Australian team unlocks a new way to understand evolving strains of #SARSCoV2. Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have unveiled a new approach to analyzing the genetic codes—or the blueprints—from various samples of the virus https://t.co/yENicr6Z7G pic.twitter.com/mZO3FEpulx
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 19, 2020
Comprehensive update:
Latest on the spread of the coronavirus around the world https://t.co/DGwIVZaYT9 pic.twitter.com/rlNx7Mzh7j
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 20, 2020
U.S. coronavirus death toll rises as cases hit 750,000 – Reuters tally https://t.co/XHwFZTGf7j pic.twitter.com/IVChGrqPWW
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 20, 2020
South Koreans return to work and crowd shopping malls, parks, golf courses and some restaurants as social distancing rules ease https://t.co/G9plExjPlB by @HeeShin @HeekyongYang pic.twitter.com/ce2ZsJB2YO
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 20, 2020
South Korea’s entire #CoronavirusOutbreak fatality total happens in the United States every 2 hours.
— Grudge of Whales (@grudging1) April 19, 2020
Research suggests many people have had the coronavirus without any symptoms. That means it may turn out to be much less lethal than feared, but it will complicate decisions about returning to normal life. https://t.co/jeeNfrTCmL
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 20, 2020
Dozens of grocery store workers have died from the coronavirus. Experts say it's time for large grocery store chains to go "dark" to the public and convert to curbside pickup and home delivery for food and other essential goods. https://t.co/xP7q1ehmta
— CNN (@CNN) April 19, 2020
Source: New England Journal of Medicine…
The chief executive of a MA hospital, outbid for PPE by the feds multiple times, cut a deal, paid extra, hired the trucks — and then was interrogated by the FBI and had to get his Congressperson to intervene to keep DHS from heisting the shipment.https://t.co/zsgCjNOZ0N pic.twitter.com/Wgcf5u0WCY
— Maryn McKenna (@marynmck) April 18, 2020
NEW: NYS will undertake the most aggressive statewide antibody testing survey in the nation in the next week.
It will tell us for the first time what percentage of the population has actually had #Coronavirus.
This will be the first true snapshot of what we’re dealing with.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) April 19, 2020
"The bump in coronavirus cases is most pronounced in states without stay at home orders.”https://t.co/Ap8zpDMsYF
— Eric Rauchway (@rauchway) April 17, 2020
Big scoop from WaPo:
More than a dozen US experts were working at the World Health Organization late last year and "transmitted real-time information" about virus' spread in China to the Trump administration. https://t.co/9NHYHkWOHi
Badly undercuts Trump. Adds to the timeline: https://t.co/u5SbyvQ9mx
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 19, 2020
AP puts President Trump's claims this weekend regarding the coronavirus pandemic under a microscope. #APFactCheck https://t.co/SHadxRkh7q
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 19, 2020
With shuttered mosques, coronavirus curfews and bans on mass prayers from Senegal to Southeast Asia, some 1.8 billion Muslims are facing a Ramadan like never before https://t.co/fR3hqTsBNz pic.twitter.com/qti4SKHnW7
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 20, 2020
It is "very unrealistic" the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will take place next year unless a coronavirus vaccine has been found by then, says a leading global health scientist.
More ? https://t.co/3cbKk5MC8w pic.twitter.com/ZXLeamWEai
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) April 18, 2020
The outbreak in Harbin shows how fragile China’s coronavirus recovery is. Such outbreaks may become a new normal in months to come. https://t.co/Jylf9edeER via @financialtimes
— Yanzhong Huang (@YanzhongHuang) April 19, 2020
Chinese ambassador to Russia telling Chinese citizens to take care of themselves there and give up hope of returning to China until the pandemic is over. This comes amid increase of imported cases at CN-Russia border pic.twitter.com/E2gXkWAtDl
— Alice Su (@aliceysu) April 19, 2020
“It was like a conveyor belt: ambulances constantly coming and going.” Our report from the epicentre of Russia’s #coronavirus epidemic: Moscow. Camera/edit @mattgodtv Producer @BBCWillVernon @BBCNews @BBCWorld pic.twitter.com/Zwvpq9VipA
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) April 18, 2020
India coronavirus lockdown: What stays open and what stays shut https://t.co/MFMwVeaKYg
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 20, 2020
India's government has begun loosening one of the world's strictest lockdowns, allowing some manufacturing and agricultural activity to restart Monday. The change took effect as the country recorded its largest single-day spike in coronavirus cases. https://t.co/V1p8TIkZ1V
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 20, 2020
In homes that are cramped, stuffy and increasingly low on food, residents of Mumbai's huge Dharavi slum are struggling under India's nationwide lockdown https://t.co/zWH3h90myF by @Francispix via @reuterspictures pic.twitter.com/72TREY7SGZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 20, 2020
Doctors in Japan warn the country's medical system could collapse amid a wave of new coronavirus cases https://t.co/lqX16S0Iil
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 18, 2020
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani self-isolating as dozens of staff members at the presidential palace test positive for coronavirus https://t.co/0GkENiDBOu
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 19, 2020
Germany has treated more than 200 coronavirus patients from other European countries, and is prepared to take more. The costs — some €20 million — will be covered by the German government https://t.co/RA1sLqtZhk
— Alberto Nardelli (@AlbertoNardelli) April 20, 2020
New Zealand will next week ease some of the world’s strictest lockdown measures taken to tackle the novel coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/jcnNUyxvCP by @JournoPraveen pic.twitter.com/Jz4rT8GTUN
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 20, 2020
Coronavirus: The fear of being sentenced to a Kenyan quarantine centre https://t.co/zOWOrqsPUQ
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 19, 2020
We are not prepared at all': Haiti, already impoverished, confronts a pandemic https://t.co/wmkbakM1Ck
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 19, 2020
Rumors that an Iraqi woman in a Greek refugee camp died of #COVID19 sparked a riot, fires, attacks of camp authorities. Fear fills the camp. https://t.co/n5SK4jrHC6
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 20, 2020
Coronavirus journey: The 'last cruise ship on Earth' finally comes home https://t.co/GhmJjaGjcq
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 20, 2020
The much-hailed @Abbott rapid #SARSCoV2 assay is wrong 7.5% of the time. That is utterly unacceptable. https://t.co/Uhq6qZg01i
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 19, 2020
If this is accurate, we are in another layer of deep trouble with #COVID19 as the #SARSCoV2, this story claims, survives usually sterilizing heat. https://t.co/odpIhCbNkG
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 20, 2020
And Trump participated in China's coverup before launching his own. https://t.co/B9rFV9xbQT
— Subscribe to The Long Version newsletter please (@KatzOnEarth) April 19, 2020
The thing is, nobody asked him to say all these things about China. He wasn't answering a question.
Throughout the early stages of Coronavirus, as scientists were trying to get China to share accurate data, Trump kept undermining these efforts by cheering China's response. https://t.co/9Dgkfc4l2R
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 18, 2020
CapnMubbers
Wherefore art thou, On the Road?
CapnMubbers
Not to disparage Anne’s Coronavirus updates; they’re thorough, informative, and a daily read for me.
cliosfanboy
@CapnMubbers: yep. Thank you Anne
Amir Khalid
I’m following Malaysian DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah’s daily media conference. The news is good. Only 36 new cases, the lowest daily number reported so far, and no deaths in the 24 hours to noon. Running totals, 5,425 cases and 89 deaths. 98 patients declared recovered, running total 3,295 recovered — about 60% of the total cases recorded here.
In reply to a reporters question, Dr Noor Hisham cites WHO saying the war on Covid-19 could run on into 2021. Also, he reminds us, there is not yet a vaccine, and there might not be for a year and a half; so public-health measures will need to stay in place even after the movement control order is lifted.
prostratedragon
From further down in that thread about the New England Journal article:
Sounds like radical evil to me.
rikyrah
I check for this post daily.
Thanks?
rikyrah
I appreciate those who continue to bring the receipts on Dolt45 and his complete incompetence in handling this pandemic.
Amir Khalid
While Trump is shaking his fist at China’s leadership to distract from his own failure of leadership, Malaysia currently has a small group of doctors from China visiting to compare notes with Malaysian counterparts and share best practices in treating Covid-19 patients. I know which approach I like better.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid:
Unpossible, Trump cannot fail, he can only be failed.
syphonblue
What an absolutely idiotic and dangerous headline from AP. The virus has killed 40,000+ in a month. This is absolutely lethal and should not complicate any decisions about reopening. The AP should be shamed publicly and loudly for this.
prostratedragon
Remember the Beijing shopper from years ago? We now have the Denver nurses, one of whom is in the video here:
Body on the line.
@syphonblue:
Saw that earlier and quite agree with you. And fwiw the study I saw, from Santa Clara, can better be interpreted as indicating that by far most of the population is still vulnerable.
Anne Laurie
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Also, I don’t believe Trump can even make a fist with his tiny, flabby baby hands!
SFAW
Re: the Sargent tweet and article: I’m sure the MSM will start adopting some variation of “Trump either completely ignored the dangers of COVID-19 and lied all the time about it, or was spending so much time watching Fox/Hannity that he had — and has — no clue about it, or both. Of course, there’s always the possibility that the ‘stable genius’ is just too stupid to understand the problem.”
Yeah, any day now ….
SFAW
@Anne Laurie:
Don’t be a jerk! Of COURSE he can make a fist! You just can’t see it with the unaided eye.
ETA: Trigger warning! Brain bleach alert!
The same can also be said re: determining his state of “arousal.”
debbie
@prostratedragon:
This was all over NYT and FB. Brave man (and out-of-sight woman).
YY_Sima Qian
A handful of new domestic confirmed and asymptomatic cases are being added to the Harbin cluster in each of the past two days. The good news is that the local CDC has been able to trace the new cases to the existing cluster, so they are at least keeping abreast of the outbreak. The bad news is that the transmission vector between the currently thought of index patient (student returnee from the US) and the family living downstairs seem tenuous, is touching elevator buttons really enough to cause transmission? Another link that is scary is that one person was infected by another, after chatting face to face for 10 minutes at the entrance to a convenience store, while wearing a mask (not sure if the other person wore a mask, maybe one with a valve). Harbin also exported a case to the neighboring Inner Mongolia, not sure of the link to the Harbin cluster, yet.
There is a second cluster in the city of Mudanjiang, where Suifenhe border crossing to Russia is located. A couple visited a local hospital for non-COVID illness, and ended up infecting a doctor and a nurse. It is the claimed by the authorities that the couple may have been infected by an imported case from Russia, but the case reports are not yet published. This marks the third nosocomial cluster in China over the past week or so. Two hospitals in Harbin and one in Mudanjiang, both in Heilongjiang Province, plus one in Qingdao in Shandong Province.
Southern city of Shenzhen (facing Hong Kong), has added a confirmed and two asymptomatic cases from Wuhan and other cities in Hubei. In the past two days. Guangzhou found 13 asymptomatic cases yesterday, all connected to imported cases. Foshan near Guangzhou added a new domestic confirmed case, also connected to imported cases.
These are the kind of reports people can look forward to after the epidemic has been suppressed, and life returns to some semblance of normal. Reading case reports, trying to push away the suspense and dread, wondering whether each developing cluster might quickly turn into a major outbreak.
It will take fast turn around on testing, very rapid contact tracing and isolation of cases, and transparent sharing of information, to keep the second wave in check.
Tony Jay
Over in the Land of Union Jack Themed Make-Believe it looks like Bozo Johnson’s brush with mortality was considerably worse than the Conservative Party PR flacks who constitute the bulk of the British Media have been letting on. I say this partly because of the recent twinklings of something approaching entry-level journalism among parts of our 4th Estate, signalling that this Government’s bottomless capacity for bullshit has begun to lose its luster, but mostly because of the recent article in The Times (no linkee to Murdoch’s Empire) informing the country’s slightly higher-end Tory voters (by which, of course, I mean to imply the editorial and management ranks of every other national newspaper) that the Funny Fat Man is really a lazy, self-centered prick responsible for leading the country into this corpse-filled ditch by ignoring the warning signs back in January, mugging off going to COBRA meetings (the top national emergency council) in favour of fund-raisers and holidays, and a load of other failures of character and imagination that have been common knowledge outside the right-wing media bubble, but will be news to those who have been fed a relentless diet of “Isn’t he doing well? Gawd Bless that big, brave boy!” stories since the fan started receiving inbound solids.
In other words, Murdoch’s people seem to think that Flobalob is either quite a few weeks away from slipping back into the cosplay PM suit or he’s too physically fucked to ever remount the Throne of Poor People’s Bones, either way, they’re throwing him under the bus and revving up the engines for yet another Tory Leadership contest. I can’t see The Times doing this if there were any chance that Johnson will recover, it’s simply not how Tories operate. The utterly slimy Michael Gove, Murdoch’s bought and paid for cuckoo in the Tory nest, was out there backstabbing his ‘good friend Boris’ on the morning Politics Shows with variations on “You might think these facts reflect badly on the Prime Minister, but I’m sure most of them have perfectly credible explications… that Boris will be happy to give you just as soon as he returns from his extended convalescence.“, so that’s one hat in the ring. Gove has been careful to keep his purse-cheeked face away from the Daily Briefing podium as things have got worse, leaving all the shit to stick to less sinuous placemen like Foreign Secretary Dominic (head like a peanut, brain like a vacuum chamber) Raab and Health Secretary Matt (even he wants to slap his face) Hancock. The Chancellor, Rishi (small print, big profits) Sunak, had a brief moment of media-led stardust early on by virtue of being the guy who got to (belatedly, under protest) tell the nation everyone’s wage bill would be going on the national credit card , but the fact that all of his financial schemes turn out to be hollow PR stunts with little to no organisational body to them (you can take the boy out of Goldman Sachs, etc) has started to muddy up that hastily constructed reputation for competence. He’s also been fingered as joining Gove in pushing for the Lockdown to end so the pandemic can sweep away the nation’s eugenic deadwood quicker, so it looks like Gove is also positioning himself as the leader of the pro-Trumpist ‘Get Britain Back To Work” campaign, but as usual he’s not sticking his neck out without dragging someone else right along with him as cover.
Meanwhile, people are dying and the NHS can’t cope, but who cares about that when there’s power-politics to be played?
These fucking people.
Chris Johnson
My hunch on how all this works is, covid-19 is indeed not ultra lethal like ebola, but it’s ultra contagious and what’s happening is people are getting increasingly swamped with it until they die. So it doesn’t matter that much if you’re ‘immune’: eventually, the mass of coronavirus in you WILL become so great that it’ll cause a problem, and failing to quarantine will only hasten that. And if you got it and are counting on antibodies, that’s only effective if environmental coronavirus doesn’t simply swamp your antibodies.
So, the mean commie blue-state approach turns out to have its merits as there’s basically no good way to do half measures on social distancing, and an authoritarian (you could say ‘slave’) state like China that’s willing to just go NOPE and compel people to not interact socially, is one way to address the situation. I keep hearing how much China is lying and covering up their situation, but in this light you could say they’ve been lying AND are practicing an approach that’s capable of stopping the problem, both.
More on the study of a homeless population where half had coronavirus and all were asymptomatic: suggests that you can have a massive viral population in you and so long as you’re not boosting it with social interactions you sort of keep it in check? I don’t know how many Balloon Juicers can say this but I have been homeless, briefly. It is LONELY and people don’t want to hang out with you when you’re that kind of desperate, and you don’t generally wind up loving the company of your fellow homeless either. Granted we’re talking about populations in shelters so they ARE together, but understand that if you’re homeless, you’re wary, you’re lonely, you’re not real huggy or hand-shakey and don’t have lots of scintillating conversations. It’s isolating, and I feel that’s an insight to help explain why that population could be not dying as fast as some others.
Tony Jay
@Chris Johnson:
That’s damned interesting food for thought. Thanks.
zzyzx
@syphonblue:
Something can be both bad and still less dangerous than we initially feared.
Now of course, this is still data that we don’t have and won’t for a while, so this is a best case hope, not something we actually know.
sdhays
This shit is just enraging. Not so much the seizure aspect, but the fact that hospitals are BIDDING on PPE during a NATIONAL EMERGENCY. Nobody should be PROFITING on this. If we’re at war with the virus, we should act like it and the government should be buying everything and directing it to the hospitals at no cost.
Betty
@Tony Jay: Thanks for the update. It doesn’t look like things will be improving for you any time soon. Best wishes!
ziggy
Some very interesting commentary and tweets here, thanks for all that! I’ll have to come back later to digest all of it.
J R in WV
Some times in a real emergency the best that people can be shows up to cope. Heroic work to save lives and keep people fed and cared for, that we see right now in every hospital. So many of our friends decided to go into nursing in the recent past! So proud of those folks.
Other times — often the same times — in a real emergency the worst that people are shows up. Greedy profiteering monsters stealing PPE to resell, self identified ministers selling fake holy silver water to cure whatever, we’ve got them all right now!
Our dear leader, pres. trump is showing that second group how it is done! Helping them out in every possible way!!
What would we do without him?!?!!!
BrianM
Re: “South Korea’s entire #CoronavirusOutbreak fatality total happens in the United States every 2 hours.“, Mr. Pedant (me) used the USA (eyeballed) and South Korean data to calculate it as more like 2.8 hours. Adjusted for population, it takes the USA a whopping 18 hours to reach South Korea’s total deaths.
Trapped Lurker
Thank you, Anne Laurie, for these daily updates. I read them every day. It is good to have this source, and I just wanted to say I appreciate what you do, even though I almost never comment. The BJ commentariat is so full of knowledge and good writers. It’s a comfort.