Maybe the bigger issue is that there is so much more movement of people in & out of cities than rural areas, and not that population density is the higher risk factor? It seems to me that the countries that have been the best at keeping the virus under control are the ones that can close their borders and restrict free movement of people, along with general acceptance of wearing masks.
South Korea, for instance, only has one border, and with a country doing the work for them of keeping it restricted.
Hospitalizations in the UK starting to plateau. Maybe in the US the second derivative is finally negative. Weeks yet until the death tolls stop climbing.
Tomorrow will key I think for new case counts in the UK. If it's trending down again, that will be 4 days in a row I think. Granted it's a short time frame, but it's the first glimmer of hope in awhile that restrictions are starting to take hold.
which is factually accurate. give her a break - she probably doesn't understand what the word "asymptomatic" means.
No. That's factually INACCURATE. Pre-Symptomatic people (who later do get symptoms) are the leading cause of spread. Asymptomatic people (who never get symptoms) can and DO still spread the virus. It's wrong all the way around.
1,500 UK deaths today. From Worldometers, the top 25 countries with covid deaths (broadly speaking, that would mean the most accurate counts IMO) are reported 838.52 deaths per 1 million population. That's 0.084% of the entire population of the world. If extrapolated worldwide, that means 6.5 million deaths already. If that's an undercount and the real count is closer to what Belgium is reported (1,700 deaths per 1 million population), then we're at 12-13 million deaths.
nope. "healthy" = you are not infected, regardless of the presence or absence of symptoms. you seem to be conflating "healthy" and "asymptomatic". they are not synonyms.
Fancy definition you have provided. I'd counter that you are the one conflating healthy with not carrying a virus. We live with potentially fatal viruses, bacteria, parasites, etc.... that are kept in check by our immune system. Hell, lots of deaths from the flu and covid are due to overly intense immune responses. Healthy is a relative state of equilibrium, NOT defined as testing negative for known disease vectors. But to(may)to, to(mah)to. Let's give the crazy the benefit of the doubt.
"fancy" ?? it's simple i.e. = devoid of illness. anyhoo ... there may be more pressing things to discuss at the moment ....
So this guy is the MI Senate Majority Leader, he's also the one seen palling around with the militia folks back in May only to change course when the Whitmer kidnapping plot came about. He's also big on herd immunity for covid, which should tell you everything right there. He tested positive for Covid. And well, him going maskless wasn't helping. Spokeswoman for @SenMikeShirkey says the Senate Majority Leader fought COVID-19 over the holiday break.Statement says he believes he contracted it on Dec. 19 and hadn’t been in Lansing since Dec. 18.This is a shot of him maskless on the House Floor on Dec. 21. @9and10News https://t.co/wCNZTQCYgE— Eric Lloyd (@EricLloyd) January 13, 2021
Johnson and Johnson have completed the trial portion of their phase III trials and have released the first results with plans to release the full results by the end of the month. Johnson and Johnson's vaccine can be a single dose vaccine and uses a weakened version of the common cold that caries the genetic material for the coronavirus and does not require ultra-cold storage. The cost per dose is also very low, so, depending on the full results, it could be an ideal vaccine for the developing world. According to Johnson and Johnson, 90% of all study participants produced antibodies within the 1st month after the first dose and all participants produced antibodies within 2 months after the first dose. Participants also had antibodies present in their body 71 days after the first dose and, of course, as the trial runs longer that may get longer. The results released so far does not have the efficacy of the vaccine, other than to say the participants developed anti-bodies within 2 months of vaccination. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/health/johnson-coronavirus-vaccine-early-trials/index.html
Oh dear. The Dutch gouvernment is sort of very worried about the UK variety. If it succeeds in getting a foothold overhere we would face 170,000 new infections each daynext month. Code red is now actual, but code black is on the chart.
As I understand it, what they've completed is a combined phase I-II trail. Phase III is going on now, and hopefully will by done by month's end. It'll be that phase III data that'll show how effective the vaccine is. We really need for this vaccine to be effective. Single dose, easy to store, cheap. Fingers crossed.
It's the game changer, if it works. The one I've been waiting for. Janssen have a great reputation too. They are using their Ecolab vaccine technology for the delivery method on this. It's promising I think.