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ICA officer cluster and its fall out Thread

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https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/20...id-19-no-pre-departure-test-needed-for-sc-pr/


The Ministry of Health (MOH) announced today (29 Apr) that 7 family members of an Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer have been confirmed to be infected with COVID-19. They had already been placed on quarantine earlier after the ICA officer was tested positive for COVID-19.

The 38-year-old ICA officer was deployed at Changi Airport Terminal 1. He was confirmed to have COVID-19 infection on Tue (27 Apr).

He developed a cough last Fri (23 Apr) and sought medical treatment the next day at a general practitioner clinic, where he was given two days’ of medical leave. He developed a fever, body aches as well as lost his sense of smell on Mon (26 Apr).

He then sought medical treatment at Tan Tock Seng Hospital the next day (27 Apr) and was tested for COVID-19. His test came back positive on the same day.

As an ICA officer, he would have come into contact with travellers who may have potentially contracted COVID-19 outside of Singapore.

No pre-departure PCR test needed

Not all travellers arriving in Singapore need to take a pre-departure PCR test in the country they travelled from.

According to ICA website, no approvals or inbound pre-departure COVID-19 PCR Test is required for entry into Singapore for Singapore citizen and PR.

“There is also no need for returning SC/PRs to take an inbound PCR test within 72 hours before arrival in Singapore,” ICA said.

Indeed, a PR recently arrived from India confirmed this. He said he did not need to take any pre-departure PCR Test for COVID-19, before arriving in Singapore through Air India.


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6 million new cases in India this month

According to news reports today (29 Apr), India’s COVID-19 infections have crossed the 18 million mark with almost 380,000 new cases, breaking another world record for new daily infections. This month alone, India has added more than 6 million new cases.

The explosion in infections has overwhelmed hospitals with dire shortages of beds, drugs and oxygen.

India is trying to vaccinate as many as it can currently. However, it has been reported that India does not have the stocks for the estimated 600 million eligible people for its vaccination program. Many who tried to sign up said they failed, complaining on social media that they could not get a slot or they simply could not get online to register as the website repeatedly crashed.

“Statistics indicate that far from crashing or performing slowly, the system is performing without any glitches,” the government said however.

The crisis is particularly severe in New Delhi, with people dying outside packed hospitals where three people are often forced to share a bed.

Delhi is reporting one death from COVID-19 every four minutes and ambulances have been taking the bodies to makeshift crematorium facilities in parks and parking lots, where bodies are burnt.

The World Health Organization said in its weekly epidemiological update that India accounted for 38 per cent of the 5.7 million cases reported worldwide to it last week.

Given the dire situation in India, shouldn’t anyone who comes back from India should also take the pre-departure PCR test for COVID-19 too, in order to minimise risk of infection to Singapore’s front-line workers at the airport?
 
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Angry. Singaporeans getting complacent again. How many of our ceca bros has this sinkie infected?? :mad:
 
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Angry. Singaporeans getting complacent again. How many of our ceca bros has this sinkie infected?? :mad:
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Not Singaporean getting more complacent, it is our healthcare staff and ICA staffs being complacent. Look at the airport, no one care about the CECA Indians loitering around the airport.
 
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As far as I can see all that vaccinations do is enrich the drug companies plus those who are clipping the ticket along the way.

My advice is to carry on with life and the infection will soon burn itself out.

It makes no difference what humans do. Just take a look at the course spanish flu took back in 1918/1919 and yes everyone was wearing those stupid masks then too and it didn't make a scrap of difference then either.

As you can see from the 1918 graph pandemic deaths fell to almost zero despite the complete absence of vaccines back in the good old days.

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Leongsam said:
As far as I can see all that vaccinations do is enrich the drug companies plus those who are clipping the ticket along the way.

My advice is to carry on with life and the infection will soon burn itself out.

It makes no difference what humans do. Just take a look at the course spanish flu took back in 1918/1919 and yes everyone was wearing those stupid masks then too and it didn't make a scrap of difference then either.

As you can see from the 1918 graph pandemic deaths fell to almost zero despite the complete absence of vaccines back in the good old days.

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Wrong. Again. Call it 0 for 127 tries. Not comparison to Spanish Flu. Keep trying, and failing.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...han-1918-spanish-flu-seasonal-flu/3378208001/

Fact check: COVID-19 is deadlier than the 1918 Spanish flu and seasonal influenza
Chelsey Cox
USA TODAY


The claim: Experts exaggerate the gravity of COVID-19 death rates in comparison with the Spanish flu and seasonal flu
Many claims have attempted to compare the COVID-19 pandemic with prior pandemics, such as the Spanish flu in 1918 or the swine flu in 2009. Others have tried to brush off the novel coronavirus symptoms and rate of infection as akin to the seasonal flu.
USA TODAY debunked the claim that there were 56 million fewer cases of COVID-19 than of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, during the first year of that pandemic.
Two other claims suggesting a second Spanish flu pandemic wave had a higher death rate than the first were also found to be inaccurate.
A widely shared meme features a slightly altered version of the claim. One Facebook post of the meme from late July has been shared more than 50,000 times. USA TODAY reached out to the poster for comment, and he replied with more statistics that could not be independently verified.

Fact check:Governors, president both responsible for pandemic response
Digging into the numbers
In the meme, health experts are accused of overreacting about COVID-19 in comparison with the H1N1 pandemic of 1918 (the Spanish flu) and the seasonal flu. The meme starts with the line "How big is 1%?" It then offers statistics for each pandemic and the seasonal flu, including world population, number of infected people and fatality rate compared with the world population.

The meme says 50 million people, 5.26% of an estimated global population of 950 million, died of the Spanish flu, then says, "Experts: TRAGIC EVENT!"
Though it is true that about 50 million people died from the Spanish flu, according to an estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Global Change Data Lab places the estimated world population in 1918 at 1.8 billion. An article in 2006 in the health journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by the CDC, cites a 2.5% global mortality rate. The pandemic lasted for two years, from spring 1918 into spring 1920.

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The initial claim presented mostly accurate statistics for the flu epidemic in 1918 and seasonal flu mortality rates. But COVID-19 has been deadlier than either of these diseases, according to experts and studies. Though the number of people dead from COVID-19 as a percentage of world population at one point in time may be an accurate number, it is not reflective of the mortality rate of the virus. The mortality rate is approximately 0.05% in the USA alone. This is among the highest in the world and greater than the annual seasonal flu mortality rate, according to the latest data.

Our fact-check sources:
Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here.

Our fact check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.


Is COVID-19 worse than the 1918 Spanish flu? Study shows deaths in New York quadrupled in early months
In 2018, 650,000 of an estimated 7.5 billion people, or 0.009%, died of the seasonal flu worldwide. Experts called this a "typical year," according to the meme.
This part of the meme is accurate. Every year, 3 million to 5 million people globally contract the seasonal flu, resulting in about 290,000 to 650,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO estimates the annual worldwide mortality rate is less than 0.1%, independent U.K. fact-checker Full Fact reported.
The meme says at least 488,729 of an estimated 7.7 billion people have died of COVID-19. There is no date associated with the meme, but the worldwide death count reached more than a half-million June 28, USA TODAY reported.
"1% of the World's Pop right now would be 77 million dead. Now if 5.26% is TRAGIC and .009 is NO BIG DEAL, what the HELL are we doing!" the meme ends.
Global deaths from COVID-19 passed 776,000 in mid-August, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
Fact check:Hydroxychloroquine does not work better abroad
Is COVID-19 more deadly than Spanish flu or seasonal flu?
A report published Aug. 13 in the medical journal JAMA Network Open compared the two months after the first recorded death from COVID-19 in New York City with the deadliest two months of the Spanish flu pandemic.
Researchers found that although there were more deaths per 100,000 people during the peak of the Spanish flu, the toll was still comparable to deaths during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The difference lies in baseline mortality rates. People died of causes not associated with H1N1 in 1918, because of poorer hygiene, public health and safety. Therefore, researchers found the relative increase during the early period of the COVID-19 epidemic was "substantially greater" than the peak of the Spanish flu pandemic.
"This time around – with more advanced medical care and public health systems bringing fatalities down to 50 a month per 100,000 during the same March-to-May dates the previous three years – the number of deaths quadrupled," USA TODAY reported Aug. 13.
Experts determined COVID-19 to be more deadly than the seasonal flu. There is a vaccine for the seasonal flu, keeping cases down; there is not a vaccine for COVID-19.
The COVID-19 ratio of deaths per 100 cases in the USA was 3.1% as of Thursday, and the approximate 0.05% mortality rate is one of the highest in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. Only Peru, Spain, Chile and Brazil are higher.
The CDC reported that the annual mortality rate for the seasonal flu is about 0.01%, or 12,000-61,000 deaths per year.
Fact check: COVID-19 can cause worse lung damage than smokingFact check: COVID-19 vaccine has been nearly 20 years in the makingFact check: Not likely that COVID-19 vaccine was cause of Hank Aaron's deathFact check: What's true about COVID-19, its vaccine, face masks and seasonal flu?
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According to the latest data available from the CDC, COVID-19 has an overall infection mortality ratio of 0.0065. That ratio is defined as the proportion of death among all infected individuals. The percentage of transmission from asymptomatic carriers is 50%. The worldwide case fatality rate – the ratio between confirmed deaths and confirmed cases – reached 3.5% Thursday, according to the Global Change Data Lab.
For further comparison, 151,700-575,400 people worldwide died from H1N1 infection during the pandemic in 2009, according to the CDC. Americans accounted for 12,469. More than 174,000 have died from COVID-19 in the USA, according to the Coronavirus Resource Center. A vaccine for the swine flu became available about five months after the first confirmed U.S. case, USA TODAY reported.

However, the Global Change Data Lab stated a thorough COVID-19 mortality analysis should include the likelihood of death for an infected person, or the infection fatality rate. The total number of cases and deaths are needed to accurately calculate this rate. A number of factors, including undertesting, make it difficult for researchers to determine the total case number.
USA TODAY found the comparison presented in the meme simply with numbers is not a fair one. The novel coronavirus spreads more quickly and is more contagious than the seasonal flu.
Fact check:2009 swine flu spread rapidly, but COVID-19 is more deadly
 
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capamerica said:
Wrong. Again. Call it 0 for 127 tries. Not comparison to Spanish Flu. Keep trying, and failing.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...han-1918-spanish-flu-seasonal-flu/3378208001/

Fact check: COVID-19 is deadlier than the 1918 Spanish flu and seasonal influenza
Chelsey Cox
USA TODAY


The claim: Experts exaggerate the gravity of COVID-19 death rates in comparison with the Spanish flu and seasonal flu
Many claims have attempted to compare the COVID-19 pandemic with prior pandemics, such as the Spanish flu in 1918 or the swine flu in 2009. Others have tried to brush off the novel coronavirus symptoms and rate of infection as akin to the seasonal flu.
USA TODAY debunked the claim that there were 56 million fewer cases of COVID-19 than of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, during the first year of that pandemic.
Two other claims suggesting a second Spanish flu pandemic wave had a higher death rate than the first were also found to be inaccurate.
A widely shared meme features a slightly altered version of the claim. One Facebook post of the meme from late July has been shared more than 50,000 times. USA TODAY reached out to the poster for comment, and he replied with more statistics that could not be independently verified.

Fact check:Governors, president both responsible for pandemic response
Digging into the numbers
In the meme, health experts are accused of overreacting about COVID-19 in comparison with the H1N1 pandemic of 1918 (the Spanish flu) and the seasonal flu. The meme starts with the line "How big is 1%?" It then offers statistics for each pandemic and the seasonal flu, including world population, number of infected people and fatality rate compared with the world population.

The meme says 50 million people, 5.26% of an estimated global population of 950 million, died of the Spanish flu, then says, "Experts: TRAGIC EVENT!"
Though it is true that about 50 million people died from the Spanish flu, according to an estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Global Change Data Lab places the estimated world population in 1918 at 1.8 billion. An article in 2006 in the health journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by the CDC, cites a 2.5% global mortality rate. The pandemic lasted for two years, from spring 1918 into spring 1920.

Get the Checking the Facts newsletter in your inbox.
Fact or fiction? Find out the truth about news stories you see online.
Delivery: Mon - Fri

The initial claim presented mostly accurate statistics for the flu epidemic in 1918 and seasonal flu mortality rates. But COVID-19 has been deadlier than either of these diseases, according to experts and studies. Though the number of people dead from COVID-19 as a percentage of world population at one point in time may be an accurate number, it is not reflective of the mortality rate of the virus. The mortality rate is approximately 0.05% in the USA alone. This is among the highest in the world and greater than the annual seasonal flu mortality rate, according to the latest data.

Our fact-check sources:
Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here.

Our fact check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.


Is COVID-19 worse than the 1918 Spanish flu? Study shows deaths in New York quadrupled in early months
In 2018, 650,000 of an estimated 7.5 billion people, or 0.009%, died of the seasonal flu worldwide. Experts called this a "typical year," according to the meme.
This part of the meme is accurate. Every year, 3 million to 5 million people globally contract the seasonal flu, resulting in about 290,000 to 650,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO estimates the annual worldwide mortality rate is less than 0.1%, independent U.K. fact-checker Full Fact reported.
The meme says at least 488,729 of an estimated 7.7 billion people have died of COVID-19. There is no date associated with the meme, but the worldwide death count reached more than a half-million June 28, USA TODAY reported.
"1% of the World's Pop right now would be 77 million dead. Now if 5.26% is TRAGIC and .009 is NO BIG DEAL, what the HELL are we doing!" the meme ends.
Global deaths from COVID-19 passed 776,000 in mid-August, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
Fact check:Hydroxychloroquine does not work better abroad
Is COVID-19 more deadly than Spanish flu or seasonal flu?
A report published Aug. 13 in the medical journal JAMA Network Open compared the two months after the first recorded death from COVID-19 in New York City with the deadliest two months of the Spanish flu pandemic.
Researchers found that although there were more deaths per 100,000 people during the peak of the Spanish flu, the toll was still comparable to deaths during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The difference lies in baseline mortality rates. People died of causes not associated with H1N1 in 1918, because of poorer hygiene, public health and safety. Therefore, researchers found the relative increase during the early period of the COVID-19 epidemic was "substantially greater" than the peak of the Spanish flu pandemic.
"This time around – with more advanced medical care and public health systems bringing fatalities down to 50 a month per 100,000 during the same March-to-May dates the previous three years – the number of deaths quadrupled," USA TODAY reported Aug. 13.
Experts determined COVID-19 to be more deadly than the seasonal flu. There is a vaccine for the seasonal flu, keeping cases down; there is not a vaccine for COVID-19.
The COVID-19 ratio of deaths per 100 cases in the USA was 3.1% as of Thursday, and the approximate 0.05% mortality rate is one of the highest in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. Only Peru, Spain, Chile and Brazil are higher.
The CDC reported that the annual mortality rate for the seasonal flu is about 0.01%, or 12,000-61,000 deaths per year.
Fact check: COVID-19 can cause worse lung damage than smokingFact check: COVID-19 vaccine has been nearly 20 years in the makingFact check: Not likely that COVID-19 vaccine was cause of Hank Aaron's deathFact check: What's true about COVID-19, its vaccine, face masks and seasonal flu?
7241aba8-a934-4f7b-8b3a-65d4daacacdb-corona-virus-promo_art-01.png

According to the latest data available from the CDC, COVID-19 has an overall infection mortality ratio of 0.0065. That ratio is defined as the proportion of death among all infected individuals. The percentage of transmission from asymptomatic carriers is 50%. The worldwide case fatality rate – the ratio between confirmed deaths and confirmed cases – reached 3.5% Thursday, according to the Global Change Data Lab.
For further comparison, 151,700-575,400 people worldwide died from H1N1 infection during the pandemic in 2009, according to the CDC. Americans accounted for 12,469. More than 174,000 have died from COVID-19 in the USA, according to the Coronavirus Resource Center. A vaccine for the swine flu became available about five months after the first confirmed U.S. case, USA TODAY reported.

However, the Global Change Data Lab stated a thorough COVID-19 mortality analysis should include the likelihood of death for an infected person, or the infection fatality rate. The total number of cases and deaths are needed to accurately calculate this rate. A number of factors, including undertesting, make it difficult for researchers to determine the total case number.
USA TODAY found the comparison presented in the meme simply with numbers is not a fair one. The novel coronavirus spreads more quickly and is more contagious than the seasonal flu.
Fact check:2009 swine flu spread rapidly, but COVID-19 is more deadly
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I'm afraid you're the one that is wrong.

Here's a comparison of deaths per million caused by spanish flu vs covid.

Anyone can write some stupid article. However the raw data has no agendas. It just tells it as it is. No false narratives, no subjective opinions... just the cold, hard numbers.


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capamerica

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Leongsam said:
I'm afraid you're the one that is wrong.

Here's a comparison of deaths per million caused by spanish flu vs covid.

Anyone can write some stupid article. However the raw data has no agendas. It just tells it as it is. No false narratives, no subjective opinions... just the cold, hard numbers.


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Wrong. Again. Call it 0 for 136 tries. Your failure rate is 100%
 
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capamerica

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Leongsam said:
Nothing you have posted is factual. All you post is opinions and opinions are not science.

On the other hand I just rely on the data.
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Your failure rate is 100%.

Fact check: COVID-19 is deadlier than the 1918 Spanish flu and seasonal influenza
Chelsey Cox
USA TODAY



The initial claim presented mostly accurate statistics for the flu epidemic in 1918 and seasonal flu mortality rates. But COVID-19 has been deadlier than either of these diseases, according to experts and studies. Though the number of people dead from COVID-19 as a percentage of world population at one point in time may be an accurate number, it is not reflective of the mortality rate of the virus. The mortality rate is approximately 0.05% in the USA alone. This is among the highest in the world and greater than the annual seasonal flu mortality rate, according to the latest data.

Our fact-check sources:
Thank you for supporting our journalism. You can subscribe to our print edition, ad-free app or electronic newspaper replica here.

Our fact check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook
 
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capamerica said:
Your failure rate is 100%.
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Until you post something that contributes to the debate all your inputs are absolutely meaningless because all the real world data shows that Covid is mild, that masks don't work and that lockdowns just prolong the pandemic without saving a single life.

Show me some real world data and I'll be convinced. Otherwise you're wasting everyone's time.
 
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Leongsam said:
Until you post something that contributes to the debate all your inputs are absolutely meaningless because all the real world data shows that Covid is mild, that masks don't work and that lockdowns just prolong the pandemic without saving a single life.

Show me some real world data and I'll be convinced. Otherwise you're wasting everyone's time.
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Wrong. Again. Call it 0 for 139 tries. No factual evidence, just your ridiculous Opinion, which is pretty stupid.

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Leongsam said:
India looks very good to me. Try harder you're still not convincing.

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What we have here is another bout of your delusions. We know it is very painful for you to address your pain and suffering but you must face it. To continue on this path will lead to self destruction, as evidenced by your rambling.

Even when shown you are in error, you persist. This is a symptom of your personality disorder that we can treat here at the institute.

As we have said many times, we cannot force you to come in for help but its obvious you need assistance.

kindly contact us for an assessment:

https://www.imh.com.sg/

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