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[LuFins Dad]

@jolly I read there are a lot of pediatric cases in your area. Is that what you are seeing?

[LuFins Dad]

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/childrens-hospitals-covid-louisiana-capacity-full/289-bc234f66-2ee8-43bb-99ea-853c4cd9528a

[Jolly]

@lufins-dad said in We're going to need a bigger :

@jolly I read there are a lot of pediatric cases in your area. Is that what you are seeing?

Not in my particular area. Maybe down in Baton Rouge.

Are seeing a lot more thirty and forty-somethings in my neck of the woods than last wave...

[bachophile]

Is New Orleans getting hit also? I had a vague idea of a melanoma conference in NO end of October which I think is not going to happen….

[Jolly]

@bachophile said in We're going to need a bigger :

Is New Orleans getting hit also? I had a vague idea of a melanoma conference in NO end of October which I think is not going to happen….

Look at LuFins Dad's post about Children's Hospital. That's probably the biggest children's facility in the Gulf South. They're full.

I do know as of Wednesday, the state had picked up over 11,000 positive tests in less than a week, with 20% of them being under 18.

[Jolly]

https://apnews.com/article/health-louisiana-coronavirus-pandemic-5b43f484b25c9ff11e44a2bc0c7ba904

We had over 6000 new cases yesterday. And if that ain't just ducky enough...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/lambda-covid-variant-showing-vaccine-resistance-detected-in-louisiana/ar-AAN0Kd2?ocid=uxbndlbing

[Doctor Phibes]

@bachophile said in We're going to need a bigger :

a melanoma conference

Living the dream...

[Jolly]

Maybe.

You need to hang with some docs...Last big New Orleans party I was at, featured all the pathologists and their staff from LSU med school. They literally drank the restaurant bar dry.

[jon-nyc]

Seems to me that BioNtech could make a vaccine for lamda in a weekend. Which is pretty much what they did for the original

[Jolly]

Baton Rouge General now has more cases than they have ever had, since the pandemic started. I think we had around 40 die today, statewide. I look for that number to continue to climb.

[jon-nyc]

That's horrible. Here's hoping it subsides soon.

Which can happen - look at India. Everything was horrible, and then it just subsided.

[Loki]

The R naught of delta is estimated to be between 5.x and 9.5

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-is-delta-more-infectious-and-deadly-new-research-holds-answers

[Jolly]

@loki said in We're going to need a bigger :

The R naught of delta is estimated to be between 5.x and 9.5

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-is-delta-more-infectious-and-deadly-new-research-holds-answers

The number I've seen kicked around here is 4 to 6.

[George K]

Browsing around FB, at least a couple of people whom I "know" have friends, fully vaccinated, who got the delta. Some got really sick.

No, I don't know which vaccine.

[Jolly]

Anecdotally speaking, I don't think it matters.