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Coronavirus fuels tensions at Canadian-U.S. border

Tensions at the Canadian-U.S. border are rising as Canadian coronavirus cases continue to trend downwards while the U.S. continues to battle rising cases, according to BBC News. The border had closed on March 21, both nations having agreed upon the closure. It will remain in effect until Aug. 21, unless it is extended again as it has throughout the summer. However, due to the difference in coronavirus case rates between the U.S. and Canada, many Canadians have expressed unease at American travelers crossing the border. “Montana is directly south of us, is having a second spike of cases right now, and I don’t feel sorry for anybody that gets stopped at the border, let’s put it that way,” Jim Willett, the mayor of Coutts, Alberta, told BBC News.People with American license plates have reportedly had their vehicles vandalized while on the Canadian side of the border, even if they had crossed legally for an essential job.

“They’re all scared of driving their cars in lower mainland because of vandalism, dirty looks and just getting treated as some ‘horrible American,’” Len Saunders, a dual citizen who lives in Blaine, Minnesota, and immigration lawyer with clients who regularly cross the border for work, told BBC. A July poll by Ipsos Reid, a research company based in Canada, found that eight in 10 Canadians wanted the border to remain closed at least until the end of 2020.

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Coronavirus-sniffing dogs are being used at Dubai Airport with above 90% accuracy.

Dubai International Airport has become the first to use dogs trained to detect coronavirus. With over 400 tests being conducted in recent weeks, the dogs have had a 91% accuracy, according to Fox News. Anyone entering the United Arab Emirates must be tested for the virus before they depart and are required to show negative test results. Passengers that are possibly infected at the airport go to a designated testing area, where a swab is taken from their armpit for a scent sample. This sample is then given to trained dogs in a separate room to see if they detect the virus in it. Major Salah Khalifa Al Mazrouei, director of Dubai Police Security Inspection K-9 Unit, told Gulf News that, "If the sample turns out positive, the dog will sit in front of it. It only takes a few minutes...We are in direct contact with experts in U.K. and France to train our dogs in detecting the virus."

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The mindset of many British on social media that I've observed is that the pandemic is behind you now, it's past on and everything needs to be opened back up to normal in the UK...If that's the case there wouldn't be the outbreaks I keep reading about, yes and the meat processing plants, a few of those type facilities in America have had outbreaks and had to shut down and sanitize the place...
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My point is, how does anyone know that the outbreaks at Greencore and at the meat processing plants were active at the time of discovery? The people closer to the story probably have some idea, but scant details have been released in the press coverage, as they assume people cannot, or perhaps they themselves are not clever enough to, distinguish between a person testing positive and someone with an active infection. One thing is clear, there have been no increases in people going into hospital in England with the disease in spite of the slackening of lockdown restrictions:
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There have been no large spikes in admission in relation to these 'outbreaks' that have allegedly happened recently. What has been happening is that there have been recent testing programmes targeting workers in key industrial settings, when there was no such testing being undertaken at the peak of the epidemic, as well as an increase in testing capacity generally.

Furthermore, the data on whether these people are being admitted to hospital for COVID-19, as opposed to simply with a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test (which does not in itself give any information about active infection, because it does not distinguish between viable virus particles and inactive viral fragments of a past infection) is ambiguous. Although the graph says that it is the daily number of 'COVID-19 patients', information about the data also says that the data includes those being admitted to mental health wards. So is it COVID-19 patients, or is it merely patients who have been admitted while testing positive for SARS-CoV-2?
 
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What has been happening is that there have been recent testing programmes targeting workers in key industrial settings, when there was no such testing being undertaken at the peak of the epidemic, as well as an increase in testing capacity generally.
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What is the purpose of such testing programmes?...Are they fishing or testing the waters so to speak to see where the virus may be more prevelant or is there a particular reason these workers are being targeted?...It certainly would seem more logical to me to test for the virus in key industry sectors whilst the virus was at its peak or arpund that time...

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Dynasty star Emma Samms, 59, tells of six-month 'Long Covid' hell: Actress says her health cruelly 'fluctuates' from 'good days' when she 'assumes she's on the road to recovery... only to go right back to feeling horrendous'



Former Dynasty star Emma Samms, 59, pictured left, who tested positive for Covid in March, has spoken of being one of the 'long covid' sufferers. She reports having 'panic inducing levels of fatigue', but has never been admitted to hospital. Doctors don't know how to treat the condition, nicknamed 'long covid' which is becoming more recognized within medical circles.

The actress, who played Fallon Carrington Colby in the 1980s US TV show, pictured right, has reported debilitating symptoms over the last six months. Ms Samms, who is the partner of the BBC newsreader Simon McCoy, pictured inset, said that due to the little research done on the condition she is 'not allowing' herself to think this is permanent.

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FDA clears saliva test for Covid-19, opening door to wider testing

The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday authorized emergency use of a new and inexpensive saliva test for Covid-19 that could greatly expand testing capacity.

The new test, which is called SalivaDirect and was developed by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health, allows saliva samples to be collected in any sterile container. It is a much less invasive process than the nasal swabs currently used to test for the virus that causes Covid-19, but one that has so far yielded highly sensitive and similar results. The test, which also avoids a key step that has caused shortages of chemical reagents used in other tests, can test approximately 90 samples in fewer than three hours in a lab.

Moreover, Yale intends to provide its “open source” testing protocol to laboratories around the country. Other labs can now adopt the method while using a variety of commercially available testing components that can reduce costs, speed turnaround times and increase testing frequency, according to the FDA. And because the reagents for the test cost less than $5, the Yale researchers estimated labs should charge about $10 per sample, although that remains to be seen.

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You have to be careful when getting vaccines/flu shots. My wife used to work with a woman who’s husband ran into problems with the flu shot. I didn’t know this at the time but there are two different shots that you can get. One for people 65 and under and one for people over 65. He got the over 65 shot and it screwed him up big time. This man was hospitalized for a period of time and lost the use of his legs. He had to go for therapy to relearn how to walk.

Needless to say, he is not a fan of medicines now and has vowed to never receive another flu shot in this lifetime.
 
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New Zealand's general election has been delayed by four weeks due to the coronavirus

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced. The election was originally scheduled for Sept. 19, but because the pandemic made it more difficult for parties to campaign it will be held on Oct. 17 instead. "Having weighed up all these factors and taken wide soundings, I have decided on balance to move the election by four weeks to 17 October," she said, according to Sky News. After being coronavirus-free for 102 days, a recent outbreak is now responsible for 69 cases in the country.

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Didn't we all say this was a bad idea open the schools so quickly, I guess they had to try...

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Broken Bow School District in Nebraska has cancelled classes after staff members contracted COVID-19.

According to Reuters, three staff members tested positive for the virus and another 24 are in quarantine. Preschool and grades six through 12 have all been cancelled until Aug. 24. The closure comes after school districts in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama have closed due to coronavirus infections as well.

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COVID-19 rates in children are 'steadily increasing' and now account for 7.3% of all US cases, CDC warns - while top doctor urges kids returning to school to wear masks as nation's death toll tops 169,400
  • The CDC released new guidance on coronavirus in children on Friday
  • It showed that the number and rate of infections among children have been 'steadily increasing' between March and July
  • Children accounted for 7.3 percent of all US coronavirus cases as of August 3
  • Officials said the juvenile transmission rate may have been low in the spring and early summer because of lockdowns and school closures
  • But that rate is expected to rise as more students return to schools this fall
  • More than 5.36 million coronavirus cases and 169,489 deaths have been reported in the US as of Sunday
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Disgusting with all that's going on...

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What coronavirus? Apple becomes a $2 trillion company

Just two years ago, Wall Street investors pushed Apple to a trillion-dollar market capitalization, making it the most valuable tech company in the world. Now, even in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the market says Apple is worth twice as much.

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Disapproval of Trump COVID response hits new high — and many aren’t hopeful, poll says

Disapproval of President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has reached a new high, according to a recent CNN poll.

Fifty-eight percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s COVID-19 response and 55 percent say they think the worst is yet to come in the pandemic. People who know someone who’s contracted the virus had increased from 40 percent from a CNN poll in June to 67 percent.

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France says the number of confirmed cases is up to 3776 over the last 24 hours...

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Here's worldometer's numbers for yesterday, both France and Spain are climbing in new cases again...I think India has the worst ahead of them, but realistically the worst could be ahead of us all, we just don't know how this will play out...It could be one mutation away to become more deadly or more docile, as if these current strains aren't deadly enough, it's killed enough people already, we really need to be more aggressive in stopping the spread...

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