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The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

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They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Thursday-Friday, July 16-17

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  2. 2.

    J R in WV

    And good morning everyone!

    I’m going to town, but not for a while now. If it was a little earlier I would drive up onto the ridge to look at the comet, I think it’s clear outside, but I don’t realy have the pep to do that and also go to town later.

    After some intertubing here on Balloon Juice I’ll go back to bed in a little while.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    Most cases reported over most recent 24 hours (as of 15 minutes ago).

    U.S. ~78k
    Brazil ~45k
    India ~34k
    South Africa ~13k
    Colombia ~11k
    Russia ~7k
    .

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. 18 new cases, a huge number by the recent standard. Eight cases from local infection: six Malaysians and two non-Malaysians. 10 cases from imported infection: seven Malaysians returning from Australia (4), Kazakhstan (2), and Qatar (1); three non-Malaysians, two crew members on the LNG tanker Jupiter and one non-Malaysian coming in from Pakistan. Cumulative total 8,755 cases.

    Three more patients recovered and were discharged, total 8,541 patients recovered or 97.6% of the cumulative total. 92 active and contagious cases are in hospital for isolation/treatment; three are in ICU, none is receiving respiratory assistance.

    No new deaths for the sixth day since the single death that broke the clean streak going back to 14 June. Total remains 122 deaths. Infection fatality rate is 1.39%, case fatality rate is 1.41%.

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    Why would you want to go to Canada anyway, when we live in the greatest country in the world?

    If the Trump campaign thing doesn’t work out, this Hogan Gidley chap has a great future in the wonderful new genre of delusional comedy.

  6. 6.

    YY_Sima Qian

    China National Health Commission reported the 1 domestic confirmed and 3 domestic asymptomatic cases from Urumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region that I mentioned in the comments to yesterday’s COVID-19 post. Today, Xinjiang Regional Health Commission reported an additional 5 confirmed and 8 asymptomatic cases from the cluster, all from the identified close contacts who have been placed under centralized quarantine in the past couple of days. In all, the Urumqi cluster has 6 confirmed and 11 asymptomatic cases to date, plus the asymptomatic case exported to Zhejiang Province. 135 individuals are under medical observation. No case summaries have been published yet, and no idea who/what caused the cluster. Residential compounds in across the city have been placed under lock down or restricted access management for 1 week, starting from midnight last night. Similar measures are implemented as far as Kashgar, several hundred kilometers away. It is a bit surprising that the authorities are returning to a more brute force approach to the outbreak at Urumqi, after the more targeted scalable response at Beijing. Then again, perhaps there is not a single epicenter to the Urumqi outbreak (we do not know without the case reports), unlike Xinfadi in Beijing. Furthermore, brute force characterizes much of the CCP regime’s rule in Xinjiang. There was only several hours of warning to the city wide lock down, leading residents to crowd supermarkets and grocery stores to stock up, which is counterproductive from epidemic containment perspective.

    Surely mass screening will be employed at Urumqi, but it bears watching how the authorities will handle the screenings at Uighur neighborhoods. The authorities have gone to great lengths to prevent any mass gathering of Uighurs at any time (except officially santsctioned even), including using mass surveillance supported by AI to that end. However, mass screening will inevitably involve mass gatherings. Even with a heavy police and paramilitary presence, chances of unrest cannot be ignored. Perhaps the authorities will go door to door to collect swab samples, or set up pop up testing sites in compounds (as was done in Wuhan’s mass screening), rather than asking residents to gather at centralized testing sites (as was the case in Beijing). The lock down will facilitate sample collection within residences.

    China also reported 9 imported confirmed and 2 imported asymptomatic cases:
    Guangzhou in Guangdong Province: 4 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from the US
    Shanghai Municipality: 1 confirmed case, Chinese national returning from the Philippines
    Liangyungang in Jiangsu Province: 1 confirmed case, a Philippines national, possibly a crew member off a cargo ship
    Qingdao in Shandong Province: 1 confirmed case, imported from Russia
    Beihai in Guangxi Province: 1 confirmed case, an Indian national, crew member off a cargo ship
    Xi’an in Shaanxi Province: 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the US via Brussels
    Xiamen in Fujian Province: 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Singapore

  7. 7.

    Chyron HR

    Russia trying to hack and steal COVID-19 vaccine data: A statement from Britain, the U.S. and Canada attributed the attacks to group APT29, also known as ‘Cozy Bear’, which they said was almost certainly operating as part of Russian intelligence services

    Meanwhile at the GRU’s secret lair:

    “Tovarisch, I think you had better take a look at this.”

    “What is it, comrade?”

    “We’ve hacked the Americans’ vaccine research and… it’s just beans.”

    “I am not familiar with that idiom.”

    “No, it’s just pictures of beans. Cans of beans. All of it.”

    “My god.”

  8. 8.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Dump spent Wednesday campaigning in Georgia.

    Actions speak louder than words.   His internal polling for Georgia must be in the toilet.

  9. 9.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Hong Kong continues to see the recent outbreak expand, 67 new cases (63 from local transmission) yesterday, and 58 cases (50 from local transmission) today. It is not slowing down, but not rapidly acceleration, either.

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    Mary G

    Reports on Twitter that unidentified ?federal? operatives are in Portland snatching protesters off the street, stuffing them into plain rented vans and taking them who knows where. This plus the COVID news – it’s so embarrassing that California is now at the level of Arizona and Florida – is really hard to handle for me.

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    terben

    From the Australian Dept of Health:

    ‘As at 3pm on 17 July 2020, a total of 11,235 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 116 deaths, and 8,117 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Over the past week, there has been an average of 273 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.
    • Following the peak of cases at the end of March, there have been a relatively low number of new cases reported daily between mid-April and early-June 2020. Cases have been increasing since mid-June.
    • Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 45% have recent international travel history, including over 1,300 cases associated with cruise ships.
    • To date, over 3,350,000 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.3% have been positive.’

    Another bad day in Victoria today.  428 of 438 new cases in Oz were in Victoria. There have been 9 deaths in the last 7 days.

  13. 13.

    prostratedragon

    Brianna: “…If you want to get away from coronavirus you might.”

    I’m enjoying the increased snappishness of some of our media commentators these days. Gives me hope.

  15. 15.

    Brachiator

    Now things get interesting as more countries re-open. In California many new cases are associated with the workplace, food production areas and factories. The places where people are returning to work. This may be true other places as well.

    Also in California, hair and nail salons are asking that rules be suspended that prevent them from setting up outside and serving customers. We will see if this is addressed at the governor’s noon briefing.

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    gkoutnik

    Not only do nearly 1/3rd of teens test + for #SARSCoV2 now in Florida, but remarkably 7% of infants under 1 year of age do! I think this is a WORLD first.

    This made me sit up straight. If it were true, it certainly would be a world first, and a whole new ballgame, especially in a state that’s going back to school.

    A comment on that tweet suggested that the percentages were of positive cases, not of total population, as the tweet implies.  Those with more skills can dive deeper.  Still a lot, especially with schools opening.

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    prostratedragon

    @gkoutnik:  Yes, I looked at the chart linked to, and what it seems to be is a breakdown by age of hospitalized cases during the entire pandemic. So 7% of the hospitalized (young people only?) were under 1 year old.

    ____

    Ready, fire, aim: Yes, the survey was of children under 18.

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    satby

    a covid truther yesterday showed me a report in USA Today saying some lab in (FL?) was reporting 100% positives in all the tests they performed, thereby proving that it’s all fake news and arglebargle. Anyone hear about that? The true story, I mean. Makes me wonder if the attempts to falsify data went wrong.

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    Gvg

    @gkoutnik: there has been reporting here in Florida, that many smaller private labs that have recently been contracted to do some of the testing, were only reporting positive test results. Supposedly they are being told they are supposed to report all test results. Also later reporting said that they were a small enough percent of the total testing that our overall % positive would still be as high.
    That said, I currently have doubts about the numbers and it’s not just because of the Governor or the President trying to improve appearances.
    We are trying to ramp up testing and reporting uniformly is hard. I do know my University employer I’d doing it’s own testing.

  22. 22.

    Gvg

    @satby: see just below your comments.

    reporters spotted the multiple labs with 100% positives and looked into it the way our press is supposed to work! New contracted small private labs thought they were only supposed to report positives. Because of the reporters doing their jobs, this is supposedly being fixed. It’s only been a few days though so I can’t tell yet.

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    Amir Khalid

    @satby:

    100% positivity would mean that everyone tested by the lab had the virus, which seems as unlikely to me as it does to you. I suspect contaminated samples or test apparatus i.e. a lab run by incompetents. Either that, or Fake News™.

  25. 25.

    Laura Too

    @Amir Khalid:  Happy Birthday! I so appreciate your comments here. I rarely get a chance to comment before threads die, but I do hope you see this!

  28. 28.

    low-tech cyclist

    Kayleigh McEnany: “[Trump’s] historic Covid response speaks for itself.”

    Well, that’s one thing that Covid Barbie and I agree on.

  30. 30.

    VOR

    @Amir Khalid: Conspiracy theory I saw on Facebook is testing swabs arriving already infected w/COVID. Concept is all tests will then be positive. I keep wondering how many dead it will take before these people admit COVID is real. 140k dead clearly isn’t enough yet.

  31. 31.

    chopper

    His historic Covid response speaks for itself.

    well, she is right about that. just not the way she thinks.

  32. 32.

    piratedan

    @Amir Khalid: actually its pretty easy… you get some memo from some government agency that is unclear in regards to the guidelines for reporting.  Say they indicate that when reporting to the HHS, they “only” want to see the positive numbers.  Some poor overworked dweebie takes that to heart and they only send the agency those samples that have come back positive but never supply the total number of tests nor the number of inconclusives.

    speaking to heart about this, a person on my support team has been creating and sending government agencies all COVID related data being performed by our hospitals.  the thing is, the STATE and the HHS and CDC and FEMA all have different ideas on what they want on their reports.  we’re on version 15 of the State report, version 8 for HHS and version 12 for the CDC.  They keep moving the goalposts because they are all tracking and compiling different angles of this.  This is going to continue to be a moving target until we have people in charge who have the desire to coordinate and provide one face to this.

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