over 1 million mink to be culled in Denmark as covid infection runs through mink farms More than 1 million mink will be killed to help contain a series of Covid-19 outbreaks on Danish farms The current outbreak is believed to have started in late June when a Covid-19 patient was associated with a mink farm in North Jutland, according to a report by the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service. The disease was found to have spread to the mink after the Danish Patient Safety Authority had samples taken from 34 of the farm's animals. The government began to introduce measures in the summer to limit the spread of Covid-19 on mink farms, but the number of cases dramatically increased in September. By early October, mink on nearly 60 farms in North Jutland alone had tested positive for Covid-19 and another 46 were under suspicion, according to Mogens Jensen, the Danish Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.
Spin studio following protocols spawns hot spot and 60+ cases. Asym person breathing hard more than 6' from others apparently infected a lot of people One client in one spin studio that followed all the rules triggers a coronavirus outbreak with at least 61 cases - CNN
From what I gather, 6' is good when people are passing by, but not for long periods of time, esp. when they are breathing heavily as when exercising, singing, etc. I don't see how they thought this would be an adequate mitigation factor.
Food for thought. Pop size differences or rates per 1m pop differences matter much less in how we are fairing comparatively. What rates can sometimes do--and I'd argue, doing here--is mask the problem by hiding count (frequency) differences within a standardized metric. It's the frequency that matters for comparison because frequency tells as what is actually happening with the phenomenon itself in absolute terms and thus it tells us about our ability to contain the spread compared to other countries. Thinking about it in terms of the R0, standardizing a rate by population wouldn't make sense since we want to know about is how many additional people get infected from each infected person, not the number of cases relative to population size. Where population size might matter would be if we were seeking to determine other effects. For instance, how might an increasingly larger percentage of infected people have negative and independent effects on public health that we would need to address?
Do you support a federal mandate for families to be locked in their homes? Do you think Americans would follow those mandates? Do you think there are enough feds around to round up and jail those people who would violate it? Is there even enough room in our jails and prisons? Asking for a friend
I favor strong top down advocacy for safe behavior to control the the virus proactively in all areas of the country (masks, distancing), with strong evidence based reporting on regional prevalence of the virus so people are well informed, and regional lock down mandates in areas of outbreaks, using the best science to determine where lockdowns are needed. While I am against one size fits all lock downs and such, we certainly can't successfully address the pandemic when the guy at the top is actively trying to subvert all common sense and science based efforts for perceived personal political gain.
a. I would support required isolation in areas with extreme outbreaks b. A majority would adhere, as demonstrated in April c. Rank strawman argument given the mandate, enforcement methods, penalties and breadth of violations are unknown. For example, the violations of shelter in place orders in the spring were misdemeanors. Don't be that guy.
My question is would you approve of a lock down like I mentioned where the government orders families to stay in their homes? No more, no less.
I have two Canadian friends who told me that some areas have been shut down by mandate. Stay at home orders with penalties if violated. I’m going off what they told me. They are now both US citizens who’s families still live in Canada as Canadian citizens.
Can you substantiate their claims? I posted the emergency measures for the country earlier. I cannot find any articles about recent isolation orders, although I only spent 10 minutes looking.
In areas where the best, unpoliticized science indicated that was needed to control the pandemic, then yes.
AP Overview on the Northern Hemisphere surge: “I see this as one of the toughest times in the epidemic,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious-disease specialist at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. “The numbers are going up pretty rapidly. We’re going to see a pretty large epidemic across the Northern Hemisphere.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious-disease expert, said Americans should think hard about whether to hold Thanksgiving gatherings. “Everyone has this traditional, emotional, warm feeling about the holidays and bringing a group of people, friends and family, together in the house indoors,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “We really have to be careful this time that each individual family evaluates the risk-benefit of doing that.” Europe, US reel as virus infections surge at record pace
over 30k new cases just in France today. EU seeing the results of their careless opening Coronavirus: France reports more than 30,000 new infections
Swiss yodeling context becomes superspreader event. Swiss rates spiking and shutdowns looming. So much for all that winning and herd immunity U.S. Records 70,000 New Cases in a Day for the First Time Since July Switzerland has seen a rapid rise in virus cases in recent days, and on Friday recorded a new daily high of 3,105 cases. The country has recorded at least 71,317 cases since the start of the pandemic — about a sixth of them in the last week — and more than 1,800 deaths, according to a Times database. Franziska Föllmi, director of the Schwyz Hospital, told the Swiss broadcaster SRF that 50 percent of recent virus tests were positive, and that the hospital was running out of beds. In a video posted to YouTube, hospital staff members urged residents to wear masks and refrain from gathering in large groups. Throughout the pandemic, the nation has maintained looser restrictions than most European countries, and was one of the first to reopen nightclubs and allow large events. But that could change soon. President Simonetta Sommaruga announced on Thursday that the government was considering new virus measures, and called on the Swiss to do their part to slow the spread.