Virus updates before the long weekend
Quebec’s youngest COVID-19 fatality so far is a 27-year-old woman whose mother is a nursing aide at Notre-Dame hospital. The mother is in hospital now herself.
City hall wants to extend the state of emergency till July 2.
A poll suggests that public transit has lost a lot of traction: people who have the option are more likely to choose to drive from now on.
qatzelok 10:46 on 2020-05-15 Permalink
Even your housecat might need to wear a mask. (good luck putting it on)
Jeffrey St. Clair at Counterpunch: “According to the New England Journal of Medicine, coronavirus was detected in three cats after they were housed with cats that had been experimentally inoculated with the virus. Cats may be a silent intermediate host of COVID-19…”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2013400?source=nejmtwitter&medium=organic-social
DeWolf 11:52 on 2020-05-15 Permalink
I’ll be interested to see how lasting the switch away from public transit will be. Cities are using the pandemic as an opportunity to accelerate their plans to encourage active mobility and reduce space for cars, so even if someone says they’d prefer to drive everywhere, they may change their minds when they find there’s less parking than there was before.
Kate 12:57 on 2020-05-15 Permalink
qatzelok, “cats that had been experimentally inoculated with the virus.” I don’t think that’s happening around here.
Uatu 13:53 on 2020-05-15 Permalink
I’m curious to see the kind of measures adopted to separate riders since the idea of jamming people Japanese train style isn’t advisable in the near future
qatzelok 17:36 on 2020-05-15 Permalink
@ Kate: “I don’t think that’s happening around here.”
Cats travelling back from Spain or Italy might have been innoculated there and could be discreetly spreading infection with every meow or neck rub.
Chris 18:24 on 2020-05-16 Permalink
Will be interesting to see. Covid could be either really good or really bad for public and active transit… Fingers crossed!