“Russian vaccine has yet to complete clinical trials but works ‘effectively enough,’ President Putin said.”
Sounds completely safe.
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From the researcher:
This is really a preliminary investigation into something that needs much more science wrapped around it with other types of ways of measuring particulate matter
As usual, mass communication of “interesting” research findings to attract clicks is problematic. A bunch of people will stupidly react to this by thinking “DUH WELL NOW THEY’RE SAYING MASKS DON’T EVEN WORK HOW CAN I BELIEVE ANYTHING THEY SAY!”
So STONKS are pumping worldwide on a relatively untested Putin vaccine? How many hours/days until Trump orders 500m doses and asks the American people what they have to lose?
Mr Putin said the vaccine had passed all the required checks, adding that his daughter had already been given it.
Vlads confidence only goes so far.
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Poor NZ. Very mysterious where this came from.
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They forgot to quarantine the sheep.
Happy bloodbath Tuesday. Let’s see if those “rosy” weekend stats hodl!
I speculated about this in April, which basically means I should get a Nobel Prize
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Looks the MN data is off, for tests we have had a 7DMA around 14000 since mid July but the graph shows it down around 10000 in August
We’ve been flat for two days now vs a week ago. In all likelihood, we’re going to tread water for a little bit.
Now we have completely used up all our margin for error. In May, we had a relatively geographically confined outbreak in bigger cities and the northeast. During our OFB fiascoes in June and July, we managed to spread COVID to every nook and cranny of the USA and there are now three times more baseline infections.
We can’t afford to slip up like that again. We need to mask up permanently and social distance quite a bit because doubling the active cases now would be a calamity.
For sure the headline and shitty reporting to lead to a decrease in masking. One of the biggest failures of the pandemic has been the incorrect or ambiguous messaging around the importance and effectiveness of masks.
Not meant as a criticism at all. Just a question about what y’all were doing.
From what I’ve seen the fancier your equipment (wearing PAPR, P100s, etc), the more likely you are to screw up using it.
Face shield v goggles is more an issue of what fogs up. I got my hands on a donated pair of ski goggles that I love for doing procedures as they don’t fog as much as that plastic shield thing does. Still, different goggles/shields/faces fog at different rates.
I haven’t paid much attention to testing statistics, but this recent conversation has me interested: are they reported on the date of testing or the date of test result?
Either way, it seems that relying on testing data or positivity rates might not be as informative as previously thought.
My picture is actually a ripped up T-shirt tied around my face lol
Anyway, I use proper masks now.
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I’ve wondered this too. I can only speak for MN since I follow their data closely but from what I can tell it must be how many tests were completed on that day. They update data at 11 am daily and the previous days testing data is usually complete, if they were basing it on the day the sample was taken you’d have a lag in completed tests because of how long it takes to process them.
Positive tests on the other hand seem to be measured on the day the sample was taken, there is always a lag going back 7-14 days. If I look at 8/9 it says there were only 3 positive tests right now but that will jump up to a couple hundred when they update today and it will keep rising over the next week or so until all the samples from that day are processed
10:20 a.m.: Within five weeks of each other, a Hialeah father and son, a retired doctor and another who was treating patients on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, passed away from complications related to COVID-19.
Dr. Jorge A. Vallejo, 89, a retired obstetrician and gynecologist, died on June 27, 2020, after being hospitalized at Palmetto General Hospital on Father’s Day, six days before his death. His middle son, Dr. Carlos Francisco Vallejo, was hospitalized the same day.
A well-established obstetrician in South Florida, Jorge Vallejo delivered what was once considered the smallest baby born in the United States in 1992 at Hialeah Hospital. The little girl, born after 22 weeks and called ‘The Miracle Baby,’ was 15 ounces, or less than 1 pound, when she was born, ultimately tying the record for smallest baby born in the U.S.
His son, Carlos, 57, died on Aug. 1 after spending 42 days in the intensive care unit at Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston. His family said he was caring for as many as 76 COVID-19 patients, many of them elderly nursing home residents, before he fell sick.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article244871152.html
I’ve fallen behind but it sure seems like school openings are going exactly as horribly as we expected.
We are staring down the barrel of a massive shit storm in this country. Most people have no idea what’s coming.
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Yeah, I am feeling very stressed about this and trying hard not to overinterpret small pieces of information.
But I’m really, really hoping this is a minor and meaningless blip in Franklin County, Ohio:
Rather than the obvious consequence of Ohio State students starting to filter back to campus.
the ‘huge drop in cases’ and ‘herd immunity’ derposphere appearing on twitter makes me want to ram an icepick in my brain. Seems like widely held views that this is now over after the same people during the peak were saying covid was just a flu.
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