Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #45

[BUF]

Bunday isn't the only one defying stay at home orders. My neighbor is having a pool party on Sunday with three generations of family in attendance.

Make sure you stay in your house!

 

[tmar]

Iceland has tested more of its population for coronavirus than anywhere else. Here's what it learned

Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY
7 hrs ago
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By Friday, Iceland will have achieved something no other country has: tested 10% of its population for coronavirus, a figure far higher than anywhere else in the world.

No country or scientist or doctor has all the answers about the pandemic that has swept the globe, infecting more than 1.6 million people and killing at least 95,000.

But some places, such as tiny Iceland, Europe's most sparsely populated country – pop. 364,134, broadly equivalent to the number of people in Tulsa, Oklahoma – may be better placed to deliver some types of coronavirus information, and even answers, than most, at least in the short term, according to public health experts, international government officials and others involved in responding to the outbreak.
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"The size of a place matters. It tracks with the number of introductions of the virus. It is no coincidence the places now doing (the best work) share this feature," said William Hanage, an epidemiologist at Harvard University's T.N. Chan School of Public Health.
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While many countries publish daily and cumulative infection and death rates, there don't appear to be comparable statistics for other nations available that give an overall sense of how deep-rooted the virus is, or how many carriers of the disease, at any given time, may have no symptoms. Iceland has not yet been able to determine how many asymptomatic infections, once confirmed, will later go on to develop symptoms.
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[MaryG12]

Ottawa man's free hand sanitizer project takes off

Wow - great article - he clearly has a lot going for him. I like his eyes. He's a cutie.

 

[PommyMommy]

BNO Newsroom on Twitter
BREAKING: Number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. reaches 500,000, death toll approaching 19,000
6:37 PM - 10 Apr 2020

BNO Newsroom on Twitter
NEW: Number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide reaches 1.7 million after 94,000 new cases were reported today
7:33 PM - 10 Apr 2020

CDC on Twitter (Video)
New COVIDView reports hospitalization rates and deaths from #COVID19 are increasing. Indicators that track hospitalizations and deaths usually lag behind indicators that track illness.
6:08 PM - 10 Apr 2020

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Key Updates for Week 14, ending April 4, 2020

Hospitalizations
Cumulative COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates since March 1, 2020, will be updated weekly. The overall cumulative hospitalization rate is 12.3 per 100,000, with the highest rates in persons 65 years and older (38.7 per 100,000) and 50-64 years (20.7 per 100,000).

Mortality
Based on death certificate data, the percentage of deaths attributed to COVID-19 increased from 4.0% during week 13 to 6.9% during week 14. The percentage of deaths due to pneumonia (excluding COVID-19 or influenza) decreased from 7.5% during week 13 to 7.2% during week 14.

 

[Bravo]

Bunday isn't the only one defying stay at home orders. My neighbor is having a pool party on Sunday with three generations of family in attendance.

Then you need to call it in. My City served 2 people with some sort of Health Order thingy. Sorry I forget the exact name of it. They were out and about after testing positive. They can be fined from here on in 5 thousand each if they leave the house. Asshats!!!!!

 

[Sillybilly]

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