Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[Barrister]

That is good news.  I was surprised to hear him make that statement.  Seemed awfully tone deaf.

A lot of it is just messaging.  Government is up against it in that there's not a lot left to close, and what is still open all seems fairly safe.  The spread is largely from social gatherings which have been banned for months.  It's "just" a matter of getting people to take this disease seriously for a little while longer.

[Iormlund]

Yesterday was the first day where Germany vaccinated more than one million persons (1st + 2nd dose combined), about 1.3% of the population. Finally some progress.

My brother is taking advantage of Berlin's policy of offering AZ to everyone. He'll get his first dose a month or two before I do (and I'm 5 years older).

[mongers]

Brazil's offical death toll has now passed 400,000, at least 100,000 of those in the month of April.

India goes to hell in a disorganised handcart, today hitting a record high for cases and deaths, which are officially around 3.500 per day.

Unofficially, who knows?  I saw a news report following a manager in charge of a crematorium in Dehli, the Sikh gentleman said he normally gets 10 cremations to do per day, today it was one hundred and ten. 

[jimmy olsen]

I saw a similar report, the manager said he usually did 7 or 8, and he'd already done 55 by noon that day.

[Legbiter]

What's grim about India is that the people who can't get any medical assistance now were infected a while back. The people infected this week, they'll need the same medical assistance in around 7-10 days.

[Malthus]

My brother in law is now on a ventilator. His wife just went to the hospital today as well. Pretty grim. They have two kids, fortunately her brother is staying with them already (he had a mild case and recovered).

[mongers]

My brother in law is now on a ventilator. His wife just went to the hospital today as well. Pretty grim. They have two kids, fortunately her brother is staying with them already (he had a mild case and recovered).

I hope it works out well for him, after alll the medical procedures and knowledge have significantly improved since the first wave when medics were learning as they went.

[Admiral Yi]

Best wishes Malthus

[Valmy]

My brother in law is now on a ventilator. His wife just went to the hospital today as well. Pretty grim. They have two kids, fortunately her brother is staying with them already (he had a mild case and recovered).

Wow man. I hope he is ok.

[Josephus]

My brother in law is now on a ventilator. His wife just went to the hospital today as well. Pretty grim. They have two kids, fortunately her brother is staying with them already (he had a mild case and recovered).

sucks Malthus

My brother is still on a ventilator. But he seems to be making some progress.

[Malthus]

Some good news: the wife was discharged from the hospital after tests and is now back home.

[Josquius]

Terrible to hear, right when it seems to be looking up in much of the developed world too

[The Brain]

Best wishes.

[jimmy olsen]

My brother in law is now on a ventilator. His wife just went to the hospital today as well. Pretty grim. They have two kids, fortunately her brother is staying with them already (he had a mild case and recovered).

Terrible to hear. Hope he recovers

[Legbiter]