Comedian @sarahcpr skewered @realDonaldTrump 's "inject disinfectants" statement the same way she now lambasts his astounding #COVID19 testing comments — by simply lip-synching his unedited words. Brilliant. https://t.co/EDhyiY2uUF
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 10, 2020
I feel for the valets, the housekeepers, the low-level administrative assistants. For the people who choose to stand so close to the Oval Office Occupant, no sympathy whatsoever:
‘Scary to Go to Work’: White House Races to Contain Virus in Its Ranks https://t.co/zBY53V2Fma
— Craig L. Ph.D. (@CL2Empower) May 11, 2020
… The White House is frequently testing its staff using ID Now, a rapid test by Abbott Laboratories that can generate a result in five to 13 minutes. The benefit is its speed and portability; the testing machine is about the size of a toaster oven. But some hospitals and doctors found that it was turning up too many false negatives — cases in which people really had the virus, but the test said they did not…
The latest upgrade on the Iron Triangle: “Accurate, fast, convenient — choose any two.”
The number of #coronavirus cases worldwide tops four million as some of the hardest-hit countries ready to lift lockdown restrictions, despite concerns about a second wave of infections https://t.co/Ljuh05XLg9 pic.twitter.com/JBbwEY3j7u
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 10, 2020
In the past 24 hours the number of Americans dead of covid-19 passed 80,000. And Trump tweeted or retweeted 79 times about… Russia and the FBI. Not one word for the dead. Not one word.
— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) May 10, 2020
F.D.A. approves first antigen test for the coronavirus that could greatly expand the nation's testing capacity https://t.co/3POienrfW5
— NYT Science (@NYTScience) May 10, 2020
1) For the 'it is just the flu' crowed. Without drastic countermeasures, deaths from seasonal influenza in the US between 2010 and 2019 varied between 12,000 and 61,000. https://t.co/B0js95P36f SARS-CoV-2 has within a very short period of time……
— Florian Krammer (@florian_krammer) May 10, 2020
If there still exists,this is a “ just the flu “ crowd, they will not be swayed with facts and logic
— Phil Belonger (@PhilBelonger) May 10, 2020
China is clamping down on calls for official accountability over the coronavirus outbreak. Lawyers have been warned not to file suits against the government. Police have interrogated grieving family members. Digital activists have disappeared. https://t.co/sF740LVwGl
— NYT Science (@NYTScience) May 10, 2020
Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, reports first cluster of infections since lifting of lockdown https://t.co/oovWAhl336 pic.twitter.com/6amFZuqBzy
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 11, 2020
This is how a Chinese school is making sure their students don’t spread COVID.
What are U.S. states that are re-opening doing to make sure students don’t spread the virus?
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) May 8, 2020
China and South Korea were among the first places to deal with a major coronavirus epidemic.
They seemed to be on track to loosen restrictions, after weeks of social distancing measures — but new outbreaks of the virus seem to have put an end to that. https://t.co/f6qnpCPMEe
— CNN International (@cnni) May 11, 2020
#COVID19 among migrant workers, 95% of the biggest caseload in SE Asia, "is not one that Singaporeans should be unduly concerned about."
I get what he's trying to say but you'll rarely see such a stark example of how Singaporeans view migrant workershttps://t.co/YpXwuWV7Tf
— Shashank Bengali (@SBengali) May 11, 2020
Jolted by pandemic, Malaysia first-quarter GDP seen shrinking for first time in decade: poll https://t.co/71x8WfEkqP pic.twitter.com/HCvcHSezDF
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 11, 2020
meanwhile, japan (which, yes, is not testing extensively) is still kind of muddling along at the same low infection rate despite not doing much distancing at all until recently, and even then all voluntary
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) May 11, 2020
South Korea is back on the defensive in the #coronavirus fight. After snuffing out #COVID19, a "super spreader" is the apparent source of more than 50 cases. All of the exposures occurred during a single night last weekend https://t.co/EhZ2Tq7i6t pic.twitter.com/K4M73Rmvct
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) May 11, 2020
Bonus ‘but of course, scapegoats’ factor:
That was until a new cluster of coronavirus cases emerged this weekend. Where? At a nightclub in Itaewon, a nightlife district in Seoul. It’s dampened the mood of the country that largely felt like it was on the winning side in a fight against the virus. (2/9)
— Hyunsu Yim 임현수 (@hyunsuinseoul) May 10, 2020
This news put the gay scene on the map for the wider public largely oblivious to it and has sent shockwaves through a nation where there is very little LGBT visibility and you can count on your fingers celebrities who are out and proud. (4/9)
— Hyunsu Yim 임현수 (@hyunsuinseoul) May 10, 2020
Gay bathhouses have also made headlines after it was learned that two clubgoers who’ve tested positive had visited one. To say the least, this weekend has been a PR disaster for the gay community in Korea. And many people are understandably frustrated at the clubgoers. (6/9)
— Hyunsu Yim 임현수 (@hyunsuinseoul) May 10, 2020
Unlike other club-related cases, many want to not just criticize the clubgoers but lump the whole community together. The witch hunt remains online for now, but it’s slowly starting to resemble the homophobia during the AIDS crisis in the ‘60s in the US. (8/9)
— Hyunsu Yim 임현수 (@hyunsuinseoul) May 10, 2020
(Yes, it was the 80s, not the 60s… which means more people should remember what a horrible failure scapegoating was.)
Nothing like a steady hand on the tiller, eh chaps?
To work or not to work? UK lockdown unwind mired by confusion https://t.co/7JCmdWQ8g1 pic.twitter.com/tmwRVx59Ei
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 11, 2020
… In an address to the nation, Johnson said the lockdown would not end yet but encouraged some people to return to work, though the leaders of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland said they were sticking with the existing “stay-at-home” message.
“This is not the time simply to end the lockdown,” Johnson said on Sunday evening. “Anyone who can’t work from home, for instance those in construction or manufacturing, should be actively encouraged to go to work.”
Johnson said from Wednesday people would be allowed to exercise more and some manufacturing workers could go back to work, while some children might be able to go back to school in June…
Stay at home! Unless, of course, that would inconveniences those of us who can stay at home…
#COVID19: Mise à jour en Afrique (au 10 mai 2020, 18h, heure de l'Afrique de l'Est)
53 États membres de l'Union Africaine ont déclaré 61 181 cas, 2 239 décès et 20 932 guérisons.
Plus d'informations sur https://t.co/7jYZIj6m6m
#FactsNotFear #AfricaResponds pic.twitter.com/JBFQhRtJh9— Thomas NGBONGA (@thomas_ngbonga) May 10, 2020
Mexico sees 3,500 new coronavirus cases in projected peak weekend https://t.co/rGPJkH56vX pic.twitter.com/VQqNLGeqQL
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 11, 2020
A combination of 3 antiviral drugs plus an immune system booster seems to help #COVID19 patients recover more quickly.
Doctors in Hong Kong tested HIV drug combination of ritonavir & lopanivir & the general antiviral drug ribavirin & beta interferon.https://t.co/I6T5aFtMqw
— Microbes&Infection (@MicrobesInfect) May 9, 2020
Men have high levels of enzyme key to COVID-19 infection, study finds https://t.co/KUlOneMO1a pic.twitter.com/R7JuoNDLFc
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 11, 2020
Men’s blood has higher levels than women’s of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells, the results of a big European study showed on Monday — a finding which may help explain why men are more vulnerable to infection with COVID-19…
The study, published in the European Heart Journal, also found that widely-prescribed drugs called ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) did not lead to higher ACE2 concentrations and should therefore not increase the COVID-19 risk for people taking them.
ACE inhibitors and ARBs are widely prescribed to patients with congestive heart failure, diabetes or kidney disease. The drugs account for billions of dollars in prescription sales worldwide…
“When we found that one of the strongest biomarkers, ACE2, was much higher in men than in women, I realised that this had the potential to explain why men were more likely to die from COVID-19 than women,” said Iziah Sama, a doctor at UMC Groningen who co-led the study.
ACE2 is a receptor on the surface of cells which binds to the new coronavirus and allows it to enter and infect cells.
Sama and Voors noted that as well as in the lung, ACE2 is found in the heart, kidneys, in tissues lining blood vessels, and in particularly high levels in the testes.
They said its presence in the testes might partially explain higher ACE2 concentrations in men, and why men are more vulnerable to COVID-19.
One in every 137 New Yorkers aged 45-64 has been hospitalized for covid19, and about .25% of the city's total population of 8.4 million has perished from the disease; while recent serology surveys suggest about 20% of New Yorkers have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 so far. pic.twitter.com/tYHFE9lJFc
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) May 10, 2020
Nationally, hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise once New York region is excluded from totals. New cases across the nation also continue to build, although some of that is function of more widespread testing. New York is showing sustained declines for more than two weeks pic.twitter.com/mPP2TwhBdh
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) May 10, 2020
This is why we do clinical trials. The comments below the post are a real eye-opener. If RECOVERY does confirm HCQ does not work as a treatment for COVID-19, I suspect there will still be people who refuse to believe it, for a multitude of reasons unrelated to science. https://t.co/OZdEREaQ4A
— Jake Dunning (@OutbreakJake) May 10, 2020
Speaking of unavoidably wet markets, spare a thought for the global fishing industry:
Frozen fare cold comfort for fishing industry battered by coronavirus https://t.co/NweEWAVkbH pic.twitter.com/gsuMs1yfM4
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 11, 2020
Shanghai Disney Theme park has reopened on Mon, making the world's first after over 100-day closure due to #coronavirus pandemic. All visitors must make appointments online. The daily traffic is strictly controlled at the 20% of the maximum capacity. pic.twitter.com/Lz0DwGFW8h
— People's Daily, China (@PDChina) May 11, 2020
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers: 70 new cases, of which 57 are from local infection and 13 are Malaysians returning from abroad; total 6,726 cases. 88 more patients recovered, total 5,113 or 76% of all cases. Of 1,504 active cases, 20 are in ICU and 7 of those are on respiratory assistance. One death, total 109 deaths; case fatality rate 2.09%.
DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah confirmed that Eid family gatherings in two weeks time must observe social distancing rules. My observation: masks, no shaking hands, staying more than a metre apart, all that is totally going to kill the Hari Raya vibe.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
Especially important to protect elderly family members. You can’t show them your love and respect in the traditional way, and that’s always been a big part of family celebrations here.
WereBear
@Amir Khalid: In NY, Governor Cuomo’s daily press briefing had his mother on via video conference.
At least we have that :)
Amir Khalid
@WereBear:
Traditionally the first thing you do after Eid prayers is visit family members’ graves. That is also off, because that amounts to a public gathering — and Eid is when Muslim cemeteries are absolutely crowded.
terben
From Australian Dept of Health:
‘As at 3:00pm on 11 May 2020, a total of 6,948 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 97 deaths and 6,179 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.
Over the past week, there has been an average of 18 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.
Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 62.5% have recent international travel history, including over 1,300 cases associated with cruise ships.
To date, over 855,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.8% have been positive.’
There were new cases in only two states today. NSW had 1 new case, but revised its numbers down by 1, so no change in the total. Victoria had 7 new cases, 4 of them among a quarantined group who arrived from overseas in the last week.
Tony Jay
Flobalob’s co-conspirators are already fanning out this morning to ‘explain’ how last night’s display of disingenuous cowardice was, simultaneously, both the crystal clear explanation the country needed to hear and just the broad outlines of a policy that will be filled in with detail as and when necessary. Truth to tell the slovenly fuckwit is in a difficult position; caught legs akimbo between the far-Right ‘Profit Before People’ ethos of his Party and its owner/donor caste that wants the proles put through the meatgrinder ASAP and the simple reality that this policy WILL blow the bloody doors off Britain’s already half-arsed Lockdown and guarantee a massive spike in infections/deaths over the next few weeks.
His answer, as always, is to leave the mess for his people in the Media to tidy up while he dodges any kind of oversight or contradiction by skipping Press Conferences and hiding out in a bottle of wine. To be fair, “Our policy is that lots of you should get sick and die” is pretty hard to sell, so why not just lie about it and rely on the large majority the Media just convinced the electorate to give you to spare you any consequences?
Stay Quiet – Protect Our Profits – Save Questions for Later
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid:
do you quarantine people coming into the country?
Sloane Ranger
So UK Government’s revised guidelines falling into confusion less than 24 hours after being issued as Cabinet Minister contradicts PM. Apparently people are encouraged to return to work from Wednesday, not today as per BoJo’s speech (or until guidelines on using public transport and safe working practices have been issued). Whichever comes later.
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
A 14-day quarantine is mandatory, but right now you’re only allowed into the country if you’re Malaysian. Foreign nationals have not been allowed in at all since the movement control order began.
Rusty
Amir Khalid
@Rusty:
Glad to hear the news. Hope your son keeps improving.
WereBear
@Rusty: I am so glad to hear the news! What a relief for your family: that sounds much more handleable.
Anne Laurie
@Rusty: That’s wonderful news about your son! (Seems odd to congratulate you, but you know what I mean… )
I had what was retroactively diagnosed as scarletina (systemic strep infection) back when I was young (1962 or ’63), and it was as miserable a sickness as I can remember enduring. Glad they figured out the proper treatment for your son in good time… and hope that he’ll be back to full health soon.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
That South Korea club story, sigh, leave to a guy thinking with his dick. The thrill he was doing something he knew is risky part of his night of fun?
Way to go edge lord.
Barbara
@Rusty: Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Amir Khalid
@Sloane Ranger:
I always thought the point of having staff at 10 Downing Street was to ensure that the Prime Minister made sense to the public. Or maybe I’m being naïve.
Mary G
@Rusty: Welcome news! Hope he does the kid thing of fast recovery. You and your wife must be so relieved.
Tony Jay
@Sloane Ranger:
When they’ve lost Phillip bloody Schofield…..
Tony Jay
@Rusty:
Oh, that’s great news. So chuffed for you.
Tony Jay
@Amir Khalid:
Would it surprise you to hear that Britain’s eminent rulers have allowed more than 18 million people to come in through the airports without even a gesture towards safety concerns?
I’m going to take a wild guess at “No, not surprised in the least”
Matt McIrvin
I’ve been watching the Massachusetts daily statistics dumps, and the gender breakdown is interesting: more of the men who get infected die, but the cases are more women than men in the first place, so the deaths are still slightly more women than men. I’m guessing that’s because jobs that involve high risk of exposure are more likely to be held by women.
Amir Khalid
@Tony Jay:
And your guess would be dead on. As a football fan, you must be appalled that BoJo is pushing this so-called Project Restart on the sport, I just don’t think completing the season is worth the risk involved. I also think that one player testing positive (as happened at Brighton) could take his club off the fixture list for weeks, throwing any restart into chaos.
Amir Khalid
L’Academie Française, which makes the rules for French grammar, has ruled that Covid-19 is a feminine noun, thus it’s la Covid-19 and not le Covid-19. So reporteth Agence France-Press, via The Guardian.
Brachiator
@Rusty:
This is very good news. Continued good thoughts.
satby
@Rusty: So relieved to hear that it’s treatable and he’ll be on the way to recovery. Thanks for the update, was thinking of you all. Keep us posted!
Tony Jay
@Amir Khalid:
Absolutely. The ‘money’ need to acknowledge that restarting the season just isn’t feasible.
Positions as they stand are final positions (The haters will just have to stick an asterisk next to Title 19 and find comfort in that)
No relegation (That aught to shut up the likes of Tory Brady and get things moving)
The top two in the Championship come up, plus one of the current 3 to 6 positions, chosen randomly (it’s the ‘fairest’ way)
If we do get a next season, behind closed doors if necessary, there are six relegation places (some of the relegation fodder won’t like it, but they’re getting a stay of execution and a chance to improve)
Just get it decided and move on to planning how Football can exist in a country where the Government seems to want to kill tens of thousands of people.
TS (the original)
@Rusty: Thank you for the update – so pleased to hear things are looking much better.
Sloane Ranger
@Rusty: So relieved for you. I hope the step clears up quickly for him.
Auntie Anne
@Rusty: So great to hear the good news!
Sloane Ranger
@Amir Khalid: Once, it used to be true but no more. This PM listens to his political advisers more than to his civil servants. And, in recent years, the higher reaches of the civil service have become increasingly politicized anyway.
WaterGirl
@Rusty: Oh my gosh, what a relief! Still serious, of course, but so much better than COVID.
I had always heard that there was a scary thing related to (I think) joints and rashes if strep goes untreated, but I never knew what it was.
WereBear
@WaterGirl: Rheumatic fever
Shalimar
While I do like her comedy with lip-syncing his words, I would also love to see people with talented 8 year-olds get their children to read Trump’s gibberish. It would be funnier in a child-s voice.
YY_Sima Qian
@Rusty: That is great news! Also a reminder that not everything is related to COVID-19.
YY_Sima Qian
The four of the 10 new domestic confirmed cases reported by China yesterday are associated with new cluster at Shulan in Jilin Province: 1 case at Shulan, 2 exported cases to the neighboring Jilin City, and 1 exported case to Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province (also in Northeastern China). According to the case reports, all four had been out and about, going to work, visiting shopping malls, eating at restaurants, and jointing gatherings, before being traced and isolated. So, expect more confirmed and asymptomatic cases to be reported in the coming weeks, possibly from all three cities. The affected district in Jilin City is now deemed a Medium Risk area.
As the news reports indicate, the 5 new domestic confirmed cases in Wuhan were all from the same residential compound, including the wife of the case reported on May 9 (reclassified from asymptomatic). It is not clear how the 6 cases from the compound are related to each other, so there is potentially community spread both within the compound, and from the compound to other communities and locations (because people have gone back to work, or going shopping again). Interestingly, all 5 cases yesterday had tested positive back on May 5 – May 7, and were deemed asymptomatic. I am a bit suspicious why they all turned confirmed on the same day. Two of the cases visited hospitals due to dizziness and exhaustion (the earliest on May 4), they should have been deemed symptomatic been confirmed as soon as they tested positive on PCR. I hope the Wuhan government was not trying to hold off doing CT scans on these cases, in hope of not breaking the streak of days of 0 new confirmed cases. The affected compound is under lockdown, and the affected district is now a Medium Risk area.
At least these cases have been in isolation for several days. It appears the authorities is in the process of testing all 5000 residents of the compound, to be completed in the coming days. 2 of the cases were found in the community screening, another two were traced close contacts. The question is, have infected residents seeded other clusters elsewhere?
Local authorities seem to have successfully contained the clusters at Harbin and Mudanjiang in Heilingjiang Province, and the bigger outbreak in the African immigrant community in Guangzhou in Guangdong Province. Here is hoping that the Test, Trace, Isolate strategy continue to be effective. I really do not want to go back under lock down!
The whack-a-mole continues…
Miss Bianca
@Rusty: Glad to hear they figured out what was going on – best wishes for his speedy recovery.
tokyokie
@Rusty: As wonderful news as could be hoped for with a seriously ill child. Dealing with an underlying strep infection, especially if it’s an antibiotic resistant strain, as well as Kawasaki (-ish) syndrome is frightening enough, but having to address a viral infection for which there are no agreed-upon treatment protocols as well as Kawasaki is unimaginably terrifying.
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@Rusty: So glad to hear the good news. What a relief for you and Mrs. Rusty.
Another Scott
@Rusty: Excellent news. Thanks for letting us know.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
” about .25% of the city’s total population of 8.4 million has perished from the disease ” in Gottlieb’s tweet above.
People should always, always use a leading “0” for things like that. It’s far too easy to miss that teeny, tiny decimal point when it’s there by itself. I’d be astounded if he wasn’t taught that in school.
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@Tony Jay: It really was a stunningly bad address. (Roughly) “Return to work if you can’t work at home, but don’t use public transit…” How exactly was that supposed to work? We all laugh at the scene in Monty Python’s “Meaning of Life” in the classroom where they’re told to move their clothes onto the lower peg (if certain conditions are satisfied), but that was satire. Directions to the nation in a pandemic aren’t supposed to take that as an example…
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Amir Khalid: This is consistent with the informal rule I learned as a young student of French: a negative phenomenon or event is more likely to be feminine. La catastrophe, la crise, la calamité, la douleur, la peste, etc. There are plenty of exceptions, but if you have to guess about a word for something bad, sticking a feminine article in front is the safer bet.
I can’t guess the etymological grounding of their decision. “Virus” is masculine, but “maladie” – disease – is feminine.
SWMBO
@Rusty: My brother had abnormal strep when he was 7 years old. Fever, aches, no rash, and negative strep swab in the throat. My parents went through almost a year of trying to find out why he was intermittently sick. The local doctor decided he had childhood leukemia. They had an appointment at St. Judes for him and were getting ready to go for removal of his lymph glands and chemo. Then I got sick. Doc came in and felt my lymph glands and said I had the same thing. Like hell I did!!. My dad took me to another doctor who sent off blood to California. About two weeks later they came back with the strep diagnoses. Put my brother and me on streptomycin and some other antibiotic for (I think) 120 days. They kept us on it until we both tested clear. Good luck. Sounds like your doctors know what to do for him.
Yutsano
@Rusty: O frabjous day! Callo! Callay! You chortled in your joy!
Excellent news! Thank you for the update.