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The Coronavirus - What's Happening Around the World

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
I'd like to keep this thread as a chronicle of events and projections, how to address avoidance and how to react if infected.......not a 'scare' or 'hopeless' scenario.

Coronavirus is spreading.

Some current events:

US prepares for possible coronavirus pandemic, WHO officials say Iran outbreak 'worrisome'
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/21/coronavirus-latest-updates-outbreak.html

I usually shop in the early morning hours during the flu season to avoid crowds.
I am up to date on my flu and pneumonia shots, while they don't address coronavirus, I suspect it helps in avoiding complications with them.

( you all stay well )

Edited by Adminstrator Cookiegal with approval from the thread starter to include a link to the Johns Hopkins University's interractive map which is constantly updated to show the current statistics around the world:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Second edit to add link exclusive to the U.S.:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map
 
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#842 ·
This is sure to pop up with some people claiming it's a reason to ignore social distancing and the wearing of masks.
I take this as bad journalism. And it makes me angry.

MIT study challenges indoor social distancing, finds 'no difference between 6 feet and 60 feet'
https://news.yahoo.com/mit-study-challenges-indoor-social-161347738.html

MIT professors Martin Bazant and John Bush found that people who maintain six feet of distance indoors are no more protected than if they were 60 feet apart - even when wearing a mask.
The implication being that wearing a mask, made no difference in transmission.
This is what Bazant and Bush presented in their paper concerning masks:

A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2018995118#disp-formula-6
Our theoretical model quantifies the extent to which transmission risk is reduced in large rooms with high air exchange rates, increased for more vigorous respiratory activities, and dramatically reduced by the use of face masks.

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We here build on models of airborne disease transmission in order to derive an indoor safety guideline that would impose an upper bound on the "cumulative exposure time," the product of the number of occupants and their time in an enclosed space. We demonstrate how this bound depends on the rates of ventilation and air filtration, dimensions of the room, breathing rate, respiratory activity and face mask use of its occupants, and infectiousness of the respiratory aerosols.

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Particular consideration is given to respiratory jets, which may substantially elevate risk when face masks are not worn.
Common sense..........avoid small rooms populated with a lot of people and wear a mask.
You are re-breathing a lot more shared air than outside or in a mostly empty room.
 
#844 ·
Ive said in the past....6' in a closed environment doesnt cut it. Like the old 'smoking/non smoking' sections. Its like having a pee/non pee section in a pool.

I am watching the Brazil and India outbreaks and gotta say....wouldnt surprise me if the US gets another one...

and good lord....a fake injection???
 
#845 ·
Ive said in the past....6' in a closed environment doesnt cut it. Like the old 'smoking/non smoking' sections. Its like having a pee/non pee section in a pool.

I am watching the Brazil and India outbreaks and gotta say....wouldnt surprise me if the US gets another one...

and good lord....a fake injection???
In all the places I would have guessed... Canada isn't one of them lol Florida maybe...

I'm sure that the US will have another outbreak because of the people still refusing to wear a mask or not vaccinate. Dr. Fauchi said we would never achieve close to herd immunity because of those people.
 
#851 ·
An interesting article on a potential coronavirus cure.

Nanotraps.

Scientists design "Nanotraps" to catch, clear coronavirus
https://www.innovations-report.com/...-design-nanotraps-to-catch-clear-coronavirus/

Researchers at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) at the University of Chicago have designed a completely novel potential treatment for COVID-19: nanoparticles that capture SARS-CoV-2 viruses within the body and then use the body's own immune system to destroy it.

These "Nanotraps" attract the virus by mimicking the target cells the virus infects. When the virus binds to the Nanotraps, the traps then sequester the virus from other cells and target it for destruction by the immune system.

In theory, these Nanotraps could also be used on variants of the virus, leading to a potential new way to inhibit the virus going forward. Though the therapy remains in early stages of testing, the researchers envision it could be administered via a nasal spray as a treatment for COVID-19.
Considerable detail:

https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltex...m/retrieve/pii/S2590238521001661?showall=true
 
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#854 ·
Interesting.


At about 4:19....Amesh Adalja pretty much nailed it.
From a scientific/statistical pov, testing conditions and comparisons should be of a more uniform nature.

Should be, but in the midst of a global emergency, obviously tough to do when time is a factor.

I was ready to take what was offered and didn't know what my first was going to be until I signed up for an appointment.
It turned out to be Pfizer.
 
#855 ·
Brazil is rejecting Russia's Sputnik V vaccine.

Brazil rejects Sputnik V vaccine, says it's tainted with replicating cold virus
https://arstechnica.com/science/202...says-its-tainted-with-replicating-cold-virus/

Health regulators in Brazil say that doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine contain a cold-causing virus capable of replicating in human cells.
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Moreover, quality-control issues weren't the end of Anvisa's concerns. In an overall evaluation of the Russian vaccine, Brazil's regulators found its safety and efficacy were based on insufficient, limited, and sometimes faulty data and analyses.
 
#858 ·
True US death toll over 900,000, new IHME report says..............
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-variants-fda-mask-california-nyc/4964560001/

The true death toll from COVID-19 across the nation is probably over 900,000, more than 50% higher than the most commonly used tallies, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Data collected by Johns Hopkins University, based on deaths reported as COVID-related, put the U.S. death toll at about 580,000. The IHME data also puts the global death toll at 6.9 million, more than twice the Johns Hopkins number.
 
#859 ·
Thousands of people protested in Montreal recently to protest public health restrictions and now it may have turned into a super spreader event. :mad:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mont...onstration-covid-19-tested-positive-1.6018867

I really wish people wouldn't have the right to protest because it's always the innocent who suffer, at least during times like these when doing so puts the health and lives of others in danger. Unfortunately, that would be a topic for CT and I just don't have the energy to pursue it. I'm just so fed up with PEOPLE. :(
 
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