D&D and the rising pandemic

[Istbor]

A huge drop in active cases in just four days!??!

Turns out that active cases includes "is presumed positive based on symptoms and/or close contact with a known positive COVID individual". Guessing that was a lot of tests that cleared people, and/or a lot of quarantines that finished pretty much all at once?

Food for thought. Throughout this whole thing US numbers are always showing pretty low during Holidays and weekends, especially Sundays. I would wait to see if this is a real trend downward, or if this was a "no one in the office doing the reporting" type of thing.

Edit: Though I understand your information is much more specific. I don't know how much of what I stated would be a factor on reporting for just that university.

 

[Cadence]

Food for thought. Throughout this whole thing US numbers are always showing pretty low during Holidays and weekends, especially Sundays. I would wait to see if this is a real trend downward, or if this was a "no one in the office doing the reporting" type of thing.

Edit: Though I understand your information is much more specific. I don't know how much of what I stated would be a factor on reporting for just that university.

I'm used to that for reports of new cases (the local media made a big deal out of one of the types of tests going off-line because of a staff member illness). The one ghat got me here was that it was the active ones.

 

[MoonSong]

This is bad news

COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Paused Due To Illness In Volunteer

AstraZeneca, which is working with the University of Oxford, hasn't said what the illness is. It will try to determine whether the illness is related to the vaccine, or just a chance event.

www.npr.org

My country had put a lot of money into this, which doesn't bode very well. Now Putin has threatened offered to flood the country share thirty million doses of the poorly tested Sputnik vaccine by November.

 

[Garthanos]

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally linked to 20% of US coronavirus cases in August: researchers

Nineteen percent of the 1.4 million new coronavirus cases in the U.S. between Aug. 2 and Sept. 2 can be traced back to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally held in South Dakota, according to researchers from San Diego State University's Center for Health Economics & Policy Studies.

www.foxnews.com

The group that did that study are not however epidemiologists so their interpretation of the data is subject to being confirmed...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The group that did that study are not however epidemiologists so their interpretation of the data is subject to being confirmed...

Even if they had been, confirmation from other researchers would be ideal.

 

[MoonSong]

The group that did that study are not however epidemiologists so their interpretation of the data is subject to being confirmed...

I still can't believe they went ahead with Sturgis, it is official every biker has secretly a death wish.

 

[Garthanos]

Even if they had been, confirmation from other researchers would be ideal.

Agreed even scientifically capable and fully in their field is subject to that.

 

[Garthanos]

I still can't believe they went ahead with Sturgis, it is official every biker has secretly a death wish.

A rather balanced online doctor who goes as ZDoggMD is pretty certain that the estimates in general are low and outlines why... my brain let it go out a window

 

[billd91]

I still can't believe they went ahead with Sturgis, it is official every biker has secretly a death wish.

And it may be costing about $12 billion in public health resources. But, hey, as long as the Sturgis, SD locals got their slice of the pie, it's all good, right? That's the thinking going into these decisions. If it costs the whole of us or the country $12 billion, that's so remote that it's abstract. It might as well not even exist. And that's the problem - people making these bad decisions think so individualistically that they can't seem to grasp the broader implications of what it does to us as a whole.
And that applies to protesting pandemic restrictions, demanding that the Big 10 reinstate the football season, and all that other crap that just puts the public health at risk.

 

[Hussar]

Now, apparently, we have anti-maskers here in Japan, despite these wingnuts probably wearing masks all their lives. Grrrr.

Pilot makes unscheduled landing after passenger refuses to wear face mask

People in Japan are seething with anger at the selfishness of the anti-masker.

soranews24.com