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What do we know about the novel coronavirus?
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  • @Azo

    To calm you down - if not Trump it had been 5x worse, as people on the other side wanted much more US citizens dead.

  • ....not only vietnam but cambodia did good as well. @Vitaliy....it's more that all of these statistical studies are reversed engineered to support the hypothesis they want. They obviously can falsify numbers by testing. I'd still like to believe that Physics and Astronomy are beyond politics.

  • @Vitaly...there is no other side. There's just the banksters...and us. That's how they play the gringos.

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  • oh no.....no new beemers this year !

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    From big US camera retailer - they do not expect any rebound until at least June 2021, instead they expect further drops that can reach as far as 98% drop YoY during January 2021.

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  • On coronavirus prediction from Chinese business

    • Chinese manufacturers still have 8-10 months wait time for automatic masks lines
    • New fastest growing orders are for advanced respirators, number of lines for making them can grown 10 times in next 4 months
    • 3M like half masks are expected to be next grow area, this can start since October
    • Masks sellers in China expect 5x-10x more cases since September in both US and EU
  • US, land of big opportunities... to become homeless

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    https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/july-housing-payments

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  • On vaccine

    The former prime minister of New Zealand Helen Clark has been told a vaccine for Covid-19 may be years away;

    This isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. I am told by informed sources in Geneva that it will be at least two-and-a-half years until there could be a widely available vaccine – at least. That’s not very encouraging really.

    I’ve made it clear in accepting it that it will be virtual for the foreseeable future – which could be quite a long time.”

  • NY progress

    Two-thirds of New Yorkers rent their homes, making it America’s biggest rental market, and it’s always had its own crazy kind of housing math. But with unemployment soaring and the typical rent about twice the national average, the numbers no longer add up. A quarter of the city’s apartment renters haven’t paid since March, according to the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP), a group that represents mostly landlords of rent-stabilized buildings.

  • Huge reserve for second wave

    In Seattle, public transit usage is down about 70%. According to Bob Foran, chief financial officer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City subway and commuter rail traffic is down an astounding 90% over the last 120 days.

    Such situation is not sustainable, so traffic will return and big new wave with it.

  • This blindness to morbidity may push populations toward more aggressive reopening, or away from risk-reduction measures like mandating face coverings. If deaths are declining, the picture may appear rosy. But in reality, the disease may be causing irreparable harm to millions of people — just in a way that’s invisible in current statistics.

    And this is that happens.

  • Bill Gates on equality

    “If we just let drugs and vaccines go to the highest bidder, instead of to the people and the places where they are most needed, we’ll have a longer, more unjust, deadlier pandemic,” Gates said (remotely) during a COVID-19 conference. “We need leaders to make these hard decisions about distributing based on equity, not just on market-driven factors.”

    They always like equality as soon as they start to fear that they can end up on the tree.

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    Why all is so shitty looking?
    It is because capitalism is now in the walking dead state. Time to shoot it and put into deep grave.

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  • A smoking gun or sign something is not right. Is having a treatment for corona, admitting it works, but refusing to put it into operation, the same as watching a 47story steel building freefall into it's own footprint ? https://news.yahoo.com/plasma-shot-could-prevent-coronavirus-130023057.html ..... Or seeing the presidents head recoil the wrong direction ?

  • @kurth

    Scientists have devised a way to use the antibody-rich blood plasma of COVID-19 survivors for an upper-arm injection that they say could inoculate people against the virus for months.

    Using technology that’s been proven effective in preventing other diseases such as hepatitis A, the injections would be administered to high-risk healthcare workers, nursing home patients, or even at public drive-through sites — potentially protecting millions of lives, the doctors and other experts say.

    It is clearly not suitable way, as it also brings lot of risks. SOme of our domestic guys advertised it, but it all failed miserably in practice.

  • @Vitaliy....that same kind of logic has govts outlawing the use of hydroxy ! When your treatment regimen has nothing, then everything shown to work should be used. ""SOme of our domestic guys advertised it, but it all failed miserably in practice."" Well...that doesn't mean anything. “Beyond being a lost opportunity, this is a real head-scratcher,” said Dr. Michael Joyner, a Mayo Clinic researcher who leads a program sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration to capitalize on coronavirus antibodies from COVID-19 survivors. “It seems obvious.”

  • @kurth

    .that same kind of logic has govts outlawing the use of hydroxy ! When your treatment regimen has nothing, then everything shown to work should be used.

    No, it is not same logic.

    Getting blood plasma is very complex procedure in reality and to not get AIDS and similar bad stuff you need very long storage period, around 6 months as I remember. Note that testing facilities capacity are also bottleneck here.

    You also need agreement and lot of participants with strong immune system response.

    Also injecting plasma brings real risks and you can just ask any good doctor related to this about it.

    To be short - system wants to find simple solution, but simple solutions do not work.

    As we will see vaccines failures it can be next stage of doom and gloom.

  • @Vitaliy..... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232407/ ....we already screen the blood supply. https://www.thermofisher.com/mx/es/home/references/protocols/cell-and-tissue-analysis/elisa-protocol/elisa-sample-preparation-protocols/plasma-and-serum-preparation.html ....we already have the plasma extraction technology. https://www.healthline.com/health/prp#preparation ...and they're doing plasma injections to cure baldness....guess they could do it to save lives. Google the 3 doctors/researchers mentioned in the article.

  • New study has found that more than half of COVID-19 patients have some type of heart damage, according to Newsweek.

    A study involving 1,216 patients - 813 of whom were diagnosed with COVID-19, revealed that 55% had abnormalities when given an echocardiogram between April 3 and 20.

  • Schools in Los Angeles, San Diego and Atlanta will begin entirely online, officials said Monday. Schools in Nashville plan to do the same, at least through Labor Day.

    Later all schools will join.

  • Adaptation will be long and painful.

  • this story has been accused of being a chinese disinfo op , so read with full disclosure... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3092563/chinese-embassy-warns-deadly-unknown-pneumonia-kazakhstan

  • It will be long and dark winter

    The prospects for a V-shaped recovery in airlines are looking dim. Australian-based Qantas Airlines pulling all of its international flights off its website this week.

    The airline is cancelling routes to New Zealand until September 1 and flights to other international destinations have been cancelled until March 28, 2021 - nearly another year away.

    The company's CEO predicted that international flights wouldn't resume until July 2021.