Corona Virus Update

Short of San Marino every one of these countries has far less than 1000 deaths per million.

Perhaps now we can deal with things that cause death in the many millions.

You know...real things to worry about!

Here’s the list:
Country, cases per million, deaths per million.

1 San Marino 20,917 1,237
2 Peru 19,064 862
3 Belgium 7,239 852
4 Andorra 14,544 686
5 Spain 9,744 620
6 UK 4,897 611
7 Italy 4,415 587
8 Chile 21,314 584
9 Sweden 8,305 576
10 Brazil 17,947 564
11 USA 18,468 563
12 Mexico 4,535 489
13 France 4,174 469
14 Panama 20,952 455
15 Bolivia 9,780 414
16 Sint Maarten 10,337 396
17 Ecuador 6,384 370
18 Colombia 11,586 368
19 Netherlands 4,062 363
20 Ireland 5,806 359
21 Armenia 14,718 294
22 North Macedonia 6,861 286
23 Isle of Man 3,948 282
24 Channel Islands 3,590 276
25 Iran 4,418 254
26 Moldova 9,028 246
27 Canada 3,376 241
28 South Africa 10,435 231
29 Switzerland 4,815 231
30 Montserrat 2,604 200

 

Have you been off grid for the last 5 months?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/senate-stimulus-unemployment-benefits-coronavirus/index.html

 

On a day that saw yet another milestone in cases, President Trump retweeted fringe theories about the virus.

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New Jersey restaurants can open for indoor dining at 25 percent of capacity starting Friday, Gov. Philip D. Murphy announced Monday on Twitter.

Here’s what you need to know:

• The U.S. has more than 6 million cases as President Trump retweets fringe theories on the virus.
• With testing disrupted, storm-hit Louisiana watches other measures of the virus and sees trouble.
• India now has the third-highest death toll from the virus.
• ‘Not completely benign’: Why children are not as safe from infection as commonly believed.
• New Jersey restaurants to open at 25 percent capacity for indoor dining
• Infections continue to turn up at colleges, forcing changes on campus and beyond.
• The U.S. Open field is diminished because of the pandemic, but tennis has a long history of disruption.

 

Where does the $600 come from? explain that.

 

Federal unemployment. Which is paid by the employers.

 

Ah. No.

 

Ah, yes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jrose/...mployment-checks-to-be-extended/#46811365778f
https://ctmirror.org/2020/06/17/lam...-federal-jobless-benefit-may-discourage-work/
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/25/9046...-scrambling-to-survive-after-600-benefits-end

 

State unemployment is paid by employers not this. This was borrowed by:

The $600 per week federal unemployment benefit was included in the CARES Act (Section 2104), which was signed into law by President Trump on March 27. However, the benefit was intended to be a temporary measure, covering employees only through July 31.

The new one is only $300, and 10 states still don't have it.

 

You do know the employers also pay a federal unemployment tax?

 

Strawman.
That isn't what paid for it.

 

OK. You say so.

 

Uh, No.

Read your own article. That $600 plan you are objecting to ended, and the speaker is arguing to not renew it.

Its over!

 

I'm well aware it ended, but it was going on for how many weeks? They got it for +/- 4 months. What did they spend it on? I was originally responding to a poster who claimed 'the children were hungry'.

 

Now the NIH refutes FDA’s claims of the benefits of Coronavirus plasma treatment.

Source; CNBC.com....Sep 01

What a circus!

 

Oh wow, this is disgusting... as if we needed this kind of news... it looks like, now, transmission is possible from your own bathroom in a high-rise building, through the waste pipes, by fecal aerosol. Published today on the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine:

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6134

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-0928

I'm very glad that I live in a single family house.

 

Always put the lid down before flushing!

wonder if that’s a possible mode in nursing homes?

 

My husband read about this months ago. Why is it news, now? I'll check with him; maybe it was a preliminary white paper, or something. He nerds out on those.

 

Not sure about nursing homes, but most public buildings, medical offices, schools, etc. don't have lids like houses do. Usually a horseshoe shaped open lid. I do maintenance for schools and other places at night as a side gig, so I see them a lot unfortunately.

 

Cheap steroids can save the lives of patients who are critically ill with Covid-19, studies show.

The findings confirm the results of an earlier trial, which has already led to steroids being used widely for Covid patients in intensive care.

The new results, published in JAMA, show eight lives would be saved for every 100 patients treated.

The researchers said the findings were impressive, but stressed steroids were not a coronavirus cure.

• What progress are we making on treatments?

In June, the UK's Recovery trial found the first drug - a steroid called dexamethasone - that could save the lives of people with severe Covid.

The latest study brings together all clinical trials involving steroids on coronavirus patients around the world.

It confirms dexamethasone works and that another steroid, hydrocortisone, is equally effective.

"At the beginning of the year, at times it felt almost hopeless knowing that we had no specific treatments," said Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London.

"It was a very worrying time, yet less than six months later we've found clear, reliable evidence in high quality clinical trials of how we can tackle this devastating disease."

The results on 1,703 critically ill patients showed:

• 40% died when given only standard treatment
• 32% died when given steroids

The studies were on only the sickest hospital patients. Most people recover having only experienced mild symptoms.
That's something you need to know.



Media captionKatherine Millbank spent 15 days in hospital and was part of the Recovery trial

 

Infection-Fatality Ratio of non-institutionalized patients overall 0.26% in this study done with the Indiana populaton, and very low below the age of 40, at 0.01%. Persons 60 or older, 1.71%. Whites less susceptible with an IFR of 0.18%. I do remind people that while these numbers are encouraging, there's been a lot of evidence that the death toll is not all given that many people who recover are showing up with concerning organ damage; so it's not just the death but also the maiming. But certainly this low estimate for non-institutionalized people is reassuring for those who are not (or whose loved ones are not) in nursing homes, etc.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5352

 

There are five states that have declines in COVID -19 and they are California, Georgia, Mississippi. Arizona, and Nevada. Those five states must be doing something right. I just hope they keep doing what they're doing.

 

Do you watch baseball games on TV? and I mean watching that the fans in the stands are no more than cut out cardboard figures, If you could allow a limited number of fans to the game, would that be fair only allowing fewer fans to the game to keep the COVID-19 low as possible. The idea of letting 25% of attendance to the ball park may be a start. But would that be fair? They do it in some churches and it's due to the Coronavirus. It would be better than no attendance at all. The CFL 2020 season has been cancelled and we don't know if there will be a next season. We'll see happens from here. I'd like to say about the NFL and you have to wonder if there will be fans at NFL games. I don't think so. See if I'm right.

 

KC opens the season next Thursday, against Houston. They are letting 16,000 fans in. Capacity is 25,500.

 

Covid-19 Live Updates: Kamala Harris Expresses Distrust of President Trump on Vaccine Safety

Experts urge caution at Labor Day celebrations after cases spiked following other U.S. holidays. A university known for research on the virus warns its scientists against suspicious packages.

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The rate of positive coronavirus tests in New York State has been under 1 percent for 30 straight days, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said.

Here’s what you need to know:

• Kamala Harris expresses distrust of any vaccine promoted by President Trump.
• As hope builds over possible frequent at-home testing, experts call the idea a long shot.
• A university known for coronavirus research warns its scientists to look out for suspicious packages.
• After earlier post-holiday spikes in cases, a warning for Labor Day weekend.
• New York plans more post-mortem tests for the coronavirus and the flu to help increase ‘death data’ accuracy.
• Children, please put on your rain suits.
• Mexico City’s mayor wants people to take the virus seriously, even when their president doesn’t.

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One way to find out.
At least it's outside.