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dyqik wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:47 pm

lpm wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:51 am

Hurricane Maria in 2017 was 3,507.

Not sure if that was all in one day, but yeah, that one may be missing.

dyqik wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:47 pm

lpm wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:51 am

Well that list is obviously flawed.

Where's the 1918-19 flu pandemic? That must have peaked at this sort of range even with the much lower population.
How about the other disease outbreaks of the 19th Century?

Not sure about 1918-19 flu, but it may never have spread as widely as fast, meaning the death rate might have been more spread out over the pandemic (675,000 deaths over just under a year, is 2000ish per day at a constant rate. We're not that high an annual rate yet, but give it a few weeks). Earlier outbreaks are unlikely to make this list, as the population was so much smaller, and travel so much less.

lpm wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:51 am

Where's the San Francisco earthquake?

Official death toll of 700, and an estimate 3-4 times that in total, over more than one day, means it doesn't make the list (any more, at least).

lpm wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:51 am

D-Day was 2,500 US soldiers.

Not in the US, although they are US people. Going down the route of "what does American History mean here?" probably means you need to include Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, etc. And D-Day will have dropped off the list now, as there have been 13 days of >3000 CoVID deaths now.

lpm wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:51 am

Hurricane Maria in 2017 was 3,507.

Not sure if that was all in one day, but yeah, that one may be missing.

COVID-19 has generated a huge mortality toll in the United States, with a disproportionate number of deaths occurring among the Black and Latino populations. Measures of life expectancy quantify these disparities in an easily interpretable way. We project that COVID-19 will reduce US life expectancy in 2020 by 1.13 y. Estimated reductions for the Black and Latino populations are 3 to 4 times that for Whites. Consequently, COVID-19 is expected to reverse over 10 y of progress made in closing the Black−White gap in life expectancy and reduce the previous Latino mortality advantage by over 70%. Some reduction in life expectancy may persist beyond 2020 because of continued COVID-19 mortality and long-term health, social, and economic impacts of the pandemic.

dyqik wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:37 pm

This was mentioned over the political threads, but the Trump administration has been lying about the number of vaccine doses it has. After announcing that it wasn't going to hold back doses for second jabs any more, it turns out that it hadn't actually been holding any back, and has already basically run out.

We were probably looking at April at the very earliest for under 65s to start getting doses here in Massachusetts, before this news appeared.

bolo wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:02 pm

A lot of variability by state, though, and not necessarily in a way that I would have anticipated.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... doses.html

bolo wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:02 pm

A lot of variability by state, though, and not necessarily in a way that I would have anticipated.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... doses.html

Oklahoma trying to return its $2m stockpile of hydroxychloroquine
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office has been tasked with attempting to return a $2 million stockpile of a malaria drug once touted by former President Donald Trump as a way to treat the coronavirus.

Oregon's COVID-19 vaccine committee has proposed prioritizing shots to communities of color in order to tackle 'structural racism' in healthcare.

The state's 27-member COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Committee recommended Thursday that the next eligible group to get the shot should be the roughly 806,000 people that make up the BIPOC - black, indigenous, and other people of color - communities across the state.

But such a move comes after communities of color have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic across both Oregon and the nation.

CDC data shows that black people and Hispanic people are both 2.8 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than white people.

American Indian or Alaska Natives are 2.6 times and Asian people 1.1 times more likely.

Communities of color are also more likely to suffer worse when contracting the virus, with Hispanics 4.1 times, American Indians or Alaska Natives 4 times and black people 3.7 times as likely to be hospitalized.

A German study last year found that dogs there were right 94% of the time when it came to coronavirus detection.

The Heat will use coronavirus-sniffing dogs at AmericanAirlines Arena to screen fans who want to attend their games. They've been working on the plan for months, and the highly trained dogs have been in place for some games this season in which the team has allowed a handful of guests -- mostly friends and family of players and staff.

Starting this week, a limited number of ticket holders will be in the seats as well, provided they get past the dogs first.

"If you think about it, detection dogs are not new," said Matthew Jafarian, the Heat's executive vice president for business strategy. "You've seen them in airports, they've been used in mission-critical situations by the police and the military. We've used them at the arena for years to detect explosives."

shpalman wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 31, 2021 8:29 am

COVID-19 vaccination site temporarily shut down after a bunch of f.cking morons gather at entrance

Herainestold wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 31, 2021 7:39 pm

American sports teams using covid sniffing dogs to test fans before admitting to stadium.

A German study last year found that dogs there were right 94% of the time when it came to coronavirus detection.

Can that statistic be right? That is better than the PCR test.

The Heat will use coronavirus-sniffing dogs at AmericanAirlines Arena to screen fans who want to attend their games. They've been working on the plan for months, and the highly trained dogs have been in place for some games this season in which the team has allowed a handful of guests -- mostly friends and family of players and staff.

Starting this week, a limited number of ticket holders will be in the seats as well, provided they get past the dogs first.

"If you think about it, detection dogs are not new," said Matthew Jafarian, the Heat's executive vice president for business strategy. "You've seen them in airports, they've been used in mission-critical situations by the police and the military. We've used them at the arena for years to detect explosives."

https://www.scrutable.science/posting.p ... 09ab67949a

Herainestold wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 31, 2021 7:39 pm

American sports teams using covid sniffing dogs to test fans before admitting to stadium.

Millennie Al wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:32 am

Herainestold wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 31, 2021 7:39 pm

American sports teams using covid sniffing dogs to test fans before admitting to stadium.

Since dogs can catch the disease, that seems a great way to infect them.

Millennie Al wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:32 am

Herainestold wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 31, 2021 7:39 pm

American sports teams using covid sniffing dogs to test fans before admitting to stadium.

Since dogs can catch the disease, that seems a great way to infect them.

Martin Y wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:11 am

Would the same vaccines work in dogs?

bob sterman wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:14 am

Martin Y wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 02, 2021 10:11 am

Would the same vaccines work in dogs?

Yes but you have to divide the number of weeks between the 1st and 2nd doses by 7.

Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as the White House coronavirus response coordinator under former President Trump, reveals in a CNN special report that "all the doctors" on the White House coronavirus task force have received death threats.

Reports emerged early in the pandemic that Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was forced to beef up security due to an increase in death threats.

"All the doctors received death threats," Birx told Dr. Sanjay Gupta in the documentary "COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out."
"My daughters got the same rude text messages. I mean, you can't even imagine what those text messages looked like," Birx said. "A lot of sexual references, saying, 'The country would be better off if you were dead.' 'You're misleading the country.' 'Your tongue should be cut out.' "

sTeamTraen wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:05 pm

I know that distributions are a thing, but even so, I was shocked to find that there are some US counties where almost 1% of the population has been killed by Covid-19. They are mostly small, so I presume that chance is playing a roll, but even so it seems like something that would have quite an impact on the life of a community.


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