Coronavirus good Uplifting and hopeful news only

[Anonymous]

Immunity likely greater than we think:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-immunity-covid-higher-shown.amp

[Anonymous]

It seems all bad news all the time. Anything ???

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Bump

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https://us.yahoo.com/news/around-third-those-no-coronavirus-185927281.html

This seems promissing

[Anonymous]

DC daily positive rate is under 1% .... this seems like excellent news
https://public.tableau.com/profile/deeba.yavrom1092#!/vizhome/Covid-19WashingtonD_C_/Dashboard1?publish=yes

[Anonymous]

Instead of more people developing immunity asymptomatically, there's a thought among some doctors that many people are just not susceptible to getting infected. If this is the case, then herd immunity would come much sooner within an infected population.

This is an interesting thread from a cancer doctor on this - https://twitter.com/Rfonsi1/status/1277643561316388864?s=20

Also, the decreasing mortality rate among hospitalized patients is being seen everywhere. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53192532

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Anonymous wrote:Instead of more people developing immunity asymptomatically, there's a thought among some doctors that many people are just not susceptible to getting infected. If this is the case, then herd immunity would come much sooner within an infected population.

This is an interesting thread from a cancer doctor on this - https://twitter.com/Rfonsi1/status/1277643561316388864?s=20

Also, the decreasing mortality rate among hospitalized patients is being seen everywhere. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53192532

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I so hope this is true - that a large fraction of the population already has immunity to this virus. It seems to be our best hope at opening up sooner and safer 🙏🏻

[Anonymous]

SIAP, oxford covid vaccine showing lots of promise for extended immunity (years) from covid. Phase 3 trials started already (8k volunteers). Showing great promise (they are licensing this vaccine to Astrazeneca, which has a strong presence in Montgomery county).

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/researchers-launch-large-trials-of-covid-19-candidate-vaccines/5484935.html

Also, Moderna is starting P3 trial for their vaccine this month. Pfizer and a few others' candidates will begin P3 trials over the next 1-2 months.

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An interview w/ Francis Collins (head of the NIH), where he talks about the vaccine trials:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/anthony-faucis-boss-on-why-things-could-be-much-better-soon.html?fbclid=IwAR02rZAwqGB51e4sCvFRrxdxCIkAHEQaUXyFSCis9242ruToKQ9n1ScvwmU

[Anonymous]

Today Virginia has its lowest new case count since April 15.

Virginia’s 7 day test positive averages since June 27 have been at 5.9%, 5.9%, 6.1%, 6%, 5.9% and on July 2nd 5.8%.

The Fairfax Health District has seen 7 day average test positive rates have been steady in the 6-6.5% range. The Alexandria District’s rate has dropped to 4%. After a spike largely due to beach week, Loudoun’s rate looks to be dropping again.

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Other countries are coming back to normal...

How badly is America doing?

When can schools safely reopen? When will the economy really start recovering? And when will you next eat in a restaurant, go to a movie, watch pro sports or hang out at a friend’s house?

All of these are, in fact, versions of the same question: When will the United States finally start to get the coronavirus under control?

And the answer appears to be: not any time soon.

The U.S. looks ever more like an outlier. Over the weekend, President Trump again played down the coronavirus as a serious threat, falsely claiming 99 percent of cases are harmless. In many places, Americans continued to socialize in proximity, without masks.

Much of the rest of the world is taking a very different approach. It is slowly moving back toward more normal functioning, without setting off major new outbreaks.

Schools in Japan and much of Europe have reopened. Restaurants in Iceland are bustling. The South Korean baseball season is in full swing. Thomas Chatterton Williams, an American writer living in France, asked in a recent Atlantic piece: “Do Americans understand how badly they’re doing?”

The U.S. now ranks with Brazil, Sweden and Peru as having one of the world’s most rapid virus growth rates. (Online, you can find a detailed version of this chart, with lines for more countries.)

There have been two main ways that countries have managed the pandemic successfully. The first approach prevented major outbreaks through an aggressive initial response that included travel restrictions, tests, contact tracing, quarantining and mask wearing. Several Asian countries, like South Korea and Vietnam, followed this model.

The second set of countries, including several in Western Europe, did suffer major outbreaks. But they responded with lockdowns and then began reopening carefully. All of these countries continue to cope with new cases, and will for a long time, but the numbers are small.

The U.S. reacted too slowly to prevent an initial outbreak, and only some regions — like New York — have responded forcefully since then. Much of the country instead declared victory prematurely, leading to the current surge of cases.

Ben Casselman, an economics reporter, has a thoughtful way of explaining the dynamic. “Recent developments raise some real questions about what ‘good news’ even means right now,” he says.

The economy is a central example. Its surprisingly rapid growth in May and early June initially seemed encouraging, Ben points out. But it now seems to have been a sign that Americans were resuming normal activity in ways that spread the virus. Now the virus’s resurgence is causing new shutdowns that will delay a true recovery.

In other virus developments:

-- New data — made available after The New York Times sued the federal government — shows the extent of racial disparities: The contraction rate is almost three times as high for Black Americans as white Americans and more than three times higher among Latinos than whites.

-- Nick Cordero, a 41-year-old Broadway star known for his tough-guy roles in “Bullets Over Broadway,” “Waitress” and “A Bronx Tale,” died after a three-month battle with the virus.

-- Evidence increasingly suggests that the virus lingers in indoor air for extended periods of time. That, in turn, suggests that masks, air ventilation and ultraviolet light are key to slowing its spread.

-- Australia has locked down nine public housing towers in Melbourne to control the virus, telling about 3,000 residents that they must not leave for at least five days.

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Anything today?

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Not only are a few vaccines in phase III, but a drug cocktail also is in phase III.

"An experimental double antibody cocktail for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19 is entering phase 3 human trials"

https://www.timesnownews.com/health/article/coronavirus-prevention-regenerons-antibody-cocktail-regn-cov2-enters-phase-3-human-trials/617496

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Anonymous wrote:Not only are a few vaccines in phase III, but a drug cocktail also is in phase III.

"An experimental double antibody cocktail for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19 is entering phase 3 human trials"

https://www.timesnownews.com/health/article/coronavirus-prevention-regenerons-antibody-cocktail-regn-cov2-enters-phase-3-human-trials/617496

Treatment! That would be awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anything today?

Seriously is there ever good news any more?