Genomic analysis reveals many animal species may be vulnerable to #SARSCoV2 infection https://t.co/EG996fl5VY via @medical_xpress pic.twitter.com/sAD7dFga0v
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) August 21, 2020
It’s extremely telling that these lunatics view this as a bad Biden moment when poll after poll shows that 60-70% of people agree with the statement “would support a second stay at home order to get covid under control” https://t.co/QAQcMSDF5n
— drew (@ImNotOwned) August 22, 2020
I don't have to wait in line for hours at Starbucks. For shame. https://t.co/yaH6BqWkha
— Josh Busby (@busbyj2) August 22, 2020
175,350 confirmed #covid19 deaths in the United States so far https://t.co/gadJKxkufH
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) August 22, 2020
There are an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 new Covid infections a day in the US. Covid is spreading in most places at rates too high for effective contact tracing, too high for safe in-person schooling, and too high for robust economic recovery.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) August 22, 2020
President Trump on Saturday accused, without providing any evidence, the US Food and Drug Administration of deliberately delaying coronavirus vaccine trials, pressuring the man he had picked to head the agency. https://t.co/YhR3D2Ycaw
— CNN (@CNN) August 22, 2020
Staggeringly dangerous. We need @SteveFDA to stay strong. Here is my column on this: https://t.co/H3KYiVbMZ1 https://t.co/T8EB9L41S4
— Holden Thorp, Science EIC (@hholdenthorp) August 22, 2020
“Politics must stay out of the conduct and interpretation of clinical trials aimed at evaluating the efficacy and safety of Covid vaccines." — pharma leaders push back on Trump's "deep state" tweets. https://t.co/tGdY9O0Xyg
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) August 22, 2020
Coronavirus: Is the US the worst-hit country for deaths? https://t.co/KuD5VwkHos
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 22, 2020
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NEW: More than 800,000 people have died from the coronavirus globally, according to Johns Hopkins University data. https://t.co/dGJcq6eCyV
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 22, 2020
Opening schools is so important for our children's future. That's why it's so important to close other indoor spaces where Covid spread, implement the #3Ws and systematic, strategic test, isolate, trace, and quarantine programs. For our kids. For our parents. For all of us. https://t.co/Oj3hbPQJ5G
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) August 22, 2020
Local Officials in China Hid Coronavirus Dangers From Beijing, U.S. Agencies Find https://t.co/HlPQD7zjz7
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) August 22, 2020
Beaches and churches are closed and baseball games will be played in empty stadiums after South Korea added hundreds to its growing coronavirus caseload amid concerns the epidemic is getting out of control. https://t.co/uc3buDYQxA
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 23, 2020
India crosses the milestone of 1 million #COVID19 tests a day.
More than 10 lakh people tested in the last 24 hours. pic.twitter.com/McUcc1JbZJ
— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) August 22, 2020
BREAKING: India coronavirus cases top 3 million, leading the world in new infections as disease spreads to rural areas. https://t.co/vA4H1rKsWB
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 23, 2020
Germany reports more than 2,000 new #coronavirus cases in 24 hours. A number that high hasn't been seen since the end of April. The infectious disease control institute said the total confirmed now is 232,082 w/ 9267 fatalities https://t.co/zQGVgsVxrd pic.twitter.com/oVQxdiJB9C
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 22, 2020
Before large-scale concerts can safely resume, scientists need to know how coronavirus spreads in an arena. German researchers took up the challenge, testing three different scenarios. https://t.co/pJGoQNZyKe
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) August 22, 2020
Coronavirus spread largely among under 40-year-olds in France, minister says https://t.co/vwe9hOeMAA pic.twitter.com/ruyVR1LKNq
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2020
The rise in #coronavirus cases is blamed on large gatherings caused by holidays and nightlife with many infections coming from returning travellers https://t.co/A9TBZmpXH7
— SkyNews (@SkyNews) August 23, 2020
Covid surge in Lebanon compounds the misery in a battered country https://t.co/pxbKdtmGoX
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 23, 2020
Australia wrestles with coronavirus second-wave, 17 more dead https://t.co/UDykfYYIZW pic.twitter.com/gB9qI0A5js
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2020
While coronavirus cases soar in the US, average daily cases in Africa fell last wk, the head of Africa's Centers for Disease Control said. Continent-wide daily avg was 10,300 down from 11k the wk before. Africa has recorded 1.1 mln cases, half in S. Africa https://t.co/lMMPUwi2pe pic.twitter.com/MoYMcwV5dT
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 22, 2020
“Doctors are not martyrs”: Thousands of medical workers across Kenya have gone on strike lamenting delayed salaries, lack of medical insurance and shoddy protective gear. https://t.co/n7gAkYdS5y ?smid=tw-nythealth&smtyp=cur
— NYT Health (@NYTHealth) August 22, 2020
Brazil registers 50,032 new cases of coronavirus, 892 deaths in 24 hours https://t.co/EMhkyoood2 pic.twitter.com/YZixsUAH3r
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2020
Mexico passes somber coronavirus milestone even as signs of hope emerge https://t.co/xCNRFYFgyD pic.twitter.com/QizOUAAVgZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 23, 2020
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The World Health Organization is recommending that children 12 & older should wear masks just as adults do in an effort to help rein in the pandemic. A growing number of studies are finding that children harbor viral loads on par w/ adults & are efficient #SARSCoV2 transmitters pic.twitter.com/lLzVlrnET5
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) August 21, 2020
New pandemic-associated condition: Mask-associated dry eye (MADE), first described by an ophthalmologist in June based on an increasing number of patients seeking care. Face masks can make eyes feel dry, but there's something you can do about it https://t.co/xIr6OhsJXx
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 22, 2020
People in the US with #COVID19 often lie about symptoms and physical distancing, according to new research https://t.co/7pa8tGb5T3 via @medical_xpress pic.twitter.com/zVFDN7PD0A
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 22, 2020
And it’s not just ‘stupid, ignorant’ people (although of course respondents could’ve been lying about their education, too)
… Although rates of lie-telling are fairly high, concealment drops in older populations and among those who are community-oriented, says the Brock study “Dishonesty during a pandemic: The concealment of COVID-19 information.”…
“In accurately tracking COVID experiences and COVID rates during the pandemic, we’re relying on people honestly disclosing this information,” O’Connor says.
Participating in the research were 451 adults ages 20 to 82 years living in the U.S. Most identified as having a post-secondary education.
Through an online questionnaire, O’Connor and Evans asked participants about their physical distancing practices, COVID-19 symptoms and status, whether they’ve been instructed to quarantine, and their moral evaluations of others’ COVID-19 concealment…
O’Connor says she hopes the research will lead to discussions and programs that will support people in disclosing their sensitive health information and overcoming anxieties in doing so. This could extend beyond COVID-19 to other physical and mental health conditions.
“It’s important to not necessarily blame people who are concealing this information, but to understand the barriers that are there from preventing them from telling the truth,” says O’Connor…
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During the pandemic, #COVID19 outbreaks have hit communities nationwide. As the infection shifted, local officials were forced into a whack-a-mole approach –snuffing out clusters & allocating scarce resources. Map shows outbreaks late March-April https://t.co/k1BeKXW06u pic.twitter.com/lNcwVNQFFt
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 23, 2020
Same damn thing everyday, #Houston deaths from #COVID19: "Hispanic, Hispanic, Hispanic, Black, Black, Hispanic, Hispanic.." It's why I speak out – when we see the final tally of deaths from COVID19 in the Southern US we'll find this = historic decimation of Hispanic communities https://t.co/zYhUlrSBKX
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) August 22, 2020
Documents obtained by The Daily Tar Heel show that before UNC announced its reopening plan, the administration received early warning messages from top medical professionals at the University predicting outbreaks of COVID-19 on campus.https://t.co/gkjut938XQ
— The Daily Tar Heel (@dailytarheel) August 21, 2020
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic case, for the second day in a row.
In Ürumqi, there are currently 198 confirmed and 69 asymptomatic cases at Ürumqi, with 14 cases in serious condition. 29 confirmed cases recovered yesterday and were released from hospitals, 9 asymptomatic cases were released from medical quarantine, 3 serious cases improved to moderate conditions. There are 4,767 close contacts remaining under quarantine and medical observation.
At Dalian in Liaoning Province, 10 cases are currently in the hospital. There are 503 individuals remaining under quarantine.
China CDC announced that they have concluded the epidemiological investigation into the source of the Xinfadi Wholesale Produce Exchange outbreak in Beijing, and have ruled out zoonosis or introduction by infected person, and believe that the cause is contaminated packaging of imported frozen products. The CCDC has not yet elaborated on the evidence that led to this conclusion. The epidemiological investigation into the imported seafood processing plant outbreak at Dalian has not yet reached any conclusion, but is almost complete.
Yesterday, China reported 12 new imported confirmed cases, 15 imported asymptomatic cases, and 2 imported suspect case:
* Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province – 5 confirmed and 6 asymptomatic cases, no information released
* Tianjin Municipality – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from Thailand and Singapore
* Guangzhou in Guangdong Province – 2 confirmed cases, 1 Chinese national each returning from the US and Bangladesh
* Foshan in Guangdong Province – 1 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese national returning from Bangladesh
* Xi’an in Shaanxi Province – 2 confirmed cases, both Chinese nationals returning from Singapore
* Xiamen in Fujian Province – 1 confirmed case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines
* Fuzhou in Fujian Province – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from Madagascar
* Quanzhou in Fujian Province – 2 suspect case, both Chinese nationals returning from the Philippines
* Jinan in Shandong Province – 3 asymptomatic cases, all Chinese nationals returning from Kazakhstan
* Qingdao in Shandong Province – 1 asymptomatic cases, a Chinese nationals returning from the US
* Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province – 2 asymptomatic cases, both a Chinese nationals returning from Singapore
* Chongqing Municipality – 1 asymptomatic case, a Chinese national returning from the Philippines
Today, Hong Kong reported 25 new cases, 19 from local transmission, 8 of whom do not have clear source of transmission.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers. 10 new cases. Two cases from local infection: both Malaysians, from the Tawar memorial-service cluster in Kedah. Eight imported cases. Three Malaysians, two from the shipboard cluster on the LNG ship Seri Alam, one returning from Indonesia. Five non-Malaysians, one from the Seri Alam cluster, plus arrivals from Mexico, the Maldives, and Indonesia (two). Cumulative reported total 9,267 cases.
10 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 8,959 patients recovered — 96.7% of the cumulative reported total. The number of active and contagious cases currently being isolated/treated in hospital remains unchanged at 183 patients; nine are in ICU, four of them on respirators.
No new deaths since 31st July. The total remains at 125 deaths — 1.35% of the cumulative reported total, 1.38% of resolved cases.
Mary G
Those kids at the Daily Tar Heel are some good journos.
Things in OC are OK, I guess. Much lower numbers than a few weeks ago, hospitalizations & percent positive tests still dropping.
Mary G
@YY_Sima Qian:
@Amir Khalid:
I’m curious – when you talk about recovered cases, is that discharged from hospital or completely recovered? I’m curious to know if your countries are experiencing the “Long Covid” effect where organ damage and symptoms have lingered for months now.
OzarkHillbilly
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that the same people (N Carolinians) who refuse to take rising sea levels into account when planning developments also ignored advice from “medical professionals.” Maybe it’s the water.
Amir Khalid
Ftom Dr Tom Frieden’s tweet:
Frightening.
Amir Khalid
@Mary G:
Per the Ministry of Health, you have to test negative again before you are considered recovered and safe to discharge. As for long-term post-Covid-19 monitoring, there hasn’t been a lot said about that here — not really surprising, since we are not in the long-term yet, and the focus here remains on dealing with the crisis at hand.
rikyrah
Thanks for the information.
rikyrah
We find out nothing good about this disease?
rikyrah
The FDA and the Orange Menace – someone told him that no vaccine is coming in October
Aleta
Thank you AL. Useful.
Aleta
@YY_Sima Qian: Thank you.
JR
@rikyrah: No chance. I doubt the production capacity is there even if there’s approval.
OzarkHillbilly
Washington county still remains among the top 10 for 7 day percentage increase. So are other counties in the neighborhood: St Francois, Iron, Madison, and Dent, with Crawford right behind.
SectionH
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NeenerNeener
My brother met an ob/gyn last week who told him everyone should go out and get COVID-19 and just get it over with. Which reminds me of the joke “What do you call the person who graduated last in his/her med school class? Doctor”
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: I found out last night that Sturgis actually got 450,000 attendees, almost double what had been predicted. Which lasted TEN days…
Brace yourselves. I’m not capable of the calculus involved but I don’t see how we can avoid a super-spreader event.
Amurricah just told the globe to “Hold my beer.”
WereBear
@NeenerNeener: I guess he doesn’t think about Sweden… who thought better of it. Then again, they might actually care about people dying.
snoey
@WereBear:
It’s going to be bad, but perhaps not as bad as it sounds. Most people only hit it for a few days, and it’s almost all outdoors and spread out. There are going to be super spreader bars, but that’s 450 people, not 450,000 at a time.
WereBear
@snoey: While true, the beaches in Florida are outdoors, too. Turns out, bottlenecks occur in bars, restrooms, restaurants, stores… concerts.
I am also factoring in where they live. Few hospitals, less likely to have insurance, and that all adds up to not seeking medical care until it’s already dire.
The good side is that we have made a dent in the death rate. But there will be shortages, of everything, most likely.
snoey
@WereBear: Bikes and week long vacations aren’t cheap. More dentists than dirt surfers actually make it there, so the insurance and medical care access profile wouldn’t be different than the rest of the population.
NotMax
Number of countries with total reported cases over 500k has jumped from five in early August to eight.
U.S. ~5754k
Brazil ~3583k
India ~3045k
Russia ~957k
South Africa ~607k
Peru ~585k
Mexico ~556k
Colombia ~533k
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Ken
The above seems designed to give ulcers to the carrier of UNC’s liability insurance. Are they, or any of the insurance companies, likely to step up and say “you will not open, and if you do we will cancel your coverage”?
I asked this last night in one of the open threads, but didn’t get much feedback.
mrmoshpotato
Give it a week, Deb, and parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Texas won’t exist. But you bastards probably will call the hurricanes a hoax.
The Thin Black Duke
@snoey: It doesn’t matter how good your medical insurance is when there aren’t enough doctors and the hospitals run out of room.
PAM Dirac
@rikyrah:
I saw the tweets about cutting the FDA out of reviewing COVID-19 diagnostic tests and couldn’t quite make sense of it, but have found enough other info to think I see what’s going on. It has to do with “Laboratory Developed Tests” which are (from the FDA web site)
Normally FDA does NOT regulate these tests. The are covered under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and managed by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. As part of the COVID emergency, LDTs for COVID diagnostics were put under FDA regulation. This latest announcement rescinds that directive. There are pros and cons to that, but the most important thing is that the announcement DOESN’T mean that COVID tests are now unregulated. It is also unclear how many tests are affected. Single laboratory could be small labs that would likely only run hundreds or thousands of tests which wouldn’t have a large effect on overall testing. Single laboratory could also be one of the big testing companies like LabCorp. There is certainly no reason to trust this administration, but if they are up to no good with this decision, it is more subtle than just letting COVID tests be unregulated.
artem1s
@WereBear:
same issue with college campuses. clean all you want, when you have a population whose primary focus is getting their drink on, that’s where we see spreading events. the deplorables whinge about protests being the same as Sturgis but aren’t being honest with themselves about their motivation for attending and behavior during and after crowd events. the campuses are forcing reopening exactly because the local economies are suffering from the lack of spending in bars and restaurants. administrators know it and yet are in complete denial about their motivation for trying to return to ‘normal’. our campus announced the need for limited dorm usage and largely online classes thru the end of the year the same week they announced they were co-hosting one of the presidential debates with the Cleveland Clinic. the official line is ‘it’s not on our campus so it’s OK to over look the rules about large, in person events. we can invite guests, but you can’t. the campus President’s staff and Clinic staff are in complete denial how their need to gladhand and curry favor with power and money brokers is any different than the behavior they are asking the students to refrain from. there will be hundreds of politicians and staffers flying in from all across the country, mingling with the entire fundraising and central admin staff of two of the largest employers in the region. there will be before, after and during parties with media, politicians, and hundreds of party leaders in the state. and yet, no one in power at one of the leading health institutions in the country is willing to step forward and say – we MUST NOT have a live, in person event. if the conventions can be virtual, so can this debate.
snoey
@The Thin Black Duke: Just don’t think that Sturgis is going to be worse than East Lansing or what Boston is going to be in a couple of weeks.
Skepticat
As the heat is brutal and I’m way over my allotted immigration time, I’m packing up to return to the petri dish tomorrow after nine months on a desert island in a country with fairly good numbers, and I’m headed to Maine, one of the few states with things mostly under control. However, I have to drive the entire East Coast and wrangle three cats in and out of hotels in the process. I’m concerned that I haven’t had to develop the really good habits I need, but I have my masks, gloves, disinfectant wipes, and a decent measure of paranoia. I just wish there were some means of teletransportation; beam me up, Scotty.
YY_Sima Qian
@Mary G: Per the 8th edition of the COVID-19 treatment plan published by the China National Health Commission, a patient needs to meet the following 3 criteria before being considered recovered from COVID-19 and can be discharged from the COVID-19 ward:
As Amir Khalid states, these criteria are focused on respiratory pathology, and do not address the (admittedly rare) cases where CVOID-19 do not present as a respiratory disease, or the “long hauler” cases with persistent sequela symptoms months after “recovery” from COVID-19. A patient considered recovered from COVID-19, but with significant other symptoms, would be moved to wards of other departments specializing in those pathologies (neurological, cardiovascular, serological, etc.). In China, a COVID-19 patient discharged from the hospital still need to quarantine for another 2 weeks before returning to normal life.
The Thin Black Duke
@snoey: Sturgis will be worse because at least Boston isn’t pretending that COVID-19 doesn’t exist.
WereBear
@Skepticat: Too bad you can’t sail, amirite? :) Watch those cats because moving the environment is not something they like, of course.
WereBear
Someone in Australia mentioned that our nation looks weird from the other side of the world, and I responded as I have when I go shopping and something new is active. “Weird is the new normal.”
I also said, “Since the night of the 2016 election I’ve been in some form of PISD — Post-idiotic stress disorder.”
snoey
@The Thin Black Duke: Right up until the keg is tapped, then they are equal.
evodevo
@The Thin Black Duke: Or if you have the horrendous number of pre co-morbidity cases all gathered in one locale, judging from the photos of the events …the middle-aged mid-life crisis pudgy bikers around here in Ky are in the majority. I don’t know how they get on and off their bikes lol
The Thin Black Duke
@snoey: Uh, no. But whatever. I’m not going to play this false equivalency game anymore. Bye now.
oatler.
Chuck Todd’s having Scott Walker on Meet the Press this morning. Sniff the turd, Chuck, just don’t-ahh no Chuck not in front of the cameras!
snoey
@The Thin Black Duke: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/07/11/184-coronavirus-covid-19-cases-now-linked-to-outbreak-at-east-lansing-bar/
TS (the original)
Just to highlight – In Brisbane (Australia) we have a new cluster of 9 people (& probably more to come). There are 68 places listed (down to the level of shops in a shopping Mall) that these people visited when probably contagious as part of the contact tracing. Imagine trying to do this for 100s of new people every day.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@snoey:
Why do you feel the need to argue this specific point so much?
sdhays
That Birx quote…. Who the f*ck says it’s safe to stand in line at Starbucks? The stupid governor who is killing her citizens?
snoey
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Because someone is wrong on the internet.
And also too I’m in a nice safe exurb south of Boston that’s about to become a whole lot less safe and because I’ve known some bikers and I like them a lot more than frat rats.
TS (the original)
The media love to highlight the worst statistic. If cases are up, they headline cases – otherwise they headline deaths.
After 3 weeks of level 4 shutdown in Melbourne the number of cases have reduced from a top of 700 to the last three days of c. 200. Deaths are a trailing statistic & they should hopefully start to reduce soon as well.
Cermet
@Skepticat: The biggest danger are bathrooms, not most surfaces elsewhere; flushing a recently used toilet is a very serious danger. Best to assume the last person had covid and only flush when and after you can leave before droplets can be inhaled – that means leave after flushing and wear a mast at all times in the bathroom. Remember, soap kills covid 100% so use that to clean your hands (before flushing with a glove) and surfaces where possible if you want to spare alcohol wipes (which if over 60% also is 100% effective.)
Jonas
That tweet by Peter Hotez really says it all. While you hear reporting occasionally on how minority communities are being hit hard by Covid, no-one is really connecting dots here. I’m convinced — and I think subsequent studies and history will bear this out — that the reason so many Americans failed to take Covid seriously and continue to flout common-sense safety measures is that, particularly in rural, predominantly white areas, it was an abstraction. It was a disease “those” people were dying from. We know now that the White House actually *intentionally* slow-walked a national response because Trump saw a political upside to letting the disease ravage minority-majority cities and blue states. It’s the AIDS crisis all over again.
RSA
@OzarkHillbilly:
I suspect part of the problem is pure politics. The UNC system has a board of governors, and appointments are made by the state legislature. NC Republicans have tried to take advantage of this by stacking the board. I am curious about what went on behind the scenes, though I can guess.
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article225098845.html
chopper
@sdhays:
it’s dumb all around. first off, starbucks lobbies are closed except for pick-up, there are no lines except at the drive through. second, back when they were open, people weren’t waiting 8 goddamn hours for a latte like they were waiting to vote in many jurisdictions.
third, and this should be first, voting is a goddamn fundamental constitutional right and one of the primary responsibilities of citizenship. it’s not a goddamn frappuccino.
Gvg
@Ken: I don’t know that they have liability insurance. They are a state school. I think the state might be on the “insurer” and there are a lot of limitations on suing government agencies. Also, the state government has a lot of ability to pressure them. In Florida, the schools including the Universities have been ordered to open. It’s kind of grim.
I’m also going to point out that students have a lot of agency and the details of individuals who have gotten infected here leave me shaking my head. They all start by saying even responsible students like myself can get it so you can too, then describe bars and beach parties….but I took precautions, no you didn’t.
so while University administrators “should” have foreseen this…..young people still did the stupid stuff themselves.
At my University many classes are still online. The students have been given extra time to decide which classes to take being taught how. They don’t have to be in person. They can interact with other students on the internet. If they can afford it, it can still be better to do on line, but move back to town, because it’s easier to get help including tech support (on line) and psychological counseling (on line now too) and not have parents and younger siblings interfering in studying which was a complaint I saw a lot of from spring. The complication is roommates of the same view that mean it and not needing a job out in public to support it.
i think it will take a few weeks to prove to the political powers that schools have to go back to almost all online with exceptions for specific classes like labs.
My nephews middle school just started last week and his mother chose online. It’s his first year in middle, he has been in a small private in a different county. He really misses kids, he’s very social (I wasn’t, I was shy) but the school has classes with extra time afterwards for the kids to hang out online, and he always stays the max and has already made friends.
The Governor and the republican political assholes here are the problem. I am guessing 3 weeks. If I was a teacher, I’d spend the first few classes teaching the kids how to do everything online and get help for tech issues in preparation.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
That was obvious when the whole response feel apparent went it was shown minorities were getting it more. But I still think that’s over thinking Trump. Trump is just lazy assed and fighting the virus takes work.
WaterGirl
@sdhays: Birx is a collaborator who is doing much damage, and should be shamed and shunned until the end of time. Appalling.
First of all, if she’s a doctor, whatever happened to “first do no harm”?
Second, who the hell is she to weigh in on voting, which has been terribly politicized this year. As far as I’m concerned, she can be one of the first against the wall for the COVID reckoning.
Skepticat
@WereBear: The cats are fine once in their carriers and in the car, but I usually need a transfusion after getting them into the carriers. And I almost always have to disassemble a hotel bed or two to retrieve them when it’s time to move on.
@Cermet: Thanks for the reminders. Good points.
WereBear
@Skepticat: May you all make it through okay :)
laura
Spouse has stayed in touch with his formers coworkers. Last night, one texted that his otherwise fit, healthy 21 year old son died at home in the afternoon. Tested negative for CV earlier in the week despite symptoms.
Sloane Ranger
Here are Sunday’s figures from the UK. As Robert Sneddon hasn’t checked in (probably has a real life) I’ll include the Scottish figures.
190,434 tests were reported as processed today, of which 1,041 were positive. 938 of these were in England, 83 in Scotland, 20 in Wales and none in Northern Ireland. Usual warning that due to this being a weekend, some admin units will be closed so there may have been a delay in reporting some cases.
Hospital admissions and number of people on ventilators remain static (unsurprising as they haven’t been updated for the last few days).
There were 6 new deaths nationwide, using the 28 days criteria, 4 of these were in England and 2 in Wales.
As a nation we seem to be holding steady but schools in England will re-open within the next couple of weeks so…
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s Creationism, they’ve been raised since kids that science is an opinion and a conspiracy against real America.
WaterGirl
@laura: I feel for them. Young life, gone in an instant.
This is an awful disease, and letting it get this out of hand in a (formerly?) first-world country is crimina.
catclub
The ones who can get on and off their bikes are the healthy ones in that cohort. The ones on hoverrounds, not so much.
rikyrah
@laura:
Lord have mercy :(