Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

yukbon said:
I am unsurprised that there's no support for newly disabled. There's barely support for the disabled we've got, much less any infrastructure or plan for thousands more just suddenly becoming disabled in new and complicated ways. The disability support structure in the US goes out of it's way to keep the disabled in poverty, over and over, which a whole bunch of new people are about to be surprised to learn. ("what do you mean I can't have a savings account with more than 2000 dollars in it or I'll lose my disability? I can't have savings at all?")
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Yup.

My step father just that when working on putting his will together. He was going to leave his money to his sister, who is on disability, because he thought she could use it. But found out from the lawyer that being doing so, his sister would lose her disability if she ever inherited his money. Not just the disability pay, but also her health benefits which people on disability often find more important than the pay.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
Yup.

My step father just that when working on putting his will together. He was going to leave his money to his sister, who is on disability, because he thought she could use it. But found out from the lawyer that being doing so, his sister would lose her disability if she ever inherited his money. Not just the disability pay, but also her health benefits which people on disability often find more important than the pay.
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I have a friend who had to turn down several jobs she was both qualified for and would have loved to do because they put her just over the limit and she'd have lost her healthcare benefits, and the pay was not enough to make for it.
 
yukbon said:
I have a friend who had to turn down several jobs she was both qualified for and would have loved to do because they put her just over the limit and she'd have lost her healthcare benefits, and the pay was not enough to make for it.
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I have a friend with 2 girls on the spectrum who need a special school that would cost them $30k/year/child. She has turned down several jobs because she can’t loose Medicaid for her kids. The jobs she could get wouldn’t be enough to cover their school and any other lost benefits.

Also this is quite an interesting turn. I need to see if I can find any more information but this is the Wall Street Journal, which usually is pretty good about its sources.

www.wsj.com

WSJ News Exclusive | Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says

The U.S. agency’s revised assessment of how the pandemic started is based on new intelligence.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com
 
The Boston Globe published an interview with Fauci on Sunday. Here is part of it.


Are we ever going to know the definitive origin of COVID? And did authorities mishandle the question of whether it was from a Wuhan lab leak?

The lab leak issue was always a possible explanation. Go back and look at my unredacted e-mails. I was the one that said, “Let’s look into this. It’s really important.” And yet there’s this meme out there that I tried to suppress the lab-leak theory, which is ludicrous. Go look at the [expletive] e-mails. Unbelievable! Holy smokes!

If you look at the history of evolving outbreaks, 75 to 80 percent of them are zoonotic, jumping species [from animals to humans]: HIV, Ebola, influenza, Zika, MERS. Could it have been a lab leak? Yeah, but what is the evidence for it? The evidence is 2,000 tweets that said it should be. What is the evidence for it being a spillover [from animals to humans]? Some very unbiased, molecular evolutionary virologists from five or six different countries have examined it, put it in the peer-reviewed literature and feel, even though it isn’t 100 percent, it is much, much more likely that it’s a natural spillover.

Now, will we ever know? The only way we’ll know is if China opens up and we get American scientists, Canadian scientists, Australian scientists to go there and do the kind of surveillance in the wild. But the problem is that they’ve attacked the Chinese so badly. The Chinese authorities act suspicious, even when they have nothing to hide. But if you look at the viruses that the Wuhan investigators were working with, anybody who even knows a little bit about virology will tell you that it would be molecularly impossible to turn [those viruses] into this virus. Even if you deliberately try to do it, you couldn’t do it. That’s a fact.
 
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yukbon said:
uh, it's been a bit more than a week, so i guess it's a little late for encouragement, but just fyi that i shared house with two people that caught it (including my youngest) and no one else caught it, so it's doable. I hope you're still doing alright
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Thanks for checking in! We stayed masked when crossing paths, then stopped stressing after a week or so (and I had nothing on my calendar), and I still didn’t catch it (knock on wood)
 
nolalady said:
I have a friend with 2 girls on the spectrum who need a special school that would cost them $30k/year/child. She has turned down several jobs because she can’t loose Medicaid for her kids. The jobs she could get wouldn’t be enough to cover their school and any other lost benefits.

Also this is quite an interesting turn. I need to see if I can find any more information but this is the Wall Street Journal, which usually is pretty good about its sources.

www.wsj.com

WSJ News Exclusive | Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says

The U.S. agency’s revised assessment of how the pandemic started is based on new intelligence.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com
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But since it's "most likely" with a "low confidence," and from just one source with many others still maintaining the wild transmission of some kind most likely, I don't see any reason to change my degree of confidence in anything until there is more or better info (which may never come because of the Chinese government).
 
Y'all.......f*ck

Findings This cohort study of 18 355 infants delivered after February 2020 found that male but not female offspring born to mothers with a positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction test result during pregnancy were more likely to receive a neurodevelopmental diagnosis in the first 12 months after delivery, even after accounting for preterm delivery.

Meaning These findings suggest that male offspring exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in utero may be at increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders.

jamanetwork.com

Neurodevelopment of Offspring of Mothers With SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Pregnancy

This cohort study examines the risk for neurodevelopmental disorders among male and female offspring exposed in utero to SARS-CoV-2 and whether pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with neurodevelopmental risk independent of SARS-CoV-2 exposure.
jamanetwork.com jamanetwork.com

Of the 883 SARS-CoV-2–exposed offspring, 26 (2.9%) received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis during the first 12 months of life (this included 0 of 13 whose mothers were partially or fully vaccinated at time of infection) compared with 317 (1.8%) among the SARS-CoV-2–unexposed offspring
 
nolalady said:
Y'all.......f*ck

Findings This cohort study of 18 355 infants delivered after February 2020 found that male but not female offspring born to mothers with a positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction test result during pregnancy were more likely to receive a neurodevelopmental diagnosis in the first 12 months after delivery, even after accounting for preterm delivery.

Meaning These findings suggest that male offspring exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in utero may be at increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders.

jamanetwork.com

Neurodevelopment of Offspring of Mothers With SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Pregnancy

This cohort study examines the risk for neurodevelopmental disorders among male and female offspring exposed in utero to SARS-CoV-2 and whether pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with neurodevelopmental risk independent of SARS-CoV-2 exposure.
jamanetwork.com jamanetwork.com

Of the 883 SARS-CoV-2–exposed offspring, 26 (2.9%) received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis during the first 12 months of life (this included 0 of 13 whose mothers were partially or fully vaccinated at time of infection) compared with 317 (1.8%) among the SARS-CoV-2–unexposed offspring
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Has the "pro life" "It's just the flu" crowd commented yet?
 
nolalady said:
Y'all.......f*ck

Findings This cohort study of 18 355 infants delivered after February 2020 found that male but not female offspring born to mothers with a positive SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction test result during pregnancy were more likely to receive a neurodevelopmental diagnosis in the first 12 months after delivery, even after accounting for preterm delivery.

Meaning These findings suggest that male offspring exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in utero may be at increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders.

jamanetwork.com

Neurodevelopment of Offspring of Mothers With SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Pregnancy

This cohort study examines the risk for neurodevelopmental disorders among male and female offspring exposed in utero to SARS-CoV-2 and whether pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with neurodevelopmental risk independent of SARS-CoV-2 exposure.
jamanetwork.com jamanetwork.com

Of the 883 SARS-CoV-2–exposed offspring, 26 (2.9%) received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis during the first 12 months of life (this included 0 of 13 whose mothers were partially or fully vaccinated at time of infection) compared with 317 (1.8%) among the SARS-CoV-2–unexposed offspring
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Am I understanding this right? Mothers with covid have a higher risk of having boys DX'd with neurodev in the first year, but this study did not find that correlation in any of the vaccinated mothers?
 
yukbon said:
Am I understanding this right? Mothers with covid have a higher risk of having boys DX'd with neurodev in the first year, but this study did not find that correlation in any of the vaccinated mothers?
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That's how I'm reading it (and hoping) as my wife was vaxxed when she was pregnant and had covid
 
yukbon said:
Am I understanding this right? Mothers with covid have a higher risk of having boys DX'd with neurodev in the first year, but this study did not find that correlation in any of the vaccinated mothers?
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That's what it looks like to me.
 
Just got an email notifying us (where I work) of the following changes to our benefits effective after May 11th due to the COVID Public Health Emergency (PHE) ending.

  • COVID vaccines will continued to be covered at 100% from in-network providers only. You will no longer be able to get the COVID from out-of-network providers.
  • COVID testing will be covered according to the appropriate in or out-of-network cost-sharing rather than at 100%.
  • Over-the-Counter (OTC) COVID testing supplies will no longer be covered.

So, from this, I'm gathering I will no longer be able to get COVID vaccines at CVS. Like I can no longer get the Flu Shot after United Healthcare listed CVS as out-of-network a little over 2 years ago after CVS acquired Aetna, a competitor of United Healthcare. I'm up to date on my COVID Boosters, so I don't have to worry about this until the next booster is authorized.
 
Wow...
Incidence rates of type 1 diabetes were compared in 2018-2019 to 2020-2021 and were analyzed in conjunction with documented COVID-19 diagnoses. The frequency of a first diagnosis of COVID-19 ranged from 0.18% in January to March 2020 to 4.79% in October to December 2021.

The incidence rate of type 1 diabetes was 29.9 (95% binomial confidence interval [CI,] 27.7 to 32.2; 705 cases) per 100,000 person-years between January 2020 and December 2021, compared to 19.5 (95% CI, 17.8 to 21.4; 460 cases) between January 2018 and December 2019 (P<.001).

Diagnoses of type 1 diabetes increased following documented COVID-19 infection. The incidence rate of type 1 diabetes during the pandemic was 28.5 (95% CI, 26.3 to 30.9; 620 cases) per 100,000 person-years in the absence of a COVID-19 diagnosis made before or at the same time as a diabetes diagnosis.

In comparison, the incidence rate of type 1 diabetes was 55.2 (95% CI, 37.1 to 81.5; 27 cases) per 100,000 person-years in the same 3 months as a COVID-19 diagnosis (P<.001 vs COVID-19 negative). Six to 15 months after COVID-19 diagnosis, the diabetes incidence rate was 50.7 (95% CI, 34.3 to 74.4; 28 cases).

www.cidrap.umn.edu

COVID-19 infection associated with type 1 diabetes in kids

The incidence of new-onset type 1 diabetes was almost double in kids diagnosed as having COVID-19.
www.cidrap.umn.edu www.cidrap.umn.edu
 
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