2019-nCoV Coronovirus (COVID-19]

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    Wow children getting sick imagine that..

    It's funny I didn't see a save the children #on this website at all..

    I guess child trafficking and pedophilia is alright but they died from covid it's the big deal .
     
  2. Vanilla Gorilla

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    From the actual CDC report:

    "Among 222 (38.5%) of 576 children with information on underlying medical conditions,
    94 (42.3%) had one or more underlying conditions (Table).
    The most prevalent condi-
    tions included obesity (body mass index ≥30 kg per m2 in a child aged ≥2 years; not evaluated for children aged <2 years)
    (37.8%), chronic lung disease (18.0%), and prematurity (ges-tational age <37 weeks at birth, collected only for children aged
    <2 years) (15.4%).

    So, almost half those kids had a BMI over 30?! Muthafuckin parents


    Other than that, its not the whole country, 14 states that use the same system,
    (California, Connecticut, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan,Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, and Utah)
    so the states with the bulk of the deaths so far, I'm not going to bother counting up those 14 states, but we can safely say they account for at least 100,000 of the adult deaths so far

    So, without realising it, you gave us a link that tells us out of the millions of confirmed Covid cases in the US up until July 25th, across 14 of 50 states only 576 kids needed to go to hospital, 42% of those kids were obese and only one of them died (report says that)

    Sounds pretty "almost immune" to me
     
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    I just realised too, what that report tells me is Skylar Herbert didn't have Covid on her death certificate as a cause of death
     
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    Other excerpts:

    "Most reported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
    in children aged <18 years appear to be asymptomatic or mild
    (1). Less is known about severe COVID-19 illness requir-
    ing hospitalization in children. During March 1–July 25,
    2020, 576 pediatric COVID-19 cases were reported to the
    COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network
    (COVID-NET), a population-based surveillance system that
    collects data on laboratory-confirmed COVID-19–associated
    hospitalizations in 14 states (2,3). Based on these data, the
    cumulative COVID-19-associated hospitalization rate among
    children aged <18 years during March 1–July 25, 2020, was
    8.0 per 100,000 population,

    And that's 8 per 100,000 children, not 8 per 100,000 general population
     
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    Rape suspect Ibrahim E. Bouaichi charged with murdering accuser

    A man charged with rape who was released from a US prison amid coronavirus fears has now been charged with the murder of the woman who accused him.

    Ibrahim E. Bouaichi had been arrested for rape but the trial had not yet begun when the pandemic reached American shores.

    His legal team argued that keeping him in jail during the COVID-19 pandemic endangered him and on April 9 Mr Bouaichi was set free.

    Rapist released from prison now charged with murder of woman who accused him
     
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    Huge beach brawl erupts in Belgium, as beachgoers turn on police

    Footage of a wild beach brawl has been shared around social media, showing a vicious altercation between a group of beachgoers, police and lifeguards at a beach in Belgium on Saturday afternoon.

    Footage posted to social media shows beachgoers throwing sand, beach umbrellas and charging at police officers and lifeguards on Blankenberge beach.

    It is understood the fight started after a lifeguard told a group of about 40 young people who were sitting on the breakwall to move on, as it was prohibited.

    Beachgoers in wild brawl with police

     
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    The virus laying dormant in cells has scientists "stumped" apparently


    Coronavirus: Sudden Vietnam outbreak has scientists stumped

    One of the world’s initial success stories amid the coronavirus pandemic now finds itself in suffering a sudden surge of cases and deaths.

    Vietnam hadn’t recorded a single death from COVID-19 a week ago after it closed its borders early in the pandemic. But now there have been 10 deaths in a single week, the BBC reports.

    After 99 straight days of no local transmission, coronavirus cases have suddenly surged in the south east Asian nation – a worrying sign for any country or state that thinks it has the virus under control.

    Sudden virus outbreak has scientists stumped
     
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    Manhattan

    Bit of Biff


     
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    Germany: Hundreds gather in Stuttgart to protest virus-related restrictions


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    Police said that social distancing measures were mostly observed. Protesters displayed banners that said "With mask – without me" and chanted "freedom, freedom."
    Around 1,000 protesters took to the streets in Stuttgart on Saturday to protest coronavirus-related restrictions.

    Participants gathered in the Lower Schlossgarten in the city center, carrying umbrellas, displaying banners that said "With mask – without me" and chanting "freedom, freedom."

    A total of 1,500 people registered for the rally under the"Lateral Thinking 711" initiative, while police estimate that the number of demonstrators present was closer to 1,000.



     
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    As is evident in virtually every related headline, CoViD-19 isn't going anywhere on its own... We absolutely must vaccinate if we want to put a dent in the no. of cases/ deathtoll.

    I feel like the strategy should be to vaccinate as many as possible. But you hear nothing about a strategy in the news. It's always about social distancing and masks; which is a strategy I suppose, but as VG points out and is evident, it doesn't work terribly well. Especially if some are still on the fence about necessity.
     
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    Do Face Masks Create a False Sense of Security? A COVID-19 Dilemma

    We use SafeGraph smart device location data to show that the representative American in states that have face mask mandates spent 20-30 minutes less time at home, and increase visits to a number of commercial locations, following the mandate. Since the reproductive rate of SAR-COV2, the pathogen that causes COVID-19 is hovering right around one, such substitution behavior could be the difference between controlling the epidemic and a resurgence of cases.

    Do Face Masks Create a False Sense of Security? A COVID-19 Dilemma
     
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    Scott Morrison slams ‘hideous’ virus suggestion to ’offer up’ older Australians


    "The most outspoken contrarians to the Victorian approach include The Australian’s economic editor Adam Creighton who has questioned the efficacy of the lockdown in terms of the impact on younger Australians.

    The Australian Financial Review’s John Kehoe also wrote a controversial opinion piece warning “unemployment is surging, businesses are closing, incomes are being slashed. People are hurting”.

    Scott Morrison slams ‘hideous’ virus suggestion to ’offer up’ older Australians
     
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    Such is the panic in Aus, two teens run amok, a shopping centre "forced" to close. A very dramatic headline


    Virus scare ripples through Noosa after teens return from Sydney

    Two teenagers who returned to the Sunshine Coast from Sydney before the state’s borders slammed shut have been taken into police custody for COVID-19 testing, sending hysteria through a Noosa shopping centre.

    Speaking to media this afternoon, Superintendent Craig Hawkins said the girls, aged 15 and 16, arrived back in Queensland from Sydney before the borders closed but allegedly breached the chief health officer’s directives regarding quarantine and testing.

    One of the girls is from Queensland, the other from New South Wales.

    Two teenagers on Sunshine Coast arrested after returning from Sydney
     
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    Seems the Victoria health systems are just as useless as you are !!!
     
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    Coronavirus Update 8/9/20

    United States Coronavirus Cases:

    5,199,444

    Deaths:

    165,617

    Case numbers are surging throughout most of the United States, including in many states that were among the first to reopen. Because the number of people hospitalized and the percentage of people
    testing positive is also rising in many of those places, the case spike cannot be solely explained by increased testing. Still, coronavirus deaths remain well below their peak levels. And as some places reimpose restrictions,
    others continue to reopen their economies.


     
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    Royal Commission: Aged care coronavirus deaths ‘hardly surprising

    Australia’s coronavirus death rate in aged care is one of the highest in the world but the tragic loss of more than 200 lives is “hardly surprising”, a royal commission investigating the outbreak in the sector has heard.

    Counsel assisting Peter Rozen, QC, delivered a scathing assessment of the sector’s readiness, telling the commission “we should not be surprised” that residential aged care has been the site of such tragic scenes.

    “It’s not a system that is failing,” he said. “It’s a system operating as it is designed to operate.”

    As of Monday, 203 coronavirus deaths in Australia have come from the aged care system.

    Mr Rozen said 68 per cent of all deaths from COVID-19 in Australia came from residential aged care: “one of the highest rates in the world.”

    “(These were) grandparents, parents, siblings and friends – a human tragedy,” he said.

    Mr Rozen praised aged care workers for their “commitment, courage, dedication, and most of all, love” in “unimaginable” circumstances, and said the federal government should thank them with more than just words.

    “Talk is cheap,” he said.

    The commission also heard that the NSW health department asked that COVID-positive residents at Newmarch House – the site of 17 coronavirus deaths – not be transferred to hospitals because it didn’t want to “set a precedent”.

    Mr Rozen said there had been problems in co-ordination between hospitals, which are run by state governments, and aged care, which is run by the federal government.

    Public hospitals are legally allowed to refuse admitting and treating aged care residents.

    Mr Rozen pointed to an email sent by NSW Health, which told the federal government it had a “preference” to not take COVID-positive residents from Newmarch House – which went on to record 37 positive cases and 17 deaths by the time the outbreak was brought under control.

    NSW Health said this was because it did not want to “set a precedent”, he said.

    Mr Rozen said he would question NSW Health further on what it meant by this during the commission hearings.

    Anglicare, who runs Newmarch House, had “little to no say” in whether or not COVID-positive residents would be transferred to hospital, Mr Rozen said.

    Instead, it was a conversation between the NSW and federal governments.

    It was decided the Newmarch House would take a “hospital in the home” approach, with only two COVID-positive residents being transferred to hospital, and the rest remaining in the facility.

    Newmarch House was the second outbreak in an aged care facility in NSW, after Dorothy Henderson Lodge which is owned by BaptistCare.

    Dorothy Henderson Lodge contained to outbreak to 16 positive cases, a “quite successful” result, Mr Rozen said.

    Manager responsible for the facility Melanie Dicks said they were “absolutely” assisted by the fact that they were able to transfer almost all of their COVID-positive residents to hospital.

    Aged care tragedy with 203 deaths ‘hardly surprising,’ QC says
     

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