Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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JAMA - Estimation of Excess Deaths in US

Key Points
Question Did more all-cause deaths occur during the first months of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States compared with the same months during previous years?

Findings In this cohort study, the number of deaths due to any cause increased by approximately 122 000 from March 1 to May 30, 2020, which is 28% higher than the reported number of COVID-19 deaths.

Meaning Official tallies of deaths due to COVID-19 underestimate the full increase in deaths associated with the pandemic in many states.

 

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Apologies if already posted.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...cine-approved-use-countrys-military-clinical/

Pretty crazy.

The Chinese are injecting their military with a "reportedly" working vaccine.

 

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Been missing from this thread for a bit, due to preparing for a work related interview, had it today and thankfully I got over the line and got a promotion, chuffed here. Hope all are keeping well!

Back to some light reading......

This Nature paper on COVID19 in Italy discusses how lockdown stopped the virus and how people with no symptoms are infectious and might spread the virus to the vulnerable.

Suppression of a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in the Italian municipality of Vo’ - Nature

The authors describe the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, viral load and the frequency of symptomatic versus asymptomatic and presymptomatic infection in an Italian town, before and after a strict 14-day lockdown.

www.nature.com

 

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Worryingly the virus is beginning to hit the most deprived the countries now and the exponential rate is huge.

When you look at were wealthy Europe were a couple of months ago and now there is a definite economic component to mangaging this virus, that other countries just can’t afford. Leading to huge losses or like and increased growth rates.

Coronavirus: World reaches dangerous new phase

As the world hits the grim milestone of 10 million confirmed cases, which countries are seeing the biggest rises, and what might be behind them?

www.bbc.com

 

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Three vaccines progressing to phase three trials.

 

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I’m sure you guys have been following the effectiveness of Dex in the treatment of Covid.

Good account here.

Dexamethasone and the Recovery Trial’s High-Speed Science

In just three months, one British research team identified the first life-saving drug of the pandemic (and helped cancel hydroxychloroquine).

www.wired.com

 

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Rumor has it San Diego pleaded with Newsom to excuse down here until after the weekend. People are pissed. As it means orange county and LA residents will flock here. We should know in the county meeting today if they decided to be smart or stupid.

 

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“Of cases requiring hospitalization, two thirds are under age 65 and about half do not have any high risk chronic health conditions”.

 

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For the 'this all seems like the fault of PHE' crowd:

 

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Apologies if already posted.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...cine-approved-use-countrys-military-clinical/

Pretty crazy.

The Chinese are injecting their military with a "reportedly" working vaccine.

This sounds like the beginning of a Resident Evil game

 

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Was reading an interesting interview yesterday with one of the miners infected by the virus in Czech. He wasn't particularly complimentary about the processes. His mine had had a number of infections, yet when he developed symptoms the mine doctor wouldn't test him, so he had to travel on public transport back to his home town to see his GP, who in turn had no dedicated (and isolated) testing area, so he was mingling with all the other patients (Czech GPs have been doing very few teleconsultations, so face to face remains the norm). The test results took five days to arrive, during which time he was still expected to go to work. The issue was compounded by the bloke's wife being a nurse, who even after his test came back positive was told to go to work because there's a shortage of nurses.

Meanwhile, in Prague, there was a big garden party on Charles Bridge, with 2,000 people having lunch to celebrate 'goodbye to coronavirus' . Something about pride coming before a fall seems apt.