Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[viper37]

You want sheep and bad weather? You can find that in Alberta too

But the penguins...

True, you won't find that in Alberta.But you can find pinguins in Quebec though.
Close enough to the other bird, only one letter difference but with less sheeps and a more beautiful landscape to look at

[jimmy olsen]

33.57% of all Americans now fully vaccinated

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1390807475046207493

BREAKING: India reports 4,191 new coronavirus deaths, the biggest one-day increase on record, and 401,229 new cases
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1390738766554451970

However, that's likely to be a mammoth undercount

[Richard Hakluyt]

India has 20 times the UK's population, so when i see their figures I divide by 20 to get some idea of the relative impact. This results in figures far too low to correlate with the scenes on tv 

My conclusion is that people are dying in swarms in the vast rural hinterland and the shanty towns, with the Indian state barely even noticing 

[Zanza]

Several of my Indian team members had Covid in the last three or four weeks. They are from different parts of India too, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad... So from my purely anecdotal impression, it must be really bad.

[Iormlund]

I know a guy working in Machine Learning. His team in India has lost 3 members to COVID recently. I doubt many septuagenarians take up ML R&D as a career so yeah, really bad.

[jimmy olsen]

I figure the real figures are at least five to ten times as high. So, if 4k dead are reported I assume it's between 20-40k.

[Legbiter]

India has 20 times the UK's population, so when i see their figures I divide by 20 to get some idea of the relative impact. This results in figures far too low to correlate with the scenes on tv 

My conclusion is that people are dying in swarms in the vast rural hinterland and the shanty towns, with the Indian state barely even noticing 

India should peak in about 2 weeks before slowly coming down again. Pretty much the worst case scenario yeah.

[Jacob]

India has 20 times the UK's population, so when i see their figures I divide by 20 to get some idea of the relative impact. This results in figures far too low to correlate with the scenes on tv 

My conclusion is that people are dying in swarms in the vast rural hinterland and the shanty towns, with the Indian state barely even noticing 

Yeah, I read an argument somewhere recently that said all the scenes and reports we're seeing of hospitals unable to cope and overwhelmed ICUs and so on primarily reflects the situation for the Indian middle class - people who'd in normal times expect to get good medical care, and who aren't receiving that expected care. But, the argument went, there are many many more Indians who'd never expect to be able to access that level of care, and they're likely hit even harder than the middle class folks with resources we're mostly seeing on the news.

I don't know very much about the Indian health care system to know how correct that is, but it sounds plausible at first glance.

[celedhring]

Meanwhile, in Barcelona...

[Richard Hakluyt]

India has 20 times the UK's population, so when i see their figures I divide by 20 to get some idea of the relative impact. This results in figures far too low to correlate with the scenes on tv 

My conclusion is that people are dying in swarms in the vast rural hinterland and the shanty towns, with the Indian state barely even noticing 

Yeah, I read an argument somewhere recently that said all the scenes and reports we're seeing of hospitals unable to cope and overwhelmed ICUs and so on primarily reflects the situation for the Indian middle class - people who'd in normal times expect to get good medical care, and who aren't receiving that expected care. But, the argument went, there are many many more Indians who'd never expect to be able to access that level of care, and they're likely hit even harder than the middle class folks with resources we're mostly seeing on the news.

I don't know very much about the Indian health care system to know how correct that is, but it sounds plausible at first glance.

Apparently India only spends about 1% of GDP on healthcare, so there can't be much of it. The shortage of oxygen is probably only a problem for the middle class and above; the majority of the population can only dream of getting almost any healthcare at all.

[DGuller]

India has 20 times the UK's population, so when i see their figures I divide by 20 to get some idea of the relative impact. This results in figures far too low to correlate with the scenes on tv 

My conclusion is that people are dying in swarms in the vast rural hinterland and the shanty towns, with the Indian state barely even noticing 

Yeah, I read an argument somewhere recently that said all the scenes and reports we're seeing of hospitals unable to cope and overwhelmed ICUs and so on primarily reflects the situation for the Indian middle class - people who'd in normal times expect to get good medical care, and who aren't receiving that expected care. But, the argument went, there are many many more Indians who'd never expect to be able to access that level of care, and they're likely hit even harder than the middle class folks with resources we're mostly seeing on the news.

I don't know very much about the Indian health care system to know how correct that is, but it sounds plausible at first glance.

Apparently India only spends about 1% of GDP on healthcare, so there can't be much of it. The shortage of oxygen is probably only a problem for the middle class and above; the majority of the population can only dream of getting almost any healthcare at all.

I guess Covid highlighted what an everyday tragedy it is to be a poor person living in a country with piss-poor governance.

[mongers]

Peru's cemeteries are overwhelmed, some people have resorted to buying dead family in their gardens. 

Apparently the official death toll for the last month of 15,000 is a severe undercount, estimate for the real total are around 50-60,000 covid deaths. 

[Liep]

I figure the real figures are at least five to ten times as high. So, if 4k dead are reported I assume it's between 20-40k.

That's sadly not a high estimate.

https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1391238136219512833

[11B4V]

What a fucking disaster.

[Josephus]

So for those of you following; a couple weeks ago I mentioned my younger brother was on a ventilator in hospital; then about five days ago, he was off the ventilator. Now, he told me, his doctor says they will probably send him home in a day or two.