08/04/2020
“Closing dining rooms once cost a lot of money, but closing twice could be even worse.”
“Of all the American institutions the pandemic has shut down, none face pressure to reopen quite like schools do.Pediatricians exhort schools to open their doors wherever possible or risk developmental harm to kids.”
“Today, our rates of new cases of coronavirus, through all of those phases of reopening, have not had an uptick whatsoever,” said Dr. Ted Long, executive director of the city’s Test and Trace Corps. “They’ve been completely stable.”
“Bars and restaurants in New York City can service people on an outdoor basis. But Cuomo said on Monday too many were ignoring social distancing rules.”
“The media’s narrative however shows the telltale signs of a policy response (lockdowns) in search of a rationalization. For all the rhetoric about the US ‘rush to reopen’ and Europe’s allegedly more effective use of lockdowns, data…shows the opposite.”
“More than half of the business closures that were temporary when the COVID-19 outbreak began are now considered permanent, according to Yelp.”
“There has been no recorded case of a teacher catching the coronavirus from a pupil anywhere in the world says Dr. Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at University of Edinburgh”
https://www.wissports.net/news_article/show/1110971
“Previous studies have demonstrated that prolonged quarantines can negatively impact mental health. Schools play an important role in providing access to mental health services for disadvantaged students.”
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2768834
“For most sites, it is likely that greater than 10 times more SARS-CoV-2 infections occurred than the number of reported COVID-19 cases; most persons in each site, however, likely had no detectable SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.”
https://mises.org/wire/covid-panic-lesson-using-statistics-get-your-way-politics
“The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight… they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke. In youths, it will be called financial instability, unemployment, despair, drug addiction…”
“Compared to living in only-old households, living with someone of working age is associated with elevated COVID-19 mortality. Living in a care home is associated with a 4-fold risk of COVID-19 mortality compared to living in independent housing.”
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isolation.html
“Available data indicate that persons with mild to moderate COVID-19 remain infectious no longer than 10 days after symptom onset. Persons with more severe to critical illness…remain infectious no longer than 20 days after symptom onset.”
“Dr. David Hui Shu-Cheong [a respiratory medicine expert at Chinese Univ] said while he understood the public’s worries, the infection figures so far proved that positive coronavirus tests were very rare without symptoms or links to past confirmed cases.”
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads
“I say here to the citizens of the State of Israel, the school year will open on September 1. Period.”
“The results of the Sero prevalence study in the national capital are encouraging and it indicates that India will achieve herd immunity soon, says leading epidemiologist, Jayaprakash Muliyil, chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Epidemiology.”
“As the pandemic assails Brazil, overwhelming it with more than two million infections and more than 84,000 deaths — second only to the United States — the virus is taking an exceptionally high toll on the Amazon region and the people who have depended on its abundance for generations.”
“We don’t see cases of people falling ill twice from COVID-19. Hence, our assessment is that if you do get COVID-19 you are immune, even if you don’t develop antibodies.” – Anders Tegnell
“Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally showing a pick-up in the pandemic in every region of the world.”
https://apnews.com/0e10423d8a4453e746428638338d02a1?utm_source=morning_brew
“Nightclubs, bars and beaches — some of Spain’s most beloved summer venues — are facing new lockdown restrictions after turning into coronavirus hot spots, and some European nations are warning citizens not to visit the country.”
“North Korean leader Kim Jong Un placed the city of Kaesong under lockdown after a person suspected to be infected by the coronavirus returned from South Korea.”
https://apnews.com/e9878e281e71d58a6bd4e7f88a24797d?utm_source=morning_brew
“A German cruise ship is gingerly testing the water amid the coronavirus pandemic, setting sail for the first time since the industry was shut down months ago and using strict precautions to keep passengers and crew as safe as possible.”
“Taiwan resumed an island-hopping ocean cruise on Sunday, joining a handful of places in the world to restart voyages after the coronavirus pandemic brought the industry to a virtual standstill.”
“We’re doing careful monitoring … but we’re not in a situation that immediately warrants the issuance of a fresh state of emergency declaration.” – Prime Minister Abe
“Hong Kong banned gatherings of more than two people on Monday, closed down restaurant dining and introduced mandatory face masks in public places, including outdoors, as it tries to rein in a new coronavirus outbreak.”
“The United States on Thursday recorded more than 1,100 deaths from COVID-19, marking the third straight day the nation passed that grim milestone as the pandemic escalates in southern and western U.S. states.”
“A penny for your thoughts — or a nickel, dime or quarter, for that matter — may be harder to come by these days because of a nationwide shortage of coins.”
“White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said that a coronavirus vaccine likely won’t be “widely available” to the American public until “several months” into 2021.”
“Great Depression levels of unemployment have hit some of the country’s biggest cities. The coronavirus pandemic has pushed the jobless rate in New York, Los Angeles, and other major urban areas to near or above 20%, nearly twice the national rate.”
“Well-timed stock bets have generated big profits for senior executives and board members at companies developing vaccines and treatments.”
“Dogs with a few days of training are capable of identifying people infected with the coronavirus, according to a study by a German veterinary university.”
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