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COVID-19 Coronavirus Updates: Saturday / Sunday, July 31 – August 1

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… Tino, a 9-year old tiger, and Hari, a 12-year old, were tested for coronavirus after both showed flu-like symptoms, had trouble breathing and lost their appetite, the statement said…

“When the animals started to show symptoms, the Ragunan zoo was already closed due to emergency mobility restrictions,” Suzi said, referring to the Jakarta zoo.

She added that none of the caretakers and workers had tested positive with coronavirus around the time the animals were infected.

Indonesia has suffered the worst coronavirus infection in Southeast Asia with over 3.4 million infections and more than 94,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic.


Apparently the two had finished their competitions, and were on their way out of Japan anyway. Suspect there will be more such ‘rule breakers’ as other exiting athletes decide to take one last chance at sightseeing…

… Takaya told a briefing on Saturday that an unnamed person or people had had their accreditation revoked, but did not give further details.

However, the Georgian Olympic Committee later confirmed that two of its athletes – both judoka – were no longer allowed on Olympic premises.

They added the pair had already left Japan after finishing their events, in line with rules which state athletes must leave the country within 48 hours of competing.

A Georgian official told AFP news agency that silver medallists Vazha Margvelashvili, 27 and Lasha Shavdatuashvili, 29, had left the compound to meet “one of their good acquaintances” who lives in Japan…

“No-one stopped them at the exit, so they thought that they could go outside. They wanted just to have a bit of open air, to relax after a tough day of competition, after a tough lockdown period.”

The medals won by the pair were among four for Georgia’s judoka at the Games, including another silver and a gold.

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ICYMI: Still a bad idea to drink livestock wormer…

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Reader Interactions

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  1. 1.

    NeenerNeener

    Monroe County, NY stats from NYS Department of Health:

    COVID cases: 74 new cases yesterday.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    Hundreds of black-clad Malaysian youth have rallied in central Kuala Lumpur to demand the resignation of the prime minister over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as new cases soared in a surge that has also become a political crisis.

    Fight the power, Amir, and stay safe.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    Now try to imagine this COVID situation if Trump had been reelected

    Or if DeSantis is elected.

  4. 4.

    mrmoshpotato

    Where is the lie

    ?You have Delta, and you’re an anti-vaxxer asshole! The way to really fuck us all again!?

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    It has to be said, Muhyiddin Yassin’s position as PM leading a hastily patched together coalition was always a weak one. He has not helped himself by his missteps in recent days, especially revoking the emergency ordinances without telling anyone. But if he and his government do resign, there is going to be a cage match for control of the Government among a number of political eminences, and that’s a terrible way to pick a national leader.

  8. 8.

    OzarkHillbilly

    The Delta variant has caused a third COVID-19 surge in Texas, with the highest hospitalization numbers since March. The Houston region alone had more COVID-19 patients admitted than 47 states.

  9. 9.

    YY_Sima Qian

    On 7/31 China reported 53 new domestic confirmed & 25 new domestic asymptomatic cases.

    Yunnan Province reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases (all mild, 2 Burmese & 1 Chinese nationals), all at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, all persons already under centralized quarantine. There currently are 63 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 14 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 12 mild & 2 moderate). 16 mild cases worsened to moderate condition & 1 serious case improved to moderate. There currently are 204 domestic confirmed (83 mild, 114 moderate & 7 serious) cases in the city. Of the 204 infected persons, 174 are at Jiangning District, 11 at Lishui District, 4 each at Jianye, Gulou & Yuhuatai Districts, 3 at Qinhuai District, 2 at Gaochun District, & 1 each at Xuanwu & Qixia Districts. 93 of the positive cases were identified while under centralized quarantine, 36 while under home quarantine, 48 during screening of individual/groups deemed at risk of exposure, 12 at fever clinics after developing symptoms & 15 from city-wide mass screening. The Lukou Sub-District remains High Risk. 2 areas, 15 residential compounds, 6 buildings & 7 villages remain at Medium Risk.
    • Yangzhou reported 12 new domestic confirmed cases (4 mild & 8 moderate), all traced close contacts & part of the poker parlors cluster. There currently are 28 domestic confirmed cases (9 mild & 19 moderate) in the city. 1 area, 1 residential compound, 1 village, 1 building & a community have been elevated to Medium Risk. 2 areas, 2 residential compounds, 1 village, 1 building & a community are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Huai’an reported 4 new domestic confirmed cases (all mild). There currently are 7 confirmed & 2 asymptomatic cases, all members of the group that had gone to Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province for a company outing during 7/22 – 7/25. 1 residential building has been elevated to Medium Risk. 3 residential buildings & a village are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Suqian did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 3 domestic confirmed cases (all moderate) there, 2 of whom are traced to the outbreak in Nanjing. 1 dormitory has been elevated to Medium Risk. A dormitory & a residential compound are currently at Medium Risk.
    • Wuxi did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 domestic asymptomatic case in the city, a person involved in processing incoming visitors/returnees from overseas & not connected to the Delta Variant outbreak from Nanjing.

    Anhui Province

    • He County did not report any new domestic positive cases, there is 1 domestic asymptomatic case there, a person who returned from Nanjing.
    • Wuhu did not report any new domestic positive cases. There is 1 domestic asymptomatic case there, a person who had returned from Nanjing.

    Liaoning Province

    • Shenyang did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 4 domestic confirmed cases in the city, all traced to the outbreak in Nanjing. 1 residential building remains at Medium Risk.
    • Dalian did not report any new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 1 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, all traced to transmission chain originating from the outbreak in Nanjing. 1 residential building remains at Medium Risk.

    Guangdong Province

    • Zhongshan in did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 domestic confirmed case in the city, a person had returned from Nanjing.
    • Zhuhai did not report any new domestic positive case. There currently is 1 domestic asymptomatic case there, a person who had flown back from Nanjing.

    Hunan Province

    • Changde reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a traced close contact of the domestic asymptomatic case reported on 7/28 (& under centralized quarantine since then), having gone on the same boat cruise with that case (as well as the 3 confirmed cases reported by Chengdu in Sichuan Province on 7/27) on 7/24. There currently are 3 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, all had ridden on the super-spreading boat cruise.
    • Xiangtan reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a traced close contact of the domestic confirmed case reported on 7/30, having gone on the same boat cruise at Changde that became a super-spreading event. There currently are 1 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomati cases in the city, both having been on the super-spreading boat cruise at Changde on 7/24. 1 residential compound has been elevated to Medium Risk.
    • Changsha reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a close contact of the 2 domestic confirmed cases reported in Beijing, who had dinner w/ the party on 7/25. There currently are 2 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, 2 had ridden on the super-spreading boat cruise at Changde on 7/24 & 2 close contacts of domestic confirmed cases in Beijing. 2 residential compounds & a residential building remain at Medium Risk.
    • Yiyang did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 domestic asymptomatic case in the city, a traced close contact of the domestic confirmed cases reported by Beijing. 1 residential compound remain at Medium Risk.
    • Zhuzhou reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine since 7/29. There currently are 11 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, 7 had gone on the super spreading cruise & 4 are their close contacts. 4 residential compounds remain Medium Risk.
    • Zhangjiajie reported 2 new domestic confirmed 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all found via city-wide mass screening. There currently are 7 domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomaticcases in the city, 5 of whom are employees at the same travel agency. 11 sub-districts remain at Medium Risk.
    • Xiangxi Prefecture reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (mild), a traced close contact of the party from Huai’an in Jiangsu Province on company outing. There currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases in the city, both close contacts of the party from Huai’an. 1 village & 1 residential compound remain at Medium Risk.

    Sichuan Province

    • Mianyang did not report any new domestic positive cases. There is currently 1 domestic confirmed case there. 1 factory remains at Medium Risk.
    • Luzhou did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 1 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, both had traveled to Shanghai, but w/ viral genomic sequence highly identical to the outbreak in Nanjing.
    • Yibin did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 domestic confirmed case (moderate) in the city, a traced close contact of the case reported by Luzhou,  who had also returned from Shanghai on the same flight. 1 residential compound remains at Medium Risk.
    • Chengdu did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 5 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases in the city, all traced to the secondary outbreak at Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province. A residential building has been elevated to Medium Risk. 2 residential compounds & a residential building are at Medium Risk.

    Henan Province

    • Zhengzhou reported 12 new domestic confirmed & 20 new domestic asymptomatic cases, r vast majority of whom are staff, patients & caretakers at the #6 Hospital, the rest are their close contacts. The hospital been designated for treating imported cases. It is still unknown how the breach occurred, given that hospital staff are tested weekly, & most of them should have been fully vaccinated. The size of the nosocomial cluster explains the extraordinary reaction by the municipal authorities yesterday. W/ the outbreak coming on the heels of massive flooding caused by torrential rain (200 mm of precipitation in 1 hr at peak), the city is experiencing some terrible luck. 1 community remains at High Risk & 3 residential compounds remain at Medium Risk.
    • Shangqiu reported 1 new domestic confirmed case today (will be included in tomorrow’s data dump), a person who had acted as caretaker for a family member who was under in-patient care at the #6 hospital at Zhengzhou. 1 residential compound, 1 community & a shopping mall have been elevated to Medium Risk.

    Chongqing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There are currently 2 domestic confirmed cases in the city, both had traveled to Xi’an in Shaanxi Province from 7/21 – 7/24. Neither have travel history to any of the places w/ outbreaks, or established contact w/ known positive cases.

    Beijing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases in the city, a couple who had  traveled to Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province during 7/20 – 7/25.

    Xiamen in Fujian Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both traced close contacts of the cluster reported on 7/30, a housekeeper for the family & her spouse. 2 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases, all of whom are close contacts of the imported confirmed case (cargo flight crew) reported on 7/30. The municipal health authorities have confirmed that the cluster is of the Delta Variant, but unrelated to the outbreak originating from Nanjing. 1 residential compound has been elevated to Medium Risk. 2 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.

    Huanggang in Hubei Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (mild), a traced close contact of the cluster reported by Huai’an in Jiangsu Province, having taken the same train. 1 township has been elevated to Medium Risk.

    Yantai in Shandong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (moderate), a person who had flown through Nanjing Airport on 7/15 & 7/19, for travel to Guilin in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region.

    Yinchuan in Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a person who had traveled from Changde in Hunan Province on 7/28, & a traced close contact w/ the boat cruise super-spreading event there. The case has been under centralized quarantine since 7/29.

    Haikou in Hainan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (mild) today, which will be included in tomorrow’s data dump. The case had traveled to Jingzhou in Hubei Province in the 2nd half of Jul., & path intersected w/ the party from Huai’an in Jiangsu Province on company outing to Zhangjiajie at Jingzhou high speed rail station (the party from had taken bus from Zhangjiajie to Jingzhou before taking high speed rail home). It must have been casual contact, since the parties did not know each other. The case at Haikou read about the case reported by Huanggang in Hubei Province, felt that their paths might have intersected, & had the presence of mind to be tested voluntarily.

    Imported Cases

    On 7/31, China reported 22 new imported confirmed cases, 12 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:

    • Yunnan Province (locations not specified) – 7 confirmed cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Myanmar; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Laos; all via land border crossings
    • Shanghai Municipality – 5 confirmed cases, 3 Chinese nationals returning from Thailand & 1 each from Senegal (via Paris CdG) & Costa Rica (via Frankfurt); 1 suspect case, no information released
    • Tianjin Municipality – 3 confirmed cases, 2 Chinese national each returning from Guinea (via Paris CdG) & 1 from Gambia (via Dakar & Paris CdG); 1 asymptomatic case, no information released, yet
    • Hohhot in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region – 2 confirmed cases, off a flight diverted from Beijing, no further information released
    • Shenzhen in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Kenya
    • Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Zambia; 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Fiji; all off flights that landed at Guangzhou
    • Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese national returning from Canada & a foreign national coming from South Korea
    • Zhengzhou in Henan Province – 1 confirmed case, no information released
    • Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 1 confirmed case (previously asymptomatic), coming from the Sudan; 3 asymptomatic cases, 1 each coming from Cameroon, Nigeria & the UAE
    • Chengdu in Sichuan Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Columbia (via Frankfurt )
    • Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Netherlands
    • Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Indonesia 
    • Longyan in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Myanmar; the case contracted COVID-19 in Myanmar in Dec. 2020, arrived at Yunnan Province via land border crossing on 6/25 & passed through the 14 days of centralized quarantine & tested negative multiple times, also tested negative after returning to Longyan, positive on 7/30 & negative again on 7/31
    • Qingdao in Shandong Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Japanese national coming from Japan

    Overall in China, 24 confirmed cases recovered, 13 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 4 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 715 individuals were released  from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,022 active confirmed cases in the country (670 imported), 25 in serious condition (17 imported), 433 asymptomatic cases (386 imported), 2 suspect cases (all imported). 24,257 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.

    As of 7/31, 1,652.819M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 15.424M doses in the past 24 hrs.

    On 8/1, Hong Kong reported 3 new positive cases, all imported.

  11. 11.

    YY_Sima Qian

    With the rapidly escalating Delta Variant outbreak (geographically, if not yet in case count) across 15 provinces in China, many provincial & municipal authorities have issue guidance asking residents to refrain from traveling out of city or province, unless absolutely necessary. Large scale gatherings, including the summer extracurricular classes that are popular with students (or at least their parents), are halted in any jurisdictions w/ positive cases. Tourist sites in jurisdictions w/ positive cases, or even where transmission is suspected to have taken place, are also shut. All of these measures essentially have cut short the summer travel season, & will hit tourist dependent service & transportation industries hard.

    When the Chinese government forecasted 6.5% growth for 2021, when the global consensus (WB, IMF, private financial institutions, etc.) was ~ 8.5%, people wondered if the Chinese government was purposely setting a low bar to clear. Perhaps they were concerned about COVID-19 throwing more surprises at the world, impact economic recoveries around the world & causing complications domestically.

    Wuhan municipal government has issued guidance that all residential compounds & business are to resume temperature scans & checking health codes, property management are to disinfect public spaces in residential compounds 3 times a day, all gatherings > 100 persons are banned.

    I have been staying at Enshi Prefecture in the mountainous western part of Hubei Province for the past. My in-laws have a small apartment in a complex developed by a local village, catering to middle class residents from Wuhan & surrounding cities in the plains, as summer retreats to escape from the oppressive heat. It is a 10 min drive from the nearest rural township & 1 hr drive from the nearest regional city (really just a large township). When I got here a week ago, nobody wore masks, COVID-19 is the farthest from anyone’s mind. This was when the Nanjing outbreak was first reported. The area has not registered a single positive case through the entire course of the pandemic, including during the 1st wave in winter/spring 2020. A week later, as we were driving through the rural township to go to the high speed rail station at the nearest regional city, masking rate suddenly leaped to ~ 50%, though most of the elders did not. When we visited the tri-daily country fair in the township yesterday, a loudspeaker repeated messages urging people to get their vaccine shots at the local clinic & hospital. The fair attracts buyers & sellers from the surrounding villages. After I got home in Wuhan, the residential compound property management is blaring pandemic awareness messages on the compound’s PA system. This has not happened in over a year.

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    @Baud:
    I haven’t been near Masjid Jamek LRT station since before the pandemic. But there were no reports of violence. The protest itself was quite orderly and well-policed. And the march to Dataran Merdeka was literally just around the corner. The cops’ only real beef is that the organisers didn’t get a permit.

  13. 13.

    NotMax

    Locally (emphasis added),

    Hawaii reports 485 new COVID cases in highest single-day total since the start of the pandemic; no additional fatalities
    [snip]
    According to DOH Spokesperson Brooks Baehr, all the cases reported Saturday are from the latest 24-hour reporting period, which ended at 11:59 pm Thursday.
    [snip]
    Of the cases reported Saturday:

    315 were on Oahu
    101 on Hawaii Island
    Nine on Kauai
    42 on Maui
    .
    There were also 18 residents diagnosed out-of-state. Source

  14. 14.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    That above map of new infections is instructive. Uncle Joe carried Oregon by 16%. But in the north east portion of the state Dump carried counties by 30% and in some cases by 40%. When you look at that map you see new infections in Oregon are stable, except for the north east counties, which are blood red.

    Who could have known

  15. 15.

    Freemark

    The way they report on ‘breakthrough’ infections is pissing me off. It is like the NYT and other outlets are trying to make vaccinations seem worthless. Plus they don’t give you all the numbers you need to even figure out just how much they are screwing up their reporting.

  16. 16.

    JMS

    We happen to have some leftover ivermectin and syringes at home. It came in a kit we were using to try to treat a mangy fox that was hanging out in the back yard. The syringes were to inject the ivermectin into boiled eggs and hotdogs. Haven’t seen the fox in a while so not sure if it helped, but I guess we’re now also ready for Covid?

  18. 18.

    germy

    June 2020: Tennessee Rep David Byrd joins GOP colleagues in excoriating journalists, saying they 'sensationalized' COVID.

    July 2021: Byrd returns to Legislature after 8-month bout with COVID that required a liver transplant. "It is very dangerous"https://t.co/zRUEAIyQEc

    — Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) July 30, 2021

    There are people on transplant lists who wait for years. He got a shiny new liver in 8 months?

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 17,150 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 1,130,422 cases. He also reports 160 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 9,184 deaths — 0.81% of the cumulative reported total, 0.98% of resolved cases.

    There are currently 195,273 active and contagious cases; 1,059 are in ICU, 531 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 11,326 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 925,965 patients recovered – 81.91% of the cumulative reported total.

    23 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 3,702 clusters. 1,116 clusters are currently active; 2,586 clusters are now inactive.

    17,149 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 6,326 cases: 170 in clusters, 4,023 close-contact screenings, and 2,133 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 2,085 local cases: 685 in clusters, 731 close-contact screenings, and 669 other screenings.

    Kedah reports 1,511 cases: 185 in clusters, 866 close-contact screenings, and 460 other screenings. Johor reports 1,045 cases: 275 in clusters, 537 close-contact screenings, and 233 other screenings. Sabah reports 1,002 cases: 133 in clusters, 591 close-contact screenings, and 278 other screenings.

    Negeri Sembilan reports 809 cases: 25 in clusters, 529 close-contact screenings, and 255 other screenings.

    Penang reports 752 cases: 83 in clusters, 322 close-contact screenings, and 347 other screenings.

    Perak reports 693 cases: 71 in clusters, 330 close-contact screenings, and 292 other screenings. Melaka reports 686 cases: 196 in clusters, 322 close-contact screenings, and 168 other screenings. Pahang reports 676 cases: 141 in clusters, 396 close-contact screenings, and 139 other screenings.

    Sarawak reports 578 cases: 64 in clusters, 440 close-contact screenings, and 74 other screenings.

    Kelantan reports 459 cases: 129 in clusters, 258 close-contact screenings, and 72 other screenings.
    Terengganu reports 429 cases: 173 in clusters, 218 close-contact screenings, and 38 other screenings.

    Putrajaya reports 72 cases: 49 close-contact screenings and 23 other screenings. Perlis reports 21 cases: seven close-contact screenings and 14 other screenings. Labuan reports five cases: four close-contact screenings and one other screening.

    One new case today is imported, in Kuala Lumpur.

    The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 519,111 doses of vaccine on 31st July: 316,492 first doses and 202,619 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 20,533,660 doses administered: 13,816,971 first doses and 6,716,689 second doses. 20.6% of the population are now fully vaccinated.

  23. 23.

    Central Planning

    @JMS: there were some nut jobs having a rally in front of my local Wegmans a few weeks ago… “Ivermectin cures COVID!” was on all their signs.
    So, yes, I guess you’re all set!

  24. 24.

    New Deal democrat

    Daily test positivity is running over 10% in 17 States, 11 in the South alone, where Oklahoma an Mississippi are running near 50%! As of 5 days ago, the US as a whole had the highest rate of test positivity since last winter.

    That means the actual number of new Delta infections is a multiple of the number reported.

    Stumbling towards herd immunity the hard way.

    No meaningful upped on deaths, since many States have stopped reporting in the weekends.

  26. 26.

    germy

    @Central Planning: 

    On a main road near my house, there’s a couple of “Unmask the kids!” signs.

    Organizers don’t want kids being forced to wear masks when they return to school in September.

  29. 29.

    Central Planning

    @germy: “No new normal!” popped up on street signs last summer, next to something about a full return to school.

    The funny thing is that our district gave parents the choice of in-person, remote, or hybrid. My kids were remote. We all would have preferred in-person but the risk wasn’t worth it.

  30. 30.

    Barbara

    @germy: He might have had a living donor. Also, it’s really a crapshoot and different transplant “regions” have different wait times.

  31. 31.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Freemark: The way I figure, it’s a paradoxical consequence of the fact that most people working in big media are vaccinated. Their vision of the typical person is someone who got vaccinated already, and what that person wants to know about and would be scared of is personal threats to them, that is, breakthrough infections. So they talk up breakthrough infections.

    Breakthrough infections are also the man-bites-dog story, the thing that goes against expectations. “Person who didn’t get vaccinated gets ill and dies” is what you’d expect, so not as newsworthy from a traditional journalism POV.

  32. 32.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Central Planning: My daughter (HS age, vaccinated) has said consistently that, having done both, she prefers remote instruction to attending in person under weird pandemic restrictions. I suspect it’s different for older kids than for younger ones.

  33. 33.

    germy

    My nurse's latest boyfriend has a tattoo on his left forearm

    ***

    What branch were you in, I said

    Branch of what

    The service. Your tattoo of kilroy

    Oh that's ziggy

    Ziggy

    Yes ziggy. He's a comic strip dude. I hate him. It's ironic

    ***

    He is a good match for my idiot nurse

    — Cormac McCarthy (@CormacMcCrthy) February 8, 2021

  34. 34.

    Central Planning

    @Matt McIrvin: My two kids in high school were sophomores and seniors last year. The younger does much better in-person to have that connection with teachers. The older one didn’t really care, but would have done better in person too.

    There is a ton of bullshit around the need for socialization for the kids. I think much of it is parents projecting what they want. My 5 kids all stay in touch with each other and their friends online. They talk to each other daily, if not hourly. They all play games together despite the 8 year difference in their ages.

    All that online game playing was more of a problem for my wife and me. If there wasn’t a pandemic, there would have been less computer time for them. I’m still not thrilled with it, but I also grew up when mobile phones weren’t a thing.

  35. 35.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    If you asked an ID expert to suggest the most efficient way for an infected vaxd person to infect another vaxd person, she’d say “let them deeply kiss for half a minute.” Hoping CDC used other cohorts for their new Ro. Ptown’s is skewed by (gay) boys being boys. /end

    We’ve gone full 80s on this.

  36. 36.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    So

    Provence Hot Zone – gay horndogs tongue kissing.

    Lake of the Ozarks Hot Zone – drunk, rich horndogs peeing on each other.

    Italian Hot Zone – horndogs  fleeing to other single’s bars spreading the virus.

    There is a theme about people who are thinking with their genitals spreading this shit. And it makes me wonder exactly why are all these good, Christian women are so freak out about masks and not being able to go to church in person.  They do make so much nose about being disease free.

  37. 37.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @OzarkHillbilly: It should be noted that the Houston metro area has a larger population (7,066,141) than 36 states of the Union. Per capita numbers would be more informative and illuminating.

  38. 38.

    Uncle Cosmo

    It’s been my contention for many years that the Far Wrong** has for many years been cleverly inserting its operatives into media organizations across the globe, into positions responsible for composing the headlines and chyrons – knowing that the vast bulk of the audience has the attention span of a drunken gnat and will never register anything beyond that. Something we need to push back on strongly and continually.

    ** More properly IMO, the Global Oligarchy Putsch of bazillionaire wannabe-rulers, which I believe is behind most of the worldwide lurching-goosestep toward fascism.

  41. 41.

    Sloane Ranger

    Saturday in the UK we had 26,144 new cases, which is a reduction of 3478 from Friday but this may be related to the usual weekend reporting delays plus Wales doesn’t report on a Saturday and some areas of Scotland haven’t reported. The rolling 7-day average continues to show a decrease, in this case of 33%. New cases by nation,

    England – 23,949 (down 2292)

    Northern Ireland – 1177 (up 76)

    Scotland – 1018 (down 438 but see above).

    Wales – does not report on Saturday’s).

    Deaths – There were 71 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported yesterday. This is an increase of 9.2% in the rolling 7-day average. Deaths by nation, 54 in England,8 in Northern Ireland and 9 in Scotland.

    Testing – Not updated at weekends.

    Hospitalisations – Not updated at weekends.

    Vaccinations – As of Friday, 30 July, 46,811,298 people had received the first shot of a vaccine and 38,126,702 had had both. This means that 88.5% of all UK adults have had 1 shot of a vaccine and 72.1% were fully vaccinated.

  45. 45.

    Robert Sneddon

    Scotland — 1,034 new cases of COVID-19 reported, 3 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends). Test positivity rate is 5.4%. Hospitalisations are down with roughly the same number of people in ICU as before. The reported statistics are probably undercounted due to the weekend effect.

    Just over 19,000 vaccinations were administered yesterday with less than 10% of those being first doses. 71.8% of the adult population are now fully vaccinated with another 17.9% having received their first dose of vaccine.

    We should hear tomorrow from the Scottish government about the plans for the relaxation of most current restrictions, to be implemented eight days from now at the start of next week. There’s been a contract awarded for the development of a digital vaccine certificate system for Scotland, still nothing ready to deploy right now or for the anticipating re-opening of sports stadiums, nightclubs and other crowd situations later this month.

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    Ken

    @Uncle Cosmo: Also, there are a lot of COVID admissions in city hospitals because that’s where most of the hospitals are. In this latest surge, rural SW Missouri has been sending patients to Springfield, St. Louis, Kansas City, Little Rock, Tulsa, and even Dallas.

  48. 48.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @charon: Thanky kindly. Backing the numbers out, that’s 2,302 cases in a population of (approximately) 6,536,544, or roughly 35 cases per 100K. I presume that’s the value for the most recent date available?
    Now all we need for comparison are the case rates per 100K for the same date in each of the 50 states. Not having much luck finding that…​

    @Ken: That’s why I cited the Houston metro area as a base, figuring that would capture most of the population within transfer range of the hospitals. YMMV – I wish you luck finding some measure that tracks better.

  49. 49.

    charon

    @Uncle Cosmo:

     

    Now all we need for comparison are the case rates per 100K for the same date in each of the 50 states. Not having much luck finding that…

    That NYT link I posted has a state by state tabulation for all 50 plus territories like Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands.

    It also has a map, you can get county data by hovering cursor on the map.

    You can also get partial data at this linky:

    https://newsnodes.com/us

  52. 52.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @charon:  Not logging in to Fuck The Fucking NYT, thanks. (I thought they were providing COVID coverage outside the paywall. Guess not. Fuckem.)

    Anyone who wants to pull up the data and run the numbers (most recent date, cases per 100k by state, sorted by state population) is welcome to do so.

  54. 54.

    MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    @Freemark: 130,000 is a bigger number than four thousandths of one percent… & our lamestream media are sizequeens.

  56. 56.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @smith: Just visited that site, and TBH I am not about to spend my day trying to tease numbers state-by-state out of those “visualizations” (which FTR and IMO are waaaaay too busy and crowded to use) and then inserting them in a spreadsheet to process – even if I had a spreadsheet application handy, which I do not.

    My original point was to note in passing that per capita values would make for a fairer comparison. I did some calculations with the numbers that were posted; I have little interest in pursuing this any further. Yinz are all welcome to do so.

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    cs

    Here’s a Twitter thread (with an article link) from Ashton Pittman about the start of school in Mississippi. It’s going about as well as one would expect. In one school district, 79 new cases in just two days. Some schools immediately shut back down and went to online-only for a week.

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