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[COVID-19 Virus] The Sinkies are fucked Thread.
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Visit our casino on any weekday and see how crowded inside.
Social-distancing officers only dare to bully the neighborhood retailers.
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Breaking: Data collected in the United States suggests 90 per cent diagnosed as ‘Coronavirus positive’ should be negative
September 6, 2020 4:19 pm Raggie Jessy
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The most widely used diagnostic test for the new coronavirus is called a PCR test and provides a simple yes-no answer to the question of whether a patient is infected. Source (pic): TTF Files
تركيني: داتا دري اس چادڠ 90 ڤراتوس يڠ دصحكن ڤوسيتيف چوۏيد-19 سهاروسڽ نيڬاتيف
Data compiled by officials in the United States suggest up to 90 percent of people testing positive for the Covid-19 causeing Coronavirus barely had the virus and should have been declared negative.
In a seemingly hushed up report by the New York Times, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Michael Mina, was quoted as saying 85 to 90 percent of people in Massachusetts who tested positive in July should have been deemed negative.
“It’s just kind of mind-blowing to me that people are not recording the C.T. values from all these tests — that they’re just returning a positive or a negative,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University in New York.
“It would be useful information to know if somebody’s positive, whether they have a high viral load or a low viral load,” she added.
Data compiled by officials in the United States suggest up to 90 percent of people testing positive for the Covid-19 causeing Coronavirus barely had the virus and should have been declared negative.
In a seemingly hushed up report by the New York Times, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Michael Mina, was quoted as saying 85 to 90 percent of people in Massachusetts who tested positive in July should have been deemed negative.
The most widely used diagnostic test for the new coronavirus is called a PCR test and provides a simple yes-no answer to the question of whether a patient is infected.
But similar PCR tests for other viruses do offer some sense of how contagious an infected patient may be: The results may include a rough estimate of the amount of virus in the patient’s body.
“We’ve been using one type of data for everything, and that is just plus or minus — that’s all,” Dr. Mina said. “We’re using that for clinical diagnostics, for public health, for policy decision-making.”
But yes-no isn’t good enough, he added. It’s the amount of virus that should dictate the infected patient’s next steps. “It’s really irresponsible, I think, to forgo the recognition that this is a quantitative issue,” Dr. Mina said.
The PCR test amplifies genetic matter from the virus in cycles; the fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus, or viral load, in the sample. The greater the viral load, the more likely the patient is to be contagious.
This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients, although it could tell them how infectious the patients are.
In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.
On the 29th of August 2020, the United States recorded 45,604 new coronavirus cases, according to a database maintained by The Times.
If the rates of contagiousness in Massachusetts and New York were to apply nationwide, then perhaps only 4,500 of those people may actually need to isolate and submit to contact tracing.
“It’s just kind of mind-blowing to me that people are not recording the C.T. values from all these tests — that they’re just returning a positive or a negative,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University in New York.
“It would be useful information to know if somebody’s positive, whether they have a high viral load or a low viral load,” she added.
Officials at the Wadsworth Center, New York’s state lab, have access to C.T. values from tests they have processed, and analyzed their numbers at The Times’s request. In July, the lab identified 794 positive tests, based on a threshold of 40 cycles.
With a cutoff of 35, about half of those tests would no longer qualify as positive. About 70 percent would no longer be judged positive if the cycles were limited to 30.
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Exhibitions and conference can allow up to 250 attendees.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...up-to-250-attendees-application-to-start-from
Do you think KTV can resume?
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SINGAPORE: Nine new COVID-19 cases were reported in Singapore as of noon on Tuesday (Nov 3), the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in its preliminary daily update.
Of the new cases, two were locally transmitted. Both cases reside in dormitories and there are no new cases in the community, said MOH.
There are also seven imported cases, all of whom were placed on stay-home notice upon arrival in Singapore.
The new infections bring Singapore's tally of COVID-19 cases to 58,029.
Of the new cases, two were locally transmitted. Both cases reside in dormitories and there are no new cases in the community, said MOH.
There are also seven imported cases, all of whom were placed on stay-home notice upon arrival in Singapore.
The new infections bring Singapore's tally of COVID-19 cases to 58,029.
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KNN my uncle think we are safe for now until pap leecide to screw us again which my uncle think most likely will happen KNN leemember all these wouldn't have happened if pap had listened to my uncle KNN
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SINGAPORE: Seven new COVID-19 cases were reported in Singapore as of noon on Wednesday (Nov 4), said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in its preliminary daily update.
Two of the cases were locally transmitted and involved dormitory residents.
The remaining five cases are imported infections. All of them had been placed on stay-home notice upon their arrival in Singapore, MOH said.
There were no new cases in the community.
The new infections bring Singapore's tally of COVID-19 cases to 58,036.
Two of the cases were locally transmitted and involved dormitory residents.
The remaining five cases are imported infections. All of them had been placed on stay-home notice upon their arrival in Singapore, MOH said.
There were no new cases in the community.
The new infections bring Singapore's tally of COVID-19 cases to 58,036.
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SINGAPORE: People must be prepared for a Phase 3 that could last for a “prolonged period” of a year or more, said Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong on Wednesday (Nov 4).
This is even as the multi-ministry task force tackling COVID-19 has laid out a roadmap which could see the country enter the third phase of its reopening by the end of this year.
Mr Gan, who co-chairs the task force, said in Parliament that Phase 3 would not be a return to the pre-pandemic status quo. It will instead be a “new normal” that will last until either the rest of the world gets the virus under control, or an effective treatment or vaccine is developed.
“In this context, we need to put in place the measures and equip ourselves with the tools which will enable us to stay safe, as we allow greater flexibility to live, work and even celebrate major life events,” he said.
The minister was responding to a question from Tampines GRC Member of Parliament Cheng Li Hui, who had asked about the criteria considered when considering the maximum number of people allowed for events such as weddings
Such factors include the frequency of such activities, the potential risk of specific types of events as well as whether additional safety measures can be effectively put in place to mitigate these risks, said Mr Gan.
The risk of having meals together is also higher due to the need to remove masks when eating and drinking, adding that this is multiplied many times should this involve different groups of people, he said.
“Hence, we have taken a cautious approach in expanding group sizes,” he said, explaining the rationale in considering allowing eight people in such gatherings, up from five currently.
“Taking banquet tables as an example, many used to sit around 10 people before COVID-19. So eight persons is about the maximum that these tables can take while allowing some additional distancing compared to the past,” said Mr Gan.
This is even as the multi-ministry task force tackling COVID-19 has laid out a roadmap which could see the country enter the third phase of its reopening by the end of this year.
Mr Gan, who co-chairs the task force, said in Parliament that Phase 3 would not be a return to the pre-pandemic status quo. It will instead be a “new normal” that will last until either the rest of the world gets the virus under control, or an effective treatment or vaccine is developed.
“In this context, we need to put in place the measures and equip ourselves with the tools which will enable us to stay safe, as we allow greater flexibility to live, work and even celebrate major life events,” he said.
The minister was responding to a question from Tampines GRC Member of Parliament Cheng Li Hui, who had asked about the criteria considered when considering the maximum number of people allowed for events such as weddings
Such factors include the frequency of such activities, the potential risk of specific types of events as well as whether additional safety measures can be effectively put in place to mitigate these risks, said Mr Gan.
The risk of having meals together is also higher due to the need to remove masks when eating and drinking, adding that this is multiplied many times should this involve different groups of people, he said.
“Hence, we have taken a cautious approach in expanding group sizes,” he said, explaining the rationale in considering allowing eight people in such gatherings, up from five currently.
“Taking banquet tables as an example, many used to sit around 10 people before COVID-19. So eight persons is about the maximum that these tables can take while allowing some additional distancing compared to the past,” said Mr Gan.
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SINGAPORE: Singapore reported nine new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Tuesday (Nov 10), said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in a preliminary daily update.
There were two locally transmitted infections, including one in the community and another in a dormitory.
The remaining seven cases were imported. They were placed on stay-home notice or isolated upon arrival in Singapore.
The new infections bring Singapore's tally of COVID-19 cases to 58,073.
There were two locally transmitted infections, including one in the community and another in a dormitory.
The remaining seven cases were imported. They were placed on stay-home notice or isolated upon arrival in Singapore.
The new infections bring Singapore's tally of COVID-19 cases to 58,073.
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finish!
after 4 days of no community cases, the virus is back
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after 4 days of no community cases, the virus is back
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