Coronavirus Pandemic Information- Local and Worldwide

Water John

Didn't see last night. Watching tonight with my OH, who knows this business well.

einn32

Some suburbs in Melbourne have been put back into complete lockdown. Only leave for work etc. There will be cops manning main roads in and out. Interesting to see if it works. No international flights allowed in for two weeks either.

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

Anyone watch primetime last night

Didn’t get to see it.
Might try watch back today.

Buford T. Justice XIX

A bit about the knock on effect of covid19 on potato production in the US.
https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1277768999812636677?s=19

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

Anyone watch primetime last night

I just watched it on the RTE player and it is very sobering to see the reality.

I know a man in his early 50's (my age) with no underling health issues who contracted covid-19 early April. He was put on a ventilator and had problems with organ failure. His family were told at one stage that he wouldn't make it. He rallied but is now on ongoing renal treatment and physical remedial/therapy. He is still in full time care.

I says

Base price wrote: »

I just watched it on the RTE player and it is very sobering to see the reality.

I know a man in his early 50's (my age) with no underling health issues who contracted covid-19 early April. He was put on a ventilator and had problems with organ failure. His family were told at one stage that he wouldn't make it. He rallied but is now on ongoing renal treatment and physical remedial/therapy. He is still in full time care.

Acceptance of death makes it easier, I always believe your time and date is stamped on your arse the day you are born. Best before if ya will.
We are all going to die but of what and when is the mystery.

Say my name

Take what you will from this. But it appears antibodies are not lasting very long in asymptomatic cases of Covid.
So even if a vaccine is found and approved it may only work for two months.

https://twitter.com/damilola_MD/status/1276475458314555393?s=20

I received these test kits from mybio today.
https://mybio.ie/blogs/news/mybio-antibody-test

I did the test as well as my father. Both came back negative and negative for the virus.
But if the tweet is to be believed in asymptomatic cases then the money spent on the tests may be kind of wasted as there may be a shorter window to test for antibodies than was believed.

John Purcell. Owner of Kclr radio doing the same test.
https://youtu.be/JERrCB17FP4

greysides

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-immunity-levels-higher-than-antibody-tests-suggest-according-to-swedish-study-12018799

"Our results indicate that roughly twice as many people have developed T-cell immunity compared with those who we can detect antibodies in," he explained.

Water John

This gives the progress through the phases of trials of the diff candidates for vaccine:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/jul/02/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker-how-close-are-we-to-a-vaccine

longgonesilver

Some companies have received permission to run two phases simultaneously, speeding up the process overall.

Water John

This article is based on an interview with Prof Robin Shattock, Imperial College. They like Moderna are using RNA, whilst Oxford use the traditional approach.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/03/im-cautiously-optimistic-imperials-robin-shattock-on-his-coronavirus-vaccine

Buford T. Justice XIX

https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1279026157988597765?s=19

Say my name

A few more people here were tested with the antibody tests.
And same thing antibody negative.

It seems we're not the only one's to be testing this way.

Look at the comments below the article.

What this really means? I haven't the foggiest.

https://www.thejournal.ie/covid-19-research-5139900-Jul2020/

Lime Tree Farm

trending on the UK Twitter:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1278672584930758656

yosemitesam1

Say my name wrote: »

A few more people here were tested with the antibody tests.
And same thing antibody negative.

It seems we're not the only one's to be testing this way.

Look at the comments below the article.

What this really means? I haven't the foggiest.

https://www.thejournal.ie/covid-19-research-5139900-Jul2020/

They mustn't have much of an understanding to how immunity develops in coronavirus.
There's detectable immunity in antibodies in blood and/or nasal mucous as well as immunity through t cells.
Only blood antibodies have been looked at so far in any population studies meaning they have most likely underestimated the total spread by quite a bit which will mean an IFR of well below 0.5% before allowing for deaths from covid being overestimated

alps

Its arrived..

Hope it gets used..

https://www.covidtracker.ie/

Reggie.

alps wrote: »

Its arrived..

Hope it gets used..

https://www.covidtracker.ie/

It was in your phone weeks ago

alps

Reggie. wrote: »

It was in your phone weeks ago

No it wasn't. What was put on your phone was to accommodate the use of the app.

Doesn’t use location by the looks of it ... only low energy Bluetooth with other phones in the same vicinity. It’s using a distributed model where the info is only between the phones themselves and not stored in a centralised system. Apple and google made this possible in the past few months to allow this type of app to be built. Unfortunately the UK (and France) have gone with the centralised model where your info is stored centrally. This means the Irish system is not compatible with the UK 🙄 I believe the Irish direction is the right one as it’s far better from a data protection point of view

Reggie.

alps wrote: »

No it wasn't. What was put on your phone was to accommodate the use of the app.

Doesn’t use location by the looks of it ... only low energy Bluetooth with other phones in the same vicinity. It’s using a distributed model where the info is only between the phones themselves and not stored in a centralised system. Apple and google made this possible in the past few months to allow this type of app to be built. Unfortunately the UK (and France) have gone with the centralised model where your info is stored centrally. This means the Irish system is not compatible with the UK 🙄 I believe the Irish direction is the right one as it’s far better from a data protection point of view

Interesting

Lime Tree Farm

Breaking news: Brazil's president tests positive for Covid-19's little flu.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-brazils-president-jair-bolsonaro-tests-positive-for-covid-19-12023210

yosemitesam1

https://www.thejournal.ie/micheal-martins-first-leaders-questions-5143721-Jul2020/

Presumably one of the 1700 reported covid deaths

Bass Reeves

yosemitesam1 wrote: »

https://www.thejournal.ie/micheal-martins-first-leaders-questions-5143721-Jul2020/

Presumably one of the 1700 reported covid deaths

An interesting statistic, i suppose I should not put it that way. However when excess deaths are looked at in Ireland compared to COVID deaths we are over 200 behind our COVID death figures. So when comparing to figures world wide we have over reported compared to a lot of countries under reporting

greysides

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2020/0707/1151929-who-studying-evidence-on-airborne-covid-transmission/

The World Health Organization has said it will study fresh evidence on airborne transmission of the coronavirus, after an international group of scientists concluded it could spread far beyond two metres.

The WHO said it would put out a new scientific brief within days, rounding up the knowledge about how the virus can be transmitted and ensuring its guidance stays in line with the evidence.

The two-metre physical distancing guideline has been a major factor in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 538,000 people and infected over 11.6 million since the outbreak emerged in China last December.



However, the coronavirus can spread through the air far beyond two metres, a group of 239 international scientists said yesterday.

When an infected person exhales, they expel droplets. Droplets under five micrometres in size can become suspended in the air for several hours and travel up to tens of metres, they said.

einn32

Locked down again in Melbourne for 6 weeks. Most people are fed up now I'd say.

greysides

More on aerosols....


https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/airborne-coronavirus-what-you-should-do-now-to-help-yourself-stay-safe-1.4298297

Birdnuts

The tyrant running Brazil has come down with Covid - couldn't happen to a nicer chap as me aul lad would say;)

wrangler

Birdnuts wrote: »

The tyrant running Brazil has come down with Covid - couldn't happen to a nicer chap as me aul lad would say;)

Numbers starting to climb here too.
23 cases here today, all under 45, 18 under 25

Base price

wrangler wrote: »

Numbers starting to climb here too.
23 cases here today, all under 45, 18 under 25

I reckon we will be back in lock down in the next 2 to 3 weeks. I would suggest that people stock up their freezers/dry cupboards soon. I'm going to do a big shop tomorrow to stock up. If we don't go back into a lock down then the food will be used anyway over time.

Water John

Mighn't be lockdown but social drinking might be stopped again.
The uptake of mask wearing has also been poor, don't understand that.

jimini0

Base price wrote: »

I reckon we will be back in lock down in the next 2 to 3 weeks. I would suggest that people stock up their freezers/dry cupboards soon. I'm going to do a big shop tomorrow to stock up. If we don't go back into a lock down then the food will be used anyway over time.

Let the great toilet roll race begin.
Sorry base I agree with an awful lot of things you say on here but these kind of posts on social media left an awful lot of people without the basics 3 months ago. There is absolutely no reason to panic buy. It only takes a couple of posts like this on social media to get people panicked. The fit and healthy people are well fit to go to the shop on any given day. But like before we HAD to alot time slots for the elderly and health care workers to shop. That should never happen.
OK rant over