April 27, 2020
No reports in yet for 27 April C-19 cases in Marshall or East Texas at 1500.
Mink found to have coronavirus on two Dutch farms: ministry
Two mink farms in the Netherlands have been put into quarantine after animals were found to be infected with the new coronavirus, the agriculture ministry said on Sunday, urging people to report any other likely cases in the animals.
The Real Reason to Wear a Mask
“…in Hong Kong, only four confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 have been recorded since the beginning of the pandemic, despite high density, mass transportation, and proximity to Wuhan. Hong Kong’s health authorities credit their citizens’ near-universal mask-wearing as a key factor (surveys show almost 100 percent voluntary compliance). Similarly, Taiwan ramped up mask production early on and distributed masks to the population, mandating their use in public transit and recommending their use in other public places — a recommendation that has been widely complied with. The country continues to function fully, and their schools have been open since the end of February, while their death total remains very low, at only six. In the Czech Republic, masks were not used during the initial outbreak, but after a grassroots campaign led to a government mandate on March 18, masks in public became ubiquitous. The results took a while to be reflected in the official statistics: The first five days of April still saw an average of 257 new cases and nine deaths per day, but the most recent five days of data show an average of 120 new cases and five deaths per day. Of course, we can’t know for sure to what degree these success stories are due to masks, but we do know that in every region that has adopted widespread mask-wearing, case and death rates have been reduced within a few weeks.
“We know a vaccine may take years, and in the meantime, we will need to find ways to make our societies function as safely as possible. Our governments can and should do much — make tests widely available, fund research, ensure medical workers have everything they need. But ordinary people are not helpless; in fact, we have more power than we realize. Along with keeping our distance whenever possible and maintaining good hygiene, all of us wearing just a cloth mask could help stop this pandemic in its tracks.”
WHO COVID-19 Situation Report for April 26
See chart with each country. Note, most all countries have many, many new cases daily. We have a long way to gl. Texas has >1000 new cases a day. On Friday, April 24, the US CDC reported 37,144 new cases, the country’s highest daily total since the onset of the pandemic. On April 26, the CDC reported 928,619 total cases (32,853 new from the previous day). I hope Marshall’s new cases will be down, but based on what I saw from my car with the crowding of customers I saw as several stores over the weekend, I’m worried about our situation.
IT AIN’T OVER ‘TILL IT’S OVER. STAY SAFE. STAY HOME. WEAR MASKS AND GLOVES IF YOU HAVE TO GO OUT. RELIABLE TESTS ARE BECOMING AVAILABLE AS ARE CASE TRACKING TECHNIQUES — AND GOOD FOLKS ARE WORKING ON THE VACCINE. THERE IS NOTHING HAPPENING THAT WON’T BE SOLVED.
NEW TESTING INFORMATION FROM HOPKINS:
Developing a National Strategy for Serology (Antibody Testing) in the United States
TESTS FOR C-19 (CORONAVIRUS, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2)—my attempt to simplify:
1. IMMEDIATE OR PCR OR ANTIGEN or MOLECULAR TESTS—Might show if you now have or have recently had C-19?
“Molecular tests detect the pathogen while it is circulating in the body, and they are used to diagnose and/or confirm cases for clinical treatment or surveillance purposes. Molecular tests may also detect fragments of the pathogen before it is fully cleared from the body, even if the pathogen is no longer able to replicate or cause disease.”
2. ANTIBODY OR SEROLOGY TEST — Did you have C-19 and develop a protein that might give you some immunity against C-19?
“Serological tests—or “antibody tests”—on the other hand, detect evidence of the body’s immune response to an infection, which can provide information on both current and prior infection. Serological tests provide the capability to detect infections after the immune system has successfully eliminated the pathogen.”
Serological tests facilitate identification of asymptomatic SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in Wuhan, China (Journal of Medical Virology)
This study is valuable because of about 1400 people in China who had not been sick and who wanted to go back to work, about 10% of them showed serological evidence of prior C-19 disease.
(This is a poorly written article and difficult to read)
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Using the numbers you just posted, the population of Harrison bounty is
66,953 and the number of cases is 77 then the infection rate is less than
0.1% that is one tenth of one percent and the death rate is less than
0.0089%. Why would any sane person put our entire economy at risk with
these odds. The death rate from natural causes is 1.3%. You are more
likely to die from old age than from this virus.
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