COVID-19 >>"True and Helpful" Covid Information Thread

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As on now, you DO need test no matter how long you stay .. even to pick up shipment sent to Blaine on border (for example)  .. which I used to do often as well as meet daughter for lunch 15 miles from border



Govt is considering easing this .. they have to to get any cross-border action  .. border lanes are still virtually empty both ways ... like literally drive up to border patrol with no one in front of you

[Anonymous]

As on now, you DO need test no matter how long you stay .. even to pick up shipment sent to Blaine on border (for example)  .. which I used to do often as well as meet daughter for lunch 15 miles from border



Govt is considering easing this .. they have to to get any cross-border action  .. border lanes are still virtually empty both ways ... like literally drive up to border patrol with no one in front of you

They are empty? ac_wot

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Here's live cameras & it's a weekend ... https://www.th.gov.bc.ca/ATIS/index.htm">https://www.th.gov.bc.ca/ATIS/index.htm

[Anonymous]

Here's live cameras & it's a weekend ... https://www.th.gov.bc.ca/ATIS/index.htm">https://www.th.gov.bc.ca/ATIS/index.htm

I thought there would be lines to the Yukon.

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Distance travelers make up a very small portion of overall



Only busy time was until 10 am the day they opened - was snowbirds lined up  going down for winter



By 10 am, a small trickle  ......... & that will not change until Canada removes "within 3 days" test requirement - US imposes no test

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Stats for relevant places for comparison updated to yesterday over past 10 weeks (so fairly current & not since start)



First column is Deaths / Case as a % - Right column is same but expressed  as "1 in how many cases who died"



(Does not take into consideration whether vaccinated or not which based on https://thebluecashew.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14059&start=460">https://thebluecashew.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14059&start=460 would be a drastic comparison)



U K ..    0.38% .    264

U S ..    1.41% ..    71

CA ..    0.97% ..    103

BC ..     0.93% ..    107

AB ..    0.98% ..    102

ON ..    0.93% ..    107

FL ...    2.20% ...    46

TX ...    1.89% ...    53

IS ...    0.28% ..    354



Still UK & Israel leading the way by a lot - US & especially some states doing very poorly



In the early days FL & TX were leaders with quite low death / case rates .... that started to change about 6 months ago & they both are quite high now in "overall" death rate and climbing higher "overall" most every week now

[Odinson]

The vaccine gives you boobs.



And not even good looking ones.

[Anonymous]

Cases are rising again in the US.

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Cases are rising again in the US.

In places it is . Overall is down 55,000 cases last week (12%)

[Anonymous]

Cases are rising again in the US.

In places it is . Overall is down 55,000 cases last week (12%)

I did not know that.

[Anonymous]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that it has no record of people who are naturally immune transmitting the virus that causes COVID-19.

[Anonymous]

Alberta had 286 new cases of COVID-19 from about 6.6K tests today..



Sunday there were 353 new cases from about 7.1K tests..



On Saturday, 429 new cases were ID'd from about 8K tests.

[Anonymous]

Central and Eastern Europe are now on fire from the latest wave of the virus, which some researchers suspect is no longer Delta. Putting the variant aside, every single European country has gotten at least one wave of the virus — to varying degrees of severity — since Delta proliferated in June. The one exception is Sweden. The Scandinavian country now has the second lowest case rate in all of Europe, but more importantly, unlike Spain, which is the lowest, the Swedes never experienced a single Delta wave (as Spain did in July).



It is self-evident that Sweden's natural immunity was able to preclude any major Delta wave — the only country in Europe to accomplish this feat. Although Sweden currently has a high vaccination rate — slightly higher than that of the U.S. — the Swedish government didn't start its vaccination drive until much later than the U.S., U.K., and other countries that have had two Delta waves.

[Anonymous]

Central and Eastern Europe are now on fire from the latest wave of the virus, which some researchers suspect is no longer Delta. Putting the variant aside, every single European country has gotten at least one wave of the virus — to varying degrees of severity — since Delta proliferated in June. The one exception is Sweden. The Scandinavian country now has the second lowest case rate in all of Europe, but more importantly, unlike Spain, which is the lowest, the Swedes never experienced a single Delta wave (as Spain did in July).



It is self-evident that Sweden's natural immunity was able to preclude any major Delta wave — the only country in Europe to accomplish this feat. Although Sweden currently has a high vaccination rate — slightly higher than that of the U.S. — the Swedish government didn't start its vaccination drive until much later than the U.S., U.K., and other countries that have had two Delta waves.

Sweden hasn't had a Delta wave?

 ac_wot

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Sweden, like Florida is playing with us. They go long periods of time with no reports as it suits them



Both report same numbers for a few days (when they report at all)  .. then take a big jump every few days



I'm aware of no other countries, provinces  or states that play those games