school sent into panic...unnecessarily:
7 Sept: 9 News Australia: Breaking News and Live Updates: PM details vaccine; Four new cases in NSW; Victoria records 41 coronavirus cases, 9 deaths; Health Minsiter Greg Hunt’s swipe at Victoria’s roadmap out of lockdown
By Imogen Dewey
(scroll down) BREAKING: Sydney school to reopen after student’s false positive test result
By Luke Cooper 18:09
A Sydney school will reopen tomorrow after it was closed for deep cleaning following the infection of a student, who NSW Health has now confirmed does not have COVID-19...
“Lidcombe Public School will resume on-campus learning on Tuesday, 8 September 2020 after NSW Health informed us that the student, who initially tested positive over the weekend, does not have COVID-19,” the statement said.
“Staff and students who were identified as close contacts have been notified and no longer need to isolate.”...
https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-live-updates-september-7-daniel-andrews-victoria-roadmap-lockdown-exit-scott-morrison-nsw-mystery-cases-covid19/e6707b03-cc9f-48a9-9eed-f04a67c416e1
VIDEO: 3m53s: 7 Sept: Adelaide Advertiser: Australians are unaware only nine per cent of COVID deaths caused solely by virus: Alan Jones
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/australians-are-unaware-only-nine-per-cent-of-covid-deaths-caused-solely-by-virus-jones/video/702c4e623f9d50b5f32f70efe01db38a
had problems with above video, but this is what Jones reads from. can’t post url. Jones mentions the 9% figure for US, but notes CDC now claims 6%:
Dept of Health Australia: COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 22
Fortnightly reporting period ending 2 August 2020
COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team
p 15: Comorbidities
Comorbidities were common in those COVID-19 cases admitted to Australian sentinel hospitals (general ward or ICU), with 78% recording at least one of the specified comorbidities; only 9% recorded no comorbidity. The proportion of hospitalised cases with no known comorbidity recorded in U.S hospital surveillance system COVID-NET was also reportedly 9%.10 By contrast, in the UK, 22.5% of 20,133 hospitalised COVID-19 cases had no recorded comorbidities.6,9 This UK study reports similar prevalence estimates for key comorbidities amongst hospitalised COVID-19 patients as found in Australian data. In sentinel Australian sites, chronic cardiac disease occurred in 29% of hospitalised cases (30.9% in the UK), diabetes in 32% (20.7% UK) and chronic respiratory disease (including asthma) in 31% of hospitalised cases (32% UK study).