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Daynger
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  #2763742 20-Aug-2021 13:17
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Auckland is Bruce, Welington is Carl.

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OpIbiFmY60




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  #2763745 20-Aug-2021 13:27
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Ministry of Health will provide a press release at 1pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.....tumbleweeds





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  #2763801 20-Aug-2021 13:32
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JPNZ:

 

Ministry of Health will provide a press release at 1pm

 

...

 

 

Except it is now 1:32 pm and still no update.  Perhaps they should start saying "sometime after 1pm) ...




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  #2763804 20-Aug-2021 13:34
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644 new cases in NSW, 4 deaths.

 

470 in hospital, 80 in ICU, 27 on ventilators.

 

Even as case numbers are relatively steady for a few days, the number of patients in ICU grows. 

 

I guess the total number hospitalised is probably tracking the ~10% hospitalisation rate given that many will have been discharged, and severe sickness requiring hospitalisation takes a while from time initial symptoms set in.

 

Lockdown has been extended to the end of September.


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  #2763809 20-Aug-2021 13:37
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There are 11 new cases of Covid-19 in the New Zealand community to confirm today. This brings the total number of cases associated with the current Auckland community outbreak to 31. three of the eleven are in Wellington and are returnees from Auckland over the weekend.





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  #2763813 20-Aug-2021 13:42
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And this is the reason if you know of anyone who is flouting and still visiting mates etc. To slap them. Hard

 

 

  • One case is in a family bubble with a case reported yesterday
  • One case is in a family bubble with a case reported on Wednesday
  • One case is in a family bubble with a case also reported on Wednesday
  • Two of the cases we are reporting today are also in a family bubble together.

More proof it will hit your family members this round. Not just a 'maybe' bullet dodge.


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  #2763817 20-Aug-2021 13:45
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MuzaNZ:

 

Just in case anyone finds it useful,

 

I've created a website to make it easier to search through the recent locations of interest:

 

https://covidlocations.nz/

 

 

 

 

Nice work! Too bad MoH can't achieve the same thing...





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  #2763824 20-Aug-2021 13:52
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Zeon:

MuzaNZ:


Just in case anyone finds it useful,


I've created a website to make it easier to search through the recent locations of interest:


https://covidlocations.nz/



 


Nice work! Too bad MoH can't achieve the same thing...



It will take a million dollars and 6 months

Anyway moh press release says patients diverted from North shore ED as precaution. That's not the 1pm update is it

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  #2763833 20-Aug-2021 14:01
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Yes.


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  #2763842 20-Aug-2021 14:14
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p>Nice work! Too bad MoH can't achieve the same thing...





It will take a million dollars and 6 months



True, but at least we would know it was built and tested properly (hopefully? Right!. Considering people are going to be making decisions about whether to get tested, go back to work , or not, based on the poster's web site, what assurance do we have that it will be updated, correct, with no missing locations?

Kudos to the poster's web site skills but there's a bigger issue of trust and responsibility.




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  #2763843 20-Aug-2021 14:15
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As well as Sydney's lockdown being extended until the end of September, they're introducing a curfew:

 

From midnight on Monday, August 23, people in Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta, Penrith and Strathfield must stay home between 9:00pm and 5:00am.

 

(For those not familiar with Sydney, that's a hell of a lot of people under curfew.  Paramatta is roughly the population centre despite being about 25km west of the CBD)

 

It will also be mandatory for everyone to wear a mask while outside their home in NSW from midnight on Monday, unless they are exercising.

 

 


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  #2763845 20-Aug-2021 14:20
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Vaccinated PCR vs Unvaccinated PCR....  Its not all about 'viral load'.

 

To test for live virus you have to grow plaques in a BSL lab (You are growing live virus), its expensive, difficult, so not done much.
Even in research as it burns limited funding, and few suitable BSL labs, its rare. 

 

Thus we have nucleic acid PCR tests that test for bits of the virus, that can be done quickly.
Literally bits of virus, viral RNA , or complete viable virus, we don't know how much of each.
From timing of symptoms and following tests we can see if its early, so infectious period or late so when immune system is dealing to it.

 

We already have some data from Singapore showing that while peak of PCR is same, it drops off faster in vaccinated even with Delta.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v1

 

So even if we say its as infectious, that peak, that infectious period is shorter in vaccinated.
However the suspicion is a portion of this peak must be fragments, RNA and unviable stuff.
The immune system is in vaccinated is already dealing to the virus many days before a naive immune system does anything.

 

Somewhere someone is digging into vaccinated transmission, but by the time they get Alpha study out everyone is shouting about Delta.
In 3 months we could be shouting about Beta that's doing well against Delta in Brazil.
These studies take time.


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  #2763847 20-Aug-2021 14:20
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what are the chances we end up like NSW. we may be in lockdown but our MIQ is still operating (MIQ = leaky) ...

 

fingers crossed ...


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  #2763850 20-Aug-2021 14:29
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Just popped down to my local GP and got a covid test, in and out in 10 minutes.

 

I have symptoms consistent with a cold, but did a attend a large public gathering in Mt Roskill last weekend, so better safe than sorry.





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