Coronavirus links

[conuly]

In El Salvador, criminal gangs are enforcing virus-related restrictions.

What Do Coronavirus Racial Disparities Look Like State By State?

3 Ways Scientists Think We Could De-Germ a Covid-19 World

A 30-year-old teacher's Covid-19 death tells us volumes

Scientists hunt pandemic hotspots in race to test vaccines

Researchers warn covid-19 could cause debilitating long-term illness in some patients

How coronavirus destroys the human body, one organ at a time

Antibody Tests Point To Lower Death Rate For The Coronavirus Than First Thought (Though, see above: the death rate isn't the only thing to be concerned about)

Study shows 10 times more New Yorkers had Covid-19 by April than previously counted

In coronavirus crisis, lessons in humanity toward America's incarcerated

Why 15 US states suddenly made masks mandatory

Life Feels Safe in South Korea Right Now

The full toll of Covid-19 on children's mental health won't be known for years

How To Hide a COVID-19 Hotspot? Pretend Prisoners Don’t Exist (Prison isn't a de facto quarantine, whatever those officials want to tell themselves)

Comments

[cynthia1960]

Nice double standard there...prison populations are counted to benefit the clout of more rural places *except* during a pandemic.

[conuly]

Mmmhm.

[amaebi]

:(

[oakfarm]

I find the headline "Antibody Tests Point To Lower Death Rate For The Coronavirus Than First Thought", weird. An infection fatality rate of 0.5-1.0% isn't that around what they have said for some time? It is actually higher than the most optimistic rough guess that were made in the start of the pandemic. The only place I have seen higher numbers are on social media. (Then we have demographic different that give different numbers for different regions. And the question if everyone exposed are found in those antibody tests?)

[conuly]

Even the batshit OpEn Up!11 conspiracy theorists have been quoting 2% everywhere.

[marahmarie]

Antibody tests have up to a 50% inaccuracy rate according to (I think) the CDC, so ymmv no matter what.

Personally I'd not even look at antibody tests right now as a way to tabulate case count, deaths or even as an adjunct to any current(ly also no-doubt under-counted) figures.

Kind of a relief as locally we have antibody tests now, but without insurance they're $200 through the only private healthcare service providing them. I was sorely tempted to save up to get at least one of us tested until I read about the inaccuracy rate.