As I understood, many deaths at home are not tested for COVID-19 either. I read it was thousands of deaths reported as COVID-19 without testing.

What makes your heart stop beating is usually a coronary heart disease that stops the heart from getting oxygen. Most people probably had this condition and were then pushed through the edge by either COVID-19, heavy stress load, increased alchohol consumption at home, not going to hospital for treatment etc or all of the above. Corona would be the biggest factor of course, I'm not disputing that. 

But yeah, if these people had heart attacks simply for not being able to breathe because of corona symptoms, and they still didn't go to hospital, it's pretty fucked up. Unnecessary deaths..

Other news sites reported it's 4-6x increase on average during certain time period. So not ten fold. 

Testing dead people is tricky as far as I know. I'm a police officer and I've been to two home death scenes where people died after having COVID-19 symptoms. We would've liked to know for sure if these people had it but doctors said testing dead bodies is unreliable and they won't do it.. 

Both these cases had been drinking heavily for weeks before dying so who knows. I'm still healty though.

@KiigelHeart "I'm still healty though."

Hopefully it stays that way, so many in the "frontlines" get sick from this virus.
In future be extra mindfull if your visiting houses like that, theres a good chance it could be the virus.


"Both these cases had been drinking heavily for weeks before dying so who knows."

Its one of those things that also hurts your immune systems ability to cope, makeing it more likely you get infected (and have a worse outcome):
If ever theres a time to not excessively drink, this is it.  Time to take vitamins pills + vitamin D/C supplement instead.

US just published a study it ran, a "test study" of chloroquine on a group of military veterans.

There findings:
Chloroquine treatment = 28% mortality rate.
Chloroquine + antibiotics = 22% mortality rate.
Normal Treatment = 11% mortality rate

the study (non-peer reviewed at this stage) also mentioned that (hydroxy-)chloroquine was more often used in more serious cases, but even adjusted for that the pure hcq treatment showed a statistically significant increase in mortality compared with the normal treatment in their sample, while the hcq + antibiotics treatment was within the margin of error with the normal treatment

Likely, he had prior violent offense

https://globalnews.ca/news/6848816/nova-scotia-shooting-gunman-assault-2001/

Matthew said he was just 15 years old when an allegedly drunk Gabriel Wortman assaulted him outside a denture clinic in Dartmouth, N.S., almost 20 years ago.

“He came out, I guess, in a half-drunken rage and ended up punching me as many times in the head as he could,” said Matthew, who is now 34 and works in sales in Dartmouth. Global News has chosen not to reveal Matthew’s full name as he was a minor at the time of the assault.

“Then he had a friend who came over from around the corner and hit me with a crowbar,” Matthew said. “Then the two men stomped on my head and all over my body.”

The court documents related to Wortman’s arrest do not mention a second person. Global News called and emailed Halifax Regional Police for comment but has not yet received a response.

Matthew said he tried to defend himself and was thrown into a newspaper box as the assault ended and police officers arrived.

The denturist was charged with assault in October 2001, according to court documents.

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Details are slowly emerging about the shooter’s life that included a string of disputes with police, tenants and even family members, according to interviews and court records.

He was involved in an encounter in February with Halifax Regional Police over an unmarked cop car that was parked in the lot outside his clinic.

Wortman’s uncle filed a case against him in Nova Scotia Supreme Court over a property in Portapique [where the rampage started], N.S., after a dispute arose over financing, according to court records.


It's unclear whether he was allowed to have guns.

Reading that it seems he was going to snap at some point. Whether the lock down put him over the edge or gave him opportunity to act, don't know. Whether the lock down made the outcome worse, probably not. Most people were inside and he shot a random jogger along the way. He could have killed a lot more people if they were outside. It's a quiet rural area, not a lot there to stop him. Police did stop him before reaching Halifax.

Back on topic, current trends

Daily reported cases is holding steady world wide while Europe and USA are slowly starting to decline.
Daily reported deaths are declining in Europe while corrections in the USA still drive it upwards.
However while Russia is now already contributing 20% to the daily reported cases in Europe, their reported deaths (<2% of Europe) still lag behind and can drive up the reported deaths in Europe in a week or so.

Closer look at Europe

Russia is now on top for adding new cases each day, edging out the UK.
France did a big drop after working through corrections.
Sweden is still holding steady but has a lot of variation in test results.
Austria continues to go down the fastest.


The UK currently reports the most deaths each day.
Sweden's death toll is rising again while Norway is still doing the best.
Spain and Italy continue their slow decline while France came down after adding corrections.

I added Turkey to my corners of the world graph

Canada is still slowly climbing while Iran has a few less cases each day, too regular to put much faith in it.
Brazil is still climbing while Australia seems to have beaten covid19.
South Korea continues to keep the virus at bay while China suddenly added some big numbers to go back down after.
Turkey started testing late, resulting in explosive test results like Russia but has now also flattened the curve.

Some behind the scenes looks of the heroic efforts to save people

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/inside-a-toronto-icu-what-it-takes-to-care-for-covid-19-s-most-critically-ill-1.4901853


“This is not like a disease we have seen before,” said internal medicine specialist Dr. Jamie Spiegelman. He says COVID-19 does not behave like a regular pneumonia, making medical management “unpredictable and day by day we have to change what we do."

There are even signs the disease may be causing heart inflammation, kidney disease, blood clots and liver problems.

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Turning over a COVID-19 patient on a ventilator requires six people. It must be done slowly and carefully so breathing tubes don’t get disconnected, which would be dangerous for the patient, but also risk spreading the virus.

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“People are not getting better quickly, and they are on breathing machines for a very long time,” she said. “We don't have any treatments, all we can do is support the body with the machines we have and hope the body itself recovers from the disease."

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Hospitals are also reporting shortages of sedatives, with COVID-19 patients requiring a lot of sedation to keep them calm and to prevent them from coughing -- a dangerous means of transmitting the virus to health-care workers -- during procedures.

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Nurse Sugandha Pandya, who is overseeing 32 COVID-19 patients, has one message: “Just please stay home and be safe and keep us safe.”

Outside the ICU, COVID-19 patients who are less severely ill are still closely watched in case stable breathing turns into a crisis. That can happen within seconds, says nurse Ayotunde Ajiboye.

“It is a deadly disease. I wouldn’t want anybody to have it. It is unpredictable.”

...

“You know the fact that only a tiny percentage of the population has had this at this point, so we're still looking at many months going on,” said Dr. Michael Gardam, chief of staff.

“The economic impact of that is going to be astounding.”

...

Bruno Iozzo was a healthy 73-year-old before he developed a cough in late March. By the time he got to Humber River, he was gasping for breath.

He was one of the first COVID-19 patients admitted there, and he is still on a ventilator, three weeks later.

Dr. Sanjay Manocha says X-rays of Iozzo’s lungs show the toll the virus is taking. What should be black on the image is white and hazy, meaning his lungs are filled with fluid inflammation and can’t send enough oxygen into his blood.

It’s the “classic picture that we see of these corona pneumonias,” said Manocha. In Iozzo’s case, that has led to kidney failure and dialysis.

“We're learning as we go, because it's not the same and our approach is different for these patients compared to other patients who have pneumonia.”

ICU staff at Humber have yet to see any of their patients recover enough to go home.


Stay home, don't listen to herd immunity BS, this needs to be stopped.

No. Doctors are scared shit about cutting up dead covid bodies. The local university hospital has done post mortems on 20 bodies (surgeons volunteered) which had serious conditions and found covid viruses everywhere, in masses. So this is very dangerous thing to do. Until recently, the WHO advised against doing it. In a nutshell, it was seen that giving the oxygen treatment was useless in all 20 cases as the lungs were incapable of taking up enough oxygen.

The UK has been testing fewer people for the last 3 days so it's not surprising that their numbers were slowly getting better.

Here in The Netherlands they’re starting an experiment with supplying blood plasma of patients that have been cured of Covid19, and thus contains antibodies, to patients in serious condition. The hope is that the sick person’s body will copy the injected antibodies and improve a patients sickness. They’ll be administering these antibodies to 426 patients.