IndustriousAngel

Germany's Top20 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Paw Patrol - Mighty Pups 18.612 487 38 132.711 677.383 -41 4 2 Unhinged 14.693 470 31 79.837 634.122 -31 3 3 Meine Freundin Conni - Geheimnis um Kater Mau 14.572 565 26 179.942 1.157.412 -39 5 4 Scoob! 12.022 341 35 98.853 635.543 -33 4 5 Mestari Cheng 10.084 140 72 15.116 114.235 - 1 6 Takeover - Voll vertauscht 9.648 402 24 112.906 797.998 -25 5 7 Nightlife 8.381 254 33 1.308.610 11.188.780 +1 25 8 Onward 7.229 261 28 331.938 2.529.663 -18 22 9 Radioactive 6.834 195 35 41.911 334.434 -31 3 10 The Current War 6.608 240 28 26.335 196.279 -27 2 11 Into the Beat - Dein Herz tanzt 6.212 381 16 36.248 258.060 -27 3 12 Die Känguru-Chroniken 6.204 263 24 750.794 6.352.461 -19 22 13 Un divan à Tunis 5.786 82 71 8.032 65.447 - 1 14 The Vigil 5.530 244 23 16.539 128.067 -20 2 15 Gretel & Haensel 3.976 266 15 50.237 388.419 -33 3 16 Berlin Alexanderplatz 3.643 170 21 29.294 274.840 -43 3 17 Als wir tanzten (SG) 3.566 56 64 11.123 93.240 -22 2 18 The Gentlemen (LEO) 3.410 128 27 311.781 2.633.388 -17 23 19 Mina & die Traumzauberer (SPL) 3.069 247 12 55.136 343.435 -28 9 20 Sonic the Hedgehog (PAR) 2.921 151 19 1.203.068 8.619.676 -8 25 Family stuff continues to top the charts but look at those PTAs … the Finnish feelgood movie was the "biggest" opener. I'll keep this short, don't need tears all over my keyboard - so on to: Next weekend: Since grown-up releases are still fighting an uphill battle, the biggest opener might be domestic kiddie book adaption Max und die Wilde 7.

A new treatment for difficult cases: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202007.0178/v1 Sounds very hopeful; something that can get victims out of ICU much faster would be greatly appreciated!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/03/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/#link-KD2YP6IO2RA67MJ5F5HCECOLCU obviously message control is more important than spread control ...

By now, Sweden has probably more severe restrictions than most european countries ... plus, no one is traveling there, and visitors from Sweden are not exactly welcome elsewhere. Most of the recent clusters in Austria are related to travel, touristic and otherwise. (Family visits to eastern europe are playing a big part right now)

wise words ... we should always keep in mind that this is a disaster, only in slow-motion - there's no "right" path through it, just better and worse ones.

Back in March and April, there was a worldwide shortness of protective gear, thence the tendency of many governments to keep them for medical staff. But from then on, that's no excuse any longer; masks are the cheapest and most non-intrusive way to slow the spread.

next week, my cinema will offer tickets for every show @ € 2,90 (that's US$ 3,40) in a desperate effort to get people back to the seats

This will start phase3 tests in August. I think, the more vaccine candidates the better, but even if that thing does what it's supposed to do, Russia will have their hands plenty full with saving their own country; while science and research are not far from world-class, their industry and infrastructure are miles behind US or EU standards. It's one thing developing the vaccine, and a completely other thing producing and distributing and administering it in the needed quantities.

Germany's Top20 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Paw Patrol - Mighty Pups 31.312 449 70 107.361 544.197 +17 3 2 Meine Freundin Conni - Geheimnis um Kater Mau 23.783 547 43 155.193 1.000.378 +12 4 3 Unhinged 21.290 438 49 57.170 455.313 -21 2 4 Scoob! 17.950 316 57 77.198 497.749 +7 3 5 Takeover - Voll vertauscht 12.808 398 32 95.466 678.120 +1 4 6 Radioactive 9.969 155 64 30.111 240.395 -9 2 7 The Current War 9.011 185 49 15.056 106.554 - 1 8 Onward 8.538 255 33 320.229 2.456.148 +25 21 9 Into the Beat - Dein Herz tanzt 8.533 367 23 24.836 178.167 -15 2 10 Nightlife 8.307 248 33 1.296.108 11.096.257 -2 24 11 Die Känguru-Chroniken 7.666 282 27 739.657 6.269.277 -14 21 12 The Vigil 6.918 222 31 8.153 62.066 - 1 13 Berlin Alexanderplatz 6.405 141 45 21.950 207.081 -26 2 14 Gretel & Haensel 5.932 312 19 44.142 340.525 -38 2 15 Undine 5.570 189 29 63.642 504.120 -17 4 16 And Then We Danced 4.568 50 91 5.423 46.371 - 1 17 Drømmebyggerne 4.276 256 17 50.269 314.025 +34 8 18 The Gentlemen 4.093 121 34 306.760 2.597.068 +3 22 19 Harriet 3.776 216 17 27.317 211.112 -24 3 20 Sonic the Hedgehog 3.160 131 24 1.198.222 8.589.770 +10 24 Releases for the very young are the only ones doing any business atm … overall, market is 80-90% down from last year. Next weekend: The King od Staten Island, Le Prince Oublié, Mestari Cheng (a film by the lesser known Kaurismaki brother) … nothing really noteworthy; with the family releases trending maybe animal movie Cody: The Dog Days Are Over can attract some new customers. Plus, with open air shows now in full swing, we might see some old releases back in the charts.

I've got no idea if there is a public site; but since Euromomo is a project of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control I'd guess that every agency targeted along the same lines (say, the CDC in the US) would collect the same data. Maybe you'll find something in there: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

Maybe you remember, some weeks ago I posted a link to a planned early-warning system by testing sewage water for Covid19. In Tyrol, this system should start sometime this fall: https://www.tt.com/artikel/17179806/coronaviren-im-abwasser-erkennen-fruehwarnsystem-in-tirol-ab-herbst-startklar They claim the sensitivity is so good that they can spot about one infected person among a population of 10k. For my hometown (pop. about 170k) there will be five stations - four stationary, covering each about 1/4 of the population, and one mobile lab for screening single buildings or streets (e.g. nursing homes, schools ...) The system will give very early indications if cases are on the rise somewhere. (Some virus particles will always be detected, atm we have 10 officially infected in town - so here, the sytem is more about development, not if there is any virus at all. I guess, in New Zealand, you might use it to detect every single case!)

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps there's charts for the single countries in the bottom third of the page, with a slider on top that lets you change the timeframe. Englands overmortality until week 21 was so big that no kind of undermortality could make up for that. Sweden had no such peak but a very loooong "ridge" and is still way above average. Other countries show no overmortality at all.

exactly. We have to keep in mind that there is no "perfect" solution to this crisis. It's like a natural catastrophe, only at least one magnitude bigger. There simply is NO WAY we can go through this unscathed. The challenge iss all about keeping the damage as low as possible. That being said, yep, the US seem to do pretty bad in this challenge ... really embarassing for the world's strongest economic force.

yep, that's what I meant - we might have to apply more severe measures in some regions while others recover. But we can't close all gastronomy for a year, the damage to the economy would outweigh the saved lives by far. So it has to be a constant fine-tuning of measures vs. freedoms. Here in Austria, we had more than 40 cases this weekend in a small touristic village: https://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/29-faelle-in-st-wolfgang-neue-testergebnisse-am-abend;art4,3278066 The good thing is that by now, there is enough testing capacity, about half of the >600 PCR tests done in the village on Saturday were already finished the same evening. It doesn't replace tracing+isolation, though - just helps with those.

Well, yes, but keep in mind that business means people, too. Here in Austria, tourism is a very important segment of the economy; in my Tyrol about 35% of GDP. Austria has done a remarkable job of bending thre curve and getting the virus under control, but by now, most restaurants, bars and so on are open, plus tourists everywhere (of course, a lot less then pre-Corona) and accordingly, cases are on the rise again. This is something we have to live with until a vaccine is available. We can't have 100% safety, the difficult thing is finding the balance between safe and out-of-control, and that's what we will be doing for the rest of the year.