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1st April 2020, 17:47 #131
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There was an area in Moravia (close to Barum rally area) which was under total lockdown for some time due to a very large number of uncontrollable contacts with infected persons (which probably ignored traveler quarantine). This total lockdown was now lifted because the officials claim the infected and their contacts are now being tracked. Why I'm writing this is that they will do a 100% testing of all people in the area in next few days.
Also a 5000 thousand random sample of people with no symptoms will be tested next week in Prague to see the percentage of infected among the seamingly healthy population. I will give You the results when they are published.
By the way according to the statistical models used by our health ministry the R0 number at the beginning of the epidemy here without any social distancing measures was 2,64. They claim that at the moment it is down to roughly 1,1-1,3. Of course it's developing situation so the number have to be taken with a grain of salt.Last edited by Mirek; 1st April 2020 at 18:00.
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1st April 2020, 22:04 #132
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1.1 is basically very, very good result. Some call it almost ideal. So, keeping the contacts minimal, virus is moving in closed "system" (family, etc.) and at some point, due to the "lack of clients" its starts to disappear. I would be very interested to hear about these stats. We have Saaremaa Island, at the moment, proved cases are nearly 90 cases per 10 000 people. And they are not testing everyone and if virus is running in family, these are not taken into account. realistically, it means that almost every 100th person has virus. And if we read studdies that 15-20 % cases are normally discovered, we can say that at least every 20th person in the island has or has had virus. that means, in every bus you have 2, in every ferry you have 10 etc. They have similar plan there as well that maybe in the future they do some test to see who has resistance for the virus.
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2nd April 2020, 13:09 #133
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An interesting study of the transmission is here. Even if the absolute numbers may be disputed the general message about the measures and their impact is interesting. Especially the role of time of response/application of the measures: https://science.sciencemag.org/conte...cience.abb6105
Of course with the first country it is difficult to set the day 1 since it takes time to find out that something new is happening but on the other hand in the other countries the first detected case also wasn't the real number 1 I guess. Anyway it's important to note that China introduced brutal measures at day 23 while US is at day 71 now and till day 60 or so they did exactly nothing. Even now the measures are nowhere close to the level of Chinese ones (quite impossible in the western world to be honest). UK is now in day 64. Here in CZ the social distancing measures were applied starting from day 13 (getting stricted during the following days).Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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2nd April 2020, 17:01 #134
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2nd April 2020, 17:10 #135
The governor of Georgia claimed yesterday he didn't know it could be transmitted asymptomatically "until 24 hours ago."
With that kind of stunning ignorance or dishonesty the US is in for a rough time. Plenty of other governors were or still are refusing to take any steps, and the federal government under Trump is not taking a lead or responsibility for coordinating a national response unless it can be cast as a self-congratulatory sound bite for TV.
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2nd April 2020, 17:20 #136
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Blaming it on ski tourists coming back is naivety at its finest when it comes to the UK.
For months and months there have been dozens of flights EVERY DAY in the UK from all parts of the world already affected by the virus with no checks or even advice given out.
Indeed, it's still the case now! There have been no proactive attempts to stop the movement of people into the UK, other than the natural attrition of flights because the airlines are grounding their fleets....
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3rd April 2020, 23:48 #137
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4th April 2020, 11:00 #138
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Last night the BBC News called Italy the 'epicentre of the outbreak in Europe' and it is clearly the place where the worst and largest outbreak began.
Flights out of China and the Far East were the first to be reduced and then stopped.
Returnees from N.Italy were in large numbers. They may not be the only source of UK infections but are surely the largest.#M-SPORTER
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4th April 2020, 11:26 #139
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That's not what I read. Flights have been severely restricted or stopped for some time.
5th Feb: The British man who got his family on 'last available Air China flight to UK' said:
"What about British nationals who need help to arrange a flight. Airlines are cancelling fights by the hour. Most flights from China to the UK are going to be cancelled. So if they (FO) are asking British nationals to urgently leave China, well if someone is in Beijing or Shanghai and they can't get a flight back to the UK, how do they expect the British nationals to leave China, how?"
Plus the other issue is the EU didnt do the same, so people flew from China into Europe then on to the UK. Italy banned all flights in from China but this caused deep irritation among other EU states who wanted to coordinate a 'joint response' and meanwhile arrivals continued.Last edited by Fast Eddie WRC; 4th April 2020 at 15:44.
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