SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Sounds nice but even nicer when a second or third paper shows the effect. This is not a medical protocol, yet.

Talking about animal models:
Nearly 10,000 minks dead from Covid-19 outbreak at Utah fur farms | Animals | The Guardian

Almost 10,000 minks in Utah have reportedly died due to Covid-19, spurring quarantines at nine fur farms impacted by the outbreak.

The state’s veterinarian, Dean Taylor, reportedly said that coronavirus had mostly impacted older minks, “wiping out 50% percent of the breeding colonies.” Younger minks were largely unharmed, he said.

The first known Covid-19 cases among US minks were in Utah, with their diagnoses confirmed in mid-August, the federal Department of Agriculture (USDA) said. Authorities learned about minks contracting coronavirus after farm workers tested positive, Taylor told NBC News.
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Bob Wilson

 

The drug store shelves were quickly emptied back in April, when most folks were fighting over TP.
Still awaiting definitive double blind studies, but as a safe and cheap therapeutic it should be getting a lot of attention.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/new-york-clinical-trial-quietly-tests-heartburn-remedy-against-coronaviruC

 

it's often difficult to make sense of much of the now available statistics. For example, deaths per
Capita - Montana runs in the lowest 14%. Or Florida, opening up things like theme parks, are lower in death rates by several States compared to Jersey & New York - which top the list with their much heavier lockdown requirements. Maybe that's because more sickly/elderly are up there?
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Maybe do Sean Connery is smarter than we thought

 

High death rates in the early states was due to unknown degree of contagiousness and severity.

Look at the numbers since we figured those things out

 

Later states had the advantage of others trial by fire, and yet, many continue to ignore the science

 

Time-Lapse: How The Coronavirus Has Spread Across The U.S.

 

pretty cool. i suppose that is based on poor reporting early on, and even now, questionable.

interesting how there were some early midwest cases that didn't spread too rapidly. nature of the population i suppose.

 

At the bottom corner, it says: Source: WHO, USA Facts, BING COVID Tracker
I believe from daily reported cases at county level.

 

I live in the very first state to announce any deaths, though one other state did retrospectively identify two earlier deaths.

In fact, the first U.S. case, the first U.S. school closures, and the first announced U.S. deaths (one-third of a nursing home killed in three weeks), were all within my normal from-home exercise bicycling range.

Yet, despite us being State Zero, without any prior examples and instead being the example from which other states could start learning before they got hit, 35 states now have worse death rates than we do. The national average (664 deaths per 1M residents, on Worldometer) is more than double my state's rate (288).

Clearly, most states did not take sufficient advantage of the early warnings we gave.

 

cuomo said it was in ny months before they knew

 

2,500,000 minks to be slaughtered in northern Denmark to control their farm outbreak.

 

On the upside, cheap coats. /s

 

COUGH COUGH.

Bob Wilson