{"id":162849,"date":"2020-06-15T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=162849"},"modified":"2020-12-02T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T10:08:28","slug":"covid-19-quick-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/06\/covid-19-quick-update\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Quick Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>14 Jun 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New York (video)<\/strong>: An undercover nurse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UIDsKdeFOmQ\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes the fatal medical mis\u00admanage\u00adment<\/a> of Covid patients in the notorious Elmhurst hospital in New York City. A must-watch to understand the NYC tragedy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sweden<\/strong>: A series of charts shows how even in no-lockdown Sweden, and despite Sweden\u2019s failure to protect nursing homes, total cumulative mortality <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaraldofW\/status\/1270080210545733632\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remained below<\/a> strong flu seasons of the past 30 years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lockdowns<\/strong>: An Imperial College London study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-52968523\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> the lockdowns saved \u201c3 million lives in Europe\u201d. In reality, they simply compared the unrealistic predictions of their own model to actual developments, as the case of Sweden <a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/06\/coronavirus-deaths-in-sweden-actual-deaths-vs-ferguson-projections-may-8-update.png\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">makes evident<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Face masks<\/strong>: A German study claimed face masks reduced infections, but in fact <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.iza.org\/dp13319.pdf#page=28\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">showed the opposite<\/a>: they made no difference (p. 26\/28). The city of Jena is an \u2018exception\u2019 only because it introduced Germany\u2019s strictest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdr.de\/thueringen\/ost-thueringen\/jena\/corona-jena-seit-einer-woche-keine-neuinfektion-100.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quarantine rules<\/a> at the same time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mass gatherings<\/strong>: Another German study claimed to show the effectiveness of government measures, but in fact <a href=\"https:\/\/advance.sagepub.com\/ndownloader\/files\/22783862\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">showed the very opposite<\/a>: the growth rate fell sharply long before the lockdown, school closings, and <em>even the ban on large gatherings<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contact tracing<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/inside-the-nsas-secret-tool-for-mapping-your-social-network\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inside the NSA\u2019s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Switzerland<\/strong>: 40% of workforce in <a href=\"https:\/\/industriemagazin.at\/a\/kurzarbeit-in-europa-nur-schweiz-hat-hoeheren-anteil-als-oesterreich\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">short-time working<\/a>, the highest value in Europe.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Switzerland<\/strong>: The 26 members of parlia\u00adment that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parlament.ch\/poly\/Abstimmung\/51\/out\/vote_51_20610.pdf\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voted against<\/a> the introduction of a national proximity tracing app.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Our now 30-point summary has been <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19\/\" >updated and expanded<\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/covid-19-hinweis-ii\/\" >German<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-161314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Swiss Policy Research<em>, founded in 2016, is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media. SPR is composed of independent academics that<\/em><em> for personal and professional reasons prefer to protect their identities,<\/em><em> and receives no external funding; t<\/em><em>here are no financial sponsors or backers. <\/em><em>Our articles have been published or shared by numerous independent media outlets and journalists, among them <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/assange-tweet.png\" >Julian Assange<\/a>, and have been translated into more than two dozen languages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/2020\/06\/14\/corona-quick-update\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; swprs.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 Jun 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":161314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2236],"tags":[244,271,1879,1829,1868,530,289,744,401,710,1937,1864,1102,723,304,1447,1956,1880,1957,339,124,1836,75],"class_list":["post-162849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid19-coronavirus","tag-china","tag-community","tag-compassion","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-cuba","tag-economy","tag-empathy","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-lockdown","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health","tag-research","tag-science","tag-science-and-medicine","tag-semen","tag-sharing","tag-sperm","tag-trade","tag-united-nations","tag-who","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}