The Coronavirus thread

Y’all are still playing COVID? 🙄

Quote: Mooseton

Y’all are still playing COVID? 🙄

Yea
Still mask up at the store
Still avoid crowds
But
I get out and do more then anti maskers
Planning on the Hermitage tour and seeing the Parthenon in the next few days in Nashville
I have asthma
Covid is probably deadly to me

Quote: Pacomartin

I checked ourworldindata.org to see if we were still declining at the same rate, and indeed as of 31 March we were 31% lower number of deaths than the same day last year.

Suddenly they reported 14,000 COVID deaths on 4 April (an unprecedented number). What's up with that data?

I believe a lot of jurisdictions have gone to weekly reporting from daily. Monday reports could be a pretty common weekly reporting day.

Quote: kenarman

I believe a lot of jurisdictions have gone to weekly reporting from daily. Monday reports could be a pretty common weekly reporting day.

It looks like it was a glitch as it is gone today. Last year at this time deaths averaged 820 for the week and it is now at 593 for the last week.

That doesn't mean a whole lot for the big picture deaths tends to bottom around 4th of July before creeping back up.

Peaks
April 23, 2020 deaths averaged 2233 for the week
Jan 13, 2021 deaths averaged 3403 for the week
Feb 20, 2022 deaths averaged 2604 for the week

Quote: terapined

Yea
Still mask up at the store
Still avoid crowds
But
I get out and do more then anti maskers
Planning on the Hermitage tour and seeing the Parthenon in the next few days in Nashville
I have asthma
Covid is probably deadly to me

I’d bet loads you would survive.

Only 23 hospitalizations and six deaths over the past 28 days in unmasked NYC. Globally, daily deaths are down 85% since Feb. 8.

Quote: Tanko

Only 23 hospitalizations and six deaths over the past 28 days in unmasked NYC. Globally, daily deaths are down 85% since Feb. 8.

I think it will keep dropping until the summer holidays.

Memorial Day Mon, May 30, 2022 (about 8 weeks)
Independence Day (another 5 weeks)

Quote: Pacomartin

Quote: Tanko

Only 23 hospitalizations and six deaths over the past 28 days in unmasked NYC. Globally, daily deaths are down 85% since Feb. 8.

I think it will keep dropping until the summer holidays.
Memorial Day Mon, May 30, 2022 (about 8 weeks)
Independence Day (another 5 weeks)

Statistics are way down in BC but most cases don't get reported anymore. Everyone has home tests and if you test positive it isn't even reported. You just stay home until your symptoms are gone or a minimum of 3 days. The government estimates that 50% to 60% of the population has actually had Covid now with Omicron so mild. They arrive at this figure from monitoring the sewage for Covid. That is with a 90% + vaccination rate. They have dropped all restrictions and Covid passport requirements. Unless we get a more virulent type that stresses the hospitals they don't anticipate putting the restrictions back in place.

"Shanghai went through a fourth day of phased lockdown on Monday, but amid the unusual quiet of the mandated standstill, its 25 million residents have been more alert than ever as the city battles its toughest COVID-19 outbreak in two years.""

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202204/05/WS624b79cea310fd2b29e550d1.html

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/shanghai-sees-record-covid-cases-6th-day-unrest-spurred-lockdown-worsens

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/world/asia/shanghai-covid-china.html\

"Authorities counted nearly 20K cases in Shanghai alone on Wednesday, nearly matching the number for all of China from the day before."