Best i could find for an Overview in english:

Coronavirus destroys lungs. But doctors are finding its damage in kidneys, hearts and elsewhere. - SFGate

Coronavirus may cause lasting damage throughout body, doctors fear - The Jerusalem Post

More Bad News on the Long-Term Effects of the Coronavirus


It still could be overreaction simply because of the scope of scrutiny and it being so new of course and in a year it turns out people are largely back to normal. The lung is a damn resillient organ with lots of healing power.
Still, seems prudent to keep in mind when people take the "well, only old people die" approach to extremes.
Lots of shitty effects come from illnesses that don't kill you, too.

Yeah, as I mentioned, most sources blame the end of the war for cases due to parades, etc., but all data (limited) I found, while the second wave overlapped the end of the war, the second wave in most areas preceded it by a month.

We are studying this in my lab and yes, there is lots of damage outside the lungs.

I have a question: Do your supermarkets have protective barriers for the cashiers ? (Like acryllic glas). Read this article and saw the picture without one, which seems crazy considering how cheap and easy to install it is (just hang it from the ceiling)...

Experts say it may be time for grocery stores to ban customers from coming inside - CNN

I think it is up to the market. Ours do here but I am in New Jersey.

Daryl Morey on Twitter: "… "

The number of reported cases has really jumped in Ohio the last couple days. Now I'm worried again about the governor shutting my job down.

At least the percentage increase in deaths has slowed.

Is China going to get pissed at the NBA and people take completely the wrong lesson from this Tweet, too?

SI

The virus has me thinking about trying Nutrisytem again, at least doing that would cut out the majority of my grocery shopping.

https://apnews.com/4f0a4ca93cc2fee94d386efb13db31a0
Headline: "‘Cartels are scrambling’: Virus snarls global drug trade"




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Deaths are a lagging indicator by 2 to 3 weeks. Sadly if your cases jumped today, your death toll realistically will jump proportionally to that.

Will you try this Soylent thing and let me know Forbidden :)

FWIW, I'm gaining weight. Snacking all the fraking time.

It is possible it could be a reporting issue though. I'd wait a few more days and see if it's a sustained increase before I really got worried.

Saw the same thing, there is an article about it spreading in a Marion County jail. I wonder if that is driving the numbers?

EDIT: Just read this morning, that is driving the spike in numbers.

Keep on protesting KY and folks anywhere else for that matter, I'm sure COVID-19 will see your signs and leave your area.

https://www.kentucky.com/news/corona...242124556.html

Well deaths are way down so far today so maybe we are starting to see the end of high death rate tunnel.

Italy with less active cases than the day before for the first time.

Germany opened small businesses and people ignore that small finger and grab the whole hand from what i have seen. Plus media pushing stories about possible Summer vacation, Bundesliga might start soon with empty stadiums (but you just know there will be private viewing Parties)
Think we might be fucked without some major Breaks, people just utterly disapointingly unable to heed simple rules and limit themselves in their free time. If everybody was dilligent there, it would be much easier to allow/do more essential stuff like work and family meetings.

That's the fear I had with gradual reopening. People just going hogwild while if they were more cautious things would be ok.

We have seen the runs on TP and baking goods. I predict the next one will be sunscreen.

And Kentucky is officially done with in person classes for the rest of this school year. Not surprised, but disappointed. I really never thought they would go back, but had hoped they'd get the chance.

I feel like our governor in NJ has been pretty proactive in his responses. It is really odd that they haven't called school for the year yet. I just wish they would get it over with at this point.

In the school district my daughter is at they basically said a student can't get lower grade than what they had going into the pause. My daughter has all A's so she is effectively done with her senior year.

She has been accepted to her college of choice. Unknown how that will work out in Aug/Sep though.

Oh God, our Governor (Georgia) is a moron. We are starting reopening on Friday, with gyms (YES, gyms!), salons, bowling alleys and then also restaurant and theaters with 'guidelines'. Our cases are rising daily... this is insane!

If we reopen without gauging it to metrics and without a plan for testing and tracing, it really will have all been for nothing.

Unlikely. We're living on the edge now, why fear skin cancer when COVID-19 is out there to kill you before the cancer can even spread?

Bowling alleys??

Apparently it's really important to open bowling alleys for some reason... I wonder if some bowling guy gave a big donation to Kemp.

I wouldn't imagine the (any) state would have more than like, four "bowling guys" at this point.

I've been complaining about him for weeks. This won't change what I do, not going anywhere still. I know it sucks for everyone, I haven't really gone anywhere for 5 weeks, but if we just do this until the end of May, we probably could be in pretty good shape. Now we are going to open too early and have to do this again.

So, why aren’t they opening up all their pro and college stadiums for games?

All the talk about playing sports without fans is mute, no?

Our Governor(McMaster) is also a moron:

403 - Forbidden

I am truly flabbergasted.

South Carolina's seems a lot saner... opening small retail businesses with restrictions on them, giving discretion to local municipalities to open/close beaches etc as they see fit, and still having police with the authority to disperse even groups as small as 3 people.

But if Mayor A opens his beach and Mayor B doesn't, won't the results be Mayor As beach is twice as crowded potentially creating a worse public health crisis?

I live on the Jersey shore, people who want to go to the beach will travel a fuw towns over, or farther even.

I still don't think the Governors or Mayors are going to have that much say. This is still going to be a bottom up decision. Just don't see that many people sitting down at a busy restaurant even if they can.

My guess the decision on gyms has to do with memberships and someone lobbying hard. They don't like refunding money and now they can claim they're open for all the people who don't want to risk coming in and working out.

The chain theaters and gyms closed before they were ordered to, I wouldn't expect them to rush out and open as soon as they can in the handful of states where it's allowed. It would make more sense for the national chain theaters to do a coordinated launch. I don't if the gyms are more of an independent franchise thing, but I'd expect them to have national rules and timelines too.

Myrtle Beach said they'd keep them closed, wouldn't surprise me if it broke down along those lines - places where people might come from out of the area to stay could keep them closed, but small towns open up for local residents. I could see it being an issue with Lake Wylie right across the border from Charlotte, and that highlighting how state borders aren't exactly the best way to do things, but with the cat out of the bag it's not the worst thing to have different states trying different approaches.

Correct because its going to happen here in Myrtle, Myrtle Mayor said no to reopening, N. Myrtle said yes, still waiting to hear from others.

These protesters that want to open the country up. I saw a report today and the woman was complaining she lost her job. My daughter just got a job at Wal-Mart. Yes, the government just gave you an extra $600 but dont bitch about it and instead of protesting, go apply for a job.

F-ing idiots. This country is far fro shit down

And if states are starting to reopen, in two weeks it'll explode again.

Milwaukee has recorded 7 cases linked to in person voting.

So I have a friend who is a doctor and administrator at Emory, one of the largest hospital systems in Metro Atlanta (I think only Piedmont is larger?). He said their ICU beds are full. Opening the state up now is such a bad idea - how about waiting until ICU capacity isn't at max already?

That's not mentioning how South GA (Albany) is one of the big flash points in the county and hasn't slowed down.

Shouldn't the curve flatten even a little bit before you think of doing this?

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wow in metro atlanta?

I was thinking that the cities are the ones that are finally coming to that peak and MAYBE going down (if they were isolating) and the rural areas are this week coming up the hill of sickbursts.

yikes

Then this makes even less sense to open up. I assumed that hospital and ICU rates were declining, but it’s not like we got any information from the governor about that like they are getting in New York daily.

If you want to see what they did in Taiwan to crush the curve, I found this interesting reading:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coron...e-b8420170203e


amongst the things Taiwan did BEFORE the city of Wuhan shutdown


during the pandemic?


Let's go through that next to last one. This was a first person account of someone who traveled to Taiwan during the pandemic.


That is the reason that Taiwan sports were able to resume. Now, without getting political, would you see ANY of the things that Taiwan did working in the US?

I talked to a Critical Care Nurse that works for the Atlanta VA today. He told me that normally they see about one death every month. They are currently seeing six a day. He said most of the staff have worked in war zone, but they are not prepared for this. They have called counselors in for support. Good thing our governor wants to open the state back up to make it worse.

I need a haircut but will wait 2-3 weeks to see if cases continue to decrease and if hospitals/ICU/ventilators/healthcare workers are more freed up.

My problem with Kemp is there is no communication. In my line of work, we impact a lot of people with "change". So we tell people change is coming, we tell them what the change is, why the change is happening, how it will impact them, train them for the change, measure their acceptance of the change etc. and then update & mitigate as needed.

On Sun/Mon, Kemp says we are opening up this Fri and here minimal details. But there are no real details, no planning, no training or rules yet. If people could see there was a plan, I can see it being accepted and adhered to better.

Oh, it's even worse.. the Governor like 4 days ago converted the Georgia World Congress Center into a makeshift hospital:

Coronavirus Updates: 200-Bed Surge Hospital Nears Opening At World Congress Center | 90.1 FM WABE

Which just started taking patients this weekend:

Georgia Has Started Treating Coronavirus Patients In Atlanta's Convention Center | 90.1 FM WABE

So you open a makeshift 200 bed hospital in the Convention Center and then a few days later talk about opening things up?! How does any of this make sense?!

And Atlanta started a bit later than the California cities and NYC. We are just starting to get into the peak, whereas Albany GA (for whatever reason) has been really bad well earlier than Atlanta.

It’s almost as if a governor who won a rigged election isn’t qualified.