Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[arminisgod]

I wonder how many people have deleted the app recently. I've heard a number of stories of people finishing isolation and being told to isolate again a week later.

i've deleted it, got pinged last week. it's only guidance anyway. You dont have to isolate

 

[peteblue]

I received a phone call today from the track and trace team as I’m isolating asking if I wanted to take part in a daily testing trial and go back to work and in to the community. I said I would but I’m isolating as I’m positive, to which I got a reply saying “oh dear, you’re definitely on the wrong list then thanks for letting us know”

does anyone actually have a clue what they’re doing?

No…the test and trace is a farce….

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Paris]

Hospital figures - 47 deaths were announced today, up 17 on yesterday and up 25 on last Thursday. 35 deaths were in English hospitals, up 10 on yesterday and up 18 on last week. The 7 day rolling average rises to 28.71

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 63 deaths were announced today, up 14 on yesterday and up 28 on last Thursday. The 7 day rolling average rises to 36.71

For the 60 day cut off, 69 deaths were announced today, up 3 on yesterday and up 28 on last Thursday. The 7 day rolling average rises to 44.71

I was at Wembley on Sunday so it’s likely that I’m positively radioactive


radioactive

 

[RAFUH]

Not so much fixed as eliminated...semantics

 

[Neiler]

Kicking of here now, 1000 cases today, massive exponential growth, inevitable!

 

[RAFUH]

Kicking of here now, 1000 cases today, massive exponential growth, inevitable!

We had 995 new cases yesterday in North Carolina. 1020 today. Population is only 10.5M

Edit: forgot you were in Ireland. That's worse than NC based on population.

 

[RAFUH]

You post these at least in part to terrorize the lads lol

 

[Neiler]

We had 995 new cases yesterday in North Carolina. 1020 today. Population is only 10.5M

Edit: forgot you were in Ireland. That's worse than NC based on population.

Yep, we’re five million, not great at all and the exponential trend is very poor. We were always getting stung given our proximity/border and common travel area with the U.K.

Spain and Portugal deteriorating to, Europe in for a late summer wave.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Huge study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns

The preprint endorsing ivermectin as a coronavirus therapy has been widely cited, but independent researchers find glaring discrepancies in the data

www.theguardian.com

A medical student in London, Jack Lawrence, was among the first to identify serious concerns about the paper, leading to the retraction. He first became aware of the Elgazzar preprint when it was assigned to him by one of his lecturers for an assignment that formed part of his master’s degree. He found the introduction section of the paper appeared to have been almost entirely plagiarised.

It appeared that the authors had run entire paragraphs from press releases and websites about ivermectin and Covid-19 through a thesaurus to change key words. “Humorously, this led to them changing ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome’ to ‘extreme intense respiratory syndrome’ on one occasion,” Lawrence said.

The data also looked suspicious to Lawrence, with the raw data apparently contradicting the study protocol on several occasions.“The authors claimed to have done the study only on 18-80 year olds, but at least three patients in the dataset were under 18,” Lawrence said. “The authors claimed they conducted the study between the 8th of June and 20th of September 2020, however most of the patients who died were admitted into hospital and died before the 8th of June according to the raw data. The data was also terribly formatted, and includes one patient who left hospital on the non-existent date of 31/06/2020.”

 

[LinekersLegs]

You post these at least in part to terrorize the lads lol

I’m trying to desensitize @MikelsGoat to the topic

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Goat]

I’m trying to desensitize @MikelsGoat to the topic

Im a husband and father of 2 girls, I dont need anymore!!!!

 

[LinekersLegs]

Was in San Francisco for lunch yesterday and still a lot of masks about even despite there not being any mandate for their use.

 

[BlueToff]

I’d personally base it on case rates/positivity rates or something similar.

Prevalence in local community low, masks optional in most settings, although probably still for healthcare settings given the higher #s of likely infected and vulnerable alike.

However as soon as rates hit a certain trigger number, back come the mask mandates as the easiest to implement and least harmful way to control an outbreak.

Tbf I think they will 100% still be mandatory in healthcare settings for staff etc and I reckon you'll need to have one on to be allowed entry to most places in hospitals.

Hospitals are a different kettle of fish altogether and people should realise that (though I know some will ignore cause they're w*****).

It'd be sensible probably to have them mandatory on transport, healthcare etc. I just think you'd get people ignoring that too as well though so would it even be a win in that sense?

I don't know. I think they're really a very small part of all this in the grand scheme. They're just the most visible thing.

Like I said though, I'd keep them.