To protect each other, we all need to wear a face covering in indoor public settings, starting this Friday, May 29.
This includes retail stores, barbershops, restaurants, government buildings, on public transportation, or anywhere where people can congregate in groups indoors. pic.twitter.com/wbvtbh7KD6
— Ralph Northam (@GovernorVA) May 27, 2020
Fauci Says U.S. Death Toll Is Likely Higher. Other COVID-19 Stats Need Adjusting, Too https://t.co/0ByUKULDPr
— Morgan Fairchild (@morgfair) May 27, 2020
#UPDATE More than 350,000 deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded worldwide since it first appeared in China in December, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources as of 0600 GMT.
A total of 350,196 #coronavirus deaths have been reported, from 5,589,389 cases pic.twitter.com/YLrX7nSkMD
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 27, 2020
Linear plots for BRIM May 26th data, cases and deaths, show how Brazil is the outlier of these countries https://t.co/4mLkLkAqgQ
and yes there are reporting problems across the board pic.twitter.com/ukTEcszlqt— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) May 26, 2020
Crisis in Venezuela: Doctors & other health care providers don't have water to wash their hands. The health system cannot deal w/ #COVID19. Without an urgent humanitarian response from the international community, there will be many unnecessary deaths. Report from Johns Hopkins https://t.co/oYlsacAjoZ
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) May 26, 2020
As South Korea significantly relaxes its rigid social distancing rules as a result of waning coronavirus cases, the world is paying close attention to whether it can return to something that resembles normal or face a virus resurgence. https://t.co/Ucd117p0CY
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 27, 2020
More evidence that targeting clusters for COVID-19 response is key, writes @dnormile in a report from Japan.https://t.co/J8EM4cDN7W pic.twitter.com/fmnCQAKoZ8
— Jon Cohen (@sciencecohen) May 26, 2020
Soldiers, police enforce Indonesia's 'new normal' coronavirus restrictions https://t.co/QI4iuyERrm pic.twitter.com/ZErO9tdZci
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 26, 2020
#India: Surge in COVID-19 patients, overwhelming hospitals in Mumbai, as the gov't begins lifting coronavirus restrictions. Today the country reported 144,741 cases, & 4,162 deaths. It has surpassed Iran & is moving into the top 10 hardest-hit countries.- via @Reuters
— COVID19 (@V2019N) May 25, 2020
Mumbai: How Covid-19 has ravaged India's richest city https://t.co/QUub5rDQnG
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 27, 2020
An Afghan family's tragedy exposes a broken health system: They assumed it was just a bad cold, as one after another, they came down with fevers and coughs. Within days, three siblings died of the coronavirus and dozens of their relatives were quarantined. https://t.co/gGW9jKNWJa
— AP Middle East (@APMiddleEast) May 27, 2020
Russia reported 8,338 new #coronavirus cases and 161 more deaths in the past 24 hours, its coronavirus response center said Wednesday. The national tally now stands at over 370,000 cases and 3,968 deaths. pic.twitter.com/71M9Pv5Iq6
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) May 27, 2020
The leader of Russia’s Communist Party believes that an eventual vaccine against the new coronavirus is part of a capitalist plot to implant microchips into humanshttps://t.co/Fo2b8fi6pV
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) May 27, 2020
#UPDATE Germany extended social distancing rules aimed at containing spread of the coronavirus to June 29, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government said.
The move follows disagreements with the least-affected states, some of which wanted to open up entirely https://t.co/Cr8KnyFTK1 pic.twitter.com/vlRha8euNE
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 26, 2020
'We became heroes but they've already forgotten us’
Medical staff in Italy say the trauma of dealing with coronavirus is only just hitting them now
We hear their stories ?
[Thread]https://t.co/cOcmjYoGAg— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 26, 2020
VIDEO: French nursing home sets up 'bubble tent' for family visits.
It gives 'living in a bubble' a whole new meaning… After two months of separation due to the coronavirus, family members can once again visit residents of a nursing home in Bourbourg, France pic.twitter.com/1TdAh1r62Q
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 27, 2020
Over 115,000 confirmed #COVID19 cases on the African continent – with more than 46,000 recoveries & 3,400 deaths. View country figures & more with the WHO African Region COVID-19 Dashboard: https://t.co/V0fkK8dYTg pic.twitter.com/t3Xvu3to2r
— WHO African Region (@WHOAFRO) May 26, 2020
Tests vital for Africa's fight against coronavirus https://t.co/GPnQUV8kRa
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 27, 2020
Dangerous blood clots pose a perplexing coronavirus threat https://t.co/3Pm3ghba4W via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) May 26, 2020
As noted by some Twerps, this is not @IHME — separate U of WA group. And it projects the death toll in USA to more than 2X by late Sept., topping 212,000 people. pic.twitter.com/dFLtLlgNtZ
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) May 26, 2020
The opportunity to stop #Covid19 from taking root in the U.S. likely persisted well into February. New research suggests the Seattle outbreak didn't ignite until Americans fled China when the administration imposed the travel ban. https://t.co/0VUwb5KDaU
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) May 26, 2020
Inexcusably, instead of a comprehensive testing plan, the administration has abandoned all leadership and is asking states to do the work without real support. This is going to leave millions of people behind. https://t.co/xKooRCiEKm
— Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) May 26, 2020
*screams at the sky until lungs burst* pic.twitter.com/elro4bl1Ez
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) May 27, 2020
Russian artist Anatoly Koneko is making miniature masks for a grasshopper, a dragonfly and a crab to draw attention to the fact that insects need to be saved pic.twitter.com/ty3SKJpXrP
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 27, 2020
Is it safe to go back to work?
An essay proposes a gradient of relative risk. That's playing the odds.https://t.co/G4Jye2MbTC
But until we have guidance systems w/ rapid, accurate testing, there's no absolute assurance. We want risk to be 0/close to zero and minimize gaming. pic.twitter.com/5njZRvvatR— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) May 26, 2020
NotMax
Bad news numbers have recently been creeping upward in Peru, in Chile and in Saudi Arabia.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers: 15 new cases; nine from local infection including four foreign nationals; six imported cases. There was a huge spike in new cases this week, which saw daily new case numbers go from below 40 to 172 on Monday and 187 on Tuesday, mostly from three detention centres for illegal immigrants around KL. That seems to be over; all staff and detainees at the centres have been tested, and there are no more positive diagnoses. Total 7,619 cases.
42 more patients recovered, total 6,083 or 79.8% of all cases. Of 1,421 active and still contagious cases, eight are in ICU of whom four are on ventilators. No new deaths, total still at 115. Infection fatality rate 1.51%, case fatality rate 1.86%.
Amir Khalid
The Trump administration, if it even deserves to be called an administration, has been failing the US from day one of this pandemic. I never thought I would see the day when it was outdone in crisis management by so many nations with so much fewer resources.
OzarkHillbilly
The Trump administration, if it even deserves to be called an administration, has been failing the US from day one
of this pandemic.FTFY Amir. For free, just because I like you.WereBear
@Amir Khalid: It’s a basic abusive authority figure situation. They have the resources to relieve suffering. But they don’t want to spend those resources on anything but themselves.
Like Uncanny Valley son-in-law says, “That’s our stockpile.”
OzarkHillbilly
A US passport used to be an asset. Under Trump it has become a liability
satby
@Amir Khalid: @WereBear: and though people are quick to blame incompetence, it’s more than that. It’s deliberate manslaughter of the people that the white supremacists consider expendable: old, minorities, city people (of all colors) who are more likely to be political opponents. Mere incompetence wouldn’t consistently deliver such malignant results, or continually turn up the evidence that they’re trying to game the numbers to hide the evidence.
WereBear
@satby: Sadly, you are correct.
Barbara
@Amir Khalid: Your resources only make a difference if you deploy them.
Ohio Mom
My niece has a teaching job in Bangkok. She’s pregnant, due in July, and when the outlines of the pandemic started to become clear, she and her husband decided they would be safer having the baby there. In part because they have the status to go to the best hospital.
They don’t plan to return to the US until after the next school year at the earliest. It’s hard on their mothers, both are grieving the trips to Thailand to hold their first only grandchild they won’t be taking.
I’m impressed with how accurately the parents-to-be called it. The whole story underlines for me what a mess this country is in.
YY_Sima Qian
@OzarkHillbilly:
I have witnessed the gradual transition first hand in China. When I first came back to China as an expatriate in over a decade ago, a US passport was a subject of envy among the locals. Now, it is rarely more than a passing curiosity, both because there are more Americans (especially Chinese Americans) in China these days, so the novelty has worn off, and because a US passport is not so special anymore.
Since Trump started his presidential campaign in 2016, I have traveled to two dozen countries for business and leisure. Knowing that I am an American would almost invariably invite exclamations of bemusement and bewilderment from local people at the prospect of Trump becoming President. Since his election, pity has been added as a sentiment that I would receive.
Now, as a Chinese American from Wuhan, in the time of COVID-19, I expect to be catching it from all sides going forward…
YY_Sima Qian
@Ohio Mom: I regret convincing my mother from Nanjing, China to the US in early Feb. I do not quite regret convincing my father to catch the first US evac flight out of Wuhan at the end of Jan., yet. I fervently wish that I will not regretting that decision.
In hindsight, I am very glad that the US did not accept non-citizen/permanent resident spouses to be evacuated. If the US did allow spouses who are Chinese nationals to be evacuated, I probably would have taken my wife and infant daughter to flee to the States at the end of Jan.
If we had done that, the five of us would have been cramped in my small apartment, with no prospect for returning to China. My wife probably would have lost her job, while dealing with cultural shock and anxiety of stay-at-home in small town America, contending with her in-laws. I would have been much less effective in my job, being tens of thousands of miles and 12 time zones away from the region and people I am responsible for.
Brachiator
@satby:
These people are just stupid. They may think that they are getting rid of people they don’t like, but they’re putting their own lives at risk.
Ohio Mom
YY_Sima Qian: There is a lot of irony in your family’s story, isn’t there?
I am reminded of all the stories of my grandparents’ generation, Eastern European Jews who by choice, circumstances or luck, found themselves on wildly different trajectories once the war started.
A distant cousin of my husband’s father, living in California, somehow met and fell in love a Jewish woman living over the border in Mexico; because of immigration quotas, that was the closest they could get to their dream of coming to America (my mother’s family had cousins in Cuba for the same reason).
Sometime after they married, they moved to Israel. When I met them briefly twenty years ago, the husband explained he was a dual citizen because he would never give up his American passport. To him, it was gold.
YY_Sima Qian
@Ohio Mom: Yeah, the stigma associated with Wuhan will linger in China and around the world, even as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes in the future. Even if that particular stigma fades, being Chinese American will likely be a precarious existence as the US and China hurtle toward Cold War 2.0, leaping head long into the Thucydides Trap.
I have to say the US, and the Trump administration in particular (but with a lot of bi-partisan support), is currently driving this dynamic. After all, the CCP regime firmly believes that time is favorable to them, and delaying serious confrontation for as long as possible, or avoiding it altogether, is in its interest. On the other hand, a lot of politicians and policymakers in the US (of both parties) are of the opinion that the earlier the confrontation with China kicks off, the better, before the balance of power shifts. Amazingly, COVID-19 has only hastened this process and added urgency inside the Beltway. One would have thought addressing the health care emergency and the economic and humanitarian crisis would take precedence, and that facing a common challenge would provide ground for mutually beneficial cooperation with China. To me, that betrays an astounding lack of confidence in the US’ fundamental strengths (perhaps forgivable in the Age of Trump), despite all of the jingoistic rhetoric that has become de rigueur, and myopic overconfidence in the US’ ability to coral its allies onto a dangerous path.
Sadly, even the prospect of military confrontation between China and the US can no longer be dismissed out of hand, though still very unlikely.
Laura Too
@YY_Sima Qian: I think the hardest part of this for me is how we are focusing on the minority of stupid people and letting them drive the rest of us to fight. I spent a good part of my evening last night out in the street with a lot of other people doing our best to social distance and keep each other safe. I was amazed to see just how many good people turned out-it streamed for many blocks. I want to believe we can avoid any kind of military confrontation.
Ohio Mom
Not just Chinese Americans — Japanese-Americans, Korean-Americans, any Asian-American, will be at risk of being stigmatized, because Deplorables will proudly proclaim, They all look alike and What’s the difference?
Look what the Sikh American community went through after 9-11. Their turbans were a trigger for Deplorables, and as I recall, a few lost their lives.
I can only hope that with a new President next year, the developing China-US Cold War will be turned down a few notches.
LongHairedWeirdo
Here’s a sobering thought. I just saw an article that put the actual “kills you” rate at 0.4% – 4x as deadly as the flu.
Right now, discovered cases, and deaths, in the US give us 15x that death rate. Meaning, if that rate is accurate, we could have 15x as many real cases (over 20 million!!!); but it *still* won’t mean anything for herd immunity (20 million cases, 330 million people in the US = 2/33 ~6% of the population – a minimum of 10x as many cases are needed). And that’s assuming persistent immunity, which is *not* guaranteed (but is looking more likely).
J R in WV
@YY_Sima Qian:
I really don’t believe the Democratic party has much hostility towards China naturally. There is tension due to the expansion into the south China Sea island bases of the PLAN, and more recently due to the Hong Kong situation, which also seems to now involve Taiwan/Formosa and the One China policy.
But most of the American liberal people feel warmly towards the people of China, and have for many years. As seems so often on the world stage, people feel differently towards other peoples than they feel about other governments. For me, I feel differently towards my fellow liberal Americans than I do towards my own Governments, Federal, State and local… for example.