South Africans of all walks of life are dancing to 'Jerusalema,' a rousing anthem to lift their spirits amid the battle against COVID-19. https://t.co/uYHtpSnNmo
— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) September 24, 2020
The number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. topped 7 million, more than 20% of the world's total, as Midwest states reported spikes in COVID-19 infections in September, according to a @Reuters tally https://t.co/ZxtEwYrdQP pic.twitter.com/P1P1mFYxY8
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 26, 2020
The nightmare continues: Trump demands that the FDA justify tough standards for a coronavirus vaccine, raising concerns of extreme political pressure https://t.co/aM9lsu7hny
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 26, 2020
Fewer than 1 in 10 Americans show signs of past coronavirus infection, according to a large national study. This means millions are still vulnerable to infection https://t.co/8Ath37hKLM
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 26, 2020
Estimates vary, but it seems that less than 1 in 7 Americans have been infected by Covid. Bottom line: most of us are still susceptible. Immunity is not just around the corner.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) September 25, 2020
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Global coronavirus deaths may hit two million before vaccine is in use, WHO warns https://t.co/06Kl45eh6P
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 25, 2020
The WHO warns #coronavirus deaths could more than double to two million if infection-fighting measures are not kept up, as Europe tightens the screws faced with mounting cases and the US crosses another bleak milestone https://t.co/MWavgB4iLR pic.twitter.com/RWijASCCTQ
— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 26, 2020
Case trends in regions since February and in countries in the week to Sept 25 @AFPgraphics pic.twitter.com/vbdpVMVPTv
— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 26, 2020
Asia Today: The health minister in Australia's Victoria state resigns in the fallout from an inquiry into why security guards were used instead of police or the military at quarantine hotels. https://t.co/73saqtncMV
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 26, 2020
Japan will ease strict coronavirus border restrictions from October to allow more foreign nationals to enter, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said https://t.co/zPUGixO4Cp
— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 25, 2020
South Korea's domestic coronavirus cases fall to the lowest in 44 days https://t.co/Fb8sYd4LK9 pic.twitter.com/JeyzFnMB1V
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 26, 2020
Australia's COVID-19 hotspot to ease curbs ahead of schedule as cases slow https://t.co/U9isFR2wVH pic.twitter.com/nsMGXXF3xz
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 26, 2020
Ukraine reports record daily high of 3,833 new coronavirus cases https://t.co/CIdVT6tRkQ pic.twitter.com/6aUpYODG2g
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 26, 2020
'Stark warning to us all': UK reports record daily number of #Covid19 cases https://t.co/7wxU0BXspf
— Crawford Kilian (@Crof) September 25, 2020
Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 2,507 to 282,730: RKI https://t.co/gEquxNutjQ pic.twitter.com/EGSv7l4JLG
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 26, 2020
#UPDATE Madrid's regional government expanded the number of areas under partial #coronavirus lockdown Friday in a move now affecting a million people, but ignored a central government plea for restrictions across the capital https://t.co/H3sjcyQl5q pic.twitter.com/MwMW0JO5zt
— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 25, 2020
Younger, less dense populations and hot, humid climates cited as key reasons why Africa has low coronavirus cases https://t.co/fkaDycO6wW
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 25, 2020
Peru to further open economy in October as coronavirus cases drop https://t.co/kWMa6NXWDc pic.twitter.com/Ql4yi7YXd3
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 26, 2020
Mexico's confirmed coronavirus cases up to 720,858: health ministry https://t.co/u7m4kXGLkZ pic.twitter.com/75J79xgvY7
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 26, 2020
Russian cosmonauts preparing for an expedition to the International Space Station in October said it was too early to try the Russian coronavirus vaccinehttps://t.co/wUO9dZNsoB
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) September 25, 2020
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A new prejudice: Surviving COVID19, but being stigmatized & shunned because of the virus https://t.co/7HJtE9FWT4 via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 25, 2020
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Today on Twitter, people will post "oh no." In 3-4 weeks, talking heads will say "everyone panicked stupidly but xyz proves you can reopen safely, people called it wrong." In 2-3 months, a preprint will attribute thousands of excess cases to this decision. Time is a flat circle. https://t.co/G402DprueP
— Colin J. Carlson, Ph.D. (@wormmaps) September 25, 2020
NYC has small upticks of new #COVID19 infectns in a few neighborhoods of Brooklyn & Queens. These are some of the same places where #vaccine refusal & #measles were probs in 2018-19. Today #NYCDOH angrily warned yeshivas & private schools in those 'hoods: obey social distancing. pic.twitter.com/VIB4bbHcy3
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 25, 2020
"South Dakota has just set new records in the number of people hospitalized, new cases, and overall active cases.
With a 36% spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the last week, the state now has the highest per-capita rate of hospitalizations in the US."https://t.co/8HjrD9Squ5 https://t.co/auc2o34dt7
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) September 24, 2020
SiubhanDuinne
I very much regret that I started my morning watching a psychopath murder a beautiful bird.
OzarkHillbilly
I’ll bet Kristi Noem is proud of herself.
Rob
@SiubhanDuinne: I didn’t play the video but I figured something like that could be in it.
mrmoshpotato
Good job South Dakota. You’re #1 in per capita COVID-19 hospitalizations and probably deaths.
Go to hell, Corn Palace!
rikyrah
Wouldn’t play the video.?
She has killed many in her state with her policy decisions?
satby
Indiana’s governor has also dropped all restrictions except masks (that due to expire on 10/17, but widely ignored now). I was talking to a home health care nurse last night who agrees with me that Indiana has been deliberately undercounting cases and also expects an explosion of new cases in just about three weeks from today. I’ve given up on the whole issue, I’m staying masked and distant, and I’ll just shake my head sadly as the death toll mounts while we needlessly sacrifice people to achieve “herd mentality”.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 15 new imported confirmed cases and 30 imported asymptomatic cases and 1 imported suspect case:
The batch of contaminated seafood that is thought to have infected the 2 asymptomatic cases at Qingdao in Shandong Province has been confirmed to have come off a Russian fishing/processing vessel. A lot of seafood that is caught in the ocean is also processed right in the vessel, before offloaded at the end market. We know COVID-19 are raging on vessels of all kinds. The transmission via cold chain logistics does not have to be intercontinental, it could just be fishing/processing vessel to port.
Today, Hong Kong reported 1 new case, an imported case.
Chyron HR
“Because we need a REAL vaccine, you dumb fucker. Since all you care about it fake campaign stunts why don’t you go sign a executive order outlawing COVID-19?” Bam, done.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily CoviD-19 numbers. 82 new cases were reported today, for a cumulative reported total of 10,769 cases.
79 of the cases were from local infection. 53 cases were Malaysians: 40 in Sabah, comprising 12 from the Benteng Lahad Datu police lockup cluster, 23 from the Bangau-bangau cluster, two with severe acute respiratory infections, one screened at a point of entry, one symptomatic person, one with influenza-like illness; three in KL, all symptomatic persons; two in Negeri Sembilan, both close contacts of known cases; two in Terengganu, both screened on their own initiative; one symptomatic person in Selangor; one symptomatic person in Pahang; one symptomatic person in Melaka; one symptomatic person in Johore; one in Sarawak, screened ahead of travel to Sabah; and one in Labuan, screened ahead of travel to Sabah.
26 cases were non-Malaysians: xx in Sabah, comprising 21 from the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster, two from the Bangau-bangau cluster, and one with severe acute respiratory infection; one in Selangor, an old-aged person; and one person in Negeri Sembilan, screened ahead of returning to their home country.
Three were three imported cases: two Malaysians, returning from Yemen and Bangladesh; and one non-Malaysian, arriving from the Philippines.
89 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 9,785 patients recovered — 90.86% of the cumulative reported total. 851 active and contagious cases are currently being isolated/treated in hospital; eight are in ICU, four of them on respirators.
No new CoviD-19 deaths were reported, and the total stands at 133 deaths — 1.24% of the cumulative reported total, 1.34% of resolved cases.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
Correction: 24 non-Malaysians were diagnosed in Sabah.
And the link to the Health Ministry’s CoviD-19 dashboard.
Betty Cracker
@SiubhanDuinne: Same.
Re: DeSantis’s decision to lift all restrictions in FL (including local mask mandates), I think it’s as much about the election as it is about going along with Trump’s fantasy to generate a dead cat-bounce in the economy.
The Florida GOP used to dominate vote-by-mail — it was one reason they won so many close elections. Last time I looked, Dems had requested something like 700K more mail-in ballots than Reps this year.
Trump’s idiotic crusade against mail-in ballots could prove disastrous in FL. He’s succeeded in convincing the cultists that vote-by-mail is evil, and if elderly Republicans are afraid to turn up in person due to COVID-19, it could sink Trump’s campaign.
So, DeSantis is pretending the virus disappeared (like a miracle!) so that they show up. That’s my theory, anyway.
Geminid
I saw in The Jerusalem Post that new Israeli Covid-19 cases have reached 8,000 a day! By contrast Virginia, with comparable population of ~8.5 million, has been holding steady at ~1000 a day for a several months. Those folks are in real trouble. Their fragmented political system, based on proportional parliamentary representation, has just not been up to the public health challenge.
rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
I understand you completely. And, believe that you are right.
Amir Khalid
@SiubhanDuinne:
Did she take three shots to kill that poor defenceless creature? I wouldn’t call that great marksmanship.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: At least she didn’t shoot anyone in the face.
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
“If we ignore the covid, it’ll go away.” I can’t imagine a more baffling approach to a pandemic, or indeed a more frightening one.
Tony Jay
After polishing them to a gleaming shine with one of Peter Wyngarde’s old silk scarves I found in a box marked “Property of Gloucester Bus Station” I’ve examined my crystal balls and can precognicate the following with some measure of confidence.
Firstly, the Tory Government of Lesser Brexitannia will spend the next few weeks insisting that under no circumstances whatsoever will they insult the fortitude and common sense of the Great British Public by ordering a second national Lockdown when all that people have to do is follow the shifting plethora of contradictory rules and regulations negotiated between the UK and representatives of The Virus Collective in order to Stay Safe and Protect the Economy. Then, as soon as the schools are about to enter October half-term, Crime-Minister Flobalob will shamble in front of the cameras to tell everyone that they’ve let themselves down, they’ve let their families down, but most of all they’ve let – him – down by engaging in illicit liasons with our microscopic foe, so he has no choice but to save us from ourselves by… ordering local authorities to institute country-wide Lockdowns of urban areas that leave the Tory Shires free to hold horse shows and cake jambourees.
And over the next couple of years it will be clear to everyone outside of the New Labour leadership team that their good friends at the Manchester Fucking Guardian have moved on from hyping an entire false narrative about Labour anti-Semitism in order to smear the left-wing of the Party and are now commited to hyping the narrative that Starmer’s Labour Party has a problem with black people. It’s already drip-drip-dripping into Guardian commentary, so expect it to increase and intensify as foreign-funded social-media trollfarms target left-leaning minorities in the cities with stories about how the ruling Labour Right opposes BLM, wants to woo-back racist voters with WWC-first policies and generally hold “those people” in contempt.
And Brexit will be just awful. There, I hit the trifecta of ball-based futureglimpsing. Take that, Moira McTaggert!
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: Trump tried to walk it back by saying that FL is different and it’s okay to do vote-by-mail here. But if you’re explaining, you’re losing, and his initial smears against mail-in voting stuck. Our local paper (super-Trumpy county) did a survey that found Republican voters were suspicious of mail-in ballots.
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
Trump is a master political tactician.
//
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Next time she should go with Dick Cheney. He knows how it’s done.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I don’t suppose you could write letter to the editor suggesting that Trump supporters substitute thoughts and prayers for their votes.
NotMax
France now the 11th country to report more than 500k cases total.
U.S. ~7130k
India ~5900k
Brazil ~4690k
Russia ~1145k
Colombia ~800k
Peru ~795k
Mexico ~721k
Spain ~ 715k
Argentina ~691k
South Africa ~669k
France ~513k
.
By this time tomorrow worldwide reported cases will have passed 33,000,000 and reported deaths more than 1,000,000.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Talking about prognostication – Yes, Minister from back in the 80s.
;)
prostratedragon
Just discovered Jerusalema yesterday and feel like I’ve been living in a cave. They do it in Jerusalem.
NotMax
prostratedragon
Yaks do it, gnus do it
Both the Arabs and the Jews do it
.
(couldn’t resist)
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
Yup. What a show that was. Never get made now, especially with the Tory-appointed leadership of the BBC openly calling fir more ‘right-wing humour’ to offset the terribly partisan output produced by actual funny people.
One thing Sir Humphrey coukdn’t have accounted for, though. The diplomats and civil- service being totally cut out of the strategising and replaced by a grumble of lard-brained xenonationalists who have succeded in uniting Europe against us.
Now that’s right-wing humour.
Princess
@Betty Cracker: I’m sure you’re right, but if you are, it means his timing is all wrong. Lifting restrictions now means that there will be a spike in cases in two or three weeks, just in time to scare people before voting day. Hospitalizations will be beginning to climb and it will be hard to miss. He should have waited a couple of weeks.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
The cold fusion of comedy.
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
And official policy aim of the BBC.
Laugh? I almost could.
prostratedragon
@NotMax: Oh you couldn’t?!
Seriously though, not the sharpest dancing video I’ve run across maybe, but certainly the most moving. Any bit of shared public joy is almost unbearable these days.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Floriduh already has the highest number of infected a day of US states this last week as it is.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Ever see the series W1A?
One scene which stood out was of a high priced consultant unveiling the proposed new logo for the BBC. Paraphrased.
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
Ha. No, I don’t think I evet caught that one, but it sounds entirely plausible as something the corporate suits infesting the modern BBC would spend a fortune on.
Scuffletuffle
@NotMax: Loved that show, laugh out loud funny and Hugh Bonneville was perfect. I loved the folding bike escalation.
Fair Economist
@Geminid:
That would be 300,000/day in the US. In a country that originally got it under control. Wow.
charon
@Fair Economist:
My guess it’s the orthodox enclaves.
Orthodox neighborhoods are hotspots in Brooklyn too.
Betty
@prostratedragon: It’s very popular in the Caribbean as well.
Sloane Ranger
Friday’s figures from the UK.
There were 6874 new cases, a new all time high.
England – 5723 cases
Northern Ireland – 273
Scotland – 558
Wales – 320.
The major concentration of cases in England are in the North and primarily among young people, but there is evidence it is slowly creeping back into care homes.
Deaths – 34 new deaths, at least. Due to a power outage at National Records of Scotland they have been unable to update Scotland’s deaths (if any).Of the deaths we know about, 31 were in England and 3 in Wales.
Testing – 245,363 tests were processed out of a capacity of 263,971.
Hospitalisations – On 23rd September, 314 people were admitted to hospital in England, 0 in northern Ireland and 70 in Wales, No information available from Scotland. The total number of people in hospital on that date were 1381 in England, 41 in Northern Ireland, 83 in Scotland and 111 in Wales (which remains the hardest hit of the home nations). 243 people were on ventilators as of Thursday, 24th, 209 in England, 5 in Northern Ireland, 10 in Scotland and 19 in Wales.
Amir Khalid
@Sloane Ranger:
I’ve just been reading The Guardian liveblog post about the “NHS” contact tracing app which doesn’t actually pick up NHS testing data. It boggles the mind.
VOR
@Baud: My brother-in-law consumes a lot of right-wing media, Facebook nonsense, and is a huge Trump supporter. We grew up in a Republican household so my sister has been a sane republican who is now a Biden supporter. So when my brother-in-law went on a rant, my sister said “don’t worry, he never votes and won’t vote this time either”.
Tony Jay
@Amir Khalid:
Bit dead and not Sloane, but I cynically expect that ‘unforseen problem’ to be solved with a new guideline ordering the NHS to open up its databanks to the private firms operating the test and trace clusterfunk.
No way that will ever be expanded and abused during the future sell-off of NHS infrastructure to Tory donors. No Sir, never happen. But, hypothetically speaking, if it ever did, well, ‘you’ should have complained at the time.
Sloane Ranger
@Amir Khalid: Bit late, but yes. Yet another clusterfuck from BoJo and the Brexiteers. The problem affects just under one third of all tests processed in NHS hospitals and Public Health England. I wait to see how the Government will do about this latest cock up (or if you go with Tony Jay’s more cynical view, take advantage of this totally foreseen issue)
Freemark
Anyone taking bets on what day the completely reopened Florida hits 10,000 daily cases again.
Bill Arnold
@charon:
My guess is that it’s the aggregated anti-mask and anti-NPI sub-populations, some of which is secular in Israel. (Don’t know how much; however a large right-wing population migrated from Russia.)
Here’s the NYC story for those interested (comments written yesterday, no need to edit):
COVID is spreading again in Orthodox communities. Why are people still not wearing masks? (Shira Hanau September 24, 2020)[1]
New York City is seen pockets of high SARS-CoV-2 test positivity, and oh my, many are Orthodox. People are noticing the results of the localized natural experiment about mask wearing; most of New York City has a high level of mask discipline and discipline with other NPIs, and groups that do not are seeing more SARS-CoV-2 infection. The usual culprits; right wing news sources, facebook rumors, and also disinformation spread via whatsapp. One might reasonably suspect that some of the disinformation is being surruptitiously seeded by anti-Semites.
[1] Jewish Telegraph Agency bias check.