… “The Leader is fully vaccinated and double boosted, and has very mild symptoms,” the statement said. “Consistent with the CDC guidance, Leader Schumer will quarantine this week and work remotely.”
The Senate, which is split evenly between the Democrats and Republicans with the Vice President casting a tie-breaking vote when needed, is due to return on Monday following a two-week recess.
“Even if he’s not physically in the Capitol, through virtual meetings and his trademark flip phone he will continue with his robust schedule and remain in near constant contact with his colleagues,” the statement said…
Spousal Unit & I got our second boosters (Moderna, after Pfizer) Sunday afternoon. So if this post seems unusually ragged, blame it on the vaxx!
As the BA.5 subvariant spreads, the risk of #coronavirus reinfection grows. Despite many Americans deciding the pandemic is over, the virus has other ideas. Latest #Omicron offshoot—BA.5—has become dominant & is a master in evading the human immune system https://t.co/LkBNqiztSu
— delthia ricks (@DelthiaRicks) July 10, 2022
Become ungovernable!
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"Close to 30 million people are under some form of movement restrictions as more cities and counties across China seek to quell resurgent Covid-19 outbreaks.
The nation reported 352 new cases for Sunday." https://t.co/15cbgHr9St
— James Griffiths (@jgriffiths) July 11, 2022
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BA.4 & BA.5 are leading a surge of #coronavirus cases in Europe. Known cases in Europe rose to 57 cases per 100k as of Wednesday from 33 per 100k just 2 weeks earlier. That's the sharpest increase— ~70% — of any region of the world over the same period https://t.co/iHAQGictIK
— delthia ricks (@DelthiaRicks) July 9, 2022
I guess, yeah, it’s outdoors, but they’re all bunching together & breathing really hard?
… Three riders in two days had to pull out of the race after being infected with the virus and showing symptoms, raising fears that the bunch could be decimated when all the riders will be tested on Sunday night and during the rest day in Morzine on Monday…
At the Tour de Suisse last month, only half of the riders finished the race as the virus spread like wildfire and riders and staff are now fearing it might happen on the world’s biggest cycling event…
“The riders have to be protected. This morning we had to go through the crowd, people were touching the riders. It’s unbearable,” said Total Energies manager Jean-Rene Bernaudeau on Saturday.
Last year, if two members of a team were to test positive for COVID-19, the whole outfit would be sent packing, which is not the case in this edition.
Whether a rider who tested positive can stay in the race will be decided following a meeting between the race doctor, the International Cycling Union (UCI) doctor and the team doctor, depending on the rider’s viral load.
While last year, all riders, staff members and Tour followers had to test negative to take the start within a strict bubble, the 2022 Tour started from Denmark without any specific anti-COVID-19 measures.
“We’re in a situation that’s trickier than in the past two years,” Groupama-FDJ manager Marc Madiot told reporters.
“In the last two editions, there was some uncertainty and everyone was being super cautious. Nowadays there’s no obligation, for the general population, to be cautious, which is normal.
“But for us there can be big consequences. It’s like gangrene. When it’s here, it spreads fast.”…
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The quickly changing coronavirus has spawned yet another super contagious omicron mutant that’s worrying scientists as it gains ground in India and pops up in numerous other countries, including the U.S. https://t.co/ev9EWJ5NCV
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 11, 2022
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Some experts are urging caution in the rush to define #LongCovid. Specific definitions may overemphasize certain symptoms, harming those who don't fit a specific checklist https://t.co/DzeniD8T7w pic.twitter.com/IBx1Mh5dLq
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) July 8, 2022
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Houston area:
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Also Texas, *sigh*…
… As the country reacts to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and tightening abortion restrictions in several states, some social media users are spreading a photo of a sign that falsely suggests COVID-19 vaccines induce abortion.
The photo shows a person waving a Texas flag behind a banner hanging on an overpass that reads, “Need an abortion? Try the COVID vaccine.” The photo was posted to Twitter on Wednesday and has since garnered more than 29,000 likes.
However, medical experts say the vaccines do not cause loss of pregnancy…
Thanks for nothing, Gov. DeathSantis:
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NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
NYSDOH says 126 new cases for 7/8/22
113 new cases for 7/9/22
82 new cases for 7/10/22
(PCR tests only).
Oh crud, we’re back up in triple digits again. Must be one of the new Omicrons versions: 4, 5 or 2.75.
YY_Sima Qian
On 7/10 Mainland China reported 46 new domestic confirmed (4 previously asymptomatic), 306 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 17 new domestic confirmed (3 previously asymptomatic) & 15 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 2 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 50 active domestic confirmed & 43 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot traced the active domestic cases in each jurisdictions due to multiple clusters at the same time.
Fangchenggang in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic case, all at Dongxing. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 16 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Hainan Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Haikou, all traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed (both at Haikou) & 10 active domestic asymptomatic (8 at Haikou & 2 at Qionghai) cases in the province. 1 site at Haikou is currently at High Risk, & 3 at Medium Risk.
At Wuhan in Hubei Province there currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Bayan Nur in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. There currently are 23 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 4 sites at Urad Middle Banner & 2 at Wuyuan County are currently at High Risk, & 5 at Urad Middle Banner & 2 at Wuyuan County at Medium Risk.
Xi’an in Shaanxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed & 1 new domestic asymptomatic cases, both traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 17 active confirmed & 29 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 7 sites are currently at High Risk, & 9 at Medium Risk.
Gansu Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 each at Lanzhou & Baiyin) & 25 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Lanzhou) cases. The case at Baiyin came from Lanzhou on 7/10 & tested positive upon arrival. Lanzhou is entering a 1 week period of movement restrictions, w/ all public venues cloesd, in-room dining halted, but no impact to work or public transportation. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed & 34 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. 2 sites at Lanzhou are currently at High Risk, & 2 at Medium Risk. 2 sites at Baiyin are currently at High Risk, & 2 at Medium Risk.
Shandong Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Yantai) & 79 new domestic asymptomatic (78 at Linyi & 1 at Qingdao) cases. All cases at Linyi are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. The case at Yantai was found via community screening. The case at Qingdao is a quarantine hotel worker living in “closed loop”, food via daily screening. 1 domestic confirmed & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 26 active domestic confirmed (15 at Qingdao, 9 at Linyi, & 1 each at Weihai & Yantai) & 262 domestic asymptomatic (246 at Linyi & 16 at Qingdao) cases. 2 sites at Qingdao are currently at High Risk, & 2 at Medium Risk. 19 sites at Linyi are currently at High Risk, & 5 at Medium Risk.
Shanxi Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Jincheng) case, a person coming out of province & tested positive upon arrival. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (at Yuncheng) & 1 active domestic asymptomatic (at Jincheng) cases in the province.
Henan Province reported 12 new domestic asymptomatic (10 at Zhumadian & 1 each at Nanyang & Zhengzhou) cases. All cases at Zhumadian were reported at Biyang County. The cases at Nanyang & Zhengzhou were found via community screening. There currently are 16 active domestic asymptomatic (14 at Zhumadian & 1 each at Nanyang & Zhengzhou) cases in the province. 5 sites at Zhumadian are currently at High Risk, & 2 at Medium Risk. 1 site at Nanyang is currently at High Risk, & 3 at Medium Risk.
At Liaoning Province 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 34 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks. 8 sites at Dandong are currently at Medium Risk. 1 area at Dalian is currently at Medium Risk.
At Jilin City in Jilin Province 5 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Beijing Municipality reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 5 sites are currently at High Risk, & 7 at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 8 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 9 sites are currently at High Risk, & 7 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 6 new domestic confirmed & 63 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 68 are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 1 via community screening (at Xuhui District). 2 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 88 active domestic confirmed (none serious) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 12 sites are currently at High Risk & 219 at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province reported 9 new domestic confirmed & 30 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 17 domestic confirmed & 51 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 330 active domestic confirmed & 1,313 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Jiangsu Province reported 4 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) & 57 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 4 domestic confirmed & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 31 active domestic & 579 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not separate recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases at the different jurisdictions, due to the simultaneous outbreaks in different locations.
Zhejiang Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Hangzhou) case, found at fever clinic. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported & domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there.
Fujian Province reported 18 new domestic asymptomatic (16 at Ningde & 2 at Zhangzhou) cases. The cases at Zhangzhou are traced close contact under centralized quarantine. There currently are 18 active domestic confirmed (16 at Ningde & 1 each at Xiamen & Zhangzhou) & 89 active domestic asymptomatic (78 at Ningde, 6 at Zhangzhou, 3 at Putian & 2 at Fuzhou) cases in the province. 44 sites in Ningde are currently at High Risk, & 27 at Medium Risk. 2 sites at Zhangzhou are currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Nanchang in Jiangxi Province reported 1 new domestic asymptomatic case, a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 6 site are currently at High Risk, & 6 at Medium Risk.
At Sichuan Province 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported & domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there.
Xining in Qinghai Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a traced close contact of domestic positive cases reported at Xi’an in Shaanxi.
At Yunnan Province 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases remaining. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks.
Imported Cases
On 7/10, Mainland China reported 48 new imported confirmed cases (8 previously asymptomatic), 29 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 51 confirmed cases recovered (25 imported), 76 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (29 imported) & 12 were reclassified as confirmed cases (8 imported), & 3,918 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,047 active confirmed cases in the country (420 imported), 0 in serious/critical condition, 3,094 active asymptomatic cases (382 imported), 2 suspect cases (both imported). 89,022 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 7/10, 3,408.404M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 459K doses in the past 24 hrs. As of 7/7, 1,295.626M individuals have taken at least 1 shot (91.9% of the total population), 1,261.908M individuals are fully vaccinated (89.51% of the total population), 793.279M individuals have been boosted (56.27% of the overall population). Among the > 60 y.o. cohort, 234.029M individuals have taken at least 1 shot (88.64% of the cohort), 221.218M individuals are fully vaccinated (83.78% of the cohort), 173.483M individuals boosted (65.71% of the cohort).
On 7/10 Macau reported 59 positive case, 48 are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 11 via community screening.
On 7/10 Hong Kong added 2,863 new positive cases, 252 imported & 2,611 domestic (1,066 via RT-PCR & 1,545 from rapid antigen tests), 7 deaths (65 to 90 y.o., all with underlying conditions).
On 7/10, Taiwan added 19,131 new positive cases, 80 imported & 19,051 domestic (including 172 moderate or serious). There were 96 new deaths (ages ranging from 20+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., 94 having a range of underlying conditions, 28 fully vaccinated & boosted).
New Deal democrat
COVID exposure as measured by wastewater via Biobot has remained close to steady for the last 8 weeks, with a slight 10% uptick in the past two weeks. Confirmed cases have been steady in the 100-110,000 range for the past 8 weeks as well, and currently are about 107,000. Deaths have been steady between 275-350 for the past 10 weeks and are about 325 currently (excluding a data dump from OK that I am ignoring). Only hospitalizations continue to climb, now at 39,800.
Several States have seen increases in the past week, including NJ and TX. Aside from that, there have been no significant movements.
The CDC will probably report tomorrow that BA.4&5 make up 80% or more of all new cases. Despite that, there has been no evidence of any new wave.
There is no evidence that the next variant of concern, BA.2.75, is in the US significantly yet. Here is what we know so far, via Medpage:
“ So far, the subvariant has made its way to at least 10 countries in Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia.’BA.2.75 was first detected in India in early May and has been spreading quickly since. It made up almost 25% of samples there as of June 2 and is competing with BA.5 and BA.2,’ according to Katelyn Jetelina, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Dallas.
“A more recent analysis of coronavirus sequencing, posted by a scientist in Australia, suggested the proportion of cases has jumped much higher as of July 8 — growing to nearly half of COVID cases sequenced in India.
“…. One mutation, G446S, is in the part of the spike protein that binds to receptors in our human cells, and is ‘associated with major immune (Ab) escape.’”
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/99655
rikyrah
for Senator Schumer
Baud
@rikyrah:
Seconded.
germy shoemangler
This thread is somewhat reassuring:
Matt McIrvin
@germy shoemangler: If I recall correctly, Chise posts a version of that reminder regularly (daily?) and has done so for months. Sometimes I think Chise’s enthusiasm for vaccines makes her a little too dismissive about breakthrough COVID dangers, but it’s an important corrective to people whose alarmism makes it sound like the vaccines don’t do anything.
Baud
@germy shoemangler:
@Matt McIrvin:
I don’t understand living your life worrying about the next possible variant. It’s like the flip side of people who refuse to take any protective measures regardless of the facts on the ground.
germy shoemangler
Exactly. I had two pfizers and two boosters. About three weeks later I tested positive. Symptoms like a bad case of the flu: fever, coughing, fatigue.
But I’m alive. Without the vaccines I’d be pushing up daisies right now.
germy shoemangler
@Baud:
Vaccines are still effective against these variants. I’m glad she’s reminding people of this.
Lapassionara
Thank you, AL, for these posts. I honestly don’t know how you manage to work through the torrent of information. And thanks to all the commenters who add to the post.
in other news, the effing NYTimes insists on making Biden a lame duck, when we haven’t even gotten to the mid-terms.
Why is it that when the GOP does something dreadful, a certain group of people have to blame the Democratic Party? Why is it that people compare Biden’s performance in office the that of the ideal president, instead of comparing it to the performance of TFG?
YY_Sima Qian
It is important to note that while jurisdictions w/ ~ 30M residents are under some form of movement control, Si County in Suzhou, Anhui Province is the only one I am aware of that is in full lock down, & the outbreak there is clearly contained, no cases have been found outside of centralized quarantine in the past couple days. The other places are under reduced gatherings schemes, where all public venues are closed, public gatherings cancelled, in-door dining halted, & instruction moved online. Residents in these places are urged to venture out only when necessary, WFH if possible, but administration, manufacturing, public transportation & logistics remain in operation, & no one is forbidden from leaving their compounds. The services industry will take a big hit for the duration, but the damage to the larger economy is minimized.
Before the BA.5 community case at Pudong in Shanghai, there has already been a BA.5.2 outbreak at Xi’an in Shaanxi, & it has been quickly contained.
After spending the entire pandemic taking an extremely aggressive approach to quarantining people coming from any jurisdiction w/ active cases (I have shared my experience getting caught up in centralized quarantine for passing through a district w/ positive cases last year), well beyond national level guidance, Wuhan is now strictly following National Health Commission guidelines & only placing visitors from High Risk areas under 7 days of centralized quarantine & visitors from Medium Risk areas under 7 days of home quarantine. Medium/High Risk areas are now very narrowly defined – individual building units, buildings, shops, compounds & villages, which is why there are now so many of them. No longer are entire townships, sub-districts & districts placed at elevated risk. At this point I would feel comfortable going on a business trip to Shanghai & face minimal risk of getting quarantined on return, despite the rising cases & the hundreds of sites at elevated risk. Indeed, some of my colleagues have made that calculation & are going to Shanghai right now. At no prior point in the pandemic would that have been true.
The variants are getting ever more transmissible, & China is actually letting up in the of the more extreme measures that had been taken to contain/suppress/eliminate previous outbreaks. I suspect the Chinese leadership understands the implications, but these compromises are being made to reduce the economic cost of “Dynamic Zero COVID”. De facto, the Chinese government is resigned to the fact that there is no eliminating COVID w/in its borders. Omicron ham’s percentage of asymptomatic & very mild cases is too high, & prevalent around the world will not go down anytime soon. Although each outbreak is still to be eliminated, there will always been clusters & outbreaks somewhere in the country.
Baud
@Lapassionara:
Why is it that so many liberals devour such propaganda?
Ohio Mom
From a family Zoom last night, I heard that it can be a challenge to find a vaccine for the under-five set. Pediatricians don’t think they will have enough parents wanting to vaccinate to use up all the doses in a container before it goes bad. So they don’t order any.
Some pharmacies have it, some boards of health have it, but that means lots of searching and phone calls. Which time-starved working parents may not be able to put the effort into.
This played out among the Zoom participants. The stay-at-home mom of the two year old made sure they were first in line on the first day at the local pharmacy; the both-work-long-hours of the three year old (who were only able to get to the evening Zoom minutes before it ended) said, Eh, maybe next week.
Just another example of the systemic way privileged parents are able to pass down their privilege and not-so-privileged parents pass down their not-so-privilege.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: Liberals place a high value on being smart and being independent thinkers. We don’t like to be mindless cheerleaders for our team, so many liberals bend over backwards to echo criticisms of people on their own side.
The other side then games this to the maximum extent possible. Gaming this tendency is the entire basis for Conor Friedersdorf’s career, and to some extent Andrew Sullivan’s, attacking from what appears to be the center. But it’s also how trolls get the Twitter Left on their side, attacking from what appears to be the left.
wvng
I’m not sure what “mild symptoms” means these days. I know a bunch of fully vaxed people who’ve come down with (I assume) the latest variant and they have all had a miserable time for several days, followed by lingering symptoms like coughs, fatigue, loss of taste/smell, and continuing positive tests. My daughter went to the ER on day two to get a lung x-ray to see if she was getting covid lung (she wasn’t, thank god).
the pollyanna from hell
Two of my (Denver) roommates are tested positive, quarantined up the hill in a mountain cabin somewhere.
I keep out of doors, sleep in a tent, wear a mask indoors. To shower I wait for the filter-fan to clear the bathroom before taking off the mask. My test was clear last night.
All praise to M for catching it at the earliest possible moment Friday. She takes her own temperature almost every morning. Mild allergies and one degree of fever was enough to trigger a self-test.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
I guess that’s my I’m unaffected.
YY_Sima Qian
@Ohio Mom: A consequence of the lack of socialized medicine or a robust system of community clinics, & inequities in paid time off policies.
YY_Sima Qian
@wvng: “Mild” in most parts of the world has always meant anything less than hospitalization.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reported 3,264 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, for a cumulative reported total of 4,595,974 cases. It also reported two deaths for an adjusted cumulative total of 35,811 deaths – 0.78% of the cumulative reported total, 0.79% of resolved cases.
48,011 Covid-19 tests were conducted yesterday, with a positivity rate of 6.3%.
There were 35,882 active cases yesterday, 559 more than the day before. 1,156 were in hospital. 43 confirmed cases were in ICU; of these patients, 26 confirmed cases were on ventilators. Meanwhile, 2,703 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 4,524,281 patients recovered – 98.4% of the cumulative reported total.
3,259 new cases reported yesterday were local infections. Five new cases were imported.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 5,277 doses of vaccine on 10th July: 145 first doses, 1,677 second doses, 299 first booster doses, and 3,156 second booster doses. The cumulative total is 71,710,084 doses administered: 28,050,302 first doses, 27,341,389 second doses, 16,154,794 first booster doses and 163,599 second booster doses. 85.9% of the population have received their first dose, 83.7% their second dose, 49.5% their first booster dose, and 0.5% their second booster dose.
Hazmat
Anne Laurie, do you have a link for the wear the damn mask tweet? I know a few people who need to see it…
RedDirtGirl
I’m on the NYC subway right now and it’s frightening how accurate that first photo is regarding mask usage.
sab
@Ohio Mom: So for the littlest we are back to where we were when the vaccine first came out and frantic seniors were scrambling for the few available appointments.
Lapassionara
@Ohio Mom: who is taking care of the 3 year old while the parents are working? If the 3 year old is in day care or pre-K, then I would hope the people in charge of the care would make an effort to get all the children vaccinated, with parental permission. Day cares and pre schools are germ factories, and keeping children well is a challenge, even when there is not a pandemic.
Soprano2
I can’t get over the naivete of a person who believes that the actions China is taking to try to achieve zero Covid could have been done in any country that isn’t a dictatorship. Can you imagine, say, the city of Los Angeles literally shutting everyone in their house under penalty of being arrested if they leave, making everyone take Covid tests multiple times (and constantly once they are allowed to go out), doing that for weeks and doing it multiple times? That never would have flown even at the worst point of the pandemic. She says it’s a “policy failure”. Nope, it’s called “human nature” and it’s a strong force in places where people aren’t ruled by a dictator. I know the Covid response in the U.S. wasn’t as good as it could have been, but I don’t like being scolded by someone who doesn’t seem to understand the limitations of what can be done in a democracy either.
Baud
@Baud:
My = why
YY_Sima Qian
@Soprano2: So, what explains Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan & Singapore for the 1st 1.5 years of the pandemic (& to a lesser extent South Korea)? It is entirely a matter of will & achieving a broad based consensus toward reaching a certain goal.
Soprano2
@Baud: I think some people actually miss the early days of 2020 before vaccines, and for some reason want to recreate that sense of fear and dread in people again. Either that, or they think lying about the seriousness of the latest variant will finally get people who didn’t ever take Covid seriously to finally take it seriously. Either way, it’s not constructive at all.
Skepticat
I definitely would like to see mask mandates return, but I understand why that’s so difficult in a country where the most minor inconvenience is equated with torture. I see very few people with masks, but I won’t be without mine for a very long time.
Baud
@Skepticat:
I still wear mine in most indoor places and public transportation.
the pollyanna from hell
@YY_Sima Qian: US response to Ebola was good, except for politicization.
Also the first versions of SARS.
Baud
@Soprano2:
Agree that it’s not helpful. Validates people’s view not to take serious alarm raisers seriously.
Soprano2
@YY_Sima Qian: I agree, but none of them did the draconian things China is doing to try to achieve zero Covid. I think in the U.S. we were pretty lucky to get the measures we did get considering how bad the backlash was once white conservatives in rural areas thought they were immune from Covid. Plus, I still don’t understand why the Chinese government isn’t insisting that everyone get vaccinated. They can do all these other things, but when it comes to vaccination they’re hands off? That doesn’t make sense to me.
ETA – one thing that helped those places was that to one extent or another they are all islands. In general it seems that being on an island where it’s a lot easier to control people’s entry and exit made it easier to control Covid transmission.
Doug R
We moved from BC to Alberta 2 months ago. The rule is your old province covers you for 3 months. Both BC and Alberta are taking their sweet ass time getting around to second boosters although I heard the phone invites should be starting today. I think their strategy is to stretch out until later although I suspect with this BA 5 wave now is better.
YY_Sima Qian
@the pollyanna from hell: & China & the US actually cooperated well in coordinating their responses to Ebola in West Africa, even the respective armed forces worked effectively together. Feels like a life time ago.
YY_Sima Qian
@Soprano2: All of them did things that are considered draconian & deeply intrusive in the US. Remember the 4 or 5 months long lock down in Melbourne in 2020? Yes, it was less restrictive than Wuhan in Spring 2020 or Shanghai in Spring 2022, but it was also much longer.
Also, I imagine Naomi & just about every Chinese person are fed up w/ the persistent concern trolling from Western press/commentators/analysts on the un-sustainability of the lock down measures since the very 1st one in Wuhan.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
We’ve been back in the theater lately (live theater, not movies) but still definitely feeling pandemic-ish. The theaters we’ve been to require proof of vaccination and 100% mask compliance as long as you’re in the building, and even so we get extremely uncomfortable if anyone is in the immediately adjacent seats in front of or behind us and move if at all possible.
The world is NOT back to normal.
I am still minimizing retail shopping of all kinds, preferring to buy online.
wvng
@YY_Sima Qian: That’s the problem with common usage of medical terms. Medically, mild is “not hospitalized” but when I had influenza 30 years ago I wasn’t hospitalized but I was terribly ill for weeks. Mild in the common understanding implies, in this case, “the sniffles” and it is quite a surprise to discover that symptomatic “mild” covid is miserable in many cases.
Matt McIrvin
I find it peculiar that the current COVID wave is suddenly getting a lot of media attention now, as if it hasn’t been going on for a while and seems to already be past peak in some places. It’s as if it takes weeks of continued nagging for them to wake up about something.
Matt McIrvin
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: The ONLY place I’ve had to show proof of vaccination in months was the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. All other public places just gave up on that, and on requiring masks. Nobody’s given me any crap about me wearing mine, though.
Matt McIrvin
@Soprano2: Most of the democracies in Europe instituted controls as hard as that in the early days before vaccination. In Spain and Italy they were arresting joggers for leaving their homes.
They couldn’t keep that up indefinitely, of course, and not all of it turned out to be constructive (there’s no good reason to arrest joggers). But I do think that it was possible to put harder controls in place in countries with basically liberal systems. Just not in the US, where you can only be that draconian if you’re restricting something that right-wing white Christian men don’t want to do.
bluefoot
@wvng:
I believe “mild” still means not hospitalized.
I know enough people who had very mild cases of COVID who are having real problems with long COVID. One 40-something friend, previously in good health, has had persistent cardiac issues post-covid. Meds have only helped temporarily, and has had to have two cardioversions in three months. A 20-something friend of mine, an avid long-distance cyclist, still has lung and heart rate issues, plus fatigue. Just walking the dog can be a challenge some days.
Others I know have come through a single COVID infection just fine, but it’s so unpredictable.
YY_Sima Qian
@Matt McIrvin: & the US had no problem w/ draconian measures during the Civil War, WW I, the Flu of 1918, & WW II, even immoral/unconstitutional measures. It’s really just about which goals & measures you can achieve enough consensus around.
Cameron
@Matt McIrvin: “Time to whack Joe Biden with COVID again…”
Nelle
@YY_Sima Qian: There’s a book titled Fairness and Freedom that looks at two former British Colonies, New Zealand and the United States. The emphasis in New Zealand was on fairness; for the US, it was freedom. Might explain the different trends and foci in the different countries.
YY_Sima Qian
@Nelle: Well, the US was founded on rebellion against the mother country…
Even though the real history was far messier than the foundation myths that have a stranglehold on popular imagination. For example, I was a bit surprised to learn just how intertwined the issues of slavery & suppression of Native nations was to all of the events surrounding the American Colonies from mid- to late 18th century. Sometimes in the background, sometimes to the fore, but never far away.
Old School
@Hazmat:
Here’s the “Damn Mask” tweet.
Lobo
@Old School:
Where do we buy them?
randal sexton
@wvng: I have explained this SOOO many times, that when the medical community uses the term ‘mild’ a person might experience the worst illness of their lives ( just not quite requiring hospitalization). Similarly, the term ‘novel’ in the phrase ‘the novel corona virus’ has a distinct meaning in medical/epidemiological community, and what that means is we don’t know fuck-all about it, and everything we say about it is a guess, though some guesses are a bit scientific, or probalistic.
Hazmat
@Old School: Thank you!!
Bill Arnold
@randal sexton:
True initially, but a vast amount of science has been done on SARS-CoV-2 in the last 2.5 years.
What’s particularly distressing is that some new science, including some quite large long-COVID retrospective studies in 2022, is being ignored or belittled. Much of the time by the usual suspects.
The tissue tropisms for the SARS-CoV-02 family of viruses are widely different than for any other virus family spreading among humans other than the original SARS (2002-2004), that infected orders of magnitude fewer people. This matters, and the consequences continue to be worked out. (e.g. ask people: what, approximately, is the surface area of their vascular endothelium ? )
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Hob
@randal sexton: “Similarly, the term ‘novel’ in the phrase ‘the novel corona virus’ has a distinct meaning in medical/epidemiological community, and what that means is we don’t know fuck-all about it”
What? No, that is not what it means. “Novel” just meant it was considered new as of 2019– it was not one of the coronaviruses that had previously received names of their own. It is almost exactly equivalent to saying “new”, just with less ambiguity because “new” can also be used to mean it’s new in some more particular context, rather than new to everyone. It implies of course that *less* is known about it so far, but definitely not that nothing is known.
randal sexton
@Hob: Stuff that is new to me also means I don’t have experience or knowledge of it. I don’t know why saying Novel, which seems similar to new, would set people off, seems the same to me. At the time I talked to a lot of people who used the notion that the medical community were saying their best guesses about how to behave that ended up NOT being the best idea as proof that the medical community were part of some conspiracy, or were liars or unethical or something, that is when I would point out that this covid is brand new, and novel, and we dont know much about it. That was only 2 years ago. Of course those same people became pretty anti-vax, and I dont really associate with them anymore.
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On 7/11 Mainland China reported 69 new domestic confirmed (10 previously asymptomatic), 278 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 0 new domestic suspect cases, & 0 new deaths.
Guangdong Province reported 22 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 20 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 72 active domestic confirmed & 60 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot traced the active domestic cases in each jurisdictions due to multiple clusters at the same time.
Fangchenggang in Guangxi “Autonomous” Region reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic case, all at Dongxing. 1 domestic asymptomatic case recovered. There currently are 18 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Hainan Province reported 9 new domestic confirmed & 7 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Haikou, 10 traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 6 via screening of residents in elevated risk areas. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed (all at Haikou) & 17 active domestic asymptomatic (15 at Haikou & 2 at Qionghai) cases in the province. 5 sites at Haikou are currently at High Risk, & 3 at Medium Risk.
At Wuhan in Hubei Province there currently are 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Bayan Nur in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region reported 2 new domestic confirmed cases. There currently are 25 active domestic confirmed & 2 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 9 sites at Urad Middle Banner & 2 at Wuyuan County in Bayan Nur are currently at High Risk, & 9 at Urad Middle Banner & 2 at Wuyuan County in Bayan Nur at Medium Risk.
Shaanxi Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (at Baoji) & 1 new domestic asymptomatic (at Xi’an) cases, both traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. There currently are 17 active confirmed (16 at Xi’an & 1 at Baoji) & 30 active domestic asymptomatic (all at Xi’an) cases in the city. 6 sites at Xi’an are currently at High Risk, & 8 at Medium Risk.
Gansu Province reported 19 new domestic asymptomatic (17 at Lanzhou & 1 each at Tianshui & Zhangye) cases. The cases at Tianshui & Zhangye recently arrived from Lanzhou. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed & 53 active domestic asymptomatic cases (51 at Lanzhou & 1 each at Tianshui & Zhangye) in the province. 17 sites at Lanzhou are currently at High Risk, & 6 at Medium Risk. 2 sites at Baiyin are currently at High Risk, & 2 at Medium Risk. 1 site at Zhangye is currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Shandong Province reported 8 new domestic confirmed (6 previously asymptomatic, 7 at Linyi & 1 at Qingdao) & 54 new domestic asymptomatic (all at Linyi) cases, all new positive cases are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine. 8 domestic confirmed & 6 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 26 active domestic confirmed (8 at Qingdao, 16 at Linyi, & 1 each at Weihai & Yantai) & 304 domestic asymptomatic (295 at Linyi & 9 at Qingdao) cases. 2 sites at Qingdao are currently at High Risk, & 2 at Medium Risk. 20 sites at Linyi are currently at High Risk, & 18 at Medium Risk.
Shanxi Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed (at Yuncheng) & 1 active domestic asymptomatic (at Jincheng) cases in the province.
Henan Province reported 9 new domestic asymptomatic (6 at Zhumadian & 3 at Zhengzhou) & 64 new domestic asymptomatic (62 at Zhumadian & 1 each at Pingdingshan & Zhengzhou) cases. The outbreak at Biyang County in Zhumadian was discovered when 2 persons from there traveled to Suzhou in Jiangsu & tested positive upon arrival. 2 of the cases at Zhengzhou returned from Biyang County at Zhumadian on 7/7, & 2 are a traced close contact. The case at Pingdingshan was found via community screening (3 of the positive cases at Biyang County in Zhumadian had travel history there). There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed (6 at Zhumadian & 3 at Zhengzhou) & 80 active domestic asymptomatic (76 at Zhumadian, 2 at Zhengzhou, & 1 each at Nanyang & Pingdingshan) cases in the province. 5 sites at Zhumadian are currently at High Risk, & 2 at Medium Risk. 2 sites at Zhengzhou are currently at High Risk, & 2 at Medium Risk. 1 site at Nanyang is currently at High Risk, & 3 at Medium Risk.
At Liaoning Province 3 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 31 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not break down recoveries by administrative divisions, I cannot track the count of active cases in administrative divisions, given the multiple simultaneous outbreaks. 4 sites at Dandong are currently at Medium Risk. 1 area at Dalian is currently at Medium Risk.
At Jilin City in Jilin Province there currently are 4 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city.
Beijing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered. The municipality is not publishing the count of active domestic positive cases there. 5 sites are currently at High Risk, & 7 at Medium Risk.
Tianjin Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 1 active domestic confirmed & 8 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the city. 9 sites are currently at High Risk, & 7 at Medium Risk.
Shanghai Municipality reported 5 new domestic confirmed & 54 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 56 are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 3 via community screening (2 at Pudong New Area & 1 at Changning District). 3 domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 90 active domestic confirmed (none serious) in the city. The city is no longer publishing the number of active asymptomatic cases. 15 sites are currently at High Risk & 215 at Medium Risk.
Anhui Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed & 19 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 44 domestic confirmed & 124 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 291 active domestic confirmed & 1,208 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Jiangsu Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed & 23 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 domestic confirmed & 9 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently are 35 active domestic & 593 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province. As the province does not separate recoveries by jurisdictions, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases at the different jurisdictions, due to the simultaneous outbreaks in different locations.
Zhejiang Province reported 2 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic, 1 each at Shaoxing & Zhoushan) cases, the new domestic positive case is a traced close contact under centralized quarantine. As the province does not break down recoveries by imported & domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there.
Fujian Province reported 11 new domestic asymptomatic (8 at Ningde & 3 at Zhangzhou) cases, all traced close contact under centralized quarantine. There currently are 18 active domestic confirmed (16 at Ningde & 1 each at Xiamen & Zhangzhou) & 100 active domestic asymptomatic (86 at Ningde, 9 at Zhangzhou, 3 at Putian & 2 at Fuzhou) cases in the province. 38 sites in Ningde are currently at High Risk, & 35 at Medium Risk. 2 sites at Zhangzhou are currently at High Risk, & 1 at Medium Risk.
Jiangxi Province reported 3 new domestic asymptomatic (2 at Nanchang & 1 at Ji’an) cases. The cases at Nanchang) are traced close contact under centralized quarantine, & the case at Ji’an is a traced close contact of domestic positive cases reported elsewhere & under centralized quarantine. There currently are 2 active domestic confirmed (both at Nanchang) & 5 active domestic asymptomatic (4 at Nanchang & 1 at Ji’an) cases in the city. 6 site are currently at High Risk, & 7 at Medium Risk.
Sichuan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed (previously asymptomatic, at Bazhong). As the province does not break down recoveries by imported & domestic cases, I cannot track the count of active domestic cases there.
Xining in Qinghai Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case in the city.
At Yunnan Province 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There currently is 1 active domestic asymptomatic case remaining.
Imported Cases
On 7/11, Mainland China reported 38 new imported confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic), 39 imported asymptomatic cases, 0 imported suspect cases:
Overall in Mainland China, 94 confirmed cases recovered (36 imported), 191 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (44 imported) & 12 were reclassified as confirmed cases (2 imported), & 4,109 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,060 active confirmed cases in the country (422 imported), 0 in serious/critical condition, 3,208 active asymptomatic cases (375 imported), 2 suspect cases (both imported). 100,334 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 7/11, 3,409.032M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 628K doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 7/11 Macau reported 58 new positive case, 57 domestic & 1 imported. 39 of the domestic cases are traced close contacts under centralized quarantine & 18 via community screening.
On 7/11 Hong Kong added 2,769 new positive cases, 211 imported & 2,558 domestic (1,103 via RT-PCR & 1,455 from rapid antigen tests), 1 death (94 y.o.).
On 7/11, Taiwan added 31,297 new positive cases, 145 imported & 31,152 domestic (including 92 moderate or serious). There were 60 new deaths (ages ranging from 30+ y.o. to 90+ y.o., 57 having a range of underlying conditions, 18 fully vaccinated & boosted).