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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    221 new cases – 61% were people under 40, including 41 children between 0 and 19

    1267 COVID deaths since March 2020 – up by 4 since last week
    3.1% test positivity

    215 people are hospitalized; 48 are in the ICU. This has dropped by 4.

    52.5% with at least one vaccination – this looks like a dead stop but the number of folks completely vaccinated keeps rising

    45.7% totally vaccinated

  2. 2.

    Mousebumples

    My not yet 2 year old isn’t vaccinated yet (obviously), but my husband and I are fully vaxxed, as is the majority of our friends and family. We’re slowly starting to Do Things again, but I’m anxiously waiting for the younger children to be vaccine eligible. I think i heard Fall/September is the goal for Pfizer?

  3. 3.

    Cermet

    This tragedy is not unlike AGW will be in about 30 years. India will be in full disaster mode (but unlike this, there is nothing they can do to mitigate the consequences); most equatorial poor country’s will be following the same path towards general collapse. Food will be very short supply though most the world and rich countries will (for a while) read about the horror’s before getting on with their lives.

    Of course, by then, we are likely to have been hit by more and possibly deadlier pandemics. This, like the obvious start of AGW we are seeing even now is the real start of what seeds that were planted then have had time to germinate in the twentieth century.

    While I’m extremely glad science came to our rescue this time, does not look like it will relative to AGW – maybe it can but not too sure. Also, the Amerikan death rate is falling too slowly – wish that number would decrease a lot faster. We really need to help South and Central America sooner rather than later before that bites us, too.

  6. 6.

    Sloane Ranger

    BBC has just reported that the Irish NHS equivalent IT system has had to be shut down due to a ransomware attack.  This has affected a lot of routine work but their vaccination programme is continuing.

    Given the regularity with which these major infiltrations are happening I can’t help thinking that a foreign country is behind them rather than just a bunch of greedy criminals.

    Update from UK later.

  7. 7.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 5/13 China reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases. Both new domestic cases are reported by Anhui Province, 1 each at Feiyuan County at Hefei and Liu’an. Another domestic confirmed case was reported earlier on 5/14, at Feiyuan County at Hefei. The case at Liu’an was the first discovered, who tested positive at hospital intake. The 2 cases at Hefei were traced close contacts. It appears the index case in the emerging cluster is one of the cases at Hefei, apparently a traveling salesperson giving photography seminars at photo studios. The other case at Hefei is a coworker (who had taken train from Beijing to Hefei in the previous week) and the case at Liu’an is one who attended one of the seminars. The index case had traveled 5 different cities in the past 18 days, and supposedly came in contact with person returning from overseas while at Dalian. 

    Any overseas arrival should have passed through 14 days of centralized quarantine and tested multiple times. However, an infected person could have been transiting from port of entry (after 14 days of quarantine) to final destination (where the case would enter 7 – 14 days of home or centralized quarantine). We have seen the occasional infected case only become confirmed after the 2 weeks quarantine at port of entry, during or after further quarantine at final destination. (As opposed to asymptomatic, who are more likely recovered cases shedding dead viral particles.)

    In any case, given the travel histories of the cases and the nature of their work, expect more cases to be uncovered in the coming days and weeks, and possibly at other cities in China. 1 shopping center and 1 residential compound at Liu’an has been re-designated as Medium Risk, as has a hotel at Hefei.

    There are currently 22 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases in Yunnan Province.

    Imported Cases

    On 5/13 China reported 5 new imported confirmed cases, 22 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:

    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Tanzania, Saudi Arabia & Brazil; 4 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Italy, Rwanda, Myanmar & Malaysia
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Chad & the DRC, off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from South Africa & Kenya
    • Shanghai Municipality – 1 confirmed cases, a Chinese national returning from Côte d’Ivoire (via Paris CdG); 1 suspect case, no information released
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Cambodia; 2 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Cambodia & Jamaica (via the US)
    • Jiangsu Province (location not specified) – 4 asymptomatic cases,  in Hunan Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, no information released
    • Dalian in Liaoning Province – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Russia
    • Yunnan Province (location not specified) – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Myanmar via land border crossing
    • Wuhan in Hubei Province – 1 asymptomatic case, coming from Pakistan
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the UK (via Amsterdam Schiphol)
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Poland (via Paris CdG)

     

    Overall in China, 13 confirmed cases recovered, 11 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 0 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 665 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 285 active confirmed cases in the country (261 imported), 1 in critical/serious condition (imported), 328 asymptomatic cases (322 imported), 1 suspect case (imported). 5,445 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 5/13, 366.91M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 12.638M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 5/14, Hong Kong reported 1 new cases, imported.

  8. 8.

    Starfish

    The expectation that anti-vaxxers will lie about their vaccine status is a general belief on Twitter. I fully expect them to run around and GLOAT about their anti-vax status. They are going to make other people in public spaces uncomfortable. I am interested in seeing how restaurants and other venues react to this nonsense.

  10. 10.

    debbie

    @Starfish:

    You don’t think they’ll follow through with all that chatter yesterday about wearing masks to protected themselves from the vaccinated? //

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Starfish:

    I am interested in seeing how restaurants and other venues react to this nonsense.

    Everyone buys a folding table exclusively for body slamming.

  12. 12.

    p.a.

    You know when you’re working a group project and you discover Person X is part of the group; instead of working on the project directly 50%+ of the group energy will have to be expended to prevent Person X from fucking up?  Fox nation is Person X, internet is the multiplier/accelerator.

  13. 13.

    NorthLeft12

    The news that people are converting from no-vaxxers to yes-vaxxers is probably the least surprising news of the year.

    The obvious lack of negative impacts on the vaccinated, the personal benefits from being vaccinated, peer pressure, and the inherent selfishness of the no-vaxxers was always going to work towards a decrease in the size of that group.

  14. 14.

    Robert Sneddon

    @NorthLeft12: One thing to remember is that vaccinations are not reversible. People who say, for various reasons, they are not going to get vaccinated then get vaccinated because of family pressure, changing their minds, whatever, they can’t be unvaccinated again.

  17. 17.

    Robert Sneddon

    @Sloane Ranger: ​
     

    Ransomware and most other internet attacks, Facebook hacks etc. are done by people looking to make money pure and simple. The “script kiddie” effect multiplies the numbers of attacks being carried out as the toolkits to search for and exploit vulnerable internet-facing systems spread more widely and can be rented, purchased or even downloaded for free from a lot of places.

    An inexperienced “script kiddie” just has to push a few buttons to find and attack those vulnerable systems rather than having to spend dozens of hours trying to find hidden security flaws in specific systems or spearphishing for admin rights on specifically targetted networks.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    The Ministry’ of Health’s daily media statement is late. Yesterday’s statement was out a little after 6pm, but today it’s past 7:30pm and there’s still no sign of it.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    Hmm. On MJ this morning, Franklin Graham urges Christians to get vaccinated.

    Hopefully, that’ll help.

  20. 20.

    satby

    @Starfish: They’ll gloat in no stakes circumstances where no one screens for vaccination status, and attempt to lie about it in other circumstances. That’s why I root for private entities like airlines and foreign governments to insist on vaccine passports.

  22. 22.

    NeenerNeener

    @rikyrah: A year ago at this time it was 40% under 40 and 60% over 40 in ‘rona cases. And it was only 76 new cases, not 221. We don’t seem to be getting any better at handling this, even with vaccinations.

  24. 24.

    Other MJS

    @Starfish: Maybe ask in a way that pushes their buttons? “Are you vaccinated to help achieve president Biden’s goal of herd immunity?” (j/k; not gonna happen)

  25. 25.

    Feathers

    I know this is the serious thread, but I laughed hard:

    Have to admit it’s a lil funny that the day Tom Hanks got Covid the government was like SHUT IT ALL DOWN NOW but the day Bill Maher got it they were like ‘you don’t have to wear masks anymore whatever who cares’

    https://twitter.com/alexblagg/status/1392995340211556352

    Also, second Pfizer shot today!

  27. 27.

    JeanneT

    Here in Kent County in western Michigan, our covid positivity rate has gone down, but is still higher than it was in December 2020.  Our most recent positivity rate is 9.9%.   Our current new case rate is 107/day, compared to 84 a year ago.   We’re at 1.71 deaths a day (7 day average).

    A lot of the more rural counties have a positivity rate of 14% or higher.  We’ll have a state mask mandate for a while yet.

  28. 28.

    Mary G

    California still leading the nation, only 35 new cases here in the OC and only 15 people in ICU. Going out again tomorrow to Lowe’s and the builder’s surplus to get the last bits and bobs for the bathroom reno. Plumber is ready to schedule, but can’t find an electrician.

    Construction is booming, have seen two giant assisted living complexes going up, a new medical office tower, and  they are putting new lanes on the freeway and redoing bridges. Everywhere we’ve gone I’ve seen cranes. The price of wood is way up. A lot of restaurants still closed, but I suspect that’ll change fast after today’s CDC announcements. “We’re hiring!” signs all over. Housemate and I plan to remain masked indoors.

  29. 29.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Baud: Franklin Graham has been pro-vax for a while and a bunch of other right-wingers have been PISSED about it. He’s a regular villain in Ben Garrison’s cartoons now.

  30. 30.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 4,113 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 462,190 cases. He also reports 34 new deaths today, breaking Thursday’s record of 32, for a cumulative total of 1,822 deaths — 0.39% of the cumulative reported total, 0.43% of resolved cases.

    As of yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide R0/Rt, averaged over seven days, stood at 1.14, per Ministry statistics.

    There are currently 41,471 active and contagious cases; 482 are in ICU, 280 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 4,190 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 418,897 patients recovered – 90.63% of the cumulative reported total.

    13 new clusters were reported today: Jalan Perindustrian Balakong and Jalan Tegas in Selangor; Tanjung Dungun in Terengganu; Menara Jalan Putra and Sungai Lebai in Pahang; Persiaran Utara and Jalan Mawar Pasak in Johor; Bukit Pauh in Terengganu, Pahang and Selangor; Sungai Rayah in Sarawak; Dah Mahsuri in Kedah; Kampung Batu Muda in Kuala Lumpur; and Lebuh Lembah Permai and Lebuh Katz in Penang.

    Bukit Pauh, Sungai Lebai, Sungai Rayah, and Jalan Mawar Perak are community clusters. Dah Mahsuri and Kampung Batu Muda are religious clusters. Jalan Tegas is a higher-education cluster. Lebuh Lembah Permai is an education cluster at a Ministry of Education-registered private school. Lebuh Katz is a high-risk group cluster. The rest are workplace clusters.

    4,758 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 1,269 cases: 178 in clusters, 872 close-contact screenings, and 219 other screenings. Sarawak reports 533 cases: 59 in clusters, 383 close-contact screenings, and 91 other screenings. Kelantan reports 371 cases: 45 in clusters, xx close-contact screenings, and 78 other screenings. Johor reports 335 cases: 65 in clusters, 248 close-contact screenings, and 99 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 305 local cases: 18 in clusters, 197 close-contact screenings, and 90 other screenings.

    Penang reports 266 cases: 71 in clusters, 70 close-contact screenings, and 125 other screenings. Kedah reports 228 cases: 49 in clusters, 101 close-contact screenings, and 78 other screenings.

    Pahang reports 178 cases: 103 in clusters, 46 close-contact screenings, and 29 other screenings. Terengganu reports 165 cases: 86 in clusters, 59 close-contact screenings, and 20 other screenings. Perak reports 147 cases: 31 in clusters, 83 close-contact screenings, and 33 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 124 cases: 25 in clusters, 65 close-contact screenings, and 34 other screenings. Melaka reports 107 cases: 39 in clusters, 47 close-contact screenings, and 21 other screenings.

    Sabah reports 53 cases: 17 in clusters, 25 close-contact screenings, and 11 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 20 cases: 18 close-contact screenings, and two other screenings.

    Labuan reports six cases: three in clusters, one close-contact screening, and two other screenings. And Perlis reports five cases: three close-contact screenings, and two other screenings.

    One new case today is imported, in Kuala Lumpur.

    The deaths reported today are a 67-year-old man in Perak with diabetes and hypertension; a 65-year-old woman in Melaka with hypertension and obesity; a 55-year-old man in Kelantan with diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease; a 71-year-old woman in Kuala Lumpur with hypertension; a 71-year-old woman in Kelantan with hypertension and dyslipidaemia; a 58-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with diabetes and hypertension; a 57-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, gout, and chronic kidney disease; a 72-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke; a 61-year-old woman in Sarawak with diabetes, ypertension, and cancer; a 70-year-old man in Melaka with diabetes and hypertension; a 63-year-old woman in Terengganu with hypertension and stroke; a 59-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and chronic kidney disease; an 84-year-old man in Selangor with no co-morbidities listed; a 75-year-old man in Johor with chronic kidney disease; a 73-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes; a 64-year-old man in Sabah with diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and cirrhosis of the liver; a 56-year-old man in Johor with hypertension; a 69-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur with no co-morbidities listed; a 76-year-ld woman in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, obesity, dyslipidaemia, and chronic kidney disease; an 80-year-old man in Kelantan with stroke; a 68-year-old man in Kedah with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and chronic kidney disease; a 67-year-old man in Kedah with hypertension, pulmonary disease, and chronic kidney disease; a 70-year-old man in Johor with diabetes and hypertension; a 74-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; a 61-year-old man in Selangor with diabetes and hypertension; a 47-year-old man in Johor with diabetes; a 64-year-old woman in Selangor with diabetes and dyslipidaemia; a 67-year-old man in Kedah with diabetes, hypertension, and stroke; a 77-year-old man in Johor with diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and stroke; a 45-year-old man in Johor with heart disease and chronic kidney disease; a 62-year-old woman in Kuala Lumpur with tuberculosis; a 70-year-old man in Kuala Lumpur, DOA with hypertension; a 50-year-old man in Kelantan with diabetes and cirrhosis of the liver; and a 57-year-old man in Sabah, DOA with hypertension.

  31. 31.

    Fair Economist

    @Spanky: Mainstream news report on a large ransomware group being protected by the Russian government. Given how extensively Putinese corruption has infiltrated Russian society and business, it  would be linked into his criminal system even if they hadn’t tried. Likely it’s been intentionally set up and assisted by their spy agencies, of course.

  32. 32.

    Fair Economist

    @Mary G: Still 3 deaths in OC CA, though. I’m wondering if some of the COVID deaths being reported now are delayed deaths like that of my mother’s housekeeper’s husband, who died of a heart attack after being released with profound lung damage (and probably other problems as well).

  33. 33.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 215 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 2 new deaths. The test positivity rate is 1.3%.

    There have been some more network problems between the testing sites and the Public Health Scotland collators. Because of that today’s reported numbers may be artificially low. They will be updated with any missing cases tomorrow.

  34. 34.

    Sloane Ranger

    Thursday in the UK we had 2657 new cases. This is an increase of 12.4% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,

    England – 2229 (up 425)

    Northern Ireland – 99 (down 14)

    Scotland – 270 (down 75)

    Wales – 59 (up 37).

    Deaths – There were 11 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease in the rolling7-day average of 16%. New deaths by nation, England – 8 and 1 each in the other nations.

    Testing – On Wednesday, 12 May, a total of 1,184,941 tests were conducted. This is an increase of 3.8% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity estimated by labs was 650,811 on that date.

    Hospitalisations – There were 1098 people in hospital on Tuesday, 11 May and 136 on ventilators on Wednesday, 12th. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions on 9 May was down by 7.9%.

    Vaccinations – As of 12 May, a total of 35,906,671 people had received one shot of a vaccine and 18,890,969 had received both. In percentage terms this means that 68.2% of all adults in the Uk have had 1 shot of a vaccine and 35.9% have had both.

    General – There are clusters of the Indian variant in parts of North West England which are causing concern. Although the relaxation of restrictions due to take place on Monday will go ahead, there is talk that the complete relaxation due to take place on 21 June may be delayed. Boris Johnson has publicly said that local lockdowns may have to continue. In the meantime, “Vaccines Minister” Nadhim Zahawi has said that he is considering surging vaccines to the North West and prioritising multi-generational households.

  35. 35.

    YY_Sima Qian

    As of the evening of 5/14, Liu’an in Anhui Province has reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic suspect cases, and Yingkou in Liaoning Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all are traced close contacts of previously reported confirmed cases, specifically the traveling salespeople (reported by Hefei in Anhui Province yesterday and earlier today) that hold photography seminars around the country. The new cases reported by Liu’an and Yingkou had all attended seminars.

    The current totals for the ongoing outbreak are 4 domestic confirmed (2 each at Liu’an & Hefei) & 1 domestic suspect (at Liu’an) cases in Anhui Province, & 2 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases (all at Yingkou) in Liaoning Province.

    Hopefully, the traveling sales people were infected at Yingkou, which is a port city that has seen a trickle of infected crew members off cargo ships, rather the other way around. If the the traveling salespeople are the super spreaders leaving behind clusters at Yingkou and Liu’an, then they likely have seeded other clusters in the wake of their travels, all during the massive domestic travel over the May 1st International Labor Day break.

    4 villages & 5 residential compounds at Yingkou have been elevated to Medium Risk. Feiyuan County in Hebei will test all 1.2M residents in the next 24 hrs (at least swabs will be collected). Liu’an will do the same for its 600K residents. Yingkou will probably follow shortly.

  36. 36.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    HAHAHA the new CDC guide lines that anyone who has been vaccinated does not need a mask is most situations; that automatically makes the anti vaccers -anti masker scream to the world “I am fully vaccinated, I was lying all the time!” ROFL.

  37. 37.

    JaneE

    I am still going to mask indoors – unless I know all the people I am with have been vaccinated.  We have already had one man arrested for selling fake vaccination cards.  And I would never believe a Republican about anything.  One thing we have learned is that there are at least 74 million Americans who even prefer lies to the truth.

  38. 38.

    smith

    @Cermet: Also, the Amerikan death rate is falling too slowly

    Trends in death rates lag trends in new cases by 4-6 weeks. The current downward trend in new cases is only 4 weeks old. New hospital admissions for covid have been falling steadily for 3 weeks now. All this indicates that we’ll see a decided downward tend in deaths, possibly as soon as next week.

  39. 39.

    Matt McIrvin

    @smith: In Massachusetts, there was an abrupt state change that happened around the beginning of April. Up to that point, deaths had been dropping gradually with the expected lag after the winter wave, but then, they suddenly dropped to an average of ~10 deaths a day, and they stayed that low even though there was a modest resurgence of COVID cases around the same time that ought to have showed up in the death rates by now.

    I think it was the effect of very widespread vaccination of seniors finally kicking in. The group most vulnerable to COVID actually had near-total vaccine coverage. We had less than usual vaccine reluctance among those groups here, and MA also reserved vaccines for older people and higher-risk groups longer than a lot of states, so it was probably easier for them to get shots.

  40. 40.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: I think it was some commenter here who described hearing an exchange in a store where an employee said “you have to wear masks”, customer asked “even if I’m vaccinated?”, employee said “yes” and customer said “well, good, because it doesn’t work”. Clearly an antivaxxer trying to get past the mask mandate by lying and backtracking when that failed.

  41. 41.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland update — The Scottish government has decided that both Moray region and Glasgow city will remain under level 3 restrictions for the moment due to noticeably high COVID-19 case rates (about 80-100 new cases each day per 100,000 population) in certain areas of both locations. That’s about the same daily case rate as the US has nationally, for comparison.

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