This site has compiled the data from 67 HCQ studies. I know. I know. Even though the numbers demonstrate a 79% lower mortality rate wrt countries that administer HCQ early, HCQ doesn't work. https://c19study.com
Gee... from a website put together to hype HCQ --- and lists studies that actually have negative results as being "positive".
Tracking Our COVID-19 Response Each state's progress towards a new normal https://www.covidexitstrategy.org/ Let's take a look at data reporting from the HHS instead of the CDC is going... August 10 - Continued ICU & Inpatient Bed Data Issues & Inconsistencies from HHS Over the past week we have been unable to update our columns for ICU and inpatient bed utilization. We continue to see inconsistencies and stale data coming from the HHS Protect System. The data on the public HHS Protect website was last updated on August 3, 2020. HHS also makes these datasets available via HealthData.gov. The "estimated" patient impact dataset was last updated on August 4, 2020. We prefer this dataset because appropriate statistical analysis is applied to account for non-response and missing data. This is the dataset that we used from the CDC before the CDC to HHS switch. The dataset for "reported" patient impact was updated last night (August 9, 2020), but continues to have inconsistencies. For example, in Rhode Island the dataset indicates that inpatient beds are 111% occupied. In the dataset pulled on August 6, 2020, multiple states were missing data. We are hoping these issues get addressed soon. Without good "reported" data, likely the HHS team is having issues creating their "estimated" dataset.
Dog that died at NCSU vet school tested positive for coronavirus https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/do...ool-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/19230347/ State officials on Tuesday reported the first confirmed case of coronavirus in a dog that died last week at the North Carolina State University Veterinary Hospital. The virus was confirmed by both the hospital lab and by the National Veterinary Services Laboratories. The dog's cause of death is still undetermined. The dog was taken to N.C. State on Aug. 3 after showing signs of respiratory distress, officials said. The owner told staff at the veterinary hospital that a family member had previously tested positive for coronavirus. "Based on the information available, the risk of animals spreading the virus to people is considered to be low," State Public Health Veterinarian Dr. Carl Williams said in a statement. If pet owners are concerned about the health of their dog, officials said, they should contact their veterinarian and discuss the dog’s symptoms before bringing them to the veterinarian office. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, there is no evidence that pets play a significant role in spreading the virus. “There is no indication at this time that dogs can transmit the virus to other animals, so there is no justification in taking measures against companion animals that may compromise their welfare,” State Veterinarian Dr. Doug Meckes said. Still, state and federal officials plan to evaluate other pets in the home of the dog that died to determine if pet-to-pet transmission may have occurred. In April, a pug n Chapel Hill was believed to have tested positive for the virus in one of the first cases in the U.S. of a family pet with the virus. But further testing later showed that the dog likely never had the virus.
Great..now they are going to close down dog schools since they cannot social distance... unless a dog cannot catch it from sniffing another dog's ass
Covid-19 death toll rivals fatality rate during 1918 flu epidemic, researchers say https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...e1dbf2-dd01-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html The increase in deaths in New York City during the early months of the covid-19 pandemic rivals the death toll there at the peak of the 1918 flu pandemic, according to an analysis published Thursday. The comparison, published online in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, found that the number of deaths from all causes was roughly equal during the two peak months of the flu epidemic and the first 61 days of the current outbreak. The H1N1 flu pandemic eventually killed 50 million people a century ago, about 675,000 of them in the United States. The current pandemic has claimed at least 746,000 lives worldwide, about 162,000 of them in the United States, according to a tally kept by The Washington Post. “For anyone who doesn’t understand the magnitude of what we’re living through, this pandemic is comparable in its effect on mortality to what everyone agrees is the previous worst pandemic,” said Jeremy S. Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who led the team that conducted the data review. (The AIDS epidemic has killed more than 700,000 people in the United States since it began in 1981.) There were 31,589 deaths from all causes in New York during the peak period of the flu epidemic, about the same as the 33,465 tallied in the 61 days after the first death on March 11 of this year, the analysis shows. New York in 1918 had a population of 5.5 million people, so the death rate of 287 per 100,000 person-months was greater than the 202 of the current covid-19 pandemic. Person-months is a way of measuring the number of deaths in a population during a specific period of time. But the current outbreak has seen a more dramatic rise in “excess deaths” — the number of fatalities above what would be expected in a normal year. With better medical care, public health, hygiene and medicines such as antibiotics, New York typically has about half the death rate of a century earlier — about 50 per person-month instead of 100. So the current outbreak has quadrupled the death rate, while the flu pandemic nearly tripled it. “Because baseline mortality rates from 2017 to 2019 were less than half that observed from 1914 to 1917 . . . the relative increase during early covid-19 period was substantially greater than during the peak of the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic,” the authors wrote. The Post has reported that the United States recorded about 37,100 excess deaths in March and the first two weeks of April, nearly 13,500 more than were attributed to covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, during that time. The report was based on an analysis of federal data conducted for The Post by a research team led by the Yale School of Public Health. The Post later reported that many of the excess deaths in New York City and five hard-hit states in March, April and May could be attributed to heart problems and a handful of other diseases. That analysis, which also used the model developed by the Yale research team, suggested that many patients suffering from serious conditions died as a result of delaying or not seeking care as the outbreak progressed and swamped some hospitals.
"Outbreak of COVID-19 in Canada starts pretty much exactly where you'd expect something like this" In news to the U.S. this is what successful contact tracing and warning the public about deadly disease exposure looks like... Vancouver Coastal Health cautions of COVID-19 exposure at downtown lounge in Trump hotel Anyone who attended IVY Lounge on Aug. 7 from 10 p.m. to closing time should monitor for symptoms https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...otel-potential-coronavirus-exposure-1.5685120 Vancouver Coastal Health is warning anyone who attended the IVY Lounge located at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Vancouver on Friday night to monitor for symptoms of COVID-19. The health authority lists the latest potential exposure — at the 3rd floor of 1161 W. Georgia St. in downtown Vancouver —on its website. People who visited the lounge between the hours of 10 p.m. on Aug. 7 and 2 a.m., or closing time, on Aug. 8 may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.