Tuesday, November 17, 2020

11-17: Many patients deny coronavirus exists, right up until death; Killer pancakes at a Connecticut college; Stanford rebukes Trump advisor; Fauci advocates "uniform approach" to Covid; Wagner squawks

✅ Cutting the In-Person Semester Short 
Many colleges are now announcing new shifts to online learning that will continue for the rest of the semester. 
—Inside Higher Ed 

—Inside Higher Ed 
     Sacred Heart University, in Connecticut, has settled a lawsuit filed by the mother of a student who died after choking at a pancake-eating contest on campus in 2017, the Associated Press reported. 
     Caitlin Nelson, a 20-year-old junior and social work major, died three days after choking at the contest, a charity fundraiser conceived by a sorority. The lawsuit alleged that Sacred Heart approved the contest despite the potential danger of eating pancakes quickly due to their thick density. Sacred Heart denied wrongdoing in court documents.... 

—CHE 

—WashPo 

As the novel coronavirus continues to spread in the United States, experts expect the virus to become endemic, existing permanently in the population. 
—WashPo 

—WashPo 

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Stanford rebukes Scott Atlas following his controversial ‘rise up’ tweet -- Stanford University sought to distance itself Monday from Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at the university’s Hoover Institution and key member of President Trump’s coronavirus task force, a day after Atlas encouraged people to “rise up” in response to new pandemic-related restrictions implemented by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Michael Williams in the San Francisco Chronicle$ Jason Green in the San Jose Mercury$ -- 11/17/20 

✅ After more than a year of enrolling students, Calbright College makes significant changes and learns from mistakes -- It’s been a rocky year for California’s first online community college since it first enrolled students. Ashley A. Smith EdSource -- 11/17/20 

✅ ‘More People May Die’ Because of Trump’s Transition Delay, Biden Says -- President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday sharpened his criticism of President Trump’s refusal to cooperate in an orderly transition, warning that “more people may die” from the coronavirus if the president does not agree to coordinate planning for the mass distribution of a vaccine when it becomes available. Michael Crowley and Michael D. Shear in the New York Times$ -- 11/17/20 

✅ Biden urges a new economic relief package and warns again of a ‘dark winter’ ahead -- President-elect Joe Biden urged Congress to immediately pass an economic relief package Monday as he warned that the coronavirus pandemic will worsen in the coming months. Anne Gearan and Jeff Stein in the Washington Post$ Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport in the New York Times$ -- 11/17/20

Fauci says the nation needs “a uniform approach” to the pandemic. 
—NYT 
     Ohio announced a nightly curfew. Illinois is suspending indoor dining and drinking. Mississippi extended a mask mandate to seven more counties, while Iowa will issue its first statewide mask order. 
     Those actions, announced in the past 24 hours by governors who warn that hospitals are reaching capacity, are just the latest to be added to the ever-expanding patchwork of pandemic-related restrictions as the coronavirus erupts to crisis levels across the United States. And they came as Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said on Tuesday that the nation needed “a uniform approach,” instead of a “disjointed” state-by-state, city-by-city response....

—LA Times
     ...“We’re hearing a bit of hopelessness that is out there in the community as we move back into purple, and that hopelessness, I think, is not there just because, ‘Oh, gosh, we’re doing more clampdowns,’ but because we’re seeing no end in sight,” Supervisor Don Wagner said during Tuesday’s board meeting. 
     “And by that I mean every time this governor has come up with some sort of a plan for dealing with coronavirus, it ends up changing — changing for the worse.” 

The second wave means OC restaurants, movie theaters, churches and gyms have to move their operations outside. 
—Voice of OC 
     House parties and dinners are largely driving the second wave of coronavirus infections not just in Orange County, but across the state, as hospitalizations steadily increase from the case spikes… 
     OC health officer Dr. Clayton Chau also said the county’s spiking cases are from parties, dinners and other private gatherings....
     Chau also urged OC residents to rethink having large Thanksgiving dinners this year as hospitalizations are steadily increasing….
     Orange County Supervisors criticized Newsom and the State Legislature for not debating the state’s virus policies so people can better understand why decisions are made, like limiting private gatherings to no more than three households in attendance…. 
     Supervisor Don Wagner said [Governor] Newsom and state public health officials have moved goal posts too many times, which leaves some people hopeless. 
     He also took issue with OC’s immediate move back to the Purple Tier…. 

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