Wuhan has been named the no.1 destination Chinese citizens want to visit after the coronavirus crisis is over. https://t.co/NRqUA4msZ8
— CNN International (@cnni) May 2, 2020
Worth reading the whole thing:
BREAKING: A new report warns the coronavirus pandemic is likely to last as long as two years https://t.co/Ae1ECyzdkw pic.twitter.com/1DA9I5ln0N
— Bloomberg (@business) May 1, 2020
Amazing: This interesting #Covid19 update from @WADeptHealth points out that the first confirmed case in the U.S. was detected 101 days ago. In the 100 days that followed, +1M people in the US have been diagnosed with the infection. So far. So fast. https://t.co/Hb74m5wXaH
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) April 30, 2020
The tally by Johns Hopkins University records more than 1.1 million cases in the country as of 8:30 pm Friday (0030 GMT Saturday), with 64,789 deaths, a rise of three percent from a day earlier pic.twitter.com/i0S3PDJwfy
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 2, 2020
Most experts agree that the current U.S. testing capacity for #COVID__19 falls far short. The U.S. had performed just over 6 million diagnostic tests for the virus as of April 29. https://t.co/deTd26NyCK pic.twitter.com/7EgWHKGxYk
— Reuters Graphics (@ReutersGraphics) May 2, 2020
Since it’s the weekend, here’s an excellent thread from a science writer linking a whole bunch of longer reads:
@BuffDavis @blythecreek @AwakenKaruna Here’s your unroll: https://t.co/zOlS0TI07C
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) May 1, 2020
Good news for those of us on blood pressure meds:
Remember the early hysteria about ACE inhibitors putting patients w/ #COVID19 at risk? That was a wrong turn.
3 new @NEJM appears and editorial today: There is no evidence these drugs or ARBs have any detrimental effect.https://t.co/Mzc7SUKTKb pic.twitter.com/M6AecEOu7w— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) May 1, 2020
THREAD: Nationwide new covid19 cases and hospitalizations, excluding data from New York tristate area, continue to rise. Once declines in the New York area are added to recent trends, we still see a persistent, multi-week plateau at about 30,000 new cases a day and 2,000 deaths. pic.twitter.com/tIHKeV534c
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) May 2, 2020
Until we have a vaccine, there's no back to normal. We have to create a new normal. The only way forward is to stop spread from #COVID19 cases and clusters of cases rapidly. https://t.co/H5Qdghp9dV
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) May 1, 2020
Damn.
The @WhiteHouse appears to have forbidden #TonyFauci from testifying about #COVID19 before the House Committee.https://t.co/e1EUJWlPEH— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 1, 2020
Poll: Americans in all 50 states say their governor is handling the coronavirus better than Trump https://t.co/sukoj4aNPn pic.twitter.com/mvBs3M3JK4
— The Hill (@thehill) May 1, 2020
Trump insists, without evidence, that a Wuhan lab is linked to pandemic's origin. Here's a close look by @meredithwadman and me into @NIH decision to cut @PeterDaszak grant–and the resultant outrage–because of @EcoHealthNYC links to that Wuhan lab. https://t.co/BK9adurIzu pic.twitter.com/e18NcfVGlw
— Jon Cohen (@sciencecohen) May 1, 2020
#Coronavirus cases and deaths are growing at faster rates in rural areas https://t.co/g80ziBMsKn
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 30, 2020
How many Americans have been infected in the United States with #SARSCoV2 ? #COVID19 Here you go:https://t.co/beAR4Pj7rA
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 2, 2020
The wonderful @CT_Bergstrom and I wrote something for the New York Times. Herd immunity is insane!https://t.co/zXD880vsAP
— Natalie E. Dean, PhD (@nataliexdean) May 1, 2020
New: Three potential futures for Covid-19 — recurring small outbreaks, a monster wave, or a persistent crisis. Via @sxbegle https://t.co/LXky03WGVW
— Jason Ukman (@JasonUkman) May 1, 2020
So much of the public discussion is based on wishful thinking not on facts: antibodies means protection, children are safe, rapid tests are reliable, there will be no second wave, drugs & vaccines ready soon…we are all tired but let's not run on false hopes #SARSCoV2 #COVID19
— Isabella Eckerle (@EckerleIsabella) April 30, 2020
You may not be fully recovered from symptoms, but that doesn’t mean you still have the virus.
SARS classic left lung scarring that took years to heal:https://t.co/ckGYgoVNvf
— Rashy4PM #GlazersOut (@tommyk122) May 1, 2020
Coronavirus: WHO say they gave world 'enough time' over outbreak https://t.co/PxniCdFNkl
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 1, 2020
Scientists uncover how remdesivir inhibits #SARSCoV2. A team of researchers in China is reporting its high-resolution imaging in Science showing the drug bound to a viral enzyme. That enzyme is critical to the replication of viral genes https://t.co/nSZsQ66bqM pic.twitter.com/DohiZkXiUM
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) May 1, 2020
Will human challenge studies — where volunteers are deliberately infected — speed development of #Covid19 vaccines? Maybe not the early candidates. Would they be useful. Most likely. Will they be done? Not clear. https://t.co/5ZOi9PSNv2
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) May 1, 2020
Cytokine storm: A sign of severe #COVID19 is the cytokine storm, a potent inflammatory condition. It can be deadly. New: #SARSCoV2 triggers cytokine release then drives the exhaustion of protective T cells, a new clue suggesting a need to boost T cells https://t.co/YgaqFr3V5v pic.twitter.com/IEPPJL67xe
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) May 1, 2020
New! How the coronavirus mutates, and how those mutations record its history. Another collaboration with @nytimes science graphics editor @13pt https://t.co/S3naDovzl4 pic.twitter.com/TzTP0Udk1r
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) April 30, 2020
Blood clotting patterns in lungs of #COVID19 patients may help explain apparent differences in mortality https://t.co/2mlKIxk79G via @GENbio
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) May 1, 2020
Important study in @TheLancet Infectious Diseases concludes that „children are at a similar risk of infection to the general population, although less likely to have severe symptoms; hence they should be considered in analyses of transmission and control.“ https://t.co/U4Qhaaitom
— Christian Althaus (@C_Althaus) April 28, 2020
Infected with #SARSCoV2 but not showing symptoms? A physician answers 5 questions about asymptomatic #COVID19. Click/tap to read https://t.co/mpigYygJEs pic.twitter.com/cxDXWxvyQk
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) May 1, 2020
Barney
Is this quote from Time correct?
Surely that’s the wrong way round. The non-essential stuff – gyms, movies and sports – is the last you need to worry about (the only reason to do it is because it’s some people’s employment). There are alternatives to gyms (exercise at home, go jogging) and movies (TV), and sports is just another form of entertainment. For the economy, it’s the general return to work that matters; and schools (which will allow some of the return to work). About the only thing they’ve got right is not to have bars reopen first.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers: 105 new cases, of which 94 are from local infection and the rest are Malaysians returning from aboard; total cases 6,176. 116 more patients recovered, total 4,326 or 70% of all cases. No new deaths, total stands at 103. Of 1,747 active cases, 31 are in ICUs and 12 of those on respiratory assistance. Case fatality rate is at 2.33%.
OzarkHillbilly
@Barney: If the question is, “Are Americans stupid?” the answer is yes.
Amir Khalid
@Barney:
That seems like pretty much the reverse order from the recovery phase of Malaysia’s movement control order, which I mentioned in comments on yesterday’s Covid-19 post.
p.a.
@Amir Khalid: per TPM’s analysis the NYC fatality rate is ~ 0.9%. Just shows how little we know when testing is so spotty (spotty here in god’s-gift-to-the-world-ville). Although NYC’s testing is probably the most thorough here in the States. For comparison flu fatality rate pretty much maxes out at 0.1%, again per TPM’s sources.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: and that’s never the wrong answer either.
@Amir Khalid: your nation seems to be relying on science rather than magical thinking.
JPL
@Barney: It’s to lower unemployment numbers, and has nothing to do with safety.
OzarkHillbilly
NYT: Trump Moves to Replace Watchdog Who Identified Critical Medical Shortages
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: Strange how he fires those actually doing their job.
terben
Australian Dept of Health bulletin:
‘As at 3:00pm on 2 May 2020, a total of 6,783 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 93 deaths and 5,789 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.
Over the past week, there has been an average of 13 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from NSW.
To date, over 611,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 1.1% have been positive.’
I was a little surprised to see 2 new cases in the Northern Territory after 3 weeks of no cases, but it turns out that infected Australian Defence Force personnel have been repatriated from the Middle East. These new cases will not affect the easing of restrictions.
YY_Sima Qian
Today, Hubei Province (including Wuhan) just reduces the epidemic prevention and control emergency response status from Level 1 to Level 2, the last province to do so. The part most relevant to me and my family is that the residential compounds are no longer under highly restricted access, no more daily time and person limits for going out of the compound, no longer need Return to Work authorization letters to have fuller freedom of movement. Still need temperature check and green health code to enter and exit the compound, still need to notify the relevant neighborhood committee and community office and property management office to move from one compound to another, or even to visit another compound. I think government policy will still strongly discourage gathering a of families and friends, since such events have played a key role in new clusters elsewhere.
Nevertheless, this has been a huge milestone for most residents in the city, Inwoudl argue more so than the lifting of the citywide lockdown on Apr. 8! It has been more than three months since we had substantial freedom of movement. Would our daily routines Chang wall that much? Probably not. We will still stay in doors most of the time, and avoid gatherings if at all possible.
charon
@JPL: It’s all part of “I take no responsibility.”
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid:
Are they testing people at the airport?
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
All incoming travellers (under the border-control part of the movement control order, there is currently no entry for foreign nationals so that means returning Malaysians only) are taken to mandatory 14-day quarantine and tested.
YY_Sima Qian
I am dismayed, but not surprised, by NIH’s decision to cut funding to the bat coronavirus research. Nothing is safe from being collateral damage in the Trump administration and the Republican Party’s attempt to assign a scapegoat to center their reelection strategy around. Further evidence how quickly Trump and his cohort, aided and abetted and string pulled by the Republican Congress and the conservative policy machine, have infiltrated and twisted even the most technocratic agencies, organizations hitherto had largely bipartisan support and relatively unscathed by the anti-science conservative agenda. Also goes to show just how fragile the liberal democratic system of government, as well as basic competence in governance, that most people take for granted really are.
As much as I hated the Bush II administration, pandemic preparedness was one of the few areas they did excellent work on during their second term. They put together the foundation of the US’ pandemic response plans and institutions, built upon and expanded during the Obama administration, trashed by Trump.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
a) anti bodies is how this is done normally.
b) what should we do, wallow in despair?
Tell ya’ what hard eye realist, if Corna is the just the Devil’s lottery then we just well open up and the 4% of the population dies since according to you nothing works, nothing. What do you think this Virus Denialism is really about? These people are Fear Junkies, that should be obvious by the way so many of them wave guns, the Hard Right Media gives them endless reason to be afraid and they are to the point their brains can’t think anymore.
Jesus Christ
Brachiator
@OzarkHillbilly:
Trump is nothing if not consistent.
Ignorance and incompetence combined with a singular overwhelming anger at anyone who makes him look bad.
kindness
I read down several of those tweet threads and I have to say a substantial part of the active twitter users are completely crazy people. I guess I could be kind and say a bunch of them are bot or paid protagonists. Doesn’t much matter in the end as the picture is still painted by all who contribute to the thread. Twitter might be able to do away with the bots but they can’t keep out the paid trolls or the idiots. Honestly I suspect they want the bandwidth flow. Cutting down on it directly affects their $$. Maybe if twitter could accurately tag each user with their location? Not exact mind you. I’m not wanting 1984 here even though we’re almost already there.
Rich Webb
Strongly agree with reading Ed Yong’s articles over at The Atlantic. The magazine is occasionally somewhat WTF (longtime subscriber) but Ed’s stuff is excellent.
Another Scott
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: As we know, there are smart ways of “opening up” and stupid ways. Many more than just COVID-19 patients will die if the hospitals, food distribution, and other critical parts of the economy are overwhelmed. The sensible actions now should be designed to minimize damage to the nation (the people and the economy), accelerate research on treatments and a vaccine, and figure out how to muddle through (work processes, teaching processes, more flexible distribution systems) – not just throw up our hands and pretend we know nothing so let’s all have a big orgy and get it over with.
Maybe it’s my faulty recollection, but the press pushing these demands that everything reopen NOW NOW NOW started coming out very soon after reports that African Americans and other minorities/disadvantaged groups were dying at much higher rates than other groups. And that’s not a good look. :-( In addition to being stupid and racist and all the rest.
Sensible people have been saying for months that this is going to be the worst depression ever, at least as far as the intensity of the initial pit. We’ve never shut down ~ 40% of the economy before – of course it is going to be bad. The question is, how quickly we can crawl out of the pit, and there’s disagreement about that.
But I’ve been surprised (perhaps naively) how little reporting there has been about the economic toll as a whole. Not interviews with white construction company bosses in NY, but interviews with economists who can put this in perspective. The BBC did have an interview with El-Erian and he talked in appropriate terms about it, but the reporters are still saying, “25M unemployed, record numbers, now let’s go to the state house where 27 people (some with guns) are protesting…”
I expect when the April unemployment rate numbers, and especially when the 2nd quarter GDP numbers, come out, there might be a little more hair-on-fire reporting, but (as usual) that will be after weeks and weeks of unnecessary suffering and weeks and weeks lost when effective action could have made things much less bad. I also expect that Donnie will continue to blame others, try to find a distraction (maybe a bigly parade to thank the [checks notes] brave job creators and wonderful Trump family!!1??).
“Mr. President – what are the specific plans and metrics to increase testing, tracking, production and distribution of PPE, and research on treatments and vaccines, and build resiliency into the economy so that the US can recover quickly and safely?”
It’s going to be a long summer and fall. :-(
We have to vote the monsters out. Eyes on the prizes.
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@kindness: I heard a bit of an NPR show yesterday (maybe “1A”) where they were talking about someone doing research (I use that word guardedly) on something about Twitter. As if Twitter were somehow a reflection of society. I had to turn it off before I exploded in rage.
Twitter isn’t real, but it’s used by too many people in the press as a modern version of the old JournoList to decide what’s “hot” and therefore what’s “important”. Speed and some clever hook counts much more than accuracy and thoughtfulness.
Thanks for these updates, AL. You’re the exception that proves the rule. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Another Scott:
Thread long dead, but this comment was worth acknowledging. Actually worth a post of its own. Thank you for posting it.