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For months I had to clear my history to log out, but it meant having to later enter all other sites from scratch, not recognition. Then I took a break. Before and now, randomly it seems, my log in gets a prompt indicating unsuccessful when in fact the log in worked, or sometimes I have to log in the main page, rejected, then successful when logging on the forums page. The problem logging out seems to have resolved. ’We are all in this together.’ LOL

This is clearly a photo opp based on a group of volunteers for early phase vaccine development in Brazil, all having received the true vaccine, not a placebo, and demonstrating a robust immune response with evidence of protective antibodies. Good for them. We are way behind up here where I live and facing an imminent second lockdown.

It appears even the locals can get restless, impatient, and a bit snarky ...

Strange. I was able to submit the post but after I inserted the photo the text section froze and I could not add to it.

I don’t think it is Clube 11 or Sauna Fox. One venue has what appears to be maroon-coloured door-frame trim but it is not the same doorway ... he could be standing in another section where the structure is different but that colour scheme may be extended. Maybe msg and ask: Você sabe se o Thermas Club 13 de Itapuã foi reaberto?

Like the article says, no easy answers. I think answers will emerge over the next several years as longer duration of patterns are easier to make sense of. We have not even nearly reached seasonal variance and Chile or Lesotho are not cold enough to generate a comparison. I could likely come up with some ideas but I’d have to drill down into your queries and do a lot of additional reading and review to weigh in properly, while a very small number of readers here are engaged in this topic. I am now involved in a substantial media project related to CoV in my country ... risk conceptualization and management ... It’s now consuming a lot of time and I don’t want to be buried under by the pandemic. —— I am thinking that I will, for good measure, not quote or react to posts on the board until I know the hour had elapsed.

Gonna take a shot though the audience here is tough: Bardot is to Gimenez as, in the camp version, Brigitte Bidet is to Susana Gimme-Jizz.

You implied ‘camping’ out, and it happens that French actress Brigitte Bardot is the celebrity the most associated with Buzios. You can take a selfie sitting beside the statue of her sitting on a bench.

Spain has tended to report mortality in latent data dumping fashion.

However, I will add a thought about national specificity that was not snipped out by accident above because I had not yet written it. Globally there is so far no evidence of waxing/waning/tides/waves. Granted, the temporal variations in case incidence onset and in death incidence for the collective of nations get smoothed out in the global metrics. Death escalated quickly early but globally appears to keep pace with incidence. That pattern suggests considerable variation in incidence:death ratio because, assuming Spain is not unique in lower death reports ... for the average global curve pattern there would need to be other countries with high death rates to offset Spain data, etc. Then the 64-dollar question is accounting for why the virus is selectively death-sparing by country. If Spain is the main driver for the minor downturn in death globally, it remains unconvincing that age is a major factor because age distribution globally is likely similar at this point. Spain, like many nations, does not provide data on recovery:death ratio and that missing metric compromises interpretation. [plus I add a graph next post] Stratifying patterns across 198 nations may be somewhat futile.

@tassojunior, what did I ask? You just knocked out a few complex points as I was adding them, by entering an emoticon reaction during the time I was editing.

The kicker about Spain is that in neighbouring Portugal (proximity perhaps a good comparator basis) the ratio of daily deaths to new cases has been fairly constant, mortality keeping pace proportionally with infection incidence. (time out ... I need to attend to something please do not comment yet as I will come back soon) I decided to not elaborate other than to say there are a few reasons why case incidence to death ratio is a poor metric for the nature of the virus. Had a few paragraphs more but lost them.

Because my estimated figure for antibody assay sample size should be 800,000 ... is everyone asleep or stuck on their ‘socials’ in this lecture?

It wiil However, as I look at several countries’ graphs plotting mortality:recovery ratio across time it appears that many have no alteration at all at any point in time you would estimate if and when masks introduced. Mask impact may also get buried within overall strategic mitigation effects. The real story is the enormous difference in death rates comparing countries. Reporting is not standardized and is a ‘shit show’. Mortality rates depend on the differences among nations in incorporating recorded true deaths from CoV, presumed (how much CoV tipped the comorbidity ones to death), and what proportion of temporally contextualized excess deaths may be attributable to CoV.

With more than 3 billion Americans, bound to be lawsuits.

We need more camp in porn? Will Brigitte Bidet feature?

Hahaha ... doctors get more leeway to backpedal. we only get 60 minutes on this message board to revise before exile from the related post field.

Erratum, 8,000,000 not 15,000,000

OK, the NEJM article is very convincing and well written. The hypothesis cannot be tested in a human trial, but retrospective and animal model studies can further investigate. It value-adds to the importance and legitimacy of face-covering. We have mortality:recovery ratio curves all over the world that could possibly be triangulated with the temporal introduction and application of more universal widespread masking. However, the main content of the piece does not match well with the title of this new forum topic.

That seems to be a good location-duration visit calendar since you have Rio previously under your belt but can tweak it with Salvador Bahia. I would personally pick a similar itinerary if visiting were in the cards sooner than later. It will be interesting to have a take on how uniform the alterations are across settings in the pandemic context.

A little off track, but BTW the recently published JAMA study on CoV and Vitamin D in Illinois is considerably methodologically flawed. There is much misleading research that gets published in supposedly respectable periodicals and the spurious findings get subsequently imported into media releases and poured into gullible trusting brains.

Oh you only need a reasonably cross-sectional representative sample, not mass testing, to infer antibody-verified exposure/immunity estimated within a tight enough confidence interval to be statistically valid. A quarter of a percent of the population should do it, 15,000,000? Statisticians can compute sample sizes needed to extrapolate to the overall population. Anyway a lot of this has been done already and I am not inclined to dig into or look for what I have already read. Try searching ‘USA covid true prevalence’ or ‘USA Covid antibody prevalence’ or ‘USA Covid immunity estimate’

Louisiana, at reported 3.3%, is the highest state tally with a potential range of exposure up to 33%. Isolated on its own might be considered to be approaching 50% of the exposure prevalence needed to categorize as a reasonable threshold of herd immunity. But there is just the one partial flimsy wall west of it and it does not barricade state lines.

Reported infection USA to date has reached 1.9% population. Ascertainment adjustment puts it at 9.5 - 19%. I doubt that any of the up to 80% remaining population is spared susceptibility, but presentation can be presymptomatic, asymptomatic, paucisymptomatic, or symptomatic on a severity gradient.