Westmount mayor has Covid
A new study is going to track Covid among children, find out who has it, how many have had it, and how they’re doing.
The mayor of Westmount announced that she and her family have Covid.
Summary of latest numbers Tuesday.
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Kate
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Meezly 10:19 on 2020-10-20 Permalink
Thanks for sharing, Kate. Looks like it’s backed by the feds and the city, but no involvement from the provincial government.
Ephraim 12:56 on 2020-10-20 Permalink
It looks like they are STARTING to find out some of the longer term effects of COVID-19 on people. Of course, we may not know the real long-term effects for years. The connections for things like Post Polio Syndrome (PPS) and Chickenpox/Shingles weren’t known for a long time and well understood either. It might be 50 years or more before we fully know the effects of COVID-19.
And what a shame some of this is. WHO was just months away from finally eradicating Polio from the world. They had finally gotten it eradicated in Africa, just Afghanistan and Pakistan was left. And they had to stop… and if the US pulls out, they won’t have the funding to finish the job. (That would be the second disease that WHO has eradicated from earth, Smallpox being the first.)
Raymond Lutz 16:41 on 2020-10-20 Permalink
Googling PPS.. Yikes. “Researchers estimate that the condition affects 25 to 40 percent of polio survivors. Most often, thwy start to experience gradual new weakening in muscles that were previously affected by the polio infection. The most common symptoms include slowly progressive muscle weakness, fatigue (both generalized and muscular), and a gradual decrease in the size of muscles (muscle atrophy). Pain from joint degeneration and increasing skeletal deformities such as scoliosis (curvature of the spine) is common and may precede the weakness and muscle atrophy. Some individuals experience only minor symptoms while others develop visible muscle weakness and atrophy.” (NINDS)
Ephraim 17:27 on 2020-10-20 Permalink
And that’s the point. The only viruses in the Coronavirus family that we have actually dealt with before are the common cold, SARS, MERS and COVID-19. We really don’t know what the long term effects of any of this is. Herd Immunity means a herd of people who may have to deal with problems a lot later. But even some of the shorter term. From SARS, people reported fatigue even 3 years later and impairment of exercise ability. See https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/415378
dmdiem 17:37 on 2020-10-20 Permalink
Male fertility may be a future covid problem.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7267130/
Kevin 19:35 on 2020-10-20 Permalink
Nowhere on Earth is close to herd immunity from Covid.
MERS still has outbreaks in the Middle East.
No researcher has ever before managed to come up with a vaccine for a coronavirus.
Chris 21:09 on 2020-10-20 Permalink
>and if the US pulls out, they won’t have the funding to finish the job.
There are lots of other rich countries on Earth that could step up if they wanted to. Maybe Saudi Arabia could put some oil money to good use (ha!).
Ephraim 21:59 on 2020-10-20 Permalink
@Chris – The US (under Reagan) ruined the budget of WHO. Bill Gates’s foundation actually provides 9% of the WHO budget. Most of the funding for WHO is actually voluntary. The budget is less than $1 per human, considering that they protect us from diseases and pandemics… See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization
Raymond Lutz 08:14 on 2020-10-21 Permalink
Oh, and THIS. Thanks Obama for sabotaging International efforts to eradicate polio! CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden’s family DNA
CTL Narr 22:56 on 2020-10-21 Permalink
Wow, Raymond. A fake vaccination drive. What other fake things will powerful people use to control people?
Po 01:41 on 2020-10-22 Permalink
Wondering if a lot of people on this blog are just very well informed, or if they get their talking points from John Oliver…
Raymond Lutz 06:50 on 2020-10-22 Permalink
@CTL, a fake democracy? A bunch of fake economic theories?
@Po, it’s the other way around! Oliver is reading Mtlcityweblog: John, I’m still fuming about your dishonest mockery of 2016 Jill Stein campaign and don’t follow you any more. Fun fact: MORE people cancelled their US presidential ballot than people who voted for the Green Party, so don’t blame Stein for allowing Trump (nor Susan Sarandon…). John Oliver’s Smear Tactics Exposed As Establishment Propaganda.