Nearly 1 in 10 senators and 1 in 20 House members have been diagnosed with COVID-19, but even wearing masks on the Senate floor is still a source of contention.https://t.co/Qcane4qMJo via @pdmcleod @Zhirji28
— David Mack (@davidmackau) November 25, 2020
and then the people who want to deal with the zombies get accused of being DIVISIVE for their refusal to ignore the zombies
— your friend, Drac-Yule-Log (@Remember_Sarah) November 24, 2020
CNN: At least 2,081 new coronavirus deaths were recorded in the United States on Tuesday, the highest number of new deaths in a single day since May 7, according to data from CNN and Johns Hopkins University.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) November 25, 2020
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.8 million tests, 167k cases, and 2,028 deaths. 88k people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, reaching a new all-time high for the 15th consecutive day. pic.twitter.com/1ZqB5A0W7L
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) November 25, 2020
The US now has over 5 million active cases of COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/1eyBqBwMCl
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) November 25, 2020
No special math skills required, but new model forecasts the US #COVID19 caseload will double in the next two months, topping 24 million. Death tolls will also soar, hitting 400,000 much sooner than most analysts thought. https://t.co/lPzriX5DYv
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 24, 2020
Military historian Doug Sterner with some interesting perspective on COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/2233hOKfmF
— Paul Szoldra (@PaulSzoldra) November 24, 2020
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Another week, another sad record.
Last week @WHO recorded the highest weekly numbers yet in this pandemic:
More than 4 million new cases
More than 67,000 new deaths pic.twitter.com/twlNvQN76q— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) November 24, 2020
Coronavirus is roaring back in parts of Asia, capitalizing on pandemic fatigue https://t.co/pmnhtkqm3D
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 24, 2020
South Korean protests fan COVID-19 fears https://t.co/uC8j92V5gn pic.twitter.com/nNWXEdWp7h
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 25, 2020
Singapore nearly virus free after local cases and clusters cease https://t.co/rIMURGAzeb pic.twitter.com/FTpnSSn9xP
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 25, 2020
Russia confirmed a record-breaking 507 new coronavirus-related deaths Wednesday as the Kremlin continues to rule out a nation-wide lockdown https://t.co/5ge0frVw38
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 25, 2020
A Russian hospital has been fined for concealing over a thousand coronavirus patients earlier this fall https://t.co/98r8MqFfff
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 25, 2020
Germany reports record COVID-19 deaths ahead of Christmas talks https://t.co/9LahrfdAOy pic.twitter.com/9o4npPGqSw
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 25, 2020
French lockdown to ease after ‘second peak passed’ https://t.co/kXV1AbjjMI
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 24, 2020
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So 3.2 million Americans could get their 1st #COVID19 #vaccine dose before Christmas, and 2nd dose after New Years. Most of us aren't likely to get vaccinated until early summer '21. https://t.co/oNTyvUcevU
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 25, 2020
Absolute knock-out paper by @SunKaiyuan and colleagues on SARS-CoV-2 transmission. A few highlights:
1. Kids less susceptible than adults, but just as infectious
2. Presymptomatic spread ~50%
3. Quarantine/isolation not enough in itself— Kristian G. Andersen (@K_G_Andersen) November 25, 2020
How do some of the coronavirus vaccines which have published trial data compare?https://t.co/aBX2j0W48b pic.twitter.com/RRUw4jrqC1
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 24, 2020
China says it has detected the coronavirus on packages of imported frozen food, but how valid are its claims and how serious is the threat? Experts say they generally don't consider the presence of the virus on packaging to be a significant risk. https://t.co/iOKWxWejqD
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 25, 2020
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A strange sign of the times — an email from Beto O'Rourke seeking donations for Operation HOPE to help cover the costs of funerals and burials in El Paso because so many people are dying of COVID …
— Asma Khalid (@asmamk) November 24, 2020
Fresno County brought hospital leaders to media briefing today: they've seen a doubling of patients in last ~4 days, ppl are sicker than previous surges & many health workers out for quarantine. They expect staffing shortages. "It's a big concern what's coming."
— anna barry-jester | subscribe to your local paper! (@annabarryjester) November 24, 2020
BREAKING:CEO of Sanford Health, largest health system in the Dakotas, FIRED after saying there’s no COVID crisis & he’s against mask mandates. His chief medical officer told me Sunday there is a crisis & Governor @KristiNoem should implement a mask mandatehttps://t.co/ThqLMjOf7g
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) November 25, 2020
pitch: the punisher, but he just breaks up covid parties. https://t.co/Ffa37XN8IJ
— gonelikehellmachine (@golikehellmachi) November 23, 2020
With a reported 8,000 guests… everyone pitches in a couple bucks, it’s gone. Unlike the virus:
$15,000 Fine after secret Hasidic wedding draws thousands of guests–and hardly a mask in sight https://t.co/aK29dojnro
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 25, 2020
People are still engaging in risky behavior, despite rising #COVID19 cases nationwide https://t.co/1bb7RlVwXD via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 24, 2020
‘Typhoid Mary intended to make people sick, but me & my clan are clean, decent people!’
Somehow, the concept of an "asymptomatic carrier" is something people just instinctively resist with all their might, even when we already have all these cultural references to it ("Typhoid Mary" etc) https://t.co/5lOCv2p3xr
— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) November 24, 2020
YouTube has barred One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and stripped it of its ability to make money off existing content after the channel uploaded a video promoting a phony cure for COVID-19.https://t.co/MPvqwmqmqz
— Axios (@axios) November 24, 2020
rikyrah
Thanks for the info.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 2 new asymptomatic cases and 1 new suspect case. All reported domestic cases are at Manzhouli in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region, on the border with Russia. The city had completed mass screening of all residents as of 3 PM on 11/24. As of 7 AM today, 203,236 individuals have been swabbed, the 145,428 results have been obtained so far. It is not clear if the new asymptomatic cases are found among traced close contacts, or from the mass screening. The authorities report that epidemiological investigation is ongoing, no further case information have been released. 245 close contacts of the asymptomatic and suspect cases have been traced and quarantined.
Yesterday, China reported 5 new imported confirmed cases and 4 imported asymptomatic case:
* Shanghai Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from France and Switzerland
* Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Russia
* Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Iraq (via Tehran); 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the US and Kuwait
* Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Russia
* Tianjin Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
* Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Spanish national coming from Spain (via Germany)
Yesterday, Hong Kong reported 85 new cases, 1 imported and 84 local (16 of whom with out clear sources of infection, 63 associated with dance clubs).
Enjoy a safe Thanksgiving everyone! Hope the next one will be relatively normal.
TS (the original)
Thank you AL – your covid updates are more useful than those from most, if not all, other news sources. The additional information on the thread is also A1.
And my good news: Our state has opened its borders & (touch wood) Christmas with the young ones (daughter/granddaughter) is allowed. The very best ending to a very long year.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 970 new cases today, for a cumulative reported total of 59,817 cases. Dr Noor Hisham also reports four new deaths for a total of 345 deaths — 0.58% of the cumulative reported total, 0.77% of resolved cases.
12,971 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 110 are in ICU, 47 of them on respirators. Meanwhile, a record 2,348 patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 46,501 patients recovered — 73.6% of the cumulative reported total.
Five new clusters were reported today: D’Bajaru in Sabah, Gangsa in Selangor, Batu Tujuh and Tanjung Bunga in Johor, and Kerengge in Terengganu.
965 new cases today are local infections. Negeri Sembilan has the most cases, 318, all in existing clusters. Sabah has 293 cases: 36 in older clusters, 56 in D’Bajaru cluster, 129 close-contact screenings, and 72 other screenings. Selangor has 112 cases: 40 in older clusters, 23 in Gangsa cluster, 23 close-contact screenings, four SARI screenings, and 22 other screenings. Perak has 80 cases: 78 in existing clusters, one close-contact screening, and one other screening. KL has 44 cases: 29 in existing clusters, five close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings.
Labuan has 37 cases: 22 in existing clusters, 11 close-contact screenings, one SARI screening, and three 3 other screenings. Johor has 30 cases: 10 in older clusters, nine in Batu Tujuh and Tanjung Bunga clusters, three close-contact screenings, three SARI screenings, and five other screenings. Penang has 14 cases: two in existing clusters, and 12 other screenings. Kelantan has eight cases: three in existing clusters, and five close-contact screenings. Pahang has two cases: one close-contact screening, and one other screening.
Putrajaya has one case, in an existing cluster. Melaka has one case, found in other screening. And Terengganu has one case, in Kerengge cluster.
Only Perlis has reported no new cases today.
Five new cases are imported. Three were reported in Selangor, and two in Sarawak. They are arrivals from Romania (two), Indonesia, Pakistan, and Qatar.
The four deaths today are a 73-year-old woman in Penang; a 68-year-old non-Malaysian woman in Sabah with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; a 54-year-old non-Malaysian woman in Sabah with diabetes; and a 77-year-old non-Malaysian woman in Sabah.
Uncle Cosmo
Good on U-Toob.
In a just world, the Obscene American Nazi Network would be confiscated and sold off for the benefit of the commonwealth, and its senior management would be jailed and left to rot. (Of course the real world has too much respect for private property and due process to do that.)
NeenerNeener
340 new COVID cases in Monroe County, NY today, 305 people hospitalized, 54 of them in the ICU. If we go Orange in the next 2 weeks I wonder if Cuomo will let us skip car inspections again.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
RWNJ mom (who, along with dad benefits from SS, his teacher’s pension and a 401K through nonprofit employment, along with Medicare) was complaining about a new round of Kentucky closures.
She referred to Beshear as King Andy and said he’s too scared to keep things open, that he doesn’t have “the guts” to make a decision to keep things running.
I begged off the call, deciding to walk the dog instead.
p.a.
Maybe the Pres election took most resources, but since earlier in the pandemic have not seen many polls on various governors’ reactions to cov. Curious to see if the results of Noem’s rank stupidity penetrates her tRumpturd population’s calcified brains. (Did I just answer my own question?)
evodevo
@p.a.: Prolly not…see Le Comte’s comment at #7 – this is a typical Ky denizen’s attitude…I live among them in rural Ky…
satby
I mentioned in the overnight thread another mask refuser at the market is out with covid, the one who did the shopping for all the pick up orders. She’s morbidly obese, diabetic, and I think has asthma and mostly wore a mask around her neck to have handy if the health department showed up. “She couldn’t breathe” in a mask, though she sewed them to sell. I just wouldn’t have come to the market at all with her risk factors, so I have a hard time being sympathetic though I do hope she comes out of it ok.
It makes me wonder though; because maybe if there had been financial support for people like her, she would have stayed home. How much of the denialism is people minimizing risks because they have to be out working anyway? It’s not logical, but many people aren’t, especially with an information infrastructure built to misinform and brainwash them.
mrmoshpotato
@satby:
Depends on how much the deniers let Faux News and other garbage networks take a shit in their skulls (h/t Driftglass).
trnc
Adam Schiff on CNN just now said he doesn’t think a self pardon for DT would be legal. This is literally the first time I have ever heard it discussed as not being a foregone conclusion that he can do that. Of course, all bets are off with the SC, but I’m glad to hear a high ranking House member pushing back on it.
Sloane Ranger
Here in the UK we had 11,299 new cases yesterday. This is over 4000 less than the day before and a reduction of 27.6% in the rolling 7 day average, so trending in the right direction. Cases by home nation,
England – 9854 (down @4000)
Northern Ireland – 79 (down @200)
Scotland – 771 (down @150)
Wales – 595 (down @300).
Deaths – There were 608 deaths yesterday, a big jump from the previous day but probably to be expected as the weekend would have delayed reporting. I expect the figure includes some deaths that actually occurred on Saturday and Sunday. 535 deaths were in England, 11 in Northern Ireland, 41 in Scotland and 21 in Wales.
Testing – 212,533 tests were processed on 23 November out of a capacity of 525,856. This is a slight decrease in the 7 day rolling average of 0.5%.
Hospitalisations – 16,158 people were in hospital on Sunday 22 November and 1487 were on ventilators on Monday, 23rd. 7-day rolling average for hospital admissions shows a reduction of 5.5.%.
Things are slowly improving across the UK but…
General – The home nations have agreed a set of relaxations on restrictions over the Christmas period (23-27 December), except Northern Ireland where the period is 22-28 December to allow for travel time. People will be permitted to form “bubbles” of up to 3 separate households over this period. Once formed the bubble cannot be changed and people will be allowed to mix indoors and outdoors and stay overnight. All travel restrictions will be lifted for this period but these temporary bubbles will not be allowed to go to pubs/restaurants (if open) together. No relaxation over the New Year period. People with extended families are already moaning publicly about having to choose who to mix with. The government is publicly urging restraint but we all know people won’t exercise it. People will play over Christmas and we will all pay in early to mid-January. All the effort to bring the figures down so far wasted!
The other big story is a National Audit Office report criticising the government for not having enough PPE stockpiled at the beginning of the pandemic and having to pay over the odds to obtain it. I must admit to having some sympathy for the government on this one. Had they stockpiled enough PPE and there hadn’t been a pandemic, that same National Audit Office would be criticising them for the wasteful spending and urging Just in Time procurement practices. I suppose a case could be made that the government should have acted faster once it became clear the virus had entered Europe, but by then every government was trying to get hold of the stuff. The government can and should be criticised, however, for the way they went about trying to obtain PPE, which seems very much to have involved throwing money at mates.
Sloane Ranger
@trnc:
CNN have had various legal beagles on since they called the election for JB who have said the same, but, they all caution that it is something that had never been tested.
Rusty
@NeenerNeener: Parts of Monroe county are now orange, including parts of Rochester, Brighton and extending west. Under the rules, the schools can continue in person classes in the orange zone if they test 25% of the students and staff each week and the positive rate stays low. The Brighton school district said they will have to go fully remote because a third of the parents have refused to have their kids tested! My wife is on some parent forum boards in Pittsford next door, and she said its madness. Right wing parents are angry with Cuomo for not opening everything, and so are refusing to have their kids tested. So if orange is extended, we may be in the same boat with schools closing because parents are so spiteful that they will have their kids miss in person school so they can thumb their nose at the governor. Even in blue states there is complete madness!
mrmoshpotato
@trnc: Pardon all of this trash into the Sun.
trnc
@Sloane Ranger: Good to know. Tx.
trnc
@mrmoshpotato: Seems like a novel use of the pardon power, but I am not against it.
Wag
@trnc: Here’s an interesting take in The Atlantic from a constitutional scholar on the question about how an Originalist should approach the question of whether Trump can self pardon TL/DR is that he can’t, if you are an honest Originalist But we all know how honest the right wing SC members are…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/one-word-bars-trump-pardoning-himself/617170/
Searcher
Did Shaun if the Dead not hit those notes at the beginning?
YY_Sima Qian
@TS (the original): That is great new! Are all state borders in Australia now open?
Now that COVID-19 is almost eradicated in Australia, I do hope the authorities will pay some attention the risk of fomite transmission via international cold chain logistics. Yes, this risk factor should be far down the priority list for nations dealing with widespread community transmission, and consumers should not be all that concerned. However, if you want COVID-19 to stay eradicated, these very low risk vectors still need to be addressed, lest they spark new outbreaks leading to costly responses. Good thing Australia mostly exports frozen meat and seafood, rather than import. However, there is still international freight and parcel. People handling these packages are at potential risk.
Personally, I have been avoiding anything frozen meats from Europe or the Americas when shopping. I only trust beef from Australia and lamb from New Zealand. Fruits are fine, even blueberries from Chile and grapefruits from South Africa. My family would rather avoid anything imported altogether.
Amir Khalid
Some late information: Teratai cluster in Selangor, which accounted for most of Malaysia’s alarmingly high new-cases number in the past two days, added just 17 new cases today. Teratai cluster is the one located in the factory of Top Glove, the world’s largest maker of latex surgical gloves. The area is under enhanced movement control orders — Malaysia’s maximal tier of lockdown — to allow the Ministry of Health to conduct exhaustive testing and contact tracing of Top Glove workers,
wormtown
@satby: I think that is a good point.
Skepticat
Had my COVID-19 test yesterday (must have it within five days of arrival), and if the results, my Bahamian travel visa, and the cats’ immigration paperwork cooperate, on Saturday I’ll be headed back to a tiny desert island with no virus (sound of my knuckles on my skull) to wait out the winter. We still have no power, and as I still have rubble rather than a home I’ll be in a two-room guest suite with no kitchen, but it seems preferable to the petri dish that is the States.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@trnc: Considering Trump repressed his own voters in the election I suspect he would screw up a self pardon too.
Also I am skeptical that SCOTUS would buy a self pardon because it’s back to them nullifying themselves. Not mention even the rabid wingnut Justice might consider this thought experiment”so when Chesley Clinton gets elected president, then she will pardon herself”
NeenerNeener
@Rusty: I think the whole state would have to go Orange before Cuomo would relax the car inspection dates again. That’s the only appointment I’m really worried about between now and Christmas, because I’ve never gotten out of a dealership in less than 2 hours. The friend who offered to pick me up so I don’t have to sit at the dealership also mentioned that she and her husband are traveling to Virginia to spend Thanksgiving with friends. I may have to start calling on other friends for that ride. The car really needs to go in; it hasn’t had an oil change in almost a year and yesterday I was having problems starting it and shutting it off.
Platonicspoof
Re-posting my comment from John’s last post. Link also happens to appear on Sanford story page Anne Laurie provides above.
Will add there are at least 850 Covid deaths in S.D., a state with about 900,000 people, so Covid death rate will soon be 1 in 900 people since it increases by 30 to 40 per day (Worldometer).
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Platonicspoof: It would also double SD death rate from 812 to 1,662.
charon
@Platonicspoof:
In a normal year, mortality in the U.S. from all causes is roughly 2.3/100,000 daily. Current daily mortality from Covid in ND is about 2.2/100,000, in SD about 2.8/100,000.
In the whole of U.S, about 0.5/100,000, in the midwest states collectively about 0.8/100,000.