Following the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak - News and Discussion

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Gotta be cautious with all the studies and maybe better listen to the medical practitioner on field.

let's not forget that a porn actress (Ariane Anderson/Skye Daniels Blond Cougar) was associated with a forged study published in the Lancet in 2020

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It has been retracted now but it has been used by some governments despite the fact it was completely made up (impossible/fake datas etc.)
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So it turns out Dr Fauci lied to congress.
It was only last May when Fauci famously said that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Yet a letter from the NIH “corrects untruthful assertions by NIH Director Collins and NIAID Director Fauci that NIH had not funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan.”
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Another well researched video from John Campbell, this time comparing the newly developed anti-viral oral therapy from Merck (Molnupirivir) with the repurposed and out of patent Ivermectin. Actually the former looks promising but at $700 per treatment course, it costs a tad more than the latter at $3. Of course neither should be required in Cambodia due to the high vaccination rate.
None of this will impress timmydownarabbithole (followers 2) because his medical expertise and integrity far exceeds that of JC (subsribers 1.2m).

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there was that Guardian article about Iverdingdong. It detailed the fraud behind the whole story. I posted it here somewhere but then, of course, reality is not what this is about. And, of course, the Guardian is not read in rabbit holes.

Keep de-worming. :))

The boss of my partner did the same.Got him 3 weeks hospital with covid. Before that he was distributing the stuff to the staff. He stopped.
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Another day, another development.
The US National Institute of Heath (the NIH) has a list of anti-viral drugs for the treatment of Covid, or under evaluation. The only fully approved one is Remdesivir. Ivermectin is neither recommended for or against, all the others are recommended against.
https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines. ... endations/
https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines. ... vermectin/

In other news, UK cases have been rising whilst US cases have been falling. That may possibly indicate that Pfeizer and Moderna work better over time than Astra Zeneca. John Campbell covers all this and more,
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Pizzalover wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 6:24 pm there was that Guardian article about Iverdingdong. It detailed the fraud behind the whole story. I posted it here somewhere but then, of course, reality is not what this is about. And, of course, the Guardian is not read in rabbit holes.

Keep de-worming. :))

The boss of my partner did the same.Got him 3 weeks hospital with covid. Before that he was distributing the stuff to the staff. He stopped.
Sigh....One more time, nobody here is saying don't get vaccinated. The issue is what to do if someone (for whaever reason) has not got jabbed or there is a breakout infection. And as time passes, that will happen more.
Or, is the issue that some people are so dogmatic (and/or keen to earn the clickbait) and therefore diss anuthing that could get used by anti-vaxxers, that you don't take an objective view. I'm looking at you, BBC and The Guardian. That is a moral wrong of the highest order when you consider the billions who have no chance of getting vaxxed.
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Covid measures ‘plan C’ has been discussed, senior official tells MPs

A “plan C” for tougher coronavirus restrictions has been discussed in official circles, a senior civil servant has confirmed, despite ministers denying that tougher measures are an option this Christmas should the rate of new cases continue to rise.

The indication of planning for potentially harsher restrictions comes as senior scientists and Labour push for the rollout of “plan B”, an existing package of “light-touch” measures including advice to work from home and compulsory face masks in some settings.

Last week the health minster Edward Argar denied that anything of the order of a plan C – which could include restrictions on household mixing at Christmas – was being contemplated by the government.

However, the term was used on Tuesday by Prof Lucy Chappell, the chief scientific adviser for the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), when MPs asked whether a failure to bring in plan B actions now may mean tighter restrictions are needed later.

“I think it suggests that plan A and plan B and whatever the plan C looks like are mutually exclusive, but they are not,” she told the science and technology select committee on Covid transmission.

Chappell was then questioned on whether a plan C did, in fact, exist.

“It has been proposed … The name has been mentioned. It has not been extensively worked up,” she said, adding that at the DHSC, “at the moment, the focus is on plan B”.

Dr Thomas Waite, the interim deputy chief medical officer at the DHSC, said it was up to the government, not scientific advisers, to decide whether plan B should be introduced. He suggested there was no single measure or threshold that would inform the move, rather a consideration of various factors, including age-stratified case rates, the rate of change in hospital admissions, the impact of waning immunity, and the influence of booster jabs.

The evidence session also included testimony from Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, who suggested that although transmission in the UK was high, focusing on daily figures of Covid hospitalisations and deaths was misleading, noting they included people who needed medical help or had died for another reason.

Pollard also suggested that regular testing in schools was problematic.

“Clearly, the large amount of testing in schools is very disruptive to the system, whether that is the individual child who is then isolating, because they’ve tested positive, but they’re completely well, or it’s because of the concerns that that raises more widely in the school,” he said.

“I think probably we need to move in the pandemic, over this winter, maybe towards the end of the winter, to a completely different system of clinically driven testing,” he said. “In other words, testing people who are unwell rather than having a regular testing of those people who are well.”
Pollard said that while vaccinating people who have yet to have a Covid jab would make a big difference for intensive care, and booster doses may reduce hospital admissions, vaccinations alone would not be enough to remove pressures on the NHS.

“When you look at where the NHS is today, it is incredibly fragile, whether it’s in primary care and secondary care or in social care, and that fragility is only contributed [to] a small amount by Covid,” he said.

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China locks down city of four million over Covid cases

China placed a city of four million people under lockdown on Tuesday, ordering them not to leave home except in emergencies, in a bid to eradicate a Covid cluster of just a few dozen confirmed cases.
Beijing imposed strict border controls after the coronavirus was first detected in China in late 2019, slowing the number of cases to a trickle and allowing the economy to bounce back.

But as the rest of the world opens up and tries to find ways to live with the virus, China has maintained a zero-Covid approach that has seen harsh local lockdowns imposed over handfuls of cases.

Tuesday's fresh restrictions came as China reported 29 new domestic infections -- including six in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province in the country's northwest.

The latest outbreak has been linked to the highly contagious Delta variant, with the tally hitting 198 cases since October 17.

Thirty-nine have been in Lanzhou.

Residents of the city will now be required to stay at home, authorities said in a statement, with the "entry and exit of residents" strictly controlled and limited to essential supplies or medical treatment.

Bus and taxi services had already been stopped in the city, and state media said Tuesday that Lanzhou station had suspended more than 70 trains, including on key routes to Beijing and Xi'an.

A Southern Airlines representative told AFP that all its flights from Beijing's Daxing airport to Lanzhou were cancelled due to public safety, with no resumption date given.

Health officials have warned that more infections may emerge as testing is ramped up in the coming days to fight the outbreak, which has been linked to a group of domestic tourists who travelled from Shanghai to several other provinces.

Northern outbreak

Strict stay-at-home orders have already been imposed on tens of thousands of people in northern China.

In Beijing -- which reported three new cases Tuesday -- access to tourist sites has been limited and the prominent Lama Temple was shuttered, while residents were advised not to leave the capital unless necessary.

About 23,000 residents in one housing compound in Changping district have been ordered to stay indoors after nine cases were found there in recent days, local outlet Beijing News reported.

Community mahjong and chess rooms have been closed, and residents have been told to reduce large gatherings.

Organisers on Sunday indefinitely postponed a marathon at which 30,000 runners were expected.

Mass testing is under way in 11 provinces and authorities have suspended many inter-provincial tour groups.

While the country's case numbers are extremely low compared with elsewhere in the world, authorities are determined to stamp out the latest outbreak with the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing just over 100 days away.

As part of China's strict enforcement of the zero-Covid policy, those deemed to have failed in controlling Covid are often dismissed from their posts or punished.

On Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency reported that the party secretary of Ejin Banner in the northern Inner Mongolia region had been sacked, "due to poor performance and implementation in epidemic prevention and control".

Hit by the latest wave, the city locked down about 35,000 residents from Monday.

Around 10,000 tourists were also placed under lockdown in Ejin, according to local media reports.

Six other officials were punished for their "slack response" to the latest flare-up, state media reported, and a local police bureau deputy director was removed from their position.

Beijing police have launched three criminal investigations into alleged Covid safety breaches, deputy director of the city's public security bureau said Sunday.

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This may put a damper on what Cambodia may be expecting in visitor numbers.

China Expects New Covid Outbreak to Worsen in Coming Days

China’s new Covid-19 infections will increase in coming days and the areas affected by the epidemic may continue to expand, a health official said.

The current outbreak in China is caused by the delta variant from overseas, Wu Liangyou, an official at the National Health Commission, said at a briefing in Beijing Sunday.
The wave of infections spread to 11 provinces in the week from Oct. 17, Mi Feng, spokesman for the commission, said at the briefing. Most of the people infected have cross-region travel histories, Mi said. He urged areas that have been affected by the pandemic to adopt “emergency mode.”

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Coronavirus jab drive for 5-year-olds starts Nov 1


Ry Sochan
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Publication date 31 October 2021 | 21:22 ICT

Cambodia is set to launch the Covid-19 jab campaign for children aged 5 as vaccinations for those aged 6 and older are nearly complete.

“Samdech Techo Prime Minister HE will announce the kick-off of the jab drive on November 1. He has instructed the capital and provincial governors to get ready to begin the campaign on Monday,” said Ministry of Health spokeswoman Or Vandine.

Vandine, who also serves as head of the national Covid-19 vaccination committee, said she had already disseminated the information to all municipal and provincial authorities.

The health ministry first issued a public notice about vaccinations for children aged 5 on October 30.

“The ministry will use Sinovac vaccines to inoculate children aged 5 for their first and second doses in the capital and all provinces from November 1, with a gap of 28 days between the first and second shots,” the notice said.

The ministry told all sub-committees for vaccination rollout to prepare the vaccines as well as hygiene measures to prevent the possible transmission of the coronavirus during the campaign. Medical workers will check the children’s health before and after vaccinations.

The ministry called on parents and guardians to participate in this campaign at the locations announced by the authorities. They are required to bring one of the following forms of identification for their child: Birth certificate, family or residence book or passport. Civil servants can use their work ID.

The ministry also announced that vaccinations for five-year-old children of government officials, diplomats and those with the honorific Oknha, among others, will be vaccinated at designated hospitals on set dates in Phnom Penh between November 1 and 14.

Phnom Penh governor Khuong Sreng on October 31requested that all residents bring their five-year-old children for vaccination, with the first doses administered from November 1-14 and the second shots from November 28 to December 11 at 42 different vaccination sites across the capital’s 14 districts.

Several other provinces made separate announcements on October 31, calling on residents to bring their five-year-olds to get the jabs starting November 1.

As of October 30, Cambodia had vaccinated 99.98 per cent of the adult population of 10 million, 97.88 per cent of the 12-17 age group of over 1.8 million, and 101.16 per cent of the 6-11 age group of nearly 1.9 million.

Overall, Cambodia has vaccinated 85.66 per cent of the total population of around 16 million, while third-dose vaccinations have reached 1.9 million people.

Meantime, the health ministry has authorised five Russian-developed Covid-19 vaccines for temporary emergency use in Cambodia.

Five notices of emergency use authorisation (EUA), issued on October 29 and signed by health minister Mam Bun Heng, specify the jabs as Sputnik V, CoviVac, Sputnik Light and two versions of EpiVacCorona.

An EUA is valid only within the duration of the declared public health emergency due to Covid-19, the notices indicate, adding that the jabs are to be used according to the priorities set by the government, as stated in applicable distribution plans.

The ministry also instructed the National Immunisation Programme (NIP) to work with relevant institutions on improving the management of safety issues and clinical response to adverse effects of the vaccines.


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