The size of some of these protests around the world are absolutely massive. The ones in France and Amsterdam looked packed. Couldn't tell how many were wearing masks, but I'm guessing the next two weeks will be interesting... not that anyone is even talking about COVID anymore
By Greg Norman | Fox News
The Chinese city where the coronavirus originated claimed Tuesday that a massive testing effort targeting nearly all of its 11 million residents has resulted in just 300 new cases – all of which are asymptomatic.
A Wuhan official announced Tuesday that the city completed 9.9 million tests from May 14 to June 1. Wuhan also found no infections among 1,174 close contacts of the 300 people who tested positive, suggesting they were not spreading it easily to others, according to the Associated Press.
“It not only makes the people of Wuhan feel at ease, it also increases people’s confidence in all of China,” Feng Zijian, vice director of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told state broadcaster CCTV.
Wuhan was by far the hardest hit city in China, accounting for more than 80 percent of the country’s deaths, according to government figures.
If those tested previously are included in the new effort, virtually everyone above the age of 5 in the city of 11 million people has been tested, said Li Lanjuan, a member of a National Health Commission expert team.
“The city of Wuhan is safe,” she said at a news conference with city officials.
The campaign was launched after a small cluster of cases was found in a residential compound, sparking concern about a possible second wave of infections as Wuhan emerged from a 2.5-month lockdown.
The industrial city on the Yangtze River in central China spent about $125 million on the tests, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing a Wuhan official.
The rapid testing of so many people was made possible in part through batch testing, in which samples from up to five people are mixed together, Xinhua added. If the result is positive, then the people are individually tested.
National resources were also mobilized to help, said Wang Weihua, deputy director of the Wuhan Health Commission, according to Xinhua. Together, these efforts raised Wuhan’s daily testing capacity from 300,000 to more than one million, she was quoted as saying.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Good news
If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale that you might be interested in.Originally Posted by lost in melb.
lost in melb. (06-03-2020)
I believe it, more or less. Collectivist society, used to obeying
RBP (06-05-2020)
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
Here's the book, btw:
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
Reuters News Service
Newly dug graves are seen at Sao Luiz cemetery where the administration says they recently dug 3000 new
graves amid the coronavirus outbreak in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s total COVID-19 death toll blew past that of Italy on Thursday, as the Health Ministry reported 1,437 deaths in the last 24 hours and 30,925 additional coronavirus cases.
The Latin American nation has now reported 34,021 deaths from the coronavirus, trailing only the United States and the United Kingdom.
lost in melb. (06-05-2020), RBP (06-05-2020)
Godfather (06-06-2020)
The New York Times wrote an article about my province's health leader Dr Bonnie Henry which is unexpected and cool. It's a bit over the top, but we're blessed to have her.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/w...ronavirus.html
lost in melb. (06-06-2020)
by KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ - Breitbart
Coronavirus patients without symptoms, or asymptomatic patients, are not the ones spreading the virus, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced Monday.
The organization’s announcement comes at a time where some researchers shared concerns that the disease could be difficult to contain due to asymptomatic infectious people, CNBC reported.
Some people who are young and otherwise healthy who catch the coronavirus never develop symptoms or only develop mild symptoms. Other people might not develop symptoms until several days after they catch the infection.
Preliminary evidence showed that coronavirus could be spread from person-to-person contact, even if the carrier was asymptomatic, but now the W.H.O. is saying the coronavirus is not mainly spread through these asymptomatic people.
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of W.H.O.’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said at a news briefing from the United Nations agency’s Geneva headquarters. “It’s very rare.”
Van Kerkhove said governments should focus on isolating people who are showing symptoms and tracking down anyone who may have come into contact with them. In other words, they are relying on contract tracing data.
“We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing,” she said. “They’re following asymptomatic cases. They’re following contacts. And they’re not finding secondary transmission onward. It’s very rare.”
If asymptomatic spread proves not to be the main transmission of coronavirus, it could have huge impacts on policy. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report from April 1 cited the “potential for presymptomatic transmission” as the reason for social distancing.
“These findings also suggest that to control the pandemic, it might not be enough for only persons with symptoms to limit their contact with others because persons without symptoms might transmit infection,” the CDC study said.
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