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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (162132)	9/2/2020 4:42:01 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218341

As a biological weapon, if CoVid was such, and irrespective of whether it is, the effect is weapons-grade, and together w/ weak science, poor judgement, bad calls, and terrible co-conditions, besides hearts and clots, street politics and mass hysteria, certainly creating much chaos all across the planet As winter approaches, what’s next? The end-game is obvious, that the episode shall end. Open questions, damage report and cost estimate.

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (162132)	9/4/2020 11:04:48 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218341

Re <<CoVid>> By read of below appended article, looking like we were in the midst of the heavy Cape Town CoVid mist It just did not seem that bad at ground level, and it was not as if we had no human contact, hanging out, indoors and out, with folks of various backgrounds bloomberg.com Exposure to Covid-19 Reached 40% Among Some Cape Town Residents Monique Vanek4 September 2020, 20:02 GMT+8 Residents wait at a bus stop near Hout Bay, in Cape Town. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg LISTEN TO ARTICLE Sign up here for our daily coronavirus newsletter on what you need to know, and subscribe to our Covid-19 podcast for the latest news and analysis. A seroprevalence study among people who visited public health facilities for antenatal care and routine HIV tests in the Cape Town area found that 40% of respondents had antibodies against the coronavirus. Researchers stressed that the results are preliminary and based on a skewed sample of 2,700 people in South Africa’s Western Cape province who aren’t representative of the overall population. A representative seroprevalence study last month of residents in India’s capital, New Delhi, found that 30% have had the coronavirus. Still, the South African study, the first of its kind, suggests that “especially in poorer communities, a relatively high proportion of people has been exposed to and infected with Covid-19,” said Mary-Ann Davies, director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research at the University of Cape Town. “Cape Town appears to have had a very pervasive Covid-19 epidemic,” she said in a briefing to reporters Thursday. “It’s likely that that high proportion of immunity at least in the short term may have played some role in curtailing the epidemic.” Cape Town was the first South African city to experience a surge in April before the outbreak spread to the eastern and northern provinces. Today, the pressure has eased off considerably and hospitals have started to reintroduce normal clinical services, according to the Western Cape Department of Health. Read more about the outbreak in Cape Town here The serological study was led by Marvin Hsiao, a virologist at the National Health Laboratory Service and the University of Cape Town, in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch and the Western Cape Department of Health. Two representative household surveys -- one nationwide, and one across three provinces -- will be conducted by other institutions later this year. While it’s unlikely that there will be any “explosive outbreaks” in vulnerable communities in the near future, testing criteria should be revised to detect a second wave of infections, Davies said. Proposals include the tracking of Covid-19 home deaths, pre-operation testing of asymptomatic patients and increased testing in prisons, schools and work places, she said. South Africa has more than 633,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, the most on the continent. Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on Twitter Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE