The Covid-19 Thread: News, Preparation Tips, Etc

nycutiepie

Well-Known Member
Tomorrow is my aunts father’s funeral. He died from COVID in a nursing home. She was very close to her dad. He was a lovely/loved man. I feel so bad for her. She is home alone grieving.

I’m not depressed. But I’ve been crying everyday for one reason or another. Today I cry for my aunt. She lost 2 adult children and both her parents. She has been my guru, mother figure and mentor. So I feel her pain. If it was not for her I don’t think I would have even gone to university. She believed in me and encouraged me when no one else saw my potential. She is special. Once while we were eating at a restaurant, the waitress called me to one side and asked me who she was. The waitress said she could feel that she was a good person. I knew exactly what she meant. If I had not known my aunt I would have thought that this waitress was crazy. She was not even black. But she said she felt my aunts good aura emanating from her and she was curious. I’m hurting because she is hurting.

I know that even if there was no covid her father would have died eventually. But still. It took him away a year or two earlier.

but the saddest thing is that this lady has to grieve alone because she is high risk. At least before she had her family and church (she is also a pastor), but now she is alone due to social distancing and the fact that she is high risk.
My prayers go out to her and you my sister :bighug:
 

Stormy

Well-Known Member
Tomorrow is my aunts father’s funeral. He died from COVID in a nursing home. She was very close to her dad. He was a lovely/loved man. I feel so bad for her. She is home alone grieving.

I’m not depressed. But I’ve been crying everyday for one reason or another. Today I cry for my aunt. She lost 2 adult children and both her parents. She has been my guru, mother figure and mentor. So I feel her pain. If it was not for her I don’t think I would have even gone to university. She believed in me and encouraged me when no one else saw my potential. She is special. Once while we were eating at a restaurant, the waitress called me to one side and asked me who she was. The waitress said she could feel that she was a good person. I knew exactly what she meant. If I had not known my aunt I would have thought that this waitress was crazy. She was not even black. But she said she felt my aunts good aura emanating from her and she was curious. I’m hurting because she is hurting.

I know that even if there was no covid her father would have died eventually. But still. It took him away a year or two earlier.

but the saddest thing is that this lady has to grieve alone because she is high risk. At least before she had her family and church (she is also a pastor), but now she is alone due to social distancing and the fact that she is high risk.
I'm sorry for your aunt. She's been through and is still going through a lot. I hope you feel better and your aunt gets through these trying times. It's good that she still has you.
 

geminilive

Active Member

awhyley

Well-Known Member
What is he saying?

Basically, the Rethuglicans knew that Covid was going around on the house floor, withheld the info. from the Dems, and as such, they were unable to defend themselves via wearing masks, or having the choice of opting out of showing up to work. They were exposing their families to the virus unknowingly, and the poster in question was in a higher risk category (God bless him [Mr. Sims] for donating that kidney though). The lengths that they went to to protect their president is shocking, and I agree that legal repercussions are needed. Someone (quite a few people) need to be held accountable for this.
 

Everything Zen

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George Floyd tested positive for coronavirus on April 3rd and was STILL positive after his death on 5/25. Asymptomatic.

The virus in Floyd, the report says, was “asymptomatic but persistent,” leading to the positive postmortem test.

source: ny daily news link

Can they release that information or nah...? I mean they must have had family permission bc... the deceased are still protected by HIPAA for a number of years and this ain’t gone to trial yet. :look:
 

Jmartjrmd

Well-Known Member
Can they release that information or nah...? I mean they must have had family permission bc... the deceased are still protected by HIPAA for a number of years and this ain’t gone to trial yet. :look:
Depends on state law as to if autopsy report is a public record and the state law pertaining to homicides and release of records. the family or family attorney has access. I believe in case of suspicious death it's up to the courts. if it's not sealed by court order I think they can release it.
 

ThirdEyeBeauty

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Evolving78

Well-Known Member
I am going to try and make an appointment next week. This week they were closed. I kept thinking it would go away.
Yes please! I hope you feel better soon. Maybe try some mucinex. I had a bad cough, but I didn’t have a runny nose. I got the one for multiple symptoms. After a day or two I started to feel much better. I got that advice from a nurse. This was back in Feb.
 

ThirdEyeBeauty

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2 billion doses of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine will be developed by AstraZeneca after a $750 million deal with charities backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Mia Jankowicz
Jun 5, 2020, 5:35 AM

A patient enrolled in a coronavirus vaccine clinical trial receives an injection, May 4, 2020.
University of Maryland School of Medicine/AP Photo
  • 2 billion doses of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine are due to be produced after pharma giant AstraZeneca struck two new deals to double the supply.
  • AstraZeneca partnered with the Serum Institute of India to supply doses to low-and-middle income countries. 400 million of these should be ready by the end of 2020.
  • There is still no guarantee the vaccine will work — but the company is pushing ahead with production anyway to shorten the timeline in case it does prove effective.
  • 300 million of the doses will be distributed through a $750 million agreement with two charities backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and WHO, among others.
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The global supply of a potential coronavirus vaccine being developed at Oxford University has been doubled to 2 billion after a $750 million deal with charities that count the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation among their supporters.

The vaccine is being produced by AstraZeneca British drug maker, drawing on work by researchers from Oxford University.

It announced Thursday that it had signed agreements with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Gavi the Vaccine Alliance to boost its supplies.

The company has committed to mass-producing the vaccine before it has been proved effective, an unusual step designed to compress the long timeline of vaccine production.

CEPI and Gavi are both charities supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization, among numerous others. The $750 million agreement with CEPI and Gavi will support manufacturing, procurement and distribution for 300 million of the 2 billion doses.

Read more: Scientists are racing to create a coronavirus vaccine that can halt the pandemic in its tracks. Here are the top 3 candidates from Moderna, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca aiming to be ready this fall.

The statement also said that AstraZeneca struck a licensing partnership with the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume, for 1 billion doses of the vaccine earmarked for low- and middle-income countries.

The deal includes "a commitment to provide 400 million of them by the end of 2020," according to the statement.

The company had already announced the manufacture of 1 billion doses last month, according to the BBC.

300 million of the potential vaccines are already pledged to the US and 100 million to the UK, the BBC said. If clinical trials prove the the vaccine works, the first doses could be ready by September.

In the statement, AstraZeneca Chief Executive Pascal Soriot said: "We are working tirelessly to honor our commitment to ensure broad and equitable access to Oxford's vaccine across the globe and at no profit."

It remains unclear whether the vaccine, named AZD1222, will work. Soriot said the company should know by August, the BBC reported.

Read more: The race for coronavirus treatments and vaccines is heating up. Here are the 12 most important events to watch for in June, from fresh vaccine data to new antibody drug trials.

Richard Hatchett, chief executive of CEPI, admitted there was a "substantial risk" in investing in manufacturing a product that may ultimately not deliver, The Guardian reported.

Around 10,000 adult volunteers are currently testing the Phase II/III versions of the vaccine in the UK, according to the AstraZeneca statement.
  • Correction note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly suggested that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation had made a $750 million deal with Astra Zeneca. The Foundation has not made any direct investment with AstraZeneca for its coronavirus vaccine.
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Everything Zen

Well-Known Member
I don’t even know what to say:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html

Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren't driving the spread of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Monday, casting doubt on concerns by some researchers that the disease could be difficult to contain due to asymptomatic infections.

Some people, particularly young and otherwise healthy individuals, who are infected by the coronavirus never develop symptoms or only develop mild symptoms. Others might not develop symptoms until days after they were actually infected.

Government responses should focus on detecting and isolating infected people with symptoms, and tracking anyone who might have come into contact with them, Van Kerkhove said. She acknowledged that some studies have indicated asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread in nursing homes and in household settings.

More research and data are needed to "truly answer" the question of whether the coronavirus can spread widely through asymptomatic carriers, Van Kerkhove added.

"We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing," she said. "They're following asymptomatic cases. They're following contacts. And they're not finding secondary transmission onward. It's very rare.


If asymptomatic spread proves to not be a main driver of coronavirus transmission, the policy implications could be tremendous. A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published on April 1 cited the "potential for presymptomatic transmission" as a reason for the importance of social distancing.

"These findings also suggest that to control the pandemic, it might not be enough for only persons with symptoms to limit their contact with others because persons without symptoms might transmit infection," the CDC study said.

To be sure, asymptomatic and presymptomatic spread of the virus appears to still be happening, Van Kerkhove said but remains rare. That finding has important implications for how to screen for the virus and limit its spread.

"What we really want to be focused on is following the symptomatic cases," Van Kerkhove said. "If we actually followed all of the symptomatic cases, isolated those cases, followed the contacts and quarantined those contacts, we would drastically reduce" the outbreak.

Correction: An earlier headline should have said most asymptomatic coronavirus patients aren't spreading new infections. The word "most" was inadvertedly omitted.
 

Evolving78

Well-Known Member
I don’t even know what to say:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html

Coronavirus patients without symptoms aren't driving the spread of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Monday, casting doubt on concerns by some researchers that the disease could be difficult to contain due to asymptomatic infections.

Some people, particularly young and otherwise healthy individuals, who are infected by the coronavirus never develop symptoms or only develop mild symptoms. Others might not develop symptoms until days after they were actually infected.

Government responses should focus on detecting and isolating infected people with symptoms, and tracking anyone who might have come into contact with them, Van Kerkhove said. She acknowledged that some studies have indicated asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread in nursing homes and in household settings.

More research and data are needed to "truly answer" the question of whether the coronavirus can spread widely through asymptomatic carriers, Van Kerkhove added.

"We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing," she said. "They're following asymptomatic cases. They're following contacts. And they're not finding secondary transmission onward. It's very rare.


If asymptomatic spread proves to not be a main driver of coronavirus transmission, the policy implications could be tremendous. A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published on April 1 cited the "potential for presymptomatic transmission" as a reason for the importance of social distancing.

"These findings also suggest that to control the pandemic, it might not be enough for only persons with symptoms to limit their contact with others because persons without symptoms might transmit infection," the CDC study said.

To be sure, asymptomatic and presymptomatic spread of the virus appears to still be happening, Van Kerkhove said but remains rare. That finding has important implications for how to screen for the virus and limit its spread.

"What we really want to be focused on is following the symptomatic cases," Van Kerkhove said. "If we actually followed all of the symptomatic cases, isolated those cases, followed the contacts and quarantined those contacts, we would drastically reduce" the outbreak.

Correction: An earlier headline should have said most asymptomatic coronavirus patients aren't spreading new infections. The word "most" was inadvertedly omitted.
I will still be wearing my mask and practicing social distancing. I know somebody got it due to coworkers having a tattoo party and bringing it to work and infecting nursing home patients. Those people were asymptomatic or pre. Not drinking that kool aid the article is trying to push. And it’s been over 200 case in my area.
 

ThirdEyeBeauty

Well-Known Member
Don't get too comfortable. With the opening of stores, the relaxation of the rules and all these gatherings, things are going to change drastically by the end of the month. The uptick is coming.
We are prepared this time. Immune system will be on point as best as possible. There will be no serious infection that leads to hospitalization or death.
 

Peppermynt

Defying Gravity
OK ladies. My hair salon is opening back up but I have no intention on going. :drunk: But I really need to dye these grays.:cry3:Does anyone have any suggestions for a home dye brand that I should consider? I would be applying it by myself and am fully natural so there's no creamy crack residue that it would be interacting with.

Suggestions? Or even any brands to avoid? Thanks much!
 

BrownSkinPoppin

formerly NaturallyBri87
OK ladies. My hair salon is opening back up but I have no intention on going. :drunk: But I really need to dye these grays.:cry3:Does anyone have any suggestions for a home dye brand that I should consider? I would be applying it by myself and am fully natural so there's no creamy crack residue that it would be interacting with.

Suggestions? Or even any brands to avoid? Thanks much!
I like my hair to be jet black so I dye my hair. I use the dark and lovely brand and I do it myself. I’m natural as well.
 

Evolving78

Well-Known Member
OK ladies. My hair salon is opening back up but I have no intention on going. :drunk: But I really need to dye these grays.:cry3:Does anyone have any suggestions for a home dye brand that I should consider? I would be applying it by myself and am fully natural so there's no creamy crack residue that it would be interacting with.

Suggestions? Or even any brands to avoid? Thanks much!
Textures and Tones Jet Black.
And the semi permanent is good for touch ups. It doesn’t turn hair green.
I use the semi permanent in between perm applications.
The perm (box)gives a nice rich black color. It isn’t running and easy to apply.
If you have a lot of hair, just make sure you buy 2boxes.
 
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