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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Friday/Saturday, September 25-26

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  4. 4.

    mrmoshpotato

    Good job South Dakota.  You’re #1 in per capita COVID-19 hospitalizations and probably deaths.

    Go to hell, Corn Palace!

  6. 6.

    satby

    Indiana’s governor has also dropped all restrictions except masks (that due to expire on 10/17, but widely ignored now). I was talking to a home health care nurse last night who agrees with me that Indiana has been deliberately undercounting cases and also expects an explosion of new cases in just about three weeks from today.  I’ve given up on the whole issue, I’m staying masked and distant, and I’ll just shake my head sadly as the death toll mounts while we needlessly sacrifice people to achieve “herd mentality”.

  7. 7.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 15 new imported confirmed cases and 30 imported asymptomatic cases and 1 imported suspect case:

    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 9 confirmed cases, 4 Chinese nationals returning from the Ethiopia, 3 from Nigeria (via Addis Ababa), and 1 each from Pakistan and Canada; 12 asymptomatic cases, 10 Chinese nationals returning from Ethiopia, and 1 each from Pakistan and the Philippines
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national returning from Singapore, Iran and Uzbekistan; 4 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Turkey, 1  each returning from Guinea and Tanzania
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 confirmed and 2 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from France
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed and 1 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Angola (via Lisbon)
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the US; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Peru
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Indonesia and the Philippines
    • Qingdao in Shandong Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
    • Kunming in Yunnan Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Uzbekistan, 1 from Indonesia
    • Dalian in Liaoning Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Filipino crew member off a cargo ship
    • Jiangsu Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Shanghai Municipality – 1 suspect case, no information released

    The batch of contaminated seafood that is thought to have infected the 2 asymptomatic cases at Qingdao in Shandong Province has been confirmed to have come off a Russian fishing/processing vessel. A lot of seafood that is caught in the ocean is also processed right in the vessel, before offloaded at the end market. We know COVID-19 are raging on vessels of all kinds. The transmission via cold chain logistics does not have to be intercontinental, it could just be fishing/processing vessel to port.
    Today, Hong Kong reported 1 new case, an imported case.

  8. 8.

    Chyron HR

    Trump demands that the FDA justify tough standards for a coronavirus vaccine

    “Because we need a REAL vaccine, you dumb fucker. Since all you care about it fake campaign stunts why don’t you go sign a executive order outlawing COVID-19?”  Bam, done.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily CoviD-19 numbers. 82 new cases were reported today, for a cumulative reported total of 10,769 cases.

    79 of the cases were from local infection. 53 cases were Malaysians: 40 in Sabah, comprising 12 from the Benteng Lahad Datu police lockup cluster, 23 from the Bangau-bangau cluster, two with severe acute respiratory infections, one screened at a point of entry, one symptomatic person, one with influenza-like illness; three in KL, all symptomatic persons; two in Negeri Sembilan, both close contacts of known cases; two in Terengganu, both screened on their own initiative; one symptomatic person in Selangor; one symptomatic person in Pahang; one symptomatic person in Melaka; one symptomatic person in Johore; one in Sarawak, screened ahead of travel to Sabah; and one in Labuan, screened ahead of travel to Sabah.

    26 cases were non-Malaysians: xx in Sabah, comprising 21 from the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster, two from the Bangau-bangau cluster, and one with severe acute respiratory infection; one in Selangor, an old-aged person; and one person in Negeri Sembilan, screened ahead of returning to their home country.

    Three were three imported cases: two Malaysians, returning from Yemen and Bangladesh; and one non-Malaysian, arriving from the Philippines.

    89 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 9,785 patients recovered — 90.86% of the cumulative reported total. 851 active and contagious cases are currently being isolated/treated in hospital; eight are in ICU, four of them on respirators.

    No new CoviD-19 deaths were reported, and the total stands at 133 deaths — 1.24% of the cumulative reported total, 1.34% of resolved cases.

  11. 11.

    Betty Cracker

    @SiubhanDuinne: Same.

    Re: DeSantis’s decision to lift all restrictions in FL (including local mask mandates), I think it’s as much about the election as it is about going along with Trump’s fantasy to generate a dead cat-bounce in the economy.

    The Florida GOP used to dominate vote-by-mail — it was one reason they won so many close elections. Last time I looked, Dems had requested something like 700K more mail-in ballots than Reps this year.

    Trump’s idiotic crusade against mail-in ballots could prove disastrous in FL. He’s succeeded in convincing the cultists that vote-by-mail is evil, and if elderly Republicans are afraid to turn up in person due to COVID-19, it could sink Trump’s campaign.

    So, DeSantis is pretending the virus disappeared (like a miracle!) so that they show up. That’s my theory, anyway.

  12. 12.

    Geminid

    I saw in The Jerusalem Post that new Israeli Covid-19 cases have reached 8,000 a day! By contrast Virginia, with comparable population of ~8.5 million, has been holding steady at ~1000 a day for a several months. Those folks are in real trouble. Their fragmented political system, based on proportional parliamentary representation, has just not been up to the public health challenge.

  17. 17.

    Tony Jay

    After polishing them to a gleaming shine with one of Peter Wyngarde’s old silk scarves I found in a box marked “Property of Gloucester Bus Station” I’ve examined my crystal balls and can precognicate the following with some measure of confidence.

    Firstly, the Tory Government of Lesser Brexitannia will spend the next few weeks insisting that under no circumstances whatsoever will they insult the fortitude and common sense of the Great British Public by ordering a second national Lockdown when all that people have to do is follow the shifting plethora of contradictory rules and regulations negotiated between the UK and representatives of The Virus Collective in order to Stay Safe and Protect the Economy. Then, as soon as the schools are about to enter October half-term, Crime-Minister Flobalob will shamble in front of the cameras to tell everyone that they’ve let themselves down, they’ve let their families down, but most of all they’ve let – him – down by engaging in illicit liasons with our microscopic foe, so he has no choice but to save us from ourselves by… ordering local authorities to institute country-wide Lockdowns of urban areas that leave the Tory Shires free to hold horse shows and cake jambourees.

    And over the next couple of years it will be clear to everyone outside of the New Labour leadership team that their good friends at the Manchester Fucking Guardian have moved on from hyping an entire false narrative about Labour anti-Semitism in order to smear the left-wing of the Party and are now commited to hyping the narrative that Starmer’s Labour Party has a problem with black people. It’s already drip-drip-dripping into Guardian commentary, so expect it to increase and intensify as foreign-funded social-media trollfarms target left-leaning minorities in the cities with stories about how the ruling Labour Right opposes BLM, wants to woo-back racist voters with WWC-first policies and generally hold “those people” in contempt.

    And Brexit will be just awful. There, I hit the trifecta of ball-based futureglimpsing. Take that, Moira McTaggert!

  18. 18.

    Betty Cracker

    @rikyrah: Trump tried to walk it back by saying that FL is different and it’s okay to do vote-by-mail here. But if you’re explaining, you’re losing, and his initial smears against mail-in voting stuck. Our local paper (super-Trumpy county) did a survey that found Republican voters were suspicious of mail-in ballots.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    France now the 11th country to report more than 500k cases total.

    U.S. ~7130k
    India ~5900k
    Brazil ~4690k
    Russia ~1145k
    Colombia ~800k
    Peru ~795k
    Mexico ~721k
    Spain ~ 715k
    Argentina ~691k
    South Africa ~669k
    France ~513k
    .

    By this time tomorrow worldwide reported cases will have passed 33,000,000 and reported deaths more than 1,000,000.

  26. 26.

    Tony Jay

    @NotMax:

    Yup. What a show that was. Never get made now, especially with the Tory-appointed leadership of the BBC openly calling fir more ‘right-wing humour’ to offset the terribly partisan output produced by actual funny people.

    One thing Sir Humphrey coukdn’t have accounted for, though. The diplomats and civil- service being totally cut out of the strategising and replaced by a grumble of lard-brained xenonationalists who have succeded in uniting Europe against us.

    Now that’s right-wing humour.

  27. 27.

    Princess

    @Betty Cracker: I’m sure you’re right, but if you are, it means his timing is all wrong. Lifting restrictions now means that there will be a spike in cases in two or three weeks, just in time to scare people before voting day. Hospitalizations will be beginning to climb and it will be hard to miss. He should have waited a couple of weeks.

  30. 30.

    prostratedragon

    @NotMax:  Oh you couldn’t?!

    Seriously though, not the sharpest dancing video I’ve run across maybe, but certainly the most moving. Any bit of shared public joy is almost unbearable these days.

  31. 31.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    BREAKING: Gov. DeSantis announces he’s lifting all COVID-19 restrictions on Florida restaurants. They are now fully open. Read: https://bit.ly/3cxNDX2

    Floriduh already has the highest number of infected a day of US states this last week as it is.

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    @Tony Jay

    Ever see the series W1A?

    One scene which stood out was of a high priced consultant unveiling the proposed new logo for the BBC. Paraphrased.

    People no longer have the time or patience for a lot of reading, so this is the new logo we’ve come up with: (flips up blank sheet on the easel to reveal it):
    B

  33. 33.

    Tony Jay

    @NotMax:

    Ha. No, I don’t think I evet caught that one, but it sounds entirely plausible as something the corporate suits infesting the modern BBC would spend a fortune on.

  35. 35.

    Fair Economist

    @Geminid:

    I saw in The Jerusalem Post that new Israeli Covid-19 cases have reached 8,000 a day!

    That would be 300,000/day in the US. In a country that originally got it under control. Wow.

  38. 38.

    Sloane Ranger

    Friday’s figures from the UK.

    There were 6874 new cases, a new all time high.

    England – 5723 cases

    Northern Ireland – 273

    Scotland – 558

    Wales – 320.

    The major concentration of cases in England are in the North and primarily among young people, but there is evidence it is slowly creeping back into care homes.

    Deaths – 34 new deaths, at least. Due to a power outage at National Records of Scotland they have been unable to update Scotland’s deaths (if any).Of the deaths we know about, 31 were in England and 3 in Wales.

    Testing – 245,363 tests were processed out of a capacity of 263,971.

    Hospitalisations – On 23rd September, 314 people were admitted to hospital in England, 0 in northern Ireland and 70 in Wales, No information available from Scotland. The total number of people in hospital on that date were 1381 in England, 41 in Northern Ireland, 83 in Scotland and 111 in Wales (which remains the hardest hit of the home nations). 243 people were on ventilators as of Thursday, 24th, 209 in England, 5 in Northern Ireland, 10 in Scotland and 19 in Wales.

  39. 39.

    Amir Khalid

    @Sloane Ranger:

    I’ve just been reading The Guardian liveblog post about the “NHS” contact tracing app which doesn’t actually pick up NHS testing data. It boggles the mind.

  40. 40.

    VOR

    @Baud: My brother-in-law consumes a lot of right-wing media, Facebook nonsense, and is a huge Trump supporter. We grew up in a Republican household so my sister has been a sane republican who is now a Biden supporter. So when my brother-in-law went on a rant, my sister said “don’t worry, he never votes and won’t vote this time either”.

  41. 41.

    Tony Jay

    @Amir Khalid:

    Bit dead and not Sloane, but I cynically expect that ‘unforseen problem’ to be solved with a new guideline ordering the NHS to open up its databanks to the private firms operating the test and trace clusterfunk.

    No way that will ever be expanded and abused during the future sell-off of NHS infrastructure to Tory donors. No Sir, never happen. But, hypothetically speaking, if it ever did, well, ‘you’ should have complained at the time.

  42. 42.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Amir Khalid: Bit late, but yes. Yet another clusterfuck from BoJo and the Brexiteers. The problem affects just under one third of all tests processed in NHS hospitals and Public Health England. I wait to see how the Government will do about this latest cock up (or if you go with Tony Jay’s more cynical view, take advantage of this totally foreseen issue)

  44. 44.

    Bill Arnold

    @charon:

    My guess it’s the orthodox enclaves.

    My guess is that it’s the aggregated anti-mask and anti-NPI sub-populations, some of which is secular in Israel. (Don’t know how much; however a large right-wing population migrated from Russia.)
    Here’s the NYC story for those interested (comments written yesterday, no need to edit):
    COVID is spreading again in Orthodox communities. Why are people still not wearing masks? (Shira Hanau September 24, 2020)[1]
    New York City is seen pockets of high SARS-CoV-2 test positivity, and oh my, many are Orthodox. People are noticing the results of the localized natural experiment about mask wearing; most of New York City has a high level of mask discipline and discipline with other NPIs, and groups that do not are seeing more SARS-CoV-2 infection. The usual culprits; right wing news sources, facebook rumors, and also disinformation spread via whatsapp. One might reasonably suspect that some of the disinformation is being surruptitiously seeded by anti-Semites.

    In the New York borough’s Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, cases of COVID-19 are on the rise. New cases from six Orthodox neighborhoods, including Williamsburg, make up 20% of the city’s total, according to data released this week by the city’s Department of Health. Three more in Brooklyn — Borough Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst — as well as Kew Gardens and Edgemere-Far Rockaway in Queens are the others.
    While those neighborhoods encompass a wide range of Orthodox practice, including yeshivish Orthodox, Syrian and Hasidic communities, they have one noticeable attribute in common: Mask wearing is not consistent.

    [1] Jewish Telegraph Agency bias check.

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