Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Catfish Blues
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I know it sounds a bit heartless, but I'm past caring about the people going to places like Durdle Door. Everybody knows what the access to the beach is like there, and how rammed it's going to be on a warm day. If they want to take their chances there with COVID, or feel the urge to tombstone from the arch ( which is what it sounds like happened ), then let them.
The ones I do care about are their elderly, or otherwise vulnerable friends and relatives, who now have a slightly increased risk of getting infected with, possibly, a bad outcome.
On the plus side, the chances of anyone getting infected there are quite small, the breeze will disperse any virus pretty quickly and, on average, on a day like today, there'd probably be less than ten infectious people on the beach.
Antibody Tests Point To Lower Death Rate For The Coronavirus Than First Thought
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We’ve ramped up testing here in CA over the past week but this is still worrying
S Korea getting their most recent cluster under control hopefully
Covid-19 study on hydroxychloroquine use questioned by 120 researchers and medical professionals
Surgisphere issues public statement defending integrity of coronavirus study published in the Lancet
On Thursday Guardian Australia revealed that the Australian data in the study, published last week, did not reconcile with health department records or databases.The study found Covid-19 patients who received the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine were dying at higher rates and experiencing more heart-related complications than other virus patients. The large observational study analysed data from nearly 15,000 patients with Covid-19 who received the drug alone or in combination with antibiotics, comparing this data with 81,000 controls who did not receive the drug.Questions about the paper’s statistical modelling were also raised by Columbia University in the US, prompting Surgisphere, the company that manages the database of patients used to inform the study, to issue a public statement defending the integrity of the study.
But now further questions have been raised about the Surgisphere database and the study methodology. The signatories to the open letter, directed to the Lancet and the study authors, include prominent sceptics of the value of using hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19. The letter lists 10 major concerns about the statistical analysis and data integrity of the study.
“The authors have not adhered to standard practices in the machine learning and statistics community,” the letter states. “They have not released their code or data.” The Lancet is among the many signatories to a statement on data sharing for Covid-19 studies. “There was no ethics review,” the letter continues. “There was no mention of the countries or hospitals that contributed to the data source and no acknowledgments to their contributions. A request to the authors for information on the contributing centres was denied. Data from Australia are not compatible with government reports. Surgisphere have since stated this was an error of classification of one hospital from Asia. This indicates the need for further error checking throughout the database.”
The letter also states that the data from Africa in the study indicates that nearly 25% of all Covid-19 cases and 40% of all deaths in the continent occurred in Surgisphere-associated hospitals which had sophisticated electronic patient data recording, and patient monitoring. “Both the numbers of cases and deaths, and the detailed data collection, seem unlikely,” the letter says. The letter also expressed concern about unusually small reported variances in baseline variables, interventions and outcomes between continents, despite significant differences in demographics.
She's had me painting the lounge.The Evil Witch.Count yourself lucky.Had frozen ginger and strawberries for pudding tonight. Do not recommend
Bishop Thumpety-Thump
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It's a Travel Tavern.
PeregrineT
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Cute fake news that only takes a quick search to show as false. But we all know that sells more papers and no one cares to report the positive news.
I personally have found COVID tracking project to be pretty reliable in that they get their information direct from state health departments. Care to share your sources that you believe to be more accurate?
PeregrineT
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Every other source? Maybe try John Hopkins for a start. Clearly they arent getting it direct from state health departments, because all of the other sites reporting they get it straight from health departments have different numbers.
Beyond that, and I can only speak for my state, they arent smart enough to realize it only updates once a day and instead they check the numbers 4 times a day.
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