TenderLovingKiller®
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From 2016!!!
Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus
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This was a moving read for me. The guardian is trying to document the life of every US healthcare worker who died on the frontline of the pandemic.
www.theguardian.com
A caring neighbor, a nurse who pulled double shifts: the US health workers who died from Covid-19
We are documenting the lives of every US medical worker who dies helping patients during the pandemic. These are some of the first tragic cases
www.theguardian.com
Despite having one of the toughest "lockdowns" in the country, this happened after california reopened some beaches with social distancing rules in place. Southern California is experiencing a heat wave and beaches were opened up for residents to walk, run, swiming and surfing.
Bringing beach blankets, beach chairs, tents and hanging out at the beach was prohibited. Parking lots remained closed in an attempt to keep beach access to local residents only.
As you can see in the pictures, this failed. Yesterday Newport beach was packed like a holiday weekend according to locals, social distancing guidelines completely ignored.
Colorado's Governor is allowing the stay at home orders to expire today, April 26 and will not be extending the stay at home orders.
Colorado has not seen 14 days of decline yet.
Balancing the advice of the scientific experts and the needs of the economy, Colorado's Governor feels that the best move for the state of Colorado is to let the stay at home orders expire so people can get back to work. He feels we have reached the point where the number of people out of work and struggling to provide for their family is worse than the virus. With his order, unlike Georgia, he is allowing local communities to have their own stay at home policies where they feel it is best to remain closed a little bit longer. Denver so far is the only community to take advantage of this extending the stay at home order until May 8th.
Colorado has not seen 14 days of decline yet.
Balancing the advice of the scientific experts and the needs of the economy, Colorado's Governor feels that the best move for the state of Colorado is to let the stay at home orders expire so people can get back to work. He feels we have reached the point where the number of people out of work and struggling to provide for their family is worse than the virus. With his order, unlike Georgia, he is allowing local communities to have their own stay at home policies where they feel it is best to remain closed a little bit longer. Denver so far is the only community to take advantage of this extending the stay at home order until May 8th.
Essentially this spells trouble for offices. When you have people seated next to one another the virus can quickly spread through and office. If we open back up to soon and things return to normal at the traditional offices all it takes is one infected person and then you can an outbreak.
Hollywood
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Happy Sunday folks and please stay safe!
Hollywood
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The date has been pushed forward again, not that this should come as a surprise to anyone
Ontario publicly-funded schools to remain closed until at least May 31
Publicly-funded schools in Ontario will remain closed until at least May 31 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
toronto.ctvnews.ca
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Indymisanthrope
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Scientists fear the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine will fail and we will all have to live with the 'constant threat' of COVID-19
No vaccine for any other form of coronavirus has ever been approved for use, leading some scientists to fear none will be found for COVID-19 either.
www.businessinsider.com
Between this and WHO cautioning that we don’t have sufficient evidence of post-recovery immunity, this weekend has been a real splash of cold water.
Germany's Covid-19 expert: 'For many, I'm the evil guy crippling the economy'
Germany’s leading coronavirus expert Christian Drosten on Merkel’s leadership, the UK response and the ‘prevention paradox’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage
www.theguardian.com
dhodo
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Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported | Free to read
Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across 14 countries analysed by the FT
amp.ft.com
Turbo
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Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported | Free to read
Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across 14 countries analysed by the FT
I’m not surprised. Some countries and jurisdictions only report deaths in hospitals and only if there is a diagnosis and the death certificate states COVID as the cause. We’re not talking about China here. Some states and European countries don’t court retirement home deaths.
Let me find some citations.
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Why America is probably undercounting coronavirus deaths
CDC relies on state-by-state tallies of death certificates to calculate the number of U.S. deaths from the new coronavirus, but state officials warn that the process is riddled with inaccuracies—and experts say the number of Americans who've died from the virus is likely higher than CDC's...
www.advisory.com
Is comparing Covid-19 death rates across Europe helpful?
Belgium appears hardest hit on paper, but not all countries count non-hospital fatalities
www.theguardian.com
UK coronavirus deaths more than double official figure, according to FT study | Free to read
FT estimate has been updated to reflect latest mortality trends
www.ft.com
Why Belgium's Death Rate Is So High: It Counts Lots Of Suspected COVID-19 Cases
The European country of under 12 million people surged to the top of the chart as authorities tally not only fatalities that are confirmed as virus-related but also many suspected of being linked.
www.npr.org
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Turbo
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A couple pre-prints showing vaccination successes in animals (in macaques and mice):
www.biorxiv.org
www.biorxiv.org
EDIT: The take-home message here is not that these vaccines would necessarily be used in humans. Using an inactivated vaccine poses a certain risk, for one, and would not be the first choice. The point is more that vaccination is possible for SARS-CoV-2 - that an immune response can be induced in animals and that this immune response can protect from SARS-CoV-2 infection at a later point in at least two different animal models. This is pretty good news. The caveat being that the pre-prints are not yet peer-reviewed.
Rapid development of an inactivated vaccine for SARS-CoV-2
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has brought about an unprecedented crisis, taking a heavy toll on human health, lives as well as the global economy. There are no SARS-CoV-2-specific treatments or vaccines available due to the novelty of this virus. Hence, rapid development of...
www.biorxiv.org
The SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain elicits a potent neutralizing response without antibody-dependent enhancement
The SARS-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike (S) protein mediates entry of SARS-CoV-2 into cells expressing the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). The S protein engages ACE2 through its receptor-binding domain (RBD), an independently folded 197-amino acid fragment of the 1273-amino acid...
www.biorxiv.org
EDIT: The take-home message here is not that these vaccines would necessarily be used in humans. Using an inactivated vaccine poses a certain risk, for one, and would not be the first choice. The point is more that vaccination is possible for SARS-CoV-2 - that an immune response can be induced in animals and that this immune response can protect from SARS-CoV-2 infection at a later point in at least two different animal models. This is pretty good news. The caveat being that the pre-prints are not yet peer-reviewed.
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Hollywood
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Well my employer send out a mass email to all employees this morning, and as expected we will continue to operate critical services and work from home at least until May 29, 2020. Not sure how I feel about it but it is what it is.
oldschoolkirby
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Neighbor down the street had not one, but two parties/picnics in his front yard Sunday (afternoon & evening). Roughly 20-30 people each time (adults + kids)? Shameful...
Indymisanthrope
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The governor of Indiana has indicated that he currently has no plans to extend our stay at home order past its current expiration of May 1 (despite seeing our state's highest daily totals of new cases yet on back to back days over the weekend), but even if cases are on the decline, which they aren't, I don't see how this works. Schools have already been closed for the remainder of the school year, statewide. That effectively means the stay at home order is in place at least until the normal end of the school year. If everyone goes back to work, there aren't enough child care resources in the state to make up for the shortfall from schools. The state government is putting parents in a no-win situation where you can't send your kids anywhere, but you also can't decline to go back to work, but you also can't leave your kids at home alone all day. This is not tenable. Return to work and availability of childcare have to be aligned somehow in order to not put parents in an impossible position.
Drive by a Lowe's or a Home Depot any day of the week and it would seem like the stay at home orders are pointless as long as these guys are open.
debianlinux
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Bring your kids to work is the only appropriate civil disobedience.
debianlinux
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What, exactly, do you think people are doing with all this free time at home?