The Coronavirus Thread

[Brian Peacock]

Aye, I've become a little virus killing reactor.

[JimC]

Die, Covid scum!

[pErvinalia]

I believe virus and human can live together in harmony.

[JimC]

You can prise my anti-covid antibodies from my cold dead hands!

[Tero]

You smell bad!
https://www.1011now.com/2021/03/26/linc ... -covid-19/

[Fletch F. Fletch]

A word to the wise, don't test your sense of smell on your breath. You'll get a false positive.

J/k, it's essential oils.

[Brian Peacock]

... Low-dose dexamethasone is a cheap and widely used steroid that reduced deaths in Covid patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation by 36% (uncertainty interval 19%-49%) and those receiving oxygen by 18% (6%-28%). This finding alone is estimated to have saved 22,000 lives in the UK and more than a million worldwide. Another study showed that for every 25 patients treated with tocilizumab, one additional life would be saved.

The trials have also found what doesn’t work: hydroxychloroquine showed no clear clinical benefit, and neither did convalescent plasma, another of Trump’s enthusiasms; they have not tested injecting bleach...

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver ... cess-story

[Scot Dutchy]

Third world countries dont have a clue about data:

Mexico death toll revised by 60% to 321,000

Mexico’s government acknowledged Saturday that the country’s true death toll from the coronavirus pandemic now stands above 321,000, almost 60% more than the official test-confirmed number of 201,429.

Mexico does little testing, and because hospitals were overwhelmed, many Mexicans died at home without getting a test. The only way to get a clear picture is to review “excess deaths” and review death certificates.

On Saturday, the government quietly published such a report, which found there were 294,287 deaths linked to Covid from the start of the pandemic through 14 February. Since 15 February there have been an additional 26,772 test-confirmed deaths.

The higher toll would rival that of Brazil, which currently has the world’s second-highest number of deaths after the United States. But Mexico’s population of 126 million is far smaller than either of those countries.

The new report also confirms just how deadly Mexico’s second wave in January was. As of the end of December, excess death estimates suggested a total of about 220,000 deaths related to Covid in Mexico. That number jumped by around 75,000 in just a month and a half.

Also suggestive were the overall number of “excess deaths” since the pandemic began, around 417,000. Excess deaths are determined by comparing the deaths in a given year to those that would be expected based on data from previous years.

A review of death certificates found about 70.5% of the excess deaths were Covid-related, often because it was listed on the certificates as a suspected or contributing cause of death. But some experts say Covid may have contributed to many of the other excess deaths because many people couldn’t get treatment for other diseases because hospitals were overwhelmed.

Former President Felipe Calderón wrote in his Twitter account Saturday that “more than 400,000 Mexicans have died, above the average for previous years ... probably the highest figure in the world.”

All very accurate. Mexico does not have any formal health care. You sign into a clinic and pay and pay or bribe.

[Tero]

[Hermit]

[Brian Peacock]

That's very good.

[Joe]

Man I wish the comments section of my local newspaper still allowed images. There would be much laughter.

[Svartalf]

I believe virus and human can live together in harmony.

That's what mitochondria want you to think.

[Cunt]

Man I wish the comments section of my local newspaper still allowed images. There would be much laughter.

ASCII art?

[Tero]

Testing, followed by partying for 5000
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1262272