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Postby redmanjp » April 3rd, 2021, 2:38 pm

i wonder if 1 a dem variant get in here and not contained which is why we getting this surge

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Postby redmanjp » April 3rd, 2021, 2:53 pm

and, how many in trinidad? zero? tobago sort out their appointment system while my mom, aunt and many others can't get through to no hotline

https://newsday.co.tt/2021/04/03/500-register-for-covid19-vaccines-in-tobago/

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Postby sMASH » April 3rd, 2021, 3:42 pm

covid will not disappear, and u shouldnt work towards that, cause the route to that is with eternal lock down. new zealand was only able to do that cause they sponsor every body. we didnt and couldnt. so u have to find a balance between productivity, recreation and new infections.

alwaris did the right thing, showed his overly restrictive laws are unnecessary.
maintain social distancing, sanitizing, masks inside public spaces and public transport. but let people move in their private cars like normal, let businesses open past 10, let foreign citizens come to home isolation instead of for profit facilities(but take the test for confirmation), and no masks in non built up places.

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Postby hover11 » April 3rd, 2021, 4:29 pm

Calm before the storm?
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Postby aaron17 » April 3rd, 2021, 4:35 pm

A 'no update' is a calm before the storm.

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Postby K74T » April 3rd, 2021, 5:47 pm

All Holy Week ceremonies, Public Masses, and church activities at the St. Francis RC Church in Belmont have been cancelled until further notice.

The St. Francis of Assisi Parish Office also remains closed as the facility will be deep-cleaned and sanitised.

In a Facebook post, the church confirmed that its response is an effort to protect the health and safety of parishioners after two members of the congregation tested Positive for COVID-19 and are currently under quarantine.

The parish said both individuals are from the same household. One attended Holy Mass on Saturday 13th March at 5pm and the Lenten Retreat on Tuesday 16th March at 6pm. The other was on the church's compound on Saturday 27th March, but was not physically in the Pastoral Centre where Mass and services are held.

The church said contact tracing is ongoing and being conducted by the relevant authorities.

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Postby paid_influencer » April 3rd, 2021, 5:55 pm

redmanjp wrote:and, how many in trinidad? zero? tobago sort out their appointment system while my mom, aunt and many others can't get through to no hotline

https://newsday.co.tt/2021/04/03/500-register-for-covid19-vaccines-in-tobago/


now this is just me talking, but that system seems by design to keep the appointments for the family and friends of the insiders. This going to be like getting passport appointments where you either pull a string or call around to every RHA (no matter how far) and see if you can GT.

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Postby paid_influencer » April 3rd, 2021, 7:21 pm

American vaccinated 4 million people in a single day day yesterday. They are well on track to having everyone vaccinated within a month or two.


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Postby DMan7 » April 3rd, 2021, 9:49 pm

Only 20 cases looks like it was just a small spike. :o

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Postby j.o.e » April 3rd, 2021, 10:22 pm

DMan7 wrote:Only 20 cases looks like it was just a small spike. :o

Saturday and worse yet a long weekend. I’ll wait until Tuesday report to give an opinion.

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Postby sMASH » April 4th, 2021, 1:04 am

j.o.e wrote:
DMan7 wrote:Only 20 cases looks like it was just a small spike. :o

Saturday and worse yet a long weekend. I’ll wait until Tuesday report to give an opinion.
Hiw long for viral Loading? 7 to 14 days. So hold on till next weekend to see how numbers trending.

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Postby shake d livin wake d dead » April 4th, 2021, 5:10 am

Chaguanas market closed until further notice as one vendor tested +

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Postby Kenjo » April 4th, 2021, 6:14 am

shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Chaguanas market closed until further notice as one vendor tested +

A nice impossible contact tracing and one of the exposures to a ton of older persons going market .

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Postby sMASH » April 4th, 2021, 9:03 am

https://www.sciencealert.com/sunlight-i ... rk-out-why

sciencealert wrote: Sunlight Inactivates Coronavirus 8 Times Faster Than Predicted. We Need to Know Why
TESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS
2 APRIL 2021

A team of scientists is calling for greater research into how sunlight inactivates SARS-CoV-2 after realizing there's a glaring discrepancy between the most recent theory and experimental results.

UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz and colleagues noticed the virus was inactivated as much as eight times faster in experiments than the most recent theoretical model predicted.

"The theory assumes that inactivation works by having UVB hit the RNA of the virus, damaging it," explained Luzzatto-Fegiz.

But the discrepancy suggests there's something more going on than that, and figuring out what this is may be helpful for managing the virus.

UV light, or the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, is easily absorbed by certain nucleic acid bases in DNA and RNA, which can cause them to bond in ways that are hard to fix.

But not all UV light is the same. Longer UV waves, called UVA, don't have quite enough energy to cause problems. It's the mid-range UVB waves in sunlight that are primarily responsible for killing microbes and putting our own cells at risk of Sun damage.

Short-wave UVC radiation has been shown to be effective against viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, even while it's still safely enveloped in human fluids.

But this type of UV doesn't usually come into contact with Earth's surface, thanks to the ozone layer.

"UVC is great for hospitals," said co-author and Oregon State University toxicologist Julie McMurry. "But in other environments – for instance, kitchens or subways – UVC would interact with the particulates to produce harmful ozone."

In July 2020, an experimental study tested the effects of UV light on SARS-CoV-2 in simulated saliva. They recorded the virus was inactivated when exposed to simulated sunlight for between 10-20 minutes.

"Natural sunlight may be effective as a disinfectant for contaminated nonporous materials," Wood and colleagues concluded in the paper.

Luzzatto-Feigiz and team compared those results with a theory about how sunlight achieved this, which was published just a month later, and saw the math didn't add up.

This study found the SARS-CoV-2 virus was three times more sensitive to the UV in sunlight than influenza A, with 90 percent of the coronavirus's particles being inactivated after just half an hour of exposure to midday sunlight in summer.

By comparison, in winter light infectious particles could remain intact for days.

Environmental calculations made by a separate team of researchers concluded the virus's RNA molecules are being photochemically damaged directly by light rays.

This is more powerfully achieved by shorter wavelengths of light, like UVC and UVB. As UVC doesn't reach Earth's surface, they based their environmental light exposure calculations on the medium-wave UVB part of the UV spectrum.

"The experimentally observed inactivation in simulated saliva is over eight times faster than would have been expected from the theory," wrote Luzzatto-Feigiz and colleagues.

"So, scientists don't yet know what's going on," Luzzatto-Fegiz said.

The researchers suspect it's possible that instead of affecting the RNA directly, long-wave UVA may be interacting with molecules in the testing medium (simulated saliva) in a way that hastens the inactivation of the virus.

Something similar is seen in wastewater treatment – where UVA reacts with other substances to create molecules that damage viruses.

If UVA can be harnessed to combat SARS-CoV-2, cheap and energy-efficient wavelength-specific light sources might be useful in augmenting air filtration systems at relatively low risk for human health.

"Our analysis points to the need for additional experiments to separately test the effects of specific light wavelengths and medium composition," Luzzatto-Fegiz concludes.

With the ability of this virus to remain suspended in the air for extended periods of time, the safest means to avoid it in countries where it's running rampant is still social distancing and wearing masks where distancing isn't possible. But it's nice to know that sunlight may be helping us out during the warmer months.

Their analysis was published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.


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Postby Dave » April 4th, 2021, 9:41 am

Trump is probably snickering

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Close down all dem church

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Postby redmanjp » April 4th, 2021, 4:44 pm

Kenjo wrote:
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Chaguanas market closed until further notice as one vendor tested +

A nice impossible contact tracing and one of the exposures to a ton of older persons going market .


as contact tracing customers is impossible they should have publicly stated that all customers should quarantine

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Postby hover11 » April 4th, 2021, 4:49 pm

Would the customers have listened though
redmanjp wrote:
Kenjo wrote:
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Chaguanas market closed until further notice as one vendor tested +

A nice impossible contact tracing and one of the exposures to a ton of older persons going market .


as contact tracing customers is impossible they should have publicly stated that all customers should quarantine

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Postby redmanjp » April 4th, 2021, 4:49 pm

j.o.e wrote:
DMan7 wrote:Only 20 cases looks like it was just a small spike. :o

Saturday and worse yet a long weekend. I’ll wait until Tuesday report to give an opinion.


more like thursday, ppl would come out from tuesday for testing which would not be reported before then

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Postby redmanjp » April 4th, 2021, 4:53 pm

tru valu trincity had a +ve case but only sent home primary contacts- so depending on the time frame of infection to primary (close contact with the person then secondary (any other coworkers) it could still be lingering in that outlet.

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Postby redmanjp » April 4th, 2021, 4:58 pm

Dave wrote:Trump is probably snickering


this applies to disinfecting surfaces though, not humans. though the sunlight would produce vit. D on lighter skin. still does not replace masks/distancing etc.

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Postby zoom rader » April 4th, 2021, 5:03 pm

sMASH wrote:https://www.sciencealert.com/sunlight-inactivates-sars-cov-2-a-lot-faster-than-predicted-and-we-need-to-work-out-why

sciencealert wrote: Sunlight Inactivates Coronavirus 8 Times Faster Than Predicted. We Need to Know Why
TESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS
2 APRIL 2021

A team of scientists is calling for greater research into how sunlight inactivates SARS-CoV-2 after realizing there's a glaring discrepancy between the most recent theory and experimental results.

UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz and colleagues noticed the virus was inactivated as much as eight times faster in experiments than the most recent theoretical model predicted.

"The theory assumes that inactivation works by having UVB hit the RNA of the virus, damaging it," explained Luzzatto-Fegiz.

But the discrepancy suggests there's something more going on than that, and figuring out what this is may be helpful for managing the virus.

UV light, or the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, is easily absorbed by certain nucleic acid bases in DNA and RNA, which can cause them to bond in ways that are hard to fix.

But not all UV light is the same. Longer UV waves, called UVA, don't have quite enough energy to cause problems. It's the mid-range UVB waves in sunlight that are primarily responsible for killing microbes and putting our own cells at risk of Sun damage.

Short-wave UVC radiation has been shown to be effective against viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, even while it's still safely enveloped in human fluids.

But this type of UV doesn't usually come into contact with Earth's surface, thanks to the ozone layer.

"UVC is great for hospitals," said co-author and Oregon State University toxicologist Julie McMurry. "But in other environments – for instance, kitchens or subways – UVC would interact with the particulates to produce harmful ozone."

In July 2020, an experimental study tested the effects of UV light on SARS-CoV-2 in simulated saliva. They recorded the virus was inactivated when exposed to simulated sunlight for between 10-20 minutes.

"Natural sunlight may be effective as a disinfectant for contaminated nonporous materials," Wood and colleagues concluded in the paper.

Luzzatto-Feigiz and team compared those results with a theory about how sunlight achieved this, which was published just a month later, and saw the math didn't add up.

This study found the SARS-CoV-2 virus was three times more sensitive to the UV in sunlight than influenza A, with 90 percent of the coronavirus's particles being inactivated after just half an hour of exposure to midday sunlight in summer.

By comparison, in winter light infectious particles could remain intact for days.

Environmental calculations made by a separate team of researchers concluded the virus's RNA molecules are being photochemically damaged directly by light rays.

This is more powerfully achieved by shorter wavelengths of light, like UVC and UVB. As UVC doesn't reach Earth's surface, they based their environmental light exposure calculations on the medium-wave UVB part of the UV spectrum.

"The experimentally observed inactivation in simulated saliva is over eight times faster than would have been expected from the theory," wrote Luzzatto-Feigiz and colleagues.

"So, scientists don't yet know what's going on," Luzzatto-Fegiz said.

The researchers suspect it's possible that instead of affecting the RNA directly, long-wave UVA may be interacting with molecules in the testing medium (simulated saliva) in a way that hastens the inactivation of the virus.

Something similar is seen in wastewater treatment – where UVA reacts with other substances to create molecules that damage viruses.

If UVA can be harnessed to combat SARS-CoV-2, cheap and energy-efficient wavelength-specific light sources might be useful in augmenting air filtration systems at relatively low risk for human health.

"Our analysis points to the need for additional experiments to separately test the effects of specific light wavelengths and medium composition," Luzzatto-Fegiz concludes.

With the ability of this virus to remain suspended in the air for extended periods of time, the safest means to avoid it in countries where it's running rampant is still social distancing and wearing masks where distancing isn't possible. But it's nice to know that sunlight may be helping us out during the warmer months.

Their analysis was published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Dem researchers is UNC

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Postby widdyphuck » April 4th, 2021, 5:04 pm

zoom rader wrote:
sMASH wrote:https://www.sciencealert.com/sunlight-inactivates-sars-cov-2-a-lot-faster-than-predicted-and-we-need-to-work-out-why

sciencealert wrote: Sunlight Inactivates Coronavirus 8 Times Faster Than Predicted. We Need to Know Why
TESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS
2 APRIL 2021

A team of scientists is calling for greater research into how sunlight inactivates SARS-CoV-2 after realizing there's a glaring discrepancy between the most recent theory and experimental results.

UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz and colleagues noticed the virus was inactivated as much as eight times faster in experiments than the most recent theoretical model predicted.

"The theory assumes that inactivation works by having UVB hit the RNA of the virus, damaging it," explained Luzzatto-Fegiz.

But the discrepancy suggests there's something more going on than that, and figuring out what this is may be helpful for managing the virus.

UV light, or the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, is easily absorbed by certain nucleic acid bases in DNA and RNA, which can cause them to bond in ways that are hard to fix.

But not all UV light is the same. Longer UV waves, called UVA, don't have quite enough energy to cause problems. It's the mid-range UVB waves in sunlight that are primarily responsible for killing microbes and putting our own cells at risk of Sun damage.

Short-wave UVC radiation has been shown to be effective against viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, even while it's still safely enveloped in human fluids.

But this type of UV doesn't usually come into contact with Earth's surface, thanks to the ozone layer.

"UVC is great for hospitals," said co-author and Oregon State University toxicologist Julie McMurry. "But in other environments – for instance, kitchens or subways – UVC would interact with the particulates to produce harmful ozone."

In July 2020, an experimental study tested the effects of UV light on SARS-CoV-2 in simulated saliva. They recorded the virus was inactivated when exposed to simulated sunlight for between 10-20 minutes.

"Natural sunlight may be effective as a disinfectant for contaminated nonporous materials," Wood and colleagues concluded in the paper.

Luzzatto-Feigiz and team compared those results with a theory about how sunlight achieved this, which was published just a month later, and saw the math didn't add up.

This study found the SARS-CoV-2 virus was three times more sensitive to the UV in sunlight than influenza A, with 90 percent of the coronavirus's particles being inactivated after just half an hour of exposure to midday sunlight in summer.

By comparison, in winter light infectious particles could remain intact for days.

Environmental calculations made by a separate team of researchers concluded the virus's RNA molecules are being photochemically damaged directly by light rays.

This is more powerfully achieved by shorter wavelengths of light, like UVC and UVB. As UVC doesn't reach Earth's surface, they based their environmental light exposure calculations on the medium-wave UVB part of the UV spectrum.

"The experimentally observed inactivation in simulated saliva is over eight times faster than would have been expected from the theory," wrote Luzzatto-Feigiz and colleagues.

"So, scientists don't yet know what's going on," Luzzatto-Fegiz said.

The researchers suspect it's possible that instead of affecting the RNA directly, long-wave UVA may be interacting with molecules in the testing medium (simulated saliva) in a way that hastens the inactivation of the virus.

Something similar is seen in wastewater treatment – where UVA reacts with other substances to create molecules that damage viruses.

If UVA can be harnessed to combat SARS-CoV-2, cheap and energy-efficient wavelength-specific light sources might be useful in augmenting air filtration systems at relatively low risk for human health.

"Our analysis points to the need for additional experiments to separately test the effects of specific light wavelengths and medium composition," Luzzatto-Fegiz concludes.

With the ability of this virus to remain suspended in the air for extended periods of time, the safest means to avoid it in countries where it's running rampant is still social distancing and wearing masks where distancing isn't possible. But it's nice to know that sunlight may be helping us out during the warmer months.

Their analysis was published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Dem researchers is UNC
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Postby DMan7 » April 4th, 2021, 6:06 pm

zoom rader wrote:
sMASH wrote:https://www.sciencealert.com/sunlight-inactivates-sars-cov-2-a-lot-faster-than-predicted-and-we-need-to-work-out-why

sciencealert wrote: Sunlight Inactivates Coronavirus 8 Times Faster Than Predicted. We Need to Know Why
TESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS
2 APRIL 2021

A team of scientists is calling for greater research into how sunlight inactivates SARS-CoV-2 after realizing there's a glaring discrepancy between the most recent theory and experimental results.

UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz and colleagues noticed the virus was inactivated as much as eight times faster in experiments than the most recent theoretical model predicted.

"The theory assumes that inactivation works by having UVB hit the RNA of the virus, damaging it," explained Luzzatto-Fegiz.

But the discrepancy suggests there's something more going on than that, and figuring out what this is may be helpful for managing the virus.

UV light, or the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, is easily absorbed by certain nucleic acid bases in DNA and RNA, which can cause them to bond in ways that are hard to fix.

But not all UV light is the same. Longer UV waves, called UVA, don't have quite enough energy to cause problems. It's the mid-range UVB waves in sunlight that are primarily responsible for killing microbes and putting our own cells at risk of Sun damage.

Short-wave UVC radiation has been shown to be effective against viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, even while it's still safely enveloped in human fluids.

But this type of UV doesn't usually come into contact with Earth's surface, thanks to the ozone layer.

"UVC is great for hospitals," said co-author and Oregon State University toxicologist Julie McMurry. "But in other environments – for instance, kitchens or subways – UVC would interact with the particulates to produce harmful ozone."

In July 2020, an experimental study tested the effects of UV light on SARS-CoV-2 in simulated saliva. They recorded the virus was inactivated when exposed to simulated sunlight for between 10-20 minutes.

"Natural sunlight may be effective as a disinfectant for contaminated nonporous materials," Wood and colleagues concluded in the paper.

Luzzatto-Feigiz and team compared those results with a theory about how sunlight achieved this, which was published just a month later, and saw the math didn't add up.

This study found the SARS-CoV-2 virus was three times more sensitive to the UV in sunlight than influenza A, with 90 percent of the coronavirus's particles being inactivated after just half an hour of exposure to midday sunlight in summer.

By comparison, in winter light infectious particles could remain intact for days.

Environmental calculations made by a separate team of researchers concluded the virus's RNA molecules are being photochemically damaged directly by light rays.

This is more powerfully achieved by shorter wavelengths of light, like UVC and UVB. As UVC doesn't reach Earth's surface, they based their environmental light exposure calculations on the medium-wave UVB part of the UV spectrum.

"The experimentally observed inactivation in simulated saliva is over eight times faster than would have been expected from the theory," wrote Luzzatto-Feigiz and colleagues.

"So, scientists don't yet know what's going on," Luzzatto-Fegiz said.

The researchers suspect it's possible that instead of affecting the RNA directly, long-wave UVA may be interacting with molecules in the testing medium (simulated saliva) in a way that hastens the inactivation of the virus.

Something similar is seen in wastewater treatment – where UVA reacts with other substances to create molecules that damage viruses.

If UVA can be harnessed to combat SARS-CoV-2, cheap and energy-efficient wavelength-specific light sources might be useful in augmenting air filtration systems at relatively low risk for human health.

"Our analysis points to the need for additional experiments to separately test the effects of specific light wavelengths and medium composition," Luzzatto-Fegiz concludes.

With the ability of this virus to remain suspended in the air for extended periods of time, the safest means to avoid it in countries where it's running rampant is still social distancing and wearing masks where distancing isn't possible. But it's nice to know that sunlight may be helping us out during the warmer months.

Their analysis was published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Dem researchers is UNC


That article was meant for April 1st but it was posted on April 2nd instead.

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Postby adnj » April 4th, 2021, 8:42 pm

Biggest projected bump in Trinidad of the pandemic.

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Postby aaron17 » April 4th, 2021, 8:54 pm

Would the vaccination process relieve the bump?

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Postby MaxPower » April 4th, 2021, 8:55 pm

Well done T&T,

Going rel rel good.

Now i dont want to hear no crying when Master Keith lays the pipe and not mining allyuh again eh.

I want you Trinis feel it.

A wake up call is needed.

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Postby pugboy » April 4th, 2021, 9:11 pm

Who comes up with these projections?

adnj wrote:Biggest projected bump in Trinidad of the pandemic.

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