Yarrgh
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Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Tipp blue
If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
Testing, sure a country could have 0 cases if they decided not to test.
I should be able to give this post multiple likes,failing that a gold star
Then, why are their deaths so low?
Billy Dean
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They also shut their borders down pretty sharpish didn't they?
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I fear as well for the native Amazonian tribes due to the idiocy of the Brazilian president.
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Coronavirus outbreak: Andaman’s indigenous tribes face extinction threat
In the past week, the islands have seen an alarming rise in infections since reporting the first case on 26 March
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Amazon indigenous put at risk by Brazil’s feeble Covid-19 response: Critics
Indigenous activists have blasted Jair Bolsonaro’s ineffectual coronavirus response, as leaders cancel annual mass indigenous protest in Brasília; fear grows of virus spread to reserves.
It's an increase on yesterday but the rate has declined slowly. That being said 570 dead a day is really problematic. It's 4000 a week. The figures really start to mount up quite quickly at that rate.
scratchnsurf
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The difficulty is we genuinely have no idea how many people have it and how many have recovered from it.
Could even be something like genetics.
For example, they think genetics of younger people in the Med countries are why they are getting more affected than younger people in China.
the Chinese ruled HK for centuries
The British leased it for 99 years after winning a war
So no they are not annexing HK
Why Did Hong Kong Belong to Britain?
For 100 years, Hong Kong was known as British Hong Kong, first as a crown colony and then under a lease to Queen Victoria's British Empire.
It was an unusual moment of frankness from the White House on Monday when the coronavirus task force offered new estimates of the toll the virus might exact on the American public. By holding firm on social distancing efforts, we were told, we might limit the number of deaths from the virus to somewhere between 100,000 and 240,000 over the course of the pandemic. It’s a grim tally, but better than the millions that might die should the country not follow the offered recommendations.
The peak of the outbreak would come in the middle of April, task force member Deborah Birx explained. She showed a graph using modeling from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The projected peak would come on April 15, with 2,214 deaths on that day.
Late Wednesday night, the IHME released revised estimates, based on new data. During the first wave of the epidemic, its model projects, the death toll will be 93,765 — an increase of 14 percent from its model the previous day. That’s just the first wave, looking at the number of deaths through July. In the fall and winter, the virus is expected to reemerge and pose a significant threat once again. That shift is a function in part of things looking more bleak over the short term. The new model suggests that the number of deaths each day is now most likely to peak on April 16, a day later than suggested Monday, with 400 more deaths that day.
In other words, the data from Monday have been shifted upward significantly — particularly the worst-case scenario represented by the upper-bound of the uncertainty area displayed on the graph. The graph presented from the White House on Monday stopped at about 3,500 deaths a day. The new estimate projects a possible worst-case peak of 4,400 deaths on April 21.
Billy Dean
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Almost 1000 deaths in Germany now
Tipp blue
If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
Because if someone dies who hasn't tested positive they can't be added to official figures. Maybe the figures coming out of those countries are only deaths from positive diagnosis. If there are not many diagnosed then deaths will be lower.
Maybe Slavic genetics has something under its sleeves that we don't know about.
I've got zero science to back this up but Med countries all seem very handsy and huggy and very warm welcoming people which surely must help spread a virus faster than the more conservative Asian populations.
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