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About a month ago, I noticed a worrying trend- we started to see a lot more pediatric patients in the ER than we normally did. This was anecdotal at first, but then I heard my friends in primary care and pediatrics were getting absolutely hammered with...
by SquireForYou
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on Fri Oct 28, 2022 at 11:04 AM PDT
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For those who have read my diaries on this subject, I keep track of the COVID numbers in some facet most of the time, and likely to be playing some math games with the data at any given time. In some of the previous surges I have felt exhilaration as...
by tampaedski
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on Sun Jan 02, 2022 at 07:52 AM PST
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It’s like clockwork—almost rote at this point. A patient comes into the ER. There are months of notes from their primary physician that they tried to get them vaccinated. The patient steadfastly refuses. The patient gets COVID. They try every home...
by SquireForYou
211 comments
on Sun Jan 02, 2022 at 10:20 AM PST
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Was out of the house early, traveling through the dark before dawn. Grabbed some coffee and kept going, a morning ritual savored on weekend mornings when there are few cars on the road. I love the silence of early morning, most of our local world still...
by Onomastic
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on Sun Nov 21, 2021 at 05:32 AM PST
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The title image shows the USA and Florida new COVID cases curves on top of each other. I chose the scale to illustrate that for a long period of time Florida was contributing 20% of new cases nationally. That has dropped this month. Now we contribute...
by tampaedski
42 comments
on Wed Aug 18, 2021 at 02:30 PM PDT
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The crisis: a massive new surge of COVID-19, a surge almost entirely among the unvaccinated and centered in states and communities where leaders have continued to stoke contempt for the safety recommendations of pandemic experts. The hot new cultural...
by Hunter
412 comments
on Tue Aug 10, 2021 at 03:27 PM PDT
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As Florida continues to set records for new coronavirus cases and hospitalization, a local church is urging residents to get vaccinated. The Impact Church in Jacksonville is now hosting a vaccination clinic in light of the death of six parishioners—all...
by Aysha Qamar
169 comments
on Thu Aug 12, 2021 at 08:29 AM PDT
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A few days back I commented somewhere here on DK that we would see 190K as a 7 day moving average for daily new COVID cases "early next week". I was thinking we’d hit that number after Monday’s data was mostly in. Well, we're already...
by tampaedski
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on Sun Dec 06, 2020 at 07:02 AM PST
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More than 50 million Americans are expected to ignore advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stay home this Thanksgiving holiday. This past Friday November 21, more than three million people had crowded into the “cluster-fu*kery”...
by codylyonnyc
43 comments
on Wed Nov 25, 2020 at 08:15 AM PST
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One of the greatest— and arguably the most criminal—aspects of Trump and his political party’s stance on the global pandemic has been the anti-science baseline of misinformation. A pandemic is like math. It honestly doesn’t care about your...
by Walter Einenkel
209 comments
on Mon Nov 16, 2020 at 01:46 PM PST
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As we grow closer to what could be the defining election of our lifetime, we need to also take stock of the amazing gains we made in the historic 2018 midterm elections. Those victories, especially ...
by Denise Oliver Velez
48 comments
on Mon Sep 07, 2020 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Talk about flashbacks. Fifty years ago this month a hurricane was bearing down on Corpus Christi just like Hurricane Laura is bearing down today on the Texas Coast. If I could offer advice to anyone in Hurricane Laura’s predicted path, it would be to...
by Road to1 Escondido
52 comments
on Wed Aug 26, 2020 at 09:33 AM PDT
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As some countries like New Zealand celebrate being free of the novel coronavirus, health officials in the U.S. continue to urge individuals to wear masks and avoid large gatherings in efforts to decrease the spread of the virus. Yet some Americans...
by Aysha Qamar
271 comments
on Mon Aug 10, 2020 at 02:24 PM PDT
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Florida is, as has become tradition, a focal point of Republican misinformation and bad policy. Over the past week, the Sunshine state saw a surge in new confirmed cases of COVID-19. These numbers, based on the recent history of the DeSantis-led...
by Walter Einenkel
195 comments
on Tue Jun 16, 2020 at 08:39 AM PDT
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I’d been looking for some clarity about the Nevada Caucus. Las Vegas Review-Journal published a table showing the caucus results, with 100% of precincts reporting. Delegate Equivalents Percent First Alignment Percent Final Alignment Percent Bernie...
by John in Denver
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on Tue Feb 25, 2020 at 01:44 PM PST
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Full house… And Amy ain’t even due for another half hour! I counted about 200 in attendance today in Sioux City, better than Biden drew a couple days ago in much more populous Iowa City. If you want a seat where Amy’s speaking, you’d best get there a...
by SassyDemocrat
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on Sat Feb 01, 2020 at 07:07 PM PST
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OK, it’s getting too late to evacuate, and shaming the hurricane holdouts won’t do any good now either. So let’s get to work devising some hacks, McGivers, workarounds, and tweaks to get folks through the next few days of high water, wind, and hell.
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by dyna
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on Sat Sep 09, 2017 at 03:58 PM PDT
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The elephant is still in the room.
(Not Republicans, the hurricane!)
Aside from this diary:
www.dailykos.com/…
by FishOutofWater,
published nearly 24 hours ago,
and loaded up with 276 comments,
there is no diary about Irma on...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
60 comments
on Thu Sep 07, 2017 at 06:46 PM PDT
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This great news coming from Scott Arceneaux, Executive Director of the Florida Democratic Party! Yesterday’s EV/VBM results, per Steve Schale, closed the gap substantially. Today we are in the lead.
Check out Steve’s look at the Hispanic vote below....
by First Amendment
82 comments
on Fri Nov 04, 2016 at 08:49 AM PDT
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What’s driving this early voting surge in Ohio? Is it Souls to the Polls, the Comey affect or have early voting restrictions slowed the pace?
Who knows what’s driving this late surge? I just love this news and what’s important is, we are surging big...
by First Amendment
131 comments
on Mon Oct 31, 2016 at 06:45 AM PDT
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