The New York Times has already been looking at this:
7,997,609 total cases
435,681 dead
4,129,309 recovered
In the US:
2,162,228 total cases
117,858 dead
870,050 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Gee, “only” 300 Americans died of Covid yesterday.
I guess Trump is right about it simply fading away.
Gee, “only” 300 Americans died of Covid yesterday.
I guess Trump is right about it simply fading away.
FDA withdraws approval for the 2 malaria drugs for Covid
I wonder what it’s going to look like when the “weekend effect” is accounted for.
Weekly lows:
June 14: 331
June 7: 373
May 31: 639
May 25: 506 - Memorial weekend may have had some effect in reporting timing.
Mat 17: 865
I keep waiting for a spike that hasn’t hit yet. And by spike I mean the sort of exponential growth that we saw in March. Despite reporting that certain regions (e.g. Arizona, Texas, Florida) are seeing a “spike” it’s more of a steady increase.
Graph showing how many total deaths this year to death:
https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2637725/?fbclid=IwAR2N7F8kFk78uHahqjfyJdMFKHJlEs86CdBd5G9Nz6H_TucMyHSbOWF1rC4
Covid leads by a mile, Malaria come in 2nd.
That is a partial list: I would expect heart disease and cancer to lead–but they are not even mentioned.
Well, it does say “various”, which I’d take to mean “curated”, but yes, there’s certainly things more deadly then Covid. So far.
Yeah, that’s a really weird list – unless the guiding principle is “causes of death that are preventable with sufficient will and resources,” but in that case, I’m not sure why they would include Parkinson’s.
Does anyone understand the stories that came out late last week about how some scientists think the old-style polio vaccine could protect against covid-19? Most of us, at least those of us who were vaccinated between 1963 and 2000 (from 1955 to 1963 and from 2000-2020 people were given a shot instead), had that oral polio vaccine and we are still susceptible to covid-19, so…
8,118,570 total cases
439,195 dead
4,216,284 recovered
In the US:
2,182,950 total cases
118,283 dead
889,866 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
IIUC, they think an injection of a live virus NOW might “jump-start” the immune system. Residual poliovirus antibodies from a years-ago vaccination will have no effect on Covid-19.
This looks more promising:
Yeah, the BBC article on it says if this had been known before the pandemic that it would have saved about 5000 lives in the UK.
Corticosteroids have been commonly used outside of the UK to treat coronavirus patients in the ICU, with promising results. In some countries they are pretty much standard of care already. For example, a South Korean study of ICU mortality from last month showed that they’d been given to 80% of ICU patients. It’s astonishing that they’ve only been available in the context of a randomized controlled trial in the UK.
Also, the 25% baseline mortality rate amongst hospitalized patients requiring supplemental oxygen is very high compared with other studies.
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Anecdotally, my stepmother died with a confirmed positive COVID-19 test in April. My dad self-quarantined, but at that point didn’t meet the testing criteria (even though he is 79 years old and asthmatic) because he didn’t have any symptoms and there was a huge shortage of tests in New York. Just last week, he had to do some blood work for unrelated reasons, and they did a COVID-19 active infection test and antibody test. No active infection, but positive for antibodies.
Of course it’s not at all surprising that he had antibodies, but if he had been walking around asymptomatic…just imagine how many asymptomatic people are running around New York City because they aren’t terrified 79-year-old asthmatics who are self-isolating because they are retired and can afford to have groceries delivered? If he hadn’t gone for that unrelated bloodwork, he never would have been counted as a case.