Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[jimmy olsen]

First time since August 14th that US had 60k plus cases.

[Syt]

Hundreds of new cases in Vienna every day; this is how the FPÖ ended their election campaign yesterday:



On reddit someone shared a video of drunk teens in a crowded subway, without masks, shouting and singing.

This is going to be a fun fall and winter.


EDIT: FPÖ politicians (who are against masks out of principle at this point) really show how to safely do a campaign rally:

[Syt]

Remains to be seen if the city government will set some restrictions again next week; I feel they may have been holding back because of tomorrow's elections.

[Syt]

[celedhring]

So, one of the Spanish participants in the Oxford vaccine trial has tested positive 

[Sheilbh]

Latest ECDC map:


Maybe getting better in France, Spain and Benelux. Getting worse in UK, Ireland and Denmark. Also looks like it's spreading through CEE now.

[The Brain]

At least Finland's borders seem OK.

[Josquius]

Germanys good showing continues to impress.

[Tamas]

It might worth nothing that as I understand in Hungary they are in a 3.6 Rontgen situation, as in according to one of the people in charge of testing they have reached their max testing capacity. And that's with the test itself costing money for most people. So the reality must be far more grim than what that shows.

Also earlier this week some journalists discovered that a 39 years old casualty of the virus got "accidentally" left off of the list of deaths. Due to his age he was easy to see as not being on it, I guess they didn't want him make the numbers look bad.

[Sheilbh]

Germanys good showing continues to impress.

Yeah - and Greece has been very impressive in handling it.

It might worth nothing that as I understand in Hungary they are in a 3.6 Rontgen situation, as in according to one of the people in charge of testing they have reached their max testing capacity. And that's with the test itself costing money for most people. So the reality must be far more grim than what that shows.

[The Larch]

Latest ECDC map:


Maybe getting better in France, Spain and Benelux. Getting worse in UK, Ireland and Denmark. Also looks like it's spreading through CEE now.

Take into account that the scale is not the same on both maps, on the second one the top ranks have been split further.

[celedhring]

Spain's 14-day rate is down 4% week-to-week, although Catalonia has been posting bad numbers (mostly the Barcelona area) this week and we'll see what happens with Madrid.

[Zanza]

Germanys good showing continues to impress.

Germany is just a few weeks behind. The numbers here are growing with R > 1. My city is above 50 cases / 100k / 7 days again, so they are shutting down nightlife again and will probably have mandatory masks even outdoors in the city centre.
There is widespread community transmission without identifiable hotspots.

[Zanza]

Maybe getting better in France, Spain and Benelux. Getting worse in UK, Ireland and Denmark. Also looks like it's spreading through CEE now.

It has not yet gotten better anywhere as per that map. The changed scale is not helpful.

[Maladict]

Maybe getting better in France, Spain and Benelux. Getting worse in UK, Ireland and Denmark.

Definitely not better here, we're hurtling towards lockdown again.