The COVID-2019 Thread

[Latindancer]

What Does Covid-19 Do to Your Brain ?

Scientists are racing to figure out why some patients also develop neurological ailments like confusion, stroke, seizure, or loss of smell.


What Does Covid-19 Do to Your Brain? | WIRED

[jabir]

on what planet are you on? link to Fed buying stocks, that should be funny to see, I think you got confused in that process

another 40% drop is very much possible, this is from one guy who predicted the big drop after the first drop when everyone (including me) was buying back too early

No point guessing, just follow the big money (eg Berkshire Hathaway), you will miss out on the first few % either way but at least you know you're on the right track. I think it was January that BH announced it was holding 128bn cash; that should've been a clue to many that were struck by fomo and blindly jumped in on the dead cat bounces only to end up committed and trapped.

[Bettyboo]

on what planet are you on? link to Fed buying stocks, that should be funny to see, I think you got confused in that process

another 40% drop is very much possible, this is from one guy who predicted the big drop after the first drop when everyone (including me) was buying back too early

Mark Yusko (and many others...) know a fair bit more than you on this issue, so I suggest you look for their analysis on ETFs/other...

[Bettyboo]

McDonald's and KFC will take a massive hit in profits over the next several years...

While Amazon profits go through the roof! I wonder if that wanker will pay any taxes at all on his newly earned $18,000,000,000?

[OhOh]

Am I bovvered?

Births this year
41,629,220

Deaths this year
17,477,239

Population Growth this year
24,152,684

Country (or dependency)	Population	Yearly	Net
2020	Change	Change
China	1,439,323,776	0.39%	5,540,090
India	1,380,004,385	0.99%	13,586,631

World Population Clock: 7.8 Billion People (2020) - Worldometer

[harrybarracuda]

Given their past record, I would not put it past the nips to be seeing this as an opportunity to cull their aging population, especially as they have been moaning about them for years. It's not as if they don't have the technology or the financial clout to have done a better job.

Hospitals in Japan are increasingly turning away sick people as the country struggles with surging coronavirus infections and its emergency medical system collapses.

In one recent case, an ambulance carrying a man with a fever and difficulty breathing was rejected by 80 hospitals and forced to search for hours for a hospital in downtown Tokyo that would treat him.

Another feverish man finally reached a hospital after paramedics unsuccessfully contacted 40 clinics.

The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine and the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine say many hospital emergency rooms are refusing to treat people including those suffering strokes, heart attacks and external injuries.

Japan initially seemed to have controlled the outbreak by going after clusters of infections in specific places, usually enclosed spaces such as clubs, gyms and meeting venues.

But the spread of virus outpaced this approach and most new cases are untraceable.

The outbreak has highlighted underlying weaknesses in medical care in Japan, which has long been praised for its high quality insurance system and reasonable costs.

Apart from a general unwillingness to embrace social distancing, experts blame government incompetence and a widespread shortage of the protective gear and equipment medical workers need to perform their jobs.

Japan lacks enough hospital beds, medical workers or equipment. Forcing anyone with the virus into hospital, even those with mild symptoms, has left hospitals overcrowded and understaffed.

The “collapse of emergency medicine” has already happened, a precursor to the overall collapse of medicine, the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine and the Japanese Society for Emergency Medicine said in a joint statement.

By turning away patients, hospitals are putting an excessive burden on the limited number of advanced and critical emergency centres, the groups said.

“We can no longer carry out normal emergency medicine,” said Takeshi Shimazu, an Osaka University emergency doctor.

There are no enough protective gowns, masks and face shields, raising risks of infection for medical workers and making treatment of COVID-19 patients increasingly difficult, said Yoshitake Yokokura, who heads the Japan Medical Association.

In March, there were 931 cases of ambulances being rejected by more than five hospitals or driving around for 20 minutes or longer to reach an emergency room, up from 700 in March last year.

In the first 11 days of April, that rose to 830, the Tokyo Fire Department said.

Infections in a number of hospitals have forced medical workers to self-isolate at home, worsening staff shortages.

Tokyo’s new cases started to spike in late March, the day after the Tokyo Olympics was postponed for a year. They have been rising at an accelerating pace for a current total of 2,595.

With some 10,000 cases and 170 deaths, Japan’s situation is not as dire as many other countries, but there are fears its outbreak could become much worse.

A government virus task force has warned that, in a worst-case scenario where no preventive measures were taken, more than 400,000 could die due to shortages of ventilators and other intensive care equipment.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said the government has secured 15,000 ventilators and is getting support of Sony and Toyota Motor Corp. to produce more.

Japanese hospitals also lack ICUs, with only five per 100,000 people, compared to about 30 in Germany, 35 in the U.S. and 12 in Italy, said Osamu Nishida, head of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

Italy’s 10% mortality rate, compared to Germany’s 1%, is partly due to the shortage of ICU facilities, Nishida said.

“Japan, with ICUs not even half of Italy’s, is expected to face a fatality overshoot very quickly,” he said.

https://www.lbcnews.co.uk/world-news/7a5afc5d2e764926bbe010084c49d56e/

[HermantheGerman]

Pump and dump...

Edit: CNN news in post 4686 came from "Stat News" and Adam Feuerstein

Read more about them here:

Washington Post Calls For An Investigation Into Hedge Fund Trading And Adam Feuerstein's Blogging - Smith On Stocks | Seeking Alpha

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...e5f_story.html

I'am sure that Trump & Kushner are making a fortune.

[baldrick]

look up pantera - erik prince - getting a 55 million contract to supply masks

[Loy Toy]

Thailand's Prime Minister has requested that the 20 richest tycoons in Thailand help finance the country in their fight against the Covid 19 virus.

I guess if these tycoons businesses are left to operate without restrictions he may be on a winner!

[PlanK]

^
Will son of Elvis be included in that?

[Loy Toy]

^ I presume he is not in the building preferring to use his Plan C tactic!

[misskit]

Indonesia reports most coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia reported on Friday 407 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number to 5,923 and surpassing the Philippines as the country with the highest number of infections in Southeast Asia.


The announcement came a day after an Indonesian official said the number of cases could reach 106,000 by July and follows criticism that a low rate of testing has hidden the extent of the spread of the virus.

MORE Indonesia reports most coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia – Thai PBS World

[David48atTD]

Saturday's key moments:

• New wave of infections threatens to collapse Japan's hospitals
• Beijing denies claims nearly half virus deaths in Wuhan uncounted
• There's little sign of herd immunity, WHO says
• New York attacks Trump over response
• Athletes banned for doping until 2020 can compete in Tokyo
• UK death toll rises, vaccine taskforce launched
• Spain's death rate rises as government seeks to harmonise data
• Empty churches across Greece for Orthodox Easter
• Dubai extends 24-hour coronavirus curfew by one week
• Australia's passed the worst but it's not time to relax

Without intervention, 3.3 million could die in Africa

... the study calculated over 1.2 billion Africans would be infected and 3.3 million would die this year. Africa has a total population of around 1.3 billion.

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New wave of infections threatens to collapse Japan's hospitals

Many hospital emergency rooms are refusing to treat people including those suffering strokes, heart attacks and external injuries, according to peak medical groups.

[SKkin]

I'am sure that Trump & Kushner are making a fortune.

No doubt...

How long before Gilead dumps?

[jabir]

Thailand's Prime Minister has requested that the 20 richest tycoons in Thailand help finance the country in their fight against the Covid 19 virus.

I guess if these tycoons businesses are left to operate without restrictions he may be on a winner!

I don't know why he bothered asking, when he could have invited them to share some broken legs at the Mandarin Oriental.

[harrybarracuda]

look up pantera - erik prince - getting a 55 million contract to supply masks

It's amazing how they can get away with stealing this obvious really.

The price that FEMA is paying Panthera per mask, about $5.50, is significantly higher than what the government pays companies such as 3M, which charges as little as 63 cents per N95 mask, with an average cost of about $1.50 for more advanced models, according to a price index. Prestige Ameritech, the largest domestic mask manufacturer, is charging FEMA about 80 cents per mask for the government’s order of 12 million N95 respirators, part of a $9.5 million contract that started April 7.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...83e_story.html

[harrybarracuda]

Well this is a gamble.

British scientists have said they hope to have one million doses of a coronavirus vaccine ready to be deployed by September.

The team at Oxford University will start the first UK study of an experimental vaccine against COVID-19 next week.

But so great is the need, and so high their confidence that it will work, that they will start large-scale production before the trials are even complete.

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The Oxford team say there is an 80% chance of success. If trials are positive hundreds of millions of doses could be ready by the end of the year.

The vaccine, called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, is made from a harmless chimpanzee virus that has been genetically engineered to carry part of the coronavirus. The technique has already been shown to generate strong immune responses in other diseases.

Coronavirus: UK scientists start mass producing vaccines while trials are still under way | UK News | Sky News

[harrybarracuda]

Bit more herd thinning in East Bangladesh.

Attachment 49046

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Brahmanbaria to attend the namaz-e-janaza or funeral prayer of Khelafat Majlish leader Moulana Zubair Ahmad Ansari, defying the ban on mass gatherings during the lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak.


https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2020/04/18/thousands-ignoring-lockdown-attend-islamic-leader-s-funeral-prayers-in-brahmanbaria

[misskit]

Sunlight destroys virus quickly, new govt. tests finds, but experts say pandemic could last through summer

Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true.


A briefing on the preliminary results, marked for official use only and obtained by Yahoo News, offers hope that summertime may offer conditions less hospitable for the virus, though experts caution it will by no means eliminate, or even necessarily decrease, new cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The results, however, do add an important piece of knowledge that the White House’s science advisers have been seeking as they scramble to respond to the spreading pandemic.


The study found that the risk of “transmission from surfaces outdoors is lower during daylight” and under higher temperature and humidity conditions. “Sunlight destroys the virus quickly,” reads the briefing.

MORE Sunlight destroys coronavirus '&#39;'very quickly,'&#39;' new government tests find, but experts say pandemic could still last through summer

[Troy]

^ This is starting to go like a John Wyndham novel...find the natural source that kills the dreaded monster/lurgy etc.

If the above is true then it's going to bloody difficult to catch it here, with loads of sun during the day and high humidity at night...

[Latindancer]

[Dillinger]

Down to 54 new cases in Malaysia today

[raycarey]

The team at Oxford University will start the first UK study of an experimental vaccine against COVID-19 next week.

But so great is the need, and so high their confidence that it will work, that they will start large-scale production before the trials are even complete.

The vaccine, called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, is made from a harmless chimpanzee virus that has been genetically engineered to carry part of the coronavirus.

what could go wrong?

[harrybarracuda]

what could go wrong?

[Iceman123]

Yep, and the only way you can buy is with money earned, without it the economy collapses.