International COVID-19 Updates & Discussion 2

[BackStabbath]

South Korea: 70% of coronavirus patients fully recovered not all doom and gloom.

Source: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200412000085

 

[Mirai]

South Korea: 70% of coronavirus patients fully recovered not all doom and gloom.

Source: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20200412000085

Any info on the possible lung interstitial fibrosis which depending on the severity can reduce life expectancy?

 

[Sads-1-zn]

Where were you when braps were considered a deadly weapon?

 

[Willie Trombone]

A bit different from the usual Easter photos:

Coronavirus: Easter Sunday under lockdown captured in pictures

Christians around the world celebrate from home and services are live-streamed from empty churches.

www.bbc.com

We got to do church twice on Friday and twice on Sunday online lol. Once with my kids church in Stellenbosch and once with Celebration church in Green Bay, Wisconsin for their morning service (Central time)

 

[Willie Trombone]

Where were you when braps were considered a deadly weapon?

Well if you're sick and not wearing pants then yes, don't fart in other people's general direction... But generally your underwear and pants should suffice lol

 

[sand_man]

Gives new meaning to silent but violent.

 

[Snyper564]

 

[Polymathic]

 

[DeeinSouthAfrica]

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[Polymathic]

 

[Polymathic]

 

[Gordon_R]

This is where the unpleasant reality sets in:

Canadian care homes become coronavirus hotspots

Health officials say nearly half of all known coronavirus deaths in Canada are linked to care homes.

www.bbc.com

Over the weekend, a care home in the province of Quebec, where 31 people have died, was placed under investigation.

There are about 24,804 cases of the virus in Canada and 734 deaths to date.

Long-term care facilities are "driving the severe outcomes in Canada", said the federal chief public health officer Theresa Tam on Monday.

 

[Gordon_R]

Russia is not immune:

Coronavirus: Russia's Putin may deploy army as cases surge

The Russian president says the army may be deployed as the number of coronavirus cases rises sharply.

www.bbc.com

Russia recorded its largest daily rise in confirmed cases, with 2,558 new infections. It brought the total to 18,328, with the vast majority of those in Moscow.

Lockdown measures have been introduced in the capital Moscow, the worst-hit area, as well as several other regions. People have been told to stay at home unless there is an essential reason for them to go out.

Meanwhile, doctors in the city have warned that hospitals are nearing capacity, and video shared on social media showed dozens of ambulances queuing to deliver patients.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Also it just isn't one Tweet. Let's help @OrbitalDawn with some other WHO mishaps:

1) https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/det...-technical-briefing-on-2019-novel-coronavirus

... in relation to travel restrictions



2) WHO DG, the corrupt Ethiopian bought by China, still insisted on February 28:

"Our greatest enemy right now is not the #coronavirus itself. It’s fear, rumours and stigma. And our greatest assets are facts, reason and solidarity. "

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1233445856428331009

3) https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/det...media-briefing-on-covid-19---27-february-2020

"That is one of the key messages from China. The evidence we have is that there does not appear to be widespread community transmission." (Note this was on 27 February)

4) WHO's delay in calling a pandemic ... etc.

Nothing here is particularly outrageous, and you've had to cherry pick because a lot of what they say in those releases is reasonable, especially at the time.

A lot of the criticism is because they didn't have perfect data at the time to make harsher calls for restrictions. They can't do anything if countries don't provide data. They say that in their release that you posted. At that stage there were only 176 cases outside China with only 38% of those cases having any data provided by the effected countries at all.

And if they had called for harsher measures then, you'd have accused them of being scaremongers intent on implementing some nefarious agenda.

All this talk about other models... Taiwan which was the 3rd country after Singapore to be exposed corona back in January has: 380 cases, 80 recovered and only 5 deaths...

This with a population of 23million... yet WHO refuses to listen or acknowledge that Taiwan exist nor did they accept Taiwan's finding that the virus is airborne (3 weeks before China annouced it)...

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/04/asia/taiwan-coronavirus-response-who-intl-hnk/index.html

That's not accurate. Taiwanese experts were part of the WHO's own team that visited Wuhan in early Jan.

And source on the evidence of airborne transmission from Taiwan?

They used data from the WHO to implement their own stricter screening in early Jan after China reported pneumonia cases without clear explanations.

Taiwan has set up really good public infrastructure to deal with pandemics in the wake of SARS, as the article you posted mentions. Should be emulated globally. And ironically is similar to the big push from Bush and Obama's administrations and dismantled under Trump.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1248568514245509120

Worth pointing out that Berenson is a crank, who's previous claim to fame was writing a book full of misinformation about the dangers of weed.

Interesting reading this list of world leaders who underplayed the pandemic, at least initially:

8 times world leaders downplayed the coronavirus and put their countries at greater risk | Business Insider

Multiple world leaders blatantly downplayed warnings early on that the coronavirus pandemic could lead to mass death and infections.

www.businessinsider.com

Bolsonaro is still doing it, giant ******* that he is.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Chloroquine study called off after irregular heartbeats detected in patients

Researchers called off a small Brazilian study on the anti-malaria drug chloroquine’s ability to combat coronavirus after some participants experienced potentially fatal heart complications. …

nypost.com

Researchers called off a small Brazilian study on the anti-malaria drug chloroquine’s ability to combat coronavirus after some participants experienced potentially fatal heart complications.

The study, which was funded by the Brazilian state of Amazonas, administered the drug to 81 hospitalized patients in Manaus to determine its effectiveness battling coronavirus, according to a report on pre-publication server medRix.

But researchers said they were forced to halt the study early after “potential safety hazards” became apparent.

..

Roughly half of the patients in the study took a 50-milligram dose of chloroquine twice daily for five days, the report said. The other participants were given a single, 600-milligram dose daily for 10 days.

But within three days, some of the patients taking the higher dose experienced arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeats, the report said.

Fsck.

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Seven Northeastern U.S. states and three on the West Coast formed regional pacts on Monday aimed at coordinating a gradual reopening of their economies without a resurgence of coronavirus infections just as the outbreak appeared to be starting to wane.


New York, by far the hardest hit state, will work closely with nearby New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island to devise strategies for jointly easing stay-at-home orders imposed last month to curb coronavirus transmissions, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.

Massachusetts later announced it was joining the East Coast coalition.

“Nobody has been here before, nobody has all the answers,” Cuomo said during an open conference call with five counterparts. “Addressing public health and the economy: Which one is first? They’re both first.”

New York, California and other states plan for reopening as coronavirus crisis eases

Ten U.S. governors on the east and west coasts banded together on Monday in two regional pacts to coordinate gradual economic reopenings as the coronavirus crisis finally appeared to be ebbing.

www.reuters.com

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Good piece here on the teams Massachusetts wants to put together to conduct widespread contact tracing.

'We need an army': Hiring of coronavirus trackers seen as key to curbing disease spread

“We need an army of 300,000 people” to find the contacts of people infected with the #coronavirus, said former CDC director Tom Frieden.

www.statnews.com

 

[Gordon_R]

New York, California and other states plan for reopening as coronavirus crisis eases

Ten U.S. governors on the east and west coasts banded together on Monday in two regional pacts to coordinate gradual economic reopenings as the coronavirus crisis finally appeared to be ebbing.

www.reuters.com

Followed by a temper tantrum from the guy in the White House:

Coronavirus: Trump feuds with governors over authority

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the president was "spoiling for a fight".

www.bbc.com

 

[chrisc]

Some interesting discussions and insights, rather long though. You can select portions of it

Media Coverage for Event 201

Thank you to members of the press that attended Event 201. There are opportunities for those that missed it to view a video of the exercise online now, and to use materials posted on this page.

www.centerforhealthsecurity.org