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You are here: Home / Healthcare / COVID-19 Coronavirus / COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Friday/Saturday, Oct. 9-10

COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Friday/Saturday, Oct. 9-10

by Anne Laurie|  October 10, 20205:47 am| 38 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Foreign Affairs

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Oof.

New Time Magazine cover. pic.twitter.com/FtFVI21NVP

— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) October 9, 2020

FAUCI: "I think the data speak for themselves. We had a super-spreader event in the White House" ht @Jordanfabian

— Erik Wasson (@elwasson) October 9, 2020

"We had a superspreader event at the White House," Fauci tells @CBSNewsRadio. "The data speak for themselves." pic.twitter.com/svnwkfr6Ag

— Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) October 9, 2020


As of October 5, national forecasts predict 2,800 to 6,800 new #COVID19 deaths will be reported during the week ending October 31. These forecasts predict 224,000 to 233,000 total COVID-19 deaths in the United States by October 31. More: https://t.co/Ft6cgmaMPX. pic.twitter.com/d3nFQA3Ne7

— CDC (@CDCgov) October 9, 2020

The C.D.C. sought an order requiring masks to be worn on all U.S. public and commercial transportation. The White House said no. https://t.co/j857JP6HfR

— NYT Health (@NYTHealth) October 10, 2020

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BREAKING: WHO reports highest daily global total yet of new coronavirus infections: more than 350,000. https://t.co/D60U7oIdqO

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 9, 2020

The US and the EU, deaths per million people
For EU's 2nd wave, it's on the rise
For US, 1 big wave + surges, it has not dropped below ~750 deaths per day for > 3 months, still twice as high as EU pic.twitter.com/8GOtUOedGV

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 9, 2020

Germany to send in public health experts and even the military to cities that see coronavirus cases rising too fast, part of targeted efforts to avoid a national lockdown. https://t.co/DuqoXNf0AD

— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) October 9, 2020

Spain imposes a state of emergency on Madrid due to Covid-19 https://t.co/Ark4arUazI

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 9, 2020

National Clinical Director @jasonleitch says the doubling time of infections is nine days and at this rate Scotland would be at March peak by end of October

The closest international comparison is four weeks behind France and six weeks behind Spain

Live: https://t.co/83xvctB6aO pic.twitter.com/Bj8Xk6l6Fs

— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) October 9, 2020

Ukraine reports record daily jump in coronavirus deaths https://t.co/1zL4EzgKmZ pic.twitter.com/k7CMP3XXhU

— Reuters (@Reuters) October 10, 2020

⚡ Russia confirmed 12,126 new Covid-19 cases Friday, bringing the official number of cases to 1,272,238 and breaking the country's record for new infectionshttps://t.co/JavVfihR76

— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 9, 2020

In this special report, “Meduza” special correspondent Svetlana Reiter and science editor Alexander Ershov investigate the different drugs being used to treat the coronavirus in Russia and find out who’s profiting during the pandemic. https://t.co/NK6knubSB6

— Meduza in English (@meduza_en) October 9, 2020

Asia Today: India’s confirms coronavirus cases are nearing 7 million with another 73,272 reported in the past 24 hours. The Health Ministry also reports 926 additional deaths, taking total fatalities to 107,416. https://t.co/07NorzY55i

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 10, 2020

"The economic, social, cultural life of the country is almost back to normal… I think it's a very good record"

India's ruling BJP spokesman @narendrataneja says his government has handled the coronavirus crisis well despite 6 million confirmed caseshttps://t.co/Fd0XgIWDNo pic.twitter.com/DptmTm9JvF

— BBC HARDtalk (@BBCHARDtalk) October 10, 2020

Students in Manila can contact this call center staffed with teachers during weekdays between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. if they require any help with their studies https://t.co/ukXpwPnxWU pic.twitter.com/oswR2RA3Pe

— Reuters (@Reuters) October 9, 2020

Australia reports no COVID-19 deaths for third day, hotspot faces longer lockdown https://t.co/UEhpekwINE pic.twitter.com/YTRpFrPGQP

— Reuters (@Reuters) October 10, 2020

End of Brazil's emergency government Covid payments could send 15 million back into poverty, study says https://t.co/b7MTh041K5

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 9, 2020

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SARSCoV2 disables the human cellular alarm system. This is a key finding. We know the main symptoms of infection but little about what SARS2 is doing inside human cells. A Caltech team has found mechanisms the virus uses to disarm cells. Image enlarges https://t.co/ZaKr0ahfK7 pic.twitter.com/Zt5UcBU3dm

— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 10, 2020

Mink all over USA and Europe are dying of #COVID19. Given civets died of SARS 2003 in China, we may be seeing clues to the identity of the animal intermediary species between bats & humans. https://t.co/s9S6C1Nz99

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 9, 2020

From #Instagram #JNInsta https://t.co/0LbYilKGqw pic.twitter.com/jx1dAXQdRA

— JAMA (@JAMA_current) October 9, 2020

In coming weeks, the earliest #Covid19 vaccines will likely be approved for use. Getting vaccine doses into arms — the right arms, in the right order — is going to be an enormous logistical challenge. Some potential hitches @pharmalot & I see coming. https://t.co/Rb51O12UuA

— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 9, 2020

"Regeneron currently has enough doses for 50,000 patients… To put that in context, the United States has 50,000 new cases of COVID-19 every day."

.@sarahzhang on the antibody cocktail that Trump received. https://t.co/QhyxHv8IH6

— Ed Yong (@edyong209) October 9, 2020

A Regeneron executive and one of its directors sold $1,000,000 worth of stocks two days after President Trump announced he was taking their therapeutic, recent filings from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveal. https://t.co/lBnuSlhLqS

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 10, 2020

COVID mRNA vaccine: Early findings in older adults. Moderna vax now tested w/ 2 doses in 40 people 55 & older, mean age 69. Most common symptoms: headache, myalagias, injection-site pain. No serious adverse events noted thru 57 days. Vax known as mRNA-1273 https://t.co/blXGHZzo37 pic.twitter.com/QUsCX8sgI6

— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 9, 2020

Takeda-led COVID-19 plasma treatment enters clinical trial with first patient https://t.co/5IeeLmM0wJ pic.twitter.com/OutVkRuEF3

— Reuters (@Reuters) October 9, 2020

How effective are cloth masks? They work well, if routinely machine washed. A Vietnamese study explains why in BMJ https://t.co/pAhkjVNGdZ

— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 9, 2020


TL; DR — machine washing is better than hand-washing at eliminating virus particles.
(Laundry tip: If you don’t already have what used to be called a ‘lingerie bag‘, they’re cheap & widely available, and would IMO protect the elastic loops or cloth ties on your masks from getting tangled up during the spin cycle.)

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Covid-19 and the Undocumented Latinx Community

— NEJM (@NEJM) October 9, 2020

NEW: NYS will deploy 400,000 rapid result test kits free of charge to local health depts, hospitals, pharmacies & health care providers across the state.

We will also provide free test kits, as needed, to all localities to help them meet new testing requirements at schools.

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) October 9, 2020

1. Texas now has more Covid deaths than California does, even though California's population is 33% bigger.

So Texas's per capita death rate from Covid is 40% higher than California's.

— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) October 8, 2020

The coronavirus is forcing fans of Broadway to wait a little longer for shows to resume — until at least late May. The move by the Broadway League comes less than a month after the Metropolitan Opera said it will skip an entire season for the first time. https://t.co/Cq6ySKMHdX

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 9, 2020

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  1. 1.

    JPL

    October 10, 2020 at 6:01 am

    Anne,  I imagine that you had no idea that you would still be putting up these daily posts in October with no end in sight.  Thank you.

  2. 2.

    satby

    October 10, 2020 at 6:06 am

    @JPL: Or that it would be months of worse and worse news because so many people are morons.

  3. 3.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 10, 2020 at 6:16 am

    @JPL: @satby: 
    Yes and yes. Thanks Anne.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    October 10, 2020 at 6:17 am

    Fourthed.

  5. 5.

    YY_Sima Qian

    October 10, 2020 at 6:27 am

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 15 new imported confirmed cases and 39 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 5 confirmed cases,  2 Chinese nationals returning from Ethiopia and 1 each from Nepal, Iraq and the Philippines; 9 asymptomatic case, 5 Chinese nationals returning from Iraq, 3 from Ethiopia and 1 from the Philippines
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 3 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Uzbekistan and 1 from Spain; 5 asymptotic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Uzbekistan
    • Tianjin Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national and 1 French national coming from Paris CdG; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from France
    • Dandong Port in Liaoning Province – 2 confirmed cases, both Ukrainian crew members off a cargo ship
    • Shanghai Municipality – 2 confirmed case, 1 Chinese national returning from the Philippines and 1 Japanese national coming from Japan
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Serbia; 15 asymptomatic cases, 7 Chinese national returning from the Philippines, 3 from Ghana and 1 each from India, Pakistan, Serbia, Guinea and Senegal
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 4 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Indonesia
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria
    • Yantai in Shandong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines (via Seoul-Inchon)
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released

    Today, Hong Kong reported 6 new cases, 3 from local infection, all have sources of infection identified.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 10, 2020 at 6:30 am

    Via Popehat

    More than 2,000 guests have been invited to the White House tomorrow, according to a person familiar with the event.Two thousand, with three zeros. https://t.co/Uf75nVgzCp— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) October 9, 2020

    Also – 9News Australia – Orange Douchecanoe announces White House balcony speech

    Looks like the Soviet shitpile mobster conman is going to have a Benito Doucheolini fascist shout-the-virus moment.

  7. 7.

    Chyron HR

    October 10, 2020 at 6:39 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Prepare the cups of Covid-aid.

  8. 8.

    TS (the original)

    October 10, 2020 at 6:40 am

    @mrmoshpotato:  Probably had to ask 2000 to get a few hundred to appear. Or is he bussing them in from around the country?

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 10, 2020 at 6:41 am

    @Chyron HR: The swizzle stick of houseflies is MANDATORY!

  10. 10.

    JPL

    October 10, 2020 at 6:45 am

    Doucheolini    That’s classic and I’m stealing it.

    Apparently Doucheolini has been around for awhile.  It’s still a classic and I’m using it.

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 10, 2020 at 6:46 am

    @TS (the original):

    Or is he bussing them in from around the country? 

    Ooooo….we have plague ships.  It was just a matter of time before the plague buses showed up!  Why should those  willing to trap themselves on a ship have all the fun?  (I’m not one for cruises.)

    Honestly, no clue who’s attending this murder-suicide pact party.

  12. 12.

    OzarkHillbilly

    October 10, 2020 at 6:48 am

    @mrmoshpotato: We’ll see how long he lasts. I’ve got my money on 12 minutes.

  13. 13.

    Winston

    October 10, 2020 at 6:50 am

    New cases in the USA exceeded 60,000 yesterday for the first time since August 14.

    Mortality rates in the USA have been declining slowly for some time, while mortality rates for Florida have been rising. My projections predict they will be the same in early December at around 2.43%.

  14. 14.

    JPL

    October 10, 2020 at 6:52 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Watching the shit show is harmful to one’s health.   I hope that there is at least a parental warning.

  15. 15.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 10, 2020 at 6:53 am

    California: run by Democrats.

    Texas: run by Rethuglicans.

    The death cult has its way in Texas.

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 10, 2020 at 6:54 am

    @Winston:

    while mortality rates for Florida have been rising

    I believe you’re mistaken here.  Florida has fully reopened everything because they slapped the virus into the ocean and told it not to use the term “climate change.”

  17. 17.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 10, 2020 at 6:57 am

    @JPL: Watching the shit show is harmful to one’s health.   I hope that there is at least a parental warning.

    “Kids.  Your mom and I need to warn you this is going to be a lying shit show from this orange assclown.  You’ve been warned.” Unpause.

  18. 18.

    Winston

    October 10, 2020 at 6:58 am

    @mrmoshpotato: I think it’s because DeSantis is  concentrating on throttling the new cases and taken his eye off the new deaths.

     

    ETA: There are apparently some righteous employees in the Department of Health as well.

  19. 19.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 10, 2020 at 7:03 am

    @Winston: I chalk it up to DeSantis being a murderous Republican asshole.

  20. 20.

    Winston

    October 10, 2020 at 7:09 am

    @mrmoshpotato: You won’t get any argument from me there. I blame the fuckwit for killing my girlfriend in July while she was temporarily in a rehab.

  21. 21.

    ThresherK

    October 10, 2020 at 7:14 am

    @mrmoshpotato: “Thanks, Anne” from here too.

    My wife is getting tested for Covid today in advance of a knee-replacement surgery on Tuesday. She’s gonna be in her car, in a line of cars.

    The big thing for her is that she’ll get in line in a couple hours, and can’t bring her tea, because we have no idea if there are facilities if she needs to void.

    We hope this trivial concern is the biggest thing for her. We’ve been pretty anal about our distancing/cleaning/etc, and I’m sure she doesn’t have it, but if she comes back positive I’ll feel so awful for having been in public around others.

    I have been passing our workplace’s thermal scanning every weekday for a couple of months. Just putting my faith in that, and my wife and not being positive-yet-asymptomatic.

  22. 22.

    Winston

    October 10, 2020 at 7:18 am

    @ThresherK: I think car drive thrus present little risk.  I made an appointment, got there on time, pulled in and was out in 4 minutes. But it took two weeks for the result and turned out to be useless, though I was negative.

     

    @ThresherK:

  23. 23.

    Rob

    October 10, 2020 at 7:27 am

    Thank you, Anne Laurie, for posting these daily updates.

  24. 24.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    October 10, 2020 at 7:31 am

    @ThresherK: A friend did that drive thru testing before her cataract surgery. It was well organized and quick, so hopefully your wife is home and drinking tea soon.

  25. 25.

    different-church-lady

    October 10, 2020 at 7:47 am

    Welp… all that did nothing to improve my mood…

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    October 10, 2020 at 7:48 am

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 374 new cases today in his media briefing, which brings the cumulative reported total to 15,096 cases.

    372 new cases are from local infection, including 29 non-Malaysians.17 are Malaysians who recently travelled to high-risk zones in Sabah. Of the rest, 277 cases are in Sabah: 113 from close-contact screenings, 118 from miscellaneous screenings, 31 from existing clusters, and 15 from the new Highway cluster. 38 cases are in Selangor: 13 from close-contact screenings, seven from existing clusters, five from miscellaneous screenings, and 13 from new clusters, Bah Manggis (six), Utama (three), Tasik (three) and Simera (one). 27 cases are in Kedah, all from the Tembok cluster in Alor Setar Prison.

    Five cases are in Sarawak: four from the new Putracluster, one from miscellaneous screening. Four cases are in KL, three from existing clusters and one from miscellaneous screening. Three cases are in Penang, all from the Remand Prison cluster. One case is in Johore, from miscellaneous screening. One case is in Perak, from close-contact screening. One case is in Labuan, from close-contact screening.

    Two are imported cases: one Malaysian returning from the Philippines, one non-Malaysian arriving from the Philippines. One case is in Putrajaya, from an existing cluster.

    76 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 10,780 patients recovered — 71.41% of the cumulative reported total. 4,161 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 73 are in ICU, 28 of them on respirators.

    Three new Covid-19 deaths were reported today, all in Sabah: a 61 year old man with diabetes and TB of the eye; a 54 year old woman with diabetes, hypertension and obesity; and a 51 year old man with diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. The total is now 155 deaths — 1.03% of the cumulative reported total, 1.42% of resolved cases.

    In other news, the big fancy 1Utama mall in Petaling Jaya, the site of the Utama cluster, will be closed for a week on Monday, to enable screenings and sanitation to be carried out. An enhanced movement control order will be imposed on the workers’dormitory at the Tropicana development, also in Petaling Jaya. (The Ttopicana Golf and Country Club and the residences (i.e. Mcmansions) in the same development are not affected. And an army field hospital is being activated in Tawau, Sabah, to treat non-Covid-19 cases so that existing hospitals in the state can focus on the pandemic.

  27. 27.

    Ken

    October 10, 2020 at 7:48 am

    What if they gave a war superspreader event and nobody came?

  28. 28.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 10, 2020 at 7:56 am

    I have to commend Dr. Fauci for using the plural noun “data” correctly.

    Yes, I know it’s a lost cause, but I will stand firm. Knowing Dr. Fauci is on my side is reassuring.

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    October 10, 2020 at 7:56 am

    @Ken: There are people who will come, especially if it’s a Trump rally, and especially if Democrats and medical scientists warn them to stay away.

  30. 30.

    Amir Khalid

    October 10, 2020 at 8:42 am

    A bit of other news I forgot to mention: The Royal Malaysian Air Force will start ferrying Covid-19 test samples from Sabah, where test laboratories are being overwhelmed by the number of incoming samples, to laboratories in Peninsular Malaysia, to expedite processing of the samples and get test results out faster.

  31. 31.

    Ohio Mom

    October 10, 2020 at 8:58 am

    Winston @20: Ouch! And condolences. What a cruel twist: the idea of going into rehab brings hope to all, and instead, it killed your girlfriend.

    Of course you are angry (righteously so) but I hope that eventually, your happy memories bring you comfort.

  32. 32.

    Sloane Ranger

    October 10, 2020 at 9:17 am

    UK report for yesterday There were 13,864 new cases reported in total, about 4000 less than the day before but in line with the recent average. Broken down,

    England had 10,772 cases, @4000 less, so a return to the mean.
    Northern Ireland had 1080 cases, up by @150.
    Scotland had 1246 cases, up by @200.
    Wales had 766 cases up by @130.

    Deaths – 87 new deaths were reported.79 of these were in England, 6 in Scotland and 2 in Wales.

    Testing – 285,015 PCR tests were processed out of a capacity of 313,844.

    Hospitalisations – As of Wednesday 7 October, 3660 people were in hospital. As of Thursday, 8th 436 of these were on ventilators. Steady increase across all nations.

    General – Boris Johnson is under fire for announcing new local restrictions without consulting with the local government concerned. He has promised to do better in future. “Hospitality” sector in both England and Scotland continuing to whine about closures/restrictions on opening hours of pubs and bars.

  33. 33.

    FlyingToaster

    October 10, 2020 at 9:17 am

    I will vouch for washing cloth masks in a lingerie bag; every day when each of us returns to Chez Toaster, the used mask is deposited in a paper bag on the basement door.  Paper is a very good dessicant.  Every weekend, I take the bag upstairs, sort it into “black” or “color” (we atheist technocrats don’t wear white masks) and zip them into mesh bags and wash them on “hand wash” cycle.  Then hang for 24 hours in the laundry closet to dry, and back onto the hooks by the outer doors.  We have about 30 masks, so no matter how many times one has to go off-property, there’s a clean mask for the next time.

  34. 34.

    chopper

    October 10, 2020 at 11:01 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    it’s as if trump knows he’s going to lose and wants to take as many people down as he can.

  35. 35.

    Aleta

    October 10, 2020 at 11:57 am

    @Winston:  If you’re reading, I want to say I’m sorry for this wrongful tragedy and for your loss.

  36. 36.

    Mai Naem mobile

    October 10, 2020 at 1:13 pm

    @FlyingToaster: can’t they just be stuck in a pillow case? I’ve put stuff in a pillow case before that I didn’t want in the washing machine.

  37. 37.

    Other MJS

    October 10, 2020 at 1:34 pm

    Time’s Organism of the Year?

  38. 38.

    greenergood

    October 10, 2020 at 3:36 pm

    Starting tonight Scotland’s most populated areas in the Central Belt have been locked down for 16 days – you can go to a cafe or restaurant during the day, as long as the establishment isn’t serving alcohol, because, face it, alcohol makes people all happy and sad and not really effing caring about social distancing, in the least .. You can’t gather in people’s houses, because too many people in Scotland have lots of family members in close proximity but in different houses, but you can still hang out with up to six folks in gardens/backyards. It all sounds ridiculous and petty and ‘who can follow the rules?’ but actually the Scottish Gov’t is trying so hard to contain the virus spread, while also trying to keep a little bit of normal life going.  While there are a lot of people understandably making a fuss, it’s actually amazing how many people are going along with this – which I think has a lot to do with the fact that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been pretty forthright about what’s going on in Scotland – when we’re doing good, she says so; when we’re not, she says we’ve got to double-down, and it ain’t going to be fun. She herself has seen family members once in months, and then lockdown started again. In terms of scarey diseases, honesty from  your leaders is a pretty good idea.

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