What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage
France’s coronavirus death toll jumps as nursing homes included
Coronavirus update- TB vaccine in childhood may offer Covid-19 protection: Researchers
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I wonder how long it will take before the mob forces Medium to take this down: A call to honesty in pandemic modeling
The next big story to come out of Italy. Singing stops in Italy as fear and social unrest mount
I am surprised they have not blinked yet. I don’t know what they think they are accomplishing. They can make every US shale producer go bankrupt but that will not make the tech or the people who know how to do it go away. Saudi Power Play Could Send Oil Below $20 a Barrel for an Extended Period
The bottom line is that most US masks are being sold outside of this country because they can get a better price that way due to US polices. I Spent A Day In The Coronavirus-Driven Feeding Frenzy Of N95 Mask Sellers And Buyers And This Is What I Learned And here is more along the same lines.
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Pertaining to Italy—-The real death toll for Covid-19 is at least 4 times the official numbers
Not a surprise. U of M’s Osterholm says obesity could be deadly factor in U.S. COVID-19 outbreak
This is in the Philippines, but it shows how lock downs can make things worse. Manila port may shut down in 6 days as it gets swamped by undelivered cargo: port authority
France under-reporting its numbers. More than a third of care homes in the Paris region alone are thought to have been affected by coronavirus. But while hospital deaths are recorded in the daily toll of coronavirus, deaths in care homes are not.
Not withstanding the titles, there is still no good evidence that a paper mask protects oneself from a virus that is heavy in the environment as this article itself admits if you read it very carefully. But there is a fair amount of evidence that they help stop the spread to other people. It’s Time to Face Facts, America: Masks Work
China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says
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how long does the virus survive on surfaces?
We all know how testing makes a difference in the reported death rate. Not talked about is how hard it is to say what the cause of death was. How to understand — and report — figures for ‘COVID deaths’.
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We are reassured in meeting with our colleagues in New York that there are still I.C.U. Beds remaining and still significant — over 1,000 or 2,000 ventilators that have not been utilized.
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I can’t stand the tut tuting. Not to long ago the WHO said their was no evidence of human to human transmission of the virus. But since I posted the warnings from the French I figured I would share the other side. At this point all we have is people making observations and drawing correlations between things that may not be correlated. The Ibuprofen Debate Reveals the Danger of Covid-19 Rumors
Wages of Panic. Truckers Wary of New York Deliveries Create Headache for Grocers
If your wondering as to how the US compares right now. Breaking down the numbers per capita.
Lot of logic fails in this. But it does represent the worse case for the UK. Shows the worst case is not all that bad compared to a “real” pandemic. How much ‘normal’ risk does Covid represent?
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Most Interesting Story of the Day: Japan’s winning its quiet fight against Covid-19. Remains to see if it works. Some countries that seemed immune are now having trouble. Still Japan was one of the first nations that was exposed and they are doing everything “wrong” and getting away with it so far.
This is what panic breeds, not that fear is valid excuse. Spanish Military Finds Dead Bodies And Seniors ‘Completely Abandoned’ In Care Homes
As usual, this article gives Trump to much credit. Anyone with a working internet connection knows that Chinese and French doctors have been saying this works. That is the entire reason they are doing clinical trials in the first place. So the idea that this is all the fault of Trumps press conference is pure TDS. Pharmacists told ProPublica that they are seeing unusual and fraudulent prescribing activity as doctors stockpile unproven coronavirus drugs endorsed by President Donald Trump.
This seems kind of strange for a nation that supposedly only has 700 some confirmed cases. With a heavy heart, two more Metro Manila hospitals stop admission of COVID-19 patients as they reach ‘full capacity’