^ it got taken down because hydroxychloroquine is in fact not effective, it has nothing to do with trump
As of August 6, the percentage of people living on First Nations reserves who have tested positive for COVID-19 was one-quarter that of the general Canadian population. Of a total 422 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on reserves, more than 80% have recovered. Six people have died—a fatality rate one-fifth that of the general population. According to Indigenous Services Canada, "First Nations communities are flattening the curve."
British Columbia is a case in point—the province reported just 90 cases of COVID-19 among First Nations people in the first six months of 2020. Health officials attributed these low numbers to the "extraordinary" public health measures taken by Indigenous communities.
According to Dr. Nel Weiman, acting deputy chief medical officer for the First Nations Health Authority, the memory of past epidemics in which entire villages were nearly wiped out made people especially cautious about COVID-19. "Communities recognized the need to really take this seriously and install their own versions of public health measures," says Weiman.
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According to Dr. Nel Weiman, acting deputy chief medical officer for the First Nations Health Authority, the memory of past epidemics in which entire villages were nearly wiped out made people especially cautious about COVID-19. "Communities recognized the need to really take this seriously and install their own versions of public health measures," says Weiman.
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Identification of healthy people at high risk for severe COVID-19 is a global health priority. Scientists at Nightingale Health investigated whether blood biomarkers measured by high-throughput metabolomics could be predictive of severe pneumonia and COVID-19 hospitalization years after the blood sampling.
The researchers analyzed over 100,000 blood samples from the UK Biobank and identified a particular molecular signature in the blood that's common among people who get severe symptoms if infected by the coronavirus. Those with this molecular signature are five to 10 times more likely to be hospitalized. These findings are novel, as the blood biomarkers in the molecular signature have not been previously known as risk markers in healthy people for developing severe forms of COVID-19.
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In Washington, under the state's guidelines for personal service providers, that includes nail salons, clients "must self-screen for signs and symptoms of COVID-19 before arriving at the service provider location." Naturally, you might think that would mean if someone tested positive for COVID-19, they wouldn't knowingly make or keep an appointment with their manicurist within the recommended quarantine period.
But a nail technician named Taylor recently shared a since-removed Facebook post with a screenshot of a text-message conversation she says she had with a customer. In the screenshot, shared with Allure by Taylor, the client wrote, "I feel really bad and should not have shown up for my appointment but I desperately needed my nails done! I tested positive for the virus two days ago soooooo please quarantine yourself."
Taylor replied, reminding the client not only that she is immunocompromised, but that she would not have accepted her appointment if the client had revealed beforehand that they'd had any COVID-19 exposure. "I asked you before you even got here if you had been exposed to the virus and if you have had it at any point," she wrote.
The client, however, appeared to believe the condition of her nails justified exposing her unsuspecting manicurist to the highly contagious novel strain of coronavirus, offering more of an excuse than an apology. "I was just desperate to get out of the house! I was quarantine in two days I'm sorry! I needed my nails done sooooooo bad! You saw how bad they were!"
https://www.allure.c...irus-washington
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HS that suspended teen who tweeted photo of hallway has 9 COVID-19 cases
https://arstechnica....covid-19-cases/
No End in Sight as U.S. Cases Pass 5 Million
https://www.webmd.co...no-end-in-sight
The good news: The United States has a window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 before things get much, much worse.
The bad news: That window is rapidly closing. And the country seems unwilling or unable to seize the moment.
Winter is coming. Winter means cold and flu season, which is all but sure to complicate the task of figuring out who is sick with Covid-19 and who is suffering from a less threatening respiratory tract infection. It also means that cherished outdoor freedoms that link us to pre-Covid life — pop-up restaurant patios, picnics in parks, trips to the beach — will soon be out of reach, at least in northern parts of the country.
Unless Americans use the dwindling weeks between now and the onset of “indoor weather” to tamp down transmission in the country, this winter could be Dickensianly bleak, public health experts warn.
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Epidemiologist Michael Mina despairs that an important chance to wrestle the virus under control is being lost, as Americans ignore the realities of the pandemic in favor of trying to resume pre-Covid life.
“We just continue to squander every bit of opportunity we get with this epidemic to get it under control,’’ said Mina, an assistant professor in Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and associate medical director of clinical microbiology at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
“The best time to squash a pandemic is when the environmental characteristics slow transmission. It’s your one opportunity in the year, really, to leverage that extra assistance and get transmission under control,” he said, his frustration audible.
Driving back transmission would require people to continue to make sacrifices, to accept the fact that life post-Covid cannot proceed as normal, not while so many people remain vulnerable to the virus. Instead, people are giddily throwing off the shackles of coronavirus suppression efforts, seemingly convinced that a few weeks of sacrifice during the spring was a one-time solution.
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https://www.statnews...9-is-narrowing/
Miguel Sagastume has less than $2 until next week. When the enhanced unemployment payments of $600 each week expired on July 31st, his financial lifeline dried up. He now receives just $86.45 from the New York Department of Labor each week after taxes are removed from his unemployment checks.
The end of the Financial Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, which has not been renewed as the Republican-controlled Senate remains deadlocked over another stimulus bill, has left Sagastume facing financial uncertainty—again. As he, like others, waited more than a month to receive his first unemployment payment this spring, the Queens resident plunged into despair.
“I sat in my house, cried, prayed,” said Sagastume, who has been using SNAP benefits to buy food for others who have less financial assistance. “I was really thinking of checking out, because I couldn't take it anymore.”
As negotiations over another government stimulus bill appear poised to spill into next week, New Yorkers are grappling with dwindling funds and food insecurity, just as they were at the beginning of the pandemic.
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Brazil's Covid-19 death toll shoots above 100,000 with no relief on sight
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The virus took three months to kill 50,000 people, and just 50 days to kill the next 50,000.
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The health ministry on Saturday reported 49,970 new confirmed cases and 905 deaths in the last 24 hours, raising the number of cases to more than 3 million and the death toll to 100,477.
Brazil's Supreme Court and Congress, institutions that have criticized Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic, respectively declared three and four days of national mourning for the 100,000 dead. The president did not comment publicly.
“We don't know where it will stop, maybe at 150,000 or 200,000 deaths. Only time will show the full impact of COVID-19 here,” said Alexandre Naime, head of Sao Paulo State University's department of infectious diseases.
He said the only comparison may be diseases brought by colonizers, such as smallpox, that decimated indigenous populations when Europeans first arrived in the Americas.
While that history is long past, Urbaez said Brazil today seems equally resigned to the COVID-19 deaths to come. “The government's message today is: 'Catch your coronavirus and if it's serious, there is intensive care.' That sums up our policy today,” said Urbaez of the Infectious Disease Society.
https://en.mercopres...relief-on-sight
Israelis welcome in only four countries due to coronavirus spread
https://www.ynetnews...icle/H1711jhCZP
A well-known Hindu temple in India has seen more than 700 cases of COVID-19 among its staff in the past two months
https://www.channeln...tbreak-13007698
Scientists looking for a “signature” of COVID-19 in infected cases say it could reveal that even patients who have recovered develop disease risks they didn’t have before contracting the virus.
The research suggests that abnormalities detected in blood samples of infected patients are linked to diabetes, liver dysfunction, abnormal levels of cholesterol and higher risk of coronary heart disease.
The research, to be published shortly by the Australian National Phenome Centre, Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge in the UK and other agencies, may flag that COVID-19 infections could trigger a massive increase in the healthcare burden across the planet…
“We don’t know yet whether these long-term effects are permanent, but certainly there is evidence of long-term issues with lung damage and damage of the blood vessels around the body including the heart,” Professor Kelly said.
“This can be a very severe illness. Don’t take it lightly”…
In Australia, young people aged 20 to 29 are the most likely age group to contract the virus…
“We are very worried about the long-term effects of this coronavirus,” [Chris Moy] said. “The great fear in this is the unknown nature of this condition, which we haven’t really seen before. This is something that we could pay for later.”
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https://www.nakedcap...disability.html
China's economy, as shown by multiple mid-year indicators, has ridden out its downturn due to COVID-19 strains and bounced back to growth in the second quarter (Q2). Economists believe that the country's V-shaped recovery is only getting started.
In Q2, China's gross domestic product expanded by 3.2 percent year on year, reversing a 6.8-percent contraction in the previous quarter. China's fiscal revenue marked the first expansion this year by gaining 3.2 percent year on year in June, while the contraction of the retail sector declined markedly.
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