| Bofferbrauer2 said: Luxembourg seems to heading right into a second lockdown. At least the cases are spiking up again, with several days now above 100 cases when we got the active cases down to just 27 on June 12... On a more positive note, this second wave seems weaker than the first one. At least the numbers of people in ICU has not changed yet despite the numbers climbing for an entire month now. |
Is Spain back into lockdown yet? The had 1361 new cases yesterday, rising sharply. A lot of Europe is heading back up :/
Good news in Quebec
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-recovery-numbers-skyrocket-after-new-system-implemented-1.5028344
Quebec public health authorities announced they would be using a new system for calculating the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19 and it sent the recovery numbers skyrocketing Friday. Officials announced that 23,686 more people have recovered from the virus for a total of 49,939. That is 87 per cent of the total cases in the province.
Ehh, just change the counting method, voila all cured!
Meanwhile numbers are heading back up in Quebec as well
Ontario just started phase 3 of re-openings today but is already starting to stall from phase 2.
Alberta is also dealing with more outbreaks.
Some sort of good news
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/fewer-covid-19-patients-in-icu-are-dying-as-pandemic-progresses-paper-1.5026055
The report, which looked at relevant studies published between late January and end of May found that the death rate for adult COVID patients in ICU decreased over time, to 41.6 per cent from above 50 per cent. Dying from COVID while in ICU, however, was still nearly double that of patients admitted into ICU for other viral pneumonia.
Good and bad news
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/big-bravo-to-british-columbians-lead-researcher-says-covid-19-study-shows-low-infection-in-b-c-1.5026647
A new study suggesting B.C. had low transmission of COVID-19 may be positive news, but could also mean problems if there are future waves of the virus, the province's top health officials said Thursday. A joint study between the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, University of British Columbia, LifeLabs and public health scientists was released Wednesday and shows B.C.'s estimated overall infection rate is less than one per cent.
The study, posted by health research website medRxiv, looked at anonymous blood samples that were collected in March and May for reasons unrelated to COVID-19. The samples collected in March showed the virus was prevalent in 0.28 per cent of the samples. In the May samples, it appeared in 0.55 per cent.
Skowronski explained that using anonymous, non-voluntary samples was crucial. "(Studies) that rely on people volunteering or being invited to participate, those will tend to have higher estimates because those were worried people for a reason in the first place that volunteered to be tested, whereas ours removed that element of self-selecting," she said.
But health officials cautioned there's concern with such low transmission rates: few people have immunity against the virus.
Mid may there were some 2400 confirmed Covid-19 cases in BC, 0.047% of the population. So about 11 in 12 cases were not detected. Or the actual daily reported numbers were 12 times too low. (No clue about the margin of error and it still depends on where in the province those blood samples came from)
