International Covid-19 Breaking News v17: Russian PM infected

[Revolver]

I guess hes a pretty well known one in SoCal actually. Probably why he was afraid to be seen on the news

Whittier Law school grad. Lol

 

[Ophydian]

I guess when the President constantly blames the Democrats every day for Americans not getting their stimulus checks, you pick a different battle.

 

[Joe]

Reminder that most people blasting born in the USA have never paid attention to the lyrics

 

[Bald1]

China Daily Bureau Chief: Trump a ‘Racist A**hole’ for Suggesting China Has More Coronavirus Deaths than U.S.

The European bureau chief of China’s state-run publication China Daily has called President Trump a “racist a**hole” for claiming China “must have the most” deaths from the global coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-daily-bureau-chief-trump-214706765.html

And just like that, China got the support of millions of left leaning Americans.

 

[Long Branch]

Istanbul Death Toll Hints Turkey Is Hiding a Wider Coronavirus Calamity
Link

or weeks President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has presented Turkey’s performance in handling the coronavirus as one of the world’s most successful, as he maintained strict control over information about the outbreak.

The presidential palace rolled out a carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign, ensuring reports from hospitals, grave sites and mourning relatives remained virtual absent. Doctors who spoke out on social media were reprimanded, and 410 people were detained in March for “provocative and abusive” posts.

But data compiled by The New York Times from records of deaths in Istanbul indicate that Turkey is grappling with a far bigger calamity from the coronavirus than official figures and statements would suggest. The city recorded about 2,100 more deaths than expected from March 9 to April 12, based on weekly averages from the last two years, far more than officials reported for the whole of Turkey during that time.

While not all those deaths are necessarily directly attributable to the coronavirus, the numbers indicate a striking jump in fatalities that has coincided with the onset of the outbreak, a preliminary indicator that is being used by researchers to cut through the fog of the pandemic and assess its full toll in real time.

Shutterstock President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attending the opening ceremony of Basaksehir City Hospital via a video conference on Monday. Mr. Erdogan has presented Turkey’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as one of the world’s most successful. Even by the official count, confirmed cases in Turkey rose to more than 90,000 by Monday, lifting Turkey above China to become the seventh most affected country in the world. Deaths have reached 2,140.

 

[Joe]

Trump now feuding with the Republican governor of Maryland

 

[JDragon]

France has stopped flights outside Schengen zone, says minister
Reuters is reporting that France has stopped all flights outside the Schengen zone. French transport and environment minister Elisabeth Borne told French RTL radio:

There are no more international flights outside the Schengen zone.

 

[Billy no mates]

France has stopped flights outside Schengen zone, says minister
Reuters is reporting that France has stopped all flights outside the Schengen zone. French transport and environment minister Elisabeth Borne told French RTL radio:

There are no more international flights outside the Schengen zone.

Seems a bit pointless unless everyone else in the zone does it too .

 

[San Marino]

Interesting angle on defeat of COVID-19:

"Scientists have caught viruses talking to each other—and that could be the key to a new age of anti-viral drugs"
Link: https://qz.com/890278/scientists-ha...-be-the-key-to-a-new-age-of-anti-viral-drugs/

"Virus wars: using one virus to block the spread of another"
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4933091/

"We developed, modeled and tested a ‘virus wars’ system in which a transmissible, non-lethal virus (the therapeutic virus) protects its host from a lethal virus. Protection is by conferring resistance against the lethal virus, by affecting host gene expression rather than by genetically converting its host to a resistance state, although the dynamics are the same for either mechanism of protection."

A mathematical model
"One of our motivations is to test the predictability of the empirical system. As host-parasite dynamics are intrinsically difficult to grasp intuitively, we use a mathematical model. The variable entities of our system are (i) a lethal parasite (density L) that, if unimpeded, will spread into the host population and cause high host mortality, (ii) a non-lethal, therapeutic virus (density V) that, upon infecting the host, protects it against subsequent infection or attack by the lethal parasite, (iii) uninfected hosts (density Hu), and (iv) hosts infected with therapeutic virus (density Hv). To specifically represent our empirical system, the model requires two additional properties of cells in this latter category: (v) cells transmit the therapeutic virus for life, and (vi) they transmit the infection to their progeny (vertical transmission)."

Anyone know future possibilities of this method?
@rj144

 

[JDragon]

Boy with Covid-19 did not transmit disease to more than 170 contacts
Case of symptomatic nine-year-old suggests children may be less likely to pass on virus

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ot-transmit-disease-to-more-than-170-contacts

Hope

 

[TheTimeIsNotNow]

Seems like the Tories have been caught setting up over a hundred fake NHS twitter bots to promote their agenda, interesting and worrying twitter thread below;

 

[Oeshon]

19 new cases and zero dead for Thailand today.

Hospitals are empty and people are running out of food and money.

Shit needs to open up

 

[Armbars]

<puh-lease75>

 

[Armbars]

Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro protested against the recommendations for social isolation


Not sure why these people are even wearing masks?

 

[irish_thug]

First St Paddy's day, now Oktoberfest.

 

[Strychnine]

I guess hes a pretty well known one in SoCal actually. Probably why he was afraid to be seen on the news

I've heard of these things called...
Masks... They hide one's face AND are the norm nowadays when one is out and about...

At least that's what I've heard...

 

[Sano]

First St Paddy's day, now Oktoberfest.

Yeah it sucks. I was supposed to go to several festivals, as well as finally participating in a few half marathons. Was really looking forward to Copenhell..... Killer lineup this year! Oh well, these are small sacrifices really. Still sucks.

 

[Wadtucket]

Sweden now reports that 600,000 people in Stockholm will have been infected by May 1st, which would be 1/3 of the total population in the city. ~99% of cases go unreported due to being completely asymptomatic or mild. That would suggest the true infection fatality rate is lower than a normal seasonal flu, and that Sweden is close to herd immunity. Nothingburger close to confirmed, Sweden wins again.

Mer än en halv miljon smittade i Stockholm
PUBLICERAD IDAG 10:00
Stockholm ligger långt över det globala genomsnittet för hur många som har haft covid-19. I går gick WHO ut och sa att bara några få procent av jordens befolkning är smittade, men flera studier visar nu att en tredjedel av alla stockholmare har smittats.

I dag presenterade Folkhälsomyndigheten en ny studie som beräknar att en tredjedel av alla stockholmare kommer att vara infekterade med sars-cov-2 första maj i år. Det blir ungefär 600 000 personer.

Många obekräftade fall
Studien är en matematisk modellering av virusets spridning i Stockholms län. Den baseras dels på den så kallade Stockholms-studien som gjordes för några veckor sedan då man slumpmässigt testade 700 stockholmare och dels de nya smittade fall som dagligen rapporteras.

– Vad som förvånar är att det är så många fall, 99 procent av alla fall, som är helt obekräftade, säger Lisa Brouwers som är analyschef på Folkhälsomyndigheten.


https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/600-000-smittade-i-stockholm

 

[Strychnine]

Trump now feuding with the Republican governor of Maryland

I was told that "if you need a test, you can get a test." Why didn't the Pandemic Czar just give it to them?

 

[andnowweknow]

Sweden now reports that 600,000 people in Stockholm will have been infected by May 1st, which would be 1/3 of the total population in the city. ~99% of cases go unreported due to being completely asymptomatic or mild. That would suggest the true infection fatality rate is lower than a normal seasonal flu, and that Sweden is close to herd immunity. Nothingburger close to confirmed, Sweden wins again.

Mer än en halv miljon smittade i Stockholm
PUBLICERAD IDAG 10:00
Stockholm ligger långt över det globala genomsnittet för hur många som har haft covid-19. I går gick WHO ut och sa att bara några få procent av jordens befolkning är smittade, men flera studier visar nu att en tredjedel av alla stockholmare har smittats.

I dag presenterade Folkhälsomyndigheten en ny studie som beräknar att en tredjedel av alla stockholmare kommer att vara infekterade med sars-cov-2 första maj i år. Det blir ungefär 600 000 personer.

Många obekräftade fall
Studien är en matematisk modellering av virusets spridning i Stockholms län. Den baseras dels på den så kallade Stockholms-studien som gjordes för några veckor sedan då man slumpmässigt testade 700 stockholmare och dels de nya smittade fall som dagligen rapporteras.

– Vad som förvånar är att det är så många fall, 99 procent av alla fall, som är helt obekräftade, säger Lisa Brouwers som är analyschef på Folkhälsomyndigheten.


https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/600-000-smittade-i-stockholm

thanks for posting this article written in Midgardian. Props.