Corona Virus Updates Part 6

a reply to: RP2SticksOfDynamite

Yes, it is evolving, and mutating, all the time in fact.

Only very slightly, but each family outbreak, usually can be traced back to the one family member who brought it back to the other, and then chart who got it next, etc, from the tiny mutations, but with a mostly same structure.

There are lots of small mutations, as can be seen on the Nextstrain.org website.

First Level, is Covid-19 and Covid-20, then the A and B variants for 19, and the A, B, and C variants for 20.

Then you have smaller variations possible, look at the screencap below :



You have Nucleotide Mutations, and AA Mutations.
(Google them. Its what Google is good for, an Information Database.)
Just mouse hovering over one of the 4736 data points will show up some or no mutations.

But i'd believe that there are at least 5 major variants, with 4 'emerging' variants as a subset of these first 5.
Emerging as in they are yet to fully establish themselves as a major variant.

I've also seen the 19 and 20 main strains refered to as 'L' and 'S', and also seen references to G and H, and GA, and HA, and can't remember, but think there was maybe a GAA as wel as a couple of others.
Can't remember where though, could have been on telly or a video like that.

Another Screencap, this is the dark blue dot that is the top right hand corner of the dialogue box.

Numbers Update for Europe, and Elsewhere (No BNO) :






New Deaths :



New Cases :



For Some reason, France seems to be trying to 'Win' here...



www.worldometers.info...

It took 18-24 Months back in 1918 (Spanish Flu) even though this isn't a Flu.
They didn't go off on airplanes then, either.

(Fell asleep again last night. French Numbers were 13K, I remember that.)

Update. September 25th 2020
Tokyo time 4:00
Friday

1. Confirm cases of coronavirus in Japan

Discharge from the hospital 72,538 patients

In the hospital as of September 25th 5,989 patients

Deaths from the coronavirus stands at 1,500 to deaths

Tokyo has had 24,648 people tested positive

Osaka has 10,271 people tested positive

Okinawa has 2,382 people tested positive


I firmly cannot believe that 200,000 people have died in America from the coronavirus. The numbers just are not there and they don't match up number wise

a reply to: musicismagic

US people are more social than ppl in East Asia. Japanese bow to each other they do not shake hands, they do not hug or kiss people when they meet. Social distancing is common in Japan. They work long hours and go home.

originally posted by: dollukka
a reply to: musicismagic

US people are more social than ppl in East Asia. Japanese bow to each other they do not shake hands, they do not hug or kiss people when they meet. Social distancing is common in Japan. They work long hours and go home.

Yes that's very true.
But I just can't get over how many deaths there are in America.

Numbers Update for Europe, and Elsewhere : (No BNO) :






New Deaths :



New Cases :



France still 'Winning'...yay...

www.worldometers.info...

Schools in my district (new york metro suburb) have been open for over 14 days now; many schools around the US have been open longer. Is there and data on a resurgence of the virus as a result. Can't find any articles trying to address the possibility; most on the issue are still speaking in future hypotheticals.

a reply to: DanDanDat

Hope this helps dispel any concerns.

Children and schools

It has been known since March that the risk of disease and transmission in children is minimal in the case of Covid19. The main reason for this is probably a pre-existing immunity due to frequent contact with previous coronaviruses (i.e. cold viruses). There was and is therefore no medical reason for the closure of primary schools, kindergartens and day-care centres and for special protective measures in schools.

In the meantime, further studies on this issue have been published:

The British epidemiologist Professor Mark Woolhouse stated that there is not a single confirmed case of infection of a teacher by a pupil worldwide.

Tracing pioneer Iceland found “not a single case where a child under 10 infected their parents.”

US CDC director Robert Redfield explained that additional deaths from suicides and drug overdoses by adolescents have been “far greater” than Covid deaths in recent months.

A joint report from Sweden (without primary school closure) and Finland (with primary school closure) concluded that there was no difference in infection rates among children in the two countries.

In the USA, three times more children up to 14 years of age have died of influenza than of Covid-19 (101 versus 31) since the beginning of the year, according to the CDC.
swprs.org...

Recent updates and bits:

Interesting interview with a woman who worked at Maidstone hospital describing her experience with Covid.. very interesting
youtube.com/watch?v=WaHveEPgb30&t=2332s
Huge anti-lockdown/anti-mask protests in London today including a speech from David Icke - I was surprised to see so many anti lockdown people attending. Good to see others are questioning things - so many civil liberties are being curtailed and imo it is totally OTT...

www.theguardian.com...

Funny how Sadiq Khan said this about this protest:

This is unacceptable. I urge all protestors to leave now. Large gatherings are banned for a reason - you are putting the safety of our city at risk.

Violence towards police officers will not be tolerated and perpetrators will feel the full force of the law.

twitter.com...

And yet the BLM protest was

To the thousands of Londoners who protested peacefully today: I stand with you - and I share your anger and your pain.

To the tiny minority who were violent - you endangered a safe and peaceful protest and let down this important cause.

#BlackLivesMatter

twitter.com...

Boris Johnson will announce a 30% increase in the UK’s funding of the World Health Organization, making the UK the single largest national donor after the US leaves.

In an announcement at the UN General Assembly, he will urge it to heal “the ugly rifts” that are damaging the international fight against coronavirus.

While Trump has denounced the WHO as corrupt and under China’s influence, Johnson will announce £340m in UK funding over the next four years, a 30% increase. He will also suggest the body be given greater powers to demand reports on how countries are handling a pandemic.

The proposals will form part of a British vision, drawn up in conjunction with the Gates Foundation, of how future health pandemics could be better controlled, including “zoonotic labs” capable of identifying potentially dangerous pathogens in animals before they transmit to humans.

www.theguardian.com...

Numbers Update for Europe, and elsewhere (No BNO) :






New Deaths :



New Cases :



www.worldometers.info...

a reply to: DanDanDat

From The Guardian Live feed this morning :

In France, where a doctors’ leader has warned that the latest wave of the pandemic could “overwhelm” the country amid exhaustion on the part of health workers, Le Monde reports that a third of the new clusters are in schools and universities.

The latest figures from health officials indicate that 32% of the 899 clusters under investigation concern schools and universities.

Wherever you're going to have large groups of people congregating together, especially kids, you're going to get an increase in spread.

originally posted by: cirrus12

Funny how Sadiq Khan said this about this protest:

This is unacceptable. I urge all protestors to leave now. Large gatherings are banned for a reason - you are putting the safety of our city at risk.

Violence towards police officers will not be tolerated and perpetrators will feel the full force of the law.

twitter.com...

And yet the BLM protest was

To the thousands of Londoners who protested peacefully today: I stand with you - and I share your anger and your pain.

To the tiny minority who were violent - you endangered a safe and peaceful protest and let down this important cause.

#BlackLivesMatter

twitter.com...

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Also, this Document dated September 18th about COVID and School age children :

Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 Outbreaks Associated with Child Care Facilities — Salt Lake City, Utah, April–July 2020

It's from this piece in the Guardian this morning, by a Professor at Harvard, Dr William Hanage, on How the UK Govt has ballsed it all up.

Some more stuff from the Web :

Ongoing Problems after Mild Symptoms



Too many children are being tested for Covid, says leading expert

a reply to: MonkeyBalls2
Here's another article with interviews from people who are deemed 'Long Covid' after they have contracted the virus.
I myself am helping some of my clients who have these symptoms particularly the anosmia, muscle pain/fatigue, insomnia and brain fog.
Long Covid

Rainbows
Jane

a reply to: angelchemuel

A living Hell for most people i'd think.
Might it depend on which strain you catch ?
I don't think we have the data yet unfortunately.
'Glass-like' lungs was one of the symptoms (of exhaustion) iirc.

*added exhaustion

a reply to: MonkeyBalls2
Yes, the 'glass lungs' was as a result of secondary pneumonia, it's a phenomenon of pneumonia. Not sure whether that can be connected to Covid now or as a result of older people getting pneumonia as a 'result of' Covid. There's not much talk about the glass lungs anymore. More talk about the coagulopathy in the lung, kidneys and liver mainly.

Rainbows
Jane

I've read a bit about this post-covid stuff, it sounds horrible.
Almost like symptoms of chronic fatigue that some people get after having glandular fever.
I wonder if there is a link somehow between these people that have it - whether something is triggered in their body in particular that leaves them with longer lasting symptoms/issues?

a reply to: angelchemuel