Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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Many people who died of COVID-19, especially early on, died alone, without their loved ones by their side.

Major news in Australia. Man has caught Covid twice. Puts vaccine in jeopardy.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/healt ... 80b16b3b3f

further setbacks for the vaccine,
A volunteer taking part in human trials for the University of Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine has died, sparking concern and confusion over the circumstances surrounding his death.
The man has been named as 28-year-old doctor João Pedro R. Feitosa from Brazil.
He was taking part in the Brazilian trials of the coronavirus vaccine candidate being developed by the university and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca when he died on October 15.
No official information on the cause of his death has been given, though unofficially, it has been reported he died of complications due to COVID-19.
Equally, the vaccine developers are unable to confirm whether Dr Feitosa was on the vaccine or the placebo as part of the trial, however an unnamed person close to the trial process revealed toBloomberg that he had been given the placebo.

Everybody waiting for the confirmation....if he was given the vaccine then that spells trouble...

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The good news the pandemic will be over soon my work place has been working from home since march we got an email on monday for everyone to start working from the office on Nov 2nd the day before the election

CDC COVID-19 Survival Rates

Age 0-19: 99.997%
Age 20-49: 99.98%
Age 50-69: 99.5%
Age 70+: 94.6%
https://www.krtv.com/news/coronavirus/cdc-covid-19-chronic-medical-conditions-and-survival-rates

Denmark just right now... new COVID-19 restrictions:

- Mandatory face masks in all indoor areas with public access
- No sale of alcohol after 10 PM
- Ban on public gatherings above 10 persons

I hate this virus.
I hate it like trees hate axes.
I hate it like Libertarians hate taxes.
I hate it like dyslexics hate cephalothoraxes.

Increase in Covid cases sets U.S. record, at over 77K in one day

Aerosol Transmission

According to many scientists and doctors, the CDC has severely lagged in identifying the novel coronavirus as airborne. The same thing happened during the early months of the pandemic, when the CDC and WHO delayed labeling it a pandemic.

Many scientists and doctors began lobbying the CDC as early as February 2020 in an attempt to get the public health agency to classify SARS-CoV-2 as an airborne virus. In July 2020, nearly 250 scientists and doctors wrote an open letter to public health agencies urging them to address airborne transmission.

It's unlikely anything fundamental -- like the mode of transmission -- has changed about the novel coronavirus since it began spreading in early 2020. It's more likely that now, seven months in, the evidence is clear enough to definitely say COVID-19 can spread through airborne particles.

Source: The coronavirus is airborne -- what that means for you

The number of infections are beginning to rise again in the U.S. This means that the second wave is on the way. We still have a couple months to prepare. We need to get it right this time. We must deal with the nature of aerosol transmission. We must learn. Otherwise we will repeat the same mistakes from the first go-round.

European Countries Impose New Covid-19 Restrictions Amid Rising Infections

A Second Wave Materializing in Europe

Virus patients now occupy more than half of France’s intensive care units, and some doctors are urging tougher restrictions after another record jump in confirmed infections. Dr. Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the government’s virus advisory body, expressed surprise Monday at the “brutality” of the rise, after more than 52,000 new cases were reported Sunday. Delfraissy warns that this latest wave of the virus could be “stronger than the first” and is spreading all around Europe.



Source: Infections disease expert warns France has 'lost control' of coronavirus pandemic

Europe relies heavily on mass transportation, much like the northeast in the U.S. - Mass transit is very vulnerable to spreading the virus.

If you want to halt the spread of the coronavirus, wear N95s during mass transit. That is an effective way for bring the spread under control. The disease is airborne and spread by aerosols.

As this virus has similarities to the common cold, it doesn't seem surprising that it's airborne. Or that infections are going to increase in the fall and winter months.

I wouldn't call it so much a second wave as a new season.

California's dire coronavirus prediction was wrong, hospitalizations went down instead

In late September, California officials predicted that the state could see a whopping 89% increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations within the next month. But 30 days after that dire prediction, the rates of virus-related hospitalizations have gone down.

From my perspective, that makes a lot of sense. The virus is spread by aerosols. In dry humid environments, the viral particles lose moisture and float in the air longer. I lived in California and during the winter months is the season they experience their rainfall. But the summers can be brutal producing high heat and humidity. The hot dry conditions in California produced many forest fires this year. Indoors air conditioning can drive humidity levels even lower inside. Therefore in California as we approach winter, infections will tap down. But on the other hand I currently live in the Midwest. And because of the cold winters, many heat their homes and businesses driving humidity levels very low during the winter months. So it is natural for a second wave to develop in the Northeast and Midwest during this winter.

STAY ALIVE, HUMIDIFY

Looking at the statistics, things go as expected in the climate zone I'm familiar with:
Europe and Northeast US are having the long-predicted autumn second wave.
Warmer climates have their own year cycles.