Key developments for Thursday, December 3, 2020

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US Embassy staff are being pulled from Baghdad:

Climate change fears are impacting some US-Americans’ plans to have children. Some participants in the peer-reviewed study divulged regretting having children knowing those children could be forced to struggle to survive through potentially tough conditions in the future.

Speaking of the impacts of climate change, the Great Barrier Reef is dying:

The world has nearly 65.5 million cases.  The world has added about 3.5 million cases since last Thursday. There have been over 1.5 million deaths in total. The US has over 14.5 million cases. The US has added over 1.1 million cases since last Thursday. Over 282,000 Americans have died—nearly 2,800 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. This is a new daily high for deaths. The US has gained over 212,000 new cases since yesterday. The US still leads the world in case growth (by, at minimum, a factor of 4).

There’s not enough medical oxygen to go around:

We also don’t have enough tests and test reagents to meet demand:

Dr. Atlas is resigning from the Administration’s coronavirus taskforce. His positions and recommendations frequently ignited controversy—particularly back when he discouraged mask wearing.

California government authorities (both state and local) seem to enjoy “rules for thee but not for me” when it comes to indoor dining at restaurants. This comes on the heels of Governor Newsom eating in at French Laundry after recommending residents avoid indoor dining. The mayor of San Francisco is also guilty of this transgression.

The US State Department plans on holding a 900-person indoor holiday party this month. I have no words. Well, I have a few, but will save them for the comments:

On retrospective sampling, SARS-CoV-2-reactive antibodies were found in blood samples from the Red Cross as early as December, 2019. Now, if COVID was here that early, we would expect a large jump in Influenza Like Illness (ILI) and excess deaths around that time, and I’m not sure we’ve found that. Is it possible that a cross-reactive, milder viral precursor to COVID was circulating earlier than the outbreak in Wuhan? Or is the data flawed?

November was bad. December is probably going to be much worse:

The CDC has officially changed its quarantine guidelines to 10 days (post-exposure) or 7 with a negative test. It was previously 14 days.

As we’ve noted before, nursing homes are becoming absolute fodder for this virus:

Here’s a tally of the vaccines that have been approved so far:

Los Angeles (city and county) are back on lockdown:

Long COVID can be really long. A reporter discusses her experience with eight months of post-viral symptoms and fallout.

Stephanie Arnold | cosmicpixle

Stephanie Arnold is an advanced practice psychiatric nurse and a doctoral candidate in UA Tuscaloosa’s DNP program. Stephanie moonlights from time to time at UCLA teaching mental health nursing. She also likes making cold-process soap.

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