International COVID-19 Updates & Discussion 2

[OrbitalDawn]

10 states are seeing their highest average of daily new Covid-19 cases since the pandemic started

Just as much of the US was improving, 10 states are seeing their highest seven-day average of new coronavirus cases per day since the pandemic started months ago, according to a CNN analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.

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Just as much of the US was improving, 10 states are seeing their highest seven-day average of new coronavirus cases per day since the pandemic started months ago, according to a CNN analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University.

The data includes new cases reported by Johns Hopkins through Tuesday. The states seeing record-high averages are Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina and Texas.

 

[daelm]

snip...

you'll want to check this post out too. lots of the same names. (Hey Florida! Hi Texas. Hey California. How you doing?)

i think that the data is probably starting to catch up with the actual prevalence.

South African Covid-19 News and Discussions 2

qualifications for jobs that can risk mass death have always been in fashion. it's why civil engineers, doctors, pilots , etc go study. tell me: do you just troll? is that the whole thing? or does your mom make you get exercise some times? Calm your tits...

mybroadband.co.za

 

[OrbitalDawn]

you'll want to check this post out too. lots of the same names. (Hey Florida! Hi Texas. Hey California. How you doing?)

i think that the data is probably starting to catch up with the actual prevalence.

South African Covid-19 News and Discussions 2

qualifications for jobs that can risk mass death have always been in fashion. it's why civil engineers, doctors, pilots , etc go study. tell me: do you just troll? is that the whole thing? or does your mom make you get exercise some times? Calm your tits...

mybroadband.co.za

Yeah, Texas is in for a lot of pain because their idiot Governor has been contradicting himself and overruling local public health officials who have been trying to get mask wearing more prevalent.

 

[daelm]

have a look at the table in the link. friend of mine - data scientist - pointed me to the numbers.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

FT's chart game still tops.

Coronavirus tracker: the latest figures as countries fight the Covid-19 resurgence | Free to read

The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and tracks the vaccine rollouts around the world

www.ft.com

 

[daelm]

this was posted in another thread too. good read.

Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model

Here we are, in the middle of a pandemic, staring out our living room windows like aquarium fish. The question on everybody’s minds: How bad will this really ge…

fivethirtyeight.com

 

[daelm]

Yeah, Texas is in for a lot of pain...

relevant to Texas:

Infectious-Disease Experts Think Texas Will See An Increase In Cases

On May 1, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott allowed his stay-at-home order to expire.

fivethirtyeight.com

 

[OrbitalDawn]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1272958447986839554

 

[dualmeister]

A fresh coronavirus case has been reported in New Zealand as officials scramble to contain the fallout from Tuesday’s embarrassing quarantine breach and reports emerge of people disappearing after leaving isolation early.

Thursday’s case – the third to emerge this week after a 24-day streak of no cases – was a man in his 60s who arrived in Auckland from Pakistan on 13 June on Flight NZ124, transiting through Doha and Melbourne.

Officials were contacting all passengers on the flight and have alerted overseas counterparts for the other flights, said Dr Ashley Bloomfield, the director general of health. The man was wearing a mask on all flights and was now in a quarantine facility in Auckland, Bloomfield said.

It came as police said six people absconded from managed isolation after being granted compassionate leave from Covid-19 quarantine to attend a funeral in Hamilton. And TVNZ reported that a birthday party for a girl in isolation brought people together who should not have been mingling.

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lol

 

[buka001]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1273333965320065026

As dysfunctional as the ANC is, I'm glad I don't live in Brazil with a president who literally denies there is a crisis unfolding.

Far right wing ideology driving his views on this.

 

[MiW]

Coronavirus: What is the true death toll of the pandemic?

Far more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic than official Covid-19 data can account for

www.bbc.com

At least another 130,000 people worldwide have died during the coronavirus pandemic on top of 440,000 officially recorded deaths from the virus, according to BBC research.

 

[dualmeister]

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

Trump says he thinks some Americans are wearing masks to show they disapprove of him and not as a preventive measure during the pandemic

The president later said he thought that "testing is overrated," adding, "I created the greatest testing machine in history."

He also said, however, that more testing in the US had led to an increase in confirmed cases. "In many ways, it makes us look bad," he said.

It isn't the first time Trump has made the claim. The president said last week during a roundtable event for seniors that "if we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, actually."

Trump says he thinks some Americans are wearing masks to show they disapprove of him and not as a preventive measure during the pandemic

The president also went on to say that he "created the greatest testing machine in history" but that increased testing makes the US "look bad."

www.businessinsider.com

 

[daelm]

"if we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, actually."

this. i saw it on half a dozen news sites and every time, I start to react and my whole brain goes "wait. wtf?"

 

[OrbitalDawn]

US passed the 120k dead mark, I see.

Florida and Texas hitting records on the daily now.

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

www.bloomberg.com

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

this. i saw it on half a dozen news sites and every time, I start to react and my whole brain goes "wait. wtf?"

LOL .... Yeah, sounds a bit daft

 

[flippakitten]

Coronavirus: UK's Covid-19 alert level reduced from four to three

The virus is now "in general circulation" with a "gradual relaxation of restrictions" possible.

www.bbc.co.uk

I'll just sit this one out thanks when you consider that contract tracing in the UK is a total mess.

England’s ‘World Beating’ System to Track the Virus Is Anything But (Published 2020)

Like a lot of the country’s pandemic response, contact tracing has been hampered by inconsistency, with much promised but little delivered.

www.nytimes.com

and very little mask wearing in shops.

Without that final piece of masks in any public indoor setting, I fully suspect UK will be hitting the 900 deaths a day mark by late September.

 

[Gordon_R]

Coronavirus: UK's Covid-19 alert level reduced from four to three

The virus is now "in general circulation" with a "gradual relaxation of restrictions" possible.

www.bbc.co.uk

I'll just sit this one out thanks when you consider that contract tracing in the UK is a total mess.

England’s ‘World Beating’ System to Track the Virus Is Anything But (Published 2020)

Like a lot of the country’s pandemic response, contact tracing has been hampered by inconsistency, with much promised but little delivered.

www.nytimes.com

and very little mask wearing in shops.

Without that final piece of masks in any public indoor setting, I fully suspect UK will be hitting the 900 deaths a day mark by late September.

I read an article earlier today that indicates that there are serious gaps in the communication process, and high levels of mistrust:

Coronavirus: 'Secrecy' claims over Cleckheaton outbreak

Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed on Thursday there had been a localised outbreak in Kirklees.

www.bbc.com

 

[zoozi]

Trump says he thinks some Americans are wearing masks to show they disapprove of him and not as a preventive measure during the pandemic

The president also went on to say that he "created the greatest testing machine in history" but that increased testing makes the US "look bad."

www.businessinsider.com

"President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he believes that some Americans are wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic to express their disapproval of him and not as a preventive measure."

Jesus christ, this guy...

 

[yebocan]

Coronavirus was already in Italy by December, waste water study finds

Italian scientists say sewage water from two cities contained coronavirus traces in December, long before the country's first confirmed cases.

The National Institute of Health (ISS) said water from Milan and Turin showed genetic virus traces on 18 December.

It adds to evidence from other countries that the virus may have been circulating much earlier than thought.

Chinese officials confirmed the first cases at the end of December. Italy's first case was in mid-February.

In May French scientists said tests on samples showed a patient treated for suspected pneumonia near Paris on 27 December actually had the coronavirus.

Meanwhile in Spain a study found virus traces in waste water collected in mid-January in Barcelona, some 40 days before the first local case was discovered.

Coronavirus was already in Italy by December, waste water study finds

Scientists say samples from Milan and Turin showed virus traces long before cases were confirmed.

www.bbc.com