Vírus pode ter estado adormecido algures antes de surgir na China, diz epidemiologista

Vírus pode ter estado adormecido algures antes de surgir na China, diz investigador de Oxford. É “necessária” uma investigação: Para justificar a sua teoria, Tom Jefferson, da Universidade de Oxford, recordou as várias descobertas de amostras do vírus em Espanha, Itália e Brasil, antes mesmo de este ter sido detetado no mercado na cidade chinesa de Wuhan. Os vírus “não vêm de lado nenhum, simplesmente há algo que os acorda”

Liberties Network Launches Campaign to Get Impact Analyses of Covid-19 Tracing Apps in 9 EU Countries: This initiative is calling the attention of governments and the general public to the fact that human rights are important safeguards during emergency situations, such as this pandemic. They ensure public trust - a precondition for any successful social coordination - and, ultimately, protect public health.

The countries joining the initiative include Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Belgium, Germany and Ireland will also be covered in the project, but in these three countries, Liberties’ members took a different path, and they will not submit Freedom of Information requests as a first step.

Lessons from Faktograf’s cross-border collaboration to reduce COVID-19 misinformation: This Croatian fact-checking site joined forces with other misinformation specialists in Southeastern Europe, using Viber to debunk viral hoaxes and educate citizens

The Tricky Math of COVID-19 Herd Immunity: Herd immunity differs from place to place, and many factors influence how it’s calculated.

Europe’s pandemic politics: How the virus has changed the public’s worldview: As covid-19 raged, speculation grew that the crisis would restrengthen public support for the state; faith in experts; and both pro- and anti-Europeanism.

New research reveals these all to be illusions. Instead, the crisis has revolutionised citizens’ perceptions of global order – scrambling the distinctions between nationalism and globalism.

Coronavirus: could it be burning out after 20% of a population is infected? Data from military ships and cities such as Stockholm, New York and London also suggest that infections have been around 20% – much lower than earlier mathematical models suggested.

This has led to speculation about whether a population can achieve some sort of immunity to the virus with as little as 20% infected – a proportion well below the widely accepted herd immunity threshold (60-70%).

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