Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

Today marks the one year anniversary since the first (officially) diagnosed case of Covid-19 in Canada
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/it-wasn-t-called-covid-at-the-time-one-year-since-canada-s-first-covid-19-case-1.5279999

It's been going on longer than that though, waste water studies already found traces in sewage water from early December 2019 in Italy and confirmed on a patient in Paris from December 27th. 'Patient zero' has been tracked back to November 17th in China yet some studies suggest it was already around late August 2019.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-coronavirus-emerged-summer.html
(Denied by China and questions raised by the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53005768)

Anyway to show up in waste water from December in Italy, multiple people must have already had it a that time after the avg 2 week incubation period.


Next anniversary coming up, 365 days without going to school. My kids have been home from school since March 15th 2020.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/two-thirds-of-academic-year-lost-on-average-globally-due-to-covid-19-closures-unesco-1.5279911

Currently plans are to re-open schools here (again) are at least delayed until Februari 10th (not opened yet this year) however the option to roll back into in class learning has already expired (was the 13th), so online learning until ?

The worst is the uncertainty and constant changes. One working day before the schools were supposed to re-open, nope staying closed until further notice. No clue when the next option is to go back to in class learning (Februari is too soon with the huge amount of active cases around) and so far every option to switch coincides with the situation getting worse...


Milestone for tomorrow, 100 million detected cases worldwide.