1/12 - “Sanna Marin, Finland’s prime minister [the country with the lowest number of cases in the EU] said that the public across Europe could blame governments for closing economies and hurting their wages and employment.” ft.com/content/aa8319…
2/12 - “This will cause protests more and more, and it’s a breeding ground for populist movements across Europe. When you’re closing an economy and people’s workplaces, it will cause political instability.”
3/12 - “Populists come with easy answers to difficult problems, but their solutions are rarely the right ones,” Finland’s PM Sanna Marin added.
4/12 - “Ms Marin called for Europe to agree a common strategy, a significant move as Finland is the only EU country not to be hit by a strong second wave of Covid-19 this autumn. It has an average of about 40 daily cases/1Mpop, Austria has 20 x, the Czechia 15x, and Sweden 10x.”
5/12 - “Ms Marin said Finland’s success was down to a robust test and trace regime, half the population using its #COVID19 tracking app, and targeted restrictions, which include quarantine for almost all travellers from Europe.”
6/12 - “This is not a competition. We all need to be successful to be safe . . . In Finland, the situation is more stable, but still we are also more at risk if the virus spreads in other countries,” Finland’s PM Sanna Marin added.”
7/12- “I think that the situation might get even worse and people might get even more tired. The situation has got worse in the autumn. People often want to find someone to blame and often the easiest ones to blame are the governments and politicians,” Finland’s PM S. Marin said”
8/12 - “It could get worse very fast if we aren’t aware of the seriousness of the situation and we don’t constantly take care of our actions, Finland’s PM Sanna Marin said.”
9/12 - “In contrast to some other countries, contact tracing has been very effective [in] the summer and fall. [Finland] had been able to identify the source of infection in 80% of cases in many regions, while many “secondary cases” occurred in people already in quarantine.”
10/12 -“Finland’s economy has been one of the least affected by #COVID19 this year, and Ms Marin said she saw no distinction between protecting health and protecting the economy. We need to get the virus under control. This is the main thing we need to decide: to stop the virus.”
11/12 - “Testing is key — we need to test people more. This is the key to maintaining the situation under control. We don’t want to stop people from travelling, we want to stop the virus from spreading,” Ms Sanna Marin added.
12/12 - “Finland’s PM Sanna Marin argued that “EU countries should make a joint conscious decision that we want to get the virus under control. I haven’t seen the decision made together that we want to suppress the virus as much as possible.”
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2/21. Ireland is slowing in landing towards its #COVID19 safety zone (R-eff=0.95), plateauing at medium level, with medium levels of mortality, for 7 more days.
Lockdown from Oct 21, for 6 weeks.
3/21. France is landing towards its #COVID19 safety zone (R-eff=0.75), could be < 9,400 cases/day by next week-end, however with still increasing alarming levels of mortality, foreseen for the 7 upcoming days
Lockdown from Oct 29,for 1 month.
1/5 - Canada - Nov 21 to 27: Canada is not foreseen to take over control of its #COVID19 epidemic activity, with high levels of mortality. 4 Provinces in the thread
Forecasting for 13 Provinces/Territories on: renkulab.shinyapps.io/COVID-19-Epide…
2/5 - British Columbia is experiencing a rise in its #COVID19 epidemic activity (R-eff=1.18), at high levels, with increasing medium levels of mortality, for 7 more days.
3/5 - Saskatchewan is experiencing a rise in its #COVID19 epidemic activity (R-eff=1.16), at high levels, with low levels of mortality, for 7 more days.
1/10 - USA. Nov 21 to 27- All states experience rise or surge in #COVID19. Very high levels of activity, with high to very high (by mid week) levels of mortality, for 7 more days.
8 states detailed in thread. renkulab.shinyapps.io/COVID-19-Epide…
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2/10 - Massachusetts has not yet taken over control of its #COVID19 second wave (R-eff=1.08), with activity still increasing at high levels, with high to very high (by mid-week) levels of mortality, as foreseen in the 7 upcoming days.
3/10 - Vermont which performed well in summertime, will be experiencing a rapid and worrying surge in its #COVID19 epidemic activity (R-eff=1.42), at high level, with medium levels of mortality, for 7 more days.
1/7 - “The World Health Organization has advised against prescribing the drug remdesivir to #COVID19 patients in hospital, casting further doubt on the effectiveness of the only antiviral approved to treat the disease.“ ft.com/content/cc8d2f…
2/7 - “An expert WHO panel said #Remdesivir, produced by Gilead, was “not suggested for patients admitted to hospital with #COVID19, regardless of how severely ill they are, because there is currently no evidence that it improves survival or the need for ventilation.”
3/7 - “Remdesivir was last month approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration and it was one of the cocktail of drugs given to President Donald Trump when he contracted #COVID19.”
2/21. Ireland is slowing in landing towards its #COVID19 safety zone (R-eff=0.96), plateauing at medium level, with medium levels of mortality, for 7 more days.
Lockdown from Oct 21, for 6 weeks.
3/21. The Netherlands is slowly landing towards its #COVID19 safety zone (R-eff=0.90), still at high level of activity, with high levels of mortality.
Partial lockdown from Nov 03 up to 2 weeks.
2/9 - Valais has taken over control (R-eff=0.51) of its #COVID19 second wave in terms of new cases, foreseen to be landing to its safety zone by Sunday Nov 22, still experiencing very alarming but decreasing levels of mortality, for 7 more days.
3/9 - Geneva has taken over control (R-eff=0.69) of its #COVID19 second wave, rapidly decreasing from high to medium levels of activity, and increasing with very alarming levels of mortality, for 7 more days.