I wouldn't say it's disconcerting as much as it is way too on the nose https://t.co/Yc8NGGLChu
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) November 1, 2021
The Delta wave of Covid-19 cases is abating across most of the U.S. Health officials say boosting vaccination rates is key to maintaining that momentum. https://t.co/2jwkRXtnmC pic.twitter.com/u7nLVkOpKM
— Newley Purnell (@newley) November 1, 2021
It's been even higher more recently: Since 6/30/21, the death rate in the reddest tenth is SIX TIMES higher than in the bluest tenth: https://t.co/RXx9N6B7tB pic.twitter.com/t1BJOwNdSX
— Charles Ghoul-ba ? (@charles_gaba) October 31, 2021
You may have had the same experience but when I started making those a year or so and tried to get some media attention, the response that I got back was that it was essentially obscene to suggest that Republicans were killing themselves
And there had to be a different reason…
— Gregory Travis (@greg_travis) October 31, 2021
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BREAKING: The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 5 million, nearly two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems. https://t.co/GQxXDfwntr
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2021
Fireworks boomed as visitors at Shanghai Disneyland waited for COVID-19 test results, surrounded by healthcare workers in protective suits. The theme park suddenly locked down late Sunday after learning a recent visitor tested positive in another province. https://t.co/Axtm2VB23a
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2021
The United States is delivering an additional 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan, a senior U.S. administration official told @Reuters, increasing to 4 million the total number of shots donated by Washington https://t.co/YExIAz4kP2 pic.twitter.com/bZyqRkWmV6
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 1, 2021
New rules aimed at moving South Koreans toward ‘living with COVID-19’ came into effect, with the easing of a range of curbs and the introduction of vaccine passports at high-risk venues such as gyms, saunas and bars https://t.co/znWSGovKHM pic.twitter.com/Er8pQ6RAVv
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 1, 2021
Thailand reopens to vaccinated tourists from over 60 nations https://t.co/MX0B3vuUbE
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 1, 2021
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen declared his country reopen and ready for a new way of life, having surpassed its COVID-19 vaccination target and recorded one of Asia's highest inoculation rates https://t.co/qDBHonO6RO pic.twitter.com/NdFIcyrTaD
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 1, 2021
Singapore may see 2,000 COVID-19 deaths each year- minister https://t.co/X0KDI7zipy pic.twitter.com/6AlFgf6Vrt
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 1, 2021
Overpromise, under-deliver?
… At 0.2% Singapore’s COVID-19 case fatality rate is similar to the rate of deaths from pneumonia before the pandemic struck, said Janil Puthucheary, a senior minister of state in parliament.
It is also lower than other countries where cases surged before vaccination, he said.
“But it does mean that over time, the absolute number of deaths from COVID-19 will rise despite the best possible medical care,” he said. “We could have perhaps 2,000 deaths per year from COVID-19.”
The minister did not specify for how many years that estimate might apply. Singapore had 4,000 deaths per year due to influenza and other respiratory diseases pre-pandemic, he said.
More than 80% of Singapore’s 5.45 million population has been fully vaccinated and almost all its cases are asymptomatic or mild. About 95% of those who died in the last six months were older than 60 years and 72% of those who died were not fully vaccinated…
Australia to Allow Quarantine-Free Travel From Singapore https://t.co/yqy09zGXQa
— Newley Purnell (@newley) November 1, 2021
As Australia's border opened for the first time in 20 months, Sydney’s international airport came alive with tears, hugs and laughter. With vaccination rates up, Australia is relaxing some of strictest border controls anywhere during the virus pandemic. https://t.co/QndF2erVg9
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 1, 2021
New Zealand keeps pandemic curbs for another week in Auckland https://t.co/V8ELfgF4xG pic.twitter.com/vWUKAkTDwJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 1, 2021
Russia’s excess death toll since the start of the coronavirus pandemic climbed to 723,000 even before the latest and most deadly wave of the virus took hold across the country, analysis of official government data showshttps://t.co/zP7f1Q54T0
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 1, 2021
“We are getting to the point where we will have to choose who gets the oxygen,” one doctor told @PjotrSauerhttps://t.co/8bqjVRiytn
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 31, 2021
Even as a new lockdown begins, Conspiracy theories and fatalism are hampering a faltering vaccination push, reports @felix_lighthttps://t.co/0onybyVjOY
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 31, 2021
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Moderna said it has been told that the FDA will require additional time to complete its assessment of the company's COVID-19 vaccine for use in adolescents aged 12 to 17 years https://t.co/YeShLFp7EO pic.twitter.com/rtE2cGNlVS
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 1, 2021
?UK study: ~1 in 4 people who were infected & tested PCR positive for COVID19 did NOT go on to develop IgG antibodies. Particularly if they were asymptomatic & elderly.
Want a sure way to develop antibodies against #SARSCoV2? Get vaccinated?!
Report: https://t.co/l03exSATVI pic.twitter.com/G5d4mdwgKV
— Dr. Ali Nouri (@AliNouriPhD) October 30, 2021
Why do some people feel they're invincible when it comes to Covid? The perception of invincibility may be undermining global efforts to reach herd immunity. The "invincibility factor" emerged in a survey of more than 200k people across 51 countries https://t.co/iMlwU9IdN0 pic.twitter.com/vgjvkFgj6w
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 31, 2021
… James Leonhardt, PhD, associate professor of marketing at the University of Nevada in Reno, and colleagues say controlling the disease requires people be both take preventive measures, such as wearing a mask, and be willing to get vaccinated against COVID-19…
However, these “pro-social” actions may depend on people’s level of perceived invincibility, their data shows. The ties between invincibility and low desire to take action are particularly prominent in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, where there is greater focus on autonomy and individual freedoms, the researchers say.
Leonhardt says in an interview that they expected to find, and did find, that high levels of “perceived invincibility” matched with low levels of wanting to help prevent the spread of the disease and low levels of vaccination.
What they didn’t expect to find, he says, was that a sense of “collectivism” – the idea that your own health is dependent on the health of the community — made the difference in whether people with perceived invincibility were motivated to help prevent COVID-19 in themselves or others…
But ‘consequences’ aren’t supposed to happen to people like me!
This*wasn't* unexpected.
Disabled people were TELLING y'all. This will have long term effects even in cases you think are "mild". This will lead to a wave of permanent disability.
Did anyone listen? Of course not. No one listens to disabled people about disability. https://t.co/WFk0UKbPz8
— fun facts with lulu ? (@FunFactsLulu) October 30, 2021
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The @nytimes really just ignoring all of the doctors, nurses, virologists, and immunologists who’ve treated and studied Covid these past 21 months and absolutely CANNOT WAIT to get their 5-11 year olds vaccinated against Covid. There’s a lot of us out here.
— Jillian Carmichael (@ViralCarmichael) October 31, 2021
No one is losing their job due to vaccine mandates. People are losing their job for refusing to vaccinate.
And no, no sympathies. https://t.co/Tr2qWPiTGN
— Spandan @ Reclaim the Fight ???? ?????? ???? (@reclaimthefight) October 31, 2021
A federal judge has denied a motion by 130 Chicago firefighters and other city employees to halt enforcement of the city's requirement that all its workers report whether they've received a COVID vaccination or risk being put on no-pay status. https://t.co/qzVN1HUy9l
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 31, 2021
2 Options to be precise: Get it or get out. https://t.co/afS0O10tCb
— Dan Ryan (@_Dan_Ryan) November 1, 2021
“…because firefighters who often interact with the public, are refusing to get vaccinated…” https://t.co/r9re6lIzMl
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) October 31, 2021
The Post cover is a scare story about the list of firehouses that Malliotakis and other pols *said* were closed for now (pics 1-3) because of the vax mandate but the News visited several of those firehouses (pic 4) and found that they were open and operating, tho short-staffed. pic.twitter.com/HDO7Qve8AJ
— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) October 31, 2021
Iowa cut extended unemployments benefits in the spring, reasoning that they were disouraging people from working and not needed even during the pandemic.
Now they’re extending unemployment benefits to those who refuse vaccine mandates meant to bring an end to the pandemic https://t.co/uPA1zd9wTz
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 29, 2021
Last year’s ‘call me a grandma-killer, but don’t you dare shut down in the face of a rampant pandemic’ knows her market:
Yes, Bethany is very cruel and evil, but on the other hand, she is also very stupid pic.twitter.com/ZXxkOwCKkU
— Master Beef Producer (@ChristophSouza) November 1, 2021
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
Monroe County website takes the weekend off now.
NYSDOH says 259 new cases yesterday.
Baud
I heard the NYFD shortages are due to a “sick out,” not people resigning.
Still, it’s infantile.
Rekster
I’m mostly a lurker, I read this blog daily but rarely ever comment.
I would like to take this opportunity to express my since thanks to Anne Laurie for her absolutely stellar work in creating this COVID information daily. It is a fantastic work of service and has increased my knowledge by leaps and bounds.
JPL
@Rekster: I do wonder how many people check in daily just to read her Covid updates. It’s a public service.
satby
Been saving this link since 4:30 am. Let’s see if it’s still there.
Ahh, it is. The MAGA hordes send death threats to Neil Cavuto for saying “get the vaccine”. Link is from a Guardian article, not Faux. They’re turning on everyone who is “a traitor” to their ideology now.
NotMax
60 now the number of countries reporting a total of 500k cases or more with addition of Myanmar.
Locally,
Baud
@satby:
Small step from covid traitor to race traitor.
debbie
@satby:
Good. Now he knows, really knows, what his words have done to this country.
debbie
@Baud:
Well, that’s how police unions always always been. In fact, they give unions a bad name.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 4,626 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, tfor a cumulative reported total of 2,476,268 cases. It also reports 36 deaths as of midnight, for an adjusted cumulative total of 28,912 deaths – 1.17% of the cumulative reported total, 1.20% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.95.
503 confirmed cases are in ICU, 220 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 5,299 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,380,060 patients recovered – 96.1% of the cumulative reported total.
Five new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,776 clusters. 411 clusters are currently active; 5,365 clusters are now inactive.
4,620 new cases today are local infections. Six new cases today are imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 63,489 doses of vaccine on 31st October: 5,635 first doses, 41,610 second doses, and 16,244 booster doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 50,076,170 doses administered: 25,485,051 first doses, 24,453,198 second doses, and 307,653 booster doses. 78.1% of the population have received their first dose, while 74.9% are now fully vaccinated.
satby
@Baud: I’m no fan of Cavuto, but he’s a cancer survivor who also has MS. Which all factored into his statement; to my extremely limited knowledge he wasn’t a rabid anti-vaxxer. Could be wrong though. But, if he had integrity, he would have resigned from his job.
Baud
@satby:
I was referring to the people who were sending Cavuto death threats, and how they see Cavuto as a traitor. I don’t know much about Cavuto himself.
lowtechcyclist
@debbie:
Police unions give the lie to the “just a few bad apples” bullshit.
New Deal democrat
The tweet that says “the Delta wave is abating” is wrong.
The Delta wave *had been* abating until 6 days ago. It has been flat or slightly above that number since.
Whenever you see someone discussing a trend in the present progressive tense, you should mentally go on high alert that the person is projecting a past trend forward without evidence.
satby
@Baud: To me, it’s just another sign of how they’ve lost control of the mob they let loose and aimed at us.
And if anyone missed this, looks like our media is slowly learning.
Nelle
@lowtechcyclist: Small note: the aphorism about “just a few bad apples” has been turned on its head. Just one bad apple can spoil the whole barrel of apples, much less just a few. Sheesh. It’s like people don’t put up a barrel of apples for the winter anymore. In reality, claiming just a few bad apples is declaring that the barrel is likely on the way to spoiling already.
Louise Penny, who along with Hilary Clinton, just was #1on Nytimes book list for their co-written book, State of Terror, writes a series where the main character, Gamache, is a Surete (police) inspector fighting corruption within the Surete as well as solving murders in Quebec. The greatest enemy is within one’s own household or organization. Or government. Or apple barrel.
Mousebumples
Follow up on fluvoxamine, from yesterday. I listened to Saturday’s TWiV Clinical update. Current theory on why fluvoxamine may help (and why other antidepressants haven’t shown similar results) is that its activity on alpha receptors (which I think is unrelated to the serotonin mood benefits) could help prevent the cytokine storm that can cause serious issues.
Still looking forward to seeing more data out of the US & Canada, but i thought that wrinkles was interesting.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Three of the people Mr DAW plays bridge with stopped by yesterday. It turned out all five of us have already had our Moderna booster shots. Old people can move fast when they have to.
Nelle
AL, how are you feeling? Is the vertigo gone?
Soprano2
@satby: This makes no sense to me. Why would a network want to do things that kill off their audience? My husband says “ratings”, but I say they’d watch regardless of whether Fox was anti-vaxx or not. There’s nothing about being vaccinated that’s inherently political; they could have pushed it as the Trump vaccine and said that your loyalty to Trump requires you to get it! I would love to know what was said in the conversation where they decided it was OK to promote suspicion about the vaccine that they all got.
Matt McIrvin
@Soprano2: Liberals like the vaccine, so they have to hate it. Pushing it as the Trump vaccine doesn’t cause nearly as much partisan division. It’s an extension of the anti-mask argument–there, of course, it was made stronger by the fact that a mask is literally worn on your face for all to see.
Citizen Alan
@lowtechcyclist:
Actually, they prove it because the whole saying is “a few bad apples spoils the whole bunch.”
Sloane Ranger
Sorry I didn’t post Saturday’s figures from the UK yesterday. I was too busy and all the weekend figures are questionable anyway due to offices being closed and wales not reporting on a Saturday. Despite this, however, here are Sunday’s figures, where we had 38,009 new cases reported. This means that the 7-day moving average is down 13.5%. New reported cases by home nation,
England – 31,479 (down 4725 from Saturday)
Northern Ireland – 1001 (down 206 from Saturday)
Scotland – 2513 (down 1354 from Saturday)
Wales – 3016 (does not report on Saturdays).
Deaths – There were 74 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported yesterday, but weekend warning applies. The rolling 7-day average is up 15.8%. 59 deaths were in England, 6 in Northern Ireland, 0 in Scotland and 9 in Wales (the Welsh figure includes some deaths from Saturday.
Testing – Not updated at weekends.
Hospitalisations – Not updated at weekends.
Vaccinations – As of Saturday, 30 October, 49,955,853 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine, 45,697,856 had had 2 shots and 7,925,851 had had a 3rd shot or booster. In percentage terms this means that 86.9% of all UK residents aged 12+ had had 1 shot, 79.5% had had 2 and 13.8% had had a 3rd shot or booster.
Probably won’t post tomorrow with today’s figures from the UK. I am attending a work reunion, the 1st in 18 months, and will almost certainly not be in the mood.
YY_Sima Qian
On 10/31 China reported 59 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic) & 7 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 6 new domestic confirmed cases. 8 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 1 domestic suspect case was ruled out as COVID-19. There currently are 163 active domestic confirmed cases in the region.
Xi’an in Shaanxi Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 13 active domestic confirmed cases in the city.
Ningxia “Autonomous” Region reported 3 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 33 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the region.
Gansu Province reported 10 new domestic confirmed cases (6 mild, 3 moderate & 1 serious). There currently are 105 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Hebei Province reported 9 new domestic confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic, 4 mild & 5 moderate). There currently are 12 active confirmed cases in the province.
Hunan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 4 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Zunyi in Guizhou Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 2 residential compounds are currently at Medium Risk.
Beijing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 30 active domestic confirmed cases in the city. 1 community remains at High Risk & 1 community is currently at Medium Risk.
Rizhao in Shandong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (mild), a traced close contact already under centralized quarantine since 10/25. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed & 9 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 1 residential compound is currently at Medium Risk.
Zigong in Sichuan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city.
Qinghai Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case (mild). There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
At Tianmen in Hubei Province there currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases (1 mild & 1 moderate) in the city.
Heilongjiang Province reported 27 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 82 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Jiangxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a traced close contact of the domestic confirmed case reported by Shangrao in Jiangxi. The case had traveled from Shangrao to Shanghai by high speed rail on 10/29, returning by regular train the next day. The case was identified was a close contact while still on the train, whereby the conductor instructed the case & the travel companion to get off at the nearest station, being Hangzhou. Both persons were taken to centralized quarantine on 10/31, where 1 tested positive, while the other is currently negative.
Dehong Prefecture in Yunnan Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases (all at Longchuan County, found via screening of persons under centralized quarantine). There currently are 5 active domestic confirmed & 31 active domestic asymptomatic cases at the prefecture.
At Henan Province there currently are 5 active domestic confirmed cases remaining, all at Shangqiu.
Imported Cases
On 10/31, China reported 33 new imported confirmed cases (12 previously asymptomatic), 17 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:
Overall in China, 37 confirmed cases recovered (29 imported), 10 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (9 imported) & 15 were reclassified as confirmed cases (12 imported), & 3,717 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 869 active confirmed cases in the country (386 imported), 33 in serious condition (all domestic), 398 active asymptomatic cases (351 imported), 5 suspect cases (all imported). 41,548 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 10/31, 2,274.072M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 5.71M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 11/1 Hong Kong reported 1 new positive case, imported.
Matt McIrvin
@Citizen Alan: Some blame Donny Osmond for the drift in meaning–“one bad apple don’t spoil the whole bunch, girl…”
smith
It’s been clear for some time that the only people cops feel honor-bound to protect are each other. It’s the ethos of a street gang. That makes it even weirder that they don’t feel an obligation to protect each other from covid. Could it be the delusion of invincibility mentioned above?
Matt McIrvin
@smith: COVID isn’t the category of threat that they feel obligated to protect themselves, or others, against. It’s not a human attacker and protection doesn’t involve an aggressive, “tough” posture. Because of the right-wing campaign against masks, it’s now established that doing anything to prevent COVID equals being a wimp. If you’re a macho man you’ll just catch it and tough it out.
Matt McIrvin
(Compare: the general American right-wing attitude concerning protection from terrorist attack or home invaders vs. protection from COVID-19.)
Bill Arnold
@Matt McIrvin:
Somebody could make and market to MAGAs “macho masks”, that filter outgoing exhalations at N-95 levels, but have a conspicuous valve to let in air un-ruined by filtering. They could be decorated with Let’s Go Brandon and American Flags. They would meet masking requirements but would not block inhalation of Patriotic SARS-CoV-2.
smith
@Matt McIrvin: Yep, you can see how this plays out: You refuse to cower behind any defenses and instead stride out to meet the enemy, all the time ignoring the dead bodies piled up around you. Quite the stage for battlefield heroics.
Fair Economist
@Soprano2: Fox News does not exist to make money. Murdock makes far more elsewhere and it’s never made all that much. Fox News exists to manipulate politics. They’ve decided messing up the country to reduce Biden’s favorables helps Republicans get elected more than losing a few hundred thousand net voters by 2024 hurts.
gvg
@lowtechcyclist: Actually they prove the whole saying, which is “a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel”. See, the police forces didn’t get rid of the bad apples back when they were just a few, and now whole departments are mostly full of bad people.
Think about it. If you were not a racist or a bully, would you be able to work with those who are, year after year, when the bosses don’t have your back? Not only is that corrosive and eventually degrading, it would be dangerous to resist.
Some departments need a complete clean out. As I see it, the first problem is no federal license to be a police man. If a city or state goes to get rid of the proven really bad one, most of them can get a job elsewhere too easily. That needs to be stopped before we do much else or its just moving shit around. My governor (Florida DeSantis) is actually saying all the ones fired for not vaccinating should come to Florida. I hope to law that he doesn’t have the power to do that alone.
Unique uid
Has anyone had good experience with at-home tests (in the US)?
I’ve done some feeble searching, haven’t found much. Would I have better luck crossing the river to Canada?
thanks
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 2,065 new COVID-19 cases reported today. The test positivity rate is 10.8%. There were no new deaths reported but note that Register Offices are generally closed at weekends. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 68, up four from yesterday while hospitalisations are 931, up 21 from yesterday.
There were about 2,300 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Sunday) with about 50% of these being first vaccinations. 92.1% of 16+ adults are now vaccinated with their first dose and 85.9% are fully vaccinated. 75.4% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination and 54.3% of 12-15 year olds have now received their first vaccination.
There were about 23,000 booster vaccinations carried out yesterday in Scotland with a total of about 708,000 boosters carried out to date.