Re: Coronavirus data and events as they come in

[The Wizard Joseph]

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dr-fauci-says-catch-coronavirus-002458080.html

According to the CDC website, people without symptoms no longer need to be tested for COVID-19—even if they have been in contact with others who have tested positive.

"If you have been in close contact (within 6 feet) of a person with a COVID-19 infection for at least 15 minutes but do not have symptoms, you do not necessarily need a test unless you are a vulnerable individual or your health care provider or State or local public health officials recommend you take one," reads the new update.

This news seemed to surprise Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert and a member of the coronavirus task force. "I was under general anesthesia in the operating room"—to remove a polyp on his vocal cord—"and was not part of any discussion or deliberation regarding the new testing recommendations," Fauci told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who read Fauci's statement on air. "I am concerned about the interpretation of these recommendations and worried it will give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact it is."

So CDC is out of its gotdamn mind and put out new recommendations while Fauci was under for surgery.

[Cramulus]

yeah, Trump is jeopardizing the CDCs credibility...

this is the bad place

[altered]

We're all going to die.

[Cramulus]

I try not to get my medical facts from medium.com but I thought this piece was interesting - details one hypothesis about how COVID-19 works

https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63

[The Johnny]

I try not to get my medical facts from medium.com but I thought this piece was interesting - details one hypothesis about how COVID-19 works

https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63

Its a nice read, but i only got halfway cause reading about the specifics makes me nauseous.

[altered]

This is good, solid work, and the links support the bulk of the text at a skim. Good find.

[Cain]

The vitamin D mention is potentially a hugely important one. It's very readily available and, as the author notes, a significant amount of the population is already deficient in it. If that can help alleviate symptoms, in conjunction with more intensive treatments...

[minuspace]

It learned me that:

a Covid-19 infection generally begins when the virus enters the body through ACE2 receptors in the nose.

This just when I thought I had the whole breathing thing figured out.

[Fujikoma]

This is all very alarming, still it strikes me that this whole thing has been allowed to progress to a stage where it seems like it may become a "new normal", we had a chance early on to contain our exposure but given how we proceeded, I don't see US citizens being welcome in other countries, especially given a few articles I read about Canadians reporting foreign license plates. Other than that, I don't know what to say, other than this all is very concerning and seems like something we'll definitely end up paying for for generations.

[Doktor Howl]

Learning is sometimes painful.

https://apnews.com/f4988865f4fad739e099b17707f8727f

[Cain]

The US is plague continent, while the UK remains plague island.

[The Johnny]

From the makers of the "Meth. We're on it." ad campaign:

https://www.insider.com/south-dakota-kristi-noem-covid-19-funds-5-million-ad-2020-9

[Cain]

The UK is in a second wave in all but name

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/54296475

The rate at which the Covid-19 virus is spreading appears to be speeding up.

The R number, indicating how fast the coronavirus epidemic is growing, has risen from 1.1-1.4 to 1.2-1.5.

An Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey estimated there were 9,600 new cases a day in England in the week to 19 September - up from 6,000 the week before and three times that being picked up by general testing.

It comes as more restrictions come into effect in parts of England and Wales.

On Friday, the daily number of positive cases in the UK picked up by coronavirus testing rose to a new high of 6,874, government figures show.

A further 34 deaths were announced, although figures were not available for Scotland because of a power cut at the National Records of Scotland.

Infection rates are highest in the north west of England and in London.

As infection rates rise, new restrictions are being brought into effect in the following areas:

    Cardiff and the county of Swansea will go into lockdown at 18:00 BST on Sunday - 24 hours after the Carmarthenshire town of Llanelli
    In Leeds, Stockport, Wigan and Blackpool different households will be banned from meeting in private homes or gardens from midnight on Friday
    London has been added to the government's Covid-19 watch-list, meaning all of its boroughs are now classed as "areas of concern" but will not yet have additional restrictions

[LMNO]

Can you remind me what restrictions the UK has?  Are bars/indoor restaurants open without ventilation or capacity limitations?  What's mask use like?

[Cain]

Mask use is encouraged but not widely enforced with the exception of public transport where it is mandatory (unless you're a DUP MP apparently).

Bars and pubs are open with capacity based restrictions, but these are not enforced and have been widely ignored. Most offices and schools are open, before last week gatherings over six people in size were still legal.