SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

[Amazing Larry]

[Tank]

18 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

my brother and i love this scene.

[Redondo]

CDC warns of second wave later this year, explains why it could be more deadly

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning that a second wave of coronavirus could coincide with the start of flu season, proving to be even more devastating than the enduring COVID-19 pandemic.

CDC Director Robert Redfield told The Washington Post in an interview Tuesday that the nation should be cautious even as some states attempt to reopen their economies in the coming weeks and continue to practice social distancing measures to mitigate the spread of the virus.

Redfield stressed that the practice has had “an enormous impact" on containing the outbreak, but said Americans need to plan ahead and consider getting a flu shot in the summer so that when winter comes, hospitals are not once again overburdened.

[Redondo]

California may have discovered first known COVID-19 deaths in US

California officials have discovered what are possibly the earliest known coronavirus deaths in the United States.

Santa Clara County announced Tuesday that three people who died at home during February and March tested positive for COVID-19 during their autopsies. The deaths took place on Feb. 6, Feb. 17 and March 6.

It was previously believed that the first US victim of the virus was a man in Washington state who died on Feb. 29.

Officials said they sent samples from the February deaths to the CDC for testing and that results came back Tuesday.

[Redondo]

 

A member of the far-left "Squad" of freshmen congresswomen slammed President Trump’s coronavirus response this week, alleging it was “akin to war crimes.”

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., made her allegations in a video posted Monday.

Claiming “criminal negligence, science denials, [and] a sluggish response,” on the part of Trump, she said the U.S. was now playing catchup during the pandemic, “which is the last place that you want to be in the midst of any public health crisis.”

Pressley said relief efforts shouldn’t discriminate based on race, income or immigration status and advocated for universal paid leave, sick pay for all workers and "long-term financial assistance.”

War crimes are defined as "grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions" and include torture, willful killing and taking hostages, among others.

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[Redondo]

As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner

As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily.

Smog stopped choking New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world, and India’s getting views of sights not visible in decades. Nitrogen dioxide pollution in the northeastern United States is down 30 percent. Rome's air pollution levels from mid-March to mid-April were down 49 percent from a year ago. Stars seem more visible at night.

People are also noticing animals in places and at times they don't usually. Coyotes have meandered along downtown Chicago’s Michigan Avenue and near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.

A puma roamed the streets of Santiago, Chile. Goats took over a town in Wales. In India, already daring wildlife has become bolder with hungry monkeys entering homes and opening refrigerators to look for food.

When people stay home, Earth becomes cleaner and wilder.

“It is giving us this quite extraordinary insight into just how much of a mess we humans are making of our beautiful planet,” says conservation scientist Stuart Pimm of Duke University. “This is giving us an opportunity to magically see how much better it can be.”

Chris Field, director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, assembled scientists to assess the ecological changes happening with so much of humanity housebound. Scientists, stuck at home like the rest of us, say they are eager to explore unexpected changes in weeds, insects, weather patterns, noise, and light pollution. Italy's government is working on an ocean expedition to explore sea changes from the lack of people.

“In many ways, we kind of whacked the Earth system with a sledgehammer and now we see what Earth’s response is,” Field says.

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[Adam]

We are all gonna starve to death but the skies will be clean!

[Tank]

maybe AOC will have to revise her 12 year doomsday propaganda prophecy.

[gotbeer]

4 hours ago, Redondo said:

 

“It is giving us this quite extraordinary insight into just how much of a mess we humans are making of our beautiful planet,” says conservation scientist Stuart Pimm of Duke University. “This is giving us an opportunity to magically see how much better it can be.”

 

“In many ways, we kind of whacked the Earth system with a sledgehammer and now we see what Earth’s response is,” Field says.

 

This is giving us an opportunity to magically see how much full of shit you doom and gloom "scientists" are.

[Angel Oracle]

AOC, Omar, and Pressley...…..in college basketball, that would NOT be considered a strong frosh class. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

1 hour ago, Tank said:

maybe AOC will have to revise her 12 year doomsday propaganda prophecy.

13 years just sounds cooler anyway.

[AngelsLakersFan]

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BGR: WHO says it knows the origin of the novel coronavirus

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“All available evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not manipulated or constructed in a lab or somewhere else,” WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said during a news briefing in Geneva. “It is probable, likely, that the virus is of animal origin.”

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Chaib added that it wasn’t clear how the virus initially jumped to humans, Reuters reports. But WHO says there had “certainly” been an intermediate animal host. “It most likely has its ecological reservoir in bats, but how the virus came from bats to humans is still to be seen and discovered.”

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Chaib did not respond to a request to elaborate on whether the virus could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, as one popular conspiracy theory says. The Wuhan Institute of Virology dismissed such rumors all the way back in February.

 

[gotbeer]

Sweden resisted a lockdown, and its capital Stockholm is expected to reach ‘herd immunity’ in weeks

Just to put it in perspective.  Sweden ranks 10th in the world in deaths per million at 192.  Among large countries, it would rank 7th with Belgium leading at 540.  The US ranks 15th and is at 139 per million.  

[Jason]

@Vegas Halo Fan you gonna be in this control group? Then again most of the group will probably be a bunch of millennials from So Cal

Edited April 23, 2020 by Jason

[Lou]

19 minutes ago, Jason said:

@Vegas Halo Fan you gonna be in this control group? Then again most of the group will probably be a bunch of millennials from So Cal

Sweet

[gotbeer]

1 hour ago, Jason said:

@Vegas Halo Fan you gonna be in this control group? Then again most of the group will probably be a bunch of millennials from So Cal

Is hookers and blow involved?  Because that's the standard Vegas control group, and we need to get back to normal.

[Tank]

4 hours ago, Lou said:

Sweet

Bruin?

[angelinkc]

[Vegas Halo Fan]

5 hours ago, Jason said:

@Vegas Halo Fan you gonna be in this control group? Then again most of the group will probably be a bunch of millennials from So Cal

Our mayor is an idiot. She is only in office because her husband was a popular mayor. Fortunately, under our system of local government, the mayor has little real authority.

[angelinkc]

This is happening in Missouri as well. Not sure if fear is subsiding or EBT deposits were today. The stores were full of undesirables

[Adam]

Less than half of the people I saw at Ralph’s yesterday had masks on. We have a negligible amount of cases in OC 

[notherhalo]

we bought 2 mask making machines from China

than we are going to copy the F out of those things and make/resell them with American parts

[Blarg]

7 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

Our mayor is an idiot. She is only in office because her husband was a popular mayor. Fortunately, under our system of local government, the mayor has little real authority.

Las Vegas is entirely dependant on tourism for income. The idiot is not making her city a "control group", she is offering a Nationwide incubation and distribution complex. A control group would require complete accountability for all residents, not a constantly changing mass of variables that can't be tracked. 

[Crampknees]

27 minutes ago, Blarg said:

Las Vegas is entirely dependant on tourism for income. The idiot is not making her city a "control group", she is offering a Nationwide incubation and distribution complex. A control group would require complete accountability for all residents, not a constantly changing mass of variables that can't be tracked. 

Woo-hoo, Vegas is open. 

[Adam]