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DOH COVID-19 CASE BULLETIN #067
As of 4PM today, May 20, 2020, the Department of Health reports 279 new cases (PH12943-PH13221) of COVID-19. NCR with additional 150 new cases, Region 7 with 14 additional new cases and 115 new cases from different Regions. The total number of cases in the country is now at 13, 221.
DOH also announces 89 new recoveries. This brings the total number of recoveries to 2,932.
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there is a race to determine which part of the viral structure is the most reliable in terms of stability, ease, sensitivity, and specificity of detection.
and the method of detection.
the race is just starting, folks.
in a few weeks' time, all these so-called good tests might already have been rendered obsolete.
in just six months, scientists are already doing what normally would have taken years.
ah, technology...
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Kontrahan na
Wala pa umano second wave ayon sa Malacanang [emoji1787]
https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/05/20/...19-coronavirus
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it all depends on how one would define a "wave", and on whether the others will agree with that definition or not.
personally, i am thinking that all this time, we're just feeling the first wave. what some may be discerning as already 1st wave and 2nd wave, are, to me, just ripples riding on the still-first wave.
but i am not the health secretary. it's not my call to make.
Last edited by dr. d; May 21st, 2020 at 01:51 AM.
ang nangyari kasi all along everyone was thinking this is 1st wave and everybody's afraid of 2nd wave then duque said this is already 2nd wave so everybody went OMFG!! NANDITO NA!!
wala naman nagbago
it's not like napuno uli ang Medical City at Makati Med
nag panic ang tao dahil sa change in terminology
kaya sabi ng Malacanang "o sige kung gusto niyo 1st wave ito edi 1st wave... kung saan kayo masaya"
[emoji848][emoji51]Sa pinakahuling report ng World Health Organization (WHO), walang ebidensiya na nagpapakita na nakakahawa ang mga asymptomatic, ayon kay Duque.
“Ang WHO, hanggang ngayon po, wala po silang ulat o ebidensiyang nakakalap na magpapakita na nakakahawa ang mga asymptomatic. WHO po ‘yan,” aniya.
Duque: Wala pang ebidensiya na nakakahawa ang asymptomatic COVID-19 patients | ABS-CBN News
The Philippines is now on the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Wednesday.
"Actually, nasa second wave tayo," Duque told senators in a hybrid hearing.
(Actually, we're now on the second wave.)
"'Yung first wave natin nag-umpisa, happened some time in January noong nagkaroon tayo ng 3 Chinese nationals from Wuhan," he said.
(The first wave started, happened some time in January when we had 3 Chinese nationals from Wuhan.)
He was referring to the first batch of infections detected here, all in patients from Wuhan City, China, where the coronavirus pandemic began.
In a May 7 DOH online briefing, Dr. John Wong of Epimetrics Inc. also said that the Philippines was already on the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak.
On Wednesday afternoon, Wong, who is also a member of the sub-technical working group on data analytics of the Inter-Agency Task Force on COVID-19, explained that the second wave started during the first week of March.
Wong explained that experts define outbreak waves as “when there’s a rise in cases and then a decrease in cases.”
After the first wave, there was a “lull,” he said, explaining why the three cases are still considered a wave despite the small number.
After a “very quiet” February, he said, “Then we had our 2nd wave, which was the 1st major wave of more than 10,000 cases.”
He said the peak of the current wave was on March 31 when the Philippines reported 538 new cases.
Wong said the country is now at the “lower part” of this 2nd wave with the new cases averaging at 220 per day.
When did the 2nd COVID-19 wave start in PH? | ABS-CBN News
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Medialdea disputes Duque: We’re not yet in second wave of COVID-19 infections | News | GMA News Online
No second wave...... yet.
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ang gulo. since ang DOH ay may sariling concept / interpretation ng “flattening the curve”, i.e. decrease in deaths & hospitalization, bakit hindi na lang ireconcile yun sa declaration nila ng “second wave”? [emoji51][emoji51]