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2020-10-27 Science & Technology

Wave of new COVID-19 cases crashes across U.S. and Europe as winter looms

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-27 07:02|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Case for effective enforcement Ultra-Orthodox Bnei Brak turns green after morbidity drops.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-27 07:23|| 2020-10-27 07:23|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm having a hard time verifying Rooters data for the US, using Worlometers data.

New cases in the last week are up 17% of the active cases, but only 6.5% of the total, while new tests in the same period were up by 5.7%.

Serious/critical cases are up to 16,611, compared to 15,380 a week ago, but less than July 24, when 19,175 were in the ICU.

Rooters new math.

Posted by Bobby 2020-10-27 07:53|| 2020-10-27 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Nor is it a consequence of more testing

Ima calling Bullshit

Posted by Frank G 2020-10-27 07:56|| 2020-10-27 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 For our lockdown fanatic
“Remdesivir for COVID-19” Study accidentally proved effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-27 08:08|| 2020-10-27 08:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Thirty years ago the UK was gripped by another terrifying health crisis – BSE (Mad Cow Disease). The suggestion that one teaspoon of beef from an infected cow could pass the disease to humans as CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease), a neurodegenerative disease with no cure, caused mass hysteria both in the media and then the general public. We were all doomed.

Both the BSE crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic needed a group of experts. For the BSE crisis, epidemiologists, computer modellers, microbiologists and others were assembled on the committee known as SEAC (the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee). For the COVID-19 pandemic, a similar but larger committee, SAGE, was assembled for the task.

Both committees suggested huge numbers of deaths would occur in the absence of intervention. With COVID-19, the estimate by the computer modelling team at Imperial College London was 500,000 deaths, whereas for BSE/CJD the figure was up to 50,000 deaths. Both sets of predictions led to a media-fuelled frenzy and spurred the sitting Governments into action.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-27 08:11|| 2020-10-27 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Even the lockdown loons at NYT admit that Schoolchildren Seem Unlikely to Fuel Coronavirus Surges, Scientists Say

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-27 08:12|| 2020-10-27 08:12|| Front Page Top

#7 That slob wanker Neil Ferguson needs his a$$ kicked.

Posted by Clem 2020-10-27 08:12|| 2020-10-27 08:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Covid breeds a pandemic of sciency bullshit

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-27 08:40|| 2020-10-27 08:40|| Front Page Top

#9 I can always count on you BP - to provide another illustration for Brandolini's law.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-27 08:49|| 2020-10-27 08:49|| Front Page Top

#10 I think COVIDiocy is a extension of Blair's Law. The worlds idiocies becoming one giant useless dysfunction of catastrophe worship.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-27 09:04|| 2020-10-27 09:04|| Front Page Top

#11

ACTUAL CDC NUMBERS AS OF 10-27-20 @ 8:15am

Since Jan, 14th, 2020 (287 days since of 1st US death) we have had 8,617,022 claimed infections. So out of a US Population of about 342 Million, 334 Million or 97.66% of the US Population has NOT been infected in 287 days.

Since Jan, 14th, 2020 (287 days) we have had 224,601 claimed deaths. So out of a US Population of about 342 Million, 341,775,399 have NOT died.

OR Better stated 99.93% of the Population DID NOT DIE from the C-19.

Today the CDC data shows 63,195 possible new infections for 3 days.

Today the CDC data indicate for 380 New claimed deaths for 3 days.

LAST 3 CDC Full DATA WEEKS REPORTED
09/26/2020 Infected 99,950 Deaths 3,701
10/03/2020 Infected 98,338 Deaths 3,371
10/10/2020 Infected 141,317 Deaths 3,114

So if Infections are UP,and Death counts are DOWN every week since Mid-April 2020. Then it is also clear the C-19 virus has either mutated and no longer as deadly as it was initially predicted. Or, US Agencies, medical Institutions and The Media grossly over estimated the C-19 Viruses spread and mortality and caused a needless Panic.

Because simply put. We are nowhere near the predicted 81% of U.S. population infected, causing 2.2 million deaths widely stated back in late March of 2020.

Posted by NN2N1 2020-10-27 09:23|| 2020-10-27 09:23|| Front Page Top

#12 #11 Groovy. Now use the same method to prove that DUI has nothing to do with car accidents.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-27 09:29|| 2020-10-27 09:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Bright Pebbles

My IT Team and I were in London/Hanger Lane area during the middle of the Mad Cow media panic.

We ate Steaks at Adams Rib around the corner from the Bag of nails, Victoria Station and our hotel at least 4 times in 2 weeks.

The local personnel (SAM-UK) though we were daffy.
But the restaurant staff was happy for the business and the meat was brought in from Argentina. ☺

Plus the price and the service was fantastic.

Posted by NN2N1 2020-10-27 09:40|| 2020-10-27 09:40|| Front Page Top

#14 So, we should stop all vehicular traffic to avoid or eliminate DUI deaths?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-27 11:15|| 2020-10-27 11:15|| Front Page Top

#15 ...Nor is it a consequence of more testing

Ima calling Bullshit

When literally the next line addresses increased testing.

And the actual numbers are omitted. An increase of 25% of 10,000 cases ups to 12,500 that is 2,500. An increase of 5.5% of 2,000,000 tests is 2,110,000 that is 110,000.

When YNet gives worse information than the dinky morning news weatherman, and then that information is cited as, "Voluntarily lock yourself in your bedroom and wrap your face, or else."

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-27 11:16|| 2020-10-27 11:16|| Front Page Top

#16 Mandate bungalows...

Stairs are the biggest danger at home..

How many falls result in deaths within 28 days?

We need to know the Stairs related deaths? LongStairs from slow injury recovery are a concern.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-27 11:17|| 2020-10-27 11:17|| Front Page Top

#17 #14 No. But you shouldn't do calculations like there are 38,800 deaths (2019) in vehicular accidents. There are 330,000,000 people in USA. Therefore your chance of being killed in road accident is 38800/330000000. That's, lumping different groups together in statistical calculations is called "The Fallacy Of The Average".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-27 11:27|| 2020-10-27 11:27|| Front Page Top

#18 Per the CDC :

The Facts About Global Road Traffic Injuries and Deaths
Each year, 1.35 million people are killed on roadways around the world.4
Every day, almost 3,700 people are killed globally in road traffic crashes involving cars, buses, motorcycles, bicycles, trucks, or pedestrians. More than half of those killed are pedestrians, motorcyclists, and cyclists.4
Road traffic injuries are estimated to be the eighth leading cause of death globally for all age groups and the leading cause of death for children and young people 5–29 years of age. More people now die in road traffic crashes than from HIV/AIDS.4

Low- and Middle-Income Countries Are Most Affected:
Low- and middle-income countries only account for 60 percent of the world’s registered vehicles but more than 90 percent of the world’s road traffic deaths.4
The road traffic crash death rate is over three times higher in low-income countries than in high-income countries.4
There were no reductions in the number of road traffic deaths in any low-income country from 2013 to 2016.4
Road traffic injuries place a huge economic burden on low- and middle-income countries. Each year, according to the latest available cost estimate (1998), road traffic injuries cost $518 billion USD worldwide and $65 billion USD in low- and middle-income countries, which exceeds the total amount that these countries receive in development assistance.5,6

CDC: roadway injuries

Posted by 746 2020-10-27 11:38|| 2020-10-27 11:38|| Front Page Top

#19 Fiery the nations fell
Deep thunder rolled upon their shores
Burning with the fires of Covid

Apologies to Wlliam Blake, Roy Batty, et al

Posted by JHH 2020-10-27 13:15|| 2020-10-27 13:15|| Front Page Top

#20 This "wave of new cases" would certainly be a handy pretext to issue shutdown orders just before the election, wouldn't it?

And the Dems were pushing hard on early voting...

Hmmm...

Posted by charger 2020-10-27 14:00|| 2020-10-27 14:00|| Front Page Top

#21 Don't worry; I've been told that the covid and politics are mutually exclusive topics.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-27 14:30|| 2020-10-27 14:30|| Front Page Top

#22 Vitamin D effect?

Posted by Glenmore 2020-10-27 15:42|| 2020-10-27 15:42|| Front Page Top

#23 I think a simple rule of thumb is:
* if they take about number of infections they are scaremongering liars or fools
* If they talk about hospitalizations, deaths, or excess deaths caused by Covid they are trying to get at the truth of the pandemic

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-10-27 15:57|| 2020-10-27 15:57|| Front Page Top

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