up and down 82 Posted April 5, 2020 #2471 Share Posted April 5, 2020 1 hour ago, OlympicsFan said: In case some people are interested about the situation in Germany: Thank you very much for your explanation. Sincerely hope Germany will be able to develop a vaccine soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMQ 222 Posted April 5, 2020 #2472 Share Posted April 5, 2020 hace 4 horas, OlympicsFan dijo: In case some people are interested about the situation in Germany: - Apparently Germany increased its critical care bed capacity to 40k and of those between 15k and 20k are currently free (which means roughly 34 intensive care beds per 100.000 people, compared to roughly 10 intensive care beds per 100.000 people in Italy/Spain/France) - Currently there are roughly 2200 patients with Covid-19 who need intensive care, 1800 of them need addititonal oxygen - The number of ventilators was increased to 30k - Over the last couple of days Germany always had roughly 6000 new cases and 100 - 150 new deaths (which suggests that currently one person statistically only infects one other person), in total there are about 95k confirmed cases and roughly 1400 deaths, so the death rate (which has been steadily increasing over the past couple of weeks) is now at about 1.5 % - The measures that were taken seem to be working and the doubling time is at 9 days currently, Angela Merkel said that only when the doubling time is at 14 days or so it will be time to consider lifting some of the restrictions - The current testing capacity is at roughly 100k tests per day and in total around 1.5 million tests were conducted so far, of which roughly 7 % were positive - Sadly (for all men) german doctors are also observing (like their colleagues from other countries) that men need intensive care more often than women Edit: According to Dietmar Hopp (main shareholder of Curevac) by this fall Curevac might be able to produce a couple houndred million doses of vaccine ... but the leading (german) virologists keep insisting that it will take at least 12 more months to get a vaccine. I would like to believe Hopp on this, but i fear that he won't be right. Isn´t Germany counting the deaths in a different way from other countries, only the ones that died of Covid and didn´t have any other cronical problem? At least I heard that from a doctor here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,479 Posted April 5, 2020 #2473 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Well done Portugal “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlympicsFan 783 Posted April 5, 2020 #2474 Share Posted April 5, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, NMQ said: Isn´t Germany counting the deaths in a different way from other countries, only the ones that died of Covid and didn´t have any other cronical problem? At least I heard that from a doctor here. As far as i know that isn't correct. I think the city of Hamburg is counting their deaths this way, but the RKI (Robert-Koch-Institut) that is responsible for the statistics for Germany as a whole counts everyone who died and was tested positive, even if he/she died from something else. For example look at the following case: In Heinsberg a 78-year-old man died of heart failure without having any problems with his lungs, but he was still counted as a corona victim (after testing positive). Also in two retirement homes in Würzburg and Wolfsburg about 30 patients died and all were counted as corona victims although, as you might suspect, most of them were pretty old (80+) and had at least one underlying condition. Edited April 5, 2020 by OlympicsFan NMQ 1 Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up and down 82 Posted April 5, 2020 #2475 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Here is the latest development about Coronavirus in Australia. https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/coronavirus-covid-19-current-situation-and-case-numbers In Australia As at 3:00pm on 5 April 2020, there have been 5,687 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. There have been 139 new cases since 3:00pm yesterday. Of the 5,687 confirmed cases in Australia, 34 have died from COVID-19. More than 297,000 tests have been conducted across Australia. Location Confirmed cases* Australian Capital Territory 96 New South Wales 2,580 Northern Territory 26 Queensland 907 South Australia 409 Tasmania 81 Victoria 1,135 Western Australia 453 Total** 5,687 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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up and down 82 Posted April 5, 2020 #2477 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Based on the data written below, USA is leading the world as they have conducted 1,656,897 tests and up till today USA remain as the country who have conducted the most test for Coronavirus. However, slow response and slow to react right at the beginning of the crisis have led to the explosion of humber of cases and high reate of death as well. Country, Other Total Cases New Cases Total Deaths New Deaths Total Recovered Active Cases Serious, Critical Tot Cases/ 1M pop Deaths/ 1M pop Total Tests Tests/ 1M pop World 1,203,707 +2,254 64,777 +89 247,294 891,636 44,094 154 8.3 USA 311,637 +280 8,454 +2 14,828 288,355 8,206 941 26 1,656,897 5,006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agger 1,591 Posted April 5, 2020 #2478 Share Posted April 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, up and down said: Based on the data written below, USA is leading the world as they have conducted 1,656,897 tests and up till today USA remain as the country who have conducted the most test for Coronavirus. However, slow response and slow to react right at the beginning of the crisis have led to the explosion of humber of cases and high reate of death as well. Those numbers are really only interesting if you consider the population. If you do so, USA is way behind. up and down 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up and down 82 Posted April 5, 2020 #2479 Share Posted April 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, Agger said: Those numbers are really only interesting if you consider the population. If you do so, USA is way behind. Yes you are right about this. Considering that USA is the third biggest country in the world, I have to agree with you that their reponse have been very slow. They have only started to conduct more test in the month of March. The first 70 days in USA have really been wasted by not doing much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,182 Posted April 5, 2020 #2480 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Haircut-wise, I guess the long hair from the 70s will go back in style after this? #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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