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frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Covid-19 chaos in Zimbabwe | City Press
In Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, the main funeral parlours and cemeteries are overrun and the city’s biggest hospital is in a shambles, while the Beitbridge border with South Africa is a mess.
Unfortunately it seems that the predictions that some African countries had escaped the pandemic due to greater immunity etc might not be true
Zimbabwe has had a rise in Covid infections and some people have tried to flee to South Africa to escape the lockdown, unfortunately this has led to a lot of economic hardship, and with this plus people being deported back over the border, Covid is just spreading even more
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
Yep, there was something about Lesotho the other day as well, :/Covid-19 chaos in Zimbabwe | City Press
In Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, the main funeral parlours and cemeteries are overrun and the city’s biggest hospital is in a shambles, while the Beitbridge border with South Africa is a mess.www.news24.com
Unfortunately it seems that the predictions that some African countries had escaped the pandemic due to greater immunity etc might not be true
Zimbabwe has had a rise in Covid infections and some people have tried to flee to South Africa to escape the lockdown, unfortunately this has led to a lot of economic hardship, and with this plus people being deported back over the border, Covid is just spreading even more
weltweit
Well-Known Member
South Africa is having a hard time especially with their own variant.
‘South Africa is going to get a third wave of coronavirus, even a fourth’ | South Africa | The Guardian
‘South Africa is going to get a third wave of coronavirus, even a fourth’ | South Africa | The Guardian
2hats
Dust.
First confirmed case(s) of transmission from human to other primate.
www.nationalgeographic.com
Gorillas test positive for COVID-19 at San Diego Zoo Safari Park
They are the world’s first non-human primates with confirmed cases of the virus.
2hats
Dust.
Preprint - saliva viral load appears to be a better predictor of COVID-19 disease progression. A durable, high viral load in saliva appears to correlate with severe disease and was also found not remain high throughout fatal cases. This is probably because saliva may better reflect viral loads in both the upper and lower respiratory tracts due to mucociliary clearance (in contrast to a nasopharyngeal swab which only samples the upper respiratory tract).
www.medrxiv.org
DOI: 10.1101/2021.01.04.21249236
Obvious implications for disease management and wider testing.
Saliva viral load is a dynamic unifying correlate of COVID-19 severity and mortality
While several clinical and immunological parameters correlate with disease severity and mortality in SARS-CoV-2 infection, work remains in identifying unifying correlates of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that can be used to guide clinical practice. Here, we examine saliva and...
Obvious implications for disease management and wider testing.
ferrelhadley
There is no love between us anymore.
Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective
Latest results show Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine is less effective in Brazil than previously suggested.
www.bbc.co.uk
Just needs some feed water into the reactor.
2hats
Dust.
A new study, published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, underlines how ACE2 expression in the brain (in/around neurons) can lead to SARS-CoV-2 infections causing vascular damage, disrupting oxygen supply to surrounding tissue. This was demonstrated in both mice and on human brain tissue. Additionally, autopsies of COVID victims revealed microinfarcts, localised tissue damage and cell death in their brain tissue.
rupress.org
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20202135
Neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 in human and mouse brain | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press
Neurological symptoms are frequently observed in COVID-19. Here, we examine the neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV-2 and demonstrate infection of neurons
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2hats
Dust.
Medically it's recognised as both. Has been for some time now.
Please get a grip people, Yes Boris is a twat amongst twats, but that statement re abuse of animals for ridiculous reasons is completely valid and has fuck alll to do with Racism.........It sometimes feels like this is a holding pen for the terminally offended and the 'anything a Tory does must be wrong' crew...very narrow minded
elbows
Well-Known Member
An honest and fair discussion of animal-human issues in the sense of diseases crossing over to humans would involve the leaders of nations focussing on their own countries and cultures risky animal industries, rather than falling back on tired old shit that points a crooked finger at other cultures and which hasnt even been proven in terms of the SARS-CoV-2 origin story.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
My experience of France through friends is it can be mind-blowingly bureaucratic. I had a day traipsing from office to office with reams of paperwork for some minor things a few years ago, something that we could have done here online in like 5 minutes.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Portugal is a bit like that , some stuff is online but others not . There was a sharp move to get more online when covid first broke out but the Portuguese do like a bit of paperwork. Booking an appointment at many doctors has to be a phone call ( if they answer the phone ) or in person as they like or require to see your health number if card. No online consultations either where I am so has to be in person . My local state health centre does have online appointments but it’s based on using the citizen card numbers which only being a resident I don’t have .
Cloo
Banana for scale
Mixed results from Israel, it seems:
Initial Israeli data: First Pfizer shot curbs infections by 50% after 14 days
Will be interesting for the world to watch.
2hats
Dust.
Their initial results are clearly underlining the need to take other precautions, mitigations, until well after the second dose.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
From midnight tomorrow for one month
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Devi Sridhar: The UK needs a zero-Covid strategy to prevent endless lockdowns
To avoid restrictions next winter, the UK must seek to eliminate the virus, not merely suppress it, argues the Edinburgh professor of global public health.www.newstatesman.com
This is what makes me so angry.
Had they pursued a zero COVID strategy really aggressively at the start we might not have had the 2nd lockdown.
Now we’re all locked into our houses for months awaiting a high tech technological solution to a problem that had a simple solution.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
‘Worst nightmare’: Zimbabweans suffer amid rising COVID cases
Amid a deepening economic crisis, Zimbabwe’s healthcare system is in shambles as coronavirus patients mount.
Tragic situation in Zimbabwe
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
‘Worst nightmare’: Zimbabweans suffer amid rising COVID cases
Amid a deepening economic crisis, Zimbabwe’s healthcare system is in shambles as coronavirus patients mount.www.google.com
Tragic situation in Zimbabwe
That article was hard to read.
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
Flights from Brazil, South America and Portugal being banned from 4am due to new variant
sparkybird
ask the bird...
Coronavirus en México: "En unos 50 hospitales no había lugar para mi madre enferma de covid-19 y ahora se debate entre la vida y la muerte" - BBC News Mundo
La "segunda ola" de coronavirus en México está dejando a sus hospitales al borde del colapso, especialmente a los de la capital del país. Muchos como David tienen que peregrinar por decenas de centros médicos hasta encontrar sitio para ingresar a sus familiares.
www.bbc.com
Friends of mine in city I usually visit each year in central Mexico have just started a fundraiser to supply oxygen to the fire brigade who are in charge of refilling people's oxygen tanks.
