NYC contact tracers will now ask you about your dining habits, but not attending protests

Madness.

COVID is no longer a health concern – it’s a Democrat political weapon.

NYC contact tracers will now ask you about your dining habits, but not attending protests

By: Julia Marsh and Nolan Hicks, New York Post, July 19, 2020:

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The city’s coronavirus tracing program will start asking people if they’ve been at outdoor bars and restaurants to help understand the spike in cases among those between the ages of 20 and 29 — even though health officials never asked if people attended the George Floyd protests, The Post has learned.

“Patients are asked who they spent close time with socially. To ensure we’re adapting our program to New Yorkers’ changing routes, patients will explicitly be asked if they spent time with their close contact at a bar or restaurant as the city continues to reopen,” said City Hall spokeswoman Avery Cohen said, while reaffirming they won’t be asked about demonstrations.

“People are asked to name any gatherings they have attended to help identify cases related to specific events,” Cohen said. “Regarding bars and restaurants, we’re adapting the program to match the increased mobility of New Yorkers, especially those in the younger age brackets.”

The city’s Dept. of Health found that the proportion of 20-somethings diagnosed with COVID-19 doubled during the second half of June. The new cases were less likely to live in the Bronx and more likely to reside in wealthier neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan including the Financial District and Greenwich Village, according to lab reports.

“We didn’t see an uptick from the protests. They reached their peak over a month ago at this point,” Cohen said when asked why the tracing corps wasn’t tracking protest attendance.

Earlier in the week Dr. Jay Varma, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s senior adviser for public health, said, “There’s nothing that we can see that directly links the protests to the rise that we’re seeing right now among younger people.”

But, he admitted, “There’s a lot we don’t know.”

Dr. S. Patrick Kachur, a professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, defended the city’s position about leaving demonstrations out of tracing questions.

“Asking about protests might alienate some people — and it might not generate that much useful information.

“What would you do if knew someone was standing out in the Barclay’s Center for hours? Would you ask literally everybody to come in? So, they took some reasonable steps – trying to ascertain this information could compromise our ability to establish the trust that we need,” Kachur explained.

But a former associate commissioner for the federal Food and Drug Administration slammed the approach.

“When President Trump says if we stop testing we’ll have fewer cases, the Mayor calls out the hypocrisy,” Peter Pitts said.

“When we can’t explain the uptick in our fair city’s COVID-19 infection rates among the 20-29 age group — and we aren’t asking if they’ve attended a Black Lives Matter protest, that’s called hypocrisy too. Wake up, Your honor. Closing your eyes and covering your ears won’t change the facts,” Pitts said.

Dr. Jake Deutsch, co-founder of Cure Urgent Care that’s tested over 5,000 patients for COVID-19, agreed that the tracing corps should ask about protests.

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Sewer Maintenance

3 years ago

“There’s nothing that we can see that directly links the protests to the rise that we’re seeing right now among younger people.”

So you’re… deliberately choosing to not see basic and obvious things?

Same as normal for “liberals”, then?

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Sewer Maintenance

3 years ago

Hey Pamela, the Dems may still have to fight a “normal” election yet!

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/oxford-coronavirus-vaccine-generates-promising-phase-12-results/story?id=71875583&cid=social_twitter_abcn

Oh no, if this works out they’ll have no excuse to hide Senile Joe any more.

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DemocracyRules

3 years ago

Study Drug Stopped Progression Of Severe Covid-19 in 79% of Patients
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-experimental-drug-prevents-79-of-covid-19-cases-progressing-in-trial-12032221
Researchers say 79% of oxygen support Covid-19 patients didn’t need ventilator intubation. This is huge, because about 80% of patients who must go on a ventilator die. Keeping them breathing well, and off a ventilator could save many thousands of lives.

The experimental drug SNG001 is an inhaled version of the well-known drug beta-interferon, developed by Synairgen. It was given to patients in hospital with COVID-19 who needed oxygen support. The study was conducted in a double-blind and placebo-controlled trial, and neither the doctors nor the patients knew who was getting SNG001 or a placebo. The number of patients who developed the most severe form of the disease – to the point where they required ventilation or they died – was reduced by 79% for those taking SNG001. The drug is an inhaled formulation of beta-interferon which a naturally occurring protein that orchestrates the body’s anti-viral responses, and is also used to treat the auto-immune disease Multiple Sclerosis.

Researchers think beta-interferon prevents the Covid-19 virus from making more copies of itself inside the lung cells. “Our treatment of giving high local concentrations of interferon beta, a naturally occurring antiviral protein, restores the lungs ability to neutralize the virus,” said Dr. Holgate of the U.K. University of Southampton, who is also the co-founder of Synairgen.

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stephen5970

3 years ago

First, they are not “demonstrations” and George Floyd means virtually nothing to the rioters. He is just an excuse to cause mayhem, distraction, and to show the authorities who is the real boss (of the Dem cities).

Secondly, don’t you know that if you riot and are part of a mob you are invincible? Ergo, the Wuhan plague will not affect you. Don’t waste precious tracer time with silly ideas that you can get sick when you are part of the wild-eyed destructive hoard. I mean really, where would you get that idea? It contradicts science! Hmm… Maybe not.

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