I'm starting this thread as a side discussion of all things Corona Virus related. I understand that this is going to be discussed in almost all other topic threads but we could collect news and other items here. 

 

At work, many conferences have been cancelled.

NBA - Suspended.

NHL - About to be suspended. 

NCAA March Madness - Playing - no crowd. 

 

Political Rallies have been cancelled. 

Travel bans. 

 

Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks tested positive. They're in Australia where testing is available. If they were in the US, they wouldn't have been tested. 

 

SERIOUSLY?

 

42 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

 

Got my 1st dose March 28th so I know what I'm doing at 11:45!

Edited May 26, 20214 yr by bigg jay

 

1 hour ago, Jpan85 said:

 

Mom was 29th, guess she outta luck.

8 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Mom was 29th, guess she outta luck.

March 29th or earlier 

48 minutes ago, iHeart said:

 

LIkely to be blamed on us....

AB announces 3-Phase re-opening plan, with all restrictions lifted and return to pre-pandemic life across the province by June 28th.................................

2 hours ago, iHeart said:

SERIOUSLY?

 

I for one am shocked !!!      🙈🙉🙊

BS like this is partly to blame for people not following restrictions.

51 minutes ago, Noeller said:

AB announces 3-Phase re-opening plan, with all restrictions lifted and return to pre-pandemic life across the province by June 28th.................................

16 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

BS like this is partly to blame for people not following restrictions.

It ironically,  spreads like a disease. 

Edited May 26, 20214 yr by the watcher

Oh hey - there we go.

 

 

3 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

Mom was 29th, guess she outta luck.

Me too, dammit. Still no priority for ED sufferers.

Yeehawwwwwww! New event at stampede this year, Covid wrangling. 

 

******* kenney banking on vaccines big time. Seems like a more cautious approach would be the smart thing.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-covid-19-patient-dies-flown-out-of-province-1.6040784

4 hours ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

Oh hey - there we go.

 

 

Fifth straight day for declining numbers. Still a long way to go.

15 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-covid-19-patient-dies-flown-out-of-province-1.6040784

No way to know how legit this poster is, but a lot of things lined up in their favour yesterday.  

https://www.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/comments/nlhhdk/chaos_inside_the_pcs/

 

Edited May 27, 20214 yr by Wideleft

I hope Brian takes his cabinet with him when he escapes to Costa Rica. 

Edited May 27, 20214 yr by JCon

Faster than a PCR test: dogs detect Covid in under a second

Faster than PCR and more accurate than lateral flow tests, the latest weapons against Covid-19 have four legs and a wet nose.

A study published on Monday found that people who are infected with coronavirus give off a distinct odour, which these highly trained dogs can detect with pinpoint precision.

Tala, a golden Labrador in a red work jacket, greets me with a cursory sniff, before returning to his handler. I’m relieved to have passed the test, but feel a wet train of mucus on my hand where I petted him. This mucus fulfils an important purpose: dissolving odour molecules from the air and transporting them to olfactory receptors in the top of their nose, where the magic happens. Whereas humans have about 5m of these receptors, dogs have up to 300m.

Dr Claire Guest has always been fascinated by dogs, and humans’ relationship with them. After studying psychology, she worked for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, where she met a woman who said her pet Dalmatian had diagnosed a malignant melanoma on her calf. “She kept saying, ‘The dog sniffed it,’” Guest recalled. In 2002, Guest joined forces with an orthopaedic surgeon, John Church, to test whether dogs could be trained to distinguish between urine from healthy people and those with bladder cancer. The research, published in the BMJ, showed that they could.
Medical Detection Dogs was formed in 2008. The charity trains companion dogs that can detect odour changes in people with type 1 diabetes and other severe disorders, emitted shortly before their health deteriorates, alerting them to take action. It also researches dogs’ abilities to detect cancers, and other diseases, including Parkinson’s. When the pandemic hit it had just completed a study with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), demonstrating that dogs can detect malaria.

Tala is one of six dogs who took part in the Covid study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed. It found that dogs could detect Covid-19 on clothing worn by infected people with up to 94.3% sensitivity: they would correctly identify 94 out of every 100 infected people. This compares with a sensitivity of 58-77% for lateral flow tests, and 97.2% for PCR tests.

However, dogs beat PCR tests on speed, making a diagnosis in under a second. “This includes people who are asymptomatic and also people with a low viral load,” said Prof James Logan of LSHTM, who co-led the study.

Tala was the most accurate sniffer, achieving 94.5% sensitivity, and a specificity of 92% – the proportion of uninfected people that he would correctly identify.

 

Anti-vaccine movements shift their target to the vaccinated.  Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists are blaming vaccinated people for "shedding" virus in their presence

Myths around infertility, pregnancy and miscarriages have run rampant in anti-vaccine circles for years — and in the universe of their conspiracy theories, vaccines are often to blame. While variations of such false claims have been part of misinformation campaigns around the COVID-19 vaccines, there has recently been a shift from demonizing the vaccine itself to villainizing those who are vaccinated.

It's a peculiar repositioning for the anti-vaccination conspiracy movement — and as the false claim evolves into more extreme iterations, it has caught the attention of people who study and advocate against vaccine misinformation.

"I think it is particularly interesting that people are saying that those who are those who are vaccinated are a risk to those who aren't," said David Broniatowski, who's the associate director for the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics at George Washington University. "It's like taking the common vaccine conventional wisdom and flipping it on its head where people will say, 'if you have not been vaccinated, you're a risk to those who are more vulnerable and vaccinated.'"

Broniatowski said he's never seen this before in the history of anti-vaccine rhetoric.

"This is the first time," Broniatowski said.

The conspiracy centers on one particular myth that people who are vaccinated can emit contagious particles of the coronavirus's Spike protein and can infect others, a process referred to as "vaccine shedding." Vaccine shedding is a very rare possibility with live-attenuated vaccines that use a diluted version of a disease to stimulate an immune response. In the rare case there's enough germ to spread, the shedding usually happens via feces— for example, with the polio vaccine or the measles vaccine.

"For the measles vaccine, later in life — and again this is super rare — it's possible that the live virus could revert to a condition called Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)," said Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease doctor and professor of medicine at the University of California–San Francisco. "But in no way can you shed it and give it to someone."

Anti-vaccine movements shift their target to the vaccinated | Salon.com

14 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Anti-vaccine movements shift their target to the vaccinated.  Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists are blaming vaccinated people for "shedding" virus in their presence

Myths around infertility, pregnancy and miscarriages have run rampant in anti-vaccine circles for years — and in the universe of their conspiracy theories, vaccines are often to blame. While variations of such false claims have been part of misinformation campaigns around the COVID-19 vaccines, there has recently been a shift from demonizing the vaccine itself to villainizing those who are vaccinated.

It's a peculiar repositioning for the anti-vaccination conspiracy movement — and as the false claim evolves into more extreme iterations, it has caught the attention of people who study and advocate against vaccine misinformation.

"I think it is particularly interesting that people are saying that those who are those who are vaccinated are a risk to those who aren't," said David Broniatowski, who's the associate director for the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics at George Washington University. "It's like taking the common vaccine conventional wisdom and flipping it on its head where people will say, 'if you have not been vaccinated, you're a risk to those who are more vulnerable and vaccinated.'"

Broniatowski said he's never seen this before in the history of anti-vaccine rhetoric.

"This is the first time," Broniatowski said.

The conspiracy centers on one particular myth that people who are vaccinated can emit contagious particles of the coronavirus's Spike protein and can infect others, a process referred to as "vaccine shedding." Vaccine shedding is a very rare possibility with live-attenuated vaccines that use a diluted version of a disease to stimulate an immune response. In the rare case there's enough germ to spread, the shedding usually happens via feces— for example, with the polio vaccine or the measles vaccine.

"For the measles vaccine, later in life — and again this is super rare — it's possible that the live virus could revert to a condition called Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)," said Dr. Monica Gandhi, infectious disease doctor and professor of medicine at the University of California–San Francisco. "But in no way can you shed it and give it to someone."

Anti-vaccine movements shift their target to the vaccinated | Salon.com

Only the dumbest people. Truly astounding in their stupidity. 

38 minutes ago, JCon said:

Only the dumbest people. Truly astounding in their stupidity. 

It seems the Anti-vaxxers have painted themselves into such a tight corner that they can no longer admit they were/are wrong without conceding that they have been complete idiots being led by idiots. Therefore, they will dwindle down in numbers until only the most brain-dead remain, much as the flat-Earthers. 

18 hours ago, Tracker said:

Me too, dammit. Still no priority for ED sufferers.

Forgot to mention: there was a very effective medication for ED that is no longer available- "Micoxaphlopin".

Pallister, this you?

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/reality-check-pallister-1.6041376

Some good work here with fact checking the Con talking points about how we got here.

 

52 minutes ago, Tracker said:

It seems the Anti-vaxxers have painted themselves into such a tight corner that they can no longer admit they were/are wrong without conceding that they have been complete idiots being led by idiots. Therefore, they will dwindle down in numbers until only the most brain-dead remain, much as the flat-Earthers. 

They transitioned from "Covid is fake" to "vaccinated people are giving me Covid" with ease.