WHO reports record one-day rise in global cases

Coronavirus: WHO reports record one-day rise in global cases: WHO logged the highest one-day rise in Covid cases of the pandemic Thursday

338,779 cases of the virus were officially recorded around the world in 24 hours

Case totals have been rising since September, driven by a surge across Europe

But deaths have remained flat globally, suggesting rise in down to extra testing

What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 9 October

COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 9 October: Top stories: record daily global case rise; China joins global vaccine initiative; the challenge of asymptomatic cases.

Dying in a Leadership Vacuum

Dying in a Leadership Vacuum: Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences. Our leaders have largely claimed immunity for their actions. But this election gives us the power to render judgment. Reasonable people will certainly disagree about the many political positions taken by candidates. But truth is neither liberal nor conservative. When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs.

When killing people is Government policy: As fast as the numbers of those seriously ill, and the daily death toll from the virus, are declining, the risk of other undiagnosed and untreated serious illnesses and deaths is rising because of the lockdown mentality still affecting the NHS and other public services, encouraged by government.

On Saturday 66 GPs wrote to the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, urging him to treat non-Covid deaths as equal to those from Covid. The doctors know that this is not happening at present. For reasons of projecting an image of action and having illusory control over the path of the virus, only Covid deaths matter to the government.

The doctors’ letter reports that there have been more than 30,000 excess deaths in private homes since March, but fewer than one in ten are caused by Covid-19. They are also concerned that ‘the pandemic has resulted in an inflation of acute cardiovascular deaths, most of which did not relate to Covid-19’. They also point to a report suggesting that child suicide rates increased during lockdown and, for these doctors, harm should be measured as more than Covid deaths.

 

‘It’s been so, so surreal.’ Critics of Sweden’s lax pandemic policies face fierce backlash

‘It’s been so, so surreal.’ Critics of Sweden’s lax pandemic policies face fierce backlash: Tegnell has said repeatedly that the Swedish strategy takes a holistic view of public health, aiming to balance the risk of the virus with the damage from countermeasures like closed schools. The goal was to protect the elderly and other high-risk groups while slowing viral spread enough to avoid hospitals being overwhelmed. Protecting the economy was not the aim, he says. (Initial data suggest Sweden’s economy contracted about as much as its immediate neighbors’ as exports and consumer spending dropped.)



Sweden’s light approach is more sustainable than the harsher methods used in other countries, Tegnell also argues. He regrets the death toll in nursing homes, he told Science, and says Sweden should have made it easier financially for caregivers to stay home. “It was a very bad situation for a month,” he says, “but after that it changed completely.” Once strong restrictions were in place, transmission in nursing homes “became lower than in the community.” Tegnell has also said he suspects the number of infections and deaths in other countries will eventually match Sweden’s. Einhorn finds this absurd: “If Norway ever catches up to Sweden in the proportion of people killed by COVID-19,” she says, “I’ll eat my hat.”

COVID-related domain name checks

Update on COVID-related domain name checks - More news: Out of the 3 489 domain names registered from 1 Jan until April 2020 and containing one of the keywords, 1709 have been suspended so far because the registrant failed to meet the identity and statement of good faith requirements.