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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Friday-Saturday, July 17-18

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I think we can agree this is for the best, really…

… The 18 states that are included in the red zone for cases in the document are: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.

The 11 states that are in the red zone for test positivity are Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas and Washington.

In May, the World Health Organization recommended that governments make sure test positivity rates were at 5 percent or lower for 14 days before reopening. A COVID-19 tracker from Johns Hopkins University shows that 33 states were above that recommended positivity as of July 16…

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  1. 1.

    terben

    From the Australian Dept of Health:

    ‘As at 3pm on 18 July 2020, a total of 11,441 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 118 deaths, and 8,161 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Over the past week, there has been an average of 274 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.
    • COVID-19 cases were reported across all ages.
      • The median age of all cases is 40 years (range: 0 to 101 years).
      • The median age of deaths is 80 years (range: 42 to 96 years).
    • There is a relatively equal ratio of male-to-female cases across most age groups.
    • 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 increased 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.
    • The overall proportion of cases under investigation in each state and territory is relatively low, indicating that public health actions, including case identification and contact tracing, is occurring in a timely manner.
    • To date, over 3,413,500 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.3% have been positive.’

    235 new cases in Australia today and 3 deaths. The highest number of cases is again in Victoria, with 217. After some cases were reclassified, there was a net increase of 217.

  3. 3.

    OzarkHillbilly

    He’s not worried about cases.”

    I think it’s safe to say that’s bullshit.

  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. Nine new cases. Five cases from local infection. Four Malaysians consisting of three cases from two clusters in Sarawak and one detected in pre-surgical screening at a hospital; one non-Malaysian, a Chinese national screened prior to travel abroad.  Four cases from imported infection: three Malaysians returning from Indonesia (2) and Singapore, one non-Malaysian returning from Pakistan. Cumulative total 8,764 cases.

    Five more patients recovered and were discharged, total 8,546 recovered or 97.5% of the cumulative total. 96 active and contagious cases are in hospital for isolation/treatment; one patient is in ICU, but not receiving respiratory assistance.

    No new deaths; total stands at 122 deaths. Infection fatality rate is 1.39%, case fatality rate is 1.41%.

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    Cumulative total of 14,000,000 confirmed cases reported worldwide will be passed this weekend.

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    @FelonyGovt:

    This is just Trump doing what he always does when he’s been defeated: slink away and hope everyone forgets about it. Which is of course not going to happen this time.

  11. 11.

    Cameron

    Of course he doesn’t want to be distracted by it.  There’s Fox News to watch, golf to be played, rallies to be held, minorities to be attacked…..people don’t appreciate how busy this man is.

  12. 12.

    WereBear

    @Amir Khalid:

    This is just Trump doing what he always does when he’s been defeated: slink away and hope everyone forgets about it. Which is of course not going to happen this time.

     
    One of my favorite Will Rogers quotes comes to mind:

    Stupid got us into this. Why can’t stupid get us out?

  13. 13.

    ThresherK

    (Trump’s) not really working this anymore. He’s not calling and asking about data. He’s not worried about cases.

    Bold of anyone to assume he ever was.

    I miss a Democratic State Department.

  14. 14.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, Urumqi In Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 16 new domestic confirmed cases and 8 new domestic asymptomatic cases. At noon time today, the city reported an additional 12 new domestic asymptomatic cases. The brings the Urumqi outbreak total to 17 confirmed cases and 23 asymptomatic cases (plus one asymptomatic case exported to Zhejiang Province). All of the cases within the past 36 hours have been discovered from identified close contacts, already under quarantine and medical observation. 263 individuals are currently identified as close contacts and placed under quarantine. I still have not seen any case summaries, so I cannot decipher the distribution of the cases and transmission chains, though the cases seem to be concentrated in the very large Tianshan District.

    All residential compounds in Urumqi have been placed under lock down (residents can access the common areas, but not enter or exit compounds), community and property management have taken over responsibility of deliver of delivery into food and daily necessities to residents.

    Urumqi is embarking on a mass screening campaign, much like the one Beijing has just gone through, starting with testing all residents and travelers in Tianshan District. As with Beijing, Wuhan and other cities in China are sending personnel to Urumqi to collect samples and run tests.

    Beijing reported a new domestic asymptomatic case yesterday, so the Xinfadi outbreak is not completely snuffed our, yet.

    Chkna also reported 6 new imported confirmed and 5 new imported asymtomatic cases:

    Yantai in Shandong Province: 2 confirmed cases, Filipino crew members off a cargo ship

    Qingdao in Shandong Province: 1 confirmed case, Russian crew member off a cargo ship

    Fuzhou in Fujian Province: 1 confirmed case, a Chinese National returning from the US

    Guangzhou in Guangdong Province: 1 confirmed and 4 asymptomatic cases, confirmed case is Chinese National returning from the Philippines, and 3 asymptomatic cases are Chinese nationals returning from Singapore, and 1 from the Philippines

    Zhuhai in Guangdong Province: 2 confirmed cases, both Hong Kong residents

    Hong Kong reported 64 cases today, 60 from local transmission, with transmission chain not yet identified for 35 of them. There are an additional 60 cases preliminarily identified, not yet formally reported. Macau and Main Chinese cities around the Pearl River Delta are requiring all visitors from Hong Kong To go under centralized quarantine for 14 days.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    @Amir Khalid: Why is the reported IFR and CFR in Malaysia almost the same? Infection fatality rate is calculated using an estimated value for number of infected persons, normally a significantly larger number than the confirmed cases. Is Malaysia really confident that nearly every single infected person is being identified?

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    @YY_Sima Qian:

    The Health Ministry is calculating the IFR from deaths reported divided by confirmed cases. When I divide the reported deaths by the total of cases reported, the percentage I get matches what they give. I calculate the CFR myself from deaths divided by resolved cases, per the definition as I understand it.

  18. 18.

    RSA

    Spend money up front on supply chains, PPE, masks, and propping up businesses OR…

    New aphorism needed:

    An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure death.

  19. 19.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Amir Khalid: OK. In that case, deaths divided by total cases is Crude Fatality Rate. Deaths divided by total resolved cases is Case Fatality Rate. Deaths divided by the total guesstimated number of infection is Infection Fatality Rate. That is why IFR is estimated to be anywhere from 0.5% to 1.2% around the world, but CFR is anywhere from > 1% to > 10%, depending on the testing rate ( and leaving aside the few countries with very limited cases and no fatalities, such as Vietnam).

  20. 20.

    Skepticat

    There’s been a small uptick (to a total of 116) in the Bahamas because people are coming in from the States, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them to slam down travel in again before long. This old New Englander is having real trouble dealing with the Bahamian heat, especially as we haven’t had power since September 2019 (thanks, Dorian), but the thought of returning to the States and having to drive the length of the East Coast to Maine with three cats is intimidating. I’d plan to drink a hella lot of coffee and make only one stop (with friends in Virginia) on the way, and my isolated island should be safe, but it’s still daunting.

  21. 21.

    Robert Sneddon

    The UK is reporting 13 deaths of confirmed COVID-19 sufferers in the past 24 hours, all of them in England. The deaths were of people aged between 49 and 96 years old, all with underlying health problems. The numbers reported on Sunday and Monday are usually down because some offices are closed for the weekend and reports don’t get through to the central authorities in a timely manner.

     

    The numbers for Scotland are zero deaths, 21 new confirmed cases, 305 people in hospital with confirmed or suspected COVID-19, eight of whom are in intensive care. Pubs and restaurants are open for indoor eating and drinking with the First Minister continuing to urge caution and expressing a willingness to swiftly reimpose lockdowns if things get out of hand.

     

    Here in Scotland masks are recommended but not compulsory except in shops and public transport. From what I’ve seen on my infrequent trips outdoors very few people wear them in the street or going about their daily business. Delivery people, mailmen etc. are mostly wearing masks.

  22. 22.

    low-tech cyclist

    European countries coordinating lockdown exit strategies

    Be nice if we had an organization that could coordinate all of the states’ lockdown exit strategies.  Like, I don’t know, a unified central government or something…nah, that’s crazy talk.

    I see that Maryland, where I live, has gone from yellow to red on Dr. Frieden’s map.  Not surprised – our daily count of new cases has gone from the mid-300s in late June to the 600s and 700s now.  Deaths are still mostly in the single digits, but they’ll almost surely be going up before the month is over.  Would be nice if Gov. Hogan would be proactive and close the restaurants and stuff again now, rather than wait until the death count rises again.

  23. 23.

    low-tech cyclist

    @FelonyGovt:

    He “doesn’t want to be distracted by it”???

    No words.

    The war against graffiti on Federal buildings needs his full attention, don’t’cha know.  Gotta mobilize a national police force in camo to fight this scourge.  Trivialities like a plague that’s killing 5000 Americans every week will just have to wait.

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