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8/19 British Medical Journal "COVID-19 Fully Vaccinated People Carry As Much Viral Load As Unvaccinated People, Data Indicate"..."We know now that vaccination will not stop infection and transmission". I understand and appreciate that we dont want to overwhelm the medical system...so why is an early outpatient treatment protocol NEVER provided? Is an early outpatient treatment protocol "illegal"? This "drink plenty of water" and "return to the ER if you cant breathe" shit aint workin'.

HELP WANTED: Attention Barbers and Hair Stylists you are now eligible for paramedical training.

From UMMC's daily release - "As of 8 a.m. on Wednesday, August 25, the Medical Center has 131 confirmed or suspected inpatient COVID-19 cases. This daily inpatient count includes 108 adult patients and 23 children. Of the confirmed COVID-19 positive patients, 68.1% are unvaccinated, 7.5% are children under the age of twelve who are not eligible for COVID vaccination, and 13.8% are vaccinated."

So, the largest hospital in the State states that 68% of hospitalized Covid patients at its hospital are unvaccinated, but MSDH's states show that at 90%? That's quite the difference, especially from a hospital with such a large sample size.

I really wish government would stop using facebook. I do not want to be forced to join Zuckerberg’s botnet just to have access to this information. It also legitimizes facebook as an authoritative source of information. Facebook is a social media platform primarily used by tech illiterate boomers. Just like AOL was decades ago.

Calling all warm bodies!

Support 3:21's comments about Facebook. I haven't joined and never plan to. The state support of this private, biased company is an affront.

@3:17 if your numbers are correct....68.1% unvaccinated plus 7.5% ineligible unvaccinated children (Im assuming they are not included in the aforesaid 68.1%) plus 13.8% vaccinated. Total 89.4%. And they're worried about Farmer Brown improperly calculating his Ivermectin dosage.

Thank you 3:01.

It baffles me that we have NO directive other than if you get sick stay home, and try not to die.
But if you do get so sick that you MUST come to the ER, we guess we will begin to treat you then.

The daily damn lie. Covid is real...not that lie.

@4:00pm - Pretty sure the directive was (and had been for a while now) that if you test positive, come get some monoclonal antibodies in the parking garage as soon as possible so you don’t die, THEN go home and hope you get better.

3:01 and. 4:00,

The Mississippi State Department of Health has shouted from the rooftops that anyone who is COVID positive should ask his healthcare provider about receiving the monoclonal antibody infusion immediately, regardless of symptoms. Honestly, they say it every day. Media repeat it everyday. That’s the treatment. Avail yourselves of it. Tell everyone you know about it. There is a hotline number on the Department of Health website. They’ve shared it on Twitter. They’ve shared it on Facebook. They have infusion clinics around the state. Some of them don’t even require an order from a doctor. You just go, are assessed, and receive it if you are eligible. That’s it. That’s the treatment. They want you to live and want you to stay out of the hospital.

@3:17 You have to read all of the information when you cite, not just the parts that seem to support your position. Here is the complete breakdown from UMMC's release today.

Fully vaccinated - 13.8%
Non Eligible - 7.5%
Unknown - 10.6%
Unvaccinated - 68.1%

The unknown are likely unvaccinated. That puts the UMMC ratio at 13.8% vaccinated and 86.2% unvaccinated. Much closer to MSDH figures.

4:40 PM
And what are the age ranges? Likely 60+

4:00 - obviously you have not kept up, because that is NOT the message that has been put out.

Over the past two weeks there have been multiple - dozens - of notices that IF you have symptoms to go get the monoclonal treatment. The state (DOH, UMMC, and the Governor) have all encouraged everyone to go get this treatment quickly after symptoms at which time it is most effective. The notices also stated that you could get the treatment for free at multiple sites, including at UMMC.

Guess though they didn't have this notice posted at the local feed and seed store, so you might have missed it.

another child died today from a “nothingburger”. i guess it wasn’t nothing to them..

Who administered MAT b4 garage opened?
Anyone occupying beds in fed garage icu and graham’s SP ermergency icu?

@3:21

Agreed. I notice that the smaller 'forum' type websites we used to have are going away in favor of 'free' collaborative space on fb.

For the record, I like that JJ allows anonymous postings, but I think that the regulars need a blogger account to keep things straight.

They should have been shouting from the rooftops since November 2020 when the monoclonal antibody treatment was first made available. Why let the hospital system get overrun twice in the same year before someone finally decides that we need to start treating people earlier when they first test positive?

@10:17

Well, some easy answers to your questions pop out.

However, I find it the height of irony that people who are vaccine skeptics are falling over themselves to be infused with something that's operating under emergency authorization, just like the vaccine.

That said, MA treatment is 70-85% effective. This is less than the vaccine, most costly than the vaccine, takes MUCH longer to administer than the vaccine, and so on.

Not that hard.

For public health, you've got to differentiate between what _can_ work for a single person in ideal circumstances and what _must_ work for everyone in a wide range of circumstances.

If there is a 70-85% chance the treatment is effective shouldn’t we utilize this more to potentially keep people out of the hospital? Seems like a pretty good odds to me?

@7:24

It's useful and effective. But there's also a human nature aspect that cannot be overlooked.

If someone thinks there's a "cure"... what do you think that will do to vaccination rates?

I don't know our capacity to administer MA. But I'd bet you it's orders of magnitude less than our capacity to vaccinate.

With all due respect, I never mentioned anything about the vaccines. I was specifically addressing the reality we have found ourselves in again regarding the crisis of overflowing hospitalizations. This is the one early treatment that .gov will allow us to use and state.gov seemingly kept a tight lid on it until two weeks ago.

What about back in January when the death count was greater than it is right now? This was also before the vaccine was available to the general public. The antibodies should have been more widely utilized then and certainly throughout the remainder of the year to potentially head off another hospital crisis.

Someone finally woke up two weeks ago and decided to start treating people earlier than when they show up at the hospital.

MA treatment = mo money mo money mo money

what is the status of the parking garage field hospitals? Are they full? or was this just another tactic to elicit fear and panic? Seems a better use of $$ would have been to fill open positions so that all the vacant beds could actually be utilized... I know field hospitals are sexier though

Is it ok for me to be a bit cautious due to my having had the Bill Clinton Anthrax vaccine that is giving me pause ? Is it ok with you guys ? I have also had clotting issues. So I lose my job because I want to take my chances instead taking THIS vax. I had no choice in the 90's.