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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Friday/Saturday, September 11-12

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(H/t Cheryl Rofer)

I try to keep overt politics out of these roundups, but sometimes…

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. Not so bad today. 58 new cases. 53 cases from local infection. 29 Malaysians: five in Kedah from the Sungai private-hospital cluster, one case detected in pre-surgery screening in Sabah, 24 of the cases in the Benteng Lahad Datu police lockup cluster in Sabah. 24 non-Malaysians: 20 immigration detainees from the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster, three of four cases from the new Laut cluster.

    Five imported cases: Three Malaysians, returning from Pakistan, India and Indonesia; two non-Malaysians, arriving from Syria and the Philippines, the last included in the new Laut cluster. The cumulative reported  total is 9,868 cases.

    Eight more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 9,189 patients recovered — 93.12% of the cumulative reported  total. Active and contagious cases currently being isolated/treated in hospital rose by 50 to 551 patients; nine are in ICU, five of them on respirators.

    There have been no new deaths since 1st September, and the total remains at 128 deaths — 1.30% of the cumulative reported  total, 1.37% of resolved cases.

  2. 2.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    “If we can stay substantially under the 100,000 [deaths] which was the original projection, I think we all did a very good job.”

    ~ Drump

  3. 3.

    satby

    And now a visual in the first tweet of the stupid upside-down 1/2 shields that are becoming prevalent around here.
    Yesterday, some asshole older white guy (it’s almost always them) had on a mask that was a bizarre net material with the holes as big as chicken wire. And yet the official statistics out of Hoosierville claim the infection rates are decreasing. None of it adds up.

  4. 4.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Large crowds of people rallied in Auckland on Saturday against the government’s social distancing restrictions imposed on the country’s largest city after an outbreak of the novel coronavirus last month.
    Local television footage showed tightly packed crowds, with many people not wearing masks, with estimates of the attendance varying in reports between a thousand and a few thousand people.
    “We are all here today because we believe we need to stand up for our rights,” the public Television New Zealand cited Jami-Lee Ross, the leader of the Advance New Zealand party, one of the organisers of the protest, as say

    2,000 people out of a country of 5,000,000 isn’t impressive. Moreover the organizing “party” is described by wiki as “their main policies represent the political fringe” and “In July 2020, it entered into a pact with New Zealand Public Party, a conspiracy theory party.”

  7. 7.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    a New York Times survey found American colleges and universities recorded more than 36,000 additional coronavirus cases. The rising number underscores an emerging reality: College campuses have become hot spots for virus transmission. 

    The stoopid – it burns. They’ve been back on campus, not even a full month, and before football starts, and it’s already a cluster fuck. CNN interviewed two idiots at Iowa State, one said he thinks Covid is a hoax, the other one said, he believes it’s real, but doesn’t think it would kill him [and they were sober].

  8. 8.

    m.j.

    I work in a factory. Face shields are acceptable PPE.

    Workers keep them on. Face mask usage seems much more optional in many cases.

    With face masks I see people who pull them down to talk to each other. Break time seems to be mask-free time. Restrooms and break-rooms (confined areas) are mask-free zones. There is no enforcement of rules.

    I also live in a state where cities have had to do what the Republican Governor would not. The bad part is mask mandates on an individual level have brought out a lot of displays of attitude. This attitude cuts across cultural and political lines.

    It’s all so wrong and it shouldn’t have to be this way.

  11. 11.

    WereBear

    The college thing was COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE and was.

    Where are the grownups in America? Can’t they be in charge? Wouldn’t that be a nice CHANGE?!?!?

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    The Guardian liveblog reports thre death of a reggae legend:

    Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, frontman of pioneering reggae group Toots And The Maytals, has died at the age of 77, 11 days after he was admitted to intensive care in Jamaica with suspected Covid-19.

    The Jamaican singer was being treated at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston.

  15. 15.

    Amir Khalid

    @Baud:

    It probably wouldn’t kill him, true, but it could debilitate him for life. If I were 20 again, I wouldn’t take that risk.

  16. 16.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    @Baud:  The National Center for Health Statistics for the US says 315 people in the age group 15-24 have died of Covid.

    To say the odds of dying of Covid is low in my age group is one thing.   But to say Covid won’t kill me is incorrect.

  19. 19.

    Steeplejack

    @satby:

    Condolences!

    I am newsed out myself, so I’m switching over to the Tour de France, coverage of which is just now starting on CNBC. Stage 14, Clermont-Ferrand to Lyons. It’s 1:25 p.m. in France, with beautiful weather—high 70s going to the low 80s at the finish. I have no idea who’s winning, nor do I much care. I just like the scenery, the occasional drama and the soothing commentary of Phil Liggett.

    And the English Premier League is starting the 2020-21 season today: Fulham-Arsenal in about an hour.

  24. 24.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Steeplejack:

    I just like the scenery, the occasional drama and the soothing commentary of Phil Liggett.

    In the 30 seconds or so they give him between each 5-minute block of commercials.

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    Princess

    Biden needs to spend as much time talking about the economic support he’ll give to people because of COVID as he spends talking about the science he’ll use to fight it. I think he is losing Latinx support because those workers are losing their jobs and many of them will prefer Trump who will keep businesses open at all costs to human life. I expect we will see Biden down in the NYT NV poll that is going to be released in an hour or so (and I would be happy to be wrong!).

  30. 30.

    debbie

    @satby:

    A FB post yesterday from the local NPR station about the new state health director who quit hours after signing on because she’d heard about all the death threats directed at her predecessor had more than one hundred posts mocking COVID-19, masks, distancing — just about anything related to the pandemic.

    I knew there were people belittling all of this, but I don’t think I’d realized just how many there are.

  32. 32.

    Cameron

    @m.j.: I take public transit, and I’m amazed at the odd attitude shown by my fellow passengers.  We all get on the bus wearing our masks, then about half of them pull the masks off so they can talk on their cell phones.  Whatever message is getting through to them seems a tad incomplete.

  35. 35.

    Chyron HR

    @Princess:

    “Trump wants us to die busing tables!  Four more years!”

    Am I the only one who is three years and ten months past caring what any of these idiots think, regardless of their ethnicity?

  36. 36.

    Amir Khalid

    @Steeplejack:

    BoJo wants the English Premier League to start letting fans in at matches from October. The pandemic situation in England is obviously not ready for that.

  37. 37.

    Searcher

    In that picture from Russia, is the guy taking temperatures not even wearing his mask correctly?  It looks to me like there’s a gap between his nose and mask.

    Locally mask usage seems to vary town to town — in one town, everyone was walking around outside with masks on, in another, off.

    One pattern I noticed was it seemed like older men were more likely to not mask.  Shocking, I know.  But I’d see some sort of a family group with people aged 8-50, and the 8 year olds were wearing masks and the 50 year old man, nope.

  39. 39.

    Cameron

    @Chyron HR: I dunno.  I think a lot of them are well aware of the risks, but if they have families to support, what are they going to do?  Yertle has already indicated that no relief is coming.  Biden doesn’t need a whole new program – he can just refer to the $3Trillion package the House passed.  While noting that they passed it months ago.

  41. 41.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic case, 6 new imported confirmed and 11 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, both Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from India and Nigeria; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese nationals returning from Senegal
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Myanmar
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province –  1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Angola (via Lisbon)
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Indonesia; 2 asymptomatic case, both Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the UK
    • Tianjin Municipality – 4 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from the Guinea
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines
    • Shenyang in Liaoning Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines (via Japan)

    Today, Hong Kong reported 13 new cases, 9 from local transmission, 5 without clear source of transmission.

  42. 42.

    Geminid

    @Cameron: Biden can also talk about the job growing potential of climate change legislation. U.Mass. economist Robert Pollin estimates that three jobs will be created for every job lost in the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. Green energy infrastructure and infrastructure spending in general can be potent economic generators that can really help working class people, which helps everyone. A rising tide does lift all boats, if it rises from the bottom.

  43. 43.

    m.j.

    @Cameron: I live in a place where you can see your exhalation on a cold day. It was a source of fun when I was a child.

    Apparently that cloud of vapor doesn’t exist unless you can see it.

  44. 44.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Starfish: My first year in the US was spent in Oxford, MS, way back in 1990. Spent a year there before moving to NYC. It is the “cosmopolitan” part of the state, with Ole Miss there. Had a significant international student population even then, including over 120 ethnic Chinese from the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.

    As a young adolescent coming from the very limited material wealth of China at the time (and I was living in cities), Mississippi felt like heaven (even though my family and I lived in a trailer for that year). Chocolate milk by the gallon! Southern fried chicken! Fish everyday! Gained weight that I haven’t lost since…

  45. 45.

    Zzyzx

    So a band that I like is putting on a 3 day event in Montana. It’s the only music really within a 10 hour drive from me, so I asked what the details were. I was hoping for one of the shows that were happening in Pennsylvania where everyone gets a 15 foot area and no one else is allowed in it. Instead the only rule is that you have to demonstrate that you have a mask in your possession when you enter the show. “No mask, no entry!” they breathlessly explained as if a mask in your hand does any good.

    I asked if I had misread because those rules didn’t seem responsible, but it turns out that it’s literally impossible for anyone in Montana to get Covid since that region is magical, so it’s all good.

    It got depressing. Any discussion of how fans will get drunk and stop behaving got morphed into a personal attack on the state of Montana. They will be responsible automatically without rules and if they’re not, well that’s their right too!

    Obviously, I will not be attending this concert.

  47. 47.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — the figures just issued for Friday through Saturday (there is no scheduled presentation by the First Minister on weekends) say 221 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. This is a test positivity rate of 2.8%. Both core numbers are on a clear upward trend but no deaths from confirmed cases were reported overnight.

     

    Hospitalisation numbers are creeping up but more slowly — there is a noticeable discrepancy between national hospitalisation numbers and the Scottish numbers. Total UK bed occupancy due to COVID-19 is about 870 but Scottish health boards report 261 people in hospital with the virus and Scotland has less than 10% of the entire UK population. There’s a note in the most recent Scottish report that they may be changing the way they classify such cases in the future.

  48. 48.

    Robert Sneddon

    @Steeplejack: The Scottish FA has allowed a couple of games to go ahead this weekend with very limited numbers of spectators, something like 300 or so in large football grounds. How this works out is another matter.

     

    The Scottish government is not going to permit further games like this to go ahead but the decision made in the last few days to tighten up on restrictions generally came after these test games were arranged and tickets sold so they weren’t stopped at the last minute.

  49. 49.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Amir Khalid: I seriously doubt if this will happen. I know the “Rule of Six” specifically exempts sporting events but our figures are exploding so I think this will be quetly shelved.

  51. 51.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @Gin & Tonic: The commercials are stacked at the beginning of every stage so that the last part has none.

    The race has been different from years past. Today’s is wild, with the race for the green driving all. I don’t agree with the relegation given to Sagan several stages ago wrt to amount of time penalty. I guess the clipboard boys didn’t learn from 2015, where they kicked him out of the race entirely, but he later won “in court.” Not that that brought back anything.

  52. 52.

    Sloane Ranger

    Yesterday’s figures from the UK.

    3539 new cases throughout the UK. A jump of over 500 from yesterday’s new cases. Michael Gove has “angrily” rejected the claim that our numbers are getting out of control, but the R number IS over 1.

    New cases broken down by nation as follows, 3143 in England, 88 in Northern Ireland, 133 in Wales and the dashboard shows 175 for Scotland, which is lower than the figure quoted by Robert S. His is probably more up to date.

    There were 6 new deaths, all in England.

    In terms of healthcare, the figures are slightly out of date but I’ll record them anyway.

    141 people were admitted to hospital on 2 September. There were 863 people in hospital as of 9 September and 78 people on ventilators on 10 September. These figures exclude Scotland. The bulk of the cases are in England, as you would expect.

  53. 53.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    @Chief Oshkosh:

    Agree about the ads. Also, they don’t interrupt the “exciting bits” with ads. But, let’s face it, there are stretches of just plodding along until the next exciting bit. But I enjoy the scenery nonetheless!

  54. 54.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @Steeplejack (phone): Yep, people who know me can’t believe I watch every stage every year. I love the scenery, the commentary (so sad when Paul Shewen died, but Bobke and Phil still doing a great job), and of course the racing strategies, tactics, and competition.

    Also, as a TV spectator sport, there’s also the pleasure of sitting in a nice air-conditioned room, drinking a cool adult beverage, while watching a bunch of guys sweat their guts out pumping up or perilously screaming down a mountain or racing across roads cutting through beautiful fields of sunflowers (sadly, not to be seen this late in the year!).

  56. 56.

    Bill Arnold

    @Baud:

    It’s possible compliance is better in the big cities where most of the people are.

    Call it discipline. it’s a much more positive work in America. (And probably in most of the rest of the world.)
    “Mask discipline”

  57. 57.

    Bill Arnold

    @Baud:

    It’s at least reality based as opposed to pretending the whole thing is a hoax.

    It’s only reality based if they understand the reality that there may be person long term morbidity consequences for them.
    This message has not percolated through America, just the message that COVID-19 death rates are very low among those with young bodies. If they e.g. knew that there was chance that their brain would be riddled with lesions(infarcts) (mostly white matter but some in cortex) caused by SARS-CoV-2 and that damage to brain neurons would be lifelong, they might consider altering their behavior. This is not single brain cells dying due to drugs/alcohol, it’s small brain regions dying, forever.
    Lung capacity might never fully recover; that would mean loss of athletic competitiveness for many sports.
    Heart damage may be permanent (new research looking better, that, but unclear), meaning degraded athletic performance, increased risk of sudden random death, and perhaps increased risk of future heart failure.

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