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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Thursday/Friday, September 10-11

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    Florida, the Clusterf*ck State. (WaPo link)

    One month into the forced reopening of Florida’s schools, dozens of classrooms — along with some entire schools — have been temporarily shuttered because of coronavirus outbreaks, and infections among school-age children have jumped 34 percent. But parents in many parts of the state don’t know if outbreaks of the virus are related to their own schools because the state ordered some counties to keep health data secret.

    Volunteers across Florida have set up their own school-related coronavirus dashboards, and one school district is using Facebook after the county health department was told to stop releasing information about cases tied to local schools. Source

  3. 3.

    Mary G

    Does Trump think that punishing Michigan because of its uppity woman governor going to help his reelection there?

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    @NotMax: The bars that don’t sell food are allowed to reopen at 50% capacity on Monday, according to a tweet from a FL state official yesterday evening. Those types of bars have been shut down since late June.

    We haven’t visited a saloon since early March! We miss our favorite waterholes keenly. But I’m not about to set foot in one until the positive test rate drops below 5% and stays there for a while. It’s currently around 14%.

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    Bruce K

    Greece just had its worst day since the crisis began: 372 new cases (previous high was 293 on August 26). 4 more dead (bringing the total to 297), 49 currently in intensive care.

    Discouraging.

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    raven

    I’ve started back swimming at the Y. I’m not crazy about the ventilation in the lockers room so I stay masked, hit the shower and on to the deck. After I suit up in sweats right out of the water grab my stuff and bust back through the locker room an out.  With my mobility issues I feel like I have to do something to keep me going.

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    ScienceWins

    That Laurie Garrett tweet is utter bullshit. The study says no such thing. It didn’t look at mask wearing at all. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2770172

    Only one bus had an infected person. The second bus was the “control” group.

    The 2 buses mimicked a quasiexperiment and the second unexposed bus, which left and arrived at the temple at similar times with similar individuals, provided a credible control group. Both buses had an air conditioning system on a recirculating mode, which may have facilitated the spread of the virus in the exposed bus.

    We investigated a COVID-19 outbreak in Zhejiang province and found that airborne transmission likely contributed to the high attack rate seen. The investigations suggest that, in closed environments with air recirculation, SARS-CoV-2 is a highly transmissible pathogen. Our finding of potential airborne transmission has important public health significance, and future efforts at prevention and control should consider the potential for airborne spread of COVID-19.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: I guess you ruled out the local sewage pond than.

    It sucks, but we all have to do what we can as best we can and just accept the imperfectness of it all.

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    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers look terrible. 182 new cases, all but one from local infection. The breakdown: 11 cases from the Sungai hospital cluster and another three cases from the Telaga cluster in Kedah, all Malaysians. 167 cases from the Benteng Lahad Datu District Police HQ lockup cluster in Sabah, 76 Malaysians and 91 non-Malaysian illegal immigrants. The lone imported case is a non-Malaysian arriving from the Philippines. These cases bump the cumulative reported total up to 9,810 cases.

    14 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 9,181 patients recovered — 93.59% of the cumulative reported total. There are now 501 active and contagious cases currently being isolated/treated in hospital; nine are in ICU, five of them on respirators.

    On the not-so-bad-news side, there have been no new deaths since 1st September, and the total remains at 128 deaths — 1.30% of the cumulative reported total, 1.38% of resolved cases.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic case, and 15 new imported confirmed cases, 22 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 8 confirmed cases, 6 Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines, 1 returning from Zambia, and a Beninese national coming from Benin
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 4 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from Nigeria and Indonesia; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese nationals returning from Chad
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from South Africa
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia
    • Qingyuan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Nigeria
    • Yingkou Port in Liaoning Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Filipino crew member off a cargo ship
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese National returning from the Philippines (via Cambodia); 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese National returning from Uganda
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province –  1 confirmed and 2 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria (via Muscat)
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province- 5 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals arriving on a flight from Phnom Penh in Cambodia, 2 from the Philippines
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 4 asymptomatic case, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Indonesia, 1 each returning from the US and Japan
    • Tianjin Municipality – 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
    • Weihai Port in Shandong Province – a 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines (via Inchon)
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese National returning from the US; this is a strange one, the case entered China on 8/11, passed through the 14 days of quarantined and tested negative 3 times (including follow up screening a week after quarantine ended), but then tested positive twice on 9/8 and 9/9 during follow up screening of all visitors/returnees from overseas; he could be someone who had COVID-19 in the US, recovered and is now shedding dead viral fragments, or he could be infected in Nanjing (which had not reported any local transmission in over 6 months); therefore, the “imported” designation is preliminary, pending epidemiological investigation

    Today, Hong Kong reported 12 new cases, 3 from local transmission, 1 without clear source of transmission.

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    Jack Canuck

    Moving in the right direction here in Australia:

    Nation-wide:

    • 56 new cases in the last 24 hours
    • 1513 active cases (estimated)
    • 26565 total cases
    • 797 total deaths

    In Victoria:

    • 43 new cases in the last 24 hours (but only an increase of 39 due to four cases being reclassified)
    • 1336 active cases
    • 19767 total cases
    • 9 new deaths in the last 24 hours
    • 710 total deaths
    • 140 people in hospital, of which 12 are in intensive care

    Everybody in Melbourne (and to a lesser extent the rest of Victoria) is sick to death of the restrictions. As a result, some people are losing their shit and using language like ‘martial law cabinet’ and describing Melbourne as an ‘open air prison’ and going on about authoritarian dictators. This includes friends of mine who should know better, particularly including a trained historian who I thought would be more careful with his words and analysis. On the other hand, I read on the ABC the other day that 70% of Victorians approve of how the government is handling the situation, though 76% think the government should be doing more to help people suffering financially. There has been a big push relating to mental health services and the like, because this is wearing people down. The Stage 4 restrictions were supposed to end this Sunday at midnight, but they’ve been extended by two weeks (albeit with a few relaxations).

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    Amir Khalid

    @satby:

    We’ve had the luxury of being able to trust the authorities’ handling of the pandemic. On Sunday we had just six cases nationwide, including three from local infection. To go from that to 182 cases today is really disappointing. Especially because it appears that people in positions of responsibility dropped the ball —  healthcare workers in one cluster, the police in another cluster.

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    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 175 new cases, about half of them in the Glasgow area (where about 20% of the Scottish population live) which has been under extra restrictions for about a week now. The test positivity rate is now up to 2.7%, a worrying increase from less than 1% a couple of weeks ago. No further deaths of confirmed cases have been reported.

    The extra restrictions in Glasgow may be extended to the Lanarkshire area which is seeing a notable rise in cases. This will be decided later today after discussion with health board officials.

    A contact tracing app for smartphones, Protect Scotland has been launched and over half a million people have downloaded it already. It uses Bluetooth to log contacts as being in close proximity to others for 15 minutes and if someone tests positive then their recent contacts can be determined and traced in followup.

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    Anne Laurie

    @debbie: He’s too stupid to realize how many of his cult members have been put at great risk from his stupid decision.

    He doesn’t care how many of his followers have been put at risk.  He doesn’t count voters, just donations — as long as the checks clear, Trump could care less whether those losers & suckers are still around in November.

    I go back & forth between thinking he’s assuming another stolen ‘victory’, and wondering if he’s already checked out on this preznidensy gig & is just waiting to go back to Mar-A-Lago (or Dubai).

    But the real truth is, he probably isn’t capable of thinking on a timeline beyond the end of next week. If that.

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    gvg

    @raven: UF’s cases are now dropping. There was a surge related to the start of classes which I think now was related to people getting tested before starting classes, but now the new cases are dropping. The campus seems empty. Apparently most classes are still online. It’s not as bad as I feared. Students are mostly wearing masks but the few I see seem to be walking in pairs not alone.
    Games are weeks away, 20% capacity, no RV’s on campus, no tailgating…I still think its not going to happen long.

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    Sloane Ranger

    Yesterdays figures from the UK.

    There were 2919 new cases nationwide of which 2578 were in England, 78 in Northern Ireland and 102 in Wales plus the Scottish cases of 161 Robert S has already reported. The R rate for the entire UK is 1.2 with an expected growth rate of up to 3%.

    There were 14 new deaths, 13 in England and 1 in Northern Ireland.

    The Midlands city of Birmingham has been added to the government’s watchlist and a new lockdown there and in the surrounding area is expected to be announced soon.

    In further news, there has been a cluster of new cases reported in the Tyne and Wear region (Sunderland and Durham) which has been linked to people attending a charity football match with 61 people testing positive. I believe the match was held to raise money for cancer charities.

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    YY_Sima Qian

    The health authorities in Nanjing has just announced that they have tested > 7K contacts of the imported asymptomatic cases over the past 2 days, all have produced negative results. More and more likely the case (a 19 year old) had COVID-19 while in the US, recovered, and is now shedding dead viral fragments. I am sure the authorities will try to see if they can grow live virus from his samples to confirm.

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