In the pandemic’s early days, frantic doctors who faced the first onslaught of cases reached across oceans and language barriers in an unprecedented effort to advise colleagues trying to save lives in the dark. #RacingforaRemedy https://t.co/r6TGb72y25
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 29, 2020
I tweeted about how Europe is handling the pandemic better than America and a bunch of people in my mentions are telling me to go live in Europe and I’m like…I can’t because Americans aren’t allowed in because of how badly we’re handling the pandemic
— Charlotte Wilder (@TheWilderThings) July 27, 2020
U.S. coronavirus deaths rise by nearly 1,300 for first time since May https://t.co/LEZ8TyZNlS pic.twitter.com/KcNH1BgpUI
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 29, 2020
Close look at today's https://t.co/48lRtWSb1E shows only four States are improving their #COVID19 situations.
Nine States show worrying trends.
And ALL of the rest of the country?
Damn: "trending poorly" or "uncontrolled spread."
You don't want to be in a dark brown State.— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 28, 2020
Really worrying we've failed to convey message even those who recover from #COVID19 with minimal symptoms very likely to have potentially severe complications – many may only become fully apparent over next few years. 78% with myocardial damage herehttps://t.co/pP5BuDRiG8
— Martin McKee (@martinmckee) July 28, 2020
I watched case growth in the USA suddenly and miraculously flatten just after Trump took over the data collection. pic.twitter.com/VhLgbsJVdQ
— JS (@JSSciencefocus) July 29, 2020
Although younger people account for a growing share of new coronavirus infections in many areas, cases are rising in #LongTermCare facilities, too.
Adults in such facilities are more likely to become seriously ill or die if infected with the virus. https://t.co/V1sGChqEAu pic.twitter.com/0X3x3ek1PJ
— KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) (@KFF) July 28, 2020
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"As long as #COVID19 is circulating, we are all at risk. That’s why we’re asking everyone to treat the decisions about where they go, what they do and who they meet with as life-and-death decisions – because they are," Dr.
Tedros https://t.co/ReRDcPj5h0— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 28, 2020
Tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus https://t.co/gGkBJp7ojH pic.twitter.com/wCPONJ5KSx
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 29, 2020
Here's where we stand right now, on a log scale. India and Brazil are both on track to overtake the U.S. in total #COVID19 cases. Note that the color scale reflects NOT how many #SARSCoV2 tests are performed, but what % of tests done turn out to be positive for infection. pic.twitter.com/J8ViGdTyhM
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 28, 2020
China reported more than 100 new cases of COVID-19 as the country continues to battle an outbreak in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. https://t.co/LeL1LUygxX
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 29, 2020
Coronavirus: Hong Kong implements strict measures amid new cases https://t.co/yxHdCbHJTY
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 28, 2020
Vietnam reported 8 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases linked to three hospitals in Danang, taking the outbreak to 30 infections since the virus resurfaced at the weekend https://t.co/u1xqHiqPAJ pic.twitter.com/hszTJGoH4L
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 29, 2020
Half of Mumbai’s slum residents have had #COVID19 – study https://t.co/bjk6aREJ8x
— Crawford Kilian (@Crof) July 29, 2020
BREAKING: The Philippines’ coronavirus cases surge past 85,000, with a death toll nearing 2,000, as the Health Department announces 1,874 new infections https://t.co/ekTgJAVV4j
— CNN Philippines (@cnnphilippines) July 29, 2020
Ghana's much-praised COVID19 strategy has gone awry. Here's why: It probably eased its lockdown too soon. Ghana's president said months ago: "We know how to bring the economy back to life. We don't know how to bring people back to life https://t.co/wTzf6Vyvkv via @medical_xpress pic.twitter.com/BtCHADAEcF
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 28, 2020
South Africa has one of the fastest growing #SARSCoV2 epidemics in the world. One of the leaders of the country's #HIV fight predicts 1 million #COVID19 cases are ahead for the nation.https://t.co/xvXGlZctnV
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 28, 2020
This story sounds uncomfortably familiar…
'My Tanzanian family is split over coronavirus' https://t.co/WaXHKvWxLn
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 29, 2020
Brazil registers 40,816 confirmed cases of new coronavirus, 921 deaths https://t.co/g3uvXfUZc5 pic.twitter.com/IwfdsqrHrA
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 29, 2020
Mexico reports 7,208 new coronavirus cases, 854 deaths https://t.co/8fJ3HSXmCG pic.twitter.com/Dfl0rgN6hj
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 29, 2020
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The head of China's CDC has revealed he's been injected with an experimental vaccine, saying he did so to persuade the public to eventually follow suit. “As a scientist, you’ve got to be brave,” he says. “I hope it will work.” https://t.co/c8SbyUiGDi
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 28, 2020
Moderna aims to price coronavirus vaccine at $50-$60 per course: FT https://t.co/E6fmmqYKZQ pic.twitter.com/qtmeLe3rui
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 29, 2020
An int'l team of researchers has identified the evolutionary origins of #SARSCoV2. The lineage is a SARSCOV2 sarbecovirus, long circulating in bats. Team addresses the role of reservoir species, recombination & the time of divergence from animal viruses https://t.co/87mXrW0wnz pic.twitter.com/MSOL0ephjN
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 28, 2020
Right question from @AARP – the primary advocacy org for U.S. Seniors: In the Warp Speed rush to make a #SARSCoV2 #vaccine will it be tailored for and tested on the highest #COVID19 risk group, Seniors over 50 yrs old?
So far, test subjects are mostly <35.https://t.co/QfHYz7Dn53— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) July 28, 2020
Roche attempt to retool arthritis drug for COVID-19 pneumonia fails trial https://t.co/iCNutXHts1 pic.twitter.com/e2tVgvlhIF
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 29, 2020
The avg time to receive results is now >2 days for top priority patients, which include hospital patients, some pre-operative patients and symptomatic health-care workers, Quest Diagnostics said…for all others, testing turnaround time is >7 days. https://t.co/MZcy5jP03T
— Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH (@JenniferNuzzo) July 28, 2020
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Data on current COVID-19 hospitalizations has been unstable since July 15. We’ve written up everything we know about the problems hospitals and states are having, and about some unexpected discrepancies in the state and federal data: https://t.co/wLbFSPAfZW
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) July 28, 2020
A month ago, Yakima had one of the highest COVID-19 rates in the country. Today, they have bent the curve and are one of the few counties in WA heading in the right direction.
What changed? They went from 65% to 95% of people wearing masks.
#MaskUpWA pic.twitter.com/swLnR2doZT— Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) July 28, 2020
California sets one-day record increase in coronavirus deaths https://t.co/yNbhLVxtGd pic.twitter.com/VR0nDK0k0Y
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 29, 2020
1/ Texas added more than 600 coronavirus deaths to the state's official tally today after state health officials changed their method of counting.
The state is now relying on death certificates, instead of local and regional public health departments. https://t.co/QhH9Bf9v4m
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 27, 2020
Georgia COVID-19 weekly update. We knew the deaths were coming, and they sure showed up this week to 327, up 90% over last week. The 7-day average of daily deaths is up to 47, the highest it's been. pic.twitter.com/MVdTmHKc0x
— J.C. Bradbury (@jc_bradbury) July 26, 2020
Quite an alert and story from @CNN: DeSantis' earlier bravado fuels Florida's pandemic crisishttps://t.co/QM623PYinM pic.twitter.com/7fH6Sxgrl0
— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) July 27, 2020
She is truly the surgeon general America deserves. https://t.co/H8iPnH9GRe
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) July 29, 2020
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 98 new domestic confirmed cases and 19 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region reported 89 new confirmed cases (43 are previously asymptomatic, already under quarantine), and 15 new asymptomatic cases. 3 case are in critical condition, and 17 in serious condition. The Ürumqi outbreak so far has 322 confirmed cases (320 in Ürumqi, 1 each at Kashgar and Xinjiang Construction Corps), and 133 asymptomatic cases (130 in Urumqi, 2 in Changji Prefecture, 1 in Xinjiang Construction Corps), plus 1 asymptomatic case exported to Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province. There are 9121 close contacts under quarantine and medical observation.
Nearly two weeks after the lock down of the Ürumqi (though not as intense as the one in Wuhan), the case count has still yet to peak, indicating a more widespread outbreak than either the Beijing Xinfadi outbreak or the current Dalian outbreak. Ürumqi only has a population of ~ 3.5M. Most of these cases are being identified from the mass screening. I am beginning to understand why the city’s authorities went into large scale lock down and mass screening so early. The initial contact tracing must have revealed some truly concerning indications (though no such information have been published) about the potential scope of the outbreak. Without these measures, each of the dozens of cases being identified everyday will still be infecting other people.
Dalian in Liaoning Province reported 8 new confirmed cases and 4 new asymptomatic cases. All confirmed cases were previously identified as asymptomatic. The outbreak in Dalian has a total of 52 confirmed cases (30 are workers of the import seafood processing plant, 9 are their close contacts, 9 are residents of the Dalian Bay sub-district, 4 are close contacts of confirmed/asymptomatic cases who do not work at the seafood processing plant). Dalian also has 34 asymptomatic cases (23 are workers of the import seafood processing plant, 2 are their close contacts, 4 are residents of the Dalian Bay sub-district, 5 are close contacts of confirmed/asymptomatic cases who do not work at the seafood processing plant ). Additionally, 5 confirmed and 9 asymptomatic cases have been exported to the rest of China.
3.52M individuals in Dalian have already been tested since the start of the outbreak on 7/21.
Beijing Municipality added a 2nd confirmed case, the daughter of the confirmed case from 7/27. The 7/27 case visited Dalian in mid-Jul. and had dinner with an asymptomatic case. She lived with her daughter upon returning to Beijing. Residential building unit of the family’s apartment is under lock down for 14 days, and the 10K resident in the community will be tested in the next day or so.
Two days ago, Hong Kong reported that a truck driver doing delivery runs to Mainland China had tested positive. The case had just spent a few days in Shenzhen and Dongguan before returning to Hong Kong. In the past two days, Shenzhen authorities has identified 9 close contacts and 4 regular contacts of the Hong Kong truck driver, all having tested negative and are still under quarantine. In addition, 3009 individuals working in the plant or living in the residential compound where the Hong Kong case had visited have all been tested, all have tested negative. Fenggang Township in Dongguan has identified 9 close contacts, all have tested negative and are still under quarantine. A further 1169 individuals and 101 environmental samples have been tested from restaurants and entertainment venues the Hong Kong case had visited, all are negative.
Yesterday, China reported 3 new imported confirmed cases, 8 imported asymptomatic case
Shanghai Municipality – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese nationals returning from Singapore
Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 confirmed cases, Chinese nationals returning from Iran and Singapore; 4 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals. 3 from Singapore, and 1 from Saudi Arabia
Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 2 asymptomatic case, both Chinese nationals returning from Singapore
Today, Hong Kong reported 118 new cases, 113 from local transmission.
terben
In Australia today:
319 new cases, total 15,583. Recovered 9,619
9 new deaths, total 176. 7 of the 9 were in aged care facilities.
66k tests carried out, cumulative total 4.1m.
The story of the virus in Australia currently is mostly about the state of Victoria:
295 new cases, total, 9304. Deaths, 92. Tests performed 18,000 today, 1.55m total.
All deaths in the country today were in Victoria, in fact the most recent death in another state was 68 days ago in NSW.
In my state, South Australia, there were no new cases today, despite 16,000 tests. Since the beginning of testing there have been 448 positive tests out of 229,000 performed.
In NSW, new cases have been running in double figures, but less than 20, for a week or more. Many are related to pubs, clubs and restaurants in suburban Sydney.
WereBear
To give the flavor of these times, I woke up yesterday, saw that Demon Sperm was trending on Twitter, and went ho-hum. Another day in Trump Paradise…
Amir Khalid
Sorry I’m late. Afternoon doctor’s appointment.
Malaysia’s daily numbers seem to be coming back down from the recent spike, touch wood. 13 new cases. Five from local infection: three Malaysians, two non-Malaysians. Eight cases from imported infection: four Malaysians, returning from the UK (two), Pakistan, and the Philippines: four non-Malayaians, arriving from Gambia, Ukraine, and India (two). Cumulative total 8,956 cases.
Five more patients recovered and were discharged, total 8,512 recovered or 96.2% of the cumulative total. 220 patients with active and contagious cases are being isolated/treated in hospital; two are in ICU, one of them is on a respirator.
No new deaths. Total is 124 deaths, 1.38% of the cumulative total and 1.42% of resolved cases.
Patricia Kayden
Bruce K
Greece had a bad day yesterday, according to Kathimerini: 52 infections, of which only 7 were traced to points of entry. Masks are now mandatory in supermarkets, public transport, retail shops, public service offices, banks, food store, bakeries, and elevators. (The mask order doesn’t end to churches.)
Those numbers may seem like a drop in a bucket compared to US numbers, but for Greece, that’s not good.
Amir Khalid
@Patricia Kayden:
Who are these doctors? Does anyone know where they work, what kind of medical work they do? What are their professional reputations like?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Amir, DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND, THEY’RE ON THE TV!
lowtechcyclist
“The Daily Beast did a great job summarizing our deliverance ministry and exposing incubus and succubus.” – ‘Dr.’ Stella Immanuel
‘Deliverance ministry.’ I once knew a woman, back in the early 1970s, who also said she had a ‘deliverance ministry.’ Hadn’t run across that phrase a single time in the decades since. Until just now, of course. Can’t say I’d missed it.
WereBear
@Amir Khalid: In the age of Trump, reality tests YOU!
Keith P.
@Patricia Kayden: The real beauty in there was Trump’s initial attempt to claim that maybe Dr. Immanuel* wasn’t the same woman as the alien DNA lady.
* How much you want to bet that Trump that she was Ari and Zeke’s sister?
Patricia Kayden
p.a.
Another result of tRumpturd admin. incompetence is our reduced ability to help worldwide at other hotspots as our misallocated (IF allocated) resources have to focus here.
Amir Khalid
There was a big crowd gathered outside the KL High Court yesterday — mostly supporters of the former Malaysian Official One*, ex-PM Najib Tun Razak. There was no social distancing, per the onscene videos, and some angry chanting after the verdict and sentence came down. DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, commenting on the reports, said he was very disappointed.
*You guys might remember that this is what the FBI called him in its 1MDB-related public statements.
prostratedragon
Frequently seen catchphrase lately in twitter comments on worrisome covid statistics: “This is a bit misleading without context.”
There often follows a non sequitur [something that doesn’t follow].
Brachiator
It is worrying that some of the countries which seemingly had virus cases under control are now seeing outbreaks.
Worse case scenario: lockdowns and other current attempts at flattening the curve at best provide temporary relief. Once people start moving back into social spaces, outbreaks become almost inevitable.
This might mean that it is not simply a case of re-opening too soon.
The Rona is a tricky SOB. We may have to work a little harder to contain it while we try to get an effective vaccine.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland update — the National Record of Scotland which deals with birth and death certificates reports eight people died last week where COVID-19 was listed on the death certificate. Apparently four of them died in hospital, two in care homes and two at home.
The First Minister is currently (local time 12:30 p.m.) giving a press briefing and is reporting that 22 people in Scotland have tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, that’s 0.7% of all tests carried out over the same period. Fourteen of those cases appear to be a cluster in the Glasgow area, further investigation into that is going on. No deaths of confirmed cases have been reported in the past 24 hours.
Sab
People have lost their minds. SIL planning birthday party for her spouse. In the yard, with caterer. In a tony Republican suburb with really high covid rates where nobody wears masks or social distances. SIL and our generation are 60+ in age. Kids are all in their 30s or 40s. Big families. If big turnout it will be 50+ people.
I am aghast. This family already had the first reported Covid19 case in the county back in March because ignored quarantine rules.
Brachiator
@WereBear:
And I thought that Murder Hornets were all that we had to worry about.
You know. Apart from the pandemic and our lunatic president.
prostratedragon
@WereBear: Re: flavor of the times.
I’m with Margaret [21 seconds of reality].
Brachiator
@Sab:
At least they are having the celebration outside. And no one will be in the kitchen doing cooking. Still, I would not attend this thing. I might do a spreadsheet and try to note the attendees, doing a little unofficial track and trace.
Sab
@Brachiator: Track and trace is a good idea.
Governor Dewine tells anecdotes about the bad results of events like this, but apparently nobody watches Wine with Dewine anymore.
WhatsMyNym
@Sab:
Family gatherings is now our biggest plague spreader in WA.
terben
@Brachiator: You have obviously forgotten about the Sodomy Geese.
Sab
@WhatsMyNym: That’s what Ohio governor keeps telling us here. Nobody much listens anymore.
Matt McIrvin
@Brachiator: This is what most of the early articles on controlling COVID predicted–at least, the saner ones. A place would clamp down hard, get infection to a low level, then relax restrictions periodically… and clamp down again when that led to new outbreaks. With luck, you’re flexible enough that you can keep it from getting too bad. You could eliminate COVID entirely by shutting down your economy completely for a very long time but nobody’s actually going to do that.
Unfortunately, a bunch of fools decided this roadmap meant you could reopen on a fixed schedule even if the infections were still raging out of control! Obviously, if you’re not one of them you can do a lot better.
Sloane Ranger
Here in England we seem to be stabilising at an average of around 725 new cases a day but there are worryiing signs of spikes occuring in the north. Oldham, Lancashire has joined Leicester in having a local lockdown imposed. There were over 100 deaths reported a few days ago but generally we’re down to double figures.
The government is worried we will see a new spike as other European countries are experiencing. Hence their swift response to the recent spike in Spain. Some are complaining that they overreacted but this is one Tory government decision I fully support.
KenK
@Sab: Probably an event to miss.
Sab
@KenK: We will miss it. A shame because I am very fond of the birthday boy, but we are pretty much in lockdown.