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July 14, 2020 04:54AM
Would the people have covid parties to prove its a hoax.. I know it snot 100% proven, but it sure sounds like the American way and a ittel bit scary that people so distrust government or doctors and whatnot trying to protect them.. Our little town, if anyone is still keeping track, is over 600 cases..

[www.nytimes.com]



Texas Hospital Says Man, 30, Died After Attending a ‘Covid Party’
Health experts have been skeptical that such parties occur, and details of this case could not be independently confirmed.

The patient who died had attended a gathering with an infected person to test whether the coronavirus was real, the chief medical officer at Methodist Hospital said.Credit...Christopher Lee for The New York Times
By Bryan Pietsch
Published July 12, 2020
Updated July 13, 2020


A 30-year-old man who believed the coronavirus was a hoax and attended a “Covid party” died after being infected with the virus, according to the chief medical officer at a Texas hospital.

The official, Dr. Jane Appleby of Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, said the man died after deliberately attending a gathering with an infected person to test whether the coronavirus was real.

In her statements to news organizations, Dr. Appleby said the man had told his nurse that he attended a Covid party. Just before he died, she said the patient told his nurse: “I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.”

Health experts and public officials have cast doubt over whether “covid parties” are a real phenomenon, and past reports of such parties have fallen apart or remained unconfirmed upon closer examination.

The Times could not independently verify Dr. Appleby’s account. On Monday, the San Antonio health department said its contact tracers did not have any information “that would confirm (or deny)” that such an event had happened there.

In recent days, the hospital distributed video of Dr. Appleby describing the case, along with a press statement. She did not say when or where the party took place, how many people attended or how long afterward the man was hospitalized with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. She said she was sharing the story to warn others, especially in Texas, where cases are surging.

The hospital, citing patient confidentiality rules, declined to publicly identify the man. His family did not respond to several interview requests passed along through the hospital.

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Asked about skepticism about the story, Laura Breeden, a spokeswoman for Methodist Healthcare, said, “I was not there; however, Jane Appleby is our chief medical officer. I believe what she says is true.”

There were 8,332 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the state on Saturday, according to a New York Times database. Over 258,000 cases and more than 3,200 deaths have been recorded in Texas so far. At least five people between the age of 30 and 39 have died from coronavirus in San Antonio according to virus tracking efforts there.

Past reports of “Covid parties” have fallen apart. County health officials in southeastern Washington State reported in May that they had evidence that at least two coronavirus cases were linked to one or more so-called Covid-19 parties, then quickly reversed themselves, saying that the parties may have been more innocent gatherings.

In Alabama, reports that students were gathering to bet on who could get infected with the virus first — with the sickened winner taking home a pot of money — led to warnings from the University of Alabama to students about the parties’ risks, but state health officials were unable to confirm the events even happened.

The idea seems to have its origin in a practice from the days before there was a chickenpox vaccine. Some parents hosted chickenpox parties to infect their children with the disease, as it was thought to be more dangerous to contract as an adult.

The vaccine is the safest way to protect against chickenpox now that it is available, though some, including former Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky, still allowed their children to participate in such gatherings to contract the illness.

A covid party would be “dangerous, irresponsible and potentially deadly,” said Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.

“Attending such a party may be a path to an early demise, if not chronic and unrelenting fatigue, chest pain, difficulty breathing and daily fevers, if you do survive,” Dr. Glatter said.

The coronavirus does not behave like the chickenpox, he said, and deliberate infection with either virus is a bad idea.


The United States recently hit a record number of new Covid-19 cases per day, with over 68,000 confirmed cases on Friday.

Being infected by the coronavirus has yet to be proved to provide immunity, so reinfection is still possible.

In an Op-Ed article for The Times, Dr. Greta Bauer, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, warned against so-called coronavirus parties, noting that even young people can be hospitalized and face long-term damage from the virus.

“It is important that we don’t take unnecessary risks with unknown consequences,” Dr. Bauer wrote. “If we can avoid infection, we need to do exactly that.”

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that people infected with the coronavirus should not attend gatherings, and that any event where people are mingling without face coverings or social distancing is inherently high risk.

A California man died from Covid-19 after going to a party — not held for the purpose of infecting its attendees — where people did not wear masks and an infected person had attended.



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  Re: yet

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  Re: 2 where we are in terms of discovering its long-term impacts

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  Well new is kinda in the title

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  Re: A New Understanding of Herd Immunity

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  Re: A New Understanding of Herd Immunity

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  Re: Tate Reeves, Republican Governor of Mississippi, on "herd immunity"

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  Re: wishful thinking?

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  Re: wishful thinking?

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  Was wearing masks

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  Re: out today and less than half people wearing mask

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  Re: out today and less than half people wearing mask

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  Re: A couple of other interesting thoughts from the author

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  Re: it;s not just deaths

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  Re: it;s not just deaths

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  Re: deja vu all over again: The Mask Slackers of 1918

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  Re: Population immunity is slowing down the pandemic

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  Re: I agree with the guy you quoted

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  Re: yeah we know

zn250August 16, 2020 07:31PM

  What do you think of this idea...

Atlantic Ram368August 16, 2020 08:27PM

  Re: What do you think of this idea...

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  Re: What if ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Closer Than Scientists Thought?

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  Re: What if ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Closer Than Scientists Thought?

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  Re: What if ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Closer Than Scientists Thought?

ramBRO268August 17, 2020 08:17PM

  Re: What if ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Closer Than Scientists Thought?

PHDram239August 18, 2020 06:23AM

  I disagree

zn189August 18, 2020 06:47AM

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PHDram307August 18, 2020 07:58AM

  Re: What if ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Closer Than Scientists Thought?

waterfield229August 18, 2020 07:55AM

  Re: What if ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Closer Than Scientists Thought?

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  Re: What if ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Closer Than Scientists Thought?

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  Re: One-size Covid policy doesn’t not fit all. (Article)

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  Re: One-size Covid policy doesn’t not fit all. (Article)

AlbaNY_Ram211August 18, 2020 05:30PM

  Re: One-size Covid policy doesn’t not fit all. (Article)

ramBRO219August 18, 2020 06:54PM

  Just saw my internist

waterfield213August 18, 2020 03:12PM

  Re: Just saw my internist

MamaRAMa195August 18, 2020 03:25PM

  Re: Just saw my internist

waterfield203August 18, 2020 07:40PM

  Re: Just saw my internist

zn172August 18, 2020 08:24PM

  It's time to come to grips with what this means...

JamesJM215August 18, 2020 08:37PM

  Re: It's time to come to grips with what this means...

zn215August 18, 2020 09:01PM

  What I find is that...

JamesJM194August 18, 2020 09:30PM

  Re: What I find is that...

zn190August 18, 2020 10:09PM

  In all sincerity, ZN...

JamesJM275August 18, 2020 10:35PM

  Re: In all sincerity, ZN...

zn197August 18, 2020 10:44PM

  Why me? (nm)

JamesJM318August 18, 2020 10:54PM

  Re: Why me? (nm)

zn186August 18, 2020 11:18PM

  That was answered.. in unequivocal terms..

JamesJM186August 18, 2020 11:24PM

  Re: That was answered.. in unequivocal terms..

zn312August 18, 2020 11:50PM

  Re: It's time to come to grips with what this means...

ramBRO507August 19, 2020 04:53AM

  theories?

PHDram362August 19, 2020 05:20AM

  Re: theories?

ramBRO208August 19, 2020 06:26AM

  Re: theories?

AlbaNY_Ram188August 19, 2020 06:49AM

  Re: theories?

ramBRO202August 19, 2020 07:12AM

  Re: theories?

AlbaNY_Ram324August 19, 2020 02:32PM

  Re: theories?

PHDram281August 19, 2020 04:35PM

  cost benefit

PHDram197August 19, 2020 10:57AM

  Re: cost benefit

AlbaNY_Ram265August 19, 2020 02:15PM

  Re: cost benefit

PHDram323August 19, 2020 05:01PM

  Re: cost benefit

waterfield223August 19, 2020 09:57PM

  i disagree

PHDram232August 20, 2020 05:10AM

  Re: i disagree

waterfield660August 20, 2020 09:37AM

  Re: i disagree

zn173August 20, 2020 09:59AM

  no it doesnt sound familiar.

PHDram184August 20, 2020 11:55AM

  Re: no it doesnt sound familiar.

waterfield231August 20, 2020 01:40PM

  Re: no it doesnt sound familiar.

PHDram194August 20, 2020 04:52PM

  Re: no it doesnt sound familiar.

waterfield188August 20, 2020 07:48PM

  Re: no it doesnt sound familiar.

zn183August 20, 2020 08:38PM

  Re: no it doesnt sound familiar.

PHDram249August 21, 2020 11:35AM

  Re: no it doesnt sound familiar.

waterfield203August 21, 2020 12:04PM

  Isn't that what I said above?

PHDram181August 22, 2020 03:26PM

  gotcha

PHDram248August 19, 2020 10:49AM

  Re: Just saw my internist

ramBRO226August 18, 2020 03:38PM

  He was scary

RamUK210August 20, 2020 08:03AM

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Rams43206August 20, 2020 09:36AM

  I can’t believe this is a real article

Atlantic Ram270August 23, 2020 05:19AM

  A thank you to those who have posted in this thread

AlbaNY_Ram185August 21, 2020 06:26AM

  Absolutely what AlbaNY said ^^^^

RAMbler203August 21, 2020 11:38AM