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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Friday/Saturday, Oct. 23-24

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… Behind only Latin America, Asia accounts for about one-fourth of the global caseload of 42.1 million of the virus. With over 163,000 deaths, the region accounts for some 14% of the global COVID-19 toll.

The Reuters tally is based on official reporting by countries. The true numbers of cases and deaths are likely much higher, experts say, given deficiencies in testing and potential underreporting in many countries.

Despite the Asian spikes, the region overall has reported improvement in handling the pandemic in recent weeks, with daily caseloads slowing in places like India – a sharp contrast to the COVID-19 resurgence seen in Europe and North America…

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  1. 1.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
    Yesterday, China reported 28 new imported confirmed cases and 27 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Shanghai Municipality – 9 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from Israel and the Philippines , 1 each from Germany and Ethiopia, a Belgian national coming from Belgium (via Copenhagen), a Ukrainian national coming from the Ukraine (via Schipol) and a Russian national coming from Russia (via the UK)
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 9 confirmed cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria, and 1 each from the US, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Myanmar and the Philippines; 12 asymptomatic cases, 5 Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria, 3 from Congo (Kinshasa) (via Kigali), and 1 each from the Philippines, Lebanon, Uzbekistan and the Ukraine
    • Tianjin Municipality – 3 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from Algeria (via Paris CdG) and a Kazak national coming from Kazakhstan; 2 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese national returning from Guinea (via Paris CdG) and a Kazak National coming from Kazakhstan
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 3 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Uzbekistan
    • Beijing Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Pakistan
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Singapore and the Philippines
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 4 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines and 1 from Indonesia
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 6 asymptomatic cases, 4 Chinese nationals returning from Pakistan and 2 from Malaysia
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Chongqing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Nepal

    Today, Hong Kong reported 5 new cases, 1 from local transmission, source of transmission unidentified.

  2. 2.

    Mary G

    California is rising again overall, but the OC isn’t as much. We had 162 new cases found in more than 12,000 tests. Six deaths, five nursing home patients and one assisted living resident. Wish we could get that under control. New cases per 100k stayed the same at 4.6. All the counties around us are worse. I would think it would have to go up here too eventually. It is all very very very very very very very scary.

  3. 3.

    opiejeanne

    My niece’s husband has been a volunteer for testing Moderna’s vaccine. He told us yesterday that it’s in phase 3, the final round, and he says that so far it seems to be very good. The plan is to release it to the public early next year, the cost will be about $32. He also says almost 90% of providers approve of it and will have early enrollment for the vaccine.

    I have no idea if this vaccine is effective or if what they’ve told him is true.

  4. 4.

    low-tech cyclist

    A Wisconsin court has put a hold on the governor’s restrictions on the size of indoor public gatherings. The order comes as coronavirus cases surge in the state

    Shorter right-wing courts: “the Constitution is too a suicide pact.  Welcome to Jonestown, U.S.A.”

  5. 5.

    Cermet

    I wonder – if there are going to be a few very different vaccines (that use differnt methodologies to protect), will it be allowed by health companies to have more than one type given per person? That is, after getting one type, a few weeks later get another? It would certainly hedge one’s bet and assuming these are very low risk vaccines and Covid is so deadly , wouldn’t that be far more cost effective?

  6. 6.

    opiejeanne

    @Mary G: Scary is right. Stay safe, please.

    Washington state has a far smaller population than California, only 7.6 million residents, smaller than LA County, and most of our population lives west of the Cascades.   We have over 102,000 cases and  had 820 new ones yesterday, according to the Seattle Times, That’s a lot of new cases for us. 2296 deaths since early February, with 7 new deaths on Friday, but our numbers are rising again and now Idaho is going to send some of their patients to Seattle and Portland, OR, because their hospitals are full. Because their governor did nothing to prevent the spread of this disease.

    I’m a bit worried about Covid-19 but I’m more angry with Red state governors and legislatures not urging precautions.

  7. 7.

    mrmoshpotato

    A Wisconsin court has put a hold on the governor’s restrictions on the size of indoor public gatherings.  The order comes as coronavirus cases surge in the state and represented a setback to the efforts of Gov. Tony Evers to slow its spread.

    Coffee-drinking dog: This is fine.

  8. 8.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Since Tuesday, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Service’s coronavirus dashboard has posted a message that the total number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 has been underreported since Oct. 17. The note blamed “challenges entering data” to the portal used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for collecting daily hospitalizations around the country.

    Hmmm, now that’s interesting. I haven’t seen any such message when I’ve looked, which is every 2nd or 3rd day. I wonder where exactly they are posting it?

    ETA: And I still don’t see it. Gonna have to dig I guess.

  9. 9.

    JR

    @Cermet: If you’re effectively immunized, taking a different vaccine out of schedule is just going to elicit a (potentially dangerous) immune response.

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    @opiejeanne:

    The plan is to release it to the public early next year, the cost will be about $32. 

    $32,000,000 with insurance.  And, no, it’s not covered.

  11. 11.

    opiejeanne

    @Cermet: That crossed my mind too.

    Possibly there will be a more effective vaccine in a year or two, but I expect that when that happens we will still need an annual booster shot, just like we need a new flu shot every year.

    I read an article recently that pointed out that herd Immunity doesn’t occur without vaccines and only when a very high percentage of people are vaccinated, and that there is no herd immunity for any respiratory virus.

  17. 17.

    Ked

    News stories about record case numbers (in the US) are such a disgusting mess because there’s no official national tracking, and so there are differing numbers from the three (or more) major tracking efforts. For a while the JHU numbers were the most quoted, there’s the COVID-19 Tracking Project by someone, and my personal favorite is Worldometers (old-fashioned web design for the win) though they seem to keep kinda-wonky GMT day timings.

    This is the first place I saw Thursday’s number listed as a record – most places had it as the third or fourth highest to date, beaten out by peak days in July. Everyone seems to agree that Friday was the worst day for detected cases in the US.

    …that said, the weekly reporting cycle problem appears to be more exaggerated now than it was in July, and the 7-day average is still about 4k under the peak then. Not sure what that says about testing/reporting. Not going to argue it’s headed in the wrong direction.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports a record 1,228 new cases today, for a cumulative reported total of 25,742 cases. He also reports seven new deaths, for a total of 221 deaths — 0.86% of the cumulative reported total, 1.32% of resolved cases. Six new clusters were identified today.

    1,217 cases are from local infection. Sabah, the state at the centre of the current wave, has 889 cases: 500 in all clusters, including eight in the new Mesra and Megah clusters and 434 in the Kepayan prison cluster; 253 close-contract screenings;and 136 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan has 96 cases: 54 in the new Kaya cluster, the rest in existing clusters. Selangor has 76 cases: 27 in all clusters, including one in the new Bah Kayu cluster; 36 close-contact screenings; and 13 other screenings. Kedah has 76 cases: 74 in existing clusters, and two persons back from high-risk zones in Sabah.

    Penang has 23 cases: 19 in existing clusters, three close-contact screenings, one other screening. Labuan has 21 cases: 20 in existing clusters, one close-contact screening. KL has eight cases: four close-contact screenings, Perak has 10 cases: five in existing clusters, and five other screenings. Sarawak has eight cases: three from the new Baki cluster, three close-contact screenings, and two other screenings. Johore has seven cases: five in the new Kempas cluster, one close contact screening, and one other screening. Melaka has three cases: two close contact screenings, and one other screening.

    11 cases are imported, all reported in KL.

    671 more patients recovered and were discharged today, for a total of 16,555 patients recovered — 64.31% of the cumulative reported total. 8,966 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 92 are in ICU, 32 of them on ventilators.

    The seven deaths, all but one reported in Sabah, are an 88-year-old man with hypertension; a 60-year-old man with hypertension, asthma, and gout; a 62-year-old man with diabetes; a 75-year-old man with hypertension; a 72-year-old man with dyslipidæmia, Parkinson’s disease, and cataracts; a 47-year-old man with hypertension and chronic kidney disease; and a 63-year-old man in Penang with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, chronic kidney disease and hydrocephalus.

  21. 21.

    Mousebumples

    Re Wisconsin Court decision –

    The Appeals Court is citing a 4-3 May State Supreme Court ruling from a 5-2 conservative judicial makeup.

    One of the 4 has since been replaced (in August) by the liberal that won the pandemic Judicial election in April. Here’s hoping for a reverse effect when the case gets back to the State Supreme Court. (and here’s hoping the terrible GOP state reps and state Senators are widely outvoted in 11 days!)

  22. 22.

    Cermet

    Normally I avoid single studies that do not include a placebo group; however, the methodology of action of aspirin makes perfect sense to why it would most likely dramaticly reduce deaths and serious medical side effects in very ill Covid-19 patients. Blood clots caused by the Covid virus in the blood stream is the biggest danger for most people – aspirin reduces the clotting ability of platelets – this mechanism by aspirin on clotting is welll understood (however, the virus might compromise this action so this might not be the actual reason.) Do note that these people were, of course, taking the ‘baby’ size dose. These results are priminary and have not been put through the “Gold Standard” test, so this study could be wrong or the resuilts due to other factors – not highly likely but possible. In all things, caution towards intial results is essential. Read the results and draw your own conclusion.

    See: https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-ana … 95423.aspx

  24. 24.

    Rusty

    @Cermet: I heard a person working on one of the vaccine trials discuss this.  What is likely is people at higher risk will get something like the Moderns vaccine since it will likely get approved first. But it’s hard to ramp up manufacturing of that vaccine, it requires two doses and extreme refrigeration.  Most of will probably get something like the J&J vaccine.  It will get approved later, but is easier to manufacture, one dose, etc.  By the time we can actually get the vaccine after the high risk people, the J&J or one like it will be more available and likely for us.  And from another source, yes, we may get a less effective but available vaccine first, and a more effective one later when it’s finally available.

  25. 25.

    p.a.

    Maybe every judge voting against medical recommendations should be dragged from home Friday and Saturday evenings and be forced to sit for 2-3 hours in a sports bar.

  29. 29.

    Sloane Ranger

    Late (I slept in), but better than never. Here are yesterday’s numbers from the UK.

    We had 20,530 new cases (about 700 less than the previous day). Cases by home nation are:

    England – 17116 (down @250)

    Northern Ireland – 1252 (up @200)

    Scotland – 1401 (down @300)

    Wales – 761 (down @300).

    The latest R rate is 1.2 to 1.4, which is a bit down from before. In terms of new cases reported over the last 7 days, Northern Ireland is very high, 381.4 per 100,000 of population compared to England – 180.5, Wales – 182.8 and Scotland – 151.8.

    Deaths – there were 224 deaths reported yesterday, up by about 30 from Thursday’s figures. 188 were in England, 5 in Northern Ireland, 18 in Scotland and 13 in Wales.

    Testing – 340,132 tests were processed out of a capacity of 361,573. The number of positive tests has increased by nearly 25% over the last week.

    Hospitalisations – 7706 people were in hospital as of Wednesday, 23rd October. 707 were on ventilators as of Thursday, 24th. As expected given the increase in cases, both of these figures continue to trend upwards.

  31. 31.

    J R in WV

    @p.a.:

    Maybe every judge voting against medical recommendations should be dragged from home Friday and Saturday evenings and be forced to sit for 2-3 hours in a sports bar.

    This is a good idea, but let me refine it for you:

    …every judge voting against medical recommendations should be dragged from home Friday and Saturday evenings and be forced to sit for 2-3 hours in a sports Karaoke bar.

    What do you think about that idea?

  34. 34.

    Brachiator

    @JR:

    If you’re effectively immunized, taking a different vaccine out of schedule is just going to elicit a (potentially dangerous) immune response.

    Coming late to a probably dead thread, but just wanted to make a note of possible future issues.

    People refusing to take a vaccine shot.

    People trying to get multiple vaccines shots, if they are available, and taking them out of schedule.  Don’t know how dangerous this will be for any individual, but it may reduce the availability of certain vaccines.

  36. 36.

    grandmaBear

    My ex died this morning in California. He was diagnosed with a mild case in a nursing home on Thursday, then admitted with a high fever and considerable trouble breathing last night. This can escalate very fast.

  37. 37.

    JaneE

    I have seen case numbers ebb and surge in my little community about 3 or 4 times now. Numbers go down to 0-2, and the masks come off. A week or so later the numbers are 4-6. Masks go on again. We were in the next to bottom tier, but may well regress, it depends on what the exact numbers are. I see the people complaining and not following the guidelines as the reason we are still largely shut down. I don’t see that changing anytime soon.

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