Coronavirus, Americas Update
August 6, 2020
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3,895
1,422
5.09%
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as posted by the channelBolivia, Population, 11.5m, Cases, 85, 141
Deaths 3, 385
30 official languages
Widespread belief in traditional medicine
Health care spending
$450 per year per person
Massive community spread in cities
DW News
Patients died after being turned away from medical centres
Hospitals full in most cities
Funeral parlours out of coffins
Family members not allowed to enter cemeteries
Police picking up 70 bodies per day from the streets
85% infected with COVID-19
Worst areas
Santa Cruz, La Pas, Cochabamba
Dying in cars and public transport looking for medical aid
Dying at home, unable to access hospital care
Turned away from a chain of hospitals
Can pay to get into a hospital
Police issuing death certificates
Total collapse of health care, testing and recording
Therefore
Simple hypoxia
Virus
Sepsis
Shock and circulatory failure
Inflammatory syndromes
Bacterial infection
Dehydration and renal failure
La Paz
Police collected 140 bodies from the streets in 5 days
Chlorine dioxide being produced and sold
Brazil
Cases, + 57,152 = 2, 859, 073
Deaths, + 1,437 = 97,256
Chief Aritana Yawalapiti
Half of Brazil’s 300 indigenous tribes have confirmed infections
Many indigenous areas effected
Xingu National Park
Cases, 22,353
Deaths, 631
United States
Cases, 4, 823, 892
Deaths, 158, 256
Virginia
COVIDWISE
Bluetooth signals keep anonymous list of close encounters
Contacts then notified without revealing identity
Ralph Northam
No one is tracking you
None of your personal information is saved
Florida
Testing resumes after storm
11% positivity rate
Cases, + 5,409 = 502,739
Deaths, + 225
Hospitalisations, down for past 2 weeks, - 175 = 7,622
Marlins Park, 15 minute test results
Georgia
13% positivity rate
Pupils packed in hallways
One class quarantined for 2 weeks
Chicago
Testing, 5% positivity rate
School opening online only
New York
Positivity rate, 1%
Check stations
Travellers from 34 states must self-isolate for 14 days
Dr Anthony Fauci
Tens of millions of doses in the early part of next year
A billion by the end of 2021
Manufacturing in place before science
The federal government has put more than one egg in the basket
Canada
Total tested = 4, 272, 606
Positives = 111, 611
Negatives = 4, 159, 201
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