Another friend with a financial interest, another wild goose chase: Trump eyes new unproven virus "cure" promoted by Ben Carson and the CEO of MyPillow BTW, is a coronabro the anecdotal pill taken when a covidiot makes a stupid decision? Asking for a friend.
In all seriousness, I wish every bit of safety and wellness for your kids, their teachers/staff, you and your family.
This coronabro has more bad news to report. Pediactric COVID-19 are on the rise in the US. Cases increased steadily between March and July. Likely will grow even more as schools open.
5.5% positivity rate on 777,569 tests today. Those are good numbers. Lowest percentage and cases since June I believe.
North Carolina is under 1000 hospitalized Covid-19 cases for the first time in nearly 2 months. 7 Day moving average for new cases is down to around 1200 a day, from a high of nearly 2100 per day in mid-July. Shame we are going to see cases go the other way with schools opening.
Great shots and looks like a glorious hike. Are the trails well-groomed and is this part of a state trail system?
that one is in the George Washington National Forest, so everything is well maintained. Most of the trails around here though, we are fortunate. Washington and Jefferson National Forests combined cover something like 1.8 million acres and cover parts of three states. It’s a massive size for the east coast.
This country seems hopeless sometimes. 'Wild pack of Karens' accuse grocery store of 'committing WAR CRIMES' for denying them entry | Daily Mail Online
Updated stats from world o meter as of 8 am EDT. This is the first update since Friday and includes the testing numbers. There were over 5.4 million tests done last week approaching 21% of the population. The positive rate dropped to 7.6% from 8.2%. There were 11 states with a decrease in active cases and for some reason the numbers were not available from Georgia for active cases. There were 12 states with 1-6 deaths over the weekend and 4 states with 0 deaths.
Here is some potential good news on herd immunity. Looks like studies show the percent needed for herd immunity for COVID-19 may be closer to 50% than 70%. Still early, but if true, as the article states, there may be small pockets will herd immunity already, like hardest hit areas in NYC. Also, it means a vaccine that is 50% effective will get us to the brink of herd immunity (not every can or will get vaccinated). A vaccination that is 60% effective or more would likely get us to herd immunity on its own.
I read the article and I am wondering why they didn't address Sweden. Sweden flattened their curve with the least amount of safety measures(lockdowns, schools and such), you would think they would bring that up. Yes, they had a higher death rate than their Scandinavian countries but less than Italy, Spain, and England. Just think it would've been smart to address the country that did the least during the lockdown.
It should be noted that their death rate is 2-7% lower than the hardest hit countries in Europe, which often are either much poorer, older, more densely populated (even after accounting for the fact that most people in Sweden don't live in the very sparsely populated regions), and/or have much poorer extant health. Sweden's death rate is 5.35-19.76x the death rate of other Scandanavian countries, whose metrics on healthcare and population density are much more similar.