Barnfred 55
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There should be a "round of applause" emoji for such posts.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Barnfred 55
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Problem is it's such a big country. Some of the states are the size of the UK and others not far short in population. Large states seemed to have peaked with the virus at different times which is why it's been a continuous issue there.
The interesting thing to me is that the whole of Europe peaked at roughly the same time whereas that hasn't happened in the US. But it also questions the theory that the virus goes dormant in the summer months.
Barnfred 55
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It is all about money. The more clicks they get the more advertising they can sell. The more people watch their news channel, the more advertising they can sell.
Barnfred 55
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Let's hope there's an element of truth in that. A large portion of the elderly and at risk will be having their usual flu jab soon if not already. Every little bit helps.Behavioral factors would be my guess but would be great if there were medical reasons.
U.S. health officials are urging Americans to get their flu shots this year in the hopes of thwarting a winter “twindemic”—a situation in which both influenza and COVID-19 spread and sicken the public. But a new study suggests that there could be another key reason to get a flu jab this year: it might reduce your risk of COVID-19. The research, released as a preprint that has not yet been peer-reviewed, indicates that a flu vaccine against the influenza virus may also trigger the body to produce broad infection-fighting molecules that combat the pandemic-causing coronavirus. The paper is in line with some other recent studies published in peer-reviewed journals that point to similar effects. But researchers caution the research is preliminary and needs to be bolstered by more rigorous experiments.
A Flu Shot Might Reduce Coronavirus Infections, Early Research Suggests
Hospital workers who got vaccinated were significantly less likely to develop COVID than those who did notwww.scientificamerican.com
In the new study, Mihai Netea, an infectious disease immunologist at Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, and his colleagues combed through their hospital’s databases to see if employees who got a flu shot during the 2019–2020 season were more or less likely to get infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. Workers who received a flu vaccine, the researchers found, were 39 percent less likely to test positive for the coronavirus as of June 1, 2020. While 2.23 percent of nonvaccinated employees tested positive, only 1.33 percent of vaccinated ones did. Netea and his team posted their findings on the preprint server MedRxiv on October 16.
These findings do not prove that flu vaccines prevent COVID-19, however. “This is an intriguing study, but it doesn’t provide definitive evidence,” says Ellen Foxman, an immunobiologist and clinical pathologist at the Yale School of Medicine. There could be other explanations for the association the Radboud scientists and their colleagues found. For instance, people who choose to receive a flu shot may be more health-conscious and more likely to follow COVID-19 prevention guidelines than individuals who do not get vaccinated. Netea agrees, noting that overall behavior, rather than the shot, might have made people in the former group less likely to get sick in his study.
Remember last month when Chris Whitty said the daily death total would be 250 per day by mid November.
He got lambasted for it.
He got lambasted for it.
Billy Dean
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That is shocking.
Email from my sons school.
A girl in his year and one of his close mates has tested positive meaning thathe now has to self isolate until next Tuesday. She was tested over a week ago and so he and his mates have been out all weekend could have passed it onto many many people.
Gutted cos he is now stuck at home, annoying me, unable to go out and can't even come to work with me, that is before even thinking if he has it and could have passed it to me, my wife and daughter.
aaaargh
A girl in his year and one of his close mates has tested positive meaning thathe now has to self isolate until next Tuesday. She was tested over a week ago and so he and his mates have been out all weekend could have passed it onto many many people.
Gutted cos he is now stuck at home, annoying me, unable to go out and can't even come to work with me, that is before even thinking if he has it and could have passed it to me, my wife and daughter.
aaaargh
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orchard
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It was around 1k yesterday, no?
NilSatisOptimum
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Bad news sells, who knew!
Capitalism is about making money, who knew!
The joys of being "independent employee" in the gig economy.
neil999
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Indeed, but it has definitely got worse
orchard
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The Mayor of Bristol has announced the city will be the first place in the UK to move into 'Tier 1 plus' with restrictions coming into force in a matter of days.
Tier system working well then, 1.1b by tonight ?
Tier system working well then, 1.1b by tonight ?
COVID-19 'Vaccine Nationalism' Could Cost $1.2 Trillion a Year
Nationalistic behavior by governments may exclude some countries from access to COVID-19 vaccines. This could cost the world economy up to $1.2 trillion a year in GDP. A globally coordinated effort to fight the pandemic is key, not only from a public health perspective but also an economic one.
www.rand.org
Noisy noise annoys jr?
In the hot summer months it was the US South that was badly hit - I suspect, but haven’t got data to prove, that air conditioning played a big part in those outbreaks.
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