Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

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

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

The willow is too close to the house.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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Warning: Upcoming Weekend Hiatus
I’ve been doing these aggregations every single night since late January — I don’t think any of us expected it to go on being necessary for so long. And I wouldn’t keep spending a couple of hours on it every day if I didn’t find it personally fulfilling, but I think we’re at a point where we could all use a break. So, barring some major change… since reporting tends to fall off over holiday weekends anyway, I’m planning to skip the Update this Saturday / Sunday / Monday. Just so y’all don’t have to think about firing up your news screens first thing in the morning, for a brief respite.

(I reserve the right to do a prime-time ‘longer read’ post or two, if I get the impulse to sort through some of the 85% of the material I’ve saved but never had the chance to share… )

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Good for you, AL! You absolutely deserve a break from this. Along with many other commenters, I’m in awe of your patience and thoroughness in aggregating and posting these massive COVID-19 updates every day. Thank you.

  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    JUST ANOTHER DAY IN AMERICA—a sitting Republican US Senator @SenJoniErnst just peddled **2** #COVID19 conspiracy theories in a row! @joniernst says she’s “skeptical” of deaths, was “really curious” about a debunked QAnon theory & further suggested doctors were lying about cases.

    FTFY Eric.

  3. 3.

    Martin

    The risk in the US backing out of the global effort is that the US vaccine efforts are narrow in approach – from what I understand due to the US capacity to produce vaccine being narrow. The global approach is more diverse. Now, it could be the US chose correctly, but if we didn’t that’s a problem. Also, vaccines tend to improve over time as they iterate on the design – so it’s not unusual for early vaccines to only give limited immunity and later vaccines to offer longer immunity. More efforts get you better results, and we’re rejecting that.

    I suspect that Trump is avoiding the global effort so that the growing consensus that Americans not trust the vaccine until it’s approved by another leading medical nation is blocked. We won’t have a choice but to trust the CDC that the virus is safe because odds are no other nation will consider it.

    I think everyone is being very polyanna about distribution plans. There won’t be one under Trump.

  4. 4.

    Balconesfault

    Thanks for the regular post!   I read it to my girlfriend in bed first thing each morning before we get up for the day.   There have been countless links you provided that I sent out to friends and family.   It’s been a great service.

  5. 5.

    Sab

    Thank you AL for all of this. I did expect we would be at this still. I was expecting at least a couple of years of this. I did not expect that our orange moron would manage to hijack the vaccine response. So I guess I need to admit that I underestimated the orange moron.

    I haven’t hugged my grandchildren  since Chiristmas. They live next door so I can wave at them over the fence, but it is not the same.

    Neighbors I used to like are ignoring the safety guidelines and are still okay. They think I am gullible. I think they are idiots. We are all waiting to see whose kid dies to be vindicated in our beliefs. What a horrible timeline. I am reading a lot of history books and historical fiction to be reminded this is just normal life. Life as we used to know it was just a weird blip in history.

  6. 6.

    Martin

    Joni can DIAF. I’m related to the guy that set up virtually all of Iowa’s classification and verification system for diagnosis. They aren’t misclassifying.

  8. 8.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic case, for the 10th day in a row.

    At Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region, there are currently 22 confirmed and 9 asymptomatic cases, with no cases in serious condition. 12 confirmed cases recovered yesterday and were discharged from hospitals, 5 asymptomatic cases were released from medical quarantine. There are 560 close contacts remaining under quarantine and medical observation.

    All of Xinjiang has ended lock down measures, businesses and shops have reopened, flights and trains have resumed, tourist attractions have reopened. Public transportation and taxi/ services have resumed normal operations. Travel within Xinjiang do not require 14 day quarantine or negative RT-PCR test results. Private vehicles are still restricted to alternate days in Ürumqi. Xinjiang residence still face restrictions when traveling outside of the region, negative RT-PCR result is certainly required.

    Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist of the China CDC elaborated on the early response to the Xinfadi outbreak in Beijing in Jun., in a talk with school children shown on state TV. The first reported case (affectionately known as “Xicheng Uncle” on Chinese social media) proved tremendously helpful. He was interviewed within 2 hours of confirmation, providing a detailed list of 23 locations and 60+ contacts over the previous 14 days. Within 24 hours, all of the close contacts were interviewed, and environmental samples collected from all 23 locations the first reported case went to, and tested. The test results quickly brought the Xinfadi Wholesale Produce Exchange into focus as the epicenter of the outbreak. It was further confirmed with the next 2 reported cases a couple of days later, who are meat inspectors. The only place of intersection for the 3 cases was the Xinfadi exchange.

    Yesterday, China reported 8 new imported confirmed cases, 19 imported asymptomatic cases:

    * Shanghai Municipality – 4 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese student each returning from the US and UK, a Chinese national returning from India, and a Russian national coming from Moscow
    * Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 confirmed cases, both Chinese nationals returning from the US; 1 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese national returning from Chad
    * Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 5 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese national returning from Russia
    * Dalian in Liaoning Province – 1 confirmed and 1 asymptomatic cases, both Filipino crew members off an oil tanker
    * Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed and 2 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Singapore
    * Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Saudi Arabia (via Baku)
    * Chongqing Municipality – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Singapore
    * Xiamen in Fujian Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
    * Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines
    * Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Russia

    Today, Hong Kong reported 8 new cases, all from local transmission, 4 of whom do not have clear source of transmission.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia”s daily numbers. Six new cases. Two cases from local infection, both Malaysians: one in Selangor from the MV Glen shipboard cluster, one in Pahang detected in a workplace screening. Four imported cases, all non-Malaysians: one arriving from Syria, three arriving from Indonesia. The cumulative reported total is 9,360 cases.

    Four more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 9,079 patients recovered — 97.0% of the cumulative reported total. Active and contagious cases currently being isolated/treated in hospital rose to 153 patients; four are in ICU, three of them on respirators.

    No new deaths, after three days with one death each. The total is at 128 deaths, 1.37% of the cumulative reported total and 1.39% of resolved cases.

    On those days with no Covid-19 news roundup post, I will post my Malaysia roundup in the morning open thread.

    ETA: You’ve done great service here, AL. I sympathise with your need for a weekend break.

  13. 13.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Martin:

    The risk in the US backing out of the global effort is that the US vaccine efforts are narrow in approach – from what I understand due to the US capacity to produce vaccine being narrow. The global approach is more diverse. Now, it could be the US chose correctly, but if we didn’t that’s a problem.

    The linked Politico article discusses this risk.
    What Happens If China Gets the Covid-19 Vaccine First?
    It is deeply concerning and frustration that global health has succumbed to be yet another casualty of major power competition, when it could have been a balm. I do not think that would have happened in an Obama or Biden administration.

     

  14. 14.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Thanks A.L. for keeping it up for so long! Frankly I get a bit worried sometimes when I see your posts show up so early.

  15. 15.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Martin: 

    Joni can DIAF. I’m related to the guy that set up virtually all of Iowa’s classification and verification system for diagnosis. They aren’t misclassifying.

    And of course the excess deaths since March are well above the number of documented Covid deaths. It’s not like there’s another good explanation for that.

    My stepbrother and his wife live in Ames, which is now the world’s hot spot for the coronavirus. Thank you, IA Gov. Kim Reynolds and all of the other GOPers (definitely including Joni Ernst) who manage to be total nutcases and totally evil at the same time.

  16. 16.

    gkoutnik

    Add my sincere thanks to all the rest.  I’ve read every one of your COVID posts; like so many of us who have established our own self-protective quarantine routine, it is an important part of the day.

    In Oneonta news, SUNY Oneonta now accounts for 69% of the 357 total confirmed cases reported in Otsego County since March.  Hartwick College, which announced its second case yesterday, has gone to all-virtual classes for at least two weeks.  Our favorite restaurant (among others) has closed down, hopefully not forever, because if we ever get to go out again, that was going to be our first stop.

  18. 18.

    WereBear

    Thank you so much, AL! By all means take a break. I so appreciate your efforts, which help me keep my own obsessive research and anxiety tidied up for the nonce. :)

  19. 19.

    YY_Sima Qian

    At least Cornell University, my alma mater, appears to be handling opening of fall semester relatively well. Being in rural upstate NY helps, too. Every student returning is tested, and the tracker board seems to be up to date and transparent.

  20. 20.

    Sab

    @YY_Sima Qian: My family has been in America since a hundred years before the American Revolution. My sister married a Chinese guy whose family has now been here for forty years. All of the kids are Americans. The grandkids also. Our political climate upsets me so much. My RWNJ brother who aspires to be an oligarch but also loves his mixed race and multicultural nephews especially upsets me. He knows Republican policies endanger his nephews but he either doesn’t believe it (nitwit) or he doesn’t care (monster). I am inclined to believe he is a nitwit, but it is still difficult to even deal with him.

  21. 21.

    Martin

    @Sab: It might be, but it’s not likely to be.

    Ideally you throw all the contenders into the ring and pick them based on need.

    Now, ‘need’ could be length of immunity, ability to produce, ability to administer, cost, side-effects, and so on. Even for well established vaccines, we often have variations here in the US – a combined vaccine, or separate, etc.

    Odds are we would want access to multiple vaccines. Some may be safer for kids and others more effective for adults, and all that. We’ve basically cut off that possibility, while gaining nothing. It really only makes sense if you’re thinking of a vaccine as something you can rent seek on, which might be the worst possible thing to ever rent seek on.

  22. 22.

    JAFD

    Dear Ms. Laurie,

    Thank you, very very much !

    Enjoy your break (we jackals shall survive it)

    “We shall not only endure, we shall prevail”

  23. 23.

    Sab

    Our city schools ain’t opening, but of course the suburban white schools are because they think they are special. Sports also too. Good luck with that, guys.

  29. 29.

    Robert Sneddon

    @Sab: 
    The first mass-produced vaccines will be less effective than the vaccines that follow — I’ve seen reports that various government agencies are gearing up to authorise the use of first-gen COVID-19 vaccines with 30% efficacy which is way down on anything that would normally get approved for general use. That 30% immunity is worth taking right now though, the vaccines that hit the market late next year will perform a lot better than that.

    COVID-19 isn’t going away, it’s very unlikely we can eradicate it like we did with smallpox. It’s going to be part of the viral zoo we live with for decades to come and vaccination will be the way we control its impact on the world population. That means better and better vaccines, ones with greater efficacy and longer-lasting conferred immunity but the early vaccines are needed now, not three years from now.

  32. 32.

    Laura Too

    Anne Laurie I just want to throw in a huge thank you for all you do! I joked to Watergirl that I have been attending ALU for my daily education, but I really did start the MIT course yesterday that you posted! I feel so much better being informed. It isn’t so scary to me when I have more information-the sciencey kind, not the conspiracy kind. I can’t imagine the amount of work goes in to this and how much crap you have to sort through. I appreciate your efforts so much, this would have been hell without my first stop in the morning. Enjoy your long weekend!

  33. 33.

    satby

    @Baud: Agree.

    @Sab: Neighbors I used to like are ignoring the safety guidelines and are still okay. They think I am gullible. I think they are idiots. We are all waiting to see whose kid dies to be vindicated in our beliefs. What a horrible timeline.

    You just recapped my life in the hellhole of red Indiana, where a lot of the snowflakes wear plastic half-shields upside down that barely clear their noses and obviously won’t stop the spread from even talking. The smart people around here just really don’t go out except as required, and most have quit coming to the market. And I hear the Q-Anon bullshit all day about how the death statistics are fake. As soon as I sell out of my stock (which will take months), I’m selling my booth and getting out. And as soon as we can travel, I’ll go to another country for the vaccine unless things go the right way in November. Because I fully expect that Putin will have his puppet push the Russian one here.

  34. 34.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Sab

    The cognitive dissonant mentality your have described of your brother is not unusual in people. He probably thinks that, when Trump and his racist/nativist supporters are slandering and fear mongering the “Other”, be they Chinese/East Asians/Blacks/Hispanics, his mixed race nieces and nephews are not among the targets. “Surely they are not talking about my sweet niece! They mean those other dirty illegals/spies/slaves!”

    While being mindful of Godwin, I am reminded of the supposed saying in Nazi Germany: that every German knew his “Good Jew”, even if he thinks the rest are “scum”. It is mind boggling to me, too, but apparently a lot of people have no problem with such contradiction.

  35. 35.

    rikyrah

    AL,

    I read this post every morning. I was naive. I didn’t think that you would still be doing this in September.

     

    But, I appreciate the news. Your news helps keep me vigilant about my decisions outside of work.

  38. 38.

    TS (the original)

    Thank you AL – only place I find out what is happening around the world. I will admit that I didn’t think we would still have a form of lock down 7 months along. Guess I was kidding myself.

    I found this one a little disheartening

    of the 8 states reporting in both June & August,

    Related to assisted living facilities – only 8 states report statistics – it must be so hard to gauge what is happening when there is no set method of reporting – maybe that is what trump & co want.

  39. 39.

    Nelle

    Thank you, AL.  These posts were my early alert system back in January, back when I was being called an alarmist.

    Went to a new eye doc two weeks ago who remarked that most of these deaths are of old people who were about to die anyway.  I won’t be back.

    (I’m in Iowa.  I was to have a distant, masked porch visit from a young friend -she’s 33- last night.  She cancelled because her roommate had been in Ames over the weekend and had been exposed to someone who later got a positive test result.  She didn’t want to take a chance of even a tertiary exposure.  That kind of caution is rare.)

  40. 40.

    satby

    @rikyrah: They won’t take it, they think Bill Gates will microchip them with it. Or that it will give them covid, like the crazy doctor in Plandumbic claimed flu shots did.

  41. 41.

    satby

    @TS (the original): it must be so hard to gauge what is happening when there is no set method of reporting – maybe that is what trump & co want.

    That’s exactly what they want. How can they be blamed for what isn’t known or provable?

  42. 42.

    Anne Laurie

    @YY_Sima Qian: Frankly I get a bit worried sometimes when I see your posts show up so early.

    For me, they’re late — wrapped up shortly before I go to bed.  I’m retired & can keep the vampire hours my circadian rhythm prefers, ideally being awake c2pm-6am.

    One reason I’m taking the weekend off is that I’m slipping even on that schedule, and I feel I should see more daylight!  Off to bed now…

  43. 43.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Martin: Yeah, the US worked with the USSR to eradicate polio throughout the Cold War. I actually had GW Bush with Obama/Biden originally, but his band of neocons in the 1st term came into office all gun ho to confront China (remember the Hainan Spy Plane Incident?), but were sidetracked by 9/11 and went after the “Axis of Evil”, instead. The only reasons that gang did not instigate great power competition with China then were because they found a shinier and more convenient object, and China did not represent the clear and present threat to American hegemony that it is now. If that crew is in charge now…

    OTOH, GW Bush by all accounts was quite serious about global health and danger of pandemics, so his administration likely would have handled COVID-19 better, and found some ways to collaborate with China on the global response.

  44. 44.

    Geminid

    Virginia is creaking along at an average of ~1000 new cases a day. Test positivity is back up to 7.7%, from 6.3% last week. The positivity rate may have spiked after 500 James Madison University students tested positive the first week after classes began. JMU is now sending all students home, going virtual. They did not test students before classes started.          These numbers are from a report by Dr. Bob Holsworth in yesterday’s Bearing Drift. Last week Holsworth talked about how the average new cases had held steady for weeks. He had hoped to see a decline before flue season arrived, but is now pessimistic on that score.

  45. 45.

    Kristine

    Thank you for these posts, AL. I read them first thing every morning. But as others have said, you definitely deserve a break.

  46. 46.

    WereBear

    @satby:

    They won’t take it, they think Bill Gates will microchip them with it. Or that it will give them covid, like the crazy doctor in Plandumbic claimed flu shots did.

     
    The MAJOR disconnect in their brain because they tend to be anti-vax and yet their cheesey-gawd is pushing a vaccine?

    Not a ripple. Brains of concrete.

  47. 47.

    Haroldo

    AL – I will join in the chorus: thank you for this incredible service; the large number of resources you’ve provided me are invaluable.

    And speaking of proudly saying the quiet parts out loud, Australia’s former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is calling for the deaths of the sick and the old.

    “And if the average age of those who would have died is 80, even with roughly 10 years of expected life left, that’s still $200,000 per quality life year or substantially beyond what governments are usually prepared to pay for life-saving drugs.”

    To know Tony is to despise him.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-01/tony-abbott-urges-against-coronavirus-restrictions-uk-covid-19/12619264

  48. 48.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — The National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures indicate six COVID-19-related deaths in the week ending 30 August, the same as the previous week.  These include all cases where COVID-19 is mentioned on a death certificate, even if the patient had not been tested.

    First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirms a further one person who tested positive for Covid-19 has died in the past 24 hours and 156 new cases have been confirmed with the test positivity rate of 1%. Hospital cases including ICU are down a little but not significantly. We don’t get a breakdown of discharges and new hospitalisations, just total numbers each day.

    Scotland’s largest city, Glasgow and adjacent areas have been put on guidance to limit household contacts after a notable increase in cases in those areas over the past few days. Test and Trace indicates the spread is related to households (visits from relatives, parties etc.) rather than through the hospitality sector (pub, clubs, restaurants) so they are being allowed to remain open with existing restrictions. This is different to how the Aberdeen hospitality-sector outbreak was dealt with. The guidance could be converted into regulation (with enforcement) if necessary.

    There’s no mention of any problems with schools which have now been open for about two weeks here in Scotland.

  49. 49.

    Van Buren

    @Geminid: I have a niece who just started Freshman year at JMU. My brother is quite bummed.

    I also have a nephew who started his freshman year at Stevenson U. in Maryland. Moved in last Thursday…was told he had to go back home on Friday.

    Entirely predictable, IMHO

  50. 50.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, a graduate student in the department my wife is responsible for (as an admin) developed elevated temperatures (the line in China is 37.3 degrees C, or 99.1 degrees F). The student was immediately ordered to visit a fever clinic, and my wife had to accompany the student to the hospital (though she drove in a separate vehicle) for both support and supervisions. The student was tested for RT-PCR, antibodies, antibodies, chest CT scan, and full blood panel for infections, and had to stay at the hospital overnight to wait for the results. All came back negative today, and my wife had to go to the hospital to pick the student up. Despite all of the negative results, the students has to be held under centralized quarantine (at the university’s guesthouse) until the fever subsides, plus another 3 days of observations.

    The quarantines seems a drastic overreaction. In comparison, when my team member in Shenzhen developed gastroenteritis a couple of weeks ago, and went to a fever clinic out of an abundance of caution, the results came back in a couple of hours and he was sent home with the negative results, though told to self-isolate for a few more days.

    All students in universities and colleges across China appear to be confined to their campuses. Chinese university campuses tend to be large, open and leafy, but still. What is causing a great deal of frustration and discontent among the students is the fact that faculties and admin staff (even their families, and delivery people) are allow to enter and leave the campuses freely. Residents in every city and town in China (including Ürumqi) are now living more or less normal lives, going to shopping malls, restaurants, cafés, bars, theaters, etc., yet the student population do not have that same freedom. Given the growing disquiet, especially on social media, I wonder how much longer that policy will hold. After all, COVID-19 prevalence in China is essentially negligible at the moment. If a new cluster is detected, the authorities can always lock down the campuses, even individual dormitories.

  52. 52.

    Matt McIrvin

    @TS (the original): I thought from the beginning that we could be locked down for 5 years. I still think that could be the case, but only if Trump is reelected. I can see a situation where the US is an isolated hermit kingdom wracked with COVID-19 while the rest of the world is back to normal with an effective vaccine.

  55. 55.

    Mousebumples

    I’ll add my voice to the chorus of thanks for these posts. As a pharmacist, I work in health care, but i had no idea this was coming (except for these posts) until late February, at the earliest.

    Thanks again – I’ve found some great podcasts and great Twitter follows through this am thread. Enjoy the weekend! ?

  56. 56.

    Sloane Ranger

    Thank you AL for your comprehensive posts. You deserve the weekends away from this depressing topic.

    I’ll post the high level UK figures for days you don’t post on the next thread you do post.

    In March I thought we’d be back to relative normal after a couple of months. We deferred our U3A AGM from September to December assuming we would definitely be able to meet in large groups by then. We are now going to have it on Zoom.

  57. 57.

    grandmaBear

    I’ll add my voice to the chorus of thankyous too. I read it daily and follow most of links, so I feel I’m better prepared to face the local reality and the internet misinformation.

  58. 58.

    Skepticat

    @SiubhanDuinne: Good for you, AL! You absolutely deserve a break from this. Along with many other commenters, I’m in awe of your patience and thoroughness in aggregating and posting these massive COVID-19 updates every day. Thank you.

    THIS, doubled.

  59. 59.

    Mary G

    Add me to the list of everyone grateful and awed by your stellar aggregating skills and dedication, AL. You’ve done this nonstop since the first American death and I’m sure need and deserve a break. It’s only this week that I haven’t stayed up until 2 or 3 am Left Coast time to read the post the minute it showed up. I can’t thank you enough. Back to sleep now.

  60. 60.

    zzyzx

    Meanwhile, in Washington, King County (Seattle and suburbs plus rural areas. It’s twice the area of Rhode Island) has had two straight days with much lower numbers (46 cases yesterday) and the test positivity numbers have gone from a little over 5% to 4%. I don’t know if it’s just a brief blip or a sign that the increase that happened after we moved to stage 2 is finally easing.

    We’ve been very cautious here and as a result we’ve been doing the classic flatten the curve approach. We’ve never been in a shortage of beds situation or hospitals overwhelmed. I hope that can continue even as I get annoyed that my friends on the east coast are attending socially distant concerts while Inslee has banned those here.

  61. 61.

    Mary G

    @YY_Sima Qian: I also want to thank you for the window on the pandemic from its start and the descriptions of how well China is doing now, no matter how angry it makes me at our horrible situation.

  62. 62.

    Nicole

    I imagine (and hope) Anne Laurie is asleep by now, but three cheers for her- she has done her daily coronavirus briefings without a break longer than Cuomo did!

    I have used these links so many times in discussions with people I know to try to keep misinformation to a minimum.

  63. 63.

    Rusty

    Anne, I have grateful for your posts each morning.  Take the long weekend off and consider if less than daily makes more sense to avoid burn out.  If you stopped tomorrow you have still done a greater service for all of us that have been following.  Thank you!

  64. 64.

    frosty

    @Anne Laurie: You’re keeping the same schedule as my son who works the night shift in the grocery!

    Thanks so much for these posts. Take whatever break you need. I won’t mind a break on the weekend… it will be two days I won’t have to pull the covers back over my head and refuse to get up!

  65. 65.

    arrieve

    @Skepticat: And tripled. I am so grateful to AL for all the garbage she probably wades through to find the reliable, interesting, necessary information she posts. It’s my second read every morning (during the week it’s On the Road) and in a sane society this is the kind of thing we would get from our media.

  66. 66.

    Betty

    Thank you for your dedication to this effort. You have earned a break. Even if not so many comments are posted, many more of us are regularly checking your updates for valuable information.

  67. 67.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    That doctors are in it for the money sounds like a recycle of the creationist nonsense that scientist push evolution for the money. I wouldn’t be to surprised if there is a lot of overlap between creationists and virus deniers.

  68. 68.

    waynel140

    I still believe Anne Laurie should get a Pulitzer Prize for reporting. As far as I know, there is no one doing this kind of work. Anne, enjoy your weekend. You deserve a break today.

  69. 69.

    Carlo

    I’ll add my thanks, AL, for these highly informative aggregations that you curate. I’ve been doing a little epidemiological modeling for work, a field I never even thought about prior to January,, and I’ve found your COVID posts to be exceptionally useful background reading.

  70. 70.

    bluefoot

    Thank you, AL for doing this.  I’ve really appreciated having these posts.  Sifting through the sheer amount of crap and disinformation out there must make putting these together a pretty heavy lift.  Enjoy your break!

  71. 71.

    gbbalto

    I’d like to add my thanks to Anne Laurie and our reporters from around the world.  I need to keep up to date for my job and this is definitely a great source.

  72. 72.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio

    Thank you so much for all the work that goes into these! It’s been a great help.

  73. 73.

    susanna

    Good for you, keep your balance and sanity!  I’ve relied on these reports from you daily, knowing they’re fully researched.

    You have focus and an abundance of energy that’s admirable, and we’ve benefitted.

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, Anne Laurie

  74. 74.

    Aleta

    @Balconesfault: There have been countless links you provided that I sent out to friends and family. It’s been a great service.

    Same.  And the reports from commenters in other countries.

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    Yutsano

    @zzyzx: What we need to do as a state is get to zero. And then stay at zero for at least a few days. Then we’re close to in the clear. But that also requires testing anyone who comes in and tracking them until the test comes back. I think we can do it since then we can control any outbreaks that pop up then. But Inslee is playing this correctly right now. Yes I miss that stuff too.

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    Chris Sherbak

    I find these immensely helpful to help me structure my thinking about these things, but totally get why someone would need a break. You’ve done an amazing amount of good with them. Cheers and happy Labor Day!!

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    PaulB

    A supercomputer has analyzed 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples in an effort to better understand COVID-19. The result was further confirmation for a hypothesis that had been proposed earlier this year, that the virus was causing a “bradykinin storm.” “As bradykinin builds up in the body, it dramatically increases vascular permeability. In short, it makes your blood vessels leaky. This aligns with recent clinical data, which increasingly views Covid-19 primarily as a vascular disease, rather than a respiratory one.” More info at the links, including how this affects treatment options.

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    Brachiator

    Coming late to the thread to express my thanks and appreciation.

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, Anne Laurie

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    Auntie Anne

    Also coming late to this thread to thank you, Annie Laurie.  I’ve shared your posts numerous times, and they are always my first read each day.

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    Sloane Ranger

    Reporting from the UK. There were 1,508 new cases reported today. 1,239 in England; 71 in Northern Ireland; 42 in Wales plus the 156 Robert Sneddon reports from Scotland. The national trendline keeps creeping upwards a little at a time.

    There are 797 people in hospital with 82 on ventilators. Both slight increases from when I last reported.

    Deaths back in double figures with 10 today, 7 in England; 2 in Northern Ireland; 1 in Scotland and none in Wales.

    These figures might indicate the spike both Robert Sneddon and I have spoken of because of the weekend closures of admin units and the Bank Holiday.

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    currants

    AL, an enormous, heartfelt thank you for all your work on this. I have looked for this post virtually every day, even before we knew it was in Boston (I teach at UMB, and one of our students was one of the first identified here). Life continues, very differently in most places, but I still look for this post and new information every chance I get.

    @AnneLaurie : Thank you, thank you, thank you.  Wishing you a well-deserved break.

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    Jay

    Thank you so much. You have created a wonderful and much needed resource.

    Thank you again Anne, and all who have, and will contribute.

    Enjoy your long weekend. Get some sun, apparently Vitamin D helps with covid resistance.

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    Mo MacArbie

    I’ll offer my thanks for this series as well. You’ve really helped me stay grounded, manage my expectations, and you’ve given me tools to deflate the more sensationalist takes my quarantine-mate got from his sources. I won’t say you’ve kept me sane since that ship foundered long ago, but I’m saner than I would be otherwise, at least.

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    mrmoshpotato

    Throwing in a mid-afternoon thank you. These posts are excellent. Sorry you’ve had to keep at them for months.

    Enjoy the 3-day weekend.

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