somebody in 2100 is going to specialize in collecting these https://t.co/nMyJAf9lYq
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) June 18, 2020
If you imagine we didn’t have one country, but 4, it would explain why people have been reacting differently.
Disbelief when on the way up/fragility when on the way down.
Per ?@COVID19Tracking? pic.twitter.com/0wbtY3DdRD
— Andy Slavitt @ ?? (@ASlavitt) June 17, 2020
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— Reuters (@Reuters) June 19, 2020
Here are 5 states we looked at closely today.
Cases and hospitalizations are tracking closely in TX, AZ, and the Carolinas, but not in California. California's positive rate also has not gone up. pic.twitter.com/xqOUjRWpbo
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) June 18, 2020
Another article this time out of Seattle about the low #COVID19 test positivity among protesters.
“Fewer than 1% of Seattle protesters test positive for coronavirus” https://t.co/vGyh5RLGpz
— Dr. Oni #YouBrokeTheContract Blackstock (@DrOniBee) June 18, 2020
Early coronavirus testing data from a handful of U.S. cities and states suggest that recent protests against racial injustices haven't yet led to a marked uptick in new cases https://t.co/fYIkkuyAwU
— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) June 18, 2020
So much to be done on communication re potential COVID19 vaccines
New poll: most Americans expect a vaccine in 2021 but only 49% plan to get vaccinated. 31% unsure
Black Americans, disproportionately vulnerable to #COVID19, most likely to say will forgohttps://t.co/OgA79libll pic.twitter.com/DLMrIFe4jk
— Tom Bollyky (@TomBollyky) June 18, 2020
so weird, it's almost like there was a swift and well-organized government response in 2009 https://t.co/Qo25NwhfUv
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) June 18, 2020
H1N1 killed about 12,500 Americans. Coronavirus has killed 119,000 Americans and counting in a much shorter span of time. https://t.co/df5L7FRZsS
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 18, 2020
Nearly 500 Russian medical workers are suspected to have died after contracting the virus, more than 4 times the number announced previously. If true, Russia’s overall death rate may also be considerably higher than reported. https://t.co/EMawAZWhX8
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 19, 2020
The way forward? Beijing's renewed restrictions in the face of a cluster of #Covid19 cases may be showing us what the near future may look like. https://t.co/QGJvgMvcKt
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) June 18, 2020
From The Lancet: Study from Chinese city of Guangzhou provides key insights on how #COVID19 spreads in households https://t.co/In6NsU4uzo via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 18, 2020
Japan lifts coronavirus travel curbs to help economy bounce back https://t.co/1pIJhixMJS pic.twitter.com/UzMsNjaSS3
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 19, 2020
Coronavirus: India's Chennai re-enters lockdown as cases spike https://t.co/gEKnTgHCTm
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 19, 2020
New Zealand reports fresh coronavirus case as more quarantine breaches emerge https://t.co/5gYJMzDTFG
— Guardian Australia (@GuardianAus) June 18, 2020
Restrictions ease in South Africa despite rise in coronavirus cases https://t.co/3jLqpf4S6r
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 18, 2020
Brazil nears 50,000 coronavirus deaths and 1 million cases https://t.co/DCJbcN95aQ pic.twitter.com/eOVgHJ2lvm
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 19, 2020
Clinicians identify pink eye as possible #COVID19 primary symptom. Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology reports conjunctivitis ranks as a key symptom along w/ cough/shortness of breath. Cells in the eyes have ACE2 receptors the virus uses to infect cells https://t.co/m0Q9Crh8zG pic.twitter.com/KSOLEHhi9R
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 19, 2020
As global race for a coronavirus vaccine intensifies, rich countries are rushing to place advance orders for initial supplies – leaving significant questions about what access to vaccine supplies developing countries will get. By Maria Cheng & me: https://t.co/jRmkIiNeSb
— Christina Larson 可心 (@larsonchristina) June 18, 2020
The hunt for #COVID19 treatments & vaccines now involves dozens of candidate drugs and more than 100 vax candidates https://t.co/kMBuwaXgJI via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 19, 2020
This graphic is stunning. Here is the wider story. https://t.co/V5wCXSodxL pic.twitter.com/CyTk86dEvQ
— Josh Busby (@busbyj2) June 18, 2020
Oklahoma, soon to be site of Trump's Tulsa rally, actually had testing go down, even as cases are rising. pic.twitter.com/xD7zYrcq1X
— Josh Busby (@busbyj2) June 18, 2020
Wishing won't make it so: Experts are concerned that the White House's counterfactual messaging about #Covid19 will prolong the country's pain. https://t.co/PvPR8Ysipf
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) June 18, 2020
The sheriff in the hat announced he has #COVID19 one day after breathing on Trump and lots of other high-risk anti-maskers https://t.co/b2ynojEYEv pic.twitter.com/fxaREdQSwD
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 18, 2020
come on, we have to be better about not just injecting these ideas into the media ecosystem without the context that they are completely fabricated and politically self serving, right? https://t.co/wVIL8jBPAt
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) June 19, 2020
He's not even trying to pretend at this point https://t.co/KGWIjyzAeF
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 19, 2020
Just a reminder that Trump and the people around him are still tested constantly to keep him safe while he repeats this utter bullshit to the public. https://t.co/yXFHhkVeRI
— Ben Dowsett (@Ben_Dowsett) June 19, 2020
Like many states, Texas has a big "Click it or Ticket" campaign to get people to buckle up. The site claims the initiative "has saved 5,856 lives, prevented more than 100,000 serious injuries and saved Texas more than $21.7 billion in related economic costs."
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) June 17, 2020
It would be like the US govt saying every big restaurant & store chain in the US will have to install disinfecting stations and plexiglass unless states make masks mandatory. The corporations would get that shit passed in a week.
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) June 17, 2020
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers. Six new cases: four from local infection, all Malaysians; two imported infections, one Malaysian and one permanent resident. Total 8,535 cases.
70 more patients recovered and were discharged, total 8,070 recovered or 94.6% of all cases. There are 344 active and contagious cases left, of whom three are in ICU and no one is on a ventilator. No deaths for a fifth consecutive day, total is still 121 deaths. Infection fatality rate is 1.42%, case fatality rate is 1.22%.
DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said at today’s media conference that Malaysia is in discussion with six countries for a mutual opening of borders: Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan. Malaysia will need to reach a reciprocal agreement with each of these countries on Covid-19 containment protocols so that people can travel between Malaysia and the other country.
terben
From the Australian Dept of Health:
‘As at 3:00pm on 19 June 2020, a total of 7,409 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 102 deaths and 6,880 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.
18 new cases today in 2 states. Community transmission in Victoria only. 15 cases in hospital in 3 states, 2 in ICU and both ventilated in Victoria.
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid: .
You all should stay closed.
I appreciate your daily report.
Reminds me that competence still exists.
OzarkHillbilly
The “No Contact Communion Host Dispenser” reminds me of the conversation I had with my neighbor early on in the pandemic about attending mass and receiving communion.
SiubhanDuinne
@OzarkHillbilly:
Necessity is the virgin mother of invention.
Andrew Johnston
Just surfacing again, now that the usual CCP censorship has eased off the slightest bit. Well, I’m pretty well trapped. The plan was to go home for the summer as I’ll have nothing else to do. However, while there’s technically nothing to stop me from leaving the country, I probably won’t have such an easy time coming back. On top of that, every flight available has an amazing number of stopovers and is INCREDIBLY expensive. So I guess I’m sitting alone on an empty campus yet again. Good for me.
But maybe that’s the smart money, after all. Latest news is that they found (by accident) four new cases in my small hometown, and the city elders decided to open up the public pool. This is why Chinese people think we’re deranged.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us
It seems clear that by doing three things we could get the transmission rate for this below 1 and cases would shrink to near zero: no large indoor gatherings, universal wearing of masks when out in public, and staying 6 feet or more apart. But, due to callous indifference, ideology, ignorance, misinformation, carelessness, or just plain laziness…we can’t manage to do 2 and 3. I mean, wearing a mask is mildly uncomfortable but nothing compared to, for example, the rationing that went on during WWII.
Staying 6 feet or more apart is a mild inconvenience – but again nothing to WWII rationing. I do my best. The most challenging situations are fast moving pedestrians (runners) and cyclists who are careless (they’re not all careless but the ones who are pose a problem) – they move too fast for me to take evasive action and if that’s you, well you have an affirmative duty to respect my space, but a lot of them don’t. I know transmission outdoors sans long exposure is rare but still…fuck…it’s not that hard to stay away from people – you’re out there to get exercise so get a little more by giving me some space.
The other issue when out walking the dog is bottlenecks. I swear I seem to be the only person in my neighborhood with the combination of spacial analysis and problem solving skills to realize that yes, you can halt your forward progress and wait for a bottleneck to clear. Or scoot 6 feet up into a driveway or someone’s yard. Or even reverse course and backtrack. These are all options that are easy to work out with a moment’s thought, and effective at maintaining social distancing, but nobody seems able too figure any of them out. So I’m always the one waiting, or moving aside, etc., and it’s frustrating sometimes but in all it probably costs me at most 2 minutes of time a day. That’s basically nothing. If it saves a life it’s worth it.
Future generations are going to read about this epidemic and think “those folks could have saved tens of thousands – maybe hundreds of thousands – of lives by dealing with the mild discomfort of wearing masks and going 6 whole feet out of their way on occasion, and they didn’t think the tradeoff was worth it? What monsters.”
Amir Khalid
@rikyrah:
Malaysia is now in a recovery phase of its movement control order. We’re slowly and carefully reopening business and activity sectors, subject to the development and enforcement of standard operating procedures to prevent contagion. We’ve already allowed interstate travel within Peninsular Malaysia, after closing state borders for some three months. I think that with the same kind of careful planning, we should be able to reopen borders with a few other countries that are managing the pandemic reasonably well. The long-term post-pandemic goal is of course to reopen to all other countries, but I’m sure that is still a long way off.
Brachiator
Focus on Los Angeles County
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed on Thursday that the region has surpassed the grim milestone of 3,000 confirmed deaths from coronavirus. Just days before, California as a whole surpassed 5,000 deaths.
The public health department also revealed on Thursday that there were 1,051 confirmed new cases of COVID-19. That’s a big drop from some of the record numbers seen in the past week.
County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer reported 2,126 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday. That included 600 delayed cases from one testing lab. And there were 1633 new cases in the county last Friday, the third-highest one day total since the outbreak began. That number included 500 delayed cases from one lab.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) has confirmed 36 new deaths and 1,051 new cases of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Twenty-six people who died were over the age of 65 years old, seven people who died were between the ages of 41 and 65 years old, and one person who died was between the ages of 18 and 40 years old. Thirty-one people had underlying health conditions including 25 people over the age of 65 years old and six people between the ages of 41 to 65 years old. One death was reported by the City of Long Beach and one death was reported by the City of Pasadena.
There are 1,429 people who are currently hospitalized, 29% of these people are in the ICU and 22% are on ventilators. Testing capacity continues to increase in LA County, with testing results available for nearly 868,000 individuals and 8% of people testing positive.
L.A. County’s press release also gave the go-ahead for bars, tattoo parlors, nail salons and other adjacent personal services to reopen on Friday.
Bruce K
This may sound utterly selfish, but I’m looking at nations that are updating their travel restrictions practically on a daily basis, and wishing that DHS would revisit their entry-to-the-US regulations, which haven’t been updated since fbeeping mid-March. They’re still calling for quarantine from any nation in the Schengen zone based on the theory of open borders between Schengen countries, which have been locked down for months now.
There are people back home I want to see – need to see – and it’s infuriating to not be able to get a straight answer, even as to whether a negative COVID test would supersede quarantine restrictions. (Greece is apparently considering doing that for some entries … not that US citizens are currently allowed in, not that I can blame the Greek government for that.)
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, Beijing reported 25 new domestic confirmed cases, as well as 2 new suspect and 2 new asymptomatic cases. 21 of the confirmed cases are connected to the Xinfadi produce exchange, epidemiological investigation continues for the remaining 4. Hebei Province reported 2 new asymptomatic cases, both vendors at Xinfadi. Liaoning Province reported 1 new confirmed case, a meat inspect who shared a train ride with two colleagues, who are the 2nd and 3rd cases at the Xinfadi outbreak. Mass screening of employees and vendors at produce markets and supermarkets across the city havs yet to uncover additional cases, belying those with direct connections to Xinfadi. There is a cluster at a restaurant in Xicheng District, one person who shopped at Xinfadi infected 7 of her coworkers. Environmental samples from Xinfadi show positive results highly concentrated at the seafood and fish section.
To date, the new outbreak in Beijing has exported 12 confirmed and 6 asymptomatic cases to Hebei, 3 confirmed cases to Liaoning, 1 confirmed case to Zhejiang, 1 asymptomatic case to Henan, 1 confirmed and 1 suspect cases to Sichuan. There has not been any clusters found, other than family units, at these provinces.
Nevertheless, it will be quite a hassle for Beijingere to visit other parts of the country for quite some time into the future. Many parts of Xinjiang still ban visitors from Hubei without a 14 day quarantine, and visitors from Beijing have just been added to the mandatory quarantine list.
Laura Too
View from MN
My Covid test (taken Wednesday) came back negative. I have been to outdoor protests, vigils and marches and volunteered indoors for food banks. All masked, all physically distanced. Smoke and teargas the first 5 days. I know I am lucky, but at least here the RWNJ won’t be able to use it against us. They are doing massive testing in all of the neighborhoods most affected by protests. Love wins this round.
Jinchi
Count me in the 31% for any vaccine greenlit by the Trump administration. Trump is desperate for positive PR, utterly dismissive of the requirement that a cure be safe and effective, has twisted arms at the CDC and FDA to waive health standards to ok unproven medicines, and has repeatedly and emphatically taken actions that made this pandemic worse.
Jinchi
Glad to hear it. It seems like the widespread use of masks at the protests has paid off.
WaterGirl
@Andrew Johnston: What does your first sentence mean? What is CCP?
different-church-lady
That’s the thing I always liked about the Catholic ceremony: you get snacks.
WaterGirl
@Laura Too: That’s great news!
That made me tear up, and not from tear gas.
Laura Too
@WaterGirl: I think Chinese Communist Party
Laura Too
@WaterGirl: Thanks! I have heard from some bitter right wing relatives that we were going to get a UGGGGGEEEEE spike from the protests and I said we were all masked. Of course they don’t believe in masks.
Kirk Spencer
Here in Texas, Abbot is once more going to be saved by the Democratic leaders of the major population centers. After three weeks of insisting everyone open some and watching the numbers climb he’s grudgingly given limitedpl permission to require masks. And those leaders have taken him up on it – after all, they’re the ones who asked for it
It’ll help.
WaterGirl
@Laura Too: Maybe we can shoot them all into the sun and tell them that gravity stopped working. I mean, you can’t see it, so how can we be sure it’s really a thing? :-)
Fair Economist
@Kirk Spencer: Not clear that will save Abbott this time. The OP shows the epidemic is moving from Clinton counties to Trump counties, where the mayors aren’t Democratic. Mask orders in the cities aren’t going to protect the people falling ill in exurbs and rural areas. We are seeing something like that in California. Up to now, our epidemic has mostly been in LA county, but our latest jump in cases is coming from other counties all over the state. LA county probably has roughly flat true cases and is seeing declines in the death rate.