Coronavirus cases in the U.S. surged by over 120,000 on Thursday, according to a @Reuters tally, the second consecutive daily record rise. The new cases have been accompanied by a steep rise in hospital admissions https://t.co/hlKTWzFwYp pic.twitter.com/BrMsseyGcy
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 6, 2020
One day in America: More than 121,000 #coronavirus ases https://t.co/S2L2wtQQLT
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) November 6, 2020
An @AP analysis: in 376 counties w/the highest number of new #COVID19 cases per capita — 93% of those counties went for #Trump, a rate above other less severely hit areas. Most were rural areas in the Dakotas, Montana, Nebraska, Wisconsin & Iowa.https://t.co/kEo9pPdgPa
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 5, 2020
Possibly because these high GOP counties include lots of people who followed Trump’s lead and did not engage in the basic counter-measures of mask-wearing and social distancing? https://t.co/lXzKcWPrPP
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) November 5, 2020
Pedal to the metal, hurtling towards crisis. Why? https://t.co/Q5huRzpxyd
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) November 6, 2020
#UPDATE The trajectory of Covid-19 remains key to the US recovery and until it is eradicated, more emergency spending will be "essential" to support the economy, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said https://t.co/l40r9qtz0H
— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 6, 2020
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Europe proved to be key in the global spread of SARSCoV2, according to a new analysis https://t.co/4S6xJvD7oS via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) November 5, 2020
AFP graphic highlighting the countries with the largest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths Oct 30 – Nov 5@AFPgraphics pic.twitter.com/Vo5ONvwUAg
— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 6, 2020
VIDEO: Images show the scene outside Milan's Duomo Cathedral as swathes of Italy return to coronavirus lockdown in response to the resurgent pandemic continuing its march through Europe pic.twitter.com/Ky5Qxtwa2o
— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 6, 2020
As Britain locks down, officials work to keep the economy afloat https://t.co/IRFc2bAYe7
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) November 6, 2020
Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 21,506: RKI https://t.co/xxuyrLh4fv pic.twitter.com/ByghF3vhAY
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 6, 2020
Ambulances forced to queue as hospitals scramble for COVID-19 beds in Poland https://t.co/XL6pyxsVGI pic.twitter.com/TC6IlE2pfP
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 6, 2020
As coronavirus cases surge in Bosnia, the pandemic is heaping new trouble and trauma on an impoverished nation that has never recovered economically or psychologically from the ruinous war in the 1990s. https://t.co/L4KiYNgpxn
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) November 6, 2020
Russia confirmed 19,404 Covid-19 cases and 292 deaths Thursday, bringing its official number of cases to 1,712,858 https://t.co/Z6QyuvCWZl pic.twitter.com/9zrAZvTV3V
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 5, 2020
Asia Today: Australia’s highest court has upheld a state’s border closure and dismissed a case arguing the pandemic measure was unconstitutional. https://t.co/LuvCghrDat
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 6, 2020
Beijing bans foreign arrivals from France and a host of other countries, the latest in a growing number of bans as China closes itself off from a world still battling the coronavirus pandemichttps://t.co/F1nObOLQf5 pic.twitter.com/QyUJAyTBWn
— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 6, 2020
The Chinese Embassy in Moscow announced suspension of entry for Russian nationals holding valid visas and residence permits. The decision was made amid Russia’s notable spike in coronavirus cases. https://t.co/KHUWO9pEs0
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 6, 2020
Covid-19: How a 'warm vaccine' could help India tackle coronavirus https://t.co/VT5nRNd1Yd
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 6, 2020
Vietnam opts for containment over 'high risk' rush for costly vaccine https://t.co/PGrY5WiOfG pic.twitter.com/9Mqdl1xsbh
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 6, 2020
Mexico's health ministry confirms 544 new coronavirus deaths https://t.co/FqbXEquWtg pic.twitter.com/La97KJEM4g
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 6, 2020
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Children produce different antibodies in response to SARSCoV2. The difference suggests the course of infection & immune response is distinct in children & most children easily clear the virus from their bodies. The finding provides new insight into Covid https://t.co/aICZoxz4m4 pic.twitter.com/CeKfo9Cw0Y
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) November 5, 2020
Are the mutations seen in #SARSCoV2 viruses in Danish mink likely to cause problems for people? I asked @MarionKoopmans, @firefoxx66, @CT_Bergstrom & @BallouxFrancois. Their answers were reassuring. https://t.co/XdeUv51YZg
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) November 5, 2020
Up to 40% of PCR tests performed in Russia could be false negatives, Russian Health Ministry chief pulmonologist announced Thursdayhttps://t.co/SyfquaGWFy
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 6, 2020
Here’s why antibiotics and antiviral medications used to treat COVID-19 have disappeared from Russia’s pharmacies. https://t.co/VpqjF3Iy0m
— Meduza in English (@meduza_en) November 5, 2020
"A menace to the public health” — Contact tracing and the limits of persuasion. Perspective report in the New England Journal of Medicine https://t.co/hdpkT89d2G
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) November 5, 2020
… These examples from early contact-tracing efforts may help us understand the limits of persuasion in the Covid-19 pandemic. As in early-20th-century Glasgow, people with privilege and wealth have the greatest capacity to quarantine at home. Although the prospect of coercing vulnerable people who have few reasons to trust government-led interventions always lies just behind efforts at persuasion in the public interest, it also seems clear that strategies that recognize the real financial costs of complying with public health measures such as quarantine are more likely to succeed…
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Covid-19 indirectly killed far more older adults than we thought https://t.co/63K24lThF0 #Coronavirus #Health pic.twitter.com/owarrp2YA1
— World Economic Forum (@wef) November 4, 2020
Some thoughts on where we are with COVID in Iowa.#beds
Hospitals are full. Don't look at "beds" available on websites. Hospitals are already running at >100% capacity. Healthcare workers are burning out. If all we needed were beds, we could just put people into hotels. 1/x— ?????? ?????????????????????? ?? ???? (@eliowa) November 5, 2020
#schools
The virus is spreading in schools. This is because community rates are too high and there are too many kids/teachers getting infected in the community. We will need to close schools in Iowa and reduce transmission before we can safely reopen them 3/x— ?????? ?????????????????????? ?? ???? (@eliowa) November 5, 2020
#PlanForIowa
1) Close bars, resturants for indoor dining; use surplus (CARES?) funds to support those businesses for 3 months
2) Mask mandate with enforcement – people are dying, hospitals are collapsing
3) Ban indoor gatherings >5 peopleWe can survive with good leadership 5/5
— ?????? ?????????????????????? ?? ???? (@eliowa) November 5, 2020
David Fud
Biden took the lead in Georgia at 4:30. He is on track to narrowly win 16 electoral votes here.
Amir Khalid
@David Fud:
Sorry mate, but yo have the wrong thread.
Ryan
Georgia! Such a wonderful moment! Good morning, world!
debbie
Back on topic, Ohio has reported a 55% increase in new cases over the past two weeks. The Republican governor refuses to even mandate masks and has just appointed a pro-life medical director. It feels like things are about to deteriorate rapidly.
raven
@Amir Khalid: Nah, the virus ain’t goin nowhere.
Buckeye
4900 cases here in Ohio yesterday, another record. We’re going the wrong direction and we’re heading there quickly.
Chyron HR
I sure hope they call it for Biden soon, so the Coronavirus can just disappear like magic once the election is over.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 6 new domestic confirmed cases (all previously asymptomatic, under isolation), all at Shufu County in Kashgar Prefecture in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region. China also reported 15 new domestic asymptomatic cases (all are traced close contacts already under quarantine), 9 at Shufu County in Kashgar Prefecture, and 6 at Aktau County in Kizilsu Prefecture. 1 serious case improved to moderate, and 9 asymptomatic cases have been released from isolation. There are now 78 confirmed cases (including 7 in serious condition), all in Kashgar, and 339 asymptomatic cases in Xinjiang (318 in Kashgar and 21 in Kizilsu).
Yesterday, China reported 30 new imported confirmed cases and 18 imported asymptomatic cases and 23 new imported suspect cases:
In additional to the UK, Belgium and the Philippines, China has suspended visas and residence permits of visitors from France, Russia, the Ukraine, Bangladesh and India. Expect more to follow. Italy is sure to follow. I am surprised that Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia and Romania are not already on that list.
Yesterday, Hong Kong reported 6 new cases, all imported.
Matt McIrvin
Biden can’t force the states or the people to behave, but he can at least get out of the way while actual experts make federal policy.
But that’s not until January.
beef
@Matt McIrvin:
And Biden has the microphone now. (I wrote ‘bully pulpit at first, but that’s getting a bit dated…) The media will cover him when he speaks. That’s a big deal. Biden can help suppress the spread of Covid just by talking.
Amir Khalid
@raven:
There will be presidential election threads all day. Comments on the one daily Covid-19 thread should at least make some reference to Covid-19.
WereBear
Trump is rightly slammed, by thinking people, for his handling of the pandemic. But really, he handled it right: for his base.
We keep thinking that if Trump was just minimally competent his people would have worn masks and given up their bars and restaurants and sports events. I’m thinking… not.
I think his cult leader antennae are tuned well enough to know that wouldn’t go over. He would be the parent who told the screaming toddler to go to bed. He never wants to be that parent, and his followers don’t want him to.
He’s the fun guy who drinks on the way to Disneyland and lets the kids eat so much junk they throw up all the way home. Not only is Trump not a responsible leader, his followers don’t want him to be.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
Probably a lost cause.
I’m curious about the numbers from China. How long have “imported” cases been reported? Is this distinction more of a propaganda ploy? I usually don’t have time in the morning to read this thread, but “imported” really jumped out at me.
Mary G
The OC is rising again too, new daily cases per 100,000 rose from 5.6 to 6, and percent of positive tests from 3.2 to 3.6. Still well within the parameters of the slightly reopened tier 2, and hospital ICU patients went from 59 to 66.
The housemates report from Costco that people are hoarding again. K went to three different ones trying to find toilet paper for one of her clients. Pasta, rice, & ramen out too.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-1elantan9 numbers. The Ministry of Health reports 1,755 new cases today, a new record, for a cumulative reported total of 38,189 cases. The Ministry reports two deaths for a total of 279 deaths — 0.73% of the cumulative reported total, 1.05% of resolved cases. (DG Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah’s daily media briefing is pre-empted today by the Budget 2021 presentation in Parliament.)
Meanwhile, 726 more patients recovered and were discharged today, for a total of 26,380 patients recovered — 69.1% of the cumulative reported total.
Three new clusters were identified today: Fores in Selangor and KL, Mampulut in Sabah, and Rengas in Perak.
1,752 new cases are from local infection. Once again Sabah accounts for the most new cases, with 1,199: 651 in older clusters, 12 in Mampulut cluster, 363 close-contact screenings, three SARI screenings, and 170 other screenings. Penang has 192 cases, all in existing clusters. Selangor has 164 cases: 107 from older clusters, four from Fores cluster, one person back from a high-risk zone in Sabah, 28 close-contact screenings, and 25 other screenings. And Kuala Selangor district, with four new cases, has been declared an orange zone.
Labuan has 59 cases: 40 in existing clusters, 14 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings. Negeri Sembilan has 45 cases: 34 in existing clusters, close-contact screening, and 10 other screenings. KL has 17 cases: seven in older clusters, one in Fores cluster, one close-contact screening, and eight other screenings. Putrajaya has nine cases, all in existing clusters. Kedah has 19 cases, all in existing clusters.
Perak has 18 cases: eight in older clusters, seven in Rengas cluster, one close-contact screening, and two other screenings. Sarawak has 17 cases: 13 in existing clusters, two close-contact screening, and two other screenings. Terengganu has eight cases, all in existing clusters. Johore has three cases, all in other screenings. Melaka has two cases, both in other screenings.
Kelantan, Pahang and Perlis reported no new cases today.
Three new cases are imported. No information on which countries they arrived from.
11,530 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 83 are in ICU, of whom 32 are on ventilators.
The two deaths reported today are a 67-year-old woman in Sabah with hypertension, diabetes, and asthma; and a 54-year-old man in Kedah with hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and stroke.
Amir Khalid
@debbie:
China and Malaysia, among many other countries, have always noted the number of imported cases — people who test positive when they arrive in the country — to distinguish them from cases from local infection.
Taken4Granite
@debbie: China isn’t the only country that has been referring to “imported” cases; Amir’s updates from Malaysia also use that term.
Its significance has to do with contact tracing of infected cases: an “imported” case must have acquired the infection outside the country in question, so there is little that can be done within the destination country to trace the infection. They would need the assistance of whatever country the infected traveler came from.
YY_Sima Qian
@debbie: Imported cases have been reported by local health commissions in China since Mar., when COVID-19 cases started entering the country from overseas, initially causing some heart burn as people wake up to reports of two dozen new cases even though COVID-19 had all but been eradicated in most parts of the country. That is when China started to report the imported cases separately from the domestic cases, suspended visa and residence permits for foreign nationals, dramatically reduced the number of incoming flights, and started mandatory testing and 14 day quarantine of people arriving from overseas. The quarantine initially was at home, but changed to centrally managed facilities due to people breaching quarantines. The practice is common across East and Southeast Asia, where COVID-19 has been eradicated or substantially suppressed (South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, etc.) You can see the imported cases in Amir’s daily update from Malaysia, as well. The majority of imported cases are actually Chinese nationals returning from overseas, as the updates I post daily show.
I have not seen any evidence that the Chinese authorities are hiding domestic cases in the import category. Too much details have been released about both domestic and imported cases. Each new outbreak in China would have hundreds of cases reported (see Kashgar right now), that is easily a two weeks’ worth of imported cases.
If there were 15 domestic cases in Shanghai yesterday, parts of they city would be under lock down, and a mass screening campaign would kick off to test all residents in Medium and High Risk areas.
Obviously, imported cases is an issue in Europe and North America, though currently dwarfed by domestic transmission. However, the testing, monitoring and quarantining of incoming visitors is practically non-existent in these places, so there is no data on imported cases, or the clusters they cause.
p.a.
@WereBear:
Constitutionally, I don’t know how much Biden can ‘mandate’ abt covid come January, but I know whatever he does try will be received the way Brown v Board of Education was in red areas. Whackjobs & Fox may even start quoting Calhoun re Nullification.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
That’s all sound advice for Iowa, but they just voted for death.
And no, Biden shouldn’t do the president’s job until he is actually president. This wave of death and horror is Trump’s doing and manbaby needs to go do his job.
YY_Sima Qian
@Amir Khalid: You may not have seen my question from yesterday. What do you think is going on at Sabah. It was trending better last week, but now seems to be heading in the opposite direction again. I though the lock down there was having the intended effect. Is compliance falling, or are new illegal migrants from the Philippines and Malaysia seeding new clusters? The many islands and the complex coast lines in the region do make border control impossible.
YY_Sima Qian
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: On the other hand, may want to minimize the size of the fire that is burning when he is swearing in. The US is not yet in to the depths of winter or the height of the holidays season. Things are about to get much worse without some major non-pharmaceutical interventions.
Amir Khalid
@YY_Sima Qian:
There hasn’t been any mention of immigration enforcement in Sabah being overwhelmed, in the daily media briefings by Senior Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob. Dr Noor Hisham has said the Ministry of Health is really ramping up testing in Sabah, so that may be part of the rise in cases detected. Another thing he has mentioned is that the strain of the virus brought in by illegal immigrants may be an especially contagious one — with the g146 mutation, if I’m not mistaken — and this might have contributed to its spread not only in Sabah but also the whole country.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@YY_Sima Qian: The problem with that is Trump and his enablers will push the blame on to Biden for their failure and since it’s going to be a horror story in the Mid West this winter the survivors are going to want scapegoats come 2022. Biden has already made his covid policy clear and has been setting the example with his car rallies and mask wearing.
Seriously, they blew off six months to prepare for this day with the excuse that COVID is an effet libertard problem so until it’s them doing the suffering their minds will not change. This is like drunks and druggies, until they hit rock bottom no one can help them.
Sloane Ranger
Biden now ahead in Penn. Hurrah!
Now, back to this regularly scheduled thread. Sorry for the delay in reporting. I was watched CNN until past 3am local time last night and slept in this morning. There was a delay in updating the Dashboard yesterday due to a technical issue with uploading the English data. It wasn’t rectified until after 9pm.
Anyway, here are yesterday’s figures from the UK. There were 24,141 new cases, down about 1000 from the day before. The growth rate does seem to have leveled off. Hopefully the lockdown will lead to a significant reduction. By home nation, the new cases were,
England – 21,137 (down @700)
Northern Ireland – 516 (down @150)
Scotland – 1216 (down @200)
Wales – 1272 (up @70).
The R rate remains steady at 1.1 – 1.3.
Deaths – There were 378 new deaths, down about 100 from the day before. 297 deaths were in England, 12 in Northern Ireland, 39 in Scotland and 30 in Wales.
Testing – 301,131 tests were processed out of a capacity of 528,245. A bit of an improvement over recently.
Hospitalisations – As of 3rd November there were 12,949 people in hospital throughout the UK. As of the 4th November, 1191 were on ventilators. The trendline for both of these is rising steeply.
General – Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak has announced the extension of the Furlough scheme until the end of March 2021. This pays people if they cannot work because their workplace is closed due to Government restrictions or there isn’t any work for them. As before, it will pay 80% of a person’s wages up to £2,500 a month. The operation of the scheme will be reviewed in January.
Anecdata – People/companies seem to be taking the instruction to work from home seriously. Usually the street outside my house is empty of cars during the day and starts filling up after 4pm. Looking outside just now (3.15pm), it’s chockablock.
debbie
@Amir Khalid: @Taken4Granite: @YY_Sima Qian:
Thanks. I just hope it doesn’t give Trump any ideas.
VOR
@Amir Khalid: No, the pandemic and the election are inextricably linked. The current administration keeps saying the virus will magically go away. In fact, they named November 4th as the day COVID would vanish. Instead we have a new daily record of 120k new cases in the US. It seems clear the US will not make any progress fighting COVID until there is a new administration.
And not just Federal government, we need new leadership in states too. The Michigan Supreme Court will change, which means maybe they will stop over-ruling public health measures taken by the Michigan Governor. Maybe some other states will change their mind once their leaders no longer have to appease President Trump.
D Gardner
@debbie: Ohioan here as well, and I’m really alarmed by the massive surge in cases. I didn’t realize Dewine had appointed a “politically motivated” medical director; he is reverting to his (terrible) form after months of being surprisingly competent and honest re COVID.