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BennyV said:
I’ve seen people looking at their friends and filling out a blank one in a Starbucks with all of the above mentioned information. Kind of nuts.
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Yeah, but they wouldn't have the sticker for the vaccine info, so anyone knowledgeable in the protocol would know that's falsified.
 
Yup, in Newyorkistan just chicken scratch, no RN's name and can barely read the lot number. OTOH, with all the info provided to get the jab, I would think "they" could establish a database pretty darn easily. Privacy concerns ? Trumped by the need for the public "good." (no pun intended)
 
jpd said:
Mine is a piece of thick paper with scribblings on it - no stickers
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Mine also is just a piece of cardstock from the CDC and they simply scribbled on it the date, Janssen, the lot # and the healthcare professional's name "Gladys" No last name, no sticker, nothing really official looking.
 
There IS a database in NY.

Your info will show up 15 days after your last shot.

As far as fake vaccine cards....well....my immunization record from childhood looks like a 2nd grader wrote on it as well so its not just the Covid vax.....nothing is perfect

I see people driving around with temporary plates that are expired.........etc, etc
 
OVERBORED said:
There IS a database in NY.

Your info will show up 15 days after your last shot.

As far as fake vaccine cards....well....my immunization record from childhood looks like a 2nd grader wrote on it as well so its not just the Covid vax.....nothing is perfect

I see people driving around with temporary plates that are expired.........etc, etc
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Scammers will scam whatever the situation happens to be. I guess CV 19 vaccinations is just the new thing to scam
 
True, I did register the first day when that NY database came out but it seemed to me that the one I registered on did not even verify anything, just accepted the dates of my two shots and drove on ! I also went on some site that they handed out when I got the shot that wanted feedback as to reactions, etc. Even though I kept texting them that I didn't have anything but a sore arm for a couple of days both times, they continued to text me at 4PM the next day and the next until I finally texted STOP and was done with it.
 

Many Post-Covid Patients Are Experiencing New Medical Problems, Study Finds​

An analysis of health insurance records of almost two million coronavirus patients found new issues in nearly a quarter — including those whose Covid infection was mild or asymptomatic.

Many Post-Covid Patients Are Experiencing New Medical Problems, Study Finds

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have sought medical care for post-Covid health problems that they had not been diagnosed with before becoming infected with the coronavirus, according to the largest study to date of long-term symptoms in Covid-19 patients.

The study, tracking the health insurance records of nearly two million people in the United States who contracted the coronavirus last year, found that one month or more after their infection, almost one-quarter — 23 percent — of them sought medical treatment for new conditions.

Those affected were all ages, including children. Their most common new health problems were pain, including in nerves and muscles; breathing difficulties; high cholesterol; malaise and fatigue; and high blood pressure. Other issues included intestinal symptoms; migraines; skin problems; heart abnormalities; sleep disorders; and mental health conditions like anxiety and depression.

Post-Covid health problems were common even among people who had not gotten sick from the virus at all, the study found. While nearly half of patients who were hospitalized for Covid-19 experienced subsequent medical issues, so did 27 percent of people who had mild or moderate symptoms and 19 percent of people who said they were asymptomatic.

“One thing that was surprising to us was the large percentage of asymptomatic patients that are in that category of long Covid,” said Robin Gelburd, president of FAIR Health, a nonprofit organization that conducted the study based on what it says is the nation’s largest database of private health insurance claims.

More than half of the 1,959,982 patients whose records were evaluated reported no symptoms from their Covid infection. Forty percent had symptoms but didn’t require hospitalization, including 1 percent whose only symptom was loss of taste or smell; only 5 percent were hospitalized.

Ms. Gelburd said the fact that asymptomatic people can have post-Covid symptoms is important to emphasize, so that patients and doctors can know to consider the possibility that some health issues may actually be aftereffects of the coronavirus. “There are some people who may not have even known they had Covid,” she said, “but if they continue to present with some of these conditions that are unusual for their health history, it may be worth some further investigation by the medical professional that they’re working with.”

The report, which will be posted publicly on Tuesday morning on the organization’s website, analyzed records of people diagnosed with Covid-19 between February and December 2020, tracking them until February 2021. It found that 454,477 people consulted health providers for symptoms 30 days or more after their infection. FAIR Health said the analysis was evaluated by an independent academic reviewer but was not formally peer-reviewed.

“The strength of this study is really its size and its ability to look across the range of disease severity in a diversity of age groups,” said Dr. Helen Chu, an associate professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the University of Washington School of Medicine, who was not involved in the report. “This is a hard study to do with that much data.”

The report “drives home the point that long Covid can affect nearly every organ system,” said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of the research and development service at the VA St. Louis Health Care System, who was not involved in the new study.

“Some of these manifestations are chronic conditions that will last a lifetime and will forever scar some individuals and families,” added Dr. Al-Aly, who was an author of a large study published in April of lingering symptoms in Covid patients in the Department of Veterans Affairs health system.

In the new study, the most common issue for which patients sought medical care was pain — including nerve inflammation and aches and pains associated with nerves and muscles — which was reported by more than 5 percent of patients or nearly 100,000 people, more than a fifth of those who reported post-Covid problems. Breathing difficulties, including shortness of breath, were experienced by 3.5 percent of post-Covid patients.

Nearly 3 percent of patients sought treatment for symptoms that were labeled with diagnostic codes for malaise and fatigue, a far-reaching category that could include issues like brain fog and exhaustion that gets worse after physical or mental activity — effects that have been reported by many people with long Covid.

Other new issues for patients, especially adults in their 40s and 50s, included high cholesterol, diagnosed in 3 percent of all post-Covid patients, and high blood pressure, diagnosed in 2.4 percent, the report said. Dr. Al-Aly said such health conditions, which have not been commonly considered aftereffects of the virus, make it “increasingly clear that post-Covid or long Covid has a metabolic signature marked by derangements in the metabolic machinery.”

Relatively few deaths — 594 — occurred 30 days or more post-Covid, and most were among people who had been hospitalized for their coronavirus infection, the report found.

The study, like many involving electronic records, only addressed some aspects of the post-Covid landscape. It did not say when patients’ symptoms arose or how long the problems persisted, and it did not evaluate exactly when after infection patients sought help from doctors, only that it was 30 days or more.

The database included only people with private health insurance or Medicare Advantage, not those uninsured or covered by Medicare Parts A, B and D, Medicaid or other government health programs. Dr. Chu said people without insurance or with incomes low enough to qualify for Medicaid are often “more likely to have worse outcomes,” so the findings may understate the prevalence of some post-Covid health problems or may not represent the full picture.

In addition, diagnostic codes in electronic records are “only as good as what is documented by the provider who saw the patient,” said Dr. Chu, a co-author of a smaller study of post-Covid symptoms among patients at the University of Washington.

For example, neurological or cognitive issues like brain fog may be underreported because doctors may not find an appropriate diagnostic code or patients may not be seeking medical help for that specific issue, FAIR Health said.

It’s also possible that some people classified as having asymptomatic Covid-19 infections developed symptoms after they tested positive. And some people who received their first diagnosis of a medical issue like hypertension or high cholesterol post-Covid might have previously had those issues but never sought or received treatment.

Another limitation of the study is that it did not compare people who had Covid-19 with those who did not, making it unclear if rates of post-Covid symptoms were higher than in a more general population. Dr. Al-Aly’s study, which made such a comparison, found that between one and six months after becoming infected with the coronavirus, patients who’d had Covid had a 60 percent greater risk of death and a 20 percent greater chance of needing outpatient medical care than people who had not been infected.

The FAIR Health report excluded patients with certain serious or chronic pre-existing conditions like cancer, kidney disease, H.I.V., liver disease and stroke because researchers said it would be difficult to separate their previous health status from post-Covid symptoms.

The report did not explore connections between other pre-existing conditions patients had and their likelihood of developing post-Covid symptoms. But it said that people with intellectual disabilities or those with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia had a greater risk of dying 30 days or more after their infection.

Overall, experts said, the report’s findings underscore the widespread and varied nature of post-Covid symptoms.

“People with long Covid need multidisciplinary care,” said Dr. Al-Aly, “and our health systems should adapt to this reality and develop capacity to deal with these patients.”
 
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The Ganges Is Returning the Dead. It Does Not Lie.​

Opinion | The Ganges Is Returning the Dead. It Does Not Lie.

Corpses wrapped in shrouds were exposed along the banks of the Ganges River in Shringverpur, in India’s state of Uttar Pradesh, after rains washed away the top layer of sand in late May.

Corpses wrapped in shrouds were exposed along the banks of the Ganges River in Shringverpur, in India’s state of Uttar Pradesh, after rains washed away the top layer of sand in late May.Credit...Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images

LUCKNOW, India — The Ganges, or Ganga, is the holiest of India’s rivers, and most Hindus believe that dipping their body in it will purify their soul. But when the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit this spring, the river also became Exhibit A for the Modi administration’s failures and deceptions.

The northern state of Bihar recently revised its death toll for April and May from 5,424 to 9,375. Private agencies tasked with conducting coronavirus tests at Kumbh Mela, a Hindu religious festival in northern India that attracted millions of pilgrims in April — and turned out to be a coronavirus superspreader event — reportedly falsified some 100,000 results.

The second wave of infections appears to be ebbing, but the country is struggling to process the staggering toll — nearly 380,000 people dead, the vast majority since just March — hobbled by the continuing obfuscation of both local and central authorities. But the holy Ganges does not lie.

On May 12, villagers in Buxar, a district in Bihar, found bloated and disfigured corpses floating in the river. Some 100 bodies were fished out there and in a district upstream, Ghazipur. A local senior police officer said the bodies had traveled downriver from Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state.

I am the national editor of Dainik Bhaskar, a Hindi-language newspaper that sells about five and a half million copies a day across India, mostly to readers in small towns and villages. To get a clearer sense of the devastation caused by the pandemic among them, we sent 30 reporters and photojournalists to walk the banks of the Ganges in major cities and districts in Uttar Pradesh.

Our reporters counted 2,000 bodies on May 12 and 13 alone as they traveled 700 miles along the river. The bodies weren’t only floating in it; on some days, 65 or 70 were washing up on its shores. Yet by our calculations, based on official data, the state authorities claim that just 7,826 people died from Covid-19 from April 1 to May 13.

Shringverpur, a small village in southern Uttar Pradesh, is considered holy for its association with Lord Rama, a Hindu deity and the protagonist of the epic poem “Ramayana.” Our reporters saw many bodies buried just a yard apart; hundreds of saffron shrouds wrapped around the corpses were poking up from the ground. Poor villagers who couldn’t afford to buy wood to cremate their kin had sought some solace by burying them near a sacred site.

After more reporting, we estimated that between mid-April and mid-May some 4,000 corpses had been placed in shallow pits by the river along a stretch of less than one mile.

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We might never have heard of this tragedy but for the weather. Rains in early May swelled the Ganges, tossing corpses up to the river’s surface and onto its shores. They washed dirt from the banks, exposing the bodies buried there.

The rains also laid bare the government’s colossal failure to strengthen rural health care or ensure adequate vaccine supplies — or take responsibility for its shortcomings.

Uttar Pradesh has been governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi since March 2017, under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a Hindu monk turned politician. Mr. Adityanath’s response in April to grave shortages of oxygen, ventilators and beds in intensive care units throughout the state and to the images of overcrowded cemeteries and crematories was to issue denials and threats. He directed state officials to invoke antiterrorism laws against and seize property from people he accused of spreading rumors.

The Uttar Pradesh government records only deaths in hospitals. Yet many people from villages, where access to health care is limited, have been dying at home.

In mid-May, a doctor in Reotipur, a town of about 70,000 in Ghazipur — the only doctor there — told one of our reporters that about 850 people had tested positive for the coronavirus. Some residents told him that around 200 people there died in April.

“We are poor people,” Mahendranath Upadhyay, who lost three members of his family to Covid-19, told our reporter. “We barely manage to earn enough to eat. We don’t have the money for medical treatment.”

Rural poverty has exacerbated the effects of the second wave of infections, but it was the Modi government’s callous disregard that triggered the latest surge. The authorities allowed the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage, one of the world’s largest religious gatherings, in the spring, as well as elections in several states, including Uttar Pradesh.

And now, with just 3.4 percent of Indians fully vaccinated, there is good reason to fear a devastating third wave.

When Mr. Modi campaigned to become prime minister in 2014, he ran for a parliamentary seat from Varanasi, a holy city on the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh. He said then, “I feel Mother Ganga has called me to Varanasi.” Today, the Ganges is calling him out.
 
Summary of the headlines for the last year...

The coronavirus would kill millions in the United States.
The coronavirus would plague us forever.
It would take years to develop a vaccine.
We're rushing a vaccine that would murder us all.
We have a vaccine, but we will never have enough.
We have enough, but most Americans won’t want it.
Most Americans want it, but America is too disorganized to get it to them.
We’re getting it to them, but new mutations will render the vaccines useless.
The vaccines work against the mutations, but the inability of developing countries to vaccinate their populations will make Covid an eternal threat.
We’ve got Covid under control.
But this fall, the flu will return!
 
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