the no-nonsense, nothing-but-the-facts-m'am C19 thread

[Tuariki]

Frightening: a single flight from Delhi to Hong Kong has so far led to 47 imported cases (& counting). All were required to do pre-departure testing and all were tested upon arrival. Yet, most of the cases were detected in hotel quarantine (most detected on day 12).

https://mobile.twitter.com/KarenGrep...85013548777475

For a couple of dollars you can buy any document you want in India.

It is the real reason why a week ago the NZ Government banned all travellers to NZ coming from India, including NZ citizens.

[Halfmiler2]

Weekly Update:
The Monday (4/12/21) afternoon numbers:

Cumulative Totals:
Global: 136.047 million cases & 2,934K deaths
The USA: 31.397 million cases & 568K deaths
NY State: 1,955K cases & 41,198 deaths
NJ State: 839K cases & 22,323 deaths
Bergen: 84,265 cases & 2,470 deaths

NJ has 2,261 & NY has 4,118 hospitalizations.
The Rt for NJ has dropped under 1.0 to 0.94.
The recent NJ spot positivity test rate was 8.39%
5.44 million NJ vaccine shots - 611K in Bergen.
2.19 million fully vaccinated in NJ- 32% of adults

7-day daily averages:
Global: 0.685 million cases & 12K deaths
The USA: 0.067 million cases & 0.9K deaths
NY State: 8.3K cases & 55 deaths
NJ State: 3.2K cases & 35 deaths
Bergen: 310 cases & 2.4 deaths

Weekly Update:
Monday (4/19/21) afternoon numbers:

Cumulative Totals:
Global: 141.324 million cases & 3,015K deaths
The USA: 31.867 million cases & 573K deaths
NY State: 1,989K cases & 41,530 deaths
NJ State: 860K cases & 22,569 deaths
Bergen: 86,119 cases & 2,504 deaths

Notes: Global numbers exclude China (90K cases & 4.6K deaths) has reported little in the past year.
NY, NJ, and Bergen numbers include only confirmed, not probable cases & deaths.

NJ & NY Details:
NJ hospitalizations dropped to 2,062.
NY hospitalizations dropped to 3,783.
The Rt in NJ dropped to 0.92.
The most recent NJ spot positivity test rate is 8.18%
NJ has given 3.8 vaccine shots - 677K in Bergen
2.5 million adults in NJ fully vaccinated - 36%
3.8 million adults in NJ w/ at least 1 shot - 55%
Above percentages are better than USA

7-day daily averages:
Global: 0.754 million cases & 11.6K deaths
The USA: 0.067 million cases & 661 deaths
NY State: 5K cases & 48 deaths
NJ State: 3K cases & 35 deaths
Bergen: 254 cases & 5 deaths

[SoCal45]

Meanwhile, in the beautiful country of Norway, Karma strikes again!! https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...paign=trending

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Meanwhile, in the beautiful country of Norway, Karma strikes again!! https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...paign=trending

a legit Darwin candidate

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile...in the Financial Times...

As cases rise, India’s capital city region has been put under lockdown and authorities have prohibited the use of oxygen except for essential services.

India continues to set single-day records of coronavirus cases, reporting more than 273,000 new infections and 1,619 deaths yesterday, with the number of new cases growing by an average of 7 per cent a day, one of the fastest rates in any big country. The surge is believed to be linked to a new B.1.617 variant that was first discovered in the country.

British health officials are now investigating whether the variant should be reclassified from a “variant under investigation” to a “variant of concern”. More than 100 cases of the B.1.617 variant had now been identified within the UK, “the vast majority” of which had links to international travel, Hancock said.

Officials in Delhi announced it would impose a strict lockdown for a week, following Mumbai and other cities that have placed curbs on movement.

States are running short of beds, drugs and oxygen, leading the central government to restrict use of the gas.

[Conor Dary]

Bed shortages in India have forced authorities to re-establish emergency coronavirus hospitals in banquet halls, train stations and hotels shut down following the September peak. Crematoriums in the state of Gujarat and Delhi are running 24 hours a day, while cemeteries are running out of burial spaces.

Coronavirus patients have also been struggling to access medicines. More than 800 injections of remdesivir, an antiviral drug commonly used in India as part of Covid-19 treatment, were stolen from a hospital in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, at the weekend.

India faces a vaccine supply crunch and has frozen international exports of jabs to meet domestic demand.

[18.99s]

Frightening: a single flight from Delhi to Hong Kong has so far led to 47 imported cases (& counting). All were required to do pre-departure testing and all were tested upon arrival. Yet, most of the cases were detected in hotel quarantine (most detected on day 12).

https://mobile.twitter.com/KarenGrep...85013548777475

They picked it up on the flight!

[Halfmiler2]

Israel is planning a full reopening in weeks because the numbers have dropped so low after full vaccination.

[Conor Dary]

Covid-19: US to advise against travel to 80% of countries

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned the world was "approaching the highest rate of infection" so far, despite the global rollout of vaccination programmes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56813852

[Conor Dary]

India’s devastating
outbreak is driving the
global coronavirus surge

Those on the country’s front lines say the wave
is worse than anything they have seen before.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...d-cases-surge/

[Conor Dary]

NEW DELHI — More than a year after the pandemic began, infections worldwide have surpassed their previous peak. The average number of coronavirus cases reported each day is now higher than it has ever been.

“Cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates,” said World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday.

[Adam$]

Hockey Night in Canada
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ICYMI | The Ontario Hockey League has cancelled its 2020-21 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ontario and by extension Michigan continue to have major COVID problems.

[Halfmiler2]

On a happier note, NJ Governor Murphy said that if the trend of the numbers continue, most NJ restrictions will be ended by May 19th.

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile...

India’s 1.6 million new covid-19 cases in the past week are breaking its health system.


Four months ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory over the coronavirus pandemic. Now the country is in a new covid-19 crisis, with more than 250,000 new confirmed infections daily. India has now overtaken Brazil, with the second-highest number of confirmed cases worldwide.

The actual number of cases may be much higher — testing lags are increasingly common, and some states have curtailed coronavirus testing. Similarly, official numbers report a seven-day average of around 1,300 deaths per day, but undercounting and misclassification of deaths is rampant. Long delays and price-gouging at crematoriums — amid reports of makeshift cremations on sidewalks — suggest the death counts are far higher than reported.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit....co/5cIBbfs4uE

[Conor Dary]

NEW: a deep-dive into the situation in India, where a devastating second wave is overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums, eclipsing global records as it goes https://ft.com/content/683914a3-134f-40b6-989b-21e0ba1dc403 250,000 new cases every day, and test positivity is soaring suggesting many are still missed

https://mobile.twitter.com/jburnmurd...82949879517185