Hong Kong announced last week that gyms, swimming pools, and hair salons were to be closed until 23 December to slow the rising cases. Since January, when the COVID War broke out in Wuhan, Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million people, has registered a grand total of 118 deaths or 0.0015 percent of the...
Tag: dec 15 2020
MEDICAL STUDIES: SCHOOLS & DAY CARE NOT SPREADERS
Two recent studies, one from the U.K. in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet and the other an Icelandic study whose excerpts have recently appeared in National Geographic, confirm that schools, particularly elementary schools along with daycare centers, have much lower levels of virus infection than the general public. The Lancet study, published on 8...
LOCKDOWN EFFECT: “KIDS HAVE HIT A WALL”
Last month, an ABC News affiliate in San Francisco interviewed Dr. Christine Garcia, Director of the city’s Edgewood Center for Children and Families. Dr. Garcia is in charge of 28 mental health programs for young people, and she is highly concerned about severe teenage mental health issues from loneliness and isolation caused by the extended...
COVID LOCKDOWN: MENTAL ILLNESS BLUES
On 5 May, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published an opinion piece authored by four U.K. experts in public mental health that proved very prescient: “As many countries around the world are facing the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in their populations, discussions focus on flattening the curve to mitigate the impact on physically vulnerable...
ITALIANS: BREAK COVID RULES, GO TO JAIL
Go out, have fun, visit friends and relatives. Eat, drink, and be merry. And if you do, you’ll go to jail and pay for it. The Italian newspaper Il Giornale reported that anyone who is convicted of lying to public officials about their coronavirus status or nabbed outside during quarantine while inside a “red zone”...
BREAK COVID RULES, PAY THE PRICE
As reported previously in the Trends Journal, the province of Victoria, Australia has imposed some of the longest and strictest quarantines in the world despite the minute amount of deaths from the virus (820 deaths in a population of nearly 6.4 million or 0.013 percent). In addition to destroying businesses and causing suffering from isolation,...
FDA APPROVES U.S. VACCINE
Last Friday, the FDA officially authorized “emergency use” of the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer. Of the 21 members of the FDA advisory committee, there were four who did not vote in favor. One of those was Dr. A. Oveta Fuller, an associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School....
NYC COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE SUFFERS
Real estate companies in New York City are dealing with the harsh realities that office workers in the City could take on a new look after the virus outbreak and subsequent lockdowns and social-distancing requirements. Some are considering turning more than one million square feet of workspace in the City into housing units, The New York...