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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of August 24
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
Hong Kong reports first coronavirus reinfection
"This is “the world’s first documentation of a patient who recovered from COVID-19, but got another episode of COVID-19 afterwards,” the researchers said in an emailed statement."
Note that they didn’t become ill. But it seems bad for herd immunity? As noted in a tweet.
I really like and appreciate the way she spelt it out, with a set of tweets including pictures, so those of us without the training can understand some of the implications.
Florida confirmed 9000 new COVID-19 cases among children within 15 days as schools reopen
How bad was the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918?
Belgium is seeing a great decrease in the "second wave"'s numbers, proportional by region, with a two-to-three weeks latency, based on who made masks mandatory and how fast.
I swear, we'll come out of this pandemic being like "so yeah, the hand washing, the social distancing, the lockdowns, the signs on the floor.. it was all pretty much for nothing. We had a miracle cure and it was masks."
Infections rise to more than 1,000 on University of Alabama campus
Not really surprising, given the bombardment of propaganda Republicans subscribe to where they are constantly told if not for their Lord and Savior Trump, <insert abject fear-mongering>. Anything making Trump look bad is just fake-news.