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We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

The willow is too close to the house.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

This fight is for everything.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Not all heroes wear capes.

The revolution will be supervised.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

This really is a full service blog.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Thursday/Friday, Dec. 10-11

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… Experts say the market still plays a role in the investigation and is therefore unlikely to be demolished, though much of that research will rely on samples taken immediately after the outbreak began…

Access to the area remains heavily restricted. People who visited before the lockdown remember a bustling building with hundreds of stalls divided into sections for red meat, seafood and vegetables.

Recently, the local government has added leafy green plants and traditional Chinese paintings to the semi-permanent blue barricades encircling the area. Inside, wooden boards line the stalls and windows.

On the second floor above the empty market, shops selling glasses and optometry equipment reopened in June.

This week, a guard at the entrance to the eyeware market took temperatures and warned journalists not to take videos or photos from inside the building…

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats yesterday:

    678 new cases, 599 people in the hospital, 109 of them in the ICU, 373 total deaths since early this year, and an 8.3% positivity rate.

  2. 2.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, China reported 6 new domestic confirmed and 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Dongning and Suifenhe in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang Province, reported 1 new confirmed case each. The case at Suifenhe was a loader at a local import logistics firm. He had resigned on 12/5, but he heard former colleagues were getting screened at work, so he went to a hospital to get as tested, as well, where he tested positive.  62 F1 close contacts and 179 F2 close contacts have been traced and quarantined, and environmental samples collected. The case at Dongning is a construction worker installing disinfection systems at the local Customs facility. 77 F1 close contacts and 81 F2 close contacts have been traced and quarantined, environmental samples collected. Both district level cities have commenced 100% mass screening of all residents, to be completed over 3 days.

    Chengdu reported 4 new confirmed (1 of whom was reported as asymptomatic earlier in the day) and 1 new asymptomatic cases, all are traced close contract already under quarantine. There are currently 10 confirmed and 2 asymptomatic cases in the city. 504 F1 close contacts and 1,262 F2 close contacts are under quarantine. As of 9 PM on 12/10, 1,202,234 individuals have been swabbed as part of mass screening in the city, 1,048,007 results have been obtained, all but 10 of the results are negative. 818 environmental samples have been collected, 769 results obtained, 14 positive (all at the residence of the index cases). 140 food samples have been collected, all have tested negative.

    At Manzhouli in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region, 2 confirmed cases have recovered. There are now 25 confirmed and 2 asymptomatic cases in the city. 1,450 close contacts remain under quarantine.
    Yesterday, China reported 9 new imported confirmed cases, 6 imported asymptomatic cases:

     

    • Shanghai Municipality – 5 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese nationals returning from the UK and 1 each returning from France, Switzerland and Spain
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Indonesia and the US, a Kenyan national coming from Kenya; 1 asymptomatic case, a South African national coming from South Africa (via Singapore)
    • Yunnan Province (specific city not disclosed) – 1 confirmed and 1 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar via land border crossing
    • Fuzhou in Fijian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia
    • Xiamen in Fijian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Russia
    • Wuhan in Hubei Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Pakistani national coming from Pakistan
    • Dalian in Liaoning Province – 1 asymptomatic case, an Indian crew member off a cargo ship

     

    Chengdu Municipal CDC has shared more details about the imported case returning from the UK that was reported on 12/9. The case had contracted COVID-19 and then recovered in the UK back in Aug., and had passed through a total of 21 days of quarantine, with multiple negative RT-PCR tests, after returning from China at end of Oct.. There were nearly 20 days between being released from quarantine to testing positive again during a hospital visit. However, the authorities reported that none of the traced F1 & F2 close contacts have tested positive, and that the genomic sequence of her vial sample (which would make it live virus) matched the strain that is currently prevalent in the UK, rather than those from past outbreaks in China (including the current one at Chengdu). That is their reasoning for designating the case as imported. On the other hand, it would make her the only case I am aware of where the virus went dormant for months before reemerging to re-infect the patient at a later date. I am not sure what to make of it. She currently has very mild symptoms, scarring from her lungs could have been from the previous instance of COVID-19, which can remain for quite some time even after a patient repeatedly tests negative.

    Yesterday, Hong Kong reported 86 new cases, 5 imported and 81 local (37 of whom without clear sources of infection). Another 60 cases are preliminarily positive, awaiting retesting and confirmation.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    And now, sadly, it’s unanimous (emphasis added).

    The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) is reporting the first positive case of COVID-19 in an adult resident of Kalaupapa Settlement in Kalawao County on the island of Moloka‘i. Kalawao is a county within the State of Hawai‘i under the management of the DOH and was reported to be the last county within the U.S. with no reported positive COVID-19 cases prior to this announcement. Source

    For those unaware, Kalawao county’s only settlement is the isolated former leprosy colony enclave of Kalaupapa. The only access by land to or from the rest of the island of Molokai remains by steep mule trails.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    Dismal as some of it is, worth reading the whole thing (WaPo link).

    Shoplifting is up markedly since the pandemic began in the spring and at higher levels than in past economic downturns, according to interviews with more than a dozen retailers, security experts and police departments across the country. But what’s distinctive about this trend, experts say, is what’s being taken — more staples like bread, pasta and baby formula. Source

  9. 9.

    p.a.

    Walking talking hagfish McConnell should have his face plastered next to tRump’s on every article, tweet, post about US failure to combat the virus.  If people & businesses were supported as they could be there would be much less pressure to keep businesses open.  He’s had criticism, but tRump is such an easy target MoscowMitch has kinda skated.

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    @Ten Bears

    Sorry, nope. Prefer not to have that name within hollering distance of anything beneficial.

    That it neglects the pan part of pandemic is as well kind of a sharp slap to the affected on the rest of the planet, also too.

    IMHO.

  11. 11.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @NotMax: Something I learned during the Reagan recession: Buy cigarettes. Steal food. If you get caught you can play the pity card.

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,810 new cases today at his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 80,309 cases. Dr Noor Hisham also reports six new deaths today, for a total of 402 deaths — 0.50% of the cumulative reported total, 0.59% of resolved cases.

    12,734 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 123 are in ICU, 63 of them on respirators. Meanwhile, 937 patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 67,173 patients recovered — 83.6% of the cumulative reported total.

    Six new clusters were reported today, all of them at places of work: Sungai Putus and Erima in Selangor; Jalan Berangan building site in KL; Langkasuka in Johor; Jalan College in Negeri Sembilan and Selangor; and Sungai Keluang in Penang.

    1,799 new cases today are local infections. Selangor has 821 cases: 226 in older clusters, 390 in Sungai Putus and Erima clusters, 69 close-contact screenings, and 136 other screenings. Sabah has 532 cases: 326 in existing clusters, 126 close-contact screenings, and 80 other screenings. KL has 131 cases: 95 in older clusters, one in Jalan Berangan building site cluster, 12 close-contact screenings, and 23 other screenings. Pahang has 96 cases: 95 in existing clusters, and one close-contact screening.

    Johor has 68 cases: 37 in older clusters, eight in Langkasuka cluster, 13 close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan has 64 cases: 57 in older clusters, and seven in Jalan College cluster. Penang has 34 cases: 17 in older clusters, one in Sungai Keluang cluster, eight close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings. Kedah has 22 cases: 20 in existing clusters, one close-contact screening, and one other screening. Perak has 12 cases: nine in existing clusters, two close-contact screenings, and one other screening. Labuan has eight cases: five close-contact screenings, and three other screenings.

    Melaka has five cases: theee in existing clusters, one close-contact screening, and one other screening. Kelantan has two cases: one close-contact screening, and one other screening. Terengganu has two cases, both found in other screenings. And Putrajaya has two cases: one close-contact screening, and one other screening.

    Sarawak and Perlis reported no new local cases today.

    11 new cases are imported. Eight were reported in Selangor, one in KL, one in Johor, and one in Sarawak.

    The six deaths today, all but one reported in Sabah, are a 62-year-old man with diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and adrenal insufficiency; a 65-year-old man with gout; an 81-year-old man with hypertension, heart disease, chronic kidney disease, and dyslipidaemia; a 60-year-old woman with diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, heart disease, gout, and spondylodiscitis; a 78-year-old woman in Penang with diabetes, hypertension, and stroke; and a 63-year-old woman with asthma.

    I forgor to mention yesterday that yesterday’s huge spike in new cases is attributed to cases found by  the Foreign Workers Screening Programme run by Perkeso, the Malaysian workplace compensation agency.

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    @p.a.:

    Walking talking hagfish McConnell

    You’ll be hearing from the hagfish’s lawyers.

    ETA – actual hagfish.  They don’t deserve such slander.

  18. 18.

    No name

    @Amir Khalid: Amir, I was always pleased to read your comments about your sweet girl Bianca and I have been touched over the last week reading your feelings about her passing.  You express so well what we go through when we lose a beloved pet.  I hope you have people in real life who you can commiserate with in addition to us here on the blog.  My thoughts have been with you.

  19. 19.

    Geminid

    @Amir Khalid: Giuliani may just believe in trump, but his campaign to overturn this election shows a certain desperation, as if Giuliani really needs a pardon for some looming criminal case. Or cases.

  20. 20.

    Scout211

    That tweet about California seems about right to me. The stay at home order hasn’t seemed to have changed many people’s behaviors.

    The region my county is in (San Joaquin Valley) as of yesterday was at 1.9% ICU bed availability and the Southern California region was at 7.7%.  The Sacramento region is now in the stay at home order starting last night and they are at 13.3%.  The Bay Area region is at 17.8% so they will likely be in the stay at home order by next week.

    Newsom has said that California had an influx of visiting nurses to California a few months ago to help out with a surge in hospitalizations. But all those visiting nurses are on assignments in other states right now.

    I really don’t know how this stay at home order can work when all retail is open at 20% and Christmas shopping is still going on daily.

  22. 22.

    Humanities Prof

    HP’s wife again.

    My hospital now has a 58% (not a typo, I got the info at the Med Exec meeting yesterday) positivity rate. I had the CMO repeat himself because I could not believe what I had just heard. We are coding for hours people in their 40s. And still rural bumfuck Ohio does not believe how bad it is. In fact, local politicians are holding superspreader events and attempting to impeach DeWine.

    I have many patients who are HCWs in my system – most of us are now on antidepressants. This is functionally our first wave, we had basically no cases in the spring and only a few in the summer.

  26. 26.

    Humanities Prof

    @Amir Khalid:

    The wife again. I know! We have hunkered down, going out only for food and other essentials. I’m basically the only one to leave the house – to go to work and then home again.

  27. 27.

    sab

    @Humanities Prof:  My college roommate just died in of alzeimers in a memory care facility. She was relatively young (mid 60s.) As you know, Ohio has had nursing homes in lockdown since March. So no family member has been able to be physically present for almost the whole of her last year.

    She was a wonderful person with hundreds of friends. Family don’t get to have a funeral where we can gather to show them how much she was loved and remembered.

    They are very grateful to the caretakers.

  28. 28.

    Sloane Ranger

    Yesterday in the UK we had 20,964 new cases. This is a whopping 4386 increase from Wednesday. The rolling 7-day average is now up 12.7%. New cases by nation,

    England – 17,622 (up @4500)

    Northern Ireland – 441 (down @40)

    Scotland – 933 (up @30)

    Wales – 1968 (down @250).

    The R number still remains at 0.8 – 1.0, but this was calculated on 4 December. I fully expect it to increase when it is next recalculated.

    Deaths – There were 516 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. 419 were in England, 14 in Northern Ireland, 50 in Scotland and 33 in Wales.

    Testing – 369,586 tests were processed out of a capacity of 552,186. This is an increase in the rolling 7-day average of 7.1%.

    Hospitalisations – On Tuesday, 8 December, there were 15,242 people in hospital. There were 1242 people on ventilators on Wednesday, 9th. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions is down 9%.

    General – Just been announced that the Office for National Statistics is estimating that 1 in 115 people in England have the virus with hotspots in London and another emerging in the East of England. Also, NHS waiting lists have gone to pot with more than 160,000 having to wait for 12 months or more for routine operations. This compares with October 2019 where the figure was nearer 10,000. In good? news A&E Departments are reporting usage down by a third.

  29. 29.

    Humanities Prof

    @sab: Still HP’s Wife.

    I know. I feel for LTC patients, I have a few. The staff at the ones I know are busting their butts to try to stay above water.

    I hate the antimaskers around here.

  30. 30.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Sloane Ranger: So, has the relaxation of social distancing measures a couple of weeks ago(?) inevitable lead to exponential growth again in the UK, in the absence of other robust countermeasures, especially “trace and isolation” part of TTI?

  31. 31.

    The Moar You Know

    Laurie Garret’s comment is the million dollar question in my household.  My wife is a teacher.  COVID positive kids are showing up even for the very small on-campus classes they are running EVERY DAMN DAY.  When she gets back into the classroom, vaccinated (she’s a teacher and will be one of the first) will she be infected or not?  Because I am not a teacher and not on any sort of high risk list, I won’t be seeing vaccine until June.  We live in a small house, there is no realistic way to quarantine.  Thank God we live in SoCal, because I may be staring the possibility of living in a tent in the backyard for the next half year until I too can be vaccinated.  I hope they can figure this out real fucking quick.  I don’t own a tent.  Or more importantly, a cot.

  32. 32.

    JaneE

    Back when the first shutdown orders came in CA, my county stopped our Covid-19 case count at 19.  Yesterday the one day case increase was 23.  Our hospital has 4 ICU beds.  We have 4 hospitalized Covid-19 cases, but they may not be in the ICU (yet).  The hospital in Reno where serious cases (for anything) get transferred is now putting patients in their converted parking structure.

    Most of us will eventually get a vaccine, but there are still a lot of people who won’t.  There are still people here who think the disease is no big deal, if you aren’t really old.  This will not end soon.

  33. 33.

    Sloane Ranger

    @YY_Sima Qian: I’m not an epidemiologist and have no related expertise but it wouldn’t surprise me. Christmas has brought out a lot more shoppers than I’ve been seeing since the pandemic began and I passed a local restaurant, which was a lot fuller than usual. More people equals more opportunities for the disease.

    Looks like BoJo’s let’s all have a jolly time over the Festive season will backfire – like much else he’s done.

  34. 34.

    YY_Sima Qian

    @Sloane Ranger: Well, the UK is not alone. France started relaxing some of the measures last week (I think?), and now the daily case counts have stopped dropping, and hovering at a still high > 10K / day. Likewise with Czechia. The Netherlands started relaxing even earlier, when daily case counts were at ~ 5K / day, and is now quickly heading toward 10K / day again. Austria, Switzerland and much of Eastern Europe have managed to arrest exponential growth, but daily case counts are stuck at stubbornly high levels. Both Denmark and Sweden appears to be faring worse than the 1st wave and may be headed toward lock downs. Germany’s softer lock down in the 2nd wave has proven ineffective. I do not know why the German states and the population have stopped trusting Merkel. Spain and Italy are staying the course with lock down measures (softer than in the 1st wave) because incidence remain too high. The only European country that seems to have really suppressed the 2nd wave is Belgium.

    Given the meager state contact tracing in Europe, and inconsistently enforced isolation of cases and quarantine of close contacts and foreign visitors, and still open intra-European borders, I am afraid the nations there will continue to see-saw between tightening and softening of distancing measures, with corresponding swings in cases/hospitalization/deaths, until herd immunity is achieved via mass vaccination in the Spring and Summer. Vaccines will do nothing for Christmas, however…

    This is a fearful state of affairs in mid-Dec., and only somewhat better than the disaster in the US.

  35. 35.

    bluefoot

    @NotMax: And yet f-ing Moscow Mitch McConnell can laugh out loud on television when asked about the suffering if there’s no additional COVID relief for individuals.

    This pandemic is going to turn me into a radical.

  36. 36.

    bluefoot

    @Humanities Prof: My sister is a doctor in Wisconsin and she says her county has a 45% positive rate.  The hospital had to turn away someone who was in severe diabetic ketoacidosis because there was no space in the hospital.  They treated him in the ER and sent him home, and treating as an outpatient.

    Sending you all good thoughts and health.

  37. 37.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    thinking back to the first few months of the year, when the administration repeatedly said the virus was a hoax, would go away, was not that serious. and how there was no leadership and states were left to fend for themselves

    Mr. Bloomberg, are you listening? Or any Super PAC owners? Think about playing that video in Georgia. Make sure you get some clips of Trump saying “if we keep deaths under 10 thousand” and “30 thousand” and “70 thousand” and “one hundred thousand” and then with a “several weeks later”) “it would have been *two million* if I hadn’t acted!”

    Alas, I can also imagine seeing it just not working.

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