Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[Legbiter]

Arts & crafts teacher tested positive yesterday so my oldest is joining us at the cottage. I'll be a Settlers of Catan master come Wednesday.   

[mongers]

Arts & crafts teacher tested positive yesterday so my oldest is joining us at the cottage. I'll be a Settlers of Catan master come Wednesday.  

Good to hear you're taking sensible precautions, Leggy.

[viper37]

Part of that is apparently due to contact tracing and testing more persons.

If you have the stat on the positiviy % of the tests, you could see if it's a real increase or simply more testing.

[The Larch]

Tomorrow morning the Spanish government will have an emergency meeting in which most surely a new state of alarm at the national level will be enacted, which will probably last until December. This will allow regions to impuse curfews and limit movement of people to a certain degree, but without a new lockout.

[mongers]

At this point it might be easier to list the regions and countries of the world where the virus Isn't taking off.

[Syt]

Part of that is apparently due to contact tracing and testing more persons.

If you have the stat on the positiviy % of the tests, you could see if it's a real increase or simply more testing.

10-15% tests (depending on state) are positive at the moment. Tests have increased by roughly 20% in recent weeks from what I see.

[Syt]

Meanwhile, some conservatives and business leaders have called for shortening the quarantine for suspected cases from 10 days to where they can end quarantine after 5 days if they test negative (it can take 7 days to show symptoms).

[Zanza]

10-15% positive is high and likely means that there are lots of undetected cases.

[Syt]

10-15% positive is high and likely means that there are lots of undetected cases.

Yes, target number should be 5%

[Zanza]

Germany is still doing slightly better than its neighbours, but at least in Berlin, public health authorities cannot uphold the track and trace operation at full level anymore.

[Sheilbh]

Greece too.

The Guardian have some details of UK tests - and the map (especially whether it's on the rise or not) is starting to decline, which is positive. But early days:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/covid-cases-and-deaths-today-coronavirus-uk-map

[Josquius]

Just what is it Korea is doing that makes track and trace actually work there?

[Syt]

The head of the department of Public Health in the Health and Nutritional Sciences Agency, a government body, said in an interview this morning, that face masks are useless, aerosol infection is a myth, homeopathy shouldn't be denounced, and that it's fine to keep a bit distance when you're indoors - no masks required. The lockdown in spring was unnecessary, and tougher measures aren't required now, either. Bit of a shitstorm brewing on Twitter right now; remains to be seen if he's retired early ...

[Zanza]

Just what is it Korea is doing that makes track and trace actually work there?

They track all mobile phones constantly, which is a pretty severe infringement of privacy. That allows them to identify contacts.

[Zanza]

The Czechs now hit 1000/100000 newly infected the last week, i.e. 1% of the population within a week.  Belgium is reaching that soon. Netherlands and Switzerland with 500/100000 population. Does not look good.