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This should have gotten bigger coverage than the death of Little Richard who I assumed was already dead. Seriously this news was buried half way down the CNN page.Roy Horn, one-half of the popular Las Vegas animal and magic act Siegfried and Roy, died Friday of complications from the coronavirus, according to his publicist. He was 75.
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Three children out of 350 million is like 0.000000008571428571428571 though, statistically speaking it'll probably be someone else's kid.uziq wrote:
nearly 100 children in new york state have been diagnosed with kawasaki-syndrome-like symptoms, i.e. massive immune system response. 3 children have died, one a 5 year old. sounds bad. the entire assumption that children are safe to go to school and mix freely should be seriously questioned.
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Its perfectly plausible, they followed the right approach very aggressvively and effectively.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Still their disinformation about their infections and deaths invites speculation and well more disinformation. Do you find it at all plausible that the most populous country in the world completely wiped out the disease meanwhile every other country in the world, big, and small are still going through exponential growth?
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meanwhile more yuuuuge success in sweden.”We failed to protect our elderly. That’s really serious, and a failure for society as a whole.” Sweden’s government has apologised for not protecting older people, with 90% of the country’s Covid-19 deaths occurring in the over-70s.
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jay: what more could trump have done! the media are being so mean!Before Covid-19 had been identified as a coronavirus, and when it was still being described as a “mystery pneumonia”, Taiwan brought in checks on passengers flying from Wuhan. These soon expanded to over 120 measures including strict quarantine, border controls, testing and contact tracing.
“We learned very harsh lessons from Sars and that experience is something other countries don’t have,” said Chan Chang-chuan, dean of National Taiwan University’s College of Public Health. To date, its Covid-19 death toll is six, despite its very close economic and cultural ties with mainland China, and a high volume of cross-border travel between the two.
South Korea endured Sars and has even more recent memories of a fatal coronavirus epidemic, after Mers (Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome) broke out there in 2015, killing 36 people. It began ramping up testing capacity from January, before the disease had arrived in force.
At one point the country had the highest number of cases outside mainland China, but its testing and careful contact tracing meant it was among the first and most successful countries in flattening the curve.
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