Trumps campaign appears to believe he has won the election by putting on a mask, which raises the question of why they resisted this tactically brilliant political move until after 133k deaths pic.twitter.com/FHStWnVDLS
— Sam Stein (@samstein) July 11, 2020
Heaven help us (because we will not help ourselves): These "bruised red" states are places where "uncontrolled spread" is occurring. There are currently 17 states that fit this category. That's a tsunami of #Covid19. https://t.co/wd0AW1cff8
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) July 12, 2020
Considering the totality of the data, this was probably the worst COVID-19 week since spring.
Testing didn't increase, but cases did. Hospitalizations kept mounting and deaths began to move upwards for the first time since the week of April 12th. https://t.co/3xv1VWXk4c
— Alexis C. Madrigal (@alexismadrigal) July 11, 2020
By the time Covid became epidemic in the U.S. this year, and the shelter in place orders were first implemented, influenza season had all but resolved in America. This fall, we’ll have to contend with Covid circulating while flu also becomes epidemic. A challenge we haven’t faced pic.twitter.com/xSpAQGGUUN
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) July 12, 2020
The manufacturers of influenza vaccines increased supply for the 2020-21 season in anticipation of higher demand. We should be implementing steps now to try and increase flu vaccination rates to reduce the risk of co-infection and lower burdens on testing resources and hospitals.
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) July 12, 2020
This is the Trump legacy. pic.twitter.com/z9usWxc2q0
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 12, 2020
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The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, with the total rising by 230,370 in 24 hours https://t.co/rD99o4kOq5 pic.twitter.com/JbPaHyquE5
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 13, 2020
The novel coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 20,000 people across the Middle East, half of them in Iran, according to an AFP tally at 1000 GMT Sunday based on official tollshttps://t.co/MFZUGxFe0h
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 12, 2020
Since the start of July, nearly 2.5 million new #COVID-19 infections have been worldwide, reported, a record level since the first outbreak of the disease in China in late 2019, according to an AFP tally https://t.co/sxLeh5ZQ99 pic.twitter.com/4mte4EHYFg
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 12, 2020
Philippines reports 162 coronavirus deaths, largest daily increase https://t.co/ArUIuDAF5k pic.twitter.com/1aYG3noynW
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 13, 2020
Denmark recommends wearing face masks to curb #COVID19. Health authorities had previously deemed masks in public unnecessary but changed their recommendation following advice from the World Health Organization https://t.co/Z9sZS8nSKI via @medical_xpress pic.twitter.com/IJfezY551S
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 12, 2020
#Coronavirus #covid19
French nightclub workers hold (daytime) protest on virus closure https://t.co/af62aCEjN2
? @raphaellafargue #AFP pic.twitter.com/UTGBAKjYgq— AFP Photo (@AFPphoto) July 12, 2020
Iran's supreme leader criticised "some people who do not even do something as simple as wearing a mask", saying he felt "ashamed" of such behaviour.
Khamenei's comments came as infections have again been on the rise in Iran since early Mayhttps://t.co/5BFPu4py8H
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 12, 2020
Israel's Benjamin #Netanyahu pledged immediate financial aid to #Israelis whose livelihoods have been devastated by the novel #coronavirus pandemic, one day after thousands demonstrated against the government in Tel Avivhttps://t.co/WUV7adQjS7 pic.twitter.com/QnKcvsjQmX
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 12, 2020
#UPDATE The Palestinian Authority orders a major 14-day lockdown to contain the spread of the novel #coronavirus https://t.co/rGTHiIky3a pic.twitter.com/oRXWuuncxj
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 12, 2020
Amid surge in COVID-19 cases, South Africa's president bans alcohol sales immediately to reduce trauma cases and free hospital beds for virus patients. https://t.co/eHG6rFyurM
— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) July 12, 2020
Argentina exceeds 100,000 cases of novel coronavirus https://t.co/IYeD9t8wKi pic.twitter.com/Sf7dWgHGDo
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 13, 2020
As Latin America battles devastating coronavirus outbreaks, Reality Check takes a deeper look at fake cures and unproven treatments. https://t.co/D2ZeYwLcNy
— BBC Reality Check (@BBCRealityCheck) July 12, 2020
#UPDATES "There are 299,750 confirmed cases of infection and 35,006 deaths in Mexico," health officials say, as it becomes the country with the fourth highest death toll from COVID-19, ahead of Italy pic.twitter.com/hxUdfxL7ME
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 13, 2020
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In the 1st thorough review of #COVID19's effects outside the lungs, doctors at Columbia/Harvard/Yale/Mt. Sinai shed new light on the infection. Physicians need to think of it as a multisystem disease, said Columbia's Dr. Aakriti Gupta. All systems are hit https://t.co/Q5UMpp36I7 pic.twitter.com/OMJl21V5Ay
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 12, 2020
Lower cognitive ability linked to non-compliance with social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/mmxRu3A0tN
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 12, 2020
(Depressing) thread:
As a surge has built across the south, we’ve been waiting for the deaths. We know they lag. This animation (from the great @_christiantesta) shows that lag. It plots cases/100k against deaths/100k for each state over time in the first surge 1/n pic.twitter.com/hV1b43YItN
— Bill Hanage (@BillHanage) July 10, 2020
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JUST IN: New York City health officials reported zero new coronavirus deaths for the first time since the state's first death was recorded on March 11. https://t.co/Gd65BQ6IYF
— Axios (@axios) July 12, 2020
New York’s early experience in taming the nation's deadliest coronavirus outbreak this spring is a ready-made blueprint for states now finding themselves swamped by the disease. Meanwhile, New York stays wary of a potential second wave of infection. https://t.co/P9Og20E9HN
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 12, 2020
“Test results for the novel coronavirus are taking so long to come back that experts say the results across the United States are often proving useless in the campaign to control the deadly disease.” https://t.co/nUxfoWwFI7
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 13, 2020
Florida records 15,299 new coronavirus cases on Sunday – a US record for any state.
It is also 3000 #COVID19 cases more than the entire European Union recorded today https://t.co/nukKsMfwBx
— Tom Bollyky (@TomBollyky) July 12, 2020
Anti-mask activists protested over the weekend in Florida, which reported a record increase of more than 15,000 new cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours on Sunday https://t.co/Ma408N6K7T pic.twitter.com/EEWbomqmZJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 13, 2020
Hello Louisiana
The vertical slope of your growth curve is making Arizona and Florida's looking modest
And you were one of the top 3 worst-hit states in April pic.twitter.com/A8gwXX6fX3— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 12, 2020
Top officials in Houston are calling for the city to lock back down as hospitals strain to accommodate the onslaught of COVID-19 patients. Texas health officials reported 8,196 new cases statewide, 80 more deaths and a total 10,410 people hospitalized. https://t.co/KkSSnAvome
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 12, 2020
Can we please stop coddling politicians who conflate their own willful ignorance with an unknowable thing? This was clear months ago. https://t.co/9j17Fje5a1
— Bryn Nelson (@SeattleBryn) July 12, 2020
Bruce K
Greece: 31 new cases Sunday, July 12. Only 4 of those were arriving tourists. The PM is scheduled to meet with leading health officials today, and there are rumors that the government will announce restrictions of some sort this evening, though it’s not clear whether they’ll be for incoming travelers or for the general population.
Again, for perspective: Greece’s population is ten million, its culture does not have a lot of deference to authority ingrained in it, and yet sixty new cases in a day is considered part of an alarm-bell-worthy spike. When I see the comparisons to what’s happening in the US, numbers from states with similar populations – even the “good” numbers like Maryland’s – I don’t know whether to scream or punch a wall.
NotMax
Top 5 in reported cases over past 24 hours:
U.S. ~66k
India ~28k
Brazil ~26k
South Africa ~12k
Colombia ~10k
U.S. reported deaths closing in on 137k.
OzarkHillbilly
Just once I’d like to see some “anti mask protesters” get teargassed. Just once. But I guess we only teargas BLM protesters.
terben
From the Australian Dept of Health:
‘As at 3pm on 13 July 2020, a total of 9,980 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Australia, including 108 deaths, and 7,769 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19.
A net increase of 183 in new cases today. (+192/-9) There were 177 new cases in Victoria, slightly fewer than yesterday, but still too many.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers. Seven new cases. One case from local infection, the father of a Malaysian student who returned from Russia. Six cases from imported infection: four non-Malaysian permanent residents returning from Ukraine, Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia respectively; two Malaysians returning from Australia and Egypt respectively. Cumulative total 8,725 cases.
One more patient recovered and was discharged, total 8,520 patients recovered or 97.7% of the cumulative total. 83 active and contagious cases are in hospital for isolation/treatment; four are in ICU, three of them receiving respiratory assistance.
No new deaths. Total 122 deaths. Infection fatlity rate 1.40%, case fatality rate 1.41%.
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: Never thought about that, but I like it.
“Teargas is a hoax! Why are my eyes burning?”
daveNYC
59 new cases yesterday in the Czech Republic. Not great since the weekends are traditionally low numbers. The disease got into a coal mine in the east and has been rampaging through basically everyone there for the past three weeks. We’re still holding at 352 dead though, so that’s nice.
Notably, everything in Prague is running full tilt again. Not sure about the strip clubs and the larger venues, but drinking and dancing until 2:00 AM is back on the menu, and has been for a long enough time that a spike in new cases would have shown up. We’ll see how long it holds up, you only need one asymptomatic person showing up at a club and spewing the virus on hundreds of people to send things over the edge again.
OzarkHillbilly
Re Louisiana, I’m trying to find some comfort in this 2nd graph:
But the truth of the matter is, NOLA only looks good in comparison to the rest of LA. Orleans Parish is at 183/100K. Jefferson Parish (my son is in Marrero) is at 383/100K.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Hmm well if there isn’t enough fun with the virus
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/tanzania-president-questions-coronavirus-kits-animal-test-200503174100809.html
Tanzania President is honked that the virus test they have after sheep were turning up testing positive. That would be a hell of a thing if what Don the Slob really means about the tests giving people the virus is there is an issue with false positives and Trump is just to incompetent to say that correctly.
Patricia Kayden
mrmoshpotato
@Patricia Kayden:
Yup. Dump is pro-COVID-19 and also a traitorous Soviet shitpile mobster conman.
Robert Sneddon
@Patricia Kayden: Are the military hospitals set up to deal with coronavirus patients, to treat them and isolate them? If not then admitting those patients means anyone already under treatment for other illnesses or injuries there are going to be at greater risk of becoming infected with coronavirus, not to mention the hospital staff, custodians, office workers etc.
This is a highly infectious disease and it needs to be treated properly in facilities set up to provide enhanced infection control, not just any place that’s called a “hospital”.
OzarkHillbilly
@Robert Sneddon: I think it is safe to say they have some capacity to treat patients with infectious diseases and that with a little effort they could expand it. After all, among all the other things hospitals do, they do that too.
There may well be other considerations that outweigh taking in covid patients, but I’d like to hear them from somebody not in the trump admin.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China once again reported zero new domestic cases (confirmed, suspect or asymptomatic). A number of sub-districts in Beijing remain under Medium or High Risk designation. Since it takes either 0 active cases (confirmed or asymptomatic), or 14 consecutive days of zero new cases (confirmed or asymptomatic) to be reclassified as Low Risk, this could take at least another week before the Xinfadi outbreak is declared eradicatred.
There were 8 new imported confirmed and 6 new imported asymptomatic cases:
Shanghai Municipality: 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from Mexico
Guangzhou in Guangdong Province: 1 confirmed and 1 asymptomatic cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Indonesia; 1 confirmed case was a Chinese student returning from the UK
Qingdao in Shandong Province: 1 confirmed and 4 asymptomatic cases, all Russian crew members from a cargo ship
Hohhot in Inner Mongolia: 4 confirmed cases, but no information on their origin
Hong Kong, however, is in the midst of a concerning outbreak. 30 of the 38 new cases yesterday were from local transmission, with about a third having unclear transmission chain. 41 or the 52 cases reported today are from local transmission. Unlike the Xinfadi outbreak (or the Seoul nightclub outbreak), there is no clear epicenter, but cluster in several districts. Macau just published new regulation that any visitor from Hong Kong needs to produce a negative RT-PCR test report within 7 days of travel.
YY_Sima Qian
@Bruce K: Greece opened up to international visitors from select countries, but some of the EU nations only the list still had/has hundreds of new cases each day (though much reduced from the 1st wave peaks). China probably would drastically curtailed inter-provincial travel at these numbers. Therefore, an increase in new cases in Greece is entirely predictable. Of course, Greeces is extremely dependent on tourism economically, so there was probably no choice. How is the country doing in Test, Trace and Isolation?
YY_Sima Qian
@daveNYC: How is the contact tracing system in Czech Republic? My impression is that Czechia was very successful in suppressing the first COVID-19 wave with prompt lock down and early adoption of masking. However, efficient and robust TTI is the only way to effectively wack-a-mole new clusters as things open back up, especially with intra-EU travel relaxing. China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Australia are going through this now.
YY_Sima Qian
The northeastern part of the US looks increasing precarious as island of green…
Robert Sneddon
@OzarkHillbilly: Actual military hospitals i.e. working with serving troops are configured to deal with injuries, trauma, burns etc. Their usual clientele are typically young fit people who get hurt in the course of their service. In contrast most COVID-19 patients are elderly, often with co-morbidities like diabetes, obesity and sometimes with the extra complications of mental degradation such as dementia, Parkinsons etc.
The staff and facilities in military hospitals are not usually set up to be generalists to provide full-spectrum medical services. I expect if they were faced with service personnel suffering from, say, pneumonia they’d arrange a transfer to a civilian hospital rather than treat them in-house.
As for converting military hospitals into safe places to cope with a cohort of highly infectious patients that would take weeks if not months, I doubt very much that it would take only “a little effort”.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: yes, this. The key graf is “the WH” refused, not the military. People will die because of this.
Feathers
@Robert Sneddon: What might be best is to be able to divert physical injuries to the Army hospital. Car accidents, gunshot wounds, etc. This would relieve the regular hospitals, while letting the military ones do what they do best.
Lacuna Synechdoche
So, extrapolating from the Covid Tracking Project cited by Alexis C. Madrigal in Anne Laurie’s post at top:
We’ll be looking at approximately 54,000 new hospitalizations and 5800 deaths Covid-19 for the week ending Jul. 12, and about 7000-7500 new deaths for the week ending Jul. 19.
And, God help us, that’s only what’s already baked in.
Robert Sneddon
@satby: The Constitution says that the elected autocrat in charge of the Executive is Commander in Chief of the US military so that sort of a decision is ultimately the White House’s responsibility. A previous elected autocrat reportedly had a sign on his desk, “the buck stops here”, I believe.
Lacuna Synechdoche
And the current elected autocrat has a video that says “I Take No Responsibility.”
daveNYC
@YY_Sima Qian: couldn’t tell you how good they are exactly. They very much have some vaguely effective system in place. Prague has been havin low to mid-teens for new daily cases for a number of weeks now, so they’ve got enough tracing in place for that. They’ve also thrown a fair amount of assets towards blanket testing in Karvina in the East (the coal mine flare up).
They’re not doing as well as I’d like, but the government is managing to keep a lid on things. And as a nice bonus, I suspect that if there’s a major outbreak the population will be fine with a second lockdown. Indeed, from our experience I don’t even think a full lockdown would be necessary unless it gets terribad. We never fully shut down everything. Every restaurant and bar that could was serving takeout. We might be able to get away with remasking and shutting down indoor food and drink spaces.
I’m continually amazed at how well this country handled things and how little (relatively) it would take for the USA to be in a similar position.
YY_Sima Qian
@daveNYC: Thanks for sharing! Good to hear! I was worried when Prague held that huge street banquet to celebrate the end of the lock down, I thought it was quite pre-mature.