Kansas resident tests positive for COVID-19, attended protest without mask, health officials say https://www.foxnews.com/us/kansas-r...ng-protest-without-mask-health-officials-warn A Kansas resident has tested positive for the coronavirus after attending a recent protest against police brutality, health officials announced on Friday. Officials with the Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health Department said the person attended a protest in downtown Lawrence on May 31. They advised anyone who attended the demonstration to self-isolate and monitor for symptoms. “Similar to what we would ask anyone who goes out in public right now, we are asking anyone who attended the recent protest to self-monitor for COVID-19 symptoms and isolate if they become sick as well as call their healthcare provider for next steps,” said Informatics Director Sonia Jordan. The unidentified protester admitted he was not wearing a mask during the demonstration, health officials added. His positive test comes as health officials in the U.S. have raised concerns that nationwide protests over George Floyd's death in police custody could spark a wider spread of the coronavirus -- amid months of stay-at-home orders to limit the virus's spread. "It is the perfect set-up for the spread of the virus in the sense of creating some blips which might turn into some surges,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of President Trump's Coronavirus Task Force, told radio station WTOP-FM in Washington, D.C. The packed mass demonstrations have seen many without masks, some chanting, shouting, or singing, as the U.S. is nearing 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases. More than 100,500 deaths from the virus have also been recorded in the states. The coronavirus is mainly thought to spread from person to person contact within close distances, the CDC added. “As I sat in front of the TV and watched the screen go from Washington, D.C., to New York City, to Los Angeles, to Philadelphia, I got really concerned,” Fauci told the Sunday Times of London. “I was going, ‘Oh my goodness. I hope this doesn’t set us back a lot.’ [After] all of the work in trying to maintain the physical distance and doing all the things, I became very concerned that we might see a resurgence." According to the CDC, symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. "For people who do go into public spaces right now, we advise them to follow social distancing best practices of wearing a mask and trying to stand six feet away from others," health officials added. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health epidemiology staff said they were notified of the positive test on Friday after the sample was taken Thursday.
Hundreds of people could die from coronavirus for each day of protests: experts https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/hundreds-could-die-from-coronavirus-for-each-day-of-protests-experts/ Each day of protests across the US could kill up to 540 people from coronavirus, an expert said while blaming mass arrests and cops’ use of tear gas for “exacerbating” the spread of the virus. “At the high end … we’d expect 54k downstream infections and 540 eventual deaths,” warned Trevor Bedford, who has been tracking the pandemic since January. “I’d give a highly speculative ‘more than 50 and less than 500‘ estimate for the number of eventual deaths for each day of protests,” he added in a series of tweets Sunday night modeling the potential dangers of the mass protests. “These deaths will likely be disproportionately among black individuals,” he also warned. Bedford, a virus expert at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, said the numbers do not represent “a massive spike in cases” given the US has had almost 2 million infections and more than 110,000 deaths as of Monday morning. “But it’s still large in absolute numbers,” he said. The scientist wrote that there is “no doubt that mass gatherings facilitate transmission,” with the concern so bad, New York is opening 15 testing centers solely for protesters. “Wearing masks and protesting outdoors has to help,” Bedford wrote in a separate thread — while putting the onus on police. “Current responses of tear gas, pepper spray and jailing after curfew are actively exacerbating it,” he wrote. Bedford’s warning comes as other studies say tear gas could increase the chances of coronavirus infections — with asymptomatic carriers also likely to suffer worse from the chemicals, Discover magazine noted. “Police must seek responses that minimize transmission potential … Deescalation is even more critical in light of COVID,” Bedford said of the controversy over heavy-handed tactics in some states. Bedford fears the protests are just a general trend that “feels as though we’ve largely given up on controlling the epidemic.” “Because of the pandemic, we’re in a terrible situation where addressing systemic racism and bringing economy back online carry health risks,” he tweeted. “It is a cruel twist that the US’s inability to control the epidemic has made it dangerous to protest entrenched police brutality,” he said, calling the “harms of systemic racism … real and utterly pernicious.”
Right about now a dramatic spike in Covid cases is about the best news we can hope for. Wish I was joking.
And then the WHO comes out and says... hey you know we experts have been lying are asses off. you were about to figure it out... so guess what... our testing and tracing data shows... asymptomatic people rarely spread the virus... you fool or worse... ... you have been pushing the bullshit narrative for months... https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...-very-rare-per-who.345927/page-3#post-5121863
JEM - stop posting fake bullshiat... In less than 24 hours, WHO completely walks back their statement. Coronavirus Live Updates: W.H.O. Walks Back Claim That Asymptomatic Transmission is Rare https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/world/coronavirus-updates.html A top expert at the World Health Organization on Tuesday walked back her earlier assertion that transmission of the coronavirus by people who do not have symptoms is “very rare.” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, who made the original comment at a W.H.O. briefing on Monday, said that it was based on just two or three studies and that it was a “misunderstanding” to say asymptomatic transmission is rare globally. “I was just responding to a question, I wasn’t stating a policy of W.H.O. or anything like that,” she said. Dr. Van Kerkhove said that the estimates of transmission from people without symptoms come primarily from models, which may not provide an accurate representation. “That’s a big open question, and that remains an open question,” she said.
I think what this really proves is WHO has no fucking idea what they are talking about, they simply take small data points and make headlines and press releases over it and also demonstrate how useless statistics are as a science/math but rather are more linked to tools for opinions to be manipulated. How could a group of doctors and scientist be this fucked up.
Note that nearly all the people who make these announcements for WHO are politicians and not scientists. Even if they have a doctorate degree the last time they did science was long ago.
News Anchors Blame Coronavirus Spikes On Reopening While Ignoring Recent Protests https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/10/news-anchors-coronavirus-spikes-reopening-ignoring-protests/ Anchors on ABC and NBC blamed recent spikes in novel coronavirus cases on states reopening, largely ignoring the protests around the country that have seen many come together in the streets. ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News both highlighted spikes in some of the first states to reopen after the virus shutdown much of America, Media Research Center reported. In addition to some states beginning to slowly reopen, America has seen hundreds of thousands of people spill out onto the streets around the country in protest following the death of George Floyd. (More at above url)
location, incubation periods, these are important things journalists ask before throwing baseless accusations.