I am living in the middle of the emergency over coronavirus in Finland. Due this reason the update cycle to make posting to this blog could be slowed down.
The Finnish government announced on Monday nationwide school closures in order to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Read more on the following aricles:
Finland closes schools, declares state of emergency over coronavirus
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finland_closes_schools_declares_state_of_emergency_over_coronavirus/11260062
Daycare centres are to stay open but parents were asked to keep their kids home if possible. The government also published a 19-point list of emergency legislation that takes effect on 18 March.
Coronavirus latest: 359 cases confirmed in Finland, S-Group shuts its Helsinki eateries, bankruptcy fears mount
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/coronavirus_latest_359_cases_confirmed_in_finland_s-group_shuts_its_helsinki_eateries_bankruptcy_fears_mount/11249610
Here is a link to an earlier post related to Coronavirus:
https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/02/12/mobile-trends-2020-mwc-canceled/
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Korona-arki pistää perheet koville – perheenäiti Mari Argillander: “Aikuiset jo ihan finaalissa, oispa kaljaa”
Koululaisten vanhemmat ovat joutuneet eri roolien ristituleen.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11288170
Tomi Engdahl says:
Every Vaccine and Treatment in Development for COVID-19, So Far
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/every-vaccine-treatment-covid-19-so-far/
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to skyrocket, healthcare researchers around the world are working tirelessly to discover new life-saving medical innovations.
The projects these companies are working on can be organized into three distinct groups:
Diagnostics: Quickly and effectively detecting the disease in the first place
Treatments: Alleviating symptoms so people who have disease experience milder symptoms, and lowering the overall mortality rate
Vaccines: Preventing transmission by making the population immune to COVID-19
Tomi Engdahl says:
BBC documentary of a simulated flu-like pandemia last year using a tracking app in the UK
BBC Contagion The BBC Four Pandemic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fqK-pSMdGqY&feature=youtu.be
Julkaistu 16.3.2020
The outbreak of a deadly ‘flu virus is a major threat to the UK, to predict the impact of the next pandemic more accurately scientists need more data. Mathematician Dr Hannah Fry is ‘Patient Zero’ in this ground-breaking experiment.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Coronaviruses and immunosuppressed patients. The facts during the third epidemic
https://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/lt.25756
Tomi Engdahl says:
CYBERSECURITYCOVID-19 Response: New Jersey Urgently Needs COBOL Programmers (Yes, You Read That Correctly)
https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/?fbclid=IwAR1UnjnZuDGZsTRMF_Rvz-hoj69mLmHlbNpo2WJpL9SZH5HgISpNOrYiuHk
Tomi Engdahl says:
Finland, ‘Prepper Nation of the Nordics,’ Isn’t Worried About Masks
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/world/europe/finland-stockpile-coronavirus.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
You Need To Listen To This Leading COVID-19 Expert From South Korea | ASIAN BOSS
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gAk7aX5hksU&feature=youtu.be
Tomi Engdahl says:
Pääkirjoitus: Hallitusohjelma uusiksi – talouden elpyminen nyt ykköstavoitteeksi
https://www.iltalehti.fi/paakirjoitus/a/1db97841-4723-4f7a-ac42-bd7581fb7ba0
Tomi Engdahl says:
KORONAVIRUS – POPULISTIN PAINAJAINEN
Sunnuntai, 5. huhtikuuta 2020
Populistit eivät kunnostautuneet pandemiaan varautumisessa.
https://www.rapport.fi/journalistit/jani-kaaro/koronavirus-populistin-painajainen?rs=art_355383&rsd=13298
He eivät vastusta kaikkea eliittiä, vaan nimenomaisesti asiantuntijaeliittiä. Miksi? Siksi, että asiantuntijaeliitti on suora uhka populistiselle tietämiselle. Populistisessa mielikuvituksessa vain populistit voivat edustaa kansan tahtoa, koska heillä ainoana on varma tieto siitä, mitä kansa tahtoo. Jos professori tai dosentti tulee inisemään vastaväitteineen, perusteenaan se, että hän on opiskellut vuosikaudet yliopistossa, populistille ei jää muuta vaihtoehtoa kuin nakertaa asiantuntijan uskottavuus nakertamalla hänen koulutuksensa uskottavuutta.
Tämän peruskuvion vuoksi oikeistopopulismi vaikuttaa niin usein tiedevastaiselta. Esimerkiksi Nigel Farage kuuluisassa lausunnossaan kutsui Maailman terveysjärjestöä (WHO) ”öykkäreiden klubiksi.”
Koronavirus on mitä mielenkiintoisin testi tälle populistiselle tiedevastaisuudelle. En tiedä olenko oikeassa vai väärässä, mutta oikeistopopulistit vaikuttavat yhtäkkiä hieman vähäverisiltä. On kuin he olisivat yhtäkkiä joutuneet tekemisiin sellaisten realiteettien kanssa, jossa heidän vanhat sloganinsa ja strategiansa eivät toimi. He joutuvat kohtaamaan myös sen tosiasian, että heidän aiempi politiikkansa on heikentänyt yhteiskunnan kykyä vastata globaaliin terveysuhkaan.
Hyvä esimerkki jälkimmäisestä on Englanti.
Monet maailman johtajat aliarvioivat ensin koronaviruksen uhkaa. Se on kuitenkin eri asia kuin julkisesti vähätellä uhkaa ja vastustaa oman hallinnon vastuullisia toimia viruksen pysäyttämiseksi. Näin ovat toimineet lähinnä populistiset johtajat – eikä väliä onko kyseessä vasemmistolainen vai oikeistolainen populisti.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Koronavirus Itä-Aasiassa, osa I: Taiwan ja demokraattisen pandemiantorjunnan lyhyt oppimäärä
https://ulkopolitist.fi/2020/03/31/koronavirus-ita-aasiassa-osa-i-taiwan-ja-demokraattisen-pandemiantorjunnan-lyhyt-oppimaara/
Koronaviruspandemian laajetessa on alkanut ilmestyä arvioita siitä, millaiset yhteiskunnat torjuvat tautia tehokkaimmin. Kiinan järeät toimet ovat keränneet kiitosta ja saaneet pohtimaan, onko autoritaarinen aasialaisvaltio demokratiaa parempi viruksen pysäyttäjä. Aivan Kiinan vieressä sijaitseva demokraattinen Taiwan kuitenkin osoittaa, ettei tehokkuus ole hallintomuodosta tai kulttuurista kiinni
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Nobody saw this coming.” D. Trump
The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic
Bryan Walsh @bryanrwalsh
May 4, 2017
https://time.com/magazine/us/4766607/may-15th-2017-vol-189-no-18-u-s/
On a hyperconnected planet rife with hyperinfectious diseases, experts warn we aren’t ready to keep America–and the world–safe from the next pandemic
Too late because even as the scientific and international communities have begun to take the threat of pandemics more seriously, global health experts–including Bill Gates, World Health Organization director Dr. Margaret Chan and former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, to name just a few–warn that nowhere near enough is being done to prepare, leaving the U.S. scarily exposed. That’s because the system for responding to infectious disease is broken.
The consequences of a major pandemic would be world-changing. The 1918 flu pandemic killed 50 million to 100 million people–at the top end, more than the combined total casualties of World Wars I and II–and for a slew of reasons, humans are arguably more vulnerable today than they were 100 years ago. First of all, there are simply more of us.
Because people no longer stay in one place–nearly 4 billion trips were taken by air last year–neither do diseases. An infection in all but the most remote corner of the world can make its way to a major city in a day or less.
Climate change also plays a role as warmer temperatures expand the range of disease-carrying animals and insects we’re exposed to
Nearly all the new infectious diseases that scientists know about today originate in animals, and so will the emerging diseases of tomorrow. HIV began in chimpanzees, SARS in Chinese horseshoe bats, influenza in aquatic birds.
“Outbreaks are like fires,”
For all the advances in finding dangerous pathogens, the simple truth is that neither the world as a whole nor the U.S. in particular is at all prepared to handle a major infectious-disease pandemic–and a significant reason for that is a failure to invest in things now that can keep us safe later.
while the worldwide pharmaceutical market is worth more than $1 trillion, the market for vaccines makes up at most 3% of it.
Humans have little to no immune protection against new flu strains, which then spread rapidly around the world and–sometimes–cause severe disease. And though the flu usually isn’t deadly for otherwise healthy people, it can be, as the 1918 pandemic showed. While flu vaccines didn’t exist in 1918, they did in 2009, when a new flu strain jumped from pigs to people and ultimately killed an estimated 203,000 people around the world, a majority of them under the age of 65.
Make no mistake: for all our high-tech isolation units, top-tier doctors and world-class scientists, the U.S. health care system is not ready for the stresses of a major pandemic. As the infectious-disease expert Osterholm notes, a pandemic is not like other natural disasters, which tend to be confined to a single location or region. Disease can strike everywhere at once. In the event of a pandemic, even the best hospitals could rapidly run out of beds and mechanical ventilators.
The U.S. does have a national strategy for pandemics, and there have been welcome steps taken since the bioterrorism fears that followed 9/11.
Trump’s habit of making wild claims on Twitter could be especially dangerous in the event of a pandemic, when public confidence in government is critical to public safety. “The emerging climate of fake news and alternative facts leaves us worse off than ever before,”
On the campaign trail Trump said repeatedly that he would make America safe. But a multibillion-dollar wall at the border won’t keep out disease, and cutting aid to health systems overseas is akin to slashing the CIA’s budget in a time of war.
In a memorable 2015 TED talk, Bill Gates told his audience that “when I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war.” But today, he said, “if anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus, rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Amerikkalaislehti ylistää Suomea: ”Aina valmis katastrofiin tai maailmansotaan”
Eilen klo 22:26
New York Times hehkuttaa Suomen olevan parhaiten kriisiin varautunut Pohjoismaa.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/2ca391f9-0931-4e3f-9107-dd935f032db2
Tomi Engdahl says:
Learn how to social distance like the Finns! Kalsarikänni or “Pantsdrunk” (google it).
https://mobile.twitter.com/thelongdrink/status/1240422045894299649
Tomi Engdahl says:
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:
How Silicon Valley food caterers, event planners, venue owners, models, DJs, and others who relied on tech parties and events are coping with the loss of income
Silicon Valley businesses who made their living from tech industry events are suddenly staring at blank calendars and layoffs
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/03/coronavirus-hurts-silicon-valley-caterers-and-event-businesses.html
Performers, food caterers, event planners, venue owners, models, DJs and others that rely on the tech industry’s parties and conferences are now staring at blank calendars with no idea of when they will be able to return to their livelihoods.
These small businesses have collectively lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in canceled and postponed events.
Some of the businesses are beginning to explore how they can make revenue by pivoting their business while others are starting to apply for government relief programs.
Some of these small businesses rely on corporate events for as much as 90% of their revenue. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout the world and shelter-in-place and work-from-home orders remain intact throughout the Bay Area, many of these businesses find themselves with no source of income.
“When someone complains to me that they’re working from home, I don’t want to hear it,”
These business owners are stuck at home like everyone else, and they’re trying to figure out how they can make money when live events are effectively banned.
“There’s always another market to go to, and now we’re just stuck at home and there’s no place to go to,” said Weinstein, who estimates that collectively he and Alsouqi have lost $27,000 in canceled gigs. “The whole world is shut down, and it’s bumming us out. We’re a comedy act. We like to be out and having fun.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
These Are the Options for Europe’s Giant Virus Rescue Package
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-06/these-are-the-options-for-europe-s-giant-virus-rescue-package
European Union finance ministers are on a deadline.
The bloc’s leaders have asked them to come up with a set of proposals to help mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus by the end of this week and the ministers are aiming to reach a consensus during a video conference Tuesday.
They are likely to agree on a toolbox of measures worth over half a trillion euros that leaders could potentially sign off on later in the week.
EU governments pledge unprecedented fiscal response to pandemic
The European Commission has proposed a program with up to 100 billion euros to loan to countries facing rising joblessness because of the lockdown.
EU countries are split on issuing joint coronavirus bonds
The EU’s longterm budget will be part of the bloc’s economic response to the outbreak.
European Council President Charles Michel has floated the idea of a special, expanded budget for the next one or two years, according to several diplomats briefed on the plans. The idea is to boost the EU’s spending power, but to limit the time to make it more palatable to northern countries.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Suomalaistutkijat: Koronavirusta kantavat aerosolihiukkaset eivät vajoa lattialle, vaan jäävät leijumaan paikalleen – ”Jos yskijä kävelee pois ja paikalle saapuu toinen…”
https://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/uutiset/suomalaistutkijat-koronavirusta-kantavat-aerosolihiukkaset-eivat-vajoa-lattialle-vaan-jaavat-leijumaan-paikalleen-jos-yskija-kavelee-pois-ja-paikalle-saapuu-toinen/165e0f65-bd18-4d19-9120-ba9c21f666d0
Neljän suomalaisen tutkimusorganisaation yhteishanke on selvittänyt koronaviruksen kulkeutumista ja leviämistä ilmassa.
Aalto-yliopiston, Ilmatieteen laitoksen, VTT:n ja Helsingin yliopiston tutkijat mallinsivat alle 20 mikrometrin kokoisten aerosolihiukkasten liikettä ilmassa.
Kuivassa yskässä, joka on nykyisen koronaviruspandemian tyypillinen oire, hiukkaskoko on tyypillisesti alle 15 mikrometriä. Tämän kokoiset äärimmäisen pienet hiukkaset eivät vajoa lattialle, vaan ne liikkuvat ilmavirtauksien mukana tai jäävät leijumaan paikalleen ilmaan.
Tutkijat päätyivät samaan alustavaan tulokseen: aerosolipilvi leviää lähiympäristöön myös yskivän henkilön välittömän läheisyyden ulkopuolelle. Toisaalta pilvi samalla laimenee, mutta siihen kuluu jopa minuutteja.
”Jos koronavirustartunnan saanut yskijä kävelee pois ja lähelle samaa paikkaa saapuu toinen ihminen, ilmassa leijuvat äärimmäisen pienet koronavirusta sisältävät aerosolihiukkaset voivat päätyä tämän toisen ihmisen hengitysteihin”,
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://northmantrader.com/2020/04/05/tough-decisions-ahead/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Koska normaali palaa? https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006462966.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ex-kansliapäällikkö: koronakriisi aiheuttaa ennennäkemättömän tilanteen perheissä – ”vaikea edes keksiä, miten tällaista voidaan analysoida” https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006465768.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
THL odottaa uutta linjausta kasvomaskeista – miksi saksalainen suojaa kasvonsa, mutta suomalainen ei? https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006466326.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kun joku yskii kaupan hyllyjen välissä, näin laajalle koronaa kantavat hiukkaset voivat levitä – katso tutkijoiden mykistävä video https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006465911.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
How the greedy ruling elite failed us, by putting profit before pandemic preparedness
https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3078354/how-greedy-ruling-elite-failed-us-putting-profit-pandemic
The global ruling elite, who ignored expert warnings of a pandemic, are even now proposing stimulus measures to prop up markets, rather than truly help people
Expect any attempts to align supply chains to health care or welfare imperatives to meet fierce resistance from vested financial interests, further holding back economic recovery
Tomi Engdahl says:
Osa ruuasta uhkaa loppua koronan vuoksi – Suomi suunnittelee tilauslentoja ukrainalaisille työntekijöille
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11290941
Ruuan hinnat nousevat, kun maatilat eivät uskalla investoida kesän tuotantoon työvoimapulassa, ennustaa EU-viljelijöiden nokkamies Pekka Pesonen.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Universal mask-wearing is the most overlooked COVID-19 lifesaver
https://www.maskssavelives.org/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google to publish user location data to help govts tackle virus
https://news.yahoo.com/google-publish-user-location-data-help-govts-tackle-081909211.html
Google will publish location data from its users around the world from Friday to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of social distancing measures put in place to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Europe and the United States, technology firms have begun sharing “anonymised” smartphone data to better track the outbreak.
Even privacy-loving Germany is considering using a smartphone app to help manage the spread of the disease.
But activists say authoritarian regimes are using the coronavirus as a pretext to suppress independent speech and increase surveillance.
Tomi Engdahl says:
THL:n päättelyvirheet sekä päätöksenteko epävarmuuden vallitessa
https://puheenvuoro.uusisuomi.fi/pasi-malmi/thln-paattelyvirheet-seka-paatoksenteko-epavarmuuden-vallitessa/
THL näyttää perustavan monet toimenpidesuosituksistaan seuraavanlaiseen virhepäätelmään:
Väitettä X ei ole todistettu ==> Voidaan todeta että X ei ole totta
Tämä vakava virhepäätelmä saattaa maksaa Suomessa jopa tuhansia ihmishenkiä. Syynä on se, että lääkärit on koulutettu tekemään päätöksiä varman ja luotettavan tieteellisen tiedon varassa. Heitä ei ole koulutettu tekemään päätöksiä epävarman tiedon varassa.
Oletteko huomanneet, että THL ja sitä lähellä olevat tahot ovat viime aikoina esittäneet seuraavan tyyppiseen logiikkaan perustuvia virhepäätelmiä?
Ei ole todistettu, että SARS-COV-2-virus tarttuisi ihmisestä toiseen ihmiseen ==> Virus ei tartu ihmisestä toiseen
Ei ole todistettu, että SARS-COV-2-virus olisi tarttunut johonkuhun potilaaseen pintojen kautta ==> Virus ei tartu pintojen kautta.
Ei ole todistettu, että hengityssuojaimista olisi hyötyä ==> Hengityssuojaimista ei ole hyötyä.
Ei ole todistettu, että hengityskoneista tulisi pulaa Suomessa ==> Hengityskoneista ei tule pulaa.
Ei ole todistettu, että hydroklorokiinista tai melfokiinista olisi hyötyä COVID-19-infektion torjunnassa ==> Hydroklorokiinista ja melfokiinista ei ole hyötyä infektion torjunnassa.
Näistä päätelmistä jokainen on loogikan sääntöjen vastainen ja virheellinen
THL ei ole kunnolla avannut yleisölle sitä, millaisiin päättelyketjuihin ja todistusaineistoihin THL:n suositukset ovat COVID-19-kriisin aikana perustuneet. THL siis näyttää jatkuvasti tekevän virhepäätelmiä.
Päätöksenteko epävarmuuden vallitessa
Päätöksenteon teorian mukaan päätöksentekijän ei koskaan pidä tutkia vain yhtä vaihtoehtoa päätöksiä tehdessään. Oikea tapa on luetella kaikki tunnetut vaihtoehdot ja sen jälkeen arvioida niiden todennäköisyydet.
Suomessa tehtyjä virhepäätelmiä, jotka liittyvät siihen, kannattaako jokin toimenpide tehdä vai ei:
Ei ole todistettu, että virus tarttuisi ihmisestä toiseen ==> Meidän ei kannata tehdä mitään muuta, kuin seurata tilanteen kehittymistä.
Ei ole todistettu, että hengityskoneista tulisi pulaa Suomessa ==> Hengityskoneista ei tule pulaa ==> Yritysten ei kannata ryhtyä Suomessa valmistamaan hengityskoneita.
Ei ole todistettu, että hengityssuojaimista olisi hyötyä ==> Suomalaisten ei kannata käyttää hengityssuojaimia
Ei ole todistettu, että hydroksiklorokiinista, melfokiinista, jodista tai D-vitamiinista olisi hyötyä COVID-19-infektion hoitamisessa ==> Suomalaisten lääkärien ei kannata käyttää hydroksiklorokiinia, melfokiinia, jodia tai D-vitamiinia COVID-19-infektion hoitamisessa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
New York Times:
Interviews with over 30 sources highlight Amazon’s struggle to combat COVID-19, under pressure as orders rise, as the virus spreads to more than 50 warehouses — Shifting sick-leave policy and communication issues are causing employees to assert themselves after they stayed on the job.
Gaps in Amazon’s Response as Virus Spreads to More Than 50 Warehouses
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/technology/coronavirus-amazon-workers.html
Shifting sick-leave policy and communication issues are causing employees to assert themselves after they stayed on the job.
Jonathan Bailey, a 30-year-old Amazon warehouse employee in Queens, has a system for protecting himself from the coronavirus at work. He wears a medical mask with a bandanna tied over it. When he returns to the apartment he shares with his wife, he dumps his mask, work gloves, neon green Amazon safety vest and other clothes into a plastic trash bag.
He’s not certain it really works, but he figures it’s better than nothing. “We’re very careful,” Mr. Bailey said. “We’re in the epicenter of it all.”
As millions of Americans heed government orders to hunker down, ordering food and medicines and books and puzzle boards for home delivery, many of Amazon’s 400,000 warehouse workers have stayed on the job, fulfilling the crushing demands of a country suddenly working and learning from home. Orders for Amazon groceries, for example, have been as much as 50 times higher than normal, according to a person with direct knowledge of the business.
The challenge is keeping enough people on the job to fill those orders,
For all of its high-tech sophistication, Amazon’s vast e-commerce business is dependent on an army of workers operating in warehouses they now fear are contaminated with the coronavirus.
“None of this works without our employees,”
The surge of orders is testing the limits of Amazon’s vaunted distribution system and forcing changes to the company’s relationship with its employees. While Amazon’s workers are not unionized, the crisis has given workplace organizers like Mr. Bailey unexpected leverage to demand better pay, better sick leave and more of a voice in how the company is run.
Amazon’s response to the pandemic has differed from warehouse to warehouse. Over the years, that sort of autonomy has allowed Amazon to nimbly adjust to local market conditions. Now it is leading to distrust, as workers see some facilities close for cleaning while others remain open.
For Amazon, like many companies in America, the danger of the coronavirus started as a problem in its supply chain.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Coronavirus: nearly half a million Chinese companies close in first quarter as pandemic batters economy
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3078581/coronavirus-nearly-half-million-chinese-companies-close-first
Amid mounting economic stress from the coronavirus, some 460,000 Chinese firms shut in the first quarter, while the number of new companies set up slowed from a year earlier.
More than 460,000 Chinese firms closed permanently in the first quarter as the coronavirus pandemic pummeled the world’s second largest economy, with more than half of them having operated for under three years, corporate registration data shows.
At the same time, the pace of new firms being established slowed significantly. From January to March, around 3.2 million businesses were set up, a 29 per cent drop from a year earlier.
The number of business closures underlines the challenges facing China as it tries to revive its economy, which is at risk of a contraction in the first quarter for the first time since 1976.
“China has managed to get the Covid-19 outbreak largely under control and domestic supply disruptions have now mostly dissipated,” Yao Wei and Michelle Lam, economists from French bank Societe Generale, said in a recent note.
“However, there are signs of lasting damage to domestic demand, and on top of that the external shock resulting from widespread lockdowns in other major economies is arriving fast and furious.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Data scientist reveals EYE PAIN may be a symptom of Covid-19 after tracking Google searches in some of the worst-hit American states
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8191035/Data-scientist-reveals-EYE-PAIN-symptom-Covid-19.html
Searches for the phrase ‘loss of smell’ highest in NY, NJ, Louisiana and Michigan
Data scientist argues Google searches can determine next outbreak of Covid-19
He also says there is evidence to suggest eye pain could be a symptom of virus
Most researchers now agree that loss of smell and taste is a symptom of Covid-19, affecting up to 60% of those who contract the illness.
He explained how the amount of times ‘eye pain’ was searched for in Spain and Iran correlated with the rapid spread of the virus.
‘Notably, searches for eye pain rose above fourfold in Spain between the middle of February and the middle of March and rose about 50 percent in Iran in March.
‘In Italy, searches for ‘bruciore occhi’ (“burning eyes”) were five times their usual levels in March.’
However, it might only affect a small fraction of Covid-19 patients.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Pystyykö Google-hakujen perusteella ennustamaan missä on uusia koronatartuntoja? (Vrt. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/opinion/coronavirus-google-searches.html?referringSource=articleShare )
Tomi Engdahl says:
COVID-19 News Central
https://www.mddionline.com/covid-19-central?ADTRK=InformaMarkets&elq_mid=12852&elq_cid=876648
Stay tuned to MD+DI’s ongoing coverage of resources, regulatory support, and solutions for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tutkijat raportoivat Kiinassa oudosta 49 päivää kestäneestä koronavirustartunnasta – ”Virus ja isäntä voivat muodostaa symbioottisen suhteen”
https://tekniikanmaailma.fi/tutkijat-raportoivat-kiinassa-oudosta-49-paivaa-kestaneesta-koronavirustartunnasta-virus-ja-isanta-voivat-muodostaa-symbioottisen-suhteen/?shared=1058967-0be69ace-500
Pitkittyneestä virustaudista kärsineen keski-ikäisen miehen sairaskertomusta tarkastelleet kiinalaistutkijat kirjoittavat, että SARS-CoV-2-viruksen uusi alatyyppi aiheuttaisi lievemmän taudinkuvan eikä leviäisi niin helposti. Sen sijaan muuntautuneen viruksen aiheuttama tauti kestäisi huomattavan pitkään.
KESKI-IKÄINEN mies kärsi ”krooniseksi muuttuneesta” COVID-19-taudista 49 vuorokautta. Sairaalahoitoon joutuneet potilaat antavat negatiivisen testituloksen tyypillisesti 20 vuorokautta ensioireiden alkamisesta. Tavallisesti taudinkuva on sitä vakavampi, mitä pidempään oireet kestävät.
Koska virusten määrä potilaassa oli korkea läpi taudin keston, hän myös levitti tautia ympäristöönsä 49 vuorokauden ajan.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040071v1
Tomi Engdahl says:
On a new What’s Ahead, Steve talks Bill Gates’ pursuit of a COVID-19 vaccine, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s method that proved effective in South Korea, using hydroxychloroquine as a treatment and the coming 2020 census: http://on.forbes.com/61801I2Am
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mitä pitää tapahtua ennen kuin Suomi voi alkaa purkaa koronan vuoksi määrättyjä rajoituksia? Tässä 6 kohdan lista asiantuntijoilta
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11294223
Tomi Engdahl says:
Oman terveyden tarkkailemisesta on tullut arkea, kun uutta tietoa koronaviruksesta puskee joka puolelta.
Painaako rintaasi ahdistus vai infektio? Yskiikö läheinen katupölyn vai taudin takia?
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11291500
Tomi Engdahl says:
5G cell towers torched in U.K. amid bogus coronavirus theories
British carriers confirm multiple towers attacked after misinformation spread online.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/5g-cell-towers-torched-u-k-amid-bogus-coronavirus-theories-n1177361
Tomi Engdahl says:
COVID-19 & The Looming Collapse Of Europe’s Single Currency
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/covid-19-looming-collapse-europes-single-currency
As the coronavirus unleashes economic shockwaves across Europe, the European single currency, the most visible symbol of European unification, is facing collapse.
The eurozone – a monetary union of 19 of the 27 Member States of the European Union that have adopted the euro as their common currency – is being buffeted not only by the prospect of a deep and long-lasting recession. Northern and Southern European countries are also feuding over possible financial support for Italy and Spain, the EU’s third- and fourth-largest economies, which have been especially hard hit by the coronavirus.
if the coronavirus crisis eventually causes Italy to default on its debt, the reverberations will be felt across Europe — and the globe. Italy, with a GDP of nearly $2 trillion, is said to be “too big to fail, too big to bail.”
“Unlike Greece, Italy is too big an economy to fail for the euro to survive and too big and costly an economy for its European partners to save….
“In gauging Italy’s systemic importance to the global economy, one should bear in mind that its economy is approximately 10 times the size of that of Greece and that it is the eurozone’s third-largest economy.
the coronavirus crisis could catapult Italy into bankruptcy
“Italy’s crisis is Europe’s. When Italy catches a cold, Europe will catch pneumonia. The euro cannot permit a major economy (Italy is the eurozone’s third-largest) to collapse in a disorderly mess.”
In Spain, which recently overtook Italy as the epicenter of the coronavirus in Europe, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez committed €200 billion ($215 billion) — 20% of the country’s GDP — to alleviate the economic and social consequences of the pandemic. When asked how he would pay for that amount of spending, Sánchez replied that he was counting on financial help from “Europe.”
Meanwhile, the coronavirus crisis is wreaking havoc across the eurozone, which suffered an unprecedented collapse in business activity in March 2020
Company forecast that eurozone GDP will fall by 10.6% in 2020, and will not return to pre-crisis levels until the end of 2024.
France, the eurozone’s second-largest economy after Germany, imposed a nationwide stay-at-home order since March 17. The lockdown will last until at least April 15. One month of confinement would cost France around 3 points of GDP over a year, and two months of confinement around 6 points, according to French Statistics Agency INSEE.
French President Emmanuel Macron warned his fellow EU leaders that the coronavirus outbreak risked undoing the bloc’s central pillars if they failed to show solidarity in this crisis. “What’s at stake is the survival of the European project,” he said.
“Today, not a single European country is doing well which means there is limited willingness for European countries to come to each other’s aid. They are busy dealing with their own crises. Just witness how Italy has been left alone with its crisis by Europe and now rather gets its medical support from China….
Tomi Engdahl says:
GenMark Diagnostics Sees 80% Revenue Boost in First Quarter
https://www.mddionline.com/covid-19-boosts-genmark-diagnostics-2020-revenue?ADTRK=InformaMarkets&elq_mid=12866&elq_cid=876648
While COVID-19 has delivered a major financial blow to a lot of medical device companies, the companies that were quick to deliver much-needed tests for the new virus are coming out ahead.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.securityweek.com/increase-exploited-zero-days-shows-broader-access-vulnerabilities
https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-expects-increase-covid-19-themed-bec-scams
https://www.securityweek.com/how-has-coronavirus-pandemic-impacted-cybersecurity-professionals
https://www.securityweek.com/free-security-tools-resources-offered-during-coronavirus-outbreak
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tässä on koko hallituksen mittava koronatoimien lista – suojavarusteiden hankintaan 600 miljoonaa euroa
https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/85337c7c-ce5f-433b-99c6-1aea20871b2f
Tomi Engdahl says:
Air pollution linked to far higher Covid-19 death rates, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/07/air-pollution-linked-to-far-higher-covid-19-death-rates-study-finds#maincontent
Dirty air increases risk of respiratory problems that can be fatal for coronavirus patients
pollution is linked to significantly higher rates of death in people with Covid-19, according to analysis.
The work shows that even a tiny, single-unit increase in particle pollution levels in the years before the pandemic is associated with a 15% increase in the death rate. The research, done in the US, calculates that slightly cleaner air in Manhattan in the past could have saved hundreds of lives.
Given the large differences in toxic air levels across countries, the research suggests people in polluted areas are far more likely to die from the coronavirus than those living in cleaner areas. The scientists said dirty air was already known to increase the risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome, which is extremely deadly and a cause of Covid-19-related deaths, as well as other respiratory and heart problems.
COVID-19 PM2.5
A national study on long-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm
Results: We found that an increase of only 1 μg/m3 in PM2.5 is associated with a 15% increase in the COVID-19 death rate, 95% confidence interval (CI) (5%, 25%). Results are statistically significant and robust to secondary and sensitivity analyses.
Conclusions: A small increase in long-term exposure to PM2.5 leads to a large increase in COVID-19 death rate, with the magnitude of increase 20 times that observed for PM2.5 and all-cause mortality. The study results underscore the importance of continuing to enforce existing air pollution regulations to protect human health both during and after the COVID-19 crisis. The data and code are publicly available.
Tomi Engdahl says:
New Data Shows U.S. Companies Are Definitely Leaving China
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/04/07/new-data-shows-us-companies-are-definitely-leaving-china/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Valerie/#76616c657269
U.S. companies are leaving China thanks to the trade war. They’ll leave even more thanks to the pandemic.
Sorry, Davos Man. Your China-led globalization is going out of style like bell bottoms.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hallituksen Kiinasta tilaamat hengityssuojaimet eivät läpäisseet testejä – Huoltovarmuuskeskuksen mukaan suojainmarkkinat kaaoksessa
Kiinasta eilen tulleet hengityssuojaimet eivät kelpaakaan sairaalakäyttöön.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11298675
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/biomedical/diagnostics/a-rapid-test-for-covid19-arrives-via-a-20yearold-technology-already-in-many-hospitals
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/coronavirus
Tomi Engdahl says:
COVID-19 Exploited by Malicious Cyber Actors
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-099a
This alert provides information on exploitation by cybercriminal and
advanced persistent threat (APT) groups of the current coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic. It includes a non-exhaustive
list of indicators of compromise (IOCs) for detection as well as
mitigation advice.. This is a joint alert from the United States
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdoms National Cyber Security
Centre (NCSC).
Tomi Engdahl says:
Eva Dou / Washington Post:
A look at COVID-19-related health security measures in places like Foxconn’s iPhone-making complex and Huawei’s factories in China as they restart production — Disinfect hands and shoes at the factory gate. Bring your own towel. No sunny-side-up eggs.
Infrared cameras, personal towels: China factories go to extremes to fend off virus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/infrared-cameras-personal-towels-china-factories-go-to-extremes-to-fend-off-virus/2020/04/08/4aae5036-722c-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html
Disinfect hands and shoes at the factory gate. Bring your own towel. No sunny-side-up eggs.
Chinese companies are going to extreme lengths to stave off new outbreaks of the novel coronavirus as they reopen for business. It will be a crucial test of whether a country can keep the infection curve flat after lifting social distancing.
The stakes are high for China, economically and politically. After Beijing’s leaders declared victory over the coronavirus, a relapse would be humiliating. Worse, it could tip China — and the world — into economic recession.
Since businesses began reopening in February, China’s State Council has required companies to supply employees with face masks and check everyone’s temperature daily. Employers must submit daily reports on workers’ health statuses, a system dubbed “One Person, One File.”
In the United States, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has also issued suggestions for businesses, which are less stringent than the Chinese rules. OSHA is suggesting work from home when possible and says companies should consider installing sneeze guards or providing employees with face masks.
China’s experience suggests that restarting the global economy will be no easy task. Chinese industry is only creaking in motion with heavy overhead costs for infection prevention.
David Levine, a professor of business administration at the University of California at Berkeley, said that companies worldwide will need effective protocols to avoid new outbreaks, but also to market their products to wary consumers.
“Manufacturers are going to have to convince consumers of the safety of their products,” he said. “You need procedures in place.”
In China, some of these measures are government-mandated, such as opening office windows three times a day for 30-minute stretches. Beijing has suspended the use of fingerprint-entry keypads and forbidden workers from sitting face-to-face while eating lunch.
Companies have added their own rules. Some of the strictest are at manufacturers like iPhone assembler Foxconn Technology Group
At Foxconn’s iPhone-making complex in Zhengzhou, workers have been put into teams of 20 that stick together night and day to facilitate health tracking, according to a notice by the Zhengzhou government.
“The same group of employees work, travel, live, and eat together to ensure that employees’ personal trajectories are fully traced,”
“There are boards on the tables between people so we don’t see each other or talk,”
Foxconn cafeteria seats have been labeled with QR codes for workers to scan so the company has a record of who sat where and when for meals, according to company notices. At their dorms, workers are told to leave their coats and bags in a designated place for disinfection.
The company has even set up an infrared video camera that tracks employees’ body temperatures as they walk by.
It said it has produced 10 million surgical masks to date, with a goal of making 2 million a day for internal use.
At a TCL air-conditioner factory in coastal Jiujiang, workers were told to bring their own towels to dry their hands after hand-washing
TCL’s morning clock-in routine for workers: “Step one, temperature check. Step two, disinfect your entire body. Step three, take a face mask. Step four, scan the QR code to log your entry into the factory.”
Chinese telecom giant Huawei issued a 73-page manual with detailed protocols,
All food in Huawei cafeterias must be thoroughly cooked
In the United States and China alike, standard workplace risk management is based on the “hierarchy of controls,” a system developed in the United States in the 1950s. Under this framework, companies should first look for ways to eliminate a risk altogether — by ordering all employees to stay at home during a pandemic, for example — before turning to risk mitigation methods, like safety training and protective gear in the office.
With the large number of coronavirus “silent carriers” who show no symptoms, it will be difficult for employers to eliminate transmission risk between employees once offices open up again. This makes hygiene protocols and technical safeguards — lower rungs of the “hierarchy” — more critical.
In Wuhan, the epicenter of China’s outbreak, a months-long lockdown was lifted Wednesday. But officials have warned residents that a return to regular life and work is still a long way off.
Wuhan residents wearing goggles and face masks were lined up at a hospital on Tuesday for health testing as a requirement for returning to work, according to images circulated on official newswire Xinhua.
residents will need this health clearance and employment proof to leave their housing complexes, which will remain under soft lockdown.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
UK’s NCSC and US DHS publish a list of 2,500 COVID-19-related threats they are tracking, including malicious websites and email addresses linked to scams — If you weren’t already taking the rise of coronavirus-based cybercrime seriously, take note. A rare joint alert has gone out from U.S …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/04/08/government-warning-these-2500-covid-19-websites-pose-a-threat-to-your-online-safety/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ina Fried / Axios:
Tech giants like Apple, Facebook, and Google are scrambling to create digital internships for this summer, as offices remain shuttered during the pandemic — The major tech companies are scrambling to craft digital options for this year’s summer intern class, as businesses remain shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Big Tech’s summer internships go digital
https://www.axios.com/big-tech-summer-internships-digital-coronavirus-91e423b2-1a4b-4441-8528-23871c2209f0.html
The major tech companies are scrambling to craft digital options for this year’s summer intern class, as businesses remain shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Why it matters: Internships serve as key learning opportunities for students, but are also critical for the recruiting and diversity efforts of the Big Tech companies who compete fiercely for college talent.
Driving the news: These companies said they’re moving their programs online:
Google, which told Axios it will pay its interns the full rate.
Twitter, which told Axios its intern class may shrink this year.
IBM.
Microsoft, which said in a blog post this week that it will have its biggest ever intern class — more than 4,000.
Lyft, which will have the same number of interns as originally planned, but limit them to just two start dates to provide students with more of a common experience.
Salesforce, which also plans a similar size intern class as intended.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Arvostetulta tutkimuslaitokselta toiveikas ennuste: Suomen koronaepidemia pitkälti ohi toukokuun alkuun mennessä https://www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000006469139.html