U.S. sets another daily record for coronavirus cases as some states struggle https://t.co/CJGjix7PON
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 7, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 234,264 deaths from coronavirus https://t.co/DUragWgxvh pic.twitter.com/28ZDK1Popv
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 7, 2020
BREAKING: Final US #COVID19 case count today is 128,045 and 1,194 deaths. 17 states report new high numbers of cases. Yesterday 20 states had new highs. THIS IS DIRE. We need federal action. #WearAMask #SocialDistance. Avoid restaurants and bars.
— TerryAdirimMD (@TerryAdirimMD) November 6, 2020
The current ICU bed situation nationwide, per HHS. More than 70% of ICU beds are full in most states–mostly for non-COVID-19 patients. As we approach winter, there's less excess capacity. pic.twitter.com/ofet8rvmsX
— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein) November 6, 2020
Meadows and WH staff tried to keep these latest positive tests a secret, we have confirmed. https://t.co/Cll9sRqcbT
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 7, 2020
From a long thread…
Former CDC director @DrTomFrieden does a candid recap of the week in #COVID19 every Friday — yes, even in an election week.
The news is not good. https://t.co/OqC6rFAIZD— Maryn McKenna (@marynmck) November 7, 2020
Huge thanks to https://t.co/7o6E62zcwz for great work. We hope site and others will be put out of business by a competent Federal response that demonstrates the only enemy is a virus and gets us all on the same page. The more we work together, the more we can control Covid. 4/14
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) November 7, 2020
Punch 1: Knock the virus down with strategic closures. We’ll do that sooner or later. But we need to vastly up our game with Punch 2: Reduce the time from infectivity to isolation. Paid sick leave for all. Rapid testing, rapid isolation – reduce infectious burden. 9/14
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) November 7, 2020
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“COVID-19 mortality has more than doubled over the past 2 weeks in nearly every European country, and as a whole, the European continent’s COVID-19 mortality increased 120% over that time.” https://t.co/LyZznlphfV
— Dan Epstein (@epstein_dan) November 6, 2020
#BREAKING Europe coronavirus deaths surge past 300,000 according to an AFP tally pic.twitter.com/fWNfLN52zj
— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 6, 2020
Europe’s #COVID19 Hospital Crunch Grows More Dire, Surpassing Spring Peak https://t.co/PWKJUlh0Ni
— Crawford Kilian (@Crof) November 7, 2020
Grappling with a virus that’s unleashed death and poverty, countries across Europe are debating which goods and services are essential enough to be kept available as large parts of their economies go into lockdowns. https://t.co/ZaTMYGs4F0
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) November 7, 2020
UK reports 23,287 new COVID-19 cases, 355 deaths https://t.co/3aM0KuSgTG pic.twitter.com/qdH8BYNTIs
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 6, 2020
Coronavirus: 'Too late' to find nurses needed for 'extremely challenging' winter – with 40,000 vacancies https://t.co/N1CfrrRs20
— SkyNews (@SkyNews) November 7, 2020
France records more than 60,000 coronavirus cases in one day https://t.co/C3ixRjCf1O
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 6, 2020
Russia's daily coronavirus case numbers reached a new record-high of 20,582 on Fridayhttps://t.co/mSon0Hsl0U
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 6, 2020
Hospitals in the Russian capital are admitting around 1,400 new coronavirus patients daily. https://t.co/keNK3W2RnU
— Meduza in English (@meduza_en) November 6, 2020
India's coronavirus cases reach 8.5 million – health ministry https://t.co/vWw718ppbz pic.twitter.com/TTSxJyzX0K
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 7, 2020
The Australian state of Victoria has had its eighth day in a row of no new virus cases or deaths, ahead of another move back to normal living including no limits on travel outside of Melbourne and resumption of flights to New Zealand. https://t.co/hrgF6dle9e
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 7, 2020
Brazil's COVID-19 deaths pass 162,000, with 5.6 million cases: ministry https://t.co/yN9udPaTxI pic.twitter.com/ASyuetxjdF
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 7, 2020
Mexico reports 5,931 new coronavirus cases, 551 more deaths https://t.co/dZRqLrHi7F pic.twitter.com/ro1rgWHEUW
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 7, 2020
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Children infected with the coronavirus produce weaker antibodies and fewer types of them than adults do, suggesting they clear their infection much faster, a new study found. The research may help explain why many don’t become seriously ill. https://t.co/vodkH0GzTz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 7, 2020
Interesting news! The UK’s recovery trial, currently the world’s largest trial of #covid19 therapeutics in the world with 16,000 patients, has added aspirin to the list of drugs it is testing. Rationale is aspirin’s anti-clotting activity. https://t.co/k0ejal59J3
— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) November 6, 2020
Russia's mink producers won't cull their stocks after Denmark's announcement https://t.co/NlBwOyfdF6
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 6, 2020
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I'm so worried about the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in northern US and soon across the nation, as ICUs fill up, staff gets exhausted, and then mortality skyrockets. The face of the Scott Atlas, WH CoV TF, Great Barrington herd immunity nonsense https://t.co/babEeUMHzz
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) November 6, 2020
First the carrot, then the stick: How escalating COVID cases forced Montana to change its mask strategy | Montana Free Press https://t.co/b9oyTzpT1r @K_Hought @KHNews
— Rae Ellen Bichell (@raelnb) November 6, 2020
New research shows NY first responders were 15x more likely to have contracted Covid than the general population https://t.co/l2QjCVB5Sy
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 6, 2020
Texas hits 1M Covid-19 cases, the most in the nation, data show. https://t.co/HWFI8GNwWQ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 7, 2020
“Renae Moch is the public-health director for the city of Bismarck and Burleigh County, N.D.”:
Opinion: How North Dakota became a covid-19 nightmare https://t.co/biBfmIyoIh
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 6, 2020
… What our situation demonstrates is that individual cities and counties cannot stop this pandemic themselves. North Dakota’s efforts should be coordinated and led by the state, with support from the federal government. We need a statewide mask mandate with strict enforcement measures, increased lab capacity to provide timely testing, and better contact tracing and education on isolation and quarantine. These measures are working elsewhere; there’s no reason not to apply them in North Dakota…
If we paid any attention to history… The government is going to have to start paying people to stay home if they’ve been exposed (paid sick leave would be a start, but quite probably not sufficient at this point). And some hard-hit places are going to have to set up quarantine ‘hotels’, for exposed individuals who can’t isolate in crowded multi-generational homes, or those who live alone and need support. And since the states absolutely can’t afford these steps — even assuming you could get red-state legislatures to stop yammering about MAH FREEDUMBS — it’s gonna have to be a federal mandate. Thank the goddess we can count on the incoming Biden administration to listen to science, not bullshite!
satby
Talking to a friend yesterday in Indiana, we have no doubt that people who didn’t like drump still voted against Biden just because they were sure that a Dem administration would mandate masks and shutdowns to contain the virus. Some went Libertarian, but most stayed R. I’m reduced to hoping the Karma Fairy hits those people hard with the ‘rona.
JPL
Since Pence hasn’t been seen, it’s possible that he has the virus, too.
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
Frankensteinbeck
As much as I wish it were otherwise, there will be no federal response until Biden is sworn in. Trump has no reason to give a shit if he’s not getting re-elected, and every reason to give the American people the middle finger and gloat over the suffering. This will get ugly, especially in red-governed areas who will have a similar ‘fuck you’ reaction.
NeenerNeener
170 new cases yesterday up here in “Almost Canada”, where Mistermix, Central Planning and I live. We were down to less than 20 a day over the summer. Some hoax….
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases (all are traced close contacts already under quarantine), both at Shufu County in Kashgar Prefecture in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region. 4 cases recovered and 15 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are now 74 confirmed cases (including 7 in serious condition), all in Kashgar, and 327 asymptomatic cases in Xinjiang (306 in Kashgar and 21 in Kizilsu).
It appears that Chinese universities have unofficially lifted lock down management for students. The policy has not been officially reversed, but university administrations are no longer restricting students from and outside visitors from leaving and entering. The policy never made sense from the start., when the rest of the population not under any restriction or distancing measures.
Yesterday, China reported 33 new imported confirmed cases and 25 imported asymptomatic cases:
* Shanghai Municipality – 11 confirmed cases, 7 Chinese nationals returning from Uzbekistan, 1 Chinese each returning from Germany, Angola (via Germany), the Netherlands, and a Danish National returning from Denmark
* Xiamen in Fujian Province – 7 confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic), 5 Chinese nationals returning from Jordan, and 1 each from Mauritania and Hungary
* Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 2 Chinese nationals returning from Indonesia
* Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 4 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from Greece and Algeria; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Algeria
* Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 4 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Uzbekistan; 6 asymptomatic cases, 5 Chinese nationals returning from Uzbekistan and 1 from Spain
* Hohhot in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region – 3 confirmed cases (1 previously suspect), no information released
* Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 confirmed cases, a Palestinian national coming from Palestine (via Amman, Istanbul and Doha) and a Nepali national coming from Nepal; 4 asymptomatic cases, 2 Nepali nationals returning from Nepal, an Indian National coming from India (via Dubai) and a Chinese national returning from the UAE
* Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from India
* Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
* Changsha in Hunan Province – 4 asymptomatic cases, no information released
* Tianjin Municipality – 2 asymptomatic cases a Chinese national returning from Côte d’Ivoire (via Paris CdG)and a Congolese National coming from the Congo (Brazzaville) (via Paris CdG)
* Kunming in Yunnan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Myanmar
* Chongqing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese national returning from Nepal
* Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
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 3 new cases, 2 imported cases from the UK, 1 local case (a bar tender) without source of infection identified.
C.S.Strowbridge
Some states struggle?! SOME STATES STRUGGLE!?
Look at this map!
https://www.covidexitstrategy.org/
There are only a handful of states that are not at uncontrolled spread.
TS (the original)
An uncontrolled virus – and 70 million still voted for trump. I assume they have no idea about anything outside of the US, so think every country has gone down the same path.
The Thin Black Duke
@Frankensteinbeck: As the IT guys would say, these morons refusing to face reality will be “a self-correcting problem.”
MagdaInBlack
Illinois is not doing well. My friend who works in a small town daycare is now home for 2 weeks and the daycare center is closed because a mom who was waiting for her test results sent her child to day care. She failed to mention she was home waiting. Her test came back positive, as did the one for her child. Now daycare is shut down. The daycare has a covid grant, so at least everyone there is getting paid, while they wait
Eta: The mom works in the local correctional center (prison)
NotMax
This weekend (sooner rather than later) worldwide reported cases are headed pass 50,000,000 with U.S. reported cases constituting 10,000,000 of those.
Amir Khalid
alaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,168 new cases today, for a cumulative reported total of 39,357 cases. He reports three deaths for a total of 282 deaths — 0.72% of the cumulative reported total, 1.02% of resolved cases.
Meanwhile, 1,029 more patients recovered and were discharged today, for a total of 27,409 patients recovered — 69.6% of the cumulative reported total.
Four new clusters were identified today: Softwood LD in Sabah; Teratai in Selangor; and Damanlela Building Site and Mahkota in KL, Putrajaya and Sarawak.
All new cases today are from local infection. As usual, Sabah accounts for the most new cases, with 616: 245 in older clusters (including 220 captive persons in prisons and detention centres), 11 in Softwood LD cluster, 205 close-contact screenings, and 155 other screenings. Selangor has 247 cases: 96 in older clusters, 58 in Teratai cluster, 65 close-contact screenings, and 28 other screenings. KL has 28 cases: six in older clusters, 13 in Damanlela Building Site cluster, one in Mahkota cluster, five close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Labuan has 104 cases:57 in existing clusters, 42 close-contact screenings, and five other screenings.
Negeri Sembilan has 68 cases: 61 in existing clusters, one close-contact screening, and six other screenings. Perak has 37 cases: 36 in existing clusters, and one other screening. Sarawak has 25 cases; 19 in existing clusters, one close-contact screening, and six other screenings. Penang has 18 cases: 16 in existing clusters, and two other screenings. . Kedah has 15 cases, all in existing clusters. Johore has five cases: three in existing clusters, and two close-contact screenings. Terengganu has three cases, all in existing clusters. And Melaka has two cases, one close-contact screening and one other screening.
Kelantan, Perlis, Pahang, and Putrajaya reported no new cases today.
11,666 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 87 are in ICU, of whom 32 are on ventilators.
The three deaths reported today, all in Sabah, are a 51-year-old woman with hypertension, obesity, and dyslipidaemia; a 62-year-old woman with diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidaemia; and a 55-year-old man with diabetes, hypertension and stroke.
Other news: conditional movement control orders will be in place in most of Peninsular Malaysia from 9th November (Monday) to 6th December, except in Kelantan, Perlis, and Pahang which all remain under the less strict recovery movement control orders. The CMCO already in place in Selangor and the Federal Territories of KL and Putrajaya will be extended to 6th December as well.
p.a.
21st Century and the US population is divided between people who believe in science and those who believe in magic. Magic!?
OzarkHillbilly
from that Montana article
the pollyanna from hell
We four roomies in my house attempted to isolate from each other while waiting a few days for a co-worker’s negative test / all clear. Very glad I bought a filter-fan last Feb, so I can feel almost secure to unmask in the shower.
WereBear
We have to start investigating corruption. We’ll find it; hell, they’ve been bragging about it for for years. Because they are in our way.
How can we possibly beat COVID with Moscow Mitch declaring Biden won’t get to choose his own cabinet? That’s outrageous overreach and defiance of the norms of the system and let’s hope, some laws. Because getting rid of Trump is great, but keeping government frozen in place except for bringing on Gilead is NOT going to do anything about the virus, either.
NotMax
@WereBear
MoscowMuerte Mitch.Frankensteinbeck
@The Thin Black Duke:
They will take too many innocents with them.
La Nonna
We are back in mini-lockdown here in Puglia, the positive cases are piling up, exactly 3-4 weeks after the tourist season has ended, so limited to our comune (city or village of residence), unless for paid work, medical, or emergency reasons. Italy has raised the unemployment, disability, and old age pensions by about 18% for the coming year, in an attempt to keep the economy going, and quite frankly to keep people housed and fed. It will be a long 2.5 months if there is no relief for the US, and no aggressive covid containment.
prostratedragon
@WereBear:
Time was when a President could just go blithely on with acting Cabinet secretaries and no one allowed to blink at it. We’ll see if that remains the case after January 20.
The Thin Black Duke
@Frankensteinbeck: I know that. I know that a high percentage of those innocent people will be people of color. And I know that nothing is going to happen until Biden is President. Until then, the ugly numbers are going to go up because these assclowns hate math as much as they hate science. But at least they’re going to pay a tax for their stupidity.
OzarkHillbilly
@The Thin Black Duke: But most of all they hate you. Me too, but I think it’s you they really hate.
Van Buren
I am very surprised to be reading all this because my president told me that after Nov. 3rd, no one would be talking about COVID.
Brachiator
Conservatives will call this “Covid welfare,” and fight against it with all their might.
WereBear
The saving grace of this thing is how people can wear masks and wash hands and do things to protect themselves, but being forced to work and send their children to school further endangers people who know better, but feel helpless about their ability to protect themselves.
This infuriates me and only deepens my disgust with them. I no longer care about their state of mind: they’re dangerous and must be treated as such.
NotMax
@Van Buren
Pace Dickens:
“If the
lawpresident supposes that, thelawpresident is a ass — a idiot.”OzarkHillbilly
@Brachiator: I say we take their homes and turn them into quarantine centers.
Mary G
This is terrifying.
Cheryl Rofer
Sadly, Frankensteinbeck is right.
Trump will take no action on the pandemic. But I think that Biden will do what he can as soon as the media “call” his election. We must have action now, and Biden knows that. People are dying, and more will die.
It won’t be as much as he could do if he were president, but I think Biden will start public health messaging as soon as the “call” comes. He will roll out his pandemic team, and they will start working with governors.
The horrible thing is that, even if Biden could put his entire plan into action today, the lag times between infection and deaths mean that we will see increasing deaths for three more weeks. Don’t plan on an in-person Thanksgiving.
Starfish
When our state health department people talk about their models, their expectation is that we will peak around Christmas. The rules around Thanksgiving look a little lax, and I am sure we will see more COVID in early December.
Brachiator
@Cheryl Rofer:
Biden’s people might offer advice, but they would have no legal authority, and governors would not be required to pay them any attention.
If we are hit harder by the pandemic between now and January, Biden will at best be able to try to rally public opinion and get the Trump administration to react.
It would be terrible if hospitals were pushed to the brink and Trump still refuse to do anything. But he will still be responsible for federal response until inauguration day.
Sloane Ranger
The daily report from the UK.
Yesterday we had 23,287 new cases. down @1000 from the day previous. 156,742 people have tested positive over the past 7 days, which is a decrease of 1.3% from the previous 7 days. By home nation –
England – 20,268 (down @1000)
Northern Ireland – 595 (up @80)
Scotland – 1072 (down @150)
Wales – 1352 (up @100).
Deaths – There were 355 new deaths yesterday, 303 in England, 8 in Northern Ireland, 31 in Scotland and 13 in Wales. Deaths have increase by 35.5% over the past 7 days.
Testing – 344,045 tests were processed out of a capacity of 530,112. Take up over the past few days continues to improve.
Hospitalisations – 12,999 people were in hospital as of Wednesday, 4th November and 1181 were on ventilators as of Thursday, 5th. Hospitalisations have increased by 12.7% over the last 7 days.
Nothing else new to report really.
mrmoshpotato
Is this the part where we start chanting “USA! USA!”?
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Ohio Mom
Can I assume Montana Governor Bullock’s attempts to squash Covid led to his Senate race defeat? People didn’t like being told what to do and took their revenge by voting against him?
mrmoshpotato
@satby:
Oh the things to be stupid and selfish about…
mrmoshpotato
@JPL:
With this bastard administration of criminals, it’s probably more accurate to just assume that 1. someone’s indictment is coming and 2. they’ll eventually catch COVID-19 through their stupidity and selfishness.
It’s also less stressful on the mind.
Brachiator
@Sloane Ranger:
I see video clips of Conservative Party MPs (backbenchers?) in Parliament attacking the lockdown policy. They keep harping about the negative impact on business. But they never seem to offer any alternative to the lockdown.
Are these people pandemic deniers? I can understand being unhappy about the lockdown, but how do they get away with not offering any comprehensive workable alternative plan?
Amir Khalid
@Brachiator:
Some of these Tories are also accusing BoJo of ceding his authority to the scientists. Does that accusation sound familiar?
thylacine
@Ohio Mom: Bullock outperformed Biden by 4 points or so, so it probably wasn’t that.
Splitting Image
@Ohio Mom:
I was thinking the same thing, and I think a few other Republicans owe their wins to the same mentality. Susan Collins, in particular.
Mommy was going to make them take their medicine, so the toddlers threw a tantrum and wished mommy away to the cornfield.
Shalimar
Books to me are as essential as food, and i used to spend hours and hours every week in used bookstores, but I do not see how there is a debate right now about whether buying them in person is an essential activity. Buy them online during a lockdown. It’s annoying but necessary.
YY_Sima Qian
So, isolation of infected cases has become a topic of discussion again. Self-quarantine at home, that runs on the honor system, does not work well enough. Every country that has COVID-19 eradicated or substantially suppressed sends those who test positive into centralized isolation facilities to prevent transmission to family members (who could then spread the virus to the community before they realize it). There is difference in how the traced close contacts are handled. In China and Vietnam they go to centralized quarantine. In South Korea and Taiwan I think they are asked to self-quarantine at home, with monitoring. Not sure about Australia and New Zealand.
Scientifically and epidemiologically speaking, mandatory centralized isolation of all positive cases is a highly effective measure. Unfortunately, sociopolitically, it could be nearly impossible in the US, due to the deep trust deficit. Minorities (especially African Americans) understandably are skeptical of government authorities in general. Anyone who is anti-GOP would be suspicious of abuse of power by the Trump administration in its waning days, or any regional or local GOP government. Trump cultists would distrust government that will be led by an incoming Biden administration.
khead
@Cheryl Rofer:
Thanksgiving? More like Easter I’m afraid. I’m sorry to be Debbie Downer – and I hope I’m wrong – but we know it’s not just Trump. I don’t really see how Biden will be successful in doing ANYthing aside from doing a better job of collecting covid data and being honest about it. Biden can prod the governors all he wants but half the country will simply refuse to do anything. Part of it is ignorance, part of it is “owning the libs”, and the rest is a population that has no stomach for another prolonged shutdown. See also Brachiator in this thread (covid welfare, etc.). Again, I’d like to be wrong but….
wmd
federal paid sick leave is a major gain that can be achieved. I honestly don’t think McConnell would stop it.