amid the pandemic, researchers highlighted data suggesting that ivermectin might also have antiviral activity. And preliminary data suggested that the drug could thwart the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2—at least in petri dishes. Specifically, ivermectin appeared to block critical intracellular transport proteins that SARS-CoV-2 uses to invade human cells. The drug may also interfere with the virus' ability to latch onto human cells with its spike protein.
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So, maybe there's something to it, and further research might be warranted and possibly lead to an effective treatment. But it's still too soon, according to researchers.

But the petri dish data has yet to translate into any convincing clinical data that the drug is actually useful against COVID-19 in whole people. Studies in humans have been small and produced inconsistent results. Meta-analyses aimed at weeding out potential clinical benefits have struggled with faulty data, and some have been retracted.

Additionally, researchers have reason to doubt that further research will prove ivermectin is effective against COVID-19. As the National Institutes of Health notes in its clinical guidance, drug studies suggest that getting blood concentrations of ivermectin high enough to replicate the SARS-CoV-2-thwarting effects seen in petri dishes would "require administration of doses up to 100-fold higher than those approved for use in humans."

All of this hasn't stopped COVID misinformation mills on the Internet from promoting the drug—and people from buying into it. The FDA has been warning of misuse for months. But amid the surge in the delta coronavirus variant, ivermectin misuse has escalated to alarming levels.
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Humans can tolerate it in low doses, but not in high doses intended for animals. Their studies indicate that the drug can have thwarting effects, but at levels which would require administration of doses 100 times higher than what is approved for human use.

Poison control centers have reported a spike in ivermectin related calls and increased reports of overdoses.

In a health alert Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that prescriptions for ivermectin have skyrocketed this month. And people unable to get a prescription for the drug have resorted to buying the over-the-counter livestock drugs, clearing out supplies in farming stores. In turn, poison control centers have seen a spike in ivermectin-related calls in recent weeks, and reports of serious illnesses from overdoses have also increased.

According to a recent analysis, the average rate of ivermectin prescriptions per week went from 3,600 prepandemic to a peak of 39,000 prescriptions in the week ending on January 8 of this year, when COVID-19 cases surged. Since early July, ivermectin dispensing has again surged along with COVID-19 cases, reaching more than 88,000 prescriptions in the week ending August 13, the CDC noted. That translates to a 24-fold increase from the prepandemic baseline.
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Apparently, a prison in Arkansas used it on inmates.

With the drug booms came booms in poisonings. In January, poison control centers across the US received three times the number of ivermectin-related calls compared with the prepandemic baseline, the CDC reported. In July, ivermectin calls have continued to increase sharply, reaching a fivefold increase from baseline. The calls have also been linked to a rise in ivermectin-related emergency department and hospital visits.

The CDC alert highlighted two cases, one in which an adult drank an injectable ivermectin formulation intended for use in cattle in an attempt to prevent COVID-19 infection. The person experienced confusion, drowsiness, visual hallucinations, and tremors and spent nine days in the hospital. Another adult was hospitalized after taking ivermectin tablets of unknown strength that were bought off the Internet. The person took five pills a day for five days and developed an "altered mental status," in which they were disoriented and unable to answer questions or follow commands.

State-level concerns
In a report Wednesday, USA Today noted state-level trends in poison control center calls. In Florida, for instance, there were 27 ivermectin-related calls to the poison control center in August, up from 11 in July. From January to June, there were only six calls total. Likewise, in Texas, the state's poison control center fielded 150 calls about ivermectin this year, with 55 of them just in August. In Georgia, the poison control center typically sees about one ivermectin-related call per month. This month, it has logged around 15 so far.

In Arkansas, officials also noted an increase in ivermectin-related calls to the state's poison control center. One official in Arkansas' Washington County was particularly alarmed to learn that the medical provider for a county detention center has been prescribing ivermectin to inmates and county employees. Since the start of the pandemic, over 500 inmates at the center have tested positive for COVID and an unknown number of them received the drug.

Dr. Rob Karas, the medical provider for the center, told a local CBS affiliate that he had taken ivermectin himself and given it to many of his family members. The Arkansas Medical Board has since opened an investigation into the case.

Still, some state leaders continue to send dangerous messages about the drug. In a Thursday tweet related to Karas' case, Arkansas State Rep. Robin Lundstrum wrote: "Doc saves 500 inmates lives, taxpayers money & saves hospital bed space! Let's stone Doc & Sherriff instead of thanking them!"

Likewise in Alaska, Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce continued to promote and defend ivermectin use, saying in a radio interview: “Let the doctors experiment with perhaps some things that haven’t been signed off by the Food and Drug Administration.”
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