The Coronavirus Thread

[Svartalf]

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Yeah, sure, it's a well known fact that medical personnel avoid surgery assignments like the plague because they are so deadly to them.

[rainbow]

Prove it.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... ry/sweden/

[Scot Dutchy]

You keep on referring to the same disputed figures which are now accepted to be very untrustworthy.
Do you accept the African figures on that site or the South American ones? Somalia produces figures. One of the most corrupt nations on Earth. Do you accept those figures as being correct? How about the war torn country of Yemen where girls dont count or matter? Do you accept them? You just wont or cant answer because either way you lose.

[rainbow]

You keep on referring to the same disputed figures which are now accepted to be very untrustworthy.

They are only disputed by you.

Provide better figures if you can, or shut your cake-hole.

[Scot Dutchy]

You keep on referring to the same disputed figures which are now accepted to be very untrustworthy.

They are only disputed by you.

Provide better figures if you can, or shut your cake-hole.

I am not the only one. No answers noted btw. There are no figures period. There was no international agreed protocol of data collecting. The Brits just lobbed off 5300 of their death list by changing the parameters they use for collecting.

[rainbow]

You keep on referring to the same disputed figures which are now accepted to be very untrustworthy.

They are only disputed by you.

Provide better figures if you can, or shut your cake-hole.

I am not the only one.

Prove it.

[Tero]

Sorry, no mask news today. Virus gives immunity:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/heal ... ffe108c63e

A fishing vessel that left Seattle in May returned with an unexpected catch: the first direct evidence in humans that antibodies to the coronavirus can thwart infection.

More than a hundred crew members aboard the American Dynasty were stricken by the infection over 18 days at sea. But three sailors who initially carried antibodies remained virus-free, according to a new report.

Although the study is small, it addresses one of the most important questions in the pandemic: whether the immune response to one bout with the virus protects against reinfection.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... 20173161v1

[Scot Dutchy]

You keep on referring to the same disputed figures which are now accepted to be very untrustworthy.

They are only disputed by you.

Provide better figures if you can, or shut your cake-hole.

I am not the only one.

Prove it.

1. Continue misquoting - Noted
2. Not answering - Noted
3. Still talking crap - Noted

Can do better - Noted

[Joe]

Some mask news. I wouldn't consider this proof, but here in the US we don't have the luxury of waiting for absolute proof. Too many people are dying from this thing.

Community Use Of Face Masks And COVID-19: Evidence From A Natural Experiment Of State Mandates In The US

ABSTRACT
State policies mandating public or community use of face masks or covers in mitigating the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are hotly contested. This study provides evidence from a natural experiment on the effects of state government mandates for face mask use in public issued by fifteen states plus Washington, D.C., between April 8 and May 15, 2020. The research design is an event study examining changes in the daily county-level COVID-19 growth rates between March 31 and May 22, 2020. Mandating face mask use in public is associated with a decline in the daily COVID-19 growth rate by 0.9, 1.1, 1.4, 1.7, and 2.0 percentage points in 1–5, 6–10, 11–15, 16–20, and 21 or more days after state face mask orders were signed, respectively. Estimates suggest that as a result of the implementation of these mandates, more than 200,000 COVID-19 cases were averted by May 22, 2020. The findings suggest that requiring face mask use in public could help in mitigating the spread of COVID-19.

[laklak]

It's always hard to quantify something not happening.

[Joe]

And there might be other factors at work too. That's the trouble. By the time we have enough controlled studies to have a clear picture, this thing will be over.

Policy makers sometimes have to make decisions with imperfect knowledge. It looks like my Governor may have acted on this, ordering mask wearing about a month after it was published, although his timing might have been coincidence.

Also a possible coincidence.



You pay the man; you take your chances.

[Brian Peacock]

You keep on referring to the same disputed figures which are now accepted to be very untrustworthy.

They are only disputed by you.

Provide better figures if you can, or shut your cake-hole.

I am not the only one. No answers noted btw. There are no figures period. There was no international agreed protocol of data collecting. The Brits just lobbed off 5300 of their death list by changing the parameters they use for collecting.

And as it was pointed out before - the deaths didn't suddenly disappear, they were just reclassified as non-Covid. What's the Dutch excess death rate at the moment btw?

[Joe]

With so many schools closed because of the pandemic, it's wise to stock up on homeschooling supplies.

[Sean Hayden]

[JimC]

Our case numbers have dropped below 200 for the first time in a while. And most of those are from known contacts, rather than unknown community transmission. I am permitting myself a glimmer of hope...