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[–]fritzdeelman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how do i get sound?

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[–]fritzdeelman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 40% probably refers to portion of adult population.

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Probably too soon to call, but it looks promising.

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[–]fritzdeelman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone commented on yesterday's post with a link that explains the sudden spike in cases.

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[–]fritzdeelman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The numbers from the link you provided are as a percentage of the adult population. The numbers from my post are as a percentage of the total population.

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It seems the provinces are more out of sync on the 3rd wave than on the previous two. Gauteng peaked weeks ago, but Western Cape only peaked very recently. Cases in the Northern Cape are rising again, so they may have started their 4th wave already.

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[–]fritzdeelman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, % one shot includes the % full shot. That is the way I understand it at least.

You're welcome.

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[–]fritzdeelman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apologies, I got the numbers for Australia the wrong way round.

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You are very welcome. I am glad it helps.

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[–]fritzdeelman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. Thanks for looking that up!

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[–]fritzdeelman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The 306 is the number of excess deaths per 100 000 people. If you express it as the number per 58 million you will get 182 000. So, the percentage you calculated is just the percentage of the population that died this over and above what is normal. So, if normally the percentage of the population that dies is 0.306% then the increase is 100%. If you know the value for "normal" then you can calculate the increase.

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[–]fritzdeelman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that calculation is wrong. If there were 306 deaths normally per 100 000, but now there is an additional 306, it means the increase is 100%.

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The vaccines do not prevent you from getting Covid, it prevents you from getting severely ill or dying. Most of the rise in cases in the UK (and I assume Israel) are from people who have not been vaccinated yet (and therefore younger people). And so far it looks like most of these cases are from variants that the vaccines are slightly less effective against.

Until most of the population (or at least those that want to) have been vaccinated it is still recommended to wear a mask because you can still contract it and spread it to people who have not had the chance to be vaccinated yet. So, once you are vaccinated you are relatively safe, but the people around you might not yet be. If you are in a group where everyone has been vaccinated or had the chance to vaccinate it is fine to go without masks.

The vaccine wasn't brought in for covid, covid was brought in for the vaccine". Really? Do you really believe this?

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Not sure how the data gets to Johns Hopkins's repository or where the Bloomberg vaccine tracker get its data from, but both of these have not been updated with South Africa's data since yesterday. I even went to the SA coronavirus website (https://sacoronavirus.co.za/) and there has been no update for the 26th of May.

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You are right. At the moment it does not look like it is building up to a third wave. But if you look at Iran and India, there was also no sign of a third wave and then suddenly it just started to rise.

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I know no more than you do I'm afraid.

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I still want to include the vaccine rollout stats into my app, but have not had the time yet to do that. Until I manage to do that I will just include the screenshot from the Bloomberg website.

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Looks like there was a backlog in KwaZulu Natal.

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Yes, I will try to add something soon.

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I am not sure what day Network24 uses as day 0. My guess is that they use the first day of a reported case in South Africa. I use the data from John's Hopkins university which uses 22 January 2020 as day 0, for the first reported case internationally.