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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Thursday/Friday, June 25-26

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    Malaysia’s daily numbers. Six new cases: one from local infection, a Malaysian who tested positive in a workplace screening; five cases from imported infection, four returning Malaysians and a non-Malaysian entering the country for work reasons. Cumulative total 8,606 cases.

    23 more patients recovered and were discharged from hospital. Total 8,294 recovered, or 96.4% of all cases. 191 active patients remain; two are in ICU and neither is on a ventilator.

    No new deaths for the 12th day in a row. Total stands at 121 deaths. Infection fatality rate is 1.41%, which DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says is among the lowest in the world, and case fatality rate is 1.44%.

  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    SW Misery now rivals STL and KC for hotspot of the state with
    Jasper Co at 403.41 cases per 100K
    Newton Co at 609.95 per 100K
    and the statewide front runner iiiis….
    McDonald Co at 1954.24 per 100K!!!!
    (gotta love those meat processing plants)

    Keep your head down Soprano, Greene Co. is awful close.

    (for comparison per 100K STL: 743.63, STL Co: 585.49, St Charles Co: 249.26, Jefferson Co: 176.80

  4. 4.

    gkoutnik

    TIL that the Founding Fathers debated the impact of pre-existing conditions on overall healthcare insurance options and came down hard on the side of states doing it. Who knew?

  5. 5.

    E.

    The first thing I do every morning is read these posts. They don’t inspire me to comment but they are a very important part of my day. Thank you for doing this.

  6. 6.

    terben

    From the Australian dept of Health:

    ‘As at 3:00pm on 26 June 2020, a total of 7,595 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 104 deaths and 6,958 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.

    • Over the past week, there has been an average of 27 new cases reported each day. Of the newly reported cases, the majority have been from Victoria.
    • Of cases with a reported place of acquisition, 61% have recent international travel history, including over 1,300 cases associated with cruise ships.
    • To date, over 2,281,500 tests have been conducted nationally. Of those tests conducted 0.3% have been positive.’

    37 new cases today, 11 in quarantine, 26 in the community. Victoria had 30 cases, 5 in quarantine.

    Elsewhere, I notice that the global number of cases have passed 9.5 million, with close to 500,000 deaths and the US has reached 2.5 million cases and 125,000 deaths.

    I have never subscribed to the idea that countries get the governments that they deserve, so the people of the US, Brazil, Russia, India and the UK have my particular sympathy. No one deserves Trump, Bolsonaro, Putin, Modi or Johnson.

  8. 8.

    tokyocali (formerly tokyo ex-pat)

    Thank you for doing this every day. I don’t comment each time, but I read it every day!

    I don’t really understand what has been happening in Japan. It seemed like numbers had gone down. But they are creeping up again, mainly in Tokyo. Tokyo was down in the teens and the government decided to prepare for stage 3 opening. Stage 3 was announced last week, but we are now around 50 cases a day. It doesn’t seem like it’s going to go down.

    I teach university. We did the first three weeks completely online. Then the last two weeks, I taught a 1st year communication class. From Monday, most classes are back, it seems. I have two university-age sons and one grad student. All of them are online for the whole semester. I don’t know any other teachers who are teaching face to face at their universities. They are all surprised when I tell them because their universities decided to do the entire first term online.

    The classrooms all have notices on every other desk, designating them as unavailable. We receive a packet of wipes, and we’re supposed to give each student a wipe to wipe down their desk and chair. We’re supposed to wipe down the doorknobs, erasers, lectern, etc. The windows have to be open. (It’s the 7th floor, they don’t open that much). The doors, too. The air conditioning is not that strong, so given Japanese humidity and heat, it gets uncomfortable. Add in wearing a mask as you teach, and by the end of the second 90-minute session, teachers are finding it hard to breathe.

    All of that said, the students are almost all coming at the moment. They want the contact with their classmates. On the other hand, they really don’t social distance. I do my best, but it’s a language class and students need to communicate. But as soon as you start an activity, they naturally draw closer to one another.

    It’s going to be a roller coaster ride!

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    Empty threats won’t keep people from gathering by the seaside in Brighton and Bournemouth. Why doesn’t Matt Hancock just close down the damn beaches?

  11. 11.

    SectionH

    @OzarkHillbilly: I mean, I meeeeaannnn (pace Guthrie, A type) I’m fucking pissed off because fucking idiots here have got our similar statistic up to 401/100K. So I’m fucking WTAF about your numbers.

    And, yeah, big huggies to Soprano2. Since last October, Mr S and I have driven through Springfield a bunch of times. Did you know there’s a hotel which has electric car charging places, well  one that’s not Tesla? Well, we know that. Springfield also has Lost Signal, which is a craft beer bar that keeps me driving to end up in Springfield, I mean after 10 hours or so, I just push through. Apologies to Soprano if that isn’t her place. But damn, Springfield, well, it’s a college town. And all that edjumacation stuff…

  12. 12.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @SectionH: Have meat processing plant? Will Covid.

    Perry Co: 584.86
    Saline Co: 1,231.71
    Buchanan Co: 933.71
    Stoddard Co: 451.96

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    OzarkHillbilly

    @SectionH: Doesn’t surprise me. The Walmart in Sullivan has a charging place too. I suspect the reason is I-44. I’ll bet there is one in Lebanon, Joplin, and definitely one in St Roberts/Waynesville, and Rolla. Probably more.

  14. 14.

    gkoutnik

    @OzarkHillbilly: Yeah.  I drove my son’s Tesla from SF to south of Boston in December.  Chargers are sited for interstate travel, every so many miles.  Some of them in the sleepiest burgs you’ve ever seen.

  15. 15.

    Ohio Mom

    Kudos to Vietnam. They defeated us and now apparently are holding their own against COVID.

    Nothing else to add except that I also read this post every morning. If we ever see the end of this, if COVID becomes history, I could see the entire series, with comments, put together as a coffee table book.

  16. 16.

    zzyzx

    @tokyocali (formerly tokyo ex-pat):

     

    Probably the same thing that’s happening everywhere. People are good and strong for a few months and then they really want human interaction and they start to cheat.

    One of my fears with a lot of the US might apply to Japan too. If the goal is to flatten the curve (not to stay locked down forever), there’s a danger in locking down too early as much as too late. The plan is to turn one large peak into two smaller ones, but if you lock down before the first one is underway, all you’ve done is delay it and there won’t be the same will to have a second round of lockdown.

  17. 17.

    SectionH

    @Amir Khalid: Bloody fucking hell, I thought San Diego (+ Zonies) were idiots. We are so sane in comparison. And I did sort of glance at some of those photos before.

    There’s someone I really care about who lives in Basingstoke, so I was kinda pissed off that that mess – 200,000 idiots – was being blamed on all the summer holiday ppl from B’stoke.  Which has < 90,000 ppl year round…

    As someone on BJ I srsly respect says

    Grrrr…

  18. 18.

    YY_Sima Qian

    Yesterday, Beijing reported 11 new domestic confirmed cases and 1 new asymptomatic case. Again, the Beijing Municipal Helath Commission was relatively fast with case information, for 10 out of 12 cases. 9 out of the 10 cases with information released have direct connection to the Xinfadi exchange, and the other has direct connection to one of the produce markets with a cluster seeded by the main Xinfadi outbreak. 9 out of the 10 cases have been under self- and/or centralized quarantine for the past 10 days or more, including one previously classified as asymptomatic.

    One case developed symptoms from 6/13, tested negative on RT-PCR on 6/15, had symptoms worsen and visited fever clinic on 6/23, where she proceeded to test positive. 3 of the cases developed very mild symptoms as early as 6/8 or 6/9, but they self-medicated and their symptoms improved. They were identified as close contacts and sent to centralized quarantine on 6/15 – 6/16, where they tested positive in the past couple of days. 3 of the cases still have not yet tested positive on RT-PCR, but became confirmed when they tested positive on IgM/IgG antibodies.

    The case summaries illustrate the critical importance of contact tracking and targeted lock downs and restrictions on movement. Otherwise, the 3 very cases with very mild symptoms, further alleviated by medication, would have been continuing to be active in the community and further spreading the virus. The summaries also illustrate the importance of using a full suite of diagnostic tools to identify cases, rather than relying upon RT-PCR alone.

  19. 19.

    Taken4Granite

    Probably a dead thread, but relevant here: I learned at the virtual conference I have been attending this week that the US National Science Foundation plans to cancel the 2020-21 Antarctic field season. Antarctica is currently the only COVID-free continent, and the Office of Polar Programs would like to keep it that way.

  20. 20.

    YY_Sima Qian

    It appears that the French health authorities are also planning mass screening of all residents of Île-de-France, except Paris.

  22. 22.

    frosty

    Bugger! PA went red this morning. We never got out of yellow because we’re not doing enough testing. 14-day average cases are now increasing instead of decreasing and percent positive went flat instead of decreasing. I’m never going to go out to see my friends again, am I?

    Also, most of the country was yellow a week or two ago.

    covidexitstrategy.org

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