Some research has indicated that spread occurs mostly indoors, but it's pretty certain that these protests will cause a lot of new infections.
I pray that it does. The issue with this article being reposted by every new site is that the simpletons of the world will interpret this as "oh it's just a common cold now" and the urgency to wear masks will deteriorate.
USA is doing nearly 500k tests a day now, so testing is definitely a lot more accessible.
New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says
ROME — The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.nationalpost.com
How many people are on the streets?
Spread occured mostly indoors because people don't tend to have massive outside events in winter. Spread did occur in the lockdown protests, and quite a bit according to the takes in this topic.
www.the-scientist.com
www.theguardian.com
elemental.medium.com
So many horrendous quotes in this article. This guy sounds like an absolute nutcase. The virus doesn't exist anymore? Terrorizing the country? Like where is the basis for this "information"New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says
ROME — The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.
A pretty massive fuckup for such a controversial situation.Scientist magazine has a worrisome piece about the study published on lancet last week.
Disputed Hydroxychloroquine Study Brings Scrutiny to Surgisphere
Scientists have raised questions about the dataset published in The Lancet last week that triggered the suspension of clinical trials around the world—and about Surgisphere Corporation, the company behind the study.
Questions raised over hydroxychloroquine study which caused WHO to halt trials for Covid-19
Exclusive: Australian researchers query origin of data used for Lancet study, but stress there is no evidence drug is a safe or effective treatment
Seems like the australia data was wrong (or fake), they corrected the initial version since then but there's still questions where the data even comes from.
Seriously. Bombastic quotes make great headlines but I'll take it seriously when somebody that doesn't sound like an absolute quack and in a more levelheaded manner. Frankly this type of information is incredibly dangerous.
Scientist magazine has a worrisome piece about the study published on lancet last week.
Disputed Hydroxychloroquine Study Brings Scrutiny to Surgisphere
Scientists have raised questions about the dataset published in The Lancet last week that triggered the suspension of clinical trials around the world—and about Surgisphere Corporation, the company behind the study.
Questions raised over hydroxychloroquine study which caused WHO to halt trials for Covid-19
Exclusive: Australian researchers query origin of data used for Lancet study, but stress there is no evidence drug is a safe or effective treatment
Seems like the australia data was wrong (or fake), they corrected the initial version since then but there's still questions where the data even comes from.
www.theguardian.com
Of course not. Complete speculation. We won't know anything concrete for a long time.
I believe i read an article that Bolsonaro's position is weakening as a result of covid. Any thoughts on that?
The lockdown protests, not the current ones.
news.sky.com
?US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests
Devices associated with protesters travelled up to hundreds of miles after rallies where few precautions were taken
Still, I think we've been having the one of lowest death counts in Europe.
Among the population? Sure, it is. There is only a vocal minority protesting in favor of him because they don't care about Corona and think it's all a hoax. The president supports and endorses it by being part of the protests. We don't have an health minister for 16 days now, since anyone that gets indicted will heavily disagree with Bolsonaro because no sane medical leader will want to throw their certification into the trash by supporting Bolsonaro and his heavily screwed and 100% going against all health procedures. So he (Bolsonaro) simply chose to not have an health minister.
IIRC the phone app will use the Google/Apple API and starts trials in Canary Islands soon. It really can't come soon enough as a help to manual contact tracing.
I know Asturias at least has had 3 deaths today (so probably along the weekend). Still, the number of new infected is quite low and seems that most of the tracking capacity of the autonomies is working. Lets see if nothing happens during the holidays (just booked my flight home for mid july...)
I hope so. It is essential for the "new normality".
I feel you, there's no way to know how international travel will work :(
It's not just in the US that protests are happening, and US testing isn't in that bad of a place anymore(still could be better though). I don't think it's gonna spread a ton though because from beaches and the previous protests, I think it's fairly clear the virus doesn't spread too bad outdoors.
