Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #75

[10ofRods]

Using a ratio or percent or per 100,000 controls for population size.

Here's per million:

COVID-19 deaths per capita by country | Statista

Still Belgium that's the highest - but Peru has shot up to second place very quickly, UK moved past Italy and France, albeit more slowly than Peru is moving.

Peru may overtake Belgium. Chile is likewise a new member of the unfortunate "top ten."

I just realized that the US has about 5X the number of deaths that Germany does.

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

Coronavirus: No deaths and 56 new cases confirmed in Ireland

HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE said there have been no further deaths of patients diagnosed with Covid-19 and there are 56 new confirmed cases of the disease in Ireland.

• 29 are men and 27 are women;
• 79% are under 45 years of age;
• 35 are confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case;
• 12 cases have been identified as community transmission;
• 26 in Kildare, 13 in Dublin and the rest of the 17 cases are in Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Laois, Longford, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Westmeath and Wicklow.

 

[Rose in SC]

SOUTH CAROLINA Update - Monday, August 17

20 more deaths, 451 new COVID-19 cases in SC

105,905 confirmed positive cases (+451)
2,185 confirmed deaths (+20)
Percent Positive - 11.5%

SC Testing Data & Projections (COVID-19) | SCDHEC

 

[Trident]

Using a ratio or percent or per 100,000 controls for population size.

Here's per million:

COVID-19 deaths per capita by country | Statista

Still Belgium that's the highest - but Peru has shot up to second place very quickly, UK moved past Italy and France, albeit more slowly than Peru is moving.

Peru may overtake Belgium. Chile is likewise a new member of the unfortunate "top ten."

I just realized that the US has about 5X the number of deaths that Germany does.

Crikey, that sounds like the sportscaster at a greyhound race.

Does it matter who's in the lead, or who's second?

I take this virus more seriously than that, it has taken to many lives to trivialize. IMO

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Using a ratio or percent or per 100,000 controls for population size.

Here's per million:

COVID-19 deaths per capita by country | Statista

Still Belgium that's the highest - but Peru has shot up to second place very quickly, UK moved past Italy and France, albeit more slowly than Peru is moving.

Peru may overtake Belgium. Chile is likewise a new member of the unfortunate "top ten."

I just realized that the US has about 5X the number of deaths that Germany does.

I think this info is showing our "old" data before they amended it.

Not that it makes me feel any better at all

 

[CSIDreamer]

Hoover Institute is ON Stanford's campus - but it is NOT part of Stanford University. This guy had a teaching job at the Medical Center in radiology. He's a specialist in MRI's. He decided to focus on the economic factors that lie behind MRI availability in the world, and hence, he took a job as a medical policy research at this conservative think tank, Hoover Tower. I used to work there. I wasn't a researcher, I was an undergrad who took a part time job there.

He is not an infectious disease specialist. He's not even an internist, his only board certification is in radiology. He is, like all HooTow employees, eager for fame, publications and influence. So he got that - but as other HooTow specialists have been, he's also outside his depth. Perfect for the job, I guess. I could see him jockeying for that position two months ago.

He knows nothing about infectious disease, but he's been willing to work for a politically motivated group (HooTow) before, and now he is, again.

All HooTow scholars like to tout that they're "at Stanford." Which they are, technically speaking (they're housed on Stanford land, in a Stanford-owned building). It has a long and checkered history, Hoover Institute...

Even is time as a neuroradiologist lead at Stanford University Hospital wasn't that long.

It's aggravating.

So, his claim to fame is an academic position at a college?

 

[Clair Louise]

How did the Philippines overtake Indonesia as the COVID-19 epicentre of South-East Asia?

How did the Philippines overtake Indonesia as the COVID-19 epicentre of South-East Asia?

by Max Walden and Alyssa Herr

1 hour ago
The Philippines has now overtaken Indonesia to become the epicentre for COVID-19 in South-East Asia, having seen its caseload balloon as the Government steps up testing and social distancing restrictions are loosened.

Indonesia, with an estimated population of 260 million, and the Philippines, with 110 million people, have both surpassed 130,000 cases — already significantly more than China.

Neighbouring Vietnam, with more than 95 million people, has reported fewer than 1,000 cases.

Problems with testing in both systems
Indonesia's health ministry reported on Sunday that cases had risen 2,081 to reach 139,549, while in the Philippines, authorities said 3,420 new cases had brought its total to 161,253.

But Indonesia has reported a total of 6,150 deaths, more than double the Philippines' 2,665.

Two British pilots who spent weeks on ventilators in Vietnam had only good things to say about their treatment.

 

[10ofRods]

I think this info is showing our "old" data before they amended it.

Not that it makes me feel any better at all

Well, I know they changed the number last week - and took UK data out of that one empty box (there's no daily death data for UK any longer, as apparently the corrections didn't allow data users to know which of those deaths were being backed out, by day).

At any rate, that change would only affect the per million number by 0.5, not enough to change UK's position on the chart (it may be .6, I don't know the exact number).

 

[10ofRods]

So, his claim to fame is an academic position at a college?

At a major university medical school. And it was as a department lead, his research while there was mainly about the economics and distribution of MRI machines (and it's actually fascinating, if you're into such subjects).

It's not a college.

But the main thing is that right now, he holds no academic position whatsoever. He's employed by a conservative funded think tank, named in honor of Herbert Hoover. The distinction is significant, because researchers there do not automatically get access to Stanford University resources (such as databases and library cards - but they can do so if they wish, just like many members of the general public, depending on what's being sought).

Meanwhile, the library at Hoover Tower is entirely off limits to the Stanford community, unless you can make contact with a researcher. Even then, the stacks are off limits, but you can look at things by request. I needed a professor to write me a letter to get the HooTow guy I knew best to permit me to look at documents.

 

[anneg]

UNC-Chapel Hill pivots to remote teaching after coronavirus spreads among students during first week of class — The Washington Post

“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the largest schools in the country to bring students to campus for in-person teaching, said Monday it will pivot to all-remote instruction for undergraduates after testing showed a pattern of rapid spread of the novel coronavirus.

Officials announced the abrupt change just a week after classes began at the 30,000-student state flagship university.”

Good decision, IMO. Not surprised at all that this return to remote classes is needed after only one week. The UNC-Chapel Hill student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, had an interesting editorial this morning.

 

[anneg]

23 members in one house!!!

There are people who quarantined for 3 weeks in one household (with one positive person) and managed not to give it to each other. Quite a few households have gone through this (and spouse to spouse transmission was the most common). People wore masks at home, of course (this is in Asia).

But how do 23 young women all get CoVid so quickly? Sharing vape pens? Lots of selfies with their faces touching? Tons of animated conversation, indoors, unmasked, 2-3 feet apart? Everyone packed into restrooms before breakfast and before evening activities? What the heck?

Did 2-3 have it already, or just 1?

Clearly, this could have been prevented. Sharing bedrooms without use of masks would transmit, but surely only 2 young women per room. If UNC allowed double occupation in bedrooms, someone ought to call them out. I wonder if there will be lawsuits over medical bills (or worse).

Oof. Double Oof.

The same thing is going to happen everywhere, including Santa Barbara when thousands of students pile into crowded off-campus housing in Isla Vista next month. My grandson will be one of them. Sigh... Please God, may he have a mild case or be asymptomatic and not spread it to vulnerable people. He won't see his family in Vermont until probably Christmas.

 

[anneg]

23 members in one house!!!

There are people who quarantined for 3 weeks in one household (with one positive person) and managed not to give it to each other. Quite a few households have gone through this (and spouse to spouse transmission was the most common). People wore masks at home, of course (this is in Asia).

But how do 23 young women all get CoVid so quickly? Sharing vape pens? Lots of selfies with their faces touching? Tons of animated conversation, indoors, unmasked, 2-3 feet apart? Everyone packed into restrooms before breakfast and before evening activities? What the heck?

Did 2-3 have it already, or just 1?

Clearly, this could have been prevented. Sharing bedrooms without use of masks would transmit, but surely only 2 young women per room. If UNC allowed double occupation in bedrooms, someone ought to call them out. I wonder if there will be lawsuits over medical bills (or worse).

Oof. Double Oof.

That was OSU, not UNC, per the article.

 

[tresir2012]

So, his claim to fame is an academic position at a college?

He can sure attend my bedside if I am ever ill.

 

[SouthAussie]

It's happened before in North Korea and it will happen again. In 2006 or thereabouts, when death from starvation was on the rise, people were boiling grass to make soup. People were boiling just about anything they thought might make soup. Kids were prioritized for any actual food. "Teas" were made of various herbs (zero calories, but the elderly in particular had nothing but zero calorie beverages).

They lived quite a while in this mode, the elderly did. No one knows the effects on the babies and toddlers, at least not as published by reliable science.

And before that, it had happened before. And it has happened in China, but longer ago. It still happens in Yemen and in Africa. People have literally nothing to eat. The movement to transform dogs into pets is fairly recent in North Korea (and in many cultures), but once people bond to their dogs, those dogs are no longer perceived as edible.

This is tragic.

There are reports in Asia that North Korean housholds have been 'food short' since early spring, and that in May there were reports that farmers were unable to work because they were so weak.

(In the 'dog' articles it states that heavy rains have destroyed crops.)


Generally, officials collect donations from villagers or lend food from the farms reserves for a fee. This year, however, there were too many “food-short households” for the officials’ countermeasures to cope. With the farms failing, farmers were forced to desert their work and take to digging up wild vegetables and medicinal herbs to survive.
It was in early July that the authorities made the unusual decision of lending cash and rice to struggling farmers.
＜Inside N. Korea＞ Restocked Regime: Government Grants “Loans” to Starving Farmers and Sells on Foreign Food Aid to Undercut Local Markets

 

[CSIDreamer]

It's happened before in North Korea and it will happen again. In 2006 or thereabouts, when death from starvation was on the rise, people were boiling grass to make soup. People were boiling just about anything they thought might make soup. Kids were prioritized for any actual food. "Teas" were made of various herbs (zero calories, but the elderly in particular had nothing but zero calorie beverages).

They lived quite a while in this mode, the elderly did. No one knows the effects on the babies and toddlers, at least not as published by reliable science.

And before that, it had happened before. And it has happened in China, but longer ago. It still happens in Yemen and in Africa. People have literally nothing to eat. The movement to transform dogs into pets is fairly recent in North Korea (and in many cultures), but once people bond to their dogs, those dogs are no longer perceived as edible.

This is tragic.

What was their death toll? You cannot live on zero calories for long.

 

[Tillicum]

Louie Gohmert makes full recovery after getting COVID-19, plans to donate plasma | KETK.com | FOX51.com

 

[SouthAussie]

What was their death toll? You cannot live on zero calories for long.

News out of North Korea is very scant. I have not heard a death toll. Just a bit of outrage that the authorities are 'loaning' rice from their central food bank. I believe the food issues are still going on (hence the dog thing).
And unless they accept help from elsewhere (doubtful, but maybe China can help them) they may be stuck in starvation mode until the next lot of crops are grown. imo

 

[24Roses]

More Iowa news today: ‘Horrifying’ data glitch skews key Iowa coronavirus metrics
Four more in Iowa Athletics test positive for COVID-19

 

[Simply Southern]

 

[CSIDreamer]

Yelp data shows nearly 300 Louisville businesses have permanently closed since March

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Haley Cawthon) —

We all know COVID-19 has been bad for business, but aside from weekly restaurant closings, it's been hard to keep track of the overall impact.

Yelp, however, has been keeping track — and the data is devastating.