BBC: China pneumonia outbreak: COVID-19 Global Pandemic

[mammajamma]

19 hours ago, Wildbunny said:

I had this discusssion with my wife not so long ago.

 

Vaccine is good, but it depens on how long it last. (Which I'm pretty sure we have no clue right now).

 

Right now in France, due to a huge effort we're testing around 1.5 to 2M people a week. Since we're close to 70M, it would take around 7 Month to get everyone vaccined.

If the Vaccine is good for a year only, it's gonna be a perpetual cycle of vaccining the whole population...

 

Not really a good option either.

and thats why some experts have said for a while now that getting everyone to wear a mask would be even more effective than a vaccine. vaccine is definitely good news, but going to need to get more people wearing masks at the same time to actually get this thing under control

[Wildbunny]

35 minutes ago, mammajamma said:

and thats why some experts have said for a while now that getting everyone to wear a mask would be even more effective than a vaccine. vaccine is definitely good news, but going to need to get more people wearing masks at the same time to actually get this thing under control

I agree here.

But one thing to tops it off would be to have a treatment for this.

[PCS]

Here we go.  Locally,all hospitals are at capacity. They are now on a "divert" mode. This virus is taking off here and it's probably going to get much worse. Tests are running short if I'm reading local reports right,(no longer testing asymptomatic people in some areas a big red flag). Staffing in hospitals are coming up short due to positives for Covid-19.  The Governor will have a press conference with the President of one of the 2 big hospitals in Reno this evening. Will be curious what they have to say. 

[visionary]

 

 

[visionary]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[China]

Brazil halts trials of Chinese Covid-19 vaccine

 

Brazil's health regulator said Monday it had suspended clinical trials of a Chinese-developed Covid-19 vaccine after an "adverse incident" involving a volunteer recipient, a blow for one of the most advanced vaccine candidates.

 

The setback for CoronaVac, developed by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech, came on the same day US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said its own vaccine candidate had shown 90 percent effectiveness, sending global markets soaring and raising hopes of an end to the pandemic.

 

The Brazilian regulator, Anvisa, said in a statement it had "ruled to interrupt the clinical trial of the CoronaVac vaccine after a serious adverse incident" on October 29.

 

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[Mr. Sinister]

20 minutes ago, visionary said:

 

 

 

So pathetic. Go ahead and die, then.

Edited November 10, 2020 by Mr. Sinister

[PCS]

 

[China]

And Russia, of course, not to be outdone:

 

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine also over 90% effective: health ministry

 

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 is more than 90% effective, a representative of the health ministry said on Monday, citing data collated from vaccinations of the public rather than from an ongoing trial.

 

The comments followed a statement earlier on Monday by vaccine developers Pfizer Inc and BioNTech BNTX.O, who said their experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective.

 

“We are responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of the Sputnik V vaccine among citizens who have received it as part of the mass vaccination programme,” Oksana Drapkina, director of a research institute under the health ministry, said in a statement.

 

“Based on our observations, its effectiveness is also more than 90%. The appearance of another effective vaccine - this is good news for everyone,” Drapkina said.

 

Russia is rolling out the vaccine for domestic use despite the fact that late-stage trials have not yet finished.

 

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[Wildbunny]

^^ Yeah sure! I'm gonna believe them

 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/11/10/coronavirus-in-russia-the-latest-news-nov-10-a69117

[China]

Any of you named Brian need to beware:

 

 

[CousinsCowgirl84]

maybe. maybe my Brians need to be controlled...

[China]

Biden Coronavirus Task Force Member: ‘We Are About To Enter COVID Hell’

 

Renowned infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm on Monday spelled out a dire view of what Americans should expect from the coronavirus pandemic in the next few months.

“We are about to enter COVID hell,” he said.

 

Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and newly minted member of President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus advisory team, told CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” the number of daily new infections is “going to continue to increase substantially.”

 

“We have not even come close to the peak and, as such, our hospitals are now being overrun,” Osterholm said, cautioning the pressure on health services will soon become so high that the quality of care will drop.

 

“The next three to four months are going to be, by far, the darkest of the pandemic,” Osterholm continued.

 

“I don’t think America quite gets this yet,” he said. “This is going to get much worse. This is not to scare people out of their wits. This is to scare people into their wits to understand that because we still have control. We can basically limit the contacts we have with people that will dramatically impact our ability of getting this disease.”

 

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[Mr. Sinister]

We are going to have to get draconian with how we enforce this. "Please?" At least as it pertains to the average citizen, is not getting it done.

[visionary]

 

[Larry]

I'm sure that bike rally had nothing to do with it. 

[China]

1 hour ago, Larry said:

I'm sure that bike rally had nothing to do with it. 

 

You mean the one in South Dakota?

[Wildbunny]

5 hours ago, visionary said:

 

Allowing Covid positive nurses to work is one thing.

 

There was an outbreak in the homecare where my wife is working a few weeks ago. 6 or 7 of her colleagues caught it. Even if none of them got into hospital, hopefully, none has also get back to work as they're all freakingly tired and are having a hard time getting over it. And most also haven't reached 50 years old...

 

So it's highly probable they won't even be able to work in any way if they catch it.

[Burgold]

 

[The Evil Genius]

9 hours ago, China said:

 

You mean the one in South Dakota?

 

Tbf, South Dakota is sending patients out of state because they can't handle what they have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 11, 2020 by The Evil Genius

[China]

Volunteers who took Pfizer vaccine say it felt like suffering a ‘severe hangover’

 

Volunteers who received the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine during trials say it left them feeling like they had a “severe hangover,” according to reports.

 

The more than 43,500 people in six countries who took part in phase three trials by the pharmaceutical giant were never told whether they were injected with the vaccine or a placebo in the double-blind tests.

 

But some said they knew they had the drug because of headaches, fever and muscle aches that were compared to getting the flu shot or recovering from a heavy night out, the Sun said.

 

Texan Glenn Deshields, 44, said his “severe hangover” symptoms soon cleared up, however — and he later took an antibody test that came back positive.

 

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[Larry]

33 minutes ago, China said:

headaches, fever and muscle aches that were compared to getting the flu shot

 

Uh, never had those.  

 

Although, this doesn't sound positive, for a country where wearing a mask in the WalMart is considered an assault on personal liberty.  

[Califan007 The Constipated]

19 hours ago, visionary said:

 

 

 

 

the wild part about the "hoax" talk?

 

Trump: "I never said COVID was a hoax...I said the Democrats were using it as a hoax against me."

 

Trump supporters: "COVID is a hoax!"

 

Even when Trump says himself that he never claimed COVID was a hoax, even when half his administation has contracted the virus, even as staunch COVID deniers die from being infected...it does nothing to their opinions. Nothing. "COVID is a hoax!" remains their rallying cry.

[China]

In Iran, a massive cemetery struggles to keep up with virus

 

For over half a century, a massive graveyard on the edge of Iran’s capital has provided a final resting place for this country’s war dead, its celebrities and artists, its thinkers and leaders and all those in between.

 

But Behesht-e-Zahra is now struggling to keep up with the coronavirus pandemic ravaging Iran, with double the usual number of bodies arriving each day and grave diggers excavating thousands of new plots.

 

A cemetery worker prepares new graves at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery on the outskirts of the Iranian capital, Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. The cemetery is one of the world’s largest with 1.6 million people buried on its grounds, which stretch across more than 5 square kilometers, but it is struggling to keep up with the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the country. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

 

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[China]

Everything's bigger in Texas, including the number of coronavirus cases.

 

Texas becomes first U.S. state to exceed 1 million coronavirus cases

 

Texas has surpassed 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, Johns Hopkins University data shows.

 

Why it matters: Texas is the first U.S. state to pass the milestone. It has the 10th most cases in the world, reporting 1,010,364 infections by early Wednesday — more than Italy, which has confirmed 995,463 cases, per JHU.

 

For the record: Over 19,300 people have died from the virus in the state.

 

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