... “There's a catheter the size of a garden hose in his neck, and there's a catheter the size of a garden hose [at his] groin,” Sharma said.

“And basically it takes the blood out of his groin, puts it the machine, takes the carbon dioxide out, [puts in] the oxygen, and then comes back into his heart.”

Inside an Ontario ICU where the COVID-19 patients are largely young, and all unvaccinated
Avis Favaro, Elizabeth St. Philip, Alexandra Mae Jones

The truth of the fourth wave of COVID-19 in Canada is starkly clear inside the intensive care unit at Hamilton General, where the majority of the COVID-19 patients struggling on life support are young — and unvaccinated.

The team at Hamilton General invited CTV News inside the tense ICU in the hopes of giving Canadians a look at the reality they go through every week as Delta cases climb.

“I think it's important for Canadians to see that this is real,” Dr. Sunjay Sharma, medical director of critical care, told CTV News. “None of these people thought two months ago they would end up here. And now they're here. And some of them won’t survive.” ...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavir ... -1.5587419

Love it - the link for anyone that wants the entire article

https://www.newsweek.com/hospital-asks- ... ol-1629037

And in Canada

Coronavirus vaccination tracker: How many people in Canada have received shots?
CTVNews.ca Staff

Canada is in the middle of its largest mass vaccination program in history, with tens of thousands of COVID-19 inoculations being administered daily across the provinces and territories.

Four vaccines, developed by Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, have been authorized for use in Canada to date.

As the country continues the ongoing fight against COVID-19, CTVNews.ca is tracking the daily and cumulative vaccine doses administered in Canada by surveying the data from public health units. The interactive map outlines the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed as a percentage of the country’s population.



https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavir ... -1.5247509

Interactive map and detailed stats at source

Not good enough.

Agreed but still far ahead of the US.

Carmine's hostess attacked after asking diners for proof of vaccination
Cellphone footage obtained by NBC New York shows a brawl outside Carmine's on the Upper West Side.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/carmine-s-hostess-attacked-after-asking-diners-proof-vaccine-n1279410

I was going to post this in the Karen thread. I was in NYC a few weeks ago and everyone was checking vax cards except I went in one place and took out my card and the hostess said you don’t have to show that here. It doesn’t start for a few more weeks. You can put that away. Hmmm

From Scientific American

A New Nurse Struggles to Save Patients in a New COVID Surge
Cases peaked, then fell, then rose again. “It is so much worse this time”
By Kathryn Ivey, a critical care nurse at a medical center in Nashville, Tenn.

I saw my name followed by “RN” for the first time on July 27, 2020. The next day, my instructor, or preceptor, and I were assigned to the COVID intensive care unit at our hospital in Nashville, Tenn. I read the assignment sheet with a strange knot in my chest. It wasn’t fear or dread rising into my throat but something much harder to name.

For months, as a nurse intern, I’d watched the battle-weary nurses emerge from COVID rooms, taking off their PPE like warriors stripping off armor, their faces lined from the pressure of the respirators. There was something etched in their faces I couldn’t fully understand at the time, something that ran deeper than sadness, some terrible weight that came from caring for these patients. Now it was my turn for ...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... vid-surge/

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said in a recent midyear report that Covid-19 is the leading cause of death for officers nationwide.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/it-doesn-t-have-happen-covid-leading-cause-death-among-n1279289?fbclid=IwAR1XiPuJZz24wXV8blto1Jxr6vxFLo8Jr6nbejXHdcnJHzvc6DMYpbsvzxQ


So who is a bigger threat to police officers, Black Lives Matter or unvaccinated citizens?

Teen city councilman in Alabama who voted against masks has Covid-19

Hunter Pepper, 19, who is unvaccinated, said he's encouraging vaccinations. "This is a virus that is tearing down everybody," he said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teen-city-councilman-alabama-who-voted-against-masks-has-covid-n1279487

California is one of the more sane states.
not that we don't have crazy here.
we clearly do.
we just don't vote that way.

It's interesting to compare voting pattern with COVID hotspots

there are a couple of weird anomalies on that chart in Eastern California, but it holds up pretty well from election to election. lots of places in CA are bright red, but they are wildly under populated.

What does waning COVID-19 vaccine immunity mean? Experts say term is misleading
By Melissa Couto Zuber

The idea of waning immunity has picked up steam in recent weeks, with some countries using it to justify rolling out third-dose COVID-19 vaccine boosters to their populations. But immunologists say the concept has been largely misunderstood.

While antibodies – proteins created after infection or vaccination that help prevent future invasions from the pathogen – do level off over time, experts say that’s supposed to happen.

And it doesn’t mean we’re not protected against COVID-19.

Jennifer Gommerman, an immunologist with the University of Toronto, said the term “waning immunity” has given people a false understanding of how the immune system works.

“Waning has this connotation that something’s wrong and there isn’t,” she said. “It’s very normal for ...

https://globalnews.ca/news/8202534/covi ... explained/

It's true!! United is discriminating ... against stupid people

United employees sue the airline over exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, as the company announces 97% of workers have gotten the shot
Francis Agustin

Six United Airlines employees have filed a lawsuit against the company, saying it discriminated against workers through its company-wide vaccine mandate.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a Texas federal court, alleges the company refused to engage with or denied employees' requests for religious or medical exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine, which they say violate of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. It also said United's "indefinite unpaid leave" policy failed to provide "reasonable accommodations" to unvaccinated employees.

"United's actions have left Plaintiffs with ...

https://sports.yahoo.com/united-employe ... 13007.html

Something very strange has been happening in Missouri, Brooke Harrington writes. A hospital in the state, Ozarks Healthcare, had to create a “private setting” for patients afraid of being seen getting vaccinated against COVID-19. In a video produced by the hospital, the physician Priscilla Frase says, “Several people come in to get vaccinated who have tried to sort of disguise their appearance and even went so far as to say, ‘Please, please, please don’t let anybody know that I got this vaccine.’”

Although they want to protect themselves from the coronavirus and its variants, these patients are desperate to ensure that their vaccine-skeptical friends and family never find out what they have done. "Writers across the political spectrum have urged deference and sympathy toward holdouts’ concerns about vaccine side effects and the botched CDC messaging about masking and airborne transmission early in the pandemic," Harrington notes. "But these takes can’t explain why holdouts who receive respect, empathy, and information directly from reliable sources remain unmoved—or why some people are afraid to tell their loved ones about being vaccinated."

Read on.

The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable
Why targets of deliberate deception often hesitate to admit they’ve been deceived
By Brooke Harrington

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ct/619627/

Talk about dumb mistakes

https://fb.watch/8dve8Y3zh4/

Mapping America’s hospitalization and vaccination divide
Stark differences across the country revealed



The delta covid wave carves a dividing line across the country defined by one rule: Regions with more vaccinations have fewer hospitalizations.

The map above shows places in green where most of the people are fully vaccinated and very few hospital beds are occupied by covid patients.

In purple, the map shows communities where fewer people are vaccinated and hospitals have as many as 10 times the covid patients as those in ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... ation-map/

Details on the map including labels at source

wow. fucking Oregon!