Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates
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I truly believe that the Merck drug is a game changer.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/merck-says-deal-signed-with-singapore-covid-19-antiviral-pill-2021-10-06/
It actually treats COVID patients with a 50% success rate if done early. Not sure if the patients are already vaccinated.
Once a drug appears that treat people successfully if they catch the disease, I think its the end of the virus. Anti-vaxxers and vaxxers can stop fighting and go back to their lives.
Finally.
PS. Nah... I'm still not going into a cinema... :nunchuk: -
ChiefKiasu\" post_id=\"2041353\" time=\"1633601790\" user_id=\"3:
It depends on the price for the drugs, if the price is so high and lot of people in the development countries cannot afford, then the death rate is still high.
I truly believe that the Merck drug is a game changer.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/merck-says-deal-signed-with-singapore-covid-19-antiviral-pill-2021-10-06/
It actually treats COVID patients with a 50% success rate if done early. Not sure if the patients are already vaccinated.
Once a drug appears that treat people successfully if they catch the disease, I think its the end of the virus. Anti-vaxxers and vaxxers can stop fighting and go back to their lives.
Finally.
PS. Nah... I'm still not going into a cinema... :nunchuk:
Maybe most cinema will be closed down after the pandemic and we just watching Netflix at home. -
lego\" post_id=\"2041352\" time=\"1633601192\" user_id=\"11821:
One suggestion is to rope in the private hospitals to help clear the backlog. If govt is willing to give the same quantum of subsidy to the patients who visit private hospitals due to this delay, I think the backlog can be cleared very fast.
Hospitals will take months to clear backlog amid Covid-19 pandemic: Kenneth Mak
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/hospitals-to-take-months-to-clear-backlog-says-singapores-director-of-medical? -
Liew Nga Wing\" post_id=\"2041370\" time=\"1633606565\" user_id=\"195250:[quote=\"Liew Nga Wing\" post_id=2041370 time=1633606565 user_id=195250]
Like most drugs, USA will pay the most and other countries will benefit from lower prices (to varying degrees). Take the headline with a grain of salt, as it is not an easy calculation to incorporate the cost of \"R&D\" and all of the failed drugs/dry holes that we never hear about. It is often never really clear whether the press articles have done sensible calculations to adjust for that.
It depends on the price for the drugs, if the price is so high and lot of people in the development countries cannot afford, then the death rate is still high.
Maybe most cinema will be closed down after the pandemic and we just watching Netflix at home.[/quote]
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-merck-covid-pill-cost-b1933100.html -
Why is it so difficult to provide a little bit more information on the cases?
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ChiefKiasu\" post_id=\"2041273\" time=\"1633582738\" user_id=\"3:
Today there’s an article in Zaobao where one expert claimed that if not for the high vaccination rate, we would have suffered a monthly death rate of 500 ?!?!
That's exactly what we have been told to expect. Andemic mah.lee_yl\" post_id=\"2041247\" time=\"1633578889\" user_id=\"17023:
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We are in a bipolar situation, most will be ok even if infected but a significant segment of the population will be extremely vulnerable and the challenge is how as a society we can continue taking care of the vulnerable minority.
As for how society can take care of the vulnerable... well
... andemic mah.
I was wondering what if one day we really reach 500 deaths in a month? What is this expert is going to say then?
Anyway, even if we remove all the PCR tests, our death rate is still about 0.2% of the daily new cases. We are likely to reach the 10,000 mark very soon (by the next doubling).
When OYK said endemic living, he mentioned that we should expect 3200 new cases daily (during one of the earlier MTF conferences). Then he increased the figure to 5000. There is no scientific principle to say the daily rate must stop at 5000.
OYK never mentioned what action would be taken when the death rate crosses 500 or even 1000 per month. -
Now confirm, stamp, chop moving towards endemic liao…
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Seems like this was a fairly balanced article about the issues schools/teachers are facing. With today's announcements, hopefully HBL is a thing of the past, and most students won't miss time next year with no QO, LOA, etc. Still not clear to me whether the full syllabus will be back in PSLE next year (seems like there is a \"backlog\" at pretty much every grade level).
BTW, with the outage it looks like Friday's posts were lost -- obviously not a problem. Maybe it's a sign I should quit replying some topics. :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/cancelling-year-end-exams-means-more-time-overcome-disruptions-caused-covid-19-say-teachers-2231066 -
SG_KP1\" post_id=\"2041415\" time=\"1633782440\" user_id=\"188234:
...BTW, with the outage it looks like Friday's posts were lost -- obviously not a problem. Maybe it's a sign I should quit replying some topics. :rotflmao: ...
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Yes, the outage affected pms too, cos some messages I received & read then had disappeared without a trace! (Fortunately, I had a copy offline, cos I'd like to reply to them
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1 guess will have some kind of small brakes here and there coz will have mutations, new surge etc.
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