Director of Harvard Global Health Institute: "I think most Americans need to know the reason we are shutdown, our economy is shutdown is because we've had inadequate testing." pic.twitter.com/nzqnjWVftf
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 27, 2020
A catastrophe does not unfold only by accident, it is often a series of sub-optimal action-reactions enacted https://t.co/S7OYgZchAk
— Dre Joanne Liu (@DreJoanneLiu) April 27, 2020
ICYMI the official #COVID19 talley topped 3 million cases worldwide last night. And the death toll went over 207,000. At least 185 nations report cases now, and Antarctica remains the only continent that is #SARSCoV2 – free. pic.twitter.com/1G5wMtZosh
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 27, 2020
Reported US coronavirus deaths on date:
Feb. 27: 0 deaths
Mar. 27: 1,588 deaths
Apr. 27: 56,255 deaths— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 28, 2020
To lift #Covid19 related movement restrictions requires the capacity to test, test, test. Many hard-hit states are nowhere close to being able to do that, a special analysis by @ashishkjha & colleagues @harvardgh for @Stat reveals. @sxbegle reports. https://t.co/bKgtBwwXwE
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) April 27, 2020
THREAD: We're not out of the woods in U.S. on #covid. While there are signs of slowing in some areas, and nationally we may have hit a plateau, we're still recording more than 30K infections a day. The trip down the epidemic curve will be far more gradually than the trip up. 1/n
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) April 26, 2020
In collaboration with our partners at the @AntiracismCtr, we'd like to announce the beta release of race and ethnicity data for the COVID Racial Data Tracker. https://t.co/hTyV0MA5tA
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) April 27, 2020
.@ivancouronne and I put together this piece on what doctors have learned about COVID-19 and blood clotting https://t.co/y9jcNWMKe6 @AFP
— Issam Ahmed (@IssamAhmed) April 27, 2020
New #COVID19 side effect? At least 12 UK children have needed intensive care due to illness linked to Covid-19 https://t.co/oSc1861XiL
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) April 27, 2020
First signs that transmission of the novel #coronavirus has again picked up are visible in German official data, just as the country attempts a cautious easing of its lockdown measures https://t.co/khraFZ0GAw pic.twitter.com/K9U8LiS5S0
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 28, 2020
On Japan's stretched frontline, doctors and nurses DIY a coronavirus response https://t.co/DKULlTQZqh by @saitomri, @juminism, @eimiyamamitsu and others
— Daniel H. Leussink (@danielleussink) April 28, 2020
Macau has managed to keep #COVID19 at bay, despite its dependency on gambling tourists, proximity to China & Hong Kong, and having only 1 new, tiny medical school. How? This fascinating piece credits the Portuguese, three plagues and money from casinos. https://t.co/o6iOTyT8CY
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 27, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: More than 2,200 Indonesians have died with acute symptoms of COVID-19 but were not recorded as victims of the disease, a @Reuters review of data shows https://t.co/UEUiLgTV5b @tom_allard @_KateLamb pic.twitter.com/9Ux88xet16
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 28, 2020
Malaysia reported 31 new #coronavirus cases today – the lowest daily number since March 12. The death toll reached 100 after one more fatality. pic.twitter.com/k3R3ha74ia
— Matthew Tostevin (@TostevinM) April 28, 2020
While clerics acknowledge that their mosques are perfect vectors for the coronavirus’ spread — they say they have to protect their bottom line: money & influence.
Our report on Clerics clashing w/the state in Pakistan #Covid_19 #coronavirus #Ramadan https://t.co/pHswNrIHXW— Maria Abi-Habib (@Abihabib) April 23, 2020
VIDEO: Muslim worshippers attend Ramadan prayers while respecting social distancing restrictions next to the Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque.
Saudi Arabia has partially lifted its curfew but says it will maintain a round-the-clock lockdown in the holy city of Mecca pic.twitter.com/BhR18xmurA
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 28, 2020
VIDEO: ?? Drone images of the empty streets of Moscow amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Russia has so far registered 87,147 cases of the #coronavirus infection and 794 deaths. pic.twitter.com/XAWNUAFANj
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 27, 2020
Coronavirus: Argentina bans commercial flight sales until 1 September https://t.co/vbJiDtHMeh
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 27, 2020
Brazil becoming #coronavirus hot spot.
Health experts expect the number of infections in Brazil will be much higher than what has been reported because of insufficient, delayed testing.https://t.co/JQc95CqQfA #covid19brasil #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/szUxIn8kQp
— Microbes&Infection (@MicrobesInfect) April 25, 2020
Surf's up: Sydney reopens its famous Bondi Beachhttps://t.co/iBoOWro33o
? Peter Parks pic.twitter.com/k2XaA39stK
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 28, 2020
New Zealand claims it has currently eliminated the coronavirus spread across the country https://t.co/d8oOHbDxPu
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 27, 2020
Coronavirus: What Africa countries are doing to help people to eat amid the lockdowns https://t.co/0qrkg4yobo
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 27, 2020
A German newspaper (not the government) published a mock "bill" to make a point about the cost of the pandemic https://t.co/UkSWMZ6oZN
— Alice Miranda Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) April 27, 2020
China denies spreading disinformation about the coronavirus outbreak, despite EU report citing 'significant evidence' of covert social media campaign https://t.co/tpw3HCQb6I pic.twitter.com/0eKMzRyFWX
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 27, 2020
Reminder: researchers think Covid-19 jumped from a bat.
They also think that's the source of initial Ebola outbreaks. https://t.co/MrVN1dce9f
— Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis (@KendraWrites) April 28, 2020
Increased surveillance should not become the new normal. pic.twitter.com/tu51KOjIgC
— Amnesty International USA (@amnestyusa) April 27, 2020
This is a preprint publication I wrote with @CarlosdelRio7 of Emory.
We find that covid-19 killed 21 times the number of people in NYC last week as flu did during the WORST week of flu during the last 7 years on average.
21x.
This is not “the flu”https://t.co/P6K9npIO4I
— Jeremy Faust MD MS (@jeremyfaust) April 27, 2020
I may be cynical, but this feels a lot like a startup "discovering" public transit and calling it a "high-density ride-share flexi-vehicle" https://t.co/VqipXEYxJu
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) April 28, 2020
Key pullquote, IMO:
… Dr. Cahill’s primary asset is a young lifetime of connections through his investment firm. They include such billionaires as Peter Thiel, Jim Palotta and Michael Milken—financiers who afforded him the legitimacy to reach officials in the middle of the crisis. Dr. Cahill and his group have frequently advised Nick Ayers, Mr. Pence’s longtime aide, and agency heads through phone calls over the past month.
No one involved with the group stands to gain financially. They say they are motivated by the chance to add their own connections and levelheaded science to a coronavirus battle effort that has, on both state and federal levels, been strained…
Steve Pagliuca, co-owner of the Boston Celtics and the co-chairman of Bain Capital—as well as one of Dr. Cahill’s investors—helped copy edit drafts of their report, and he passed a version to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive David Solomon. Mr. Solomon got it to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin…
Old proverb: You shake hands with any of these people, count your fingers afterwards.
sounds too good to be true. But who knows. https://t.co/3GQOpLkvns via @NYTimes
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 28, 2020
If you hear about a crazy new finding, stop, take a deep breath, and read this piece by @cragcrest on the importance of vetting preliminary data. (I'll take this advice myself.) https://t.co/UNjqy2H5PL
— Amy Maxmen (@amymaxmen) April 28, 2020
The author of an article advocating for “chickenpox parties” to slow the spread of COVID-19 had submitted it to several medical and news sites. “They all turned it down with no comment,” he said. The Federalist accepted the piece, no questions asked. https://t.co/0rNknonDuX
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 28, 2020
All other epidemiological or ethical points aside infecting people with a disease to slow the spread of a disease seems like a conceptual and logical error. https://t.co/0w55pZPzmU
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 28, 2020
TriassicSands
Amazing! If only we had a time machine Trump would have been right — it would magically disappear.
Super Genius Trump’s estimate to time of delivery of time machine? — Soon. Very soon. He wants Dr. Birx to work on it.
terben
Today’s bulletin from the Australian Dept of Health:
‘As at 3:00pm on 28 April 2020, there have been 6,731 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. There have been 11 new cases since 3:00pm yesterday.
Of the 6,731 confirmed cases in Australia, 84 have been reported to have died and 5,626 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19. More than 530,000 tests have been conducted across Australia.’
Since the bulletin was issued, 4 more deaths have been reported. This brings the total to 88. There is an ongoing outbreak in a Sydney nursing home, where there have now been 11 deaths.
Amir Khalid
The good news from Malaysia is that the daily recovered-cases count, 75, continues to exceed new diagnoses, and recovered cases as a percentage of total diagnosed is now at 68.9%. The case fatality rate is at about 2.4% and declining as more patients recover.
OzarkHillbilly
“One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb. 27: 0 deaths
Mar. 27: 1,588 deaths
Apr. 27: 56,255 deaths
Amir Khalid
Ominous news via The Guardian‘s liveblog:
OzarkHillbilly
@TriassicSands: Dammit, you beat me to it. I should know to read the previous comments by now.
Cermet
I note a lot of finger pointing against china alone; the graph that includes china’s denial of a problem. Yet where is the orange cloud of gas … I mean tRump’s denial and false claims for over a month that slowed any US response causing a far larger spread? And the testing issue is not focused at the very country that failed the biggest – the US! And an article meantions about chinese spreading false info (true) but what about the worlds largest such org – the fake news (aka fox) media empire of the mass murdering asswipe murdoch?!
Barbara
Chicken pox parties are a bad idea but they don’t threaten other members of the family because most people over the age of 30 had the virus and are themselves immune. This is not a hard concept to grasp on the difference between COVID-19 and chicken pox.
New Deal democrat
I posted a long article on the biochemistry of COVID-19’s attack on the body, based on medical research published so far, at my own blog yesterday. Here’s the link: link.
The coronavirus attacks are concentrated at three places in the body with a high number of both the ACE-2 receptor and one other link; binds to an iron ion in hemoglobin, resulting in blood clots and interfering with the delivery of oxygen to the body, and attacks white blood cells themselves via bonding to a separate receptor, probably CD147, in some cases enough to disable the immune system.
Central Planning
@New Deal democrat: FYI – I can’t read your site with my iPhone – tut text appears dark tan on a dark blue background, using Firefox and dark mode. I’ll try later in a laptop.
New Deal democrat
@Central Planning: it was reprinted in full at Angry Bear. You can try there. Thanks.
satby
@New Deal democrat: Good stuff, thanks for assembling all that. Be interesting to see how all that research plays out as they learn more.
Ohio Mom
New Deal Democrat: That was interesting — made a lot of what I’ve read over the past few months make more sense in that it ties a lot together. Thanks.
Ixnay
@New Deal democrat: Excellent summary, thanks. Shared to my fb page. Dr. Ms. Ixnay will find it interesting.
Mathguy
Wow, so excited to see a 33 year old fin-tech douche bag that was born on third base come up with a COVID plan to turn it into a big payday for himself and his buddies. And breathlessly reported by the Murdock empire paper. Haven’t seen anything like that before.
New Deal democrat
Thanks for the compliments. They are appreciated.
TEL
@New Deal democrat: Great summary! I’m going to link it on Facebook and send it to a couple of friends. It’s fascinating seeing the pieces start to form a picture even as early as the research is with Covid 19.
different-church-lady
There’s a layer of Swiss cheese called “Federal government action”
It doesn’t appear on that graphic because it no longer exists.
different-church-lady
@OzarkHillbilly: One day, like a miracle, Trump will disappear.
Zzyzx
@New Deal democrat: I assume “oxygen-exchanging cells in the longs” is supposed to be “lungs”