As Trump baselessly suggests that a coronavirus vaccine will be available as soon as next month, Biden interjects to say, "this is the same man who told you by Easter this would be gone away. By the warm weather it'd be gone … maybe you can inject some bleach in your arm." pic.twitter.com/47mH71xo9J
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 30, 2020
Pandemic is far from over, experts say, despite Trump allies’ claims https://t.co/CgQ8OlR3kK
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 29, 2020
.@CDCgov director Redfield testified at a recent Senate committee that CDC was instructed by HHS & the WH Office of Budget & Management to transfer $300M from its budget back to DC to fund this work. Do they get the money back now?
????, @ddiamond.https://t.co/geFGQUAYoW— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) September 30, 2020
Axios is reporting @CDCgov's effort to bar cruises into next year because #Covid19 was rejected by the White House.
Diamond Princess ring any bells?
We keep not learning lessons. CDC keeps getting overruled. https://t.co/dyrhmZHqZ2— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) September 30, 2020
When all you have is a hammer…
EXCLUSIVE: STAT obtains internal org chart of Operation Warp Speed that underscores vast involvement of military.https://t.co/KwG19loFjw via @statnews @NicholasFlorko pic.twitter.com/Cg4y4nQHdc
— Rick Berke (@rickberke) September 28, 2020
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"It took 140 days to go from 1,000 to 500,000 deaths; but just 91 days to reach 1m. At current rates, another 500,000 people are likely to die within the next 75 days." https://t.co/99GxpXjtKn
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 29, 2020
As the number of global Covid-19 deaths passes one million, we track the spread of the pandemic https://t.co/5F0b4aAnrL
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 29, 2020
India's coronavirus infections surge to 6.23 million https://t.co/QfX4PNOrBk pic.twitter.com/KVpvBsIVbI
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 30, 2020
More than 60 million people in India — 10 times the official figure — could have contracted the #coronavirus, the country's lead pandemic agency says, citing a nationwide study measuring antibodieshttps://t.co/Tq7RhpuKrK
? Sajjad Hussain pic.twitter.com/H3EQWWjyZP
— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 30, 2020
#Myanmar – Pictures by #AFP photographer @ye_aung_thu taken in a quarantine facilities centre for COVID-19 novel coronavirus related cases in Yangon. pic.twitter.com/vcn1CDnxYd
— AFP Photo (@AFPphoto) September 29, 2020
Israel’s parliament has passed a law that would allow the government to curtail public protests during the country’s nationwide virus lockdown. The government can now declare a special week-long state of emergency if the coronavirus spreads out of control. https://t.co/AqoZtIBXfp
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 30, 2020
⚡ Russia confirmed 8,481 new Covid-19 cases Wednesday, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,176,286 https://t.co/KREakbCegO
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) September 30, 2020
Coronavirus lockdown costs South Africa millions of jobs https://t.co/z3SkA1nnrF
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 29, 2020
UK GDP collapsed nearly 20% in second quarter in historic COVID hit https://t.co/q8dOPIuSsw pic.twitter.com/Dp2k6xY0MX
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 30, 2020
All of us need to keep taking COVID-19 seriously and stop this second wave. If you haven’t already downloaded the COVID Alert app onto your phone, take a couple seconds and do it today. Because the more people who do, the more effective it’ll be. https://t.co/xTUf97fzgu
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 29, 2020
Exclusive: World Bank President David Malpass said he is seeking board approval for a $12 billion coronavirus vaccine financing plan to help poor and developing countries secure a sufficient share of doses when they become available https://t.co/wa0BIbY7mb
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 30, 2020
Trade can contribute to public health and the @WTO can lead – helping members access vaccines & medical supplies. This will be one of my priorities if selected DG.
Via @Reuters @REUTERSFARGE ?https://t.co/SmtZNRzTrl
— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (@NOIweala) September 29, 2020
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The official number of deaths from Covid-19 has passed one million people worldwide ➡️ https://t.co/IXuqLeQ01C
Despite that huge number, we still don’t know enough about the virus.
Here’s are some of the key questions scientists are looking at ⬇️ (THREAD 1/9) pic.twitter.com/jT39iOSPLO
— BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) September 29, 2020
Ventilation in buildings, designed to keep temperatures comfortable, may up the risks of SARSCoV2 spread. Study concludes indoor transmission far outstrips outdoor transmission because of longer exposure & decreased turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics https://t.co/I3TKQPHAN2 pic.twitter.com/SMHLyoD8BG
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 29, 2020
If several Covid-19 vaccines are approved, we’ll need a large comparison trial to see which ones work best. https://t.co/5zchPJPBQe
— STAT (@statnews) September 29, 2020
It is a massive problem and when all is said and done, #longhaulers may be the biggest medical legacy we face in the future. https://t.co/xuqc8AQiHH
— Dr. Mark JS Miller (@docmmiller) September 28, 2020
Diabetes drug -sitagliptin- boosts survival in patients w/ type 2 diabetes & COVID19 pneumonia. Report in current issue of Diabetes Care. Observational study led by Boston Children's Hospital in collaboration w/ 7 Italian hospitals during COVID's 1st wave https://t.co/ZtIymHRxlz
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 29, 2020
Biotechnology company Regeneron released some early results of tests using its antibody cocktail in coronavirus patients, and said it seemed to reduce levels of the virus and improve symptoms in patients https://t.co/HQ6MXnnMnI
— CNN International (@cnni) September 29, 2020
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine appears safe, shows signs of working in older adults – study https://t.co/5B6mJfrTZe pic.twitter.com/7psGh7S7cD
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 30, 2020
CureVac plans global late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial in fourth quarter https://t.co/LfZde2VVzm pic.twitter.com/XqDuFsvO4O
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 30, 2020
China's Kangtai gets approval for clinical trial of coronavirus vaccine candidate https://t.co/SKEGT4MXI4 pic.twitter.com/58L4mf3RMz
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 30, 2020
What do we in the northern part of North America do, #Covid19 avoidance wise, when the temperatures start to plunge & outdoor time starts to contract? @apoorva_nyc explores some options. https://t.co/raycUozyAo
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) September 29, 2020
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277K+ kids "confirmed infected" and a rise "in September after a peak and a decline over the summer…that may be an underestimate, in part because testing is most often done on people with symptoms, and children with the coronavirus often have none."https://t.co/iAc1A3R2lx
— Anne Lutz Fernandez (@lutzfernandez) September 29, 2020
late september has that "watching the water recede before the waves start" feeling that february had
— golikehellmachine (@golikehellmachi) September 29, 2020
Unbelievable.
The Republican Chief Financial Officer of Florida sent letters to 100,000 businesses & entities asking if they were “owned or controlled by the Communist Party of China,” as part of an effort to assign blame for covid, WLRN reportshttps://t.co/RCMaKE4V0O
— Hamza Shaban (@hshaban) September 28, 2020
God bless the Sturgis motorcycle rally of more than 450,000 mostly maskless bikers — this is its long predicted outcome. https://t.co/LngRhYwm23
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 29, 2020
If I live in a higher risk community, what's to stop me from going to a concert in a lower risk place that can hold concerts? Human decency for starters, sure. But that's not going to be protection enough. #Covid19 #PatchworkResponse https://t.co/XXXjjYYgEt
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) September 29, 2020
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 19 new imported confirmed cases and 22 imported asymptomatic cases:
* Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Nepal, Ethiopia and Argentina; 7 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Bangladesh, 2 returning from Indonesia, and 1 each from Nepal and Ethiopia
* Zhanjiang Port in Guangdong Province – 5 confirmed and 2 asymptomatic cases, all Filipino crew members off a cargo ship
* Foshan in Guangdong Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines
* Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines
* Shanghai Municipality – 5 confirmed case cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from the Philippines and Japan, 1 Chinese student returning from the UK
* Xiamen in Fujian Province – 5 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria, 1 each from the US, the UAE and Zambia; 5 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines,1 each from Nigeria, Kazakhstan and the US
* Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 2 confirmed cases,
* Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 confirmed and 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
* Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), a Chinese national returning from Ethiopia; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines (via Myanmar)
* Kunming in Yunnan Province – 1 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national returning from Myanmar
Today, Hong Kong reported 8 new cases, 1 from local transmission, origin unknown. Safe to say Hong Kong’s 3rd wave is over.
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
mrmoshpotato
When did Senator McCarthy rise from
the graveHell?mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: Careful there. Someone in the Missouri legislature might call you a Commie.
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: Maybe he got a day pass.
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: But I am.
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
Why does he need to ask? Doesn’t the state keep ownership information in its regster of licenced businesses?
Geo Wilcox
A glimmer of hope:
https://en.prnasia.com/releases/apac/preventative-nasal-spray-shown-to-reduce-viral-replication-by-up-to-96-in-covid-19-challenge-study-293103.shtml
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily CoviD-19 numbers. 89 new cases, for a cumulative reported total of 11,224 cases.
86 cases are from local infection. 84 local cases are Malaysians. Two cases are non-Malaysians.
Three cases are imported. (The daily case breakdown is late again. I will comment again with those numbers when they are finally tweeted out.)
28 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 9,967 patients recovered — 88.80% of the cumulative reported total. 1,121 active and contagious cases are currently being isolated/treated in hospital; 16 are in ICU, 3 of them on respirators.
Two deaths were reported today, one in Kedah and one in Sabah, for a total of 136 deaths — 1.21% of the cumulative reported total, 1.35% of resolved cases.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: Thanks for the setup. ?
It’s Floriduh Man, man!
(Honestly, no idea.)
lowtechcyclist
Completely aside from the echoes of “are you now or have you ever been,” suggesting that Covid-19 is some sort of attack from China says that Trump decided not to bother defending us against that attack.
If they want to argue that we’ve got a surrender monkey in the White House, I can’t find grounds to contradict them.
mrmoshpotato
@lowtechcyclist:
They definitely didn’t surrender being mobster shitpiles – stealing states’ PPE left and right.
Brachiator
I hate this kind of thing. You cannot assume current rates. Things could get worse; things could get better. The deaths are not related to the virus sweeping through the world without mitigation efforts. And of course global reporting could be inaccurate.
Amir Khalid
The breakdown of today’s new CoViD-19 cases.
86 cases are from local infection. 35 cases are in Sabah, comprising 18 symptomatic persons, three close contacts of other cases, nine from the Bangau-Bangau cluster, four from the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster, and one of the two deaths reported today, whose remains tested positive. 24 cases are people in other states who had recently travelled to Sabah. Seven cases are in Johore, all from the Bakawali cluster. 11 cases are in Kedah, comprising five close contacts of other cases, three from the (new) Tembok cluster, two symptomatic persons, and one from the Sungai cluster. Two cases are in Kelantan, both close contacts of other cases. Four cases are in Selangor, comprising two persons screened at work and two symptomatic persons. One case is in Sarawak. Two local cases are non-Malaysians, one person in Labuan who had recently travelled to Sabah, and one person in Selangor screened ahead of returning to their home country.
The three imported cases are all non-Malaysians, arriving from The Netherlands (two) and Indonesia.
The two deaths reported today are a 46-year-old man in Kedah, a diabetic with a history of heart disease and kidney failure; and a 70-year-old man in Sabah with end-stage liver cancer.
TS (the original)
Thank you AL for your covid-19 updates – so much happening today – so especial thanks for today.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Well here in smokey California we seemed to have no surge in cases went we had to stay indoors last month for the fire smoke.
Sloane Ranger
Yesterday’s figures from the UK.
There were 7143 new cases, a new all time high. Hurrah for us! Seriously, it looks like the reductions we saw over the weekend were due to the usual slowdowns. Of these cases,
5651 were in England
320 were in Northern Ireland
806 were in Scotland
366 were in Wales.
There were 71 new deaths, this is a big jump from recent figures. England had 68 new deaths (double the recent average) and Wales had 3.
Testing – 198,402 tests were processed out of a capacity of 287,690.
Hospitalisations – There were 2049 people in hospital on Sunday, 27th and 297 people on ventilators on Monday, 28th. As you’d expect most hospitalisations are in England, being the most populous home nation but, per capita Wales has the highest rate.
In more general news, BoJo got himself in hot water yesterday by tying himself into knots trying to explain what was and wasn’t allowed according to his own government’s restrictions. He was forced to apologise for his “misspoke”. Some people have tried to explain this away by blaming post-COVID brain fog but others point out that if he is suffering problems to that extent he shouldn’t be running the country. Personally, I don’t think it was anything more than his unwillingness to handle detail, which he finds boring.
Also, a group of Tory rebels were trying to get a bigger say for Parliament in any new Coronavirus measures before they come into force but this has just been quashed by the Speaker (Sir Lindsay Hoyle) who said he would not select any of their amendments when the Act comes up for renewal later today, but the media are reporting that he tore the Government a good one while doing it. It is being said that the Government has reached a deal with the backbenchers in question. Being a cynic, I suspect the rebels were more concerned about the effect on business of any new restrictions than on democratic accountability or the health and safety of people but that could just be me. I await the Ministerial statement later.