"This isn't the pandemic response in South Korea, New Zealand..
It's Senegal, a west African country with a fragile health care system, a scarcity of hospital beds and about seven doctors for every 100,000 people."
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"And yet Senegal, with a population of 16 million, has tackled COVID-19 aggressively and, so far, effectively."
""You see Senegal moving out on all fronts: following science, acting quickly, working the communication side of the equation, and then thinking about innovation," said Judd Devermont, director of a nonpartisan foreign policy think tank....
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..Senegal deserves "to be in the pantheon of countries that have ... responded well to this crisis, even given its low resource base,"
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"Senegal snagged the No. 2 slot in a recent analysis looking at how 36 countries have handled the pandemic. Senegal received strong marks for "a high degree of preparedness and a reliance on facts and science,""
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"When the country had its first positive case .. President Macky Sall immediately imposed a curfew and
[note!] restricted travel between Senegal’s 14 regions."
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"The country ramped up testing capacity quickly, creating mobile labs that can return results within 24 hours – or as quickly as two hours in some cases, Bousso said."
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"Sall’s government also made a dramatic promise: Every person who tested positive would have a treatment bed, whether they had symptoms or not. That kept patients away from home, where they might transmit the virus to family members."
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"“We saw at the beginning that if you do that, we can very rapidly stop the transmission,” Bousso said."
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A new impressive study on #LongCovid months after infection, with data on the probability of various symptoms and a unique mapping of organ damage and the overlap between them.
Anyone involved in corona policy must read it. It is worthwhile.
1. Wastewater tracking 2. Confirmed cases 3. Testing positivity (they are trying to hide the problem by including screening and repeat tests -- Wow) 4. Hospitalizations
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5. US confirmed cases
"The crucial question is: Will Massachusetts cases start rising like the national numbers or will the state be able to put the brakes on?"
With two thirds of countries in the Middle East reporting a decreasing or stabilizing trend, Iran and Libya saw new highs yesterday. Jordan, UAE, and Lebanon are also at their highest levels of infection.
India reports continuous improvement. Yesterday, they reported 45,148 cases and 450 deaths. Both are the lowest for months. The testing positive rate dropped below 5% recently, indicating relatively adequate testing capability to identify new infections.
Europe yesterday: 215k. Italy 21,273, exceeding 20k for the first time. In terms of daily cases, Campania, Piemonte, Toscana, Lazio, and Veneto are all approaching the level of Lombardia during March, which was the epicenter of Italy during the first wave.
“It’s Not Too Late to Crush and Contain the Coronavirus”
“the sooner a country can limit the spread of the virus…the shorter the period that the economy will be frozen, and the sooner people can get back to work”
"In many countries around the world, restarting the economy while fighting the coronavirus has turned into a protracted and arduous slog. Some countries that seemed to be..decisively controlling the virus, such as Germany,. recently experienced new outbreaks and hot spots."
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"Others, such as the US, are seeing a rapid rise in infection and hospitalization levels that may signal uncontrolled virus transmission. Both situations..forced..national and regional governments to delay reopening schedules and, in some cases, reimpose targeted lockdowns."
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US yesterday 83,718, a slight drop from the record one day before. IL, OH, OK, CO, NM, and AK reported new highs.
Jamaica saw continuous decreases since its recent peak in September, yesterday reported 32, lowest in weeks.
Malaysia’s recent outbreak continues, with a new high of 1,228 yesterday. The daily average increased eight-fold in the past month. The average death toll is also at the country's highest level of 7 per day.
Since some countries don’t report much on weekends, Europe saw a slight drop in cases. Nevertheless, France set a new record of 45,422 yesterday, which was quickly broken by today's 52,010. France surpassed Spain in both confirmed cases and fatalities to be the second in Europe.
For a physicist knowing RG (renormalization group) every problem starts by identifying relevant variables (what is important -> control parameters)
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Like having levers for controlling something and knowing what those levers are. For example: going into a car and knowing to push on the gas and breaks, and turn the steering wheel.
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If you don’t use these controls you can’t go anywhere, including where you want to go. If you do, then you can decide what to do and go there.
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