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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Friday / Saturday, July 23-24

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… Public health experts say they’re grappling with an irony: Americans who are already vaccinated tend to treat the coronavirus threat more seriously than many of the unvaccinated — even though the delta variant is poised to tear through populations that lack protection.

“We do know from our data that the vaccinated tend to be more worried about getting sick from covid than the unvaccinated,” said Mollyann Brodie, a Kaiser Family Foundation executive vice president who oversees the organization’s polling. “The reality, though, is that the new infections, hospitalizations and deaths are almost exclusively among the unvaccinated.”…

Messaging experts counseled for months that blaming unvaccinated Americans would only backfire. Still, some said they understand the newly sharp tone of the conversation.

“I assumed it would be easier to convince people to get vaccinated as more and more people did,” said Frank Luntz, the longtime GOP pollster who has worked with the Biden administration and congressional Republicans to encourage people to get vaccinated. “It’s actually becoming more difficult. People are dug in.”…

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    You can’t eat in a restaurant if you have Ebola? Don’t these freedom fighters remember when GOP governors were trying to lock people up for having Ebola?

  2. 2.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats:

    I went to the NYS Department of Health to get numbers since Monroe County is only reporting on a weekly basis now.

    New COVID cases:

    32 new cases on 7/23.

  4. 4.

    Splitting Image

    In a video of one exchange, anti-maskers ask a female patient why she is “so angry.”

    “Because I’ve just gone through fucking breast cancer. And you motherfuckers are here,” she said.

    “That has nothing to do with you,” one protester replied. “We’re trying to help.”

    At least these ghouls are achieving one positive thing. They are the same pigfuckers who claim they are “trying to help” when they picket abortion clinics. These guys don’t care about COVID any more than they care about babies. They do care about harassing women who are going through one of the worst times of their lives, and that is about all they care about.

    These guys have taken their masks off in more ways than one.

  5. 5.

    gene108

    @Splitting Image: 

    Seems like a similar mindset to the January 6 insurrectionists, who believe they were just helping to save the country.

    Self-entitled fuck-ninnies

  6. 6.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Natural selection is about to wipe out the cultists in Arkansas​

  7. 7.

    Barbara

    @Splitting Image: I can only wonder at someone protesting at a breast cancer clinic — where people get chemotherapy — who thinks they are there to “help.” What? And assaulting a breast cancer patient?

    I’ve been going to physical therapy and mask wearing is required for everyone entering the premises. They give you the mask.

  8. 8.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 7/23 China reported 13 new domestic confirmed & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 79 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 community at Ruili remains at High Risk. 1 village at Ruili & 1 village at Longchuan County remain at Medium Risk.

    Jiangsu Province

    • Nanjing reported 12 new domestic confirmed (3 mild & 9 moderate) & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases. All new positive cases are workers at the airport or their traced close contacts, the outbreak has spread to the villages where some of these workers live in. There currently are 35 domestic confirmed (14 mild & 21 moderate) & 18 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 sub-district was elevated to High Risk. 3 residential compounds & 6 villages were elevated to Medium Risk. There are currently 6 residential compounds, 2 communities & 12 villages at Medium Risk.
    • Suqian did not report any new domestic positive cases, there is 1 domestic asymptomatic case there.

    He County in Anhui Province did not report any new domestic positive cases, there is 1 domestic asymptomatic case there.

    Shenyang in Liaoning Province did not report any new domestic positive cases, there is 1 domestic asymptomatic case there.

    Zhongshan in Guangdong Province did report any new domestic positive cases, there is 1 domestic asymptomatic case there.

    Mianyang in Sichuan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, who had returned from Nanjing on 7/17.

    Zhongshan in Guangdong Province has completed mass screening for all residents (~ 5.5M) due to the asymptomatic case imported from Nanjing. As the person had flown into Zhuhai in Guangdong Province before taking inter-city high speed rail to Zhongshan, Zhuhai has also completed a round of mass screening of all residents (~ 1.5M). Such mass screening triggered by a single case is unprecedented in China, probably due to fears of the Delta Variant ‘s greater infectivity.

    Imported Cases

    On 7/23, China reported 22 new imported confirmed cases, 16 imported asymptomatic cases:

    • Yunnan Province (locations not specified) – 5 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar via land border crossing; 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Laos, via land border crossing
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 4 confirmed cases, 2 Taiwanese & 1 Mainland Chinese residents coming from Taiwan & 1 Chinese national returning from Thailand
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Japan
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 3 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the UK (via Amsterdam Schiphol), Myanmar & Iraq; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Iraq
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from France, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou 
    • Zhaoqing in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Malaysia, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Zhongshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Kuwait, off a flight that landed at Guangzhou
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 3 confirmed cases, a Chinese national returning from Myanmar, a South Korean national coming from South Korea, & a Kazakh national coming from Kazakhstan; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Cambodia
    • Shanghai Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Senegal (via Paris CdG) & the US
    • Tianjin Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Spain; 5 asymptomatic cases, 1 Chinese nationals” each returning from the Philippines, Hungary (via Warsaw) & Spain, no information released yet for the 4th & 5th cases
    • Wuhan in Hubei Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia; 2 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Afghanistan
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), no information released
    • Jiangsu Province (location not specified) – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released
    • Beijing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, no information released

    Overall in China, 17 confirmed cases recovered, 23 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 4 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 484 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 661 active confirmed cases in the country (556 imported), 16 in serious condition (15 imported), 444 asymptomatic cases (415 imported), 3 suspect cases (all imported). 9,761 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 7/23, 1,524.897M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 17.292M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 7/24, Hong Kong reported 2 new positive cases, both imported (from the US & the UAE).

  10. 10.

    Chris T.

    Cake or death?

    I sometimes think we should make that real, with squads armed with shots and, well, shots (guns). “Get a shot, or get shot. Your choice.”

  11. 11.

    WereBear

    @gene108:

    Seems like a similar mindset to the January 6 insurrectionists, who believe they were just helping to save the country.

     
    Put “believe” in quotes in this context.

    I am convinced — after considerable sharing from people who grew up in right wing environments and escaped — that they always know the truth, deep down. They love to lie, that’s all.

    Like a criminal will always stick to their story.

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 15,902 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 996,393 cases. (Tomorrow’s cumulative reported total will almost certainly exceed 1.1 million.) He also reports 184 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 7,902 deaths — 0.79% of the cumulative reported total, 0.94% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 153,633 active and contagious cases; 950 are in ICU, 468 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 9,471 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 834,858 patients recovered – 83.79% of the cumulative reported total.

    27 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 3,418 clusters. 976 clusters are currently active; 2,442 clusters are now inactive.

    15,876 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 7,348 local cases: 94 in clusters, 4,691 close-contact screenings, and 2,563 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 2,391 local cases: 359 in clusters, 1,158 close-contact screenings, and 874 other screenings.

    Kedah reports 867 cases: 145 in clusters, 504 close-contact screenings, and 218 other screenings.

    Johor reports 796 local cases: 298 in clusters, 304 close-contact screenings, and 194 other screenings. Sabah reports 712 cases: 122 in clusters, 383 close-contact screenings, and 207 other screenings.

    Melaka reports 631 cases: 387 in clusters, 131 close-contact screenings, and 113 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 625 cases: 67 in clusters, 376 close-contact screenings, and 182 other screenings.

    Penang reports 505 cases: 79 in clusters, 197 close-contact screenings, and 229 other screenings. Kelantan reports 502 cases: 189 in clusters, 242 close-contact screenings, and 71 other screenings.

    Perak reports 469 cases: 82 in clusters, 238 close-contact screenings, and 149 other screenings. Pahang reports 406 local cases: 130 in clusters, 242 close-contact screenings, and 34 other screenings.

    Terengganu reports 267 cases: 68 in clusters, 126 close-contact screenings, and 73 other screenings. Sarawak reports 261 local cases: 43 in clusters, 118 close-contact screenings, and 100 other screenings.

    Putrajaya reports 59 cases: 44 close-contact screenings and 15 other screenings. Labuan reports 30 cases: one in a cluster, 17 close-contact screenings, and 12 other screenings. Perlis reports seven cases: six close-contact screenings and one other screening.

    26 new cases today are imported: 15 in Kuala Lumpur, eight in Johor, and three in Selangor.

    The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 462,242 doses of vaccine on 23rd July: 301,536 first doses and 160,706 second doses. As of yesterday, the cumulative total is 16,487,158 doses administered: 11,222,398 first doses and 5,264,760 second doses. 16.1% of the population have received their second dose.

  15. 15.

    Cermet

    A deadly fungus infection – Candida Auris – is threatening to become a major problem even here in the US. As I previously posted in past threads, some fugus infections are nearly totally resistant to the only three drugs left that can treat these types of diseases. Well, now this one is totally immune to all the drugs and is spreading even in the US. Since fungi are everywhere (through not yet this one) they are always ready to infected anyone with a weaken immune system.  This one has appeared in Texas. Many scientist in the fields of health consider fungi the next great pandemic risk and its looking like this is starting to occur. Even if Covid gets under control fungus infections are an extreme problem because they easily show up in hospital settings, quickly attack the weakest, and now some will have no treatment options at all. Of course, already in India this has become a major issue thanks to the requirement for steroids’ to treat many covid patients. Unlike bacteria resistant issues, which are easily fixed by using bacteriophages instead, there are no new ways to defeat fungi infections – chemical based drugs are it and no new ones are known. The worse aspect is that these human attacking fungi are getting more and more tolerate to higher body temperatures – an aspect that use to strongly protect all mammals. So besides losing our body temperature defense our last drugs are failing – this is not a good development considering the other viral plagues threatening us.

  16. 16.

    bluefish

    The stupidity … it burns! Thanks for the very thorough and informative thread. Astonishing.

  17. 17.

    Ohio Mom

    Splitting Image beat me to it.

    They could have protested in front of any number of medical clinics but they pick a women’s health facility. Why not say, the eye clinic or the same-day surgery building?

    Because most of all, they are misogynists. They are thrilled to have another outlet to hate on women.

    (Note: a very small number of men also get breast cancer every year)

  18. 18.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    @Baud: Lock ebola patients up??? I remember when a certain soon-to-be president wanted to lock healthcare workers who had just worked with ebola patients out of the country!

  19. 19.

    drdavechemist

    @Cermet:

    Unlike bacteria resistant issues, which are easily fixed by using bacteriophages instead,

    “easily” is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting there. Use of phage therapy on antibiotic-resistant bacteria is still rare enough that it makes the news. (I know a lot about this case because a family member participated in the discovery and genetic modification of one of the phages in the cocktail used in this treatment.) I understand that phage therapy has a lot of promise and is somewhat more advanced in Eastern Europe, but I still don’t think “easily” is a fair description.

  20. 20.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    With COVID cases spiking in mostly unvaccinated Arkansas, Former WH Press Sec. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says if she is elected governor there will be no mask or vaccine mandate:
    “We believe in personal freedom and responsibility.”

    That’s *so* much more honest than when they said they believed in freedom and personal responsibility. Now, they’re flat out saying “we want freedom, but just for ourselves, and we’ll assign responsibility for everything that goes wrong to Democrats , because there’s no way Republicans can make a bad decision. You want proof? Sure some soi disant “historians” and “journalists” might say that George W Bush invaded Iraq, and laid down the path for ISIS. But ISIS FORMED DURING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!!!!1!! So it’s all his fault; you can’t blame W for just, you know, starting an unjust, unjustified, and unjustifiable, war, removing the largest regional check on Iran, and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, because bad things happen in a war! But OBAMA was President when ISIS was formed, so it’s all *his* fault.”

  21. 21.

    Sloane Ranger

    Friday in the UK we had 36,389 new cases. This is an increase of 11.4% in the rolling 7-day average.  New cases by nation,

    England – 32,792 (down 3137)

    Northern Ireland – 1337 (down 93)

    Scotland – 1505 (down 320)

    Wales – 755 (up 43).

    Deaths – There were 64 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 45.1% in the rolling 7-day average. 56 deaths occurred in England, 1 in Northern Ireland, 6 in Scotland and 1 in Wales.

    Testing – 1,013, 261 tests were conducted on Thursday, 22 July. This is a decrease of 4.9% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that date was 659,885.

    Hospitalisations – There were 5001 people in hospital and 699 people on ventilators on Thursday, 22 July. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions as of 19 July was up by 28%.

    Vaccinations – Vaccination figures for 22 July, do not include figures for Wales due to a reporting issue. These will be added as soon as the data is available. With this in mind, as of 22 July, at least 46,476,845 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 36,762,646 had had both. This means that at least 87.9% of all adults in the UK have had 1 jab and 69.5% were fully vaccinated.

  22. 22.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 1,307 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 11 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive. Test positivity rate of 6.1%. 60 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19, up again slightly.

    There were just over 22,000 vaccinations carried out yesterday, about 12% of those first-dose. This means 89.4% of adults in Scotland have received their first dose of vaccine with 68.8% fully vaccinated.

  25. 25.

    tom

    Asked what it will take to up the vaccination rate in Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey (R-AL) snaps: “I don’t know, you tell me! Folks supposed to have common sense. It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks.”

    So how’s that personal responsibility thing working out down there in ‘Bama, governor?

  26. 26.

    Ruckus

    @Frankensteinbeck: 
    The true, consistent, constant assholes I’ve met through out my life are without a doubt, assholes because they like being assholes. Some perceive some more often than not made up slight demands that they are assholes. Some just don’t know better and seem to be incapable of learning different. And some think it makes them better humans – it doesn’t. But the one thing they all have in common is they are massive assholes, who as you state, demand to be treated as the assholes they truly are. I think that’s so they can convince themselves that being an asshole is their calling in life.

  27. 27.

    Bill Arnold

    Re the “UK food workers to be exempt from Covid isolation ” story, are such workers required to wear face masks, and with delta, well-fitted masks(respirators) like N95s? Are they required to be vaccinated? If not, then the government is setting them up for random human sacrifice to attempt to avoid politically-damaging empty food market shelving. (Exponential growth wins, spoiler.)
    (An N95 can be used for a while before it no longer fits well and starts leaking. No optimal, but i would rather use a week-of-daily-use N95 than a new surgical mask, TBH. Fit is better, leakage lower.)

  28. 28.

    mrmoshpotato

    A breast cancer patient got maced, punched and verbally abused by anti-maskers outside a breast cancer clinic in L.A.

    What the fuck is this shit?

  30. 30.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    Re: Johnson & Johnson vaccine needing a booster, I’ve taken the situation into my own hands. Last week I tried to get a walk-in shot at CVS, but I decided to be slick and tell them it was my second shot so I wouldn’t have to schedule a second. Since they didn’t have a record of a first, they wouldn’t give it to me. But it proved that there weren’t any tricky questions or national database searches, so when I got home I went ahead and made an appointment at a different CVS for a vaccination on Tuesday.

    I’ll feel so much more confident!

  31. 31.

    Fair Economist

    @Cermet:

    A deadly fungus infection – Candida Auris – is threatening to become a major problem even here in the US. As I previously posted in past threads, some fugus infections are nearly totally resistant to the only three drugs left that can treat these types of diseases. Well, now this one is totally immune to all the drugs and is spreading even in the US. Since fungi are everywhere (through not yet this one) they are always ready to infected anyone with a weaken immune system. This one has appeared in Texas.

    Also in DC, and last year in Florida.

    C. auris can be a problem even for normal people with indwelling catheters and such. It’s potentially a very big issue.

  34. 34.

    Fair Economist

    @drdavechemist:

    “easily” is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting there. Use of phage therapy on antibiotic-resistant bacteria is still rare enough that it makes the news. (I know a lot about this case because a family member participated in the discovery and genetic modification of one of the phages in the cocktail used in this treatment.) I understand that phage therapy has a lot of promise and is somewhat more advanced in Eastern Europe, but I still don’t think “easily” is a fair description.

    Phages also don’t work inside the body because our own immune system recognizes them as foreign. You could use them for upper respiratory infections, skin infections, and intestinal infections, but for general use they’re not going to cut it.

    Where they are useful they could provide a substantial benefit, because they could be target to pathogenic bacteria without wiping out the commensals. I’d love to see more research on them. But they’re not going to bail us out of antibiotic resistance.

    FWIW, I’m sure there are viruses that can infect pathogenic yeasts too although they might be hard to find.

  35. 35.

    Another Scott

    @tom: Yeah, notice the misdirection in her answer.  She has the power to change the direction of the pandemic in her state, but she says other people have the responsibility.

    If the balance between freedom and responsibility is adjusted as a consequence of this horrible pandemic, that would be a very good thing.  But it won’t happen on its own.  Voters have to force the adjustment for the public sphere.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  36. 36.

    sab

    I knew at least ten people who died this year, some of Covid, most not, who died alone in a hospital where no family or friends could be with them because of Covid restrictions.

    I am angrier than I ever knew I could be about the Covid deniers and the Covid antivaxers.

  38. 38.

    JaneE

    GOP “Freedom” and “responsibility” in the same sentence usually means they are trying to say it is okay to kill people you don’t like by doing something no truly responsible person would do.

    It is almost surprising that Tennessee realized that trying to make sure the kids die is not a good look.

  39. 39.

    greenergood

    @Splitting Image: Yes, I’ve seen no news of anti-vaxxers protesting outside prostate cancer clinics, or questioning the efficacy and or dangers of Viagra…

  40. 40.

    Ksmiami

    Sometimes I wish the entire Democratic Party would just play hardball- no vaccine mandate in your state, no more funding for anything oh and we will move military bases too.. unfortunately at this moment, Republicans are our worst enemies

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