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#902 Post by chaos » Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:02 am

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... e-used-up/

Vaccine reserve was already exhausted when Trump administration vowed to release it, dashing hopes of expanded access
States were anticipating a windfall after federal officials said they would stop holding back second doses. But the approach had already changed, and no stockpile exists.

By Isaac Stanley-Becker and
Lena H. Sun
Jan. 15, 2021 at 10:02 a.m. EST

When Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced this week that the federal government would begin releasing coronavirus vaccine doses held in reserve for second shots, no such reserve existed, according to state and federal officials briefed on distribution plans. The Trump administration had already begun shipping out what was available beginning at the end of December, taking second doses directly off the manufacturing line.

Now, health officials across the country who had anticipated their extremely limited vaccine supply as much as doubling beginning next week are confronting the reality that their allocations will not immediately increase, dashing hopes of dramatically expanding eligibility for millions of elderly people and those with high-risk medical conditions. Health officials in some cities and states were informed in recent days about the reality of the situation, while others are still in the dark.

Because both of the vaccines authorized for emergency use in the United States are two-dose regimens, the Trump administration’s initial policy was to hold back second doses to protect against the possibility of manufacturing disruptions. But that approach shifted in recent weeks, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter. The result is that next week’s allocations will remain flat.

These officials were told that Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s initiative to speed the development of vaccines and therapeutics, stopped stockpiling second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the end of last year, instead taking second doses directly off the manufacturing line. The last shots held in reserve of Moderna’s supply, meanwhile, began shipping out over the weekend.

The shift, in both cases, had to do with increased confidence in the supply chain, so that Operation Warp Speed leaders were confident they could reliably anticipate the availability of doses for booster shots — required three weeks later in the case of the Pfizer-BioNTech product and four weeks later under Moderna’s protocol.

But it also meant there was no stockpile of second doses waiting to be shipped, as Trump administration officials suggested this week. Azar, at a Tuesday briefing, said, “Because we now have a consistent pace of production, we can now ship all of the doses that had been held in physical reserve.” He explained the decision as part of the “next phase” of the nation’s vaccination campaign.

HHS spokesman Michael Pratt confirmed in an email that the final reserve of second doses had been released to states for order over the weekend but did not address Azar’s comments this week, saying only, “Operation Warp Speed has been monitoring manufacturing closely, and always intended to transition from holding second doses in reserve as manufacturing stabilizes and we gained confidence in the ability for a consistent flow of vaccines.”

He also said states have ordered only about 75 percent of what is available to them.

Azar’s comments followed a Jan. 8 announcement by President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team that his administration would move to release all available doses, rather than holding half in reserve for booster shots. Biden’s advisers said the move would be a way to accelerate distribution of the vaccine, which is in short supply across the country.

When Azar embraced the change four days later — after initially saying it was shortsighted and potentially unethical in risking the availability of a booster shot — he did not say the original policy had already been phased out, or that the stockpile had been exhausted. Signaling to states that they would soon see expanded supply, he also urged them to begin vaccinating adults 65 and older and those under 64 with a high-risk medical condition. Officials in some states embraced that directive, while others said suddenly putting hundreds of thousands of additional people at the front of the line would overwhelm their capacity.

In subsequent conversations with state and local authorities, federal officials sought to temper those instructions, said people who participated in the conversations. Gustave F. Perna, chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, spoke directly to officials in at least two of the jurisdictions receiving vaccine supply, explaining that allocations would not increase and that they did not have to broaden eligibility as they had previously been told, according to a health official who was not authorized to discuss the matter.

The health director in Oregon, Patrick M. Allen, was so disturbed by the realization that he wrote a letter Thursday to Azar demanding an explanation.

“Earlier today, we became concerned when we discovered there were no additional doses available for allocation,” he said in the letter, which was reviewed by The Washington Post.

On a call with Perna earlier the same day, Allen wrote, the four-star Army general “informed us there is no reserve of doses, and we are already receiving the full allocation of vaccines.”

“If true, this is extremely disturbing, and puts our plans to expand eligibility at grave risk,” Allen added. “Those plans were made on the basis of reliance on your statement about “releasing the entire supply” you have in reserve. If this information is accurate, we will be unable to begin vaccinating our vulnerable seniors on Jan. 23, as planned.”

The revised instructions led additional jurisdictions to hold off on broadening their priority groups. One state health official noted that the updated guidance announced Tuesday as to eligibility did not appear on the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even though it was stated as federal policy by Azar and by Robert R. Redfield, the CDC director, in their remarks earlier this week. Under the original recommendations, adults 65 and older and front-line essential workers were to comprise the second priority group, known as phase 1b, in line after medical workers and residents and staff of long-term care facilities.

But the issue of supply was most troubling to state health officials.

“States were shocked and surprised that they did not see an increase in their allocations, and when they asked for explanations, some of them were told there was not a large stockpile of second doses to draw from,” said an official working with numerous states on vaccination planning who spoke on the condition of anonymity to recount sensitive conversations. “They thought they were getting more doses and they planned for more doses and opened up to 65 and up, thinking they were getting more.”

There was additional confusion. Another change in the distribution system announced Tuesday by Azar — making allocation of doses dependent on the pace of inoculations in the states — would not take effect for two weeks, he said Tuesday. But Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) on Thursday tweeted that federal officials had notified the state that it would receive an additional 50,000 doses next week “as a reward for being among the fastest states” to get shots into arms. West Virginia, meanwhile, which is moving at the fastest clip based on CDC data, did not get any additional doses, said Holli Nelson, a spokeswoman for the state’s National Guard.

In a sign that the incentive structure may not be long-lived, a senior Biden transition official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address ongoing deliberations, said this week the team did not look kindly on a system that “punishes states.”

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#903 Post by Hype » Sat Jan 16, 2021 5:14 pm

On Page 3 of this thread I did some napkin calculations for transmission numbers over time. Interestingly, at that time back in March of last year, there were 100,000 total cases. There are now close to 100 million, and we're at about 10 months later. That's not quite as fast as I calculated, but it's not that far off, either, especially given the still ongoing differences in testing and reporting rates. It seems Japan doesn't test nearly as many people as other places, e.g., but they've got a very large very old population. As a result, they rank 39th in the world by official numbers, but I'd be willing to bet their numbers are an order of magnitude higher in reality. I forget how many people I calculated might die, but I don't think I actually expected the number to be at 2 million world-wide in less than a year.

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#904 Post by kv » Sat Jan 16, 2021 5:16 pm

Ya back when you were ball parking you probably thought we'd try and slow the spread....silly you

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#905 Post by Larry B. » Sun Jan 17, 2021 3:04 pm

Here (and maybe in som US states too) the policy is not about trying to avoid deaths, but about trying to avoid a full-on and obvious collapse of the healthcare system.

If a million people die, but the press isn’t covering that all the hospitals are full to the brim, they’d deem it a successful operation.

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#906 Post by chaos » Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:02 pm

Hospitals are pretty full here, but we seem to be doing better than in other parts of the country.

I've been coming across some pretty horrifying reports about California; it's like the way NY was times 10. :nyrexall:

I think CA hasn't gotten as much nationwide coverage though since the past few weeks have been so crazy.

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#907 Post by Pandemonium » Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:06 am

chaos wrote:
Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:02 pm
Hospitals are pretty full here, but we seem to be doing better than in other parts of the country.

I've been coming across some pretty horrifying reports about California; it's like the way NY was times 10. :nyrexall:

I think CA hasn't gotten as much nationwide coverage though since the past few weeks have been so crazy.
LA and the surrounding SoCal counties are pretty much the epicenter of bad cases for the entire nation right now. Oddly, despite the massive Christmas/NY travel, a new "spike upon spike" doesn't seem to be happening and we may be leveling off. It's also interesting that California has and has had some of the most restrictive lockdown policies in the Nation since last March.

But we still get plenty of local coverage every night in the news - hospitals maxed out, ambulances waiting 12 hours at ERs to off-load patients and of course, new daily fear mongering about latest mutations of the virus ("will this new strain be vaccine resistant?!?") and the little daily features on a specific Covid patient whi died (usually far out of the typical age 65+ poor health fatalities) to drive home how the virus affects individuals and families, even those who were young and healthy.

I get the government/media mindset - it's designed to continually hammer home the basic mask wearing/social distancing/follow the guidelines thing to a largely stupid, selfish population much like previous efforts to continually encourage citizens to support say, the WWII effort, but I think the effect is ultimately contributing to population fatigue, distrust and outright anger, especially when seen in conjunction with federal, state and local government's ineptitude regarding lockdowns, vaccine distribution, etc.

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#908 Post by kv » Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:31 pm

Lucky to say, I guess, just lost the first person I knew from it...it's fucked because the guys whole family don't know how he got it or who he gave it to...they are all just scrambling for tests :banghead:

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#909 Post by Artemis » Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:34 pm

Sorry to hear that, kv. I recently found out that one of my cousins died from COVID. He was young, 41 only.

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#910 Post by mockbee » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:54 am

This is a pretty good article that hints at the real underlying problem here.

I think that way beyond personal responsibility, which is important, our underlying problem that public officials and the public in general only hint at, if we are lucky, is the whole capitalist system for the massive stratification of wealth we have going on here. Sure, we all signed on to this. This is what we are doing, but nobody wants to talk about it, let alone do anything about it. We latch onto Race, which again is important, but still, we don't go one step further and ask the hard questions. All slavery was is a unit of labor. Europeams didn't hate Black people, they needed units of cheap labor. Nothing's changed.... :noclue:

Process that fish! Build those homes! Pick that fruit! Deliver that food! Get that oil out of the ground! Clean that up! Drive that bus! Watch my kids!......And for chistsake....WEAR A MASK!

Unwilling to do those things for hardly anything in return?....you're worthless. Depending on my proclivities, whether you're Black, Brown or especially if you're White.....I'm just going to call you TRASH....and it's okay! It's baked into the system.....And if you don't like that, look to your left that guy just took your job, and that other guy refuses to work and is getting a government check. And look at the color of their skin. There's your REAL problem.....

And we all go...YUP.....lets keep doin' it! :thumb: :banana:

Oh....right, what the hell am I going off on about here....... now back on topic, right? Going way off topic there.....whew.... Let's see whats going on here. Hmmmm....got a vaccine. Great. Now looks like the poor white/black/brown people totally fucked this all up. Lets let them work that out...hopefully soon....and in the meantime we can get vaccinated and stay safe....
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In L.A., the Virus Is Pummeling Those Who Can Least Afford to Fall Ill
By Jill Cowan and Matthew BlochJan. 29, 2021



On a recent weekday afternoon, not long before officials eased strict orders to stay home, cars sped down Los Angeles freeways when they would normally crawl.

In Pacoima, a northeastern San Fernando Valley neighborhood, brightly painted storefronts along Van Nuys Boulevard were mostly closed. There was no line alongside a trail of signs advertising rapid Covid-19 tests.

In Los Angeles County, the impacts of the pandemic have been relatively diffuse, with millions of residents suffering and grieving in isolation across a famously vast sprawl. Lockdowns — some of the nation’s most stringent, credited with saving thousands of lives — have kept Angelenos apart for months on end.

But recently, as Los Angeles County has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, the astonishing surge has reinforced the virus’s unequal toll, pummeling poorer communities of color. Experts say that deeply rooted inequality is both a symptom and a critical cause of Covid-19’s overwhelming spread through the nation’s most populous county.

“The challenge is that even before the surge, we had unevenness in Los Angeles County and in the state of California — we had smoldering embers in parts of our community all the time,” said Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, the vice dean for population health and health equity at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “Our interconnectedness is part of the story.”

County officials recently estimated that one in three of Los Angeles County’s roughly 10 million people have been infected with Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. But even amid an uncontrolled outbreak, some Angelenos have faced higher risk than others. County data shows that Pacoima, a predominantly Latino neighborhood that has one of the highest case rates in the nation, has roughly five times the rate of Covid-19 cases as much richer and whiter Santa Monica.

Experts point to a combination of factors that have made the uneven impacts of the virus tragically predictable across the country, an imbalance that is often magnified in California.

The essential workers who risk getting sick on the job are more likely to be Latino and more likely to live in overcrowded houses and apartments without space to isolate, experts have said throughout the pandemic.

Their jobs — including those in warehouses, food processing plants, restaurant kitchens and factories — are likely to be lower paid, and workers are less likely to be able to take time off when they’re sick.

“It’s a double whammy for these workers: Covid, and unemployment or underemployment,” said Daniel Flaming, president of the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Economic Roundtable.

Los Angeles County, long plagued by a gaping chasm between its rich and poor, has a particularly large service sector that requires workers to interact face-to-face with customers, Mr. Flaming said.

“Latino or African-American workers predominantly in service jobs are providing services to more affluent neighborhoods where there’s more capacity for consumption,” he said. “So the income polarization is certainly a factor.”


While the median household income is about $43,000 in Boyle Heights, a Latino enclave where longtime residents have fought gentrification, in Brentwood, home to Hollywood celebrities, the median income is about $120,000. One in five Boyle Heights residents have gotten Covid-19, compared with one in 25 Brentwood residents.

Senator Alex Padilla, who was appointed this month to fill Vice President Kamala Harris’s vacant seat, grew up in Pacoima, the son of a short-order cook and a housekeeper. Seeing the uneven effects of the pandemic, particularly on predominantly Latino communities like the one where his family still lives, “I can’t help but take it personally,” he said.

The problem, experts say, is that once the prevalence of the virus is high enough in any neighborhood, it puts everyone who lives there in danger, even if people are cautious and follow public health guidance.

Such was the case for Leonila Olivares, 45, who lives with her four children in Pacoima.

In December, she and her 10-year-old daughter contracted Covid-19, but she’s unsure how. She had been strict about wearing masks and had stopped gathering with her siblings and their families, she said, and she’d tried to keep her distance from other shoppers at the grocery store. She had stopped working at a garment factory in 2019 because of a disability. Nevertheless, she and her daughter were among more than a dozen members of her extended family in the area who contracted the virus.

She said it has troubled her to see people standing too close in mobile Covid-19 testing lines and she’s asked people to give her space at the market. Ultimately, though, she said she decided all she can worry about is keeping herself and her children safe.

“It’s not going to be me against the world,” she said in Spanish.


Laura Hidalgo, the leader of a Covid-19 outreach team for the Pacoima-based nonprofit Meet Each Need With Dignity, interpreted for Ms. Olivares. Ms. Hidalgo said that for many Latino immigrants, close-knit extended families provide a crucial support system.

So in the months leading up to the winter surge, public health messaging about the need to stay away from everyone — no dropping food off at your daughter’s home and staying for 15 minutes to chat, no going into your parents’ house to check on them — was met with some resistance in the hard-hit neighborhoods where Ms. Hidalgo works.

Recently, though, that’s changed, as deaths have soared and hospitals in the region have been inundated.

“I see a lot more fear in people,” Ms. Hidalgo said. “What we’re seeing, still, is that a lot of families don’t have any other choice but to continue business as usual.”

Edward Flores, an associate professor who has researched the impacts of the pandemic on workers for the Community and Labor Center at the University of California, Merced, said that even though California has issued some rules aimed at keeping workers safe, they’ve too often gone unenforced until it’s too late.

Now, as Los Angeles County officials once again move to allow businesses to reopen, experts say the clock is ticking to not only vaccinate workers, but to also implement more sustained protections.

Those must include federal aid that goes directly to frontline workers and affected communities, Mr. Padilla, the senator, said.

“These are not stimulus checks, these are survival checks,” he said.
Mr. Flores said he’s been especially dismayed by the fact that most undocumented workers have gone without aid.

He has also been frustrated, he said, to see so much discussion about individual behaviors when it’s long been clear that systemic forces are making certain people more vulnerable than others.

“We get locked in these conversations about, well, someone doesn’t wear a mask,” he said. “We’re almost one year into this, and part of me worries we haven’t really learned as much as we should have.”

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Re: Coronavirus

#911 Post by kv » Sat Jan 30, 2021 7:37 am

kv wrote:
Wed Jan 20, 2021 2:31 pm
Lucky to say, I guess, just lost the first person I knew from it...it's fucked because the guys whole family don't know how he got it or who he gave it to...they are all just scrambling for tests :banghead:
Well that didn't last long...one of my friends from high school just lost his Mom...which is horrific...she had suffered a fall and had a couple breaks and was bedridden recovering... so he was helping out, doing laundry and getting food and stuff for her and his dad...he thinks he got covid and gave it to them both...she is dead and his dad is now in a hospital fighting for his life...pretty much the worst case scenario...nicest fucking guy too... :banghead:

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#912 Post by mockbee » Sat Jan 30, 2021 9:01 am

That's terrible kv, sorry to hear.
:wavesad:

Both parents....ugh.

And he can't even see anybody to help.... :sad: :no:

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#913 Post by mockbee » Sat Jan 30, 2021 9:11 am

Does your friend, or his parents, live in one of the hardest hit (beet red) districts of LA or Orange County?

May as well be a map of "HERE ARE WHERE THE POOR PEOPLE LIVE"....... :scared: :no:
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#914 Post by kv » Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:27 am

No we are in the yellow...I have a buddy who works all over the LA area....I've asked him are people wearing masks and he said once you get on the other side of the freeways nobody really is (which is pretty much that map)...I was reading an article about the largest cemetery in america which is here...wait time to be buried is now up to five weeks and they have TONS of refrigerated trucks holding all the dead...it's just fatigue with the masks...I see fewer and fewer people wearing them through the weeks...in the area I live it's like people are just more concerned with their tan then trying to stay alive...boggles the mind

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#915 Post by chaos » Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:55 am

Sorry to hear about your friend KV. :gh:

People in my area take mask-wearing and social distancing very seriously. It seems so odd when I see/read about people in other areas being so cavalier about it.

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#916 Post by kv » Sat Jan 30, 2021 11:21 am

From my friends take...the richer the area the more likely a mask :banghead:

Ty :tiphat: I didn't know his mom..aside from in passing as kids...just feel so bad for him...he's living my worst nightmare

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#917 Post by mockbee » Sat Jan 30, 2021 11:42 am

People are religious about mask wearing here.

Of course in stores, even outside walking on the sidewalk, parking lots, everyone wears a mask. :noclue:

Even distanced jogging in parks or riding bikes....more than half the people wear masks :lol:

We have one of the lowest case loads in the country.

Our biggest problem areas are: 1) Prisons 2) Fisheries 3) Farm worker communities 4) Native/indigenous communities


......But unfortunately, we have one of the most inept public health systems in the country in terms of organizing and administering tests/vaccines.... :no:

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#918 Post by Artemis » Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:06 pm

Yesterday one of my co-workers, who I thought was on vacation, disclosed to our team that she's been sick with COVID. Her husband too. We work from from home and use Webex as our way to communicate. She said that she barely left her bed for 8 days. She experienced fever, cough, chills, severe back and rib pain, and crippling fatigue. Thankfully, no breathing issues.Her husband isn't doing as well, he was in bed for 12 days. She is doing better but her husband has a really high heart rate, which is because of COVID. They're both in their 40s.

The vaccine situation is not going so well here. Both Pfizer and Moderna aren't delivering as agreed, there's a delay. Not that many people have been vaccinated. At this rate and with the delays, Canada's population may not be vaccinated until mid 2022.

As for mask wearing, I've been wearing a mask since April. I'm used to it and feel weird when I'm out and not wearing one. If I'm just going for a walk in my neighbourhood, I don't wear one. We have a similar situation here where poorer communities have higher rates of COVID infection. These are the people working the grocery stores, cleaners, postal workers, factories, front-line workers. There are a lot of cases in the homeless shelters too. When i go into grocery stores or the drugstore, everyone I see is wearing a mask. I see the occasional person not wearing one when I'm on the bus. The Canadian government has suspended all flights to Mexico and Caribbean until April 30th. This is to stop people from travelling for spring break. Tighter quarantine measures for people coming into Canada- 2 week supervised quarantine at traveller's own expense. Also more testing at airports for arrivals.

I don't know what to think anymore about the lockdowns. Some of it doesn't make sense. Film production is still going on. A friend of mine was working on the new series, Clarice, and they have a COVID budget of $8 million. The crew gets tested 3 times per week. The only people allowed on the set are those who have a scene, no hanging around if you're not needed. My friend does costumes/wardrobe, so she's in very close contact with other people.

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#919 Post by mockbee » Sat Jan 30, 2021 9:21 pm

Do you know if your coworkers in their 40s had underlying conditions? Sounds bad... :no:

This has been pretty nuts, and doesn't seem to be letting up anytime soon.... :scared:

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#920 Post by mockbee » Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:15 pm

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‘It’s just a matter of time’: Inmates detail horrid conditions amid COVID spike in Oregon prisons

By Kale Williams | The Oregonian/OregonLive

Frances Lanegan has watched with a growing sense of dread over the past month as coronavirus cases have exploded where she lives.

Her home -- for the moment -- is Coffee Creek Correctional Institution. Lanegan, a 56-year-old inmate, is serving a three-year sentence after a drug conviction last year. Of the 219 coronavirus cases at the Wilsonville facility since the beginning of the pandemic, 164 have been diagnosed in the past three weeks.

She and her cellmate both tested negative on Dec. 19 and 28, but when tested again on Jan. 6, Lanegan’s cellmate tested positive, though she did not. Lanegan expected to be moved, but when she asked the guards, they told her that since she had already been exposed, she would be staying with her infected cellmate.

“I’m vulnerable,” said Lanegan, who suffers from respiratory issues. “They just left me in there with her.”

Lanegan is one of eight inmates in three Oregon state prisons interviewed by The Oregonian/OregonLive over the past week. One of them told of suffering direct retaliation after asking for additional personal protective equipment. Two said they weren’t told of their own positive diagnosis until they asked about it. Three said inmates feel punished when they receive a positive test and that, in some prisons, inmates are sent to “The Hole” for quarantine.

All said they had seen COVID-positive inmates put into cells or dorms with other inmates who had not tested positive, in direct violation of the policies and protocols issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which the Department of Corrections says it follows to control the spread of the illness.

Together, their stories shed light on a dire situation in Oregon’s prisons, where COVID cases have spiked dramatically, prisoners are afraid and frustrated, and many, including Alexander Vazquez, an inmate at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla County, expressed a feeling of hopelessness.

“It’s just a matter of time before everyone gets infected here,” he said.
McKenzie said he took a COVID test in early January, but after nearly a week with no news, he asked medical staff about the results. On Jan. 19, they told him his test had come back positive and he needed to go into isolation.

He was restricted to his cell, only allowed out to walk and make phone calls for about 30 minutes a day. But then, just three days after he was informed of his infection, the guards moved a new inmate into his cell who hadn’t contracted the disease.

“I can’t fathom some of the stuff they do in here,” McKenzie said. “They really don’t care.”

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#921 Post by guysmiley » Sun Jan 31, 2021 4:02 am

Sorry KV. There was a small outbreak at my son's kindergarten. I had to get in an argument with my boss to take a day off so we could get tested. It didn't even cross my eldery dimwit boss that I was putting him at risk by being at work. The kid was a champ and didn't cry during the test. We're negative. But that was a whole week with the kindergarten shut down. Hard to get by. Even harder when your company doesn't have a game plan. I'm quitting mid March. Fuck this guy.

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#922 Post by mockbee » Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:03 pm

I don't know about everyone else.... but i'm starting to get tired of this corona thing........ :neutral:

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#923 Post by Larry B. » Fri Feb 12, 2021 12:22 pm

Over here, the government is trying to score some points by purchasing a lot of vaccines (while still killing people in the streets and shooting at protesters.) Seems like Chile has one of the higher vaccination rates so far. My wife got vaccinated yesterday and has to have another shot next month. Two friends got vaccinated too. I’m not in any way a priority human being, so I can see myself getting the vaccine at the very last (if at all).

Mask-wearing at social ocassions is at an all-time low here, but people are wearing them when out and about. I only take it off when I’m home.

Thankfully, all my close relatives have kept their health so far.

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#924 Post by Artemis » Wed Feb 24, 2021 4:41 pm

The vaccine roll out in my province is going slow! People in LTC homes have all been vaccinated.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ ... -1.5925705

The schedule for the rest of the population:

March 15th is when on-line booking will start.
Officials expect to begin vaccinating people 80 years and over by the third week of March.

The proposed schedule in the following weeks, Hillier said, will look something like this as long as supplies of vaccine stay steady:

April 15: vaccinations begin for people 75 years old and over.
May 1: vaccinations begin for people 70 years old and over.
June 1: vaccinations begin for people 65 years and over.
July 1: vaccinations begin for people 60 years and over.
I guess for my age group, I'll be able to get one in September. :noclue:

Toronto is still in "stay at home" order until March 9th at least. Schools started last week.

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Re: Coronavirus

#925 Post by mockbee » Wed Feb 24, 2021 5:25 pm

Wow. You guys are really slow..... :hs:


My Dad got last dose last week, two doses Moderna.

My mom is waiting for Jonhson & Johnson "One amd done!" She always says.... :lol:

My sister got it almost three weeks ago, Pfizer. She is 41 and has no health problems. She works at the VA and at first they were giving it go most at risk and front line, but they couldn't get people to fill the slots available, so they opened it up to all employees, or else they would have had to throw away doses.... She figured she's getting it sometime, and later it will be impossible, so why not.... :noclue:

I'm prpbably not going to be eligible until Sept either....

Its like a Hamilton ticket.... :lol:

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