Diagram, CDC and USA Today - Fair Use for non-profit news reporting and commentary. Center for Disease Control (CDC) latest information and updates, Link: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html (update: March 18, 2020)

CDC UPDATE, August 24, 2021: From CDC, referenced studies - Quote: "Similar to adults with SARS-CoV-2 infections, children and adolescents can spread SARS-CoV-2 to others when they do not have symptoms or have mild, non-specific symptoms and thus might not know that they are infected and infectious. Children are less likely to develop severe illness or die from COVID-19. . . Consistent and correct use of face masks reduces the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and, with some exceptions, is recommended for use indoors among people aged 2 and older who are not fully vaccinated." The CDC info in the link is supported by 98 confirmed references, listed. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/transmission_k_12_schools.html

August 21, 2021 - Alabama Department of Public Health, ADPH, Physician Dr. Karen Landers Presentation/Excerpt on Mask Use, Social Distancing and Handwashing to the Community in the Madison County Health Update Regarding Covid-19 on August 18, 2021 (Fair Use for Non-Profit News Reporting of a Public Officials Comments, Excerpt, WAFF-TV News Coverage)

COVID-19 VACCINE DISTRIBUTION INFO/BLOG UPDATE - December 4, 2020 Covid-19 Comprehensive Vaccine Distribution Information: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

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Specific Guidance from the CDC - "What To Do If You Are Sick: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/steps-when-sick.html

Coronavirus, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) time it is active and mutations. The Journal of Hospital Infections and Dr. Trevor Bedford, Epidemiologist, Bedford Labs, Mutations diagram below. The official taxonomy designator for COVID-19 is SARS-CoV-2, The coronavirus, SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS ( Middle East respiratory syndrome), may live on a surface for 2 hours to 9 days. References: https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com /article/S0195-6701(20)30046-3/fulltext

Studies have demonstrated that aerosolized Sars-CoV-2 micro particles in aerosol form may travel up to 13-24 feet, video by Dr. Mike Hansen, Board Certified Pulmonologist, Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine, link: https://youtu.be/xJ4Epf8i1uk

SEWAGE AND FECAL TRANSMISSION

UPDATE 1-26-21 - FECAL/SEWAGE TRANSMISSION

WASH YOUR HANDS AND DISINFECT ALL CONTACT SURFACES! There is not enough concern being displayed by the Alabama Department of Public Health, ADPH, Centers for Disease Control, CDC, and government leadership at all levels about viral transmission. Misinformation and a failure to inform about the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is prolific, for example ". . . it has recently been confirmed that the virus can also be found in human feces -- up to 33 days after the patient has tested negative for the respiratory symptoms of COVID-19." This is important due to the neglect of surface disinfecting in most public establishments, not only in our area but around our nation. Peer reviewed study regarding the issue of fecal/sewage transmission, report in the "Journal Environment International" : https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200506133603.htm

Fecal Aerosol Transmission: https://www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/home/topics/covid19/fecal-aerosol-transmission-sars-cov-2/

AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology: May 2020 - Volume 115 - Issue 5 - p 790

COVID-19 Disease With Positive Fecal and Negative Pharyngeal... : Official journal of the American College of Gastroenterology | ACG (lww.com)

CDC Article

"We collected feces specimens from 28 patients; 12, including the patient described in this report, were positive for viral RNA for >1 time point. We attempted to isolate SARS-CoV-2 virus from 3 of the viral RNA–positive patients. Results were successful for 2 of 3 patients, including the patient from this report, indicating that infectious virus in feces is a common manifestation of COVID-19." I do not agree that based on the study referenced that the evidence is sufficient to claim that the "infectious virus in feces is a common manifestation." No doubt common in the 3 patients exhibiting an active virus. There is sufficient evidence to initiate further studies immediately. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-0681_article

HOW THE SARS-CoV-2 VIRUS EFFECTS OUR BODIES

Education regarding diseases is important to prevent future infections. The current disease which has now been classified as a pandemic is caused by a coronavirus, specifically the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Symptom, Upper Respiratory Inflammation/Infection, picture of the virus in the lungs. Slide by CDC, Disease Control and Prevention presentation, Fair Use for non-profit news reporting and commentary (Click on image for an expanded view.)

Link: Whuhan Outbreak Info https://www.emedicinehealth.com/coronavirus_wuhan_outbreak_2019-ncov/article_em.htm

The Brain - Fair Use from Scientific Publishing for educational use and news regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic

UPDATE December 6, 2020 - (Fair Use for Educational purposes and news reporting.) THE AFFECTS OF SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, ON THE BRAIN – Lancet Medical Journal Article - Cerebral Micro-Structural Changes in COVID-19 Patients – An MRI-based 3-month Follow-up Study - 55% of COVID-19 patients were found to have statistically significant neurological symptoms and impairment. The areas of the brain affected are highlighted in the article listed. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30228-5/fulltext

The MRI photo below indicates the areas of the brain, red and blue colorations (explanations within the article – figure 2), which were affected in SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, patients.

HARVARD MED - "There is one inevitable conclusion from these studies: COVID infection frequently leads to brain damage:" https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-hidden-long-term-cognitive-effects-of-covid-2020100821133

--Areas of the Brain Affected by the COVID-19 Virus--

Olfactory cortices – Smell, contributes to all aspects of odor perception including odor intensity and quality coding, odor hedonics, and odor memory.

Hippocampi, hippocampus (plural) – Involved in the formation of new memories and is also associated with learning and emotions.

Cingulate gyrus - A component of the limbic system, it is involved in processing emotions and behavior regulation. It also helps to regulate autonomic motor function. Helps in expression of your emotional state through gesture, posture and movement.

Insula - Crucial to understanding what it feels like to be human. It is said to be the wellspring of social emotions, things like lust and disgust, pride and humiliation, guilt and atonement.

Rolandic operculum – Associated with Parkinson’s disease, often results in hallucinations.

Heschl's gyrus - Could be associated with more efficient processing of speech-related cues which could facilitate learning and perceiving new speech sounds.

Photo - red and blue areas affected in the brain, explanation of the areas affected found within the article above.

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Coronavirus, What It Does To The Body - https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51214864

The sole purpose of the coronavirus is replication within the host. It is tricky, it hides within a cell, replicates and causes drastic cellular expansion, causing irritation to the patient’s lungs. A special virion protein moves to the cell surface and mediates cell to cell fusion between infected cells and non-infected cells. Because it replicates within the host cell and fuses adjacent cells it is undetectable in the host system by antibodies which would normally destroy the invading organism. This cellular interaction leads to large multinucleated cells, a cellular membrane's limits of expansion is not limitless, at some point, BAM, the virus has replicated into many other viruses and the act is repeated over and over in the host organism. Hopefully, a healthy person's system will eventually learn the virus’s game of replication deception and begin to fight the infection. An immune-compromised person may not survive. Article from the National Institute of Health, NIH, Coronaviruses: An Overview of Their Replication and Pathogenesis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4369385/

SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19 Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Diagnostics

Fair Use for non-profit news reporting and commentary from Ninja Nerd Science, You Tube

TESTING
The importance of testing: https://www.heart.org/en/news/2020/04/02/covid-19-science-why-testing-is-so-important

Current Testing Info, article from Popular Mechanics, info from Dr. Carl Fichtenbaum, Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cincinnati's School of Medicine, Dr. Karen C. Carroll—director of the Division of Medical Microbiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, serious testing problems early on. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the public health care system is failing to make tests available to people who may have contracted COVID-19. Testing Capacity Chart listed https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a31431716/coronavirus-tests/

Why does Alabama lag so far behind in testing, the unfortunate effects a lack of testing will have on our state medical resources - TRAGIC: https://www.al.com/coronavirus/2020/03/4-reasons-alabama-lags-behind-on-coronavirus-testing.html

INFO UPDATE on Testing: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/expert-answers/covid-antibody-tests/faq-20484429

MUTATIONS - VARIANTS - DISEASE INFO
Documentation of the current SARS-CoV-2 mutations: https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/

Fair Use for non-profit news reporting and commentary, article link above, Mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 (Click on image for an expanded view.)

UPDATE: Jiuly 29, 2021 - More from Bedford, PAPERS: https://bedford.io/papers/

The coronavirus has been around us and in us probably since humans have been in existence. A common cold is caused by a coronavirus. As living things go, it is quite the little menace and destroyer of human life if given the chance, particularly in high risk, immune compromised patients. The elderly and patients with other diseases are particularly susceptible to the disease. Comprehensive listing of known fatality rates of patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Disease: (Click on updates when arriving at site, not the stats from May as compared to now.) https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/?fbclid=IwAR0Rwm5q209DbbXJfUDhrE73kFBSla2fuSCh11PzwJzYCVbz8aO3uyaJDec

Slide by CDC, Disease Control and Prevention presentation, Fair Use for non-profit news reporting and commentary (Click on image for an expanded view.)

Besides humans, the virus is found in dogs, cats, birds, pigs, cows, horses, giraffes, monkeys; game animals such as ducks, antelope, rabbits, and squirrels (rodents). Coronavirus is capable of jumping species, this is what makes it dangerous.

The Corona Virus Family diagrammed below, Fair Use for non-profit news reporting and commentary (Click on image for an expanded view.)

Comprehensive Report - Epidemiology, Genetic Recombination, and Pathogenesis of Coronaviruses, Trends in Microbiology, Vol 24 Issue 6, June 1, 2016 - Link: https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(16)00071-8 Fair Use for non-profit news reporting and commentary (Click on image for an expanded view.)

UPDATE July 29, 2021 - DELTA VARIANT of SARS-CoV-2 More problems regarding transmission of the disease, vaccinated patients remain asymptomatic while transmitting the disease. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cdc-says-vaccinated-people-may-transmit-virus-recommends-masks-indoors-cal-state-university-mandates-shots-latest-covid-19-updates/ar-AAMBF3r

CDC info on Breakthrough cases: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html

CDC Links for Delta Variant Information: https://search.cdc.gov/search/index.htmlquery=Delta+variant&sitelimit=vaccines&utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=cdc-main

ORIGINS

TULANE VIROLIGIST EXPLAINS SARS-CoV-2 (fair use for non-profit news and commentary)

Human’s current dilemma has been created by a subtype of the coronavirus which has lept from an animal host to humans, as demonstrated above, as a result of "wet markets" in Asia and other places in the world. This fact is demonstrated in the video below by 60 Minutes Australia. The "wet market" trading, or the trading of wildlife must be stopped and those responsible prosecuted.

Fair Use for non-profit news reporting and commentary, Coronavirus Pandemic, 60 Minutes-Australia, "Wet Market"

TREATMENT
SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 | Corona Virus: Treatment, Prognosis, Precautions (36 min.)
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UPDATE August 3, 2020: Treatment Guidelines from the NIH, National Institute of Health, Regarding SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19 - https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/whats-new/

There is a considerable amount of misinformation/disinformation regarding the treatment of Covid-19, to include intentional U.S. political misinformation/disinformation and foreign disinformation from hostile nations. FDA summary of issues involving hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat hospitalized patients. . . FDA has revoked the emergency use authorization (EUA) to use hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19 in certain hospitalized patients when a clinical trial is unavailable or participation is not feasible. https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or

Treatment -

Operation Warp Speed Therapeutics: Monoclonal Antibody Playbook Version 2.0

https://publicintelligence.net/ows-monoclonal-antibody-playbook-11-22-2020/

Images by Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security - Fair Use for news reporting and educational purposes, link above.

July 29, 2021 The Lancet Update to Operation Warp Speed: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(21)00140-6/fulltext

AMA, American Medical Association, Vaccine Info

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OFFICIAL LINKS

UPDATE - July 29, 2021 - Current White House COVI-19 Statement - https://www.whitehouse.gov/priorities/covid-19/

Emergency Proclamation Regarding the Corona Virus, SARS-CoV-2 in Alabama by Governor Kay Ivey: Link https://governor.alabama.gov/newsroom/2020/03/state-of-emergency-coronavirus-covid-19/

Alabama Department of Public Health Risk Indicator Chart: https://alpublichealth.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/b585b67ef4074bb2b4443975bf14f77d

Alabama Department of Education Guidance: https://www.alsde.edu/Documents/Roadmap%20for%20Reopening%20Schools%20June%2026%202020.pdf Current Info listing: https://www.alabamaachieves.org/?s=Covid-19&id=12040

Scottsboro School System Guidelines: http://www.scottsboroschools.net/

Jackson County Alabama Info, including videos and calendar: https://www.jacksonk12.org/

CDC

Again, Center for Disease Control (CDC) latest information and updates, Link: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

Mask Guidance update July 29, 2021: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/about-face-coverings.html

From CDC, referenced studies - Quote: "Similar to adults with SARS-CoV-2 infections, children and adolescents can spread SARS-CoV-2 to others when they do not have symptoms or have mild, non-specific symptoms and thus might not know that they are infected and infectious. Children are less likely to develop severe illness or die from COVID-19. . . Consistent and correct use of face masks reduces the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and, with some exceptions, is recommended for use indoors among people aged 2 and older who are not fully vaccinated." The CDC info in the link is supported by 98 confirmed references, listed. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/transmission_k_12_schools.html

From the FDA, Novel Coronavirus - nCoV-2019 - CDC Real Time Diagnostic Panel - Emergency Use Only Link: https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download

DELTA VARIANT - Problems, misinformation/omission leading to disinformation, and Relevant News Stories

AP News Story - ABC - News Channel 9 Update, below CDC Scribe info released: https://newschannel9.com/news/nation-world/vaccinated-people-can-carry-as-much-virus-as-others-study-says Release of the information disclosed in this news story is appreciated and important. The transmissibility of the Covid-19 Delta variant was reported by WHO, World Health Organization scientists more than 2 weeks ago, link:https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/12/most-fully-vaccinated-people-who-get-covid-delta-infections-are-asymptomatic-who-says-.html . The story is not complete, reference the WHO article link; additionally, an important part was not reported as described in the Scribe Document, reference: Communications failure-correction of the failure, prevention and risk. 1) CDC needs to revise guidance regarding NPI, non-pharmaceutical intervention, mask and social distancing restrictions, and restrictions on public gatherings due to the Delta variant. 2) RISK - a) Risk of severe disease or death reduced 10 fold in vaccinated; b) Risk of infection reduced 3 fold in vaccinated. --- Formal corporate media, such as the AP and ABC, has a responsibility to tell the truth and the complete story. Omissions indicate and facilitate misinformation often leading to the creation of disinformation.

UPDATE - CDC Delta Variant Release Data - Scribe Document

CDC internal COVID-19 delta... by Adam Forgie ( Delta Variant - Fair Use for non-profit news and education discussion. Per AP and Channel 9 ABC News release linked above.)

VACCINATION INFO - ADPH

LATEST INFORMATION FROM THE ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH - VACCINATIONS: https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/covid19vaccine/index.html

COVID-19 Risk Indicator, ADPH - COVID-19 Risk Indicator (arcgis.com)

COVID-19 DATA SURVEILLANCE DASHBOARD - Alabama COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard (arcgis.com) (Unfortunately the State of Alabama has changed their dashboard.)

CLOSING REMARKS - PREVENTION IS OUR BEST TOOL TO FIGHT THE DISEASE

Folks, the SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19, pandemic is real, it is no hoax, it is a sickening and killer disease. If you get infected with this viral disease there is a high probability it will leave you with lifetime complications, if you live. PLEASE practice known preventive measures to protect you, your family, your friends, community and nation. Get Vaccinated, wear masks, wash your hands, if you have children insure they wash their hands and practice good personal hygiene, disinfect hard surfaces at work and home. The virus has been shown to be persistent and remains active for days on hard surfaces. The virus may be spread in droplet and aerosols in the air from infected patients; the aerosol spread may occur up to 24 feet in areas with poor ventilation. Please get tested, consult with a physician regarding next steps for you if you are infected. CDC Preventive Guidance: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.html

NOTE - All references are listed within this article.