Coronavirus: COVID-19

OccultHawk · 01-08-2021, 05:14 AM

Brazil's pandemic deaths top 200,000 amid a return to fun (from @AP) https://apnews.com/article/d76bc225c...e5cbfb84defbc4

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The night before New Year’s Eve in Rio de Janeiro, thousands of revelers clad in their bathing suits crowded onto the iconic Ipanema beach to have some seaside drinks. It was one of many open-air parties occurring along Brazil’s vast coastline since the summer heat set in, and as the COVID-19 death toll climbed higher.

Trollheart · 01-08-2021, 10:01 AM

Huh. Life's a beach, then you die, eh?

OccultHawk · 01-09-2021, 09:26 AM

Texas hit 30,000 deaths. Hook em horns.

Psy-Fi · 01-10-2021, 06:19 AM

Japanese pray in ice water for end to COVID-19

OccultHawk · 01-13-2021, 02:27 AM

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The US reported its highest daily number of Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday with more than 4,320 fatalities attributed to the virus.

Relentless

the NYTimes number is over 4,400.

New Jersey hit 20,000 total deaths.

OccultHawk · 01-13-2021, 04:27 AM

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Within a span of about 24 hours, three House Democrats announced they tested positive for COVID-19, prompting concern that last week’s insurrection at the Capitol has also turned into a super-spreader event threatening the health of lawmakers and their staffs.

The article didn’t make it clear who it is except Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill

OccultHawk · 01-15-2021, 07:54 AM

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Football coaches do it. Presidents-elect do it. Even science-savvy senators do it. As cases of the coronavirus continue to surge on a global scale, some of the nation’s most prominent people have begun to double up on masks — a move that researchers say is increasingly being backed up by data.

Double-masking isn’t necessary for everyone. But for people with thin or flimsy face coverings, “if you combine multiple layers, you start achieving pretty high efficiencies” of blocking viruses from exiting and entering the airway, said Linsey Marr, an expert in virus transmission at Virginia Tech and an author on a recent commentary laying out the science behind mask-wearing

NYTimes

It’s so startling that putting up a physical barrier helps prevent another object from passing.

**Exo** · 01-15-2021, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Relentless

the NYTimes number is over 4,400.

New Jersey hit 20,000 total deaths.

Six so far from my hometown of 8,000 people. I know that doesn't look big but everybody knew these people. One was my old neighbor two doors down.

Dana's aunt is STILL in the hospital with a trachea breathing machine. It's been over two months.

OccultHawk · 01-15-2021, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Six so far from my hometown of 8,000 people. I know that doesn't look big but everybody knew these people. One was my old neighbor two doors down.

Dana's aunt is STILL in the hospital with a trachea breathing machine. It's been over two months.

One of my buddies has an uncle that died, dad has been in the icu for like three weeks, he’s a young dude around 30ish but a little fat and he’s been sick with it for 3-4 weeks. It’s no ****ing joke. I can’t even keep track of the people on the periphery of my social circle who’ve lost someone but fortunately it hasn’t been that direct on me. It’s infuriating how we’ve blotched this but emotionally I’m trying to let that go and focus on cheerier things like how the fabric of this ****hole society is finally being ripped to shreds.

OccultHawk · 01-15-2021, 11:32 AM

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More than 23,000 deaths have been announced in the U.S. in the last week.

NYTimes

I guess I just don’t get numb to numbers because goddamn

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