Quite horrific numbers in a nursing home in the North of France (Aisne), related to a "rare, 19B variant".
Out of 111 residents, 107 were infected and 27 died (more or less 25%). Amongst the 70 social workers and medical staff, 57 were infected, but all are fine.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister said again that "given the current situation, there's no justification for a hard lockdown". ?
That vulnerability of nursing homes also explains why Germany and USA have so different ways to die: In Germany, many more old people live in nursing home and you have a much higher chance to catch COVID-19 and die, if you live there. In the USA, less people live in nursing homes, so less people of this age group die there compared to Germany.
Well, here we kept the schools open and the good things is that, as I speak, children and young people mostly seem to be spared. A delicate situation for teachers that are near retirement. Now they close schools when cases are reported.
I have the disturbing feeling I'll be able to complete a couple of full-lunar-rockets-Orbiter-projects before all of this is over...
Despite this resistance, the second wave in South Africa seems to be over. And we did not even start with vaccination.Well, here we kept the schools open and the good things is that, as I speak, children and young people mostly seem to be spared. A delicate situation for teachers that are near retirement. Now they close schools when cases are reported.
I really don't like how things are going worldwide, the South-African variant seem to be ~80% vaccine-resistant. Sure we can probably map the new variants genomes in a matter of days, but there's no way we'll be able to mass-produce safe vaccines fast enough. Or we have to completely reorganize the economy around vaccine production and forget safety standards, and I don't see that happening. ?
I have the disturbing feeling I'll be able to complete a couple of full-lunar-rockets-Orbiter-projects before all of this is over...
They hoped the same last year...
Indeed, but that was expected. Natural selection brings out a mutation rate of around 6 months, parallel with the flu * .t there's no way we'll be able to mass-produce safe vaccines fast enough.
Many people in Europe behave like mules... the governments put some carrots in front of them so they carry on with the trot, unable to realize that they will never reach their goal, simply because the goal post is moving all the time. Evidence? Changes next week. Metrics? Numbers will move willy-nilly. Medics or vaccines available? New mutation or viruses pop up suddenly.@Screamer7: speaking of which, did the Southern Summer help with the pandemic ? Right now its mid/end Summer for you, right ? Here in Europe many hope that thing will ease in Summer...