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Coronavirus Facts and Information thread:

Quagmire

Quagmire

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Today:

Coronavirus Cases:
90,077,450
view by country

Deaths:
1,934,813

Recovered:
64,463,365

ACTIVE CASES
23,679,272
Currently Infected Patients
 
Stevicus

Stevicus

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World's coronavirus deaths double in 3 months to 1.9M; cases surge to 90M - UPI.com

Jan. 10 (UPI) -- More than one year after COVID-19 first surfaced in Mainland China, the pandemic has been accelerating worldwide to more than 1.9 million deaths and nearly 90 million cases despite restrictions, including lockdowns, and the development of vaccines

In three months, the death toll has nearly doubled and cases jumped about 2 1/2 times.
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On Oct. 10, fatalities were 1,079,984 compared with the current 1,940,112 so far Sunday with infections now 90,484,479 in contrast to 38,158,808 then, according to tracking by Worldometers.info.

Deaths reported in one day hit a record 15,220 on Dec. 30 with it not surpassing 9,000 until Nov. 4. Cases reached a record 833,913 Thursday after passing 400,000 for the first time on Oct. 15.

RELATED Biden to release all available COVID-19 vaccine doses later this month


Though the pandemic has touched every portion of the globe, including Antarctica, the surge has been especially prominent in the United States and Europe.

The United States for months has had the most deaths, 373,463, and cases, 22,255,827, according to Johns Hopkins. On Oct. 15, deaths numbered 218,274 and cases were nearly 8 million. The nation passed 4,000 deaths and 300,000 cases in one day for the first time in the past week.

Europe has also experienced exponential increases. Death and cases records stood from the spring for months. But recently, they have been broken.
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ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
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My parents have covid 19,they received the results of their tests today. It only seems mild but given their age (early 70s) they are in full panic mode and sending me info like, if I don't hear from them for more than a few hours, who to phone, who has a spare key for the house, where their wills and insurances are and a pdf from the NHS about the disease. It's designed for uk residents but there is useful information in it for everyone self isolating


C0719_COVID Isolating at Home Safety Netting Leaflet Revised FINAL 171220.pdf
 
Subduction Zone

Subduction Zone

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ChristineM said:
My parents have covid 19,they received the results of their tests today. It only seems mild but given their age (early 70s) they are in full panic mode and sending me info like, if I don't hear from them for more than a few hours, who to phone, who has a spare key for the house, where their wills and insurances are and a pdf from the NHS about the disease. It's designed for uk residents but there is useful information in it for everyone self isolating


C0719_COVID Isolating at Home Safety Netting Leaflet Revised FINAL 171220.pdf
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I hope the best for them. I was "lucky". When I had it the symptoms did not fit the standard onset. And it never affected my lungs. I was pretty much over it (still a slight fever) when I was tested positive for it. I might have been panicking myself if I knew that what I thought was the flu was Covid. For me it was the worst fever that I can remember and the worst body aches to go with it. It is an odd disease in that there are cases of very healthy younger people dying from it. And many old people survive it. I am hoping the best for your folks. I don't know if it is horse puckey or not but I have heard that mega doses of Vitamin D can help and unlike some "cures" it does not have negative effects until you get into ridiculous numbers.
 
ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
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Subduction Zone said:
I hope the best for them. I was "lucky". When I had it the symptoms did not fit the standard onset. And it never affected my lungs. I was pretty much over it (still a slight fever) when I was tested positive for it. I might have been panicking myself if I knew that what I thought was the flu was Covid. For me it was the worst fever that I can remember and the worst body aches to go with it. It is an odd disease in that there are cases of very healthy younger people dying from it. And many old people survive it. I am hoping the best for your folks. I don't know if it is horse puckey or not but I have heard that mega doses of Vitamin D can help and unlike some "cures" it does not have negative effects until you get into ridiculous numbers.
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Thanks.
Both of them seem ok, dad doesn't feel ill other than a sore throat, but he's a farmer and refuses to be put down by a piddling bug.
Mom has a cough, and slight fever. Hopefully it won't get any worse. Mom suffers from SAD so takes 2000iu of vitamin d every day and both take multi vitamins daily so maybe thats helping.
 
Stevicus

Stevicus

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Covid-19: Brazil hospitals 'run out of oxygen' for virus patients

Hospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.

The city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.

Health professionals, quoted by local media, warned "many people" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.

Brazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.

A new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.
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Jessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had "run out of oxygen" with some centres becoming "a type of suffocation chamber" for patients.

The researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of "dramatic" scenes playing out in some hospitals.
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Reports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.

In a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: "We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today."

"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying," she says in the clip. "If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying."
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They're facing a severe oxygen shortage in Brazil.
 
Stevicus

Stevicus

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CDC: New COVID-19 strain could become 'predominant' in U.S. by March - UPI.com

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Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A more contagious strain of COVID-19 could become the "predominant" one in the United States by March, potentially making it even harder to get the pandemic under control, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicted Friday.

The B.1.1.7 variant is believed to have first emerged in England in September, although it wasn't identified until last month.
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"Increased ... transmission might threaten strained healthcare resources, require extended and more rigorous implementation of public health strategies and increase the percentage of population immunity required for pandemic control," the researchers wrote.

"Taking measures to reduce transmission now can lessen the potential impact of B.1.1.7 and allow critical time to increase vaccination coverage," they said.

The researchers called for enhanced efforts to identify those infected with the new strain, through increased testing capacity and contact tracing initiatives.
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