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2020-04-12 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Coronaplague Roundup: Italy records 619 new #coronavirus #deaths, bringing the total number to 19,468

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Posted by Fred 2020-04-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 suggesting Italy is doing much better

They still have almost 1/1 death to recovery rate.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-12 03:14|| 2020-04-12 03:14|| Front Page Top

#2 From Fix News - U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was released Sunday from a London hospital where he has battled coronavirus for nearly a week, according to officials.

Downing Street said the British prime minister will not immediately return to work and will instead recuperate at Chequers, his official country retreat in Buckinghamshire.

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-12 11:27|| 2020-04-12 11:27|| Front Page Top

#3 I've been thinking about the number of "recovered" patients who subsequently test positive. Isn't the PCR test (as opposed to the antibody test) performed using a throat swab? Would be easy to miss if there are viral reservoirs elsewhere in the body.

Posted by Iblis 2020-04-12 16:55|| 2020-04-12 16:55|| Front Page Top

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