Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[grandjoeblue]

No hospital figures reported for today, last Sunday’s late revealed total was 56

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 43 deaths were announced today, down 78 on yesterday and down 15 on last Sunday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 112.14

For the 60 day cut off, 52 deaths were announced today, down 104 on yesterday and down 24 on last Sunday. The 7 day rolling average falls to an even 137

Do you know what the recent 7 day peak for 28 days was? Wasn't it about 152? Seems to have dropped quite a bit relatively quickly.

 

[jamieni]

Obviously can’t speak to how careful you were/are being, but generally I think a combination or lockdown fatigue, complacency and a much more transmissible variant becoming dominant has led to such widespread infection in the post-vaccine months. A much higher percentage of people were truly isolating for almost all of 2020.

I think the vaccines have led to people behaving in much more “normal” ways than they were last year, which no doubt increases transmission.

My wife teaches music and was doing it all via Zoom and whatnot for most of 2020 and early 2021. She went back to face to face teaching last month and caught COVID.

 

[verreauxi]

Pediatric COVID-19 Cases in Counties...

This report describes pediatric COVID-19 cases in counties with and without school mask requirements.

www.cdc.gov

 

[verreauxi]

2 fringe doctors created the myth that ivermectin is a 'miracle cure' for COVID-19 — whipping up false hope that could have deadly consequences

Dr. Paul Marik and Dr. Pierre Kory are two of the most well-known ivermectin promoters around. They've formed a group of doctors called the FLCCC.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Staff shortages spreading to all corners of UK business, survey finds

Brexit, global supply chain issues and the ‘long tail of Covid-19’ creates ‘perfect storm for UK firms’

www.theguardian.com

 

[verreauxi]

Very easy to understand thread on how antiviral drugs work (using Molnupiravir as example):

 

[wm02]

Very easy to understand thread on how antiviral drugs work (using Molnupiravir as example):

Saw that compound structure and think I had a little PTSD from those two semesters of organic chemistry

 

[tsubaki]

Very easy to understand thread on how antiviral drugs work (using Molnupiravir as example):

do horses take it?

 

[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 33 deaths were announced today, no figures to compare to from yesterday but it is down 1 on last Monday. 13 deaths were in English hospitals, again nothing to compare to from yesterday but it is down 1 on last week. The 7 day rolling average falls to 100.29

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 33 deaths were announced today, down 10 on yesterday and down 7 on last Monday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 111.14

For the 60 day cut off, 35 deaths were announced today, down 17 on yesterday and down 7 on last Monday. The 7 day rolling average falls to an even 136

 

[bebo86]

Where's davek?

 

[Tin-Tin]

Now that Facebook and Instagram are down, where are people going to do their independent research on the vaccine?

 

[navidson]

Where's davek?

Thankfully banned from this thread

 

[Billy Dean]

Now that Facebook and Instagram are down, where are people going to do their independent research on the vaccine?

Thankfully Twitter is still going mate.

 

[DuuuncanHadaPigeon]

do horses take it?

I am not saying people should use ivermectin to treat covid, but to just pass it off as a horse dewormer is wrong. It is a legitimate medicine suitable for human use, again just to clarify, from what I have read it has not been proven to be an effective treatment for covid.

This horse de wormer narrative is weird.

Fact Check-2015 Nobel Prize for ivermectin intended for treatment of parasitic infections doesn’t prove its efficacy on COVID-19

Correction Sep. 23, 2021: paragraph one has been corrected to clarify that the drug Ivermectin was not awarded the Nobel Prize. Rather, the prize was awarded to two scientists for their discoveries involving the drug.

www.reuters.com

 

[TN Toffee]

I am not saying people should use ivermectin to treat covid, but to just pass it off as a horse dewormer is wrong. It is a legitimate medicine suitable for human use, again just to clarify, from what I have read it has not been proven to be an effective treatment for covid.

This horse de wormer narrative is weird.

Fact Check-2015 Nobel Prize for ivermectin intended for treatment of parasitic infections doesn’t prove its efficacy on COVID-19

Correction Sep. 23, 2021: paragraph one has been corrected to clarify that the drug Ivermectin was not awarded the Nobel Prize. Rather, the prize was awarded to two scientists for their discoveries involving the drug.

www.reuters.com

In the UK, probably so. Here in the US, people were literally pulling into Tractor Supply Stores like they’d arrived at a pharmacy (AKA the “farmacy”) and stocking up on a livestock grade topical paste and then going home and eating it from the tube like toothpaste. It even reached a degree that livestock owners who needed it for their animals couldn’t find it for it’s actual purpose in some places.