Coronavirus good news thread

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.
The figure I used was just Covid-19 deaths in March. This was their worst month but there were further deaths in April.
 
And nobody believes the backing down.
I'm not sure why. It did seem on looking at her full remarks, that it wasn't based on much. She said that:
“We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing”

"A number of reports" doesn't strike me as a very solid scientific basis to make the statement she originally did.

As articles about this point out, there were a number of issues with her characterisation of the matter. As one infectious disease specialist, Dr. Isaac Bogoch put it:
"... there are key discrepancies between people who have no symptoms, those who are presymptomatic and those who are subclinical with less severe symptoms, which can make studying the true amount of asymptomatic carriers of COVID-19 extremely challenging.
"We still don't understand the role of people who have no symptoms the entire time [they're infected] versus people that have very, very mild symptoms that are misclassified as having no symptoms, versus people that have no symptoms for the first few days and then go on to develop them," he said.
"So, when we heard the WHO say that people without symptoms rarely transmit this infection, an eyebrow went up, because we certainly know that there are different types of people without symptoms and it's a little more complicated than what they had reported."

WHO backtracks on asymptomatic spread claim
 
I'm not sure why. It did seem on looking at her full remarks, that it wasn't based on much. She said that:


"A number of reports" doesn't strike me as a very solid scientific basis to make the statement she originally did.

As articles about this point out, there were a number of issues with her characterisation of the matter. As one infectious disease specialist, Dr. Isaac Bogoch put it:


WHO backtracks on asymptomatic spread claim
We don't like WHO do we!?
 
We don't like WHO do we!?
Well, I don't know about anyone else but I have a lot of time for the WHO. I think they do a lot of good work and get a bunch of unfair criticism.

In this case, one member of the WHO, in a relatively long press conference when answering a number of different question, may have overstated the case for the rarity of asymptomatic transmission. When this was pointed out to her, she issued a clarification, saying that:
asymptomatic spread is a “really complex question” and much is still unknown. “We don’t actually have that answer yet,” she said.

As she also stated, she wasn't giving the official position of the WHO in her earlier remarks, she was just:
responding to a question at the press conference [and] was referring to a small subset of studies.
 
Well, I don't know about anyone else but I have a lot of time for the WHO. I think they do a lot of good work and get a bunch of unfair criticism.

In this case, one member of the WHO, in a relatively long press conference when answering a number of different question, may have overstated the case for the rarity of asymptomatic transmission. When this was pointed out to her, she issued a clarification, saying that:


As she also stated, she wasn't giving the official position of the WHO in her earlier remarks, she was just:
Good lad!
 
My missus has been working in 3 different assisted living care homes since March and not one single case of covid-19 on any of them.
Edit may I add that one of the homes she has been working in has had 2 people in and out of hospital for different reasons since this all kicked off too. Both negative when tested.
 
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Great news. Also of those 24 deaths, 19 were in ONE care home. A investigation has apparently already being launched as to how and why that was allowed to happen.
 
Should be TT racing there this week, with the Senior TT today. Will be unusually quiet there this week with no visitors allowed.
It's a beautiful part of the world. We've tossed up wether we move to Spain or move there when the kids are grown up and have fled the nest.
It's always fascinated me.
 
It's a beautiful part of the world. We've tossed up wether we move to Spain or move there when the kids are grown up and have fled the nest.
It's always fascinated me.
I know this doesn't affect you, but isn't homosexuality illegal in the Isle of Man?
 
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