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COVID-19 Resurges in Reopened Countries; Wuhan Sees First Cluster in a Month

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 13 2020, @08:42PM   
from the not-completely-unexpected dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:

COVID-19 resurges in reopened countries; Wuhan sees first cluster in a month:

The World Health Organization on Monday called for continued vigilance as several areas that have eased lockdown restriction began to see a resurgence in COVID-19 cases—and the United States begins unbuttoning as well.

The Chinese city of Wuhan—where the pandemic began last December—saw its first cluster of cases in at least a month. The city began reopening in early April.

The cluster was just six cases: an 89-year-old symptomatic man and five asymptomatic cases. All of the infected lived in the same residential community.

[...] NPR's Emily Feng reported from Beijing that "The rise of such hard-to-detect asymptomatic cases has alarmed public health authorities in China, who have ramped up contact tracing and testing efforts."

China state media announced Tuesday that it has ordered all residents of Wuhan—roughly 11 million persons—to be tested within the next 10 days.

Likewise, the mayor of Seoul shut down bars and restaurants over the weekend—just days after South Korea had eased restrictions and allowed businesses to reopen—due to a spike of 86 new COVID-19 cases. Authorities identified a 29-year-old who visited five nightclubs and a bar while infected with the virus, sparking an outbreak of at least 54 cases, according to NPR. The uptick also led South Korean officials to delay the reopening of schools.

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• Re:Face masks can't go on forever Re:Face masks can't go on forever (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday May 13 2020, @11:06PM (4 children)

  by khallow (3766) on Wednesday May 13 2020, @11:06PM (#993988) Journal

  Ok, what is this common misconception about heat For example, if one looks at cases per 100,000, there's five northern states at the top (the worst of those states, Connecticut has 941 reported cases per 100k people as of 5/11). Washington, DC is the first spot below the Mason-Dixon line with crazy Louisiana being the first deep south state. Florida has 189 cases per 100k and Georgia 304 per 100k. Arizona has 153 cases per 100k and California 172 cases per 100k.
  
  It's more than just heat, but we see a huge difference between states that were cold a month or two ago and states that weren't.

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• Re:Face masks can't go on forever Re:Face masks can't go on forever (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2020, @11:50PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2020, @11:50PM (#994007)

  Shouldn't you have posted that under buzzy boy? Or are you carefully maintaining your SN social hierarchy?

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  • Re:Face masks can't go on forever (Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Thursday May 14 2020, @12:01AM

    by khallow (3766) on Thursday May 14 2020, @12:01AM (#994010) Journal

    That persona talks about fishing and how it gets better inversely with distance to Tennessee.

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• Re:Face masks can't go on forever Re:Face masks can't go on forever (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 14 2020, @05:58PM (1 child)

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday May 14 2020, @05:58PM (#994321) Journal

  I bet if you looked at when the first cases were detected in each state you'd have a much higher correlation.

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  • Re:Face masks can't go on forever (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday May 16 2020, @01:23AM

    by khallow (3766) on Saturday May 16 2020, @01:23AM (#994833) Journal

    I bet if you looked at when the first cases were detected in each state you'd have a much higher correlation.

    Even then climate (and other effects) would manifest in how soon those first cases get detected (more cases means detected sooner).

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