Covid-19 Spikes in Hong Kong, Singapore as New Wave Spreads (bloomberg.com) 62
Health authorities in densely-populated Hong Kong and Singapore have warned that Covid-19 cases are spiking, as a resurgent wave spreads through Asia. Bloomberg: The virus' activity in Hong Kong is now "quite high," Albert Au, head of the Communicable Disease Branch of the city's Center for Health Protection, told local media this week. The percentage of respiratory samples testing Covid-positive in Hong Kong recently reached its highest in a year.
Severe cases -- including deaths -- also reached its highest level in about a year to 31 in the week through May 3, the center's data shows. While the resurgence is yet to match the infection peaks seen in the past two years, rising viral load found in sewage water and Covid-related medical consultations and hospitalizations suggest the virus is actively spreading in the city of over 7 million people.
Rival financial hub Singapore is also on Covid alert. The city-state's health ministry released its first update on infection numbers in almost a year this month, as the estimated number of cases jumped 28% to 14,200 in the week through May 3 from the previous seven days while daily hospitalization rose around 30%. Singapore now only provides case updates when there is a noticeable spike.
Severe cases -- including deaths -- also reached its highest level in about a year to 31 in the week through May 3, the center's data shows. While the resurgence is yet to match the infection peaks seen in the past two years, rising viral load found in sewage water and Covid-related medical consultations and hospitalizations suggest the virus is actively spreading in the city of over 7 million people.
Rival financial hub Singapore is also on Covid alert. The city-state's health ministry released its first update on infection numbers in almost a year this month, as the estimated number of cases jumped 28% to 14,200 in the week through May 3 from the previous seven days while daily hospitalization rose around 30%. Singapore now only provides case updates when there is a noticeable spike.
I’m not worried (Score:1)
All stocked up and ready to go! https://www.tractorsupply.com/... [tractorsupply.com]
As far as vaccines go, even Trump recommends it. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/a... [nbcnews.com]
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Amazing how fast time flies. Sunday will be the fifth anniversary of this news story [foxnews.com]:
Trump reveals he's taking hydroxychloroquine in effort to prevent coronavirus symptoms
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Why would he take a drug to prevent symptoms for a virus he didn’t even have? When he did catch covid he was airlifted to a hospital and received experimental antibodies.
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Which virus are you taking about?
Hydroxychloroquine is used to treat a variety of rheumatic diseases (ones involving inflammation or pain of connective tissue or joints), such as lupus. It's not primarily used for any notable virus, although it is used for Q fever (a bacterial infection).
Re:I’m not worried (Score:5, Informative)
Youtube doctors? Hell even the manufacturer said it’s useless against Covid. https://www.merck.com/news/mer... [merck.com]
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Which of course it had no effect on. None. Zero. No one ever demonstrated any effect an anti-parasitic could have on a virus.
The only one lying is you and people like you who "did their research".
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Remember the XKCD: Lots of things kill cancer in a petri dish. Including a gun.
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You guys are going to be so fucked when COVID develops resistance to effective drugs and vaccines against it. You'd only be left with ineffective drugs against it. Oh, wait, you are.
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All stocked up and ready to go! https://www.tractorsupply.com/... [tractorsupply.com]
As far as vaccines go, even Trump recommends it. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/a... [nbcnews.com]
And the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), RFK Jr. Says, 'I Don't Think People Should Be Taking Medical Advice from Me' [people.com]. (Talk about irony.)
RFK Jr. was asked if he would choose to have his children vaccinated today.
Kennedy, who has previously stated [childrensh...efense.org] that he regrets vaccinating his six children, sidestepped the question, saying, “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.”
When urged to provide an answer, he said he would “probably” choose to vaccinate his kids, but again noted, “My opinions about vaccines are irrelevant I don’t want to give advice.”
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And you know in a different world that'd be a fine answer. His position is supposed to be mainly administrative, he's there to know who to listen to and oversee staff and delegate and oversee projects. For medical questions he can refer to one of the many many doctors and researchers he has on staff.
The problem though is he continues to time and time again give medical opinions and advice (and giving his opinion is advice, don't let them pull that little trick on anyone, he's a position of authority) and
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That was kinda my thinking too. He says (hedges) that people shouldn't take medical advice from him but then keeps offering it, and it's usually bad and/or uninformed (contrary to what he thinks) as well as often dangerous medical advice.
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Well, he's a brain damaged moron, which seems to be pretty typtical for this Administration; an Administration of utter and complete idiots, the very embodiment of Governor of the Dunning-Krueger case studies, by the Dunning-Krueger case studies, and for the Dunning Krueger case studies.
Why pick on Kennedy when it is a government populated by some of the most idiotic incompetent human beings to ever fail upward.
On a plus side, countries like mine (Canada) are starting to see all the smart people flee the pa
Voters have figured out (Score:1, Troll)
This means the Republican party needs to offer their voters something besides a stable economy and good-paying jobs.
They seem to have settled on batshit insanity. They are now banning fluoride everywhere and they
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Never underestimate the power of minority scape goating. It's won many election in many a country.
I do find it amazing how convinced some people are that addressing a trans person by their new gender is some kind of horrible burden on them. "I don't mind a shrinking middle class and murder and gun violence rates 5 times the first world average but I'll be damned if I'm going to call someone a woman who was born a man". Holy shit those are fucked up priorities.
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The reason Trump spent the last 4 years going on about phony voter fraud is that he was committing it himself and he need
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The underlying pattern is that Republicans get elected (by promising) to cleanup Democrat engineered messes,
And Democrats get elected (by promising) to cleanup Republican engineered messes. And both of them fail to do so because those "messes" benefit the interests of the powerful and wealthy classes of which they are both the servants. Our failed retirement system, health care system, higher education industry, tax policies, judicial and criminal justice system, national debt etc. are all bipartisan messes.
They are products of a narrowly drawn intellectual ruling elite who only talk in a echo chamber of peopl
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New wave? (Score:4, Funny)
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Just whip it.
Who cares... (Score:2, Flamebait)
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Re:Mask up, lads. But this time, it's four masks (Score:4, Insightful)
Exactly. Schools should be kept open and kids should not be quarantine [idahostatejournal.com] for a measly disease. Let their natural immunity take over. So what if a few have to die. If that means keeping things running, so be it. After all, if parents don't care if their kid dies [texastribune.org] from a measly disease, why should anyone else care?
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>"So what if a few have to die."
You are replying to a posting about COVID-19 as if it were about measles.
Extremely few children died from COVID-19. And of those that did, the super-majority all had some serious (and usually known) pre-existing underlying health conditions. One that a Flu might also be as or more dangerous (especially at this point). We shouldn't shut down everything and act insane because of an extraordinarily tiny percent of that risk population. THEY should be the ones to take ext
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if another pandemic hit while trump is president he and all of you will be on your knees to daddy pfizer for your shots
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Why do surgeons wear masks when they operate? Is there something spread by saliva or mucus that can infect patients?
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>"Why do surgeons wear masks when they operate? Is there something spread by saliva or mucus that can infect patients?"
Yes, it is called bacteria.
Masks are not very effective at all for airborne viruses. That requires using a properly fit, properly used, and properly rated respirator.
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Masks are not very effective at all for airborne viruses. That requires using a properly fit, properly used, and properly rated respirator.
It doesn't need to be very effective for it to be extremely effective. This is the consequence of exponential spread depending on R_0. That said, I am agnostic on your premise without evidence. And that rubbish study about mask mandates from a couple years ago is not evidence.
Prevention better than waiting for a cure (Score:1, Troll)
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Not only that, he wants some vaccine manufacturer to go through extra tests for their new Covid vaccine which is just a refurbishing of the previous version for new strains. If we did that for every vaccine, we'd never have flu shots in time for the New and Improved Flu Version that comes out every year. Covid is not different, it would make it impossible to field that vaccine in time before the next strain comes around.
This bozo was prescribing Vitamin A for measles because some study on Africans did bette
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Oh, please do ask him. We all need a good laugh when crisis is looming!
I would have believed this (Score:2)
Mod story flamebait (Score:2)
Nothing good can come out of this discussion.
Re: Mod story flamebait (Score:2)
Whoever ate another raw bat (Score:1)
...should be dipped in a vat of boiling fat and rat scat, and made to wear a dunce-hat while getting a painful tat that says "I regret doing that!"
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Ah, this is due to mutations in the normal population?
Time to get another booster (Score:2)
You have had all the others, right?