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I wonder if some of that is related to the dry cough associated with Covid? A wet cough spreds much more sputum.

Asymtomatic though. That's a really hard thing to quantify if it presents as something seemingly normal like a cold or just malaise.
 
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The WHO is just the friggin Joker here, I swear
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Yeah, I tend to trust later information with more of a history behind it. If what they are saying now is correct, it would have been better earlier if they had just indicated they were concerned about people who contracted the virus and were asymptomatic being contagious. Could have said something like that, and said they weren't sure until they studied the virus more.
 
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Yeah, I tend to trust later information with more of a history behind it. If what they are saying now is correct, it would have been better earlier if they had just indicated they were concerned about people who contracted the virus and were asymptomatic being contagious. Could have said something like that, and said they weren't sure until they studied the virus more.
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Yeah I'm okay with people correcting themselves especially with more info. I just hate their wobbling on seemingly everything, especially after saying all the earlier stuff with such certainty. It's like they're trying to come up with hot takes haha.
 
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Yeah I'm okay with people correcting themselves especially with more info. I just hate their wobbling on seemingly everything, especially after saying all the earlier stuff with such certainty. It's like they're trying to come up with hot takes haha.
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True. Frustrating for sure. But, people are demanding answers and maybe they're just going based on the information they do have.
 
Coronavirus will delay purchase of homes by millenials. Being unable to work for six months has devastated their savings accounts. It also appears the banks are going to be very cautious about the economic recovery and do not want to get caught holding the bag again on bad loans.

The pandemic is crippling millennials' savings — and that means it's only going to get harder for the generation to buy their first homes

It doesn't help that some banks are making their lending criteria more strict, the report stated, requiring higher credit scores and a larger minimum down payment. The millennial median down payment is 8%, per the report, but some banks are now requiring the standard 20% down payment for mortgage approvals.

That's a $100,000 down payment for the purchase of a $500,000 home. That's a tough nut to crack, and if young people do manage to crack it, it's welcome to the IE millenials.
 
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Oh f***!

Ebola in Congo: New outbreak likely came from infected animal

Up to 12 people have been found infected with Ebola in a new outbreak of the deadly disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
A week ago, authorities reported six infections in the northwestern city of Mbandaka, saying they appeared to be separate from another outbreak of the virus that has raged in the east since 2018.

2nd outbreak of Ebola is reported in Congo, WHO says

There have now been nine confirmed cases and three probable cases of the disease in and around Mbandaka, the WHO said. Six of those people have died, it added.
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I think we are due for some bubonic plague at this point yeesh with that ebola news.
 
Raccoon Jesus said:
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The WHO is already backtracking on what it said about asymptomatic cases.

WHO walks back comments calling asymptomatic transmission of coronavirus "very rare"

Someone did the math on the supposed frequency of asymptomatic transmission and concluded if what the WHO was saying was true, there have only been 700 cases of asymptomatic transmission out of 7 million cases. It's one out of every 10,000 cases.

Kind of hard to believe that's accurate.
 
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8 deaths in OC today
Only 1 was SNF

Anyone know how long covid takes to kill?
Could this be memorial day?
No way it is the protests. 7 days from transmission to death seems way too soon
 
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Maybe I’m being thick but it seems like he just used bad data? I’m not getting the drama the article is trying to create by exposing the family ties. What am I missing?
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The studies were flat out false, purported to be based on data they couldn't possibly have. When the publications asked for access to the data, the authors said that they couldn't provide it, due to confidentiality agreements.

Here's a bit of an explanation from the New York Times:

"Critics were quick to point out anomalies in both pieces of research, including implausible findings that should have been detected during the peer review process — like the registry’s apparent inclusion of a large number of Covid-19 cases very early on in the pandemic, even in Africa, where few hospitals have electronic health records. . . . Many researchers were astonished to find out that such a database could exist, or that the gathering and analysis of tens of thousands of medical records on multiple continents could have been carried out so quickly."

Two Huge Covid-19 Studies Are Retracted After Scientists Sound Alarms
 
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