Deadly Wuhan Coronavirus

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Nearly 20% of young, healthy coronavirus patients hadn't recovered after 2 to 3 weeks, the CDC found — showing infection can cause 'prolonged illness'
  • COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms may still develop chronic illness related to the disease, a new CDC report found.
  • More than a third of patients surveyed said they hadn't returned to their usual state of health two to three weeks after they were tested.
  • That included nearly 20% of young, previously healthy respondents.
Beyer, a 27-year-old who lives in Austin, Texas, is one of many young patients who have been sick with COVID-19 for months. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Friday found that even patients with mild symptoms may develop chronic illness related to the disease.

The CDC surveyed more than 270 symptomatic adults who tested positive for the virus between April 15 and June 25 but didn't need to be hospitalized. More than a third of those patients said they hadn't returned to their usual state of health two to three weeks after they were tested. Among young, previously healthy respondents — people ages 18 to 34 — the share of patients who hadn't recovered was nearly 20%.

"Nonhospitalized COVID-19 illness can result in prolonged illness and persistent symptoms, even in young adults and persons with no or few chronic underlying medical conditions," the CDC researchers wrote.

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nivek

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What a bonehead, not willing to be slightly inconvenienced for a short period of time to help fellow Americans...I don't say anything to people I see in public who are not wearing masks, saying something will do no good and only cause more problems than help...If the death count in Texas were in the thousands a day I bet he would wear one...

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A face mask is part of the ‘scamdemic,’ they say. But they’ll be happy to sell you one

Amarillo, Texas — Don Caple won’t wear a mask. He doesn’t think they actually stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, and he’s pretty sure mask mandates are a “communistic move” by the government to see how much people are willing to give up their freedom.

But if you’re in the market for a mask, does he have a deal for you. For only $10, he’ll sell you a face mask with a muscly President Trump depicted as a machine-gun-clutching Rambo. Or one with a Trump 2020 campaign slogan. Or one with the coiled rattlesnake from the Gadsden flag and the words “Don’t tread on me” replaced with “Don’t cough on me.”

“They’re a hot-ticket-selling item,” said Caple, who sells masks from a Trump-themed trailer near the famed Cadillac Ranch art installation in Amarillo. “I don’t agree with it. But if they want to buy them, I’m not gonna argue.”


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It's too late for masks alone to turn the tide on coronavirus. Why the U.S. needs to lock down hot spots right away.

Masks are necessary to combat America’s resurgent coronavirus pandemic. But at this point, they may no longer be enough.

Patterns that have emerged in countries that are faring much better than the United States suggest we won’t bring the virus to heel until we start locking down hot spots as well.

On Wednesday, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tweeted: “I believe if everyone, including #Millenials and #GenZ, wears a cloth face covering for the next 4 to 6 weeks, we can get the #COVID19 epidemic under control.”

Redfield’s comments went viral. See? the signal boosters seemed to say. If the rest of you would just behave yourselves, this thing could be over by Labor Day.

In response, Carl Bergstrom, a professor of biology at the University of Washington who has become one of the nation’s top experts on the coronavirus, tweeted back: “I believe that Space Aliens flew many light years across the galaxy to communicate with us by flattening crops in circular patterns.”

Bergstrom’s tweet was cheeky, but his message was clear: While officials like Redfield should absolutely continue to “advocate wearing masks during a global pandemic,” as Bergstrom put it in a follow-up tweet, the idea that masks alone could, in the next four to six weeks, “control” a virus that is currently spreading at a rate of 65,000 new cases per day and killing nearly 1,000 Americans every 24 hours is as fanciful as the plot of M. Night Shyamalan’s “Signs.”

Again, masks are crucial. Scientists say they should be mandatory nationwide. On Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, urged “local political and other leaders ... to be as forceful as possible in getting your citizenry to wear masks,” adding that “masks are really important, and we should be using them — everyone.”

Still, as Bergstrom concluded, telling or even requiring people to wear masks offers “only a partial solution” to America’s raging COVID-19 problem.

The question now is what the rest of that solution should look like. And the answer is that it should probably look more like Europe’s.

That means serious local lockdowns, now.

At the start of April, the curves of new daily COVID-19 cases in France, Germany and the United Kingdom closely resembled the United States’. In Italy and Spain, the curves were even worse. Yet today, those countries are recording fewer than 15 cases per million residents each day. Italy is accumulating three cases per million daily, while the U.S. is adding 192. The European Union, with a population of 446 million, is adding about 4,000 new cases a day. The U.S., with a population of 328 million, is adding 15 times that number.

So why is life returning to normal in Europe but not in America?

It’s not because of masks. Britons have, by and large, been reluctant to hide their stiff upper lips behind masks; it wasn’t until Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally ended months of equivocation and mandated that people wear masks inside shops and supermarkets. In France, masks won’t be required in enclosed spaces until Aug. 1. And while masking up is now more widespread in Spain and Italy than in the U.S. — 84 percent of Spaniards and 83 percent of Italians say they always cover their faces in public, versus 59 percent of Americans — it wasn’t that way back in April, when the pandemic was peaking there. Even now, fewer people say they always wear masks in the U.K. (19 percent), France (53 percent), Sweden (2 percent), Denmark (2 percent) and Norway (4 percent) than in the U.S.

Germany and America are roughly tied at about 60 percent.

Rather, the difference is that Europe’s springtime lockdowns worked and America’s, broadly speaking, did not.
This isn’t to say the U.S. should have locked down longer. There’s no one-size-fits-all model for a lockdown, as the vastly different measures implemented across the EU demonstrate. Finland, for example, never really locked down at all, with authorities advising against, but not banning, nonessential trips while allowing shops to remain open. Residents of Spain and Italy, however, were barely allowed to leave home for more than a month. The U.K. locked down for 83 days.

Yet there was a common thread: making sure the virus had been suppressed to a level low enough that containment was theoretically possible once business as usual resumed. This meant different things in, say, Germany and Denmark, but the goal was the same.

So how low did the virus have to go? It turns out that when you compare reopening dates and test-positivity rates, an interesting pattern emerges. In Spain, indoor spaces largely reopened on May 26; at that point, 1.4 percent of COVID-19 tests were coming back positive. In Italy, indoor spaces mostly reopened on May 18; at that point, 1.5 percent of COVID-19 tests were positive. Same goes for the positivity rates in Germany (1.4 percent), France (1.5 percent) and the U.K. (1 percent) upon indoor reopening.

The point isn’t that 1.5 percent is an ironclad guarantee of long-term success. Cases could rise again across Europe, especially when cold weather returns and indoor activity increases this fall. It’s also important to consider how a country manages the virus after reopening. In Israel, the positivity rate fell to 0.3 percent in May. But a rapid reopening complete with massive weddings and in-person schooling has produced another big wave of infections.

Even so, if you want to reopen your country, a positivity rate of 1.5 percent (or lower) seems to be a good starting point — a benchmark to aim for. Ukraine, for instance, reopened when its positivity rate was about 2 percentage points higher than that. Cases soon climbed again.

Unfortunately, America’s positivity rate has never been anywhere near 1.5 percent. In fact, it has not fallen below 4.6 percent since the start of the pandemic. On May 15, positivity stood at 4.2 percent in Florida, 6.5 percent in Texas and Arizona, and 4.8 percent in California — three to four times Europe’s lockdown-ending level. As a result, it didn’t matter how long U.S. stay-at-home orders lasted. They were lifted when there was too much virus still circulating in the population to contain.


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I think the US nation-wide lockdown was a mistake. It has made everyone reluctant to do it again when it was unnecessary in many areas the first time around. The coronavirus epidemic is going to make its way through every state, city, town and county. The response to it must be at the smallest administrative unit feasible, because the severity of the epidemic is going to vary at that level.

We had the same problem in the UK, with a crippling nation-wide lockdown to contain the virus in a few hotspots. The economies of many areas could have been kept more open and local lockdowns begun only when the epidemic arrived in force.

A nationwide lockdown only makes sense if you intend to eradicate the virus within your country and then close your borders until the pandemic has passed, and you are also going to accept the economic damage that brings with it.
 

nivek

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Yes I have to agree with you, the first lock down in the US appears to have been a mistake, it wasn't even executed proper either and fallout from that has stymied efforts to get control of the virus spread currently...If we begin locking down certain states and/or regions where the hotshots of infection are we have to make sure there isn't any travel in or out of those affected areas, I mean 100 percent lock down...Some won't like that and retaliate as some have with wearing masks, however this masking wearing problem became one because of a lack of direction in the beginning of this pandemic and the failure of the US lock down previously...It really seems we have our backs against the wall now and there's no hope of stopping this virus from spreading like wildfire and we are going to watch tens of thousands more die as a result...

There's people from the UK proclaiming on twitter that the pandemic has been over in the UK for weeks and they should not be forced to wear masks and practice social distancing...One the other hand people from the US proclaim the pandemic is all a scam and conspiracy for the NWO agenda...Astonishing, you know, I've always had this notion since I was young that I would live to see my 100th birthday, the way things are going this year I have wondered if humanity will survive another 100 years...

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nivek

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Then there's this...x...3

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Bus driver beaten with baseball bat after asking passengers to wear masks

A San Francisco bus driver was allegedly beaten with a wooden baseball bat last week after asking three passengers to put on face masks to comply with the city’s coronavirus public health order.

Three men boarded the bus operated by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency – or Muni -- in the city's South of Market neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, San Francisco Police Department Officer Robert Rueca said in a statement Friday. The driver asked the passengers multiple times to wear a mask but they refused, so the driver pulled over to let them off.

“As the victim was escorting the males off the bus one of the males pulled out a wooden bat and struck the victim several times, which caused the victim to be injured," Rueca said. "The suspects fled the scene on foot in an unknown direction."

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Today is horrible with coronavirus related deaths really spiking near 1500, unbelievable when the federal government is barely aware enough to take notice, however I did see our paltry President wearing a mask, he ought to be telling the nation we all need to wear one...Both political sides are playing this pandemic as a political issue which is disgusting when so many people are dying from it...

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Now is a very bad time to get the virus. From the articles I have read, the amount of emergency beds at hospitals available is nearly exhausted. The stories of politicians who refuse to wear a mask and then get the Corona virus is disturbing. Rep. Gohmert from Texas got the virus and by accounts was face to face with other Representatives. Look for this a-hole to be spreading his sickness among the House of Representatives.
 

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Another spike in deaths reaching almost 1500 for a second day in a row, my state of NC saw a jump in new infections...

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If we review the situations in the four states that were of greatest concern at the beginning of the month, Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, we can see the following about the numbers of new cases:

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So it looks like the epidemic has peaked in each state. The situation is not good, but I don't think it is as bad as it was feared it might be (multiple New Yorks).
 
If we review the situations in the four states that were of greatest concern at the beginning of the month, Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, we can see the following about the numbers of new cases:

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So it looks like the epidemic has peaked in each state. The situation is not good, but I don't think it is as bad as it was feared it might be (multiple New Yorks).
New York peaked in early April at about 10K daily new cases. So Florida and Texas and California just became New-York-scale outbreaks.
 

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Covid-19: Why Hong Kong's 'third wave' is a warning
By Helier Cheung, BBC News, 31 July 2020

"Until recently, Hong Kong was considered a poster child in its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Despite sharing a border with mainland China, where the first cases were reported, Hong Kong kept its infection numbers down and was able to avoid the extreme lockdown measures introduced in parts of China, Europe and the US.
But now, it's been hit by not even a second, but a third, wave of infections. The government has warned its hospital system could face collapse, and it's just had a record high number of new infections in a day.
What went wrong, and what lessons are there for countries juggling both the pandemic, and the economic pain caused by lockdown?..........
 

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Four Lessons From the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

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It wasn't until the fall, after a more virulent form of Spanish flu had emerged, that Washington, D.C., got tough. In the meantime, the absence of a federal response "left cities and states to go off on their own and make decisions for themselves." Nichols said many chose the economy over public health -- and they put off social distancing, with fateful results.

While cities like Seattle and San Francisco ordered people to wear masks if they were out in public, many others did not. New York City never closed schools, contending they were cleaner than homes -- even though by October 1918, when deaths began to skyrocket, many cities did.

According to Ewing, "There were a lot of inconsistencies."

Two studies published in 2007 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looked at the effect of health measures in more than 15 cities in 1918, including mask laws, business-hour restrictions, and the shuttering of schools, theaters, churches and dance halls.

Both studies found that cities that acted earliest and most forcefully -- like St. Louis, which imposed a near total lockdown within two days of its first Spanish flu case -- had much lower peak death rates than cities that hedged their bets -- like New Orleans, Boston and Philadelphia.

The point is not that social distancing is a total panacea, but that there's no "business-as-usual during a pandemic," Nichols said."

"If public health is the main focus, then eradicate that from your mind," Nichols said. "The Spanish flu tells us that social distancing works. And it works best if we act early, act fast and stick together -- and base our decisions not on social or economic concerns, but on science and data and facts."

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Four Lessons From the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

Donald Trump wants to open schools - Crazy isn't it ?
 

nivek

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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has postponed easing lockdown restrictions in England.


In an announcement made Friday, Prime Minister Johnson said that further easing of coronavirus restrictions will be delayed by at least two weeks. These restrictions were supposed to be eased starting this weekend, according to CNBC. New restrictions have been put into place for some locations in northern England after a new rise in coronavirus cases. Wedding receptions of up to 30 people will no longer be allowed starting in August along with bowling alleys and casinos remaining closed. Face coverings are expected to be mandated in more settings in England. The U.K. has almost 304,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus.

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nivek

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A Southern California gym that refused to shutdown amid orders, is now linked to a coronavirus cluster.

The Pacific Beach gym in San Diego was forced to shut down after disobeying a county health order to close last week, according to CNN. The gym was told to close operations on July 23 but didn't shut down until July 27. It is unknown how many cases are connected to the gym, but health officials say an outbreak is considered three or more cases from different households. Businesses that violate the order are subject to a $1,000 fine. San Diego County has had over 28,000 confirmed coronavirus cases.

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nivek

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First dog to test positive for coronavirus dies from COVID-19

The first dog that tested positive for COVID-19 in the U.S. has died, The Hill reported. Buddy the German Shepard died on July 11. He lived in Staten Island, New York, with his family. He first began to struggle with his breathing in April and likely had lymphoma, according to National Geographic. The Mahoney family, who owned Buddy, said it was frustrating that experts did not look further into the possibility of there being a connection between the coronavirus and Buddy’s conditions. “You tell people that your dog was positive, and they look at you [as if you have] ten heads,” Allison Mahoney said. “[Buddy] was the love of our lives. ... He brought joy to everybody. I can’t wrap my head around it.”

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Standingstones

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Now is a very bad time to get the virus. From the articles I have read, the amount of emergency beds at hospitals available is nearly exhausted. The stories of politicians who refuse to wear a mask and then get the Corona virus is disturbing. Rep. Gohmert from Texas got the virus and by accounts was face to face with other Representatives. Look for this a-hole to be spreading his sickness among the House of Representatives.
As a follow up: Rep. Gohmert now believes he got the Covid virus from the mask. This guy is clueless and should be banned from entering the Capitol building.
 

nivek

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More grim numbers, but not much worse thankfully, I hope the death counts do not spike much higher, we don't need a repeat of New York or Italy...


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nivek

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CDC projects the US death toll from coronavirus to reach 182,000 by late August - meaning 30,000 Americans could die this month
  • A new CDC model predicts the US coronavirus death toll could reach 182,000 by late August, with around 30,000 deaths in just one month
  • Also forecasted is a spike in fatalities between 5,000 and 11,000 during the week of August 15 to August 22
  • Five states and one territory are expected to see new deaths per week increase: Alabama, Kentucky, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Tennessee and Washington
  • It comes as 1,500 coronavirus-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, the highest single-day total since May

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