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Daily Archives: 5 April 2020
COVID-19 is striking Arizona’s rural areas harder than urban ones, exacting a disproportionate toll on communities thin on medical care and basic infrastructure, an analysis of Arizona’s positive cases and deaths shows. Nowhere is that more evident than on the Navajo Nation, which on Thursday confirmed it had 405 cases in Arizona, out of 558 across the entire reservation, which spans portions of Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. That means that the Nation is home to 1.4 percent of Arizona’s population but now has slightly more than 13 percent of the state’s current COVID-19 cases.
The scientific community must take up cudgels in the battle against bunk. Cow urine, bleach and cocaine have all been recommended as COVID-19 cures — all guff. The pandemic has been cast as a leaked bioweapon, a byproduct of 5G wireless technology and a political hoax — all poppycock. And countless wellness gurus and alternative-medicine practitioners have pushed unproven potions, pills and practices as ways to ‘boost’ the immune system.
On the eve of the slight easing of South Africa’s strict lockdown measures into what is now an indefinite lockdown, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said the projections about the pandemic’s death toll in the country will not be publicised. This is because it’s a moving target, and also, the figures could be abused for ‘sensational purposes’. Zweli Mkhize was one of the participants in the weekly joint Zoom briefing by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Economic Forum on Thursday, 30 April. South Africa has been praised by the WHO for having acted promptly to limit the spread of Covid-19 in the country in the past five weeks.
This site presents an independent research project, not funded by any agency, and not tied to any company, government, or political party. We acknowledge the enormous input, feedback, inspiration, and support of the people and the global community that has allowed for the continual improvement of this research. The site provides continuous predictive monitoring of COVID-19 developments as a complement to monitoring confirmed cases. SIR (susceptible-infected-recovered) model is regressed with daily updated data from different countries to estimate the pandemic life cycle curves and predict when the pandemic might end in respective countries and the world, with codes from Milan Batista and data from Our World in Data. The predictions reported here all have goodness-of-fit R^2 > 0.8. The predictions are expected to change with the changes in real-world scenarios over time and are updated daily with the latest data. Motivation, theory, method, how-to-read examples, and caution are in this paper.
A short cultural history of mask-wearing: As someone who lives part of the year in Japan and part of the year in the United States, I have found it odd to watch all the dithering about mask-wearing during the current pandemic.
On the same day that the FDA issued an emergency use authorization for Gilead Sciences’s antiviral drug remdesivir for patients hospitalized with a severe case of covid-19, President Trump expressed support for some angry armed protesters who stormed the Michigan Capitol building this week. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization praised Wuhan, China, for having no serious remaining cases of coronavirus in the city where the virus originated.
Eight ways in which scientists hope to provide immunity to SARS-CoV-2 . More than 90 vaccines are being developed against SARS-CoV-2 by research teams in companies and universities across the world. Researchers are trialling different technologies, some of which haven’t been used in a licensed vaccine before. At least six groups have already begun injecting formulations into volunteers in safety trials; others have started testing in animals. Nature’s graphical guide explains each vaccine design.
The third meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), took place on Thursday, 30 April 2020, from 12:00 to 17:45 Geneva time (CEST).
The official in charge of the state’s rural health care system says 60 of the 163 facilities he helps to keep open have less than 30 days of cash on hand. Texas, like other states, will begin a slow, gradual re-opening of business Friday. But health care providers in rural areas of Texas tell Sharyn Alfonsi if COVID-19 outbreaks get worse in rural areas their financially fragile care systems could become overwhelmed. Some are already on the brink of closing. Alfonsi’s report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, May 3 at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS