Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (nCoV-2019)

[W. K. Lis]

Ontario is reporting 1,478 new cases Thursday — up from 1,210 this day last week. The 7-day avg. is at 1,427 cases daily, or 69 weekly per 100,000. 21 new deaths reported today, with 47,576 completed tests and the labs reporting 3.9% positivity. Backlog sits at 52,000.

https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/con...resource/455fd63b-603d-4608-8216-7d8647f43350

From link.

The case count of 572 in Peel Region reported on Thursday is the highest daily number of infections in that area.

Toronto reported 356 new cases on Thursday, and York Region, the other COVID-19 hot spot, reported 111 new cases.

Several other regions in Ontario reported COVID-19 cases numbers in the double digits. Waterloo reported 64 cases, Hamilton reported 59 cases, Durham Region reported 47 cases, Windsor-Essex reported 42 cases, Halton reported 36 cases and Ottawa reported 24 cases,

Most of the new cases of COVID-19 reported on Thursday involve people under the age of 80.

 

[Rimsky44]

Fundraiser for Adamson Barbecue raises more than $28k in less than 24 hours

Polarizing restaurant owner Adam Skelly was arrested by police today after attempting to open his restaurant in defiance of municipal and provincial …

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I guess there are enough people to keep encouraging his behaviour, which will ensure COVID keeps spreading until vaccine readily available to everyone.

 

[tiffer24]

#BREAKING: Ontario's COVID-19 caseload will strain hospitals and threaten scheduled surgeries in December no matter what, new provincial modelling suggests.

Even with slower case growth than what has been observed in recent weeks, Ontario government epidemiologists said Thursday the ICU bed occupancy due to COVID-19 will hit 200 somewhere in the first week of December, and could near 300 in the worst case scenario by the end of that month.

ICU bed occupancy of more than 150 in Ontario challenges the healthcare system’s ability to keep with scheduled surgeries and makes it difficult to complete additional surgeries already delayed once during the first wave of the pandemic.

https://www.cp24.com/news/covid-19-...cember-no-matter-what-happens-model-1.5205222

 

[lenaitch]

Fundraiser for Adamson Barbecue raises more than $28k in less than 24 hours

Polarizing restaurant owner Adam Skelly was arrested by police today after attempting to open his restaurant in defiance of municipal and provincial …

www.blogto.com

I guess there are enough people to keep encouraging his behaviour, which will ensure COVID keeps spreading until vaccine readily available to everyone.

Except for anti-vaxxers of course.
I'm losing track now. Is COVID a hoax perpetrated by the left? Started by the commies/world government intelligencia? Absolutely nothing to worry about and all overblown by the media?
I'm buying stocks in Alcan.

 

[tayser]

Victoria's just hit the WHO definition of elimination of community spread (28 days / 2 incubation cycles of no unlinked/mystery cases). But also, we've just had 28 days of zero cases regardless.

No rush back to the office until virus in wastewater mystery is solved, experts say

It may be months before Melburnians return to the office en masse, with epidemiologists cautioning against any large-scale return until the mystery of virus fragments in wastewater is solved.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Full Metal Junkie]

Fundraiser for Adamson Barbecue raises more than $28k in less than 24 hours

Polarizing restaurant owner Adam Skelly was arrested by police today after attempting to open his restaurant in defiance of municipal and provincial …

www.blogto.com

I guess there are enough people to keep encouraging his behaviour, which will ensure COVID keeps spreading until vaccine readily available to everyone.

The police presence outside that restaurant is unreal. It seems like they parked every single vehicle from their carpark on that street.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1332077154880905220

 

[Jonny5]

I'm buying stocks in Alcan.

It's owned by Rio Tinto now, but their stock is at a nine year high so you might have already missed the boat!

 

[Northern Light]

The police presence outside that restaurant is unreal. It seems like they parked every single vehicle from their carpark on that street.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1332077154880905220

If I counted correctly, that was at least 22 police marked vehicles.

That had to be pulled from more than 1 division. Most divisions don't have that many cars available.

 

[tiffer24]

The scene in front of Doug Ford's Etobicoke home right now...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1332074668992376833

 

[Full Metal Junkie]

If I counted correctly, that was at least 22 police marked vehicles.

That had to be pulled from more than 1 division. Most divisions don't have that many cars available.

I lost count after 30. My video doesn't show the full extent. They have cars blocking the road by Costco, more cruisers constantly circling the block. One of the Court busses (for multiple prisoner transport) left the area before I started filming.

 

[Northern Light]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1332081559529271296

 

[W. K. Lis]

'We took our eye off the ball': How Canada lost its vaccine production capacity

From link.

In the race to develop and produce a COVID-19 vaccine, Canada is on the sidelines despite its once notable status as a global source for life-saving injections.

Canada lost that standing long ago, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explained this week, which means even if the country had developed its own novel coronavirus vaccine, there would be no means to produce it on the scale required.

“We used to have [production capacity] decades ago but we no longer have it,” Trudeau said Tuesday in Ottawa.

How did it get to this point? Canadian administrations simply took their “eye off the ball,” said Earl Brown, an infectious disease expert and a former member of the H1N1 vaccine task group in Canada. After that pandemic, a review found that vaccine production capacity was “right at the top” of the list of problems, he said. It wasn’t always that way.

“We had great vaccine producers in Canada -- world leaders essentially -- 50 years ago,” he told CTV’s Your Morning on Wednesday. There was Connaught Laboratories in Toronto, which was known for producing insulin to treat diabetes and inoculants for diphtheria and polio, and Institut Armand Frappier in Montreal that produced vaccines, including one for tuberculosis, he noted.

“The problem was they had a poor business model,” said Brown. “These were vaccine companies spun off from universities, so there was indirect funding and they had a model of not making so much profit.”

So they were eventually sold, Montreal's Frappier lab to British multinational GlaxoSmithKline and Connaught, through a series of mergers, to French multinational Sanofi Pasteur after Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative government's program of privatization. The labs now have a “tighter production line and not so much capacity,” said Brown.

The inability to mount a domestic production campaign means that the Canadian government must rely on purchase agreements with top U.S. and European pharmaceutical brands, including Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, to produce and provide the shots to Canadians once the vaccines are approved by Health Canada. In the absence of a domestic candidate, Ottawa has ordered as many as 414 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidates from seven different companies.

'A MAJOR GLITCH'

There are some promising vaccine candidates in development across Canada, including Quebec’s Medicago and Saskatchewan’s VIDO-InterVac, but the companies lack the means to produce them here. What would that mean for rollout should those candidates be successful?

“That’s a major glitch,” said Brown. “You’re going to have to get a partner, somebody who’s got the ability to do that and then you have to get them onside, tuned up, send them your vaccine, get it produced and bottled. Not the best way to do it.”

For those Canadian companies to mount production campaigns on their own will take time -- and a lot of it, they have said. VIDO-InterVac said it has plans to build a facility in one year, but that it would take another still to get it in operating shape. “That’s not the time frame you like,” said Brown.

In the meantime, Canadians will have to rely on speedier countries with approved COVID-19 vaccines to provide doses, but Canadians won't be prioritized ahead of their own people. “Countries like the United States, Germany and the U.K. do have domestic pharmaceutical facilities, which is why they’re obviously going to prioritize helping their citizens first,” Trudeau said on Tuesday in Ottawa.

To help Canadians first, the federal government should set up a Crown corporation to produce vaccines, suggests Joel Lexchin, a professor emeritus with York University’s School of Health Policy and Management.

“It’s one thing if we give up the ability to domestically make something like laundry detergent. We can all live without laundry detergent. But when it comes to medications and vaccines, those are critical for the health of Canadians and we should be able to make them ourselves,” he told CTV National News. “Not only will the ability to domestically produce them ensure that Canadians get the care that they need, but we can also fulfill our human rights obligations by exporting them at low cost to low- and middle-income countries.”

'GROSS INCOMPETENCE'

The reliance on other countries and private companies is upsetting critics of Trudeau, who said Tuesday that his administration has begun funding domestic vaccine production capacity because “we never want to be caught short again.”

“This is gross incompetence that’s going to cost Canadians their lives and their jobs,” said Conservative health critic Michelle Rempel Garner on Tuesday from Parliament Hill.

But criticism toward one government’s inaction may often easily be directed at another with hindsight, countered Brown on Your Morning.

“When you have the problem, you look back and say ‘We should have done something, shouldn’t we?’” he said.

 

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What a pathetic, spoiled crybaby.

 

[gabe]

There's a major catastrophe on the way in most of the U.S.

Houston doctor to CNN: ‘Darkest days in modern American medical history’ may be coming with COVID-19

A doctor working at a Houston hospital warned Wednesday that the current wave of the coronavirus pandemic could mean the “darkest days in modern American medical history.”During a panel interview o…

thehill.com

US air travel sets a pandemic-era record despite calls to stay home for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving week air travel has remained strong enough to set a pandemic-era record despite urging from federal health officials for Americans to spend the holiday at home.

www.cnn.com

 

[Johnny Au]

There's a major catastrophe on the way in most of the U.S.

Houston doctor to CNN: ‘Darkest days in modern American medical history’ may be coming with COVID-19

A doctor working at a Houston hospital warned Wednesday that the current wave of the coronavirus pandemic could mean the “darkest days in modern American medical history.”During a panel interview o…

thehill.com

US air travel sets a pandemic-era record despite calls to stay home for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving week air travel has remained strong enough to set a pandemic-era record despite urging from federal health officials for Americans to spend the holiday at home.

www.cnn.com

The alt-right: Don't trust CNN. COVID-19 is perpetuated by left-wing media as an excuse to justify draconian measures, especially given that the CCP invented COVID-19 to keep its population in check. Jesus has the ability to cure COVID-19. Since the stupidest person in the world, James Randi, died, there's less brainwashing from those like him. Laying on of hands works! It says so in the Good Book.

Anyone with a brain: Health measures are effective. Nobody likes lockdowns, but they work well. Laying on of hands are placebos at best. James Randi taught us about the importance of critical thinking, given that he thoroughly debunked every single supernatural claim, including laying on of hands.