Coronavirus good news thread

Interesting that the study suggests mild/asymptomatic cases to be over 90% for the under 70s. Over 70s aren't included in the study because they don't give blood apparently.
 
Is that good news??
Not unexpected there. They are the autocratic police state that our current government seem to aspire to.

Maybe that's what the meant when they said we could be like Singapore? Not financially because no way we could compete, but in subjugation of it's peoples? We are progressing nicely.
 
Not unexpected there. They are the autocratic police state that our current government seem to aspire to.

Maybe that's what the meant when they said we could be like Singapore? Not financially because no way we could compete, but in subjugation of it's peoples? We are progressing nicely.
Where are we talking about?
 
And in Bergamo, over 50% of those tested for antibodies were positive. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ergamo-have-covid-19-antibodies-idUSKBN23F2JV

Thank goodness we didn't suffer to the same degree as Bergamo:
In a report released in early May, national statistics institute ISTAT said the number of deaths in Bergamo was up 568% in March compared with the 2015-2019 average, making it Italy’s worst-hit city in terms of deaths.

Its hospitals were overwhelmed by infected people and, with morgues unable to keep up, convoys of army trucks carrying away the dead became a chilling symbol of the global pandemic.
 
I think London probably did. Ditto some parts of the West Midlands.
Some localised areas may well have done. I don't think such any major area had as high a death rate as Bergamo though. 5300 per million population. Not an exact comparison, but New York state had 1500 per million population.

Newham had the highest death rate of any borough in the UK - 1400 per million. Bergamo was something else.
 
Probably not the same in terms of deaths but I suspect London had a similar infection rate (remember those packed tubes). Les people dying possibly due to demographic differences ... and many of London's deaths were going on invisibly in care homes (as opposed to in the family homes of Northern Italy).
 
Probably not the same in terms of deaths but I suspect London had a similar infection rate (remember those packed tubes). Les people dying possibly due to demographic differences ... and many of London's deaths were going on invisibly in care homes (as opposed to in the family homes of Northern Italy).
Just working through those figures. The death rate of those infected (50% of the population) was 1.1%. That seems to be similar to the UK based on the antibody studies (6.7% infected).
 
Just working through those figures. The death rate of those infected (50% of the population) was 1.1%. That seems to be similar to the UK based on the antibody studies (6.7% infected).

Well, I think in Bergamo they have antibodies in 57% of the population. Of course, all those that died are no longer in that sample. Plus, you have younger people who deal with it innately, so the figure is likely to be less than that 1%.

Going slightly off on a tangent, it seems that in the countries where Covid spead widely throughout the popualtion, the % of the whole population to succumb is going to be in the region of 0.05%. This might change if there is a second wave in those countries of course.
 
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