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weatheriscool wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 5:56 am Something tells me that this disease isn't done. :oops:
It's too late now.
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wjfox wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 7:37 pm

I wonder what their sentence will be in case they don't get their organs removed
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To know is essentially the same as not knowing. The only thing that occurs is the rearrangement of atoms in your brain.
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Can China Avoid a Wave of Deaths If It Lifts Strict Zero COVID Policy?
by Smriti Mallapaty
Updated December 1, 2022

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(Nature) China is showing signs of easing its strict zero-COVID policy after rare displays of dissent across the country. In recent weeks, people have protested against the government’s policy of quashing outbreaks through strict lockdowns, mass testing, quarantining and travel restrictions — which comes at an increasing economic cost. In the past few days, several cities have loosened restrictions, and China’s vice-premier, Sun Chunlan, signalled a more permissive approach to containing the virus, according to news reports. But ending zero COVID would bring challenges. Thanks to the policy, only a small proportion of people in China have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Meanwhile, immunity from vaccines is likely to have waned, and boosters have been a harder sell. If the country ends its strict zero-COVID policy, how can it avoid a wave of deaths and severe disease?

A resurgence of cases in November has led to an all-time pandemic high that hit 71,000 daily recorded cases on 29 November. This upsurge has been driven largely by the BF.7 Omicron subvariant, says Lu Jiahai, an infectious-diseases epidemiologist at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. Modelling studies suggest that if China were to lift strict restrictions now, Omicron could infect between 160 million and 280 million people — resulting in some 1.3 million to 2.1 million deaths, largely among unvaccinated older adults.

At the outbreak’s peak, demand for intensive-care beds could be more than 15 times the current capacity, according to one study published in Nature Medicine in May1, based on vaccination rates in March. Vaccine coverage is higher now, but not enough to prevent hospitals being overwhelmed, says Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong. “There would be a lot of severe cases and mortality.”

However, researchers say there are ways to minimize severe disease and deaths when shifting away from zero COVID. One priority should be to ramp up booster vaccination for older people, who are at higher risk of developing severe disease, says Xi Chen, an economist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who studies China’s public-health system.
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wjfox wrote: Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:35 am What fun! Morning nucleic acid test ritual in Wuhan in Central China
It so stupid, I wonder why people dutifully agree to it.
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Indoor mask requirement in LA County looms again as COVID cases keep surging
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- COVID-19 infections continue surging in Los Angeles County, with the rising rates of new cases and hospital admissions again pushing the county into the "medium" COVID activity level, the public health director said Thursday, adding that another indoor masking mandate could be imposed soon.

County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said the county is now averaging more than 2,700 new COVID infections per day, a 180% increase since Nov. 1. Daily virus-related hospital admissions are at 192 per day, a 200% jump since Nov. 1.

"There is this common line of thinking that the pandemic is over and COVID is no longer of concern, but these numbers clearly demonstrate that COVID is still with us," Ferrer said.

"Given both the increases in hospitalizations and the lack of certainty in the winter trajectory for COVID-19, continuing some common-sense mitigation strategies that we know work to limit transmission and illness, including masking and being up to date on vaccines and boosters, remains a very sensible approach."
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