Off Topic Coronavirus

New sensible measures have been introduced to limit the spread of airborne virus. In the south you can sing in pubs in groups of up to 6, but in the north you can only sing in a pub on your own.

 

In all fairness Woody the news reported today that the measures up north are working and slowing down the spread.

 

I read something similar yet it seems worse up here. More and more people I know personally, testing positive.

 

I'm only going on what they said on the news this morning.

 

Yeah, I read something similar.

 

People up North aren't behaving as well as people down South. Johnson said as much at PMQs.

 

What he meant to say was.....'we dont give a **** about the North locking down'

 

No he meant to say was they are Covidiots up north(not you Bob)

 

Woody - if you have heard me singing you know that I'd be lucky to have anyone in a pub listening

 

You Regionist

 

COVID-19 transmitted by 'superspreaders' in India, contact tracing study shows

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PTI1 October 2020

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New Delhi, Oct 1 (PTI) The transmission of COVID-19 in India has been driven mainly by superspreaders or a small percentage of infected people, according to the largest contact tracing study in the country which also shows that children are key to the spread of the novel coronavirus.

The researchers, including those from the Government of Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh, found that over 70 per cent of COVID-19 infected patients in the country did not infect any of their contacts, while 8 per cent of infected individuals accounted for 60 per cent of observed new infections.

The study of over half-million people in India found that both cases and deaths due to the disease have been more heavily concentrated in the 40-69 year age group than is seen in high-income countries, among other trends.

The researchers also found a high prevalence of infection among children who were contacts of other cases around their own age.

The study, published in the journal Science on Wednesday, assessed the disease transmission patterns in 5,75,071 individuals exposed to 84,965 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the two states based on data collected by tens of thousands of contact tracers.

According to the scientists, including Ramanan Laxminarayan from the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy in New Delhi, the findings offer a peek into the pandemic's trajectory in a low- and middle-income country, where most COVID-19 cases have occurred.

Based on the data, the scientists said both cases and deaths in the two Indian states were concentrated in younger cohorts than expected from observations in higher-income countries.

The study noted that contacts with the same age were associated with the greatest infection risk -- a pattern, which the researchers said, was strongest among children between 0-14 years of age, and among adults older than 65 years.

They said the proportion of deaths to the number of infected people, known as the case-fatality ratio (CFR), spanned 0.05 per cent at ages 5-17 years to 16.6 per cent at ages exceeding 85.

The researchers also noted that COVID-19 patients in the two states have a median stay of five days in the hospital before death compared to 13 days to death from the date of hospital admission in the US.

Follow-up testing of exposed contacts revealed that 70 per cent of infected individuals did not infect any of their contacts, while 8 per cent of coronavirus positive patients accounted for 60 per cent of observed new infections.

The researchers said this finding presents the largest empirical demonstration of superspreading, which is when an unusually large number of individuals are infected by few other people.

They said the findings 'may indicate the identification of less-severe infections through active case-finding.' Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are among the Indian states with the largest healthcare workforce and public health expenditures per capita, and are known for their effective primary healthcare delivery models, the study noted.

It said 63 per cent of those who died had at least one co-morbidity, and 36 per cent had two or more underlying health conditions that made them more susceptible to the disease.

About 45 per cent of those who died were diabetic, the scientists said.

Unlike observations in high-income countries, they said the deaths in India are concentrated at ages 50-64 years. In the two Indian states in particular, they said only 17.9 per cent of COVID-19 deaths occurring on or before 1 August, 2020 were among people older than 75, compared with 58.1 per cent of deaths due to the disease in the US.

'This study was made possible by the significant contact tracing effort in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, which involved tens of thousands of healthcare workers,' Laxminarayan said.

'The results on disease transmission and mortality have the potential to inform policy to fight COVID-19. The study also speaks to the capacity of research emerging from India to help inform the global response to COVID-19,' he added. PTI

 

must you carry your health passport at all times
will you be stopped in the street and asked to show you are healthy
will you be notified should a positive tester be in your area

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More than 650 households escape quarantine fines
National Police Chiefs' Council says visiting officers failed to get responses or nobody of name given was found at many addresses

By Charles Hymas, Home Affairs Editor 30 September 2020 • 5:26pm
Over 650 households quarantined after returning to the UK escaped fines because no one answered the door to police officers or the returning holidaymaker gave a "wrong" address.

The 680 households represented nearly one in six – 15 per cent – of the 4,114 homes checked by police since quarantine was introduced in June, according to figures from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Wednesday.

The NPCC said 440 cases had resulted in no answer at all when officers arrived at the address. Under quarantine protocol, they returned for a second time but then took no further enforcement action and passed the information back to public health and border force officials.

At a further 240 addresses visited by police, nobody with the name on the contact form that travellers have to fill in on arrival in the UK was living there. This meant no further enforcement action could be taken, the NPCC said.

As a result, only 38 fines of £1,000 for breaches of the 14-day quarantine have been issued by 14 forces since June

 

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This is just conspiracy nonsense.

 

Trump's got it...

 

Not suspicious at all.

 

Trump and first lady have tested positive. And are isolating but is well.

Will he ask to call off election

 

He may well ask but the U.S. has never delayed an election - even during the Civil War.

 

So the democratic hoax has got trump. He’s lucky he’ll be getting the very best medical treatment possible, he should be fine though if you’ve read his doctors report, which I was only discussing on here the other day.