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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Monday / Tuesday, May 3-4

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  1. 1.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 5/3 China reported 0 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered, both at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province. There are currently 33 domestic confirmed & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases in Yunnan Province. 2 communities remain at Medium Risk.

    Imported Cases

    On 5/3 China reported 17 new imported confirmed cases, 20 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 6 confirmed cases (5 previously asymptomatic), 3 Chinese nationals returning from Egypt, 2 from Nigeria (1 each via Cairo & Germany) & 1 from India (via Kathmandu; 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria (via Germany)
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 4 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Congo (Brazzaville) (via Paris CdG), Bangladesh & Iran, & a foreign national coming from Bangladesh; 9 asymptomatic cases, 2 Chinese nationals each returning from Cambodia, Bangladesh & the UAE, & 1 each from the US, Tanzania (via Kathmandu) & Ethiopia (via Dubai)
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Iraq, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Shanghai Municipality – 3 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the UAE, Mali (via Paris CdG) & Russia
    • Qingdao in Shandong Province – 2 confirmed cases, both Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
    • Suzhou in Jiangsu Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Papua New Guinea
    • Nanjing in Jiangsu Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Yunnan Province (location not specified) – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Myanmar, via land border crossing
    • Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Nigeria (via Frankfurt) & 1 from the Sudan (via Frankfurt)
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Dalian In Liaoning Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released

     

    Overall in China, 15 confirmed cases recovered, 13 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 5 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 122 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 325 active confirmed cases in the country (292 imported), 5 in critical/serious condition (all imported), 328 asymptomatic cases (319 imported), 11 suspect cases (all imported). 7,006 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 5/3, 279.905M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 4.567M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 5/4, Hong Kong reported 4 new cases, 3 imported & 1 domestic.

  2. 2.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    146 new cases
    4629 active cases – 20s and teens have the most cases
    Still at 1244 deaths
    2.9% test positivity
    216 people hospitalized, 46 in the ICU

    50.5% with at least one vaccination – this has slowed to a crawl
    39.1% totally vaccinated

  3. 3.

    sab

    So maybe if we in US start exporting the vaccine then vaccine reluctant in US will start to say “hey! that’s my shot you are exporting!” We already know they are extremely selfish beasts.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    Covid in Varanasi: Anger rises as coronavirus rages in Modi’s constituency

    That’s better than here, where Trump supporters embraced the virus.

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    Air travel to and from Maui gets an added wrinkle.

    Starting May 4, 2021, the County of Maui will begin the soft rollout of a secondary test upon arrival at Kahului Airport for trans-Pacific flights (for both visitors and returning residents, including mainland arrivals).Source

  7. 7.

    sab

    I had a meeting with my dad’s bankers yesterday. Republicans to a person. Idle chat, including about Covid. They expected the usual that no impact so must be fake. But it did impact my family, and step-sons  fiancees were very sick and long-haulers, much better after vaccines. So I dropped that into the idle chat. They were startled. I was adamant. Covid is real and vaccine helped us.

  10. 10.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    My photographer friend got his second Pfizer jab yesterday and said he could go back to driving Uber in two days, I told him, no it’s two weeks and to ask the nurse.  Of course he didn’t ask the nurse and said he’s going back to driving this week.  (Facepalm).

  14. 14.

    Jesse

    @YY_Sima Qian:  Why are 0 new cases virtually every single day in China, but several domestic recovered? Maybe I’m overlooking something. An ungenerous interpretation of that kind of information, presented nearly every day, is data obfuscation or misrepresentation, or deceptive word play. I mean, if someone tests positive for the first time and it can be reasonably excluded that it’s an imported case, why not just count that as a new case? It seems like *all* domestic cases are considered “recovering” or “recovered”; never “new”. Has anyone else noticed that?

  16. 16.

    Soprano2

    Is it wrong of me to wish Tucker would get a really bad case of Covid and become a long hauler? That would be karma in action.

  19. 19.

    mrmoshpotato

    From the Post article

    “When it is possible to travel to Europe in the first phase, it must be possible to prove at an individual level that you are vaccinated,” Reynders said.

    This’ll be fun when the first shithead gets caught with forged vaccination proof. (Yes, it will be some asshole American.)

  20. 20.

    debbie

    I guess I shouldn’t be surprised to hear COVID supplies from other countries just sitting at Delhi’s airport.  ?

  21. 21.

    Booger

    Got my second Moderna jab Friday morning first thing. Felt dandy all day Friday (literally didn’t feel the needle go in) little bit of local soreness at the jab site when I went to bed. Woke up feeling fine Saturday morning, usual coffee routine, went out and worked in the garden for several hours…then at 11:00 AM, suddenly felt like I’d been hit by a bus. Climbed into bed, slept for a big chunk of the day, mild fever of 99.6. Woke up Sunday feeling completely normal.

    I was able to reverse-engineer the microchip to send subliminal messaging to Bill, and gave him the idea about the divorce. Stuff really works.

    Yay science!

  22. 22.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Second dose of Pfizer yesterday.  A couple of hours later, went to bed for fifteen hours.  There’s other stuff that could explain it, though.

  23. 23.

    Gvg

    @sab: it isn’t just Trump voters. The one I talked to this weekend is just generally vaccine resistant and a Democratic voter. She said she thought we gave too many vaccines to young children too soon and it over wells their systems. That we need to space them out more. (Rolling eyes emoticon here). She is substituting her feelings for facts and science confidently and just wrong. Regular vaccines are extensively studied with decades of research based facts including the risks of getting the actual diseases. The whole scientific community has extensive opportunities to make fact based critiques in order to decide the best timing. And she doesn’t care, she thinks her feelings are actually logical and she knows more than the whole scientific community.

    we are going to have resistant parents, that we’re fine getting the shots for themselves. I didn’t expect that, but now I know. Have no idea how to answer her or similar. I don’t think sarcasm will help so I said nothing then.

  24. 24.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Soprano2:

    Is it wrong of me to wish Tucker would get a really bad case of Covid and become a long hauler? That would be karma in action. 

    Understandable, but yes.  Fucker Carlson could infect innocent people.  Launching all of Faux News into the Sun would be better.

  25. 25.

    Suzanne

    Spawn the Elder got his second Pfizer yesterday. He was very tired yesterday. So I bought him an epic amount of junk food.

  26. 26.

    trnc

    @Soprano2: Is it wrong of me to wish Tucker would get a really bad case of Covid and become a long hauler?

    No. It might be wrong of me to wish Tucker get it and not become a long hauler, if you catch my drift, but I believe it would save other lives.

  27. 27.

    Mary G

    Orange County also reported zero deaths, only 55 new cases and for the first time since before the chart began on 4/1/20, there are fewer than 100 people hospitalized – 95, which includes 21 in ICU. Plenty of excess capacity of ICU beds and ventilators again available.

    State weekly report comes out tomorrow, and LA’s health department says they will probably make it down to the yellow level. OC health department waiting to see.

    We are so privileged. It’s just horrifying to see the coverage of India and Brazil. I cling to the hope that India, Brazil, and the UK see that getting rid of the incompetent fascist worked for us, and vote their bums out ASAP.

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 3,120 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 420,632 cases. He also reports 23 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 1,574 deaths — 0.37% of the cumulative reported total, 0.40% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 31,516 active and contagious cases; 338 are in ICU, 181 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 2,334 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 387,542 patients recovered – 92.14% of the cumulative reported total.

    17 new clusters were reported today: Bungey and Batu 25 in Sarawak; Tangkis Selatan, Jalan Surian, Persiaran Medini Sentral, and Jalan Ungku Abdul Aziz in Johor; Batu 30 and Jalan Kweng Hitam in Kelantan; Jerai Maju and Dah Kilometer Tujuh in Kedah; Layangan Labuan in Labuan; Taming Jaya in Selangor; Jalan Yahya 2 in Kuala Lumpur; Jalan Besar Sungai Jawi in Penang; Lubuk Katak in Perak; and D’Kuala in Sabah.

    Bungey, Batu 25, Tangkis Selatan, Jalan Surian, Batu 30, Jerai Maju, and Layangan Labuan are community clusters. Taming Jaya, Persiaran Medini Sentral, Jalan Kweng Hitam, Jalan Yahya 2, and Jalan Besar Sungai Jawi are workplace clusters. Jalan Ungku Abdul Aziz is an education cluster at a Ministry of Education school. Dah Kilometer Tujuh, Lubuk Katak, and D’Kuala are education clusters at non-Ministry schools. Taman Sri Lambak is a religious cluster.

    3,114 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 675 cases: 33 in older clusters, two in Taming Jaya cluster, 458 close-contact screenings, and 182 other screenings. Sarawak reports 620 cases: 136 in older clusters, five in Batu 25 and Bungey clusters, 415 close-contact screenings, and 64 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 404 local cases: six in older clusters, 12 in Jalan Yahya 2 and Layangan Labuan clusters, 247 close-contact screenings, and 139 other screenings.

    Johor reports 334 local cases: 115 in older clusters; 35 in Jalan Ungku Abdul Aziz, Jalan Surian, Taman Sri Lambak, Persiaran Medini Sentral, and Tangkis Selatan clusters; 137 close-contact screenings; and 47 other screenings. Kelantan reports 296 cases: 43 in older clusters, two in Batu 30 and Jalan Kweng Hitam clusters, 191 close-contact screenings, and 60 other screenings.

    Penang reports 167 cases: 15 in older clusters, 21 in Jalan Besar Sungai Jawi cluster, 55 close-contact screenings, and 76 other screenings. Kedah reports 155 cases: 75 in older clusters, 14 in Dah Kilometer Tujuh and Jerai Maju clusters, 45 close-contact screenings, and 21 other screenings. Perak reports 117 cases: 28 in older clusters, 19 in Lubuk Katak cluster, 55 close-contact screenings, and 15 other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan reports 97 cases: 21 in existing clusters, 40 close-contact screenings, and 34 other screenings. Melaka reports 95 cases, but the Ministry’s breakdown doesn’t match the state total. Sabah reports 89 cases: 33 in older clusters, 14 in D’Kuala cluster, 30 close-contact screenings, and 12 other screenings.

    Terengganu reports 53 cases: 39 in existing clusters, eightclose-contact screenings, and six other screenings. Pahang reports 41 cases: eight in existing clusters, 24 close-contact screenings, and nine other screenings.

    Putrajaya reports 11 cases: two in existing clusters, five close-contact screenings, and four other screenings. And Labuan reports five cases: three in Layangan Labuan cluster, one close-contact screening and one other screening.

    Perlis reports no new cases today.

    Six new cases today are imported: four in Kuala Lumpur, and two in Johor.

    The deaths reported today are a 66-year-old woman in Sabah with hypertension; a 53-year-old man in Sarawak, also with hypertension; a 54-year-old man in Perak with hypertension and heart disease; a 44-year-old woman in Sarawak with hypertension, asthma, and heart disease; an 85-year-old man in kelantan with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, chronic kidney disease, and gout; an 82-year-old man in Kelantan with diabetes and hypertension; a 79-year-old woman in Sarawak with obesity; a 64-year-old woman in Kelantan with diabetes and hypertension; an 81-year-old woman in Kelantan with hypertension amd dyslipidaemia; a 68-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes; a 47-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, and liver disease; a 58-year-old woman in Sarawak with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; a 79-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, heart disease, dyslipidaemia, and chronic kidney disease; a 72-year-old man in Johor with diabetes and hypertension; a 69-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease; a 41-year-old woman in Selangor with obesity; a 66-year-old man in Sabah, DOA with hypertension; a 49-year-old man in Johor with hypertension; a 76-year-old man in Kelantan with gout; a 37-year-old man in Selangor with obesity; an 80-year-old man in Kelantan with diabetes, hypertension, and Parkinson’s disease; a 73-year-old man in Kedah with diabetes and hypertension; and an 85-year-old woman in Melaka, DOA with diabetes, hypertension, and stroke.

  31. 31.

    Amir Khalid

    In other, completely unsurprising news, the Malaysian festival tradition of hosting an open house will not be allowed this Eid al-Fitri, which is next week.

  32. 32.

    JeanneT

    I’m going on tours of assisted living homes this week (in Grand Rapids, Michigan) – my mom-in-law really needs a place to help her live out her last years.  Before I get into the buildings, I have to pass health screens and instant tests.  Tomorrow morning I have a video tour of a facility that had a staff member test positive and so is temporarily banning visitors while they see if any other staff or residents become infected.

    So at least SOME part of the Michigan community is still fighting the spread of the virus and its mutations.

  33. 33.

    Soprano2

    @trnc:  I believe it would save other lives.

    You’re probably right about that, because it seems that many Republicans can only understand things that affect them directly. Like the long-running series “I didn’t believe in Covid, then I almost died of it, please protect yourself because it’s serious”. That’s why I want him to get really sick; too many of these Republicans have gotten mild cases, which makes their belief that it’s not serious worse.

  34. 34.

    Soprano2

    @Ken: @Soprano2: He’s probably already been vaccinated in secret.

    Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if this were true. As we’ve often noted, all the Fox News Covid “skeptics” continue to do their shows from the safety of their homes. It’s like the conservative women with careers telling other women they shouldn’t have careers because (insert dumb reason here). When Susan Faludi interviewed several of this type of woman for her book “Backlash”, she concluded that they thought of themselves as “honorary men”, so they were able to be excepted from the prohibition on women having careers.

  35. 35.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Baud: BJP lost local district elections in Modi’s constituency of Varanasi. Ayodhya (where the BJP is planning to build a huge temple on the rubble of Babri Masji) and Mathura another place of pilgrimage where the BJP is looking to stir up trouble

    *Kashi (Varanasi), Mathura (where BJP wants to demolish existing mosques to build temples are among the holiest pilgrimage sites for Hindus.)

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Just hit my second shot plus two weeks today. Yee-haw, I guess. ? Not foreseeing any lifestyle changes in the near future.

  37. 37.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 139 new cases of COVID-19 reported today with zero deaths. The test positivity rate is 1.1%. These numbers may not be complete due to the holiday weekend that has just passed, tomorrow’s data should be more accurate.

    The general trend in terms of infections in Scotland is down and vaccination efforts continue. The catch-up numbers for 3rd and 4th May report 16,000 first doses and 50,000 second doses administered over the past 48 hours. There was an announcement a few weeks back that there would be limited vaccine stocks in the April period but the health services expected availability to improve after that. We’ll see.

    The next big step in Scotland will be on May 17th when it is expected the current lockdown will be effectively ended with pubs, restaurants etc. opening for business as usual, sort of. The hospitality industry is desperate for this to happen but their attempts to get the courts to accelerate the timetable have failed at every turn. Good.

  39. 39.

    Steeplejack

    @Amir Khalid:

    It is very concerning that Malaysia’s death numbers are going up after so many months of being very low. Stay safe, Amir.

  40. 40.

    Sloane Ranger

    Late to the pass, but here are Monday’s figures from the whole of the UK. As Robert Sneddon noted above, yesterday was a Bank Holiday so all the figures will probably be an undercount.

    Yesterday, we had 1649 reported cases. This is a decrease of 7.8% in the rolling 7-day average. Reported cases by home nation,

    England – 1453 (up 76)

    Northern Ireland – 64 (down 5)

    Scotland – 132 (down 14). Robert Sneddon has a mre recent number, above.

    Wales – 0 (assuming they didn’t update due to it being a Bank Holiday).

    Deaths – Yesterday, there was 1 death within 28 days of a positive test. This is a reduction of 35.2% in the rolling 7-day average. There is no information on where this occured due to a processing issue.

    Testing – Not updated (Bank Holiday).

    Hospitalisiations – Not updated (Bank Holiday).

    Vaccinations – On 2 May, a total of 34,588,600 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 15,500,949 had received both shots. In percentage terms, this means that 65.7% of the adult UK population have had 1 dose of a vaccine and 29.4% were fully vaccinated. Looking at the graph, it seems that fewer shots were administered over the last few days than previously. This may be due to people not scheduling appointments on the Bank Holiday weekend.

  41. 41.

    Bill Arnold

    Early science (Cell: reputable), small sample size (7 people), but if true, not good. Vaccination probably doesn’t have this effect (muscle cells involved) but to be very clear, I’m entirely unqualified to evaluate the vaccine risk in this context (and more science needs to be done); probably best to get vaccinated rather than get the disease with (possible) brain involvement. (One could speculate wildly about long-haulers’ improvements after getting vaccinated being real and a reset of this effect, but that is an entirely untested hypothesis.)
    (Are anti-vaxxers feeling lucky?)
    Divergent and self-reactive immune responses in the CNS of COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms (Eric Song et al, Open Access, April 27, 2021)
    Bold mine

    – Five out of seven COVID-19 patients had anti-neural autoantibodies in their CSF
    …
    In contrast, at a 1:10 dilution, COVID-19 CSF produced immunoreactive staining of specific anatomic regions including: cortical neurons (n = 4), the olfactory bulb (n = 3), thalamus (n = 3), CA3 field of the hippocampus (n = 3), cerebellum (n = 3), the brainstem (n = 4), and cerebral vasculature (n = 2) (Figure 5B & C, Supplementary Figure 8A). Four and three COVID-19 CSF samples showed continuing immunoreactivity at 1:25 and 1:50 dilutions, respectively. The data indicate that an unexpectedly high proportion of CSF samples from COVID-19 patients with neurologic impairment harbor high titers of anti-neural autoantibodies of unknown pathogenic significance.

  42. 42.

    Another Scott

    Finally just signed up for my 2nd Pfizer shot.

    I called the county health department (where I got my first shot) to find out what was up because I had received nothing from them and 3 weeks is on Friday.  She said I should have gotten an e-mail from the CDC.  I did, but it seemed kinda generic and didn’t mention “second dose” anywhere, so I thought it was a broadcast to anyone who had not even gotten their first vaccination.  No, that’s the e-mail to sign up with VAMS to get the 2nd shot, she said.

    I can’t be the only person to have been confused by such things, can I??

    My 2nd shot will be with the county on 5/8.  Counting the hours…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  45. 45.

    Origuy

    I just got out of an online meeting with the people on my project. Some from various places in the US, some from India. One guy in Bangalore that I’ve been working with for years couldn’t make it because he’s quite sick. I know he has a family and a dog because I have heard them on calls. Another is working from a village some distance away and is healthy so far. A manager who was working in India has moved his family to Colorado to take a job there; I think he just got to the US in time. I don’t know if they’re in quarantine. Our office building in San Jose is still locked down. Most of the people who worked there, myself included, will be working from home even after it reopens.

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