Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Toast]

Making testing easy and quick, especially for the most vulnerable who are likely to be those without transport, is a key way to keep minor outbreaks from becoming major problems. You’d think this many months in we’d have a handle on it.

I have a high temp today and it’s rising still.
If COVID didn’t exist I’d say it was man flu, but even though I thought I’d had it at the start of the outbreak, I’ve not had antibody test and therefore it’s responsible for me to get tested.

 

[LinekersLegs]

In that case @Tea_drinker I apologise for pulling you up on it. Xx

edit. Still think asking for one out of curiosity is bad news mind.

Tbh from his self reported activity @Tea_drinker would seem to fit the profile of someone who might pick up thr virus and spread it asymptotically. So making it easy for him to get tested would seem to be an overall win both for him as an individual and the community at large.

 

[BlueStevie35]

All settings - 38 is the total announced, down 45 on yesterday and down 15 on last week bringing the 7 day rolling average down slightly to 63.57. The earlier hospital figure sees that average fall slightly to 15.14

 

[Tea_drinker]

Tbh from his self reported activity @Tea_drinker would seem to fit the profile of someone who might pick up thr virus and spread it asymptotically. So making it easy for him to get tested would seem to be an overall win both for him as an individual and the community at large.

Hear hear. Lots of super spreading going on down Lark Lane this eve too. And what about the mess of that place now with the bollards, dead ends, traffic jams...

 

[Tea_drinker]

Admittedly it was a few weeks back but my elderly uncle with high COVID risk factors couldn’t get one either. They ended up just phoning him occasionally to check he was OK but it caused a huge ammount of entirely unnecessary and counter productive stress.

I wonder why this is? I'd hate to think it was screening postcodes to decide who gets sent tests and who doesnt.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Huge jump in numbers in Ireland today 85 new cases (we were at single digits a month ago). Well over half the cases are under 45's

This doesnt bode well, "new" government are lunching from one disaster to another.

 

[Brennan]

Luxembourg really is in a mess.

Population of just 600,000, now getting 100+ cases daily and increasing.

 

[Tin-Tin]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Association Between US Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US

This population epidemiology study estimates associations of school closures in the US and the timing of those closures in March 2020 with change in daily coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) incidence and mortality through the first week of May, accounting for other contemporaneous public health...

jamanetwork.com

Question Was statewide school closure associated with decreased incidence and mortality for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)?

Findings In this US population–based time series analysis conducted between March 9, 2020, and May 7, 2020, school closure was associated with a significant decline in both incidence of COVID-19 (adjusted relative change per week, −62%) and mortality (adjusted relative change per week, −58%). In a model derived from this analysis, it was estimated that closing schools when the cumulative incidence of COVID-19 was in the lowest quartile compared with the highest quartile was associated with 128.7 fewer cases per 100 000 population over 26 days and with 1.5 fewer deaths per 100 000 population over 16 days.

Meaning There was a temporal association between statewide school closure and lower COVID-19 incidence and mortality, although some of the reductions may have been related to other concurrent nonpharmaceutical interventions.

 

[arminisgod]

shock horror... it's EID tomorrow.

absolute joke.

 

[Toast]

We’ve ballsed this right up haven’t we.

FFS.

 

[PhilM]

shock horror... it's EID tomorrow.

absolute joke.

The decision or are you implying it's an issue with ethnic / religious groups?

 

[arminisgod]

The decision or are you implying it's an issue with ethnic / religious groups?

Bingo. As i have said before

 

[Prevenger17]

The decision or are you implying it's an issue with ethnic / religious groups?

Of course he is. Armin isn't even sure he wants to refuse to wear a mask because a klan hood was basically standard pre-pandemic attire for him. Quite the dilemma tbf

 

[Nymzee]

Of course he is. Armin isn't even sure he wants to refuse to wear a mask because a klan hood was basically standard pre-pandemic attire for him. Quite the dilemma tbf

“Whinging about a face covering? Pfft, try wearing a full hood m8”