2019-nCoV Coronovirus (COVID-19]

Meanwhile in New Zealand, 4 whole new cases, so she is putting a whole city back in to stage 3 lockdown

Dafuq? I have heard some crazy shit over the last 7 months, but this has to actually take the cake:

New Zealand coronavirus: Four cases confirmed in one household

New Zealand is no longer virus free, with four cases confirmed from one household in Auckland.

The cases have no known source and authorities are working to figure out where the family contracted coronavirus.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Auckland would return to stage three restrictions for three days starting from midday tomorrow.


The rest of the country will return to stage two for thee days until midnight Friday.

“I know this information will be difficult to receive,” she said.

“We had all hoped not to find ourselves in this position again but we had also prepared for it.”

Ms Ardern said people in Auckland would have to wear a mask accessing essential services and the rest of the country when social distancing was not possible.

Four virus cases in New Zealand

 

Fauci: 'I seriously doubt' Russia's coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective

Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday that he has serious doubts about Russia’s announcement that it has a vaccine ready to be used for the novel coronavirus.

"Having a vaccine and proving that a vaccine is safe and effective are two different things," Fauci said during a panel discussion with National Geographic.

The comments came just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the country had become the first in the world to gain regulatory approval for a COVID-19 vaccine.

Fauci: 'I seriously doubt' Russia's coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective

 

I wonder what the vaccine is, probably 96hrs of harden the fuck up like all other colds.

 

Whatever it is you know it was stolen from some research lab outside of Russia.

 

Lol, No shit

Need an expert to tell you something made in Russia is suss?

It kills Covid, but 3 weeks later your dick turns green and falls off

 

Over 900 in Georgia district quarantine as high school shut

CANTON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia school district has quarantined more than 900 students and staff members because of possible exposure to the coronavirus since classes resumed last week
and will temporarily shut down a hard-hit high school in which a widely shared photo showed dozens of maskless students posing together.

On Tuesday, Georgia on Tuesday posted its highest single-day death total yet in the pandemic at 137 fatalities, according to the state Department of Public Health. The state is currently averaging reports
of more than 60 deaths each day though people may have died earlier.

Of the fatalities reported on Tuesday, Department of Public Health spokesperson Nancy Nydam said 75 occurred in August, 54 in July and eight earlier.
More than 4,300 people have died overall in Georgia.

 

Antonio Banderas tests positive for Covid-19

Antonio Banderas says he’s tested positive for COVID-19 and is celebrating his 60th birthday in quarantine.

The Spanish actor announced his positive test in a post Monday on Instagram. Banderas said he would spend his time in isolation reading, writing and “making plans to begin to give meaning
to my 60th year to which I arrive full of enthusiasm.”

“I would like to add that I am relatively well, just a little more tired than usual and hoping to recover as soon as possible following medical instructions that I hope will allow me to overcome the infection
that I and so many people in the world are suffering from,”

 

So, story in the paper today theorising every reason under the sun to explain how Covid could re-emerge in New Zealand.... except the simplest one- it lies dormant in the cells until the patients immune system drops again

How did COVID-19 resurface in New Zealand?

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Does the Coronavirus linger in the body?
By William Petri - Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia 5th August, 2020

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As millions of people are recovering from COVID-19, an unanswered question is the extent to which the virus can "hide out" in seemingly recovered individuals. If it does, could this explain some of the lingering symptoms of COVID-19 or pose a risk for transmission of infection to others even after recovery?


I am a physician-scientist of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia, where I care for patients with infections and conduct research on COVID-19. Here I will briefly review what is known today about chronic or persistent COVID-19.



What is a chronic or persistent viral infection?
the evolutionary advantage to having an immune privileged region is that it protects a site like the brain, for example, from being damaged by the inflammation that results when the immune system battles an infection.


An immune privileged site not only is difficult for the immune system to enter, it also limits proteins that increase inflammation. The reason is that while inflammation helps kill a pathogen, it can also damage an organ such as the eye, brain or testes. The result is an uneasy truce where inflammation is limited but infection continues to fester.

A latent infection versus a persistent viral infection
But there is another way that a virus can hide in the body and reemerge later.

A latent viral infection occurs when the virus is present within an infected cell but dormant and not multiplying. In a latent virus, the entire viral genome is present, and infectious virus can be produced if latency ends and the infection becomes active. The latent virus may integrate into the human genome — as does HIV, for example — or exist in the nucleus as a self-replicating piece of DNA called an episome.


A latent virus can reactivate and produce infectious viruses, and this can occur months to decades after the initial infection. Perhaps the best example of this is chickenpox, which although seemingly eradicated by the immune system can reactivate and cause herpes zoster decades later. Fortunately, chickenpox and zoster are now prevented by vaccination. To be infected with a virus capable of producing a latent infection is to be infected for the rest of your life.

More in the link

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Now, that 2nd article is only a week old, now why there is no mention whatsoever of the possibility of the virus's persistence or latency in the news article about New Zealand can only be intentional

 

hmm. I was not aware that viruses do that.

 

Looks like we need more space.

I actually have a sort of conniption when people don't maintain proximity, so this helps my case.
Unfortunately, it also means the disease is more virulent than initially thought. Just think... all those signs in front of stores prescribing "6 feet" of distance...

This article is talking about coronavirus being present in aerosols. ‘A Smoking Gun’: Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved From Hospital Air

 

"The current SARS-CoV-2 has put significant strain on healthcare services worldwide due to acute COVID-19. However, the potential long-term effects of this infection haven’t been extensively discussed.

We hypothesize that SARS-CoV-2 may be able to cause persistent infection in some individuals, and should this be the case, that in a few years we may see a rise in cancer incidence due to carcinogenic effects of this coronavirus.

Non-retroviral RNA viruses such as Coronaviridae have been shown to cause persistent infection in hosts. Empirical evidence of viral genomic material shedding weeks after apparent clinical and laboratorial resolution of COVID-19 may be an indirect proof for persistent viral infection. Furthermore, tropism towards certain immune-privileged territories may facilitate immune evasion by this virus.

Structural homology with SARS-CoV-1 indicates that SARS-CoV-2 may be able to directly impair pRb and p53, which are key gatekeepers with tumor suppressor functions. Additionally, COVID-19 features preeminent inflammatory response with marked oxidative stress, which acts as both as initiator and promotor of carcinogenesis.

Should there be a carcinogenic risk associated with SARS-CoV-2, the implications for public health are plenty, as infected patients should be closely watched during long periods of follow-up.

Additional investigation to establish or exclude the possibility for persistent infection is paramount to identify and prevent possible complications in the future."


Persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection and the risk for cancer - ScienceDirect

 

The debate heats up and still continues on which masks are effective and ones that are not, in reducing vapor droplets.

 

So New Zealand go like 107 days or something, not a single case, then 3 yesterday, 14 today

Turns out one of those cases was a woman that returned from the Philippines, quarantining for two weeks wasn't enough

...who knew?

.....errr like everyone that is able to read

So Auckland has to shut down again because their health experts weren't able to google

The only 16 cases are either from international freight or reactivation

I'm not New Zealander in case any casual readers are wondering. But I can't believe people are still going along with this shit

Taiwan, Fiji and New Zealand were the only 3 countries left out if 199 that didn't have cases. What's everyone waiting for? Close down your economy for 6 months, then someone's eBay order eventually beings the bat virus to your door anyway

Arrgghh

 

"Germany has recorded its biggest daily increase in coronavirus cases in more than three months as European countries struggle to curb a surge in infections.

More than 1,200 cases were reported in Germany in the past 24 hours. Officials said the rise was due, in part, to people returning from holidays.

It came as Germany warned against non-essential trips to parts of Spain.

Meanwhile, France had 2,524 new cases in 24 hours, the highest daily rise since its lockdown was lifted in May."


European countries fight coronavirus surge

 

U.S. reports highest number of covid-19 deaths in one day since mid-May

On Wednesday, the country reported its highest number of deaths in a single day since mid-May, at nearly 1,500. The country has now seen its seven-day average of newly reported deaths remain above 1,000 for 17 consecutive days.

Georgia reported 105 deaths Wednesday, marking its second triple-digit day in a row. North Carolina reported an additional 45 deaths Wednesday, tying its highest daily number, from July 29. Texas reported 324 additional deaths from the disease.

 

Some good news on the business front during the pandemic

 

I was watching the movie Carriers (2009) about a virus that threatens to wipe out humanity, and this rather disturbing (albeit prescient) image appeared

 

Well this is fucked

Wisconsin is ordering residents to wear masks at all times. Even in the privacy of their own home.

DNR tells staff to wear masks for Zoom calls, even when they are at home

 

California, which is where I'm at, mandated masks before most of the country, I wore them a couple weeks before that. I started wearing them probably early April.

 

I'm not fully on board with some of your guys' "The masks are all about control" stance but shit like this makes me understand where you're coming from.