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Human-animal interactions and bat coronavirus spillover potential among rural residents in Southern China

• [Wei Zhang, Zhengli Shi] Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
• [Shiyue Li] School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
• Received 9 July 2019
• Accepted 28 Oct 2019
• Available online 9 Nov 2019
• This work was supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT project

Seperately, as per New York Times:

> - PREDICT, a government research program, sought to identify animal viruses that might infect humans and to head off new pandemics. > - The surveillance project is closing because of “the ascension of risk-averse bureaucrats,” [Dennis Carroll] said. > - Published: 25 Oct 2019

Edit: And remember folks, that virology lab is 600 feet away from the wet market.

Hmmm...

Only if you blindly believe Iranian state propaganda. Trump could declare free 100TB internet for everyone, infrastructure doesn't get created as easily as that.

In reality the US has, on average, the 8th best internet speeds worldwide. Iran has some of the worst in the world with 122 countries ahead of them. Source

Shameless plug for my free app that hit the Play store yesterday (iOS still waiting for approval)

It's a new weight loss strategy that gameifies weight loss and instead of counting calories you count good choices. Its worked wonders for me and the covid break gave me the time to clean it up and make it available... It's really good at stopping idle snacking in isolation too.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.snappyapps.skinnyscore

Buy and O2 meter and keep an eye on it. Something like this:

If your lungs get filled up with gunk you're oxygen decreases. You might not notice that your oxygen levels are dropping. Perhaps consult with a doctor on what a reasonable number is for you. Most people are at 95% and above.

https://www.amazon.com/Santamedical-Generation-Fingertip-Saturation-Batteries/dp/B000ORVXPA/

Edit: Also note. This would only help if the virus fucks up your lungs. It doesn't help with other aspects.

I highly recommend using temp-mail.org; this allows you to create a disposable, temporary email address for free. Couple it with Brave in Incognito, over a VPN (if you're feeling really paranoid), and you're going to be reasonably anonymous(ish).

according to this article, Russia has more ventilators than hospital employees can serve https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/03/21/the-ventilator-problem

Data is pulled directly from ArcGIS which supplies data to John Hopkins and other websites. World o meter is not reliable for most up to date case count.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

> If we all just fuck off to do our own thing and leave idiotic and/or dangerous claims undisputed, shit's going to hit the fan even sooner and harder.

I have a book recommendation for you:

THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt

https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777/

I think it's most likely they're using this, one of the standards for epidemic modeling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidemiology#The_SIR_model

In the SIR model, the R stands for removed, and it's a lump grouping that has both deceased persons and medically recovered persons categorized together. Its purpose is to denote the population that are no longer Susceptible (able to be infected, a key assumption being that infected people can't be reinfected) but are also not still Infected. I have no problem with them reporting this number, so long as they continue to make it clear they're reporting the removed count and not explicitly calling it 'recovered or healed.' My Spanish isn't great, so I couldn't pick out precisely what word he called it, but I could hear that he went on to specify the definition as given by international standards (I think he was offering that removed definition above). Definitions disclaimers like seen in the video seem a fine way to go if that R figure is what they're choosing to publicize.

Here's an online SIR model you can play around with to see the model in motion:

https://www.geogebra.org/m/fjkgvw9r

Hi there! I see you are trying to get statistics about a state or country's number of positive coronavirus tests.

There are several ways to get this information without annoying the hell out of everybody else in this thread! Check out this site, for instance, or this one.

This action was taken by a human, not a bot. If you disagree with this action, stick it up your butt.

H1N1 only had an R0 (pronounced R-Naught) factor of only 1.2-1.6. This virus is highly contagious. Too early to say with certainty, but recent studies have shown this to be super contagious. See linked article below. Bottom line: "...R0 value is likely to be between 4.7 and 6.6..."; which puts it similar to Diptheria, Smallpox, Polio, and Rubella (see second link below) ** Of note: Spanish Flu was only between 1.4-2.8 ** If you don't know what that means, Google it. It's basically how easily it can spread.

Additionally, there is no history of this, so everyone is at risk - no built up antibodies + there is no vaccine to prevent you from getting it.

In addition, this virus has a high percentage of likelihood that people that have pneumonia from it, will require medical intervention. Which is not good... It would overwhelm the healthcare system. Not enough capacity to handle such large quantities of patients at once.

P.S. (1) I could use some up-votes 😁 (2) If you really want the cr@p scared out of you. Check out a YouTube post from Leak Project dated Jan 27. I don't agree with it possibly being a bio weapon, but most of the video is very informative, and that was way back on that date - now we are approaching 70K infected, so far.

Sources: Study --  https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021154v1. R0 comparison -- https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/singh_br1762/r0-value-herd-immunity

Here's the livemap I've been using. It updates pretty frequently. It shows how many confirmed cases, deceased, recovered, and active cases there are.

Have to agree. A simular situation in The Netherlands. No masks except in public transport. Still hardly a Coronavirus left since social distancing is taken very serious. (NL 3100, UK 4250, USA 10100 cases/1M population)link to lots of numbers

https://www.docdroid.net/DzUu8Ej/ivermectin-covid-19-pdf

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Check out the most recent manuscript regarding ivermectin clinical trial done by Harvard. Actually looks promising. Especially considering this is a one-time dose of the usual amount that we prescribe patients.

I'm very skeptical that this data is accurate and/or up-to-date. This AirTable compiled by the COVID Tracking project shows that only six states have public-facing dashboards reporting vaccination data, and even those are more than 24 hours out of date.

States are clearly focused more on getting jabs into arms than reporting data to the public.

Could this thing be seasonal, if the heat in Florida truly affected it? And yes I know there is conflicting research on either sides of the equation. But they absolutely did not take this seriously at all and they are escaping pretty lightly.

edit: Seriously? This sub sucks if I'm being downvoted for asking a question many have asked before, even researchers. I feel it is a valid one, at that. The research is still inconclusive. Just genuinely trying to gauge everyone's thoughts on the idea; maybe someone has read something I didn't.

https://ktar.com/story/3084124/researchers-investigate-if-warmth-humidity-slows-coronavirus/

https://www.accuweather.com/en/health-wellness/higher-temperatures-affect-survival-of-new-coronavirus-pathologist-says/700800

I did not edit the title at all. They must have changed the title after a correction.

Here's a link with the original title as well.

https://flipboard.com/article/no-proof-official-defends-sweden-s-controversial-covid-19-move-as-mortality-ra/a-zQPMz4-bSr-EezwtUl-nMw%3Aa%3A132361178-6a0d483a73%2Fcnn.com

There is a very fine line between the diffrences between them. SARS, MERS and COVID-19 are all respiratory illnesses that are caused by the same large family of viruses called coronavirus. Coronaviruses are actually quite common. They are the source of many of the common colds that people get and recover from every day. The important thing to remember is this is whatever you want to call it it is much deadlier than the public is giving it credit for.This virus is growing exponentially faster than any of its cousins,at the rate this is growing the total number of people infected could EASILY top a million. Stay safe yall...

The sonovia website says the mask has an adjustable nose wire. Amazon reviews complain about the mask lacking a nose wire.

For anything I plan to ingest or rely on for safety, I've basically stopped buying from Amazon. Google "amazon counterfeit problem" to see why. One issue is that there's one bucket for the item, even if it has multiple sellers, so if you get something counterfeit or defective they have no idea where it came from.

They make mask frames that prevent you from inhaling the mask. It might be worth a try.

https://www.amazon.com/Silicone-Homemade-Comfortable-Breathing-Washable/dp/B08931ZQZC

I'm not necessarily recommending this one (haven't purchased one) - but you get the idea. You still breath through the mask, but the material isn't stuck to your face.

We're in a La Niña episode unfortunately: https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-04-01-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season-april-outlook

Stuttgart (dpa) - For the first time, the South African variant B.1.351 (also: 501Y.V2) of the coronavirus has been detected in Germany. The Ministry of Social Affairs of Baden-Württemberg announced in Stuttgart on Tuesday that a sick person from the Zollernalbkreis was affected. She had returned with her family from a longer stay in South Africa, all had been tested five days later. "These tests were negative," it said. A week later, the first family members had developed mild symptoms of the disease.

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Corona infections have since been detected in six people from three households, it said. The National Coronavirus Consiliary Laboratory, Charité Berlin, had examined the swab sample of the first person to fall ill more closely and confirmed the virus variant B.1.351 - also known as 501Y.V2 - on Monday. Now the swabs of the contact persons would also be examined, the Department of Social Affairs further explained.

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The South African government had reported the rapid increase in infections with the variant in mid-December, according to the statement. It was first detected in August in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

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Hey now, Singapore dropped under 20C once in January.

https://weatherspark.com/y/114655/Average-Weather-in-Singapore-Year-Round

Kidding. But I would be curious to see if they have any influenza seasonality, but even then it probably wouldn’t matter as COVID seems to not care about seasons much anyway.

Edit: Singapore has no specific flu season: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3293465/

There is this;

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Critical-care-bed-growth-in-the-United-States.-A-of-Wallace-Angus/8b4780eb3ab590154a51a1ee08be2ce0f95848d4/figure/0

Although the data is a bit outdated, but ICUs per 100k remained stable around 33-35 for the given 9 years. It also gives a bit more distribution in terms of age cutoff they used for the calculations.

Anyone interested in participating in a documentary film?

I'm a documentary filmmaker creating a feature length film composed entirely of community video submissions submitted daily as the COVID-19 pandemic progresses. We are looking for people (anyone!) to submit daily or at least frequent short videos documenting and discussing their lives during this pandemic. Everyone is in this together but experiencing so many different things, so we want to use the power of cell phones and the internet to create a global picture of how humans are fighting and coping with COVID-19.

Let me be clear that no one is paying us to do this (we are searching for urgent grant funding) and participation is always voluntary at all times.

More about the film via our sign-up page: https://airtable.com/shrMT5PyLJ8QpDFJR

PLEASE feel free to ask questions, I want to be as transparent as possible. I may not be prompt, but I will answer any questions I can.

My heart goes out to everyone fighting this; we're in this together.

>e arnt meant to be so full all the time.

I have always been very small, but I got into the habit of overeating. So I put a portion control plate of Amazon. That has helped me keep my weight stable. A lot of people don't know what a healthy portion is.

This is the one I have:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GJ5MG2F

It can be adjusted.

Indeed. There are multiple failings of the current administration, but their inability to provide financial incentives to people to stay home is their biggest.

75% of all jobs are bullshit anyway*. The economy should never be put forward over the lives of the people.

Most of the previous stimulus money was pumped into the stock market. All this does is make the rich, richer.

*https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp/1501143336/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=bullshit+jobs&qid=1605135880&sr=8-1

There are many, many steps between "the cops aren't doing anything" and "i am going to kill this person," but I can't argue with the sentiment.

I'm all for advocating pepper spraying or zapping someone way quicker than the alternative.

However, if those fail? Yeah..

(Links provided, because I have zero problem with these idiots getting pepper sprayed or zapped at all. Repeatedly.)

This guy in my neighborhood has been posting misleading titles for his pressure washing business.

Corona Virus Elimination

Corona Virus Elimination

I guess he has since removed it after he thanked me for advertising his business.

This right here is why: https://youtu.be/S8DQ2kseTWw

There is also a book named, Strangers in Their Own Land that lays out the six or eight (I read it years ago) core beliefs and gives suggestions on how to communicate across the empathy gap.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1620973499/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_pqqhFbN15DC87

Don't know where your degree in immunology comes from, but this actual immunologist who studies coronaviruses specifically says there's a good chance everyone will in fact get this, there's no reason to believe they won't. He also says there's zero reason to believe herd immunity is viable at this time. No proof.

https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cDovL3R3aXYubWljcm9iZXdvcmxkLmxpYnN5bnByby5jb20vdHdpdg&ep=14&episode=OWU2OGMyYzAtZWIzOS00NTg0LTgwZmMtNzUyZjdmMTk4MGY2

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> Эффективность вакцины складывается из ее иммунологической эффективности и профилактической эффективности. По результатам первой-второй фаз клинических исследований, иммунологическая эффективность вакцины «ЭпиВакКорона» составляет 100%.

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> The effectiveness of a vaccine consists of its immunological effectiveness and preventive effectiveness. According to the results of the first and second phases of clinical trials, the immunological efficacy of the EpiVacCorona vaccine is 100%.

https://meduza.io/news/2021/01/19/rospotrebnadzor-zayavil-o-100-protsentnoy-effektivnosti-vaktsiny-epivakkorona-po-rezultatam-pervyh-dvuh-faz-ispytaniy

wget "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzaced4xstofs4tc5q4irede6uzaz3qzcdvcb2eedxgfakzwdyjnxgohq/" -nc -l 0 -c -e robots=off --no-check-certificate --no-cache -w 5 -r -nH --cut-dirs=2 -np -R "index.html*" -N --no-remove-listing -np -E -D ipfs.io -p -k -R ".DS_Store,Thumbs.db,thumbcache.db,desktop.ini,_macosx"

These results are not surprising, considering remdesivir shares a flaw with hydroxychloroquine in that they are renally cleared. Patients with severe symptoms typically have reduced kidney function, therefore these drugs can build up to toxic levels very easily.

It was shared on this subreddit a couple days ago, but this manuscript from a Harvard study on Ivermectin actually shows promise: https://www.docdroid.net/DzUu8Ej/ivermectin-covid-19-pdf

What sets ivermectin apart is that it is NOT renally cleared, and does not need dosage adjustments in people with end-organ damage. This paper looked at a one-time dose of the standard amount and found significant reductions in mortality without reported side effects.

I got you fam.

These are from yesterday(5/8), I didn't pull numbers yet today. All from here and then I put them in excel

>The Community of Madrid has changed the criteria for carrying out the diagnostic tests for Covid-19 (called PCR) and will no longer be carried out on those patients who present "very typical pictures", such as bilateral pneumonia, which is developed by serious patients of this virus. The diagnosis will be made by "clinical and radiological criteria" and "will be considered as a possible case". As they are no longer confirmed cases (only those determined by PCR), they will not enter the statistics of the Ministry of Health, in which Madrid, the area most affected by the pandemic, accumulates 30.5% of the national figure of infected (17,166 of 56,188 infected until this Thursday).

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In view of the spread of the new coronavirus, 35,000 tests for the pathogen were carried out last week in medical practices.

This was announced by the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) on Tuesday upon request. These figures do not include tests in clinics. The KBV had already called on citizens not to go to medical practices unnecessarily out of concern for the virus. Tests only make sense, it said, if someone has had symptoms of an upper respiratory tract disease and contact with infected persons. According to the information, the laboratories in Germany have the capacity for about 12,000 tests per day.

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Folding@Home has spun up projects specific to COVID-19. They use your spare computer power to simulate protein folding, to help find cures and vaccines.

Lead Paragraphs:

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is not the world’s first pandemic, and it is unlikely to be the last. In recent years, there have been actual or potential pandemics in 2002 (severe acute respiratory syndrome), 2009 (H1N1 influenza), 2012 (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus), and 2014 (Ebola). The new normal seems to be an actual or potential epidemic every 2 to 3 years.

Loss of life is one devastating effect of regular pandemics and economic damage is another. Consider what happens to the economy if pandemics occur regularly. Close association of individuals with different perspectives is <strong>a key to productivity</strong>. Large, dense cities are the most innovative areas, and the most innovative companies are those that bring disparate people together. If cities become ground zero for pandemics, fewer people will probably choose to live in them. And with that will come a decline in national vitality.

Preventing recurrent pandemics is a major public health challenge. To meet this challenge, society will need to act domestically and globally.

You could try getting one of these. They're reusable. You just need to clean them every time and change the filters (I'm not sure how often). The thing is that they seem to come in different sizes and the size has to fit, so if you can afford it and figure out your size may be a safer solution.

I’m sorry to hear about your family... You might advise them to grab a pulse oximeter on Amazon - they’re about $30, and can provide insight into whether they need to go to the hospital (if their blood oxygen drops into the low 90s).

If you want, I got this one and it seems to work fine (just have to jam your finger all the way to the back and let it sit still on the table while it finds your pulse): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PQ8WTC4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZmglFbJBAH6K0

>The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is confident that a third COVID-19 vaccine will be approved in the EU as early as the end of January. Next week, it said, manufacturer AstraZeneca is expected to submit a conditional marketing authorization application in the EU.
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>EMA chief Emer Cooke said today (Friday) in Amsterdam that manufacturer AstraZeneca's application for a conditional marketing authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine in the EU is expected next week. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is thus confident that a third COVID-19 vaccine will be approved in the EU as early as the end of January.

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Anyone who hasn't bothered to look at any of the 5G distribution maps which clearly reveal that, say, there is no 5G in Iran, and proceeds to spout off this nonsense is still a certified idiot, though.

There's more data coming out now and it's not as conclusive. This is from today:

https://nitter.net/davidwdowdy/status/1438268969211744256#m

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110345?query=featured_home

You were apparently not paying attention.

There was a massive spike in new cases in Wisconsin about two weeks after the election. (screenshot via Johns Hopkins GIS visualizer for COVID-19)

But, thanks to the ongoing social distancing measures, that spike was not able to transform into a renewal of the previous exponential growth (the growth was exponential, but it was at a much lower factor).

This is different. This is everyone just rushing back out into contact and remaining that way. Just mathematically speaking, we should expect the exact same bump as before, but that bump in new cases should continue to compound as those new cases continue to mingle with others.

This will get much worse before it gets better, and unfortunately, it will create a reservoir so that as other states and Canada slowly and cautiously come out of isolation, states like Wisconsin will keep pushing new infections into their populations. :-(

This is a really cute opinion that you got from a libertarian meme. Lmao. Read a book to form your opinions next time.

Edit - one of the many versions of this meme I've seen: https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=healthcare+service+meme#id=5FFFB2A85746BAE6EFE60A85117EACC30E1ADA79

And for the record, 'healthcare' in this context is a system to describe how people pay for their treatment. Even the meme conveniently ignores that fact. You're not getting "a right to someone's services," you're getting a right to access some services as a member of a group (in this case, an American citizen). Which for the record, is how rights are defined across the globe. You're not holding a gun to a specific doctor's head. In the same way you can't force any specific firefighter to put out your blazing house, but you still don't get a bill for the service that saved you and your belongings.

US is now leading in confirmed Covid-19 cases at 83,507 cases - https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/

This map has it. Or John Hopkins one but JH one doesn't have color grading so it's hard to see which state has it

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

If you've read The Psychopath Test by Jonathan Ronson, he comes to that very conclusion and it's a fascinating book. https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Test-Journey-Through-Industry/dp/1594485755

I bought these for that very reason:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071KXPSPQ?psc=1&amp;ref=ppx_pop_dt_b_product_details

If you're training for a spring marathon you have to do a lot of winter running so these have been great.

OMG l, looked this up and was not at all disappointed... It is even commemorated on a t shirt on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GVTL1F6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_3L7cFbK2RREC6

And yet a box of Tide Laundry Detergent Powder is still selling for $55 - $90+, even though I spoke with a customer service rep and reported the price gouging more than a week and a half ago.

https://www.amazon.com/Tide-Powder-Laundry-Detergent-Original/dp/B009P7XHWW

Here's the price tracking graph for the last three months: graph

I guess it's an improvement. When I reached out they were all selling for $70+. For reference, in the store these typically sell for $16-$18. Amazon looks like it is always a little high, hovering around $25. Until early/mid March, when the parasites caught wind of an opportunity.

Debunked. Its an utter lie.

No evidence supports baseless story claiming Hindus denied rations in Karachi

Also, trusting an Indian site about Pakistan is basically crazy.

265 Indian fake news sites caught pushing anti-Pakistan propaganda

Summer like heatwave in the South

I wonder if this might show us what the heat will do to the virus ?](https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/2020-03-23-record-heat-hot-temperatures-south-late-march)

Before the "it's never going to end, we should be in lockdown forever" comments pop-up and people start panic buying, here's some food for thought:

1. We haven't (yet) seen huge numbers of fully vaccinated people being reinfected, which would mean we NEED the booster shots for vaccines to be effective

2. We haven't (yet) seen reinfected fully vaccinated people present with severe disease

So, yes, it's good news we are working on boosters and having infrastructure and stockpiles ready just in case, but there's no need to panic yet. Current vaccines are effective. Even more so than we had initially hoped. This critical period will end for the general public.

source: Dr. Syra Madad on Curiosity Daily

Listen to the NYT &quot;The Daily&quot; podcast today. Case study. It was ultimately steroid treatments that helped reverse things. Teen tested positive for Covid antibodies. Rash, fever, said it felt like he'd been "injected with fire."

Check your blood pressure. If it's low, chances are that's what you're dealing with.

One of Singapore leading disease experts has mentioned despite aggressive contact tracing, it doesn't catch all the cases. There will be definitely infected who they will missed.

Their health minister has also stated, despite all these protocols and measures, they still are predicting there will be a potential increase of cases.

BARNAUL, November 10. /TASS/. Tests for coronavirus in three physicians in the Altai Territory, who were among the first to receive the vaccine "Sputnik V", showed a positive result. This was announced on Tuesday by the Regional Press and Mass Communications Department.

Earlier it was reported that the first batch of vaccines in the Altai region received 42 sets of vaccines. The second batch of vaccine against coronavirus, as Valery Shevchenko, the chief infectious disease specialist of the region, reported at the press conference on October 5, in the volume of about 2 thousand doses will be delivered to the region in the first quarter of 2021.

"In Altai Territory three out of 42 physicians who were the first to receive coronavirus vaccine (Sputnik V vaccine) were infected with coronavirus. Immunity in sick physicians who were vaccinated probably had not been formed by the time they met with the causative agent COVID-19. Only this could have caused the infection of physicians," said in a report circulated by the agency.

As reported in the department, according to the developers, the vaccine is two-component: three weeks after the first injection a person gets the second. A person is considered vaccinated and, accordingly, protected against coronavirus infection only three weeks after the second vaccination, because all this time the process of immunity formation is underway.

According to the regional medical center, in the past 24 hours 234 new cases of the virus have been registered in Altai Territory, 21,499 cases during the pandemic.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, about 50.9 million people worldwide have been infected with coronavirus, more than 1.26 million have died. In Russia, according to the Federal Coronavirus Operational Headquarters, 1,817,109 cases of infection were registered, 1,350,741 people recovered and 31,161 died.

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Translation:

　The Nagoya High Court has sentenced a man accused of interfering with the store's operations by saying "Ore Corona (I'm coronavirus, 俺コロナ)" at an electronics retail store in Nakamura Ward, Nagoya, to 10 months in prison, following the first trial.

　According to the first trial judgment, the defendant, 43-year-old Hisashi Kishino, a temporary employee of Nakamura Ward, was accused of obstructing business at an electronics retail store in front of Nagoya Station this past March by forcing the store's sales staff to disinfect the store by saying things like, "I'm Corona.

　Kishino was sentenced to 10 months in prison at the Nagoya District Court in the first trial, but he had appealed the sentence, claiming it was unfair.

　Judge Shinji Shikano of the Nagoya High Court upheld the decision of the first trial and dismissed Kishino's appeal, saying, "There is no error in the judgment of the first trial that the defendant's statements had a significant impact on society as a whole at a time when the spread of the new coronavirus has become a social problem.

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just use this project to explain the global plague to my calssmates , and to explain why we need to stay at home to avoid disaster! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/381707927/

It's not that one dimensional and calling it an agenda feels disingenuous. The waning is not conclusive and the recommendation of boosters for healthy adults is far from a sure thing.

https://nitter.net/davidwdowdy/status/1438268969211744256#m

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110345?query=featured_home

I wouldn't boast about mortality rate, that's for sure somehow undercounted. There is a really good new article about it, but it's Russian, idk if it's readable for you.

https://meduza.io/feature/2020/05/14/prosto-zapreschayut-umirat-ot-koronavirusa?utm_source=telegram&amp;utm_medium=live&amp;utm_campaign=live

TLDR regional government trying to hide it out to look better in comparison to other regions. Sometimes, even not counting deaths from covid from small cities at all.

We're probably well protected against ACE2-binding SARS-CoV types; they can only mutate their spikes so much and still be able to bind ACE2, such that our antibodies likely remain at least decent efficacy at identifying and destroying the virus based on spike structure. However, MERS-CoV bound to DPP4 so we're obviously not insulated from all coronaviruses currently.

There is some promising research for anti-viral therapeutics which potentially work on all coronaviruses regardless of which protein their spikes bind to. Of course, therapeutics just keep you from getting too sick, typically when taken within a timeframe from when you become symptomatic. They wouldn't stop the spread of something like SARS-CoV-2, but they could bring the hospitalization and death rates down significantly. I suppose if they had no side effects and were inexpensive, people might be able to take them as a preventative, which could help stop spread? I'm not that knowledgeable.

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The Kepler University Hospital (KUK) in Linz is one of 16 hospitals worldwide in which a drug against Covid-19, co-developed by the Upper Austrian Josef Penninger, is now being tested. This is being done as part of a clinical study.

The active ingredient is intended to shorten the duration of the disease and prevent organ damage. The new coronavirus drug is to be administered to the first Covid-19 patients at KUK within the next few days - twice a day by infusion.

Hardly any side effects

The drug, co-developed by the Innviertel-born geneticist Penninger, is said to have almost no side effects but to block the corona viruses, according to Bernd Lamprecht, chairman of the pulmonary clinic at KUK. "In concrete terms, it is possible to use this substance to prevent the viruses from entering human cells and thus prevent them from multiplying. This can have a very positive effect on the course of the disease," says Lamprecht.

If the clinical study shows a positive effect, Lamprecht hopes that the Penninger drug will be available to other coronavirus patients, and not just study participants, from the second half of the year onwards.

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Time is short: The number of people infected with the coronavirus is still rising rapidly. As is the number of deaths from Covid-19. Researchers worldwide are feverishly searching for a vaccine.

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One of them, who is unable to find it fast enough, is the Basel immunologist Peter Burkhard. He develops a vaccine in his own laboratory in Riehen and tests it on himself. On SRF you can see him injecting 20 micrograms of the vaccine into his leg - even before animal experiments or toxicological tests are completed. According to the SRF report, Burkhard could at best prove in four weeks that the vaccine also produces antibodies in humans.

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The researcher also comments on the risk he is taking: "What is the risk if I inject the vaccine? And what if I don't do it and am exposed to the virus instead?" he asks rhetorically. The new coronavirus has a death rate in Italy of around ten percent.

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"There must be a vaccine as soon as possible. The longer it takes, the more people die," Burkhard continues. "If it worked, it would be indescribable." It's a race against the virus, not against the other vaccine developers.

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Pro-Tip: Sign up with Privacy.com and credit a temporary card with $1 on it. Switch out your payments to this card on the 24 membership site. They can bill this card but never get their money till you can go back to the gym. Problem solved.

I thought we were only 10-11 days behind Italy on the rate of new cases increase? This was my memory from an interview with an epidemiologist. I've been following the case number and outcome changes daily on these two sites, and some of the data is pretty terrifying. I guess there isn't much difference between 11 and 20 days.

Every week has many more infections than the week before. And 97.6% of our (USA) cases are still active - in other words they have neither recovered nor died. Yet. The critical cases are in the hospital a long time before they are resolved.

If anyone wants to help fight this virus there is a program called folding at home. What it does is essentially make your computer part of this huge supercomputer with other computers to help run simulations that could end up as cures. Including COVID-19. here's the link: https://foldingathome.org/

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My heart goes out to everyone fighting this; we're in this together.

Wait my roommate just bought these keto snacks that are actually really good. A bit pricy, but what keto stuff isn't. Although it's probably not available by you. But maybe you can do a knockoff version.

https://www.amazon.com/Coconut-Clusters-Organic-Almonds-Pumpkin/dp/B08FD5R3XK/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&amp;keywords=innofoods+coconut+keto+clusters&amp;qid=1606354835&amp;sprefix=Innofoods&amp;sr=8-3

I got a $60 battery powered mask off Amazon that makes working out a non issue as it provides the air for me to breathe without me sucking it through the mask. And as a bonus it’s a better filter than n95, it’s 99% not 95%.

https://www.amazon.com/BROAD-Rechargeable-Electrical-Purifying-Respirator/dp/B07YWLBVF2/

Women's High Low Casual Dress with Pockets

They're sized a little large, but they have cute prints and pockets and they wash well and I LOVE THEM.

I don't go anywhere at all in public, but I keep emergency travel bags, and included swim goggles in them. I'm a swimmer, so I had the goggles and I figured I would wear them in public until if/when it was proven that they offered no benefit. They seal, they don't fog, they're cheap ($13) and easy to obtain. I go through them often due to loss, damage, wear/tear, so I purchased a few for the family as well.

If anyone is interested, these are the ones I buy:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LNAU866

That’s the problem Overthrowoverthrow by Stephen Kinzer should be required reading for every single American.

Well, its been debunked and never occurred. Indian media tends to generate a "shocking" news story about Pakistan every now and then. Usually isn't true.

265 Indian fake news sites caught pushing anti-Pakistan propaganda

So, No. Its no retaliation for the pogrom. Hindus in Pakistan are Pakistanis, not someone to take "revenge" against.

From my understanding average air temperature in 20s AND average/slightly above average relative humidity is enough to significantly affect how long the vast majority of respiratory viruses (other coronaviruses and sars included) can stay viable in environment.

According to weather.com it is now 26C in Mumbai with relative humidity of 63%.

For comparison, where I live in east Europe, it is now only 5C outside with a relative humidity of 71%. While humidity may seem high, they key is its dependent on air temperature a lot (hence the word "relative").

At the same indoors it is now 22C with a relative humidity of only 35%. This is because cold air coming from outside can hold much less absolute humidity then warm air.

We get flu/colds epidemic declared by government each year in winter and never in summer. Additional factors might be higher UV in summer and more vitamin D production in population from sunlight.

Now I understand this novel coronavirus is NOT an ordinary flu, but so far I think it displays attributes in line with other seasonal viruses.

Won't take long to die on the sidewalk in northwest Wisconsin this week. Forecast for Eu Claire is sleet on Tuesday, and nighttime temps well below freezing starting Thursday.

That was in Lexington, Kentucky. The YouTube video that article linked to got taken down for copyright for some reason, so if anyone wants to see the incident, here's the original on Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joegotti96/video/6821575139763834118

I wish he'd responded by informing her instead, because I don't think there was anything in his voice to indicate to her that he was being sarcastic. The fact that she was trying to wear a mask tells me she was at least trying to do the right thing, and just doesn't understand how masks work. If he'd explained it to her, she'd probably go home and fix her mistake.

>"That's three, four hard months now: March, April, May, June," Merkel said in a public digital conversation with aid and crisis line workers. After that, the effects of vaccination will become clear, Merkel said. "Then it will get significantly better, but right now every day is difficult. You can see that in everyone's face." Spring makes some things easier, she said, but also makes people feel the restrictions more.
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>Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) assumes that after approval of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, nurses, doctors and people from risk groups will be vaccinated first. The question will be discussed with the Standing Vaccination Commission, the Leopoldina Academy of Science and the Ethics Commission, Merkel said in a video published on Sunday on the Federal Government's virtual open day. At the same time, she emphasized: "Nobody will be forced to be vaccinated.
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>The Federal Government hopes that the first vaccines will be approved "quite soon", Merkel said. The preparations for vaccinations are already underway. At the beginning, however, not enough vaccine will be available. The virus would be "more or less defeated" if 60 to 70 percent of the population were immune, either because they had gone through the disease or through vaccination. "Then we can also lift all restrictions."

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>Merkel stressed several times that she could understand "the resentment and unwillingness" in the population. People were disappointed that it had lasted so long. "All in all, we had a pretty carefree summer. Autumn has now come with great force," said the Chancellor. And she was aware that the winter months were long - from November to March. "This light at the end of a tunnel is now quite a long way off," Merkel said.
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>Now the head of the Mainz-based company Biontech, Ugur Sahin, is giving hope. His company is expecting the first data from the decisive efficacy study with its potential vaccine to be available shortly. "We will certainly be smarter in two weeks," Sahin said on Thursday in a television interview with the VRM media house. He expects first test data in early November.
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>If this emercency approval is granted, the next question is, in principle, can we supply vaccine, Sahin continued in the interview. "We have started to produce vaccine. It is stored in our warehouse, is under quality control," Sahin continued. "It's not yet released." This would also not be done until we have approval. "And in principle, these steps can be taken this year," Sahin said.
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>When asked how long the vaccine would be effective, Sahin said that it was not yet known exactly how long it would work. However, he expects that there will be an immunity "which, in my opinion, will last at least one year". And a possibly necessary annual re-immunization "is no drama". However, he expects that the vaccination will last longer.

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>The expectations for the developers of a potential corona vaccine are high. The Mainz-based company Biontech and its U.S. partner Pfizer already see themselves on the home stretch, they intend to submit a drug to the authorities for approval in a few weeks. The tests are running under high pressure.
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>Mainz-based Biontech SE and the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer want to expand their vaccine study in the USA. As the companies jointly announced, they have applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to extend the Phase 3 study of their experimental Covid 19 vaccine to 44,000 subjects out of 30,000 so far. This number should be reached next week.
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>Biontech and its US partner Pfizer are among the leading companies in the race for a corona vaccine. Pfizer and Biontech expect to have results by October. If the results are positive, the compound is expected to be submitted to the authorities for approval at the end of October. By the end of 2020, up to 100 million units of the vaccine are to be produced worldwide, and by the end of 2021 around 1.3 billion units are to be produced.
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>Last week, Biontech announced a cooperation with the drug manufacturer Dermapharm in the production of its potential corona vaccine. If the vaccine is approved, Dermapharm will provide and expand production capacities in Germany as well as filling and packaging. This gave the Dermapharm share a boost.

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This link had a study about the virus being viable for 9 days. As you can see they are now blocking this content

https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(20)30046-3/fulltext

I have offline copy

https://gofile.io/?c=JgWeW3

Unfortunately, the CDC data is a black box. We have no idea how much it corresponds to what states report on their dashboards or in media reports. Because the CDC does additional data integrity checks on what is reported by the states, it's best to treat the CDC data as the absolute minimum number.

If you can't cancel by calling, you can log into your account and change your payment info to a Stripe test card for discover: 6011111111111117 with any expiration date/code

https://stripe.com/docs/testing

These test card numbers follow the format of valid credit card numbers, but obviously aren't hooked up to any account. So when they try to charge your new "card" next month, the payment will be declined

According to arcgis we just passed 1 million infected.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

From Saturday onwards it will be compulsory to wear a mouth mask in shops and shopping malls and in other indoor spaces where many people gather, such as cinemas. This was decided on Thursday evening by the Consultative Committee of the different governments of our country. Wearing a mouth mask is also compulsory in theatres, music and conference rooms, libraries, museums and places of worship.

The Health Council (Hoge Gezondheidsraad) previously recommended making the wearing of mouth masks compulsory in shops. This is necessary "to improve the protection of customers and sellers", according to the advisory body.

After consultation with the experts of the GEES, the Consultation Committee has now decided to follow that advice. From Saturday onwards, wearing a mouth mask will become compulsory in shops and shopping centres, in cinemas, theatres, concert halls and conference rooms, auditoria, places of worship, museums and libraries.

"This list may change over time, depending on the epidemiological situation of our country. Wearing a mask always remains highly recommended in other situations", says Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès' office in a communication.

People who do not respect the obligation to wear a mouth mask in the described circumstances risk a criminal sanction.

Mouth masks are never compulsory for children under the age of twelve and there are special provisions for people who cannot wear a mask for medical reasons. An electronic National Security Council will validate the decisions of the Consultation Committee on Friday.

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Install the &quot;Bypass-Paywall&quot; extension for chrome, Firefox, and Edge.

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My heart goes out to everyone fighting this; we're in this together.

According to this John Hopkins Tracker, it already has. WHO info is out of date, of course.

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GO TEAM REST-OF-WORLD - showing China who's boss!!1!!1 /s

It’s more of the fact that it’s already here, and widespread across the US. If the US had no cases and it had spread across Europe, it’d be a moderately reasonable way to try to stop it from entering the US. But, there are already over 1300 cases in the US, so banning flights to Europe seems like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound. It’s inevitable at this point that it’s going to spread across the US, so there’s not much a travel ban can really do.

Plus he didn’t ban travel from the UK so Europeans trying to get into the US can just go EU -> UK -> US which makes it kind of pointless.

It's increasing quickly in other European countries as well. If spread occurs rapidly as I've noticed statistically, it's possible Italy is only a few weeks ahead of where other countries including the US could be. I use the Johns Hopkins virus map and a spreadsheet to track confirmed cases in counties and countries of interest to me. It helps to get a quantitative look rather than relying upon the bombardment of news sources.

Hey, if you want some more internet points to track then join folding@home. Takes just a few minutes to set up. Then when you get a work unit you can watch your progress bar fill. After that you can checkout how many points you have. If you joined a team (225605 for pcmr) you can track your progress like a leader board.

All while helping scientists and doctors research covid-19. When this is over you can then focus on a particular cause like alzheimer's, cancer, huntington's, parkinson's, or just leave it on any.

All at the cost a little or a lot (set it up how you want) of your computers processing power. You can also set it up to only run when the computer is idle. If your computer was built in the last 10 years or so you'll be fine.

https://www.authorea.com/users/332778/articles/509881-single-dose-bnt162b2-vaccine-protects-against-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infection

Check out the company Buffer, exclusively remote staff, no office. They can afford to pay their employee's more because they can save on the costs of renting/running a physical office

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There are also around-the-head things you can wear over a mash or certain N-95's/KN-95's that, when worn correctly, form a strong enough seal around your nose/mouth so that like 99% of your breath goes out through the mask, and glasses/goggles won't fog up. They have bendable metal things for your nose, and a pack of little sticky, soft foam strips that you can apply to the inside to fill in any gaps and keep your mask tightly sealed.

If you need wipes download the Slickdeals app, set an alert for Clorox/Lysol, and you will get alerted when wipes are in stock pretty regularly on Amazon. You just have to check out within about 15 minutes or so and you’ll be fine. Here’s some in stock right now: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07CVQ4271/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_glc_fabc_McN0FbJ111GVF

Disinfectant spray is another story. That stuff very rarely comes in stock and sells out in nanoseconds when it does.

Same. Seeing Fauci, who helped write this book, which is often considered to be the Bible of modern medicine, be vilified and to hear Trump claim he understands the pandemic better is mind-numbing.

Thanks for the kind words! :)