If this article is TL;DR for you, the RDV is this:
Study of over 50,000 COVID hospitalizations in VA hospitals. In 2020, about 36% were mild or asymptomatic as defined by blood oxygen levels >94 without supp oxygen. Through June 2021, 48% were considered mild/asymptomatic.
It makes sense 2021 is a higher rate. Remember I have been saying since Oct. 2020 that the HHS guidelines changed to include observation beds. People going to the ER to have sniffles checked out for >8 hours in a bed started counting in the numbers late in 2020.
"The issue is not whether or not masks are good or bad...those issues have been decided by the Department of Health, the Governor and this board," said Tom Grady, Chair of the State Board of Education just now.
"The issue is whether these districts are breaking the law."
The Board of Education is currently in an emergency meeting to address Broward and Alachua school districts violating the opt-out rule implemented by DOH and DOE. Today Commissioner Corcoran determined they were in violation of the new policy by forcing medical notes to exempt.
"We have districts picking and choosing what law they want to follow," says Commissioner Corocran, adding that the lead public health official -- the Surgeon General -- issued public health guidance and the districts are ignoring it.
One hospital CEO speaking in a roundtable held with @GovRonDeSantis on @floridachannel right now saying in his hospital(s), approximately 25 percent of COVID-19 hospitalizations are not from COVID. Several pediatric studies have found this to be 40-45% for child hospitalizations.
Another CEO saying the median age of hospitalized patients has dropped about 10 years to 57, likely due to the strategy of vaccinating so many seniors first. Also said the patients are not as sick, in general, as they were in the past.
Former Chief of Staff Shane Strum, now a CEO in Miami, saying the median age has dropped from low 70s to low 50s. Also said over 80 percent of their patients are not COVID-related.
Today @grahammediagrp rated (true) claims by @GovRonDeSantis as "not true" for their Trust Index for a story on @wjxt4. Not true means "it's fake" and "don't trust it," they say. Well, their Trust Index is fake, then, because their fact-checking is false.
In a presser, the Governor said "Understand a positive test is not a clinical diagnosis of illness," adding the important thing is people do not come down with severe illness. The crux here is there is a difference between the virus and the disease it can cause. See: WHO/CDC
When you test for COVID-19, you're actually testing for the virus. Not everyone that tests positive for the virus has symptoms or illness (disease). In a perfect world, a clinical diagnosis should be made on a number of factors. This continues to be codified by WHO IVD 2020/05.
NO, Florida did NOT sign off on forced isolation or quarantine and mandatory vaccination of the new SB 2006 bill. I'm going to explain and correct a false rumor going around based on a misunderstanding at how these bills are written.
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SB 2006 is the emergency powers bill that was signed into law on May 3 by @GovRonDeSantis. It is commonly known publicly as the bill that ban vaccine passports in schools, businesses, and by Florida public agencies, though it also limits emergency powers.
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The controversy begins when someone noticed the following text in SB 2006, p. 39, lines 1007-1111 of the text, "if the individual poses a danger to the public health, the State Health Officer may subject the individual to isolation or quarantine..."