MAGA: Make American Graves Again. https://t.co/Vr9LChuGDz
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 2, 2020
Johns Hopkins University: A 75% increase in #coronavirus cases in TWO WEEKS.
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 1, 2020
Dr. Fauci is gonna need to revise his estimate. Upward.
52,770 #Covid19 cases. In. One. Day. More than the Netherlands has had in total. https://t.co/OJPwWMeJhs pic.twitter.com/cdIcQ3dyKI— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) July 2, 2020
It is important to understand that he said this today. https://t.co/edxNO3wr9u
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) July 1, 2020
He’s BRANDING his great COVID response. Like his steaks, airline, bankrupt casinos, Trump U., that he’s a great businessman, etc.
It will be repeated until the Trump base is convinced it’s true.— Tim Moran (@OnlyFactsNTruth) July 1, 2020
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. may be 28% higher than official count, study estimates https://t.co/fkxAli1x3j
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) July 1, 2020
Here's a quick visual summary of what got us here: pic.twitter.com/1laEqsONvb
— Rishi Desai (@RishiDesaiMD) June 30, 2020
If you assume a 1% mortality rate, 100,000 new #COVID19 cases/day = 1,000 deaths/day. That's raw, of course, because lag time from infection to death is weeks. But it omens a doubling in the total US burden of death by September, or earlier. Take action now??, slow this down. https://t.co/aO5oJq8FYk
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 1, 2020
Buckle up, folks. We are near 50k for daily cases and we are heading into July 4th with part of the country still thinking this pandemic is a hoax. https://t.co/OPPsHU0mh6
— Dr. Nahid Bhadelia "Masks,Tests,PPE & Leadership" (@BhadeliaMD) July 2, 2020
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#BREAKING More than 160,000 new #coronavirus cases reported every day for past week: WHO pic.twitter.com/kDDAz0p1Bd
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 1, 2020
The next wave: Japan and Asian neighbors walk COVID 'tightrope'https://t.co/YXXyq2yI6j pic.twitter.com/c1V6qAXXFd
— ?.?. ??????? – Science Comms ? (@JJ_Angelus) July 1, 2020
Japanese capital sees more than 100 new coronavirus cases Thursday, most in two months https://t.co/ebm7LrX73q pic.twitter.com/xf1YicgOMZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 2, 2020
India's coronavirus cases cross 600,000 amid easing of lockdowns https://t.co/Xc2ltf3GKr pic.twitter.com/XzjTnNQA72
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 2, 2020
In India, fake or misleading news about #coronavirus has had a real impact on livelihoods. Who's been most affected? https://t.co/i8bVCbOwal
— BBC Reality Check (@BBCRealityCheck) July 1, 2020
How lockdown is being lifted across Europehttps://t.co/ep5Whpve8g
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 1, 2020
As U.K. towns try to subdue COVID-19 clusters and avoid local lockdowns, critics accuse Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government of failing to share data on cases. https://t.co/AfIiXOvfFs
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) July 1, 2020
Russia's coronavirus case tally passes 660,000 https://t.co/bGWKo5JGET pic.twitter.com/mswlao16Ss
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 2, 2020
World Health Organization is warning that the Mideast has reached a 'critical threshold' in its #COVID19 fight. According to newly published figures, 22 countries from Morocco to Pakistan had recorded 1,077,706 coronavirus cases & 24,973 deaths https://t.co/DX367xCTJr pic.twitter.com/AfkFbL5sRV
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 1, 2020
Uganda opens border for DR Congo refugees who have been unable to seek safety because of coronavirus https://t.co/CBa4e3wc51
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 1, 2020
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Immunity to Covid-19 may be more widespread than antibody tests suggest https://t.co/yMZpQ0ka09
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) July 1, 2020
This is a disaster. When delays are 3 to 5 days, testing does nothing to remove infected people from public circulation. In other words, testing for mitigation is not possible. https://t.co/KlI0Slhah3
— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) July 1, 2020
Could an ancient drug help fight severe #COVID19? Scientists now looking at recruiting chochicine, an anti-gout drug, into the COVID fight. It's derived from the autumn crocus, Colchicum autumnale (a poisonous European flowering plant) https://t.co/4Xa7ktFkAB pic.twitter.com/N3pMjoo76n
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 1, 2020
Cool cool cool. “If demand continues to accelerate and shortages are not resolved, then turnaround times for test results will rise, tests will effectively be rationed, and the number of infections that are never counted in official statistics will grow.“ https://t.co/t8HZGhDUSx
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 1, 2020
Health experts have slammed the U.S. decision to hog nearly the entire global supply of remdesivir, the only drug licensed so far to treat COVID-19. https://t.co/3SYYZixEUh
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) July 1, 2020
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40% said last week they think the country needs to be more aggressively social distancing. Now, almost half say the same – a 9-point increase. Since June 8, the share who say this has increased 17 points (32% ? 49%). pic.twitter.com/S1rMyPWePJ
— Navigator Research (@NavigatorSurvey) July 1, 2020
The coronavirus first hit Democratic areas in the U.S. These six charts show how it is now spreading into Republican territory. https://t.co/xNlFAfqvgh
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 1, 2020
Governor Cuomo says all New Yorkers can be tested for coronavirus now, regardless of symptoms or other factors.
"Get a test," he urges.
— Evan Dawson (@evandawson) July 1, 2020
California breaks #coronavirus record for second day in a row https://t.co/rCv3XW0OTJ
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 1, 2020
This, from the man who said on @TuckerCarlson in March:
"my message is let’s get back to work, let’s get back to living. Let’s be smart abt it & those of us who are 70+, we’ll take care of ourselves. But don’t sacrifice the country, don’t do that, don’t ruin this great America.” https://t.co/ZvfLzGzjMr— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 1, 2020
And despite that… “To tell you the truth, what worries me is not this week, where we’re still kind of handling it,” said one exec. “I’m really worried about next week.” https://t.co/phIDCSy38T
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) July 1, 2020
Texas and Florida have both seen a recent surge in coronavirus cases
How is affecting those that live there? https://t.co/dtqvecrG4n
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 1, 2020
I’d like to hope these kids were pranking the city counciler/reporters, but then again…
Tuscaloosa students diagnosed with COVID-19 have been attending parties as part of a disturbing contest to see who can catch the virus first, a city council member says. https://t.co/jTAafPMmru
— ABC News (@ABC) July 1, 2020
Sounds like they have new volunteers for clinical trials & specimen collection. ???????
— wait_wtf ?????????????????? (@waitwtf1) July 2, 2020
?BillinGlendaleCA
Trump is like a fireman who arrives at a home on fire, he does nothing insisting that the fire will go out. He’s right, ONCE THE WHOLE FUCKING HOUSE BURNS DOWN.
Mary G
The OC has had an explosion of cases and hospitalizations. Doubled in about two weeks. They managed to greatly increase testing, which is good, but the positive rate today was 10.4%, which is double the state & county average from last week. Hospitalizations up 9% in three days, and ICU beds free down to 38%. Not good at all. Will keep staying home (coming up on four months now). I am so privileged to be able to do it, but even as a massive hermit it’s getting old.
mrmoshpotato
Now Playing: The Who – The Kids Are Fucking Morons!
Aleta
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: All the while saying, “Nice place you got there. It’d be a shame if it burned to the ground.”
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers. Three new cases: two from local infection, both non-Malaysians; one imported case, a Malaysian returning from Singapore. Cumulative total 8,643 cases. (The Ministry of Health’s dashboard at the link has an error: it lists both local infection cases as Malaysians, whereas the Ministry’s Twitter feed — in Bahasa Malaysia, not English — says they are both non-Malaysian.)
We still have some way to go before Malaysia reaches zero new cases daily, but we’re consistently in the low single digits now and it feels like the zero-cases goal is within reach.
62 more patients recovered and were discharged; total 8,437 recovered, or 97.6% of the cumulative total. The number of active and contagious cases has fallen to two digits for the first time: 85, all of them being isolated/treated in hospital. Two are in ICU, both of them on ventilators.
It has been 18 days since the most recent Covid-19 death in Malaysia was reported. Total deaths remain at 121; infection fatality rate is at 1.40%, case fatality rate is 1.41%.
The reports from America are frightening. Especially that one about the college kids.
terben
From the Australian Dept of Health:
‘As at 3pm on 2 July 2020, a total of 8,001 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 104 deaths and 7,090 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.
86 new cases today, 5 reclassified, for a net increase of 81. Most cases are in Victoria (+77/-5)
mrmoshpotato
@Aleta:
“Oh look at how the fire’s grown! Let’s do something about the raging inferno now.”
Aleta
@mrmoshpotato:
“Here, take this squirt gun. You might need to use it.”
mrmoshpotato
@Aleta: Donnie Dumbfuck and Mike Dense: Why’s it not going out – we gave you a Super Soaker? Should we water bomb your house? (Notre Dame)
Amir Khalid
The Deep Knowledge Group’s safety ranking of Asia-Pacific countries is dated a month ago — June 4. I’d have expected Nikkei to report a more recent ranking.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, Beijing reported 1 new domestic confirmed and 2 new asymptomatic cases. The confirmed case is a worker at Xinfadi, therefore likely have been under centralized quarantine since 6/16 at the latest.
The case from 6/30 (that had underwent a 14 day self-quarantine after visiting the Xinfadi market, developed symptoms on 6/21, and then proceeded to join several parties and outings after quarantine ended on 6/25) turns out to be a construction worker. If construction workers at Wuhan, Shenzhen and Shanghai are any indication, he and his coworkers most likely did not wear masks regularly. Expect more cases from a cluster this case has seeded.
Wuhan’s education department has announced the plan to return to in-class instruction. Graduating classes of lower and upper middle schools (grades 9 and 12, respectively) have already returned to the classroom weeks ago. Grades 10 & 11 will return on Jul. 10, and summer recess starts from Jul. 31; grades 7 & 8 return on Aug. 10, summer recess starting from Aug. 30. Kindergarten and elementary schools will remain on remote learning, with summer recess starting from Jul. 5. So, it resumption of in-person instruction will be staggered for lower and upper middle schools as well as K-6, as will summer recesses (and start of Fall semester?). Given that semester finals are cancelled, not sure what is the point of calling the students back to the classroom for 3 weeks.
Universities will resume in-person instruction in the Fall semester, usually in mid to late-Aug. Hopefully, there will not be a second wave in the Autumn. Crowded campuses, with dorm rooms packed like sardines, shared showers and restrooms, and young inflected undergrads asymptomatic or with very mild symptoms, is a recipe for a firestorm of super spreading events. They will then infect the teaching, admin and custodial staff, as well as the larger community… Returning students and staff will certainly be screened 100%, I would not be surprised if the students and staff are re-screened every other week, using sample pooling. Wuhan’s university student population is 1M+!
Gvg
Those college kids sound like they don’t want to go to class….I would start expelling some as examples. Endangering others.
Also do a mental health check. Suicidal is actually a possibility. Probably just stupid, but maybe not. Still endangering others. Colleges don’t like to expel students but they also want to reopen, and this makes it impossible.
Amir Khalid
@Gvg:
The ringleaders organising the coronavirus parties definitely need to be identified and expelled.
low-tech cyclist
Jared Kushner, two months ago: “The hope is that by July, the country’s really rocking again.”
Oh, it’s rockin’. Just in all the wrong ways.
YY_Sima Qian
@Amir Khalid: Yeah, trust Nikkei to rank Japan so high. Why is Taiwan so low? If it is being penalized for low testing rate, then that applies to Japan, too. Are they saying that they do not believe Taiwan (and Vietnam) have the capacity to contain a large scale outbreak (like South Korea capably demonstrated)? Probably true for Vietnam, not implausible for Taiwan. Although Taiwanese health care system is excellent, and epidemic control is quite competent, containing a sizable community outbreak would require an all of government and all of society response, at a higher level than has been necessary to date. If epidemic response becomes politicized (just about every public policy debate has become deeply politicized and polarizing over the past 8 eight years in Taiwan) as government and society is stressed, then the effectiveness of response could be affected. Then again, that applies to Japan, too. Government response to the Diamond Princess situation, and the Fukushima accident before, do not inspire that much confidence. I am still mystified how Japan has so far avoided major outbreaks, despite a response not that much more energetic than Sweden’s. Is it really in the masking rate, and lack of nursing homes? Japan probably does contact tracing much better than Sweden, though.
Amir Khalid
@YY_Sima Qian:
Also too, I don’t understand New Zealand and Malaysia ranking so low.
YY_Sima Qian
@Amir Khalid: The Nikkei ranking also overestimated India. In spite of the seemingly draconian lock down (and a relatively early one at that), Rt never appeared to dip below 1. India’s curve has been a relatively slow but clearly exponentially growing one. And now India has relaxed social distancing measures…
Brachiator
@Aleta:
Pence is an idiot. And blaming the media is a tiresome distraction.
Barbara
I don’t understand what Trump or Pence get out of denying reality. Not at this point.
Skepticat
My U.S. driver’s license expires in three weeks, but because we olds have to have an eye test, I can’t renew online. There are some family issues about property in the States that are percolating fast and need to be dealt with. I’m waaay over the time allotted by immigration, but they no longer are allowing extensions. A longtime, cherished friend died without my being able to be there to help with her hospice care. It’s much too hot here for an elderly Yankee with fibromyalgia exacerbated by heat, and we won’t have power for months. I fear that if I do leave, they won’t let me back in. So, I’m in a safe bubble here on a tiny island in the Bahamas (and will be avoiding like—you’ll pardon the expression—the plague the influx of people from Floriduh coming in for the holiday weekend) and can work online, so I guess the choice isn’t that difficult. I simply cannot believe what a fustercluck the States have created.
Ruckus
Won’t it disappear when everyone is dead?
Oh wait, no it won’t. Only the victims will.
Royston Vasey
New Zealand
+2 new cases (1x NZer returning from California, 1 from Kenya)
-6 cases recovered
=18 Active Cases (1 stable in hospital, Auckland)
0 new deaths (22 total)
1180- confirmed cases total
350 – probable cases total
1530 – combined total
The Health Minister resigned from Government.
RV in NZ
Dadadadadadada
@Mary G: Don’t call it that.