Momentarily @GovRonDeSantis will be speaking on mABs. Some highlights:
* 25 state run monoclonal treatment sites
* Over 90,000 treatments provided so far
* 50% decrease in hospital admissions
* 24 consecutive days decline in census
* Lowest CLI visits to ER in almost 2 mos.
The Governor is pointing out Florida was also the first to do the first vaccine drive and going into nursing homes and high risk patients with strike teams.
Remember those days when Florida put #SeniorsFirst despite going against CDC guidance because they were most at-risk.
In addition, the Governor is noting that at some of the sites, over half of the people receiving mABs treatment had already been vaccinated. This is a treatment that can benefit people regardless of vaccination status. It's an additional layer of protection from severe disease.
"The bottom line is this: COVID is a treatable illness," saying @GovRonDeSantis.
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Did Anthony Fauci lie when he said more children have died from the virus than ever have died from the flu? Unless you think he's an incompetent boob that didn't learn a thing in 50 years in public health (hold the jokes please), then yes. And I will demonstrate that here.
So far, there have been 439 deaths of children ages 0-17 *with* COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Remember, this is over 20 months -- the first of many important qualifiers.
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From the CDC Wonder database, for multiple cause of death, here are the number of deaths ages 0-17 with flu for ICD-10 codes J09-J11 for types of influenza by year 2010-19.
So Fauci was telling the truth, right? Hold up. No, not even close.
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.