NBC News: The U.S. coronavirus death toll has now passed 180,000.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 26, 2020
Trump has said, several times, in public, that he would like the government to sabotage Covid testing and … well … it turns out he's the president! https://t.co/1Y1xqpBRWu
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 26, 2020
Fauci tells @drsanjaygupta he was under anesthesia when task force met to discuss changing testing guidance. “I am concerned about the interpretation of these recs & worried it will give people the incorrect assumption asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact it is.”
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 26, 2020
the country with complete and total nonsense talk. @ProjectLincoln
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) August 27, 2020
The federal govt is offering few details on how the coronavirus is spreading, even as people socialize & travel, and authorities reopen schools and businesses. It's frustrating data researchers, who want to help authorities make decisions to save lives https://t.co/5T1AgS4kxO
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 26, 2020
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COVID-19 LIVE updates ? https://t.co/nQfTTsPsnK
? Coronavirus cases pass 24 million globally
?? South Korea virus cases highest since March
?? India reports record 75,000 new virus infections pic.twitter.com/FJJmYlaDHF— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 27, 2020
For the global pandemic. the US and Brazil stand alone on a death plateau of a thousand lost lives per day.
Today 1,249 Americans reported dead from covid-19.
Now into 6th consecutive week of >1,000 fatalities every weekday pic.twitter.com/R1WZZ4sIpV— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 27, 2020
Coronavirus: Vaccine front-runner China already inoculating workers https://t.co/iclnQ7dHWM
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 27, 2020
Coronavirus: Hong Kong to push ahead with easing social-distancing rules despite confirming 21 new cases https://t.co/3ANqlfSvh6
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) August 27, 2020
China's offer of coronavirus tests for all in Hong Kong meets with public distrust https://t.co/nGeYLrEAoU pic.twitter.com/qFqOJBLQ6h
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
South Korea's parliament is shut down and a group of lawmakers enter self-quarantine as the country records more than 400 new #coronavirus infectionshttps://t.co/HBel23lgY7 pic.twitter.com/VswcDGDqCw
— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 27, 2020
South Korea urges work from home as country reports most daily cases since March https://t.co/h0u5iwx9q6 pic.twitter.com/nCYXAxCgQj
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
India reports record daily jump of 75,760 coronavirus infections https://t.co/i0Lm0Obzhd pic.twitter.com/S9HmguOOOC
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
The only story that should matter today: India's caseload reported today is the highest that any country has ever recorded on a single day since the start of the outbreak. (WHO and John Hopkins have differing figures but the trend is the same)https://t.co/g9OfZPoYC6
— Niha Masih (@NihaMasih) August 27, 2020
India coronavirus: Covid strikes remote Greater Andamanese tribe https://t.co/2tf4KXb6Id
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 27, 2020
Despite a spike in coronavirus infections, authorities in Europe are determined to send children back to school. They want to narrow learning gaps between haves and have-nots that deepened during virus lockdowns – and to get their parents back to work. https://t.co/eVWy8yAQMf
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 27, 2020
Schools Can Reopen, Germany Finds, but Expect a ‘Roller Coaster’ https://t.co/2xtcdomfhF
— Volker Stollorz (@Stollovo) August 26, 2020
Orthodox Jewish yeshiva (religious school) students study in plastic cells set up amid the Covid-19 pandemic in the Israeli city of Sderot.
Israel has over 92,000 COVID-19 cases to its nine million population, with fewer than 700 deaths
? Menahem Kahana pic.twitter.com/loTVE7XLVC
— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 27, 2020
Australia COVID-19 hotspot reports lowest rise in cases in nearly two months https://t.co/lsHfpHKHGE pic.twitter.com/8i1XUXVBVV
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
Africa's coronavirus outbreak may have passed its peak, the World Health Organization's regional director told a conference of African health ministers. Dr. Matshidiso Moeti said new cases are declining. S. Africa has had half the continent's cases https://t.co/tWTsjaaKCS
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 26, 2020
Argentina daily COVID-19 cases top 10,000 for first time https://t.co/n7nDaYFwGX pic.twitter.com/W0WL1ryFvn
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
Brazil asks China for proof chicken wings had coronavirus https://t.co/y8KHK8N1FK pic.twitter.com/amOe2xaXcb
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
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A dilemma for ‘long-haulers’: Many can’t prove they ever had #Covid19 https://t.co/IcQJMtRlVw via @statnews
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 27, 2020
"Asymptomatic #SARSCoV2 infections contributed substantially to transmission… were the source for 69% (20-85%) of all infections"
https://t.co/Ni4bXac21v
New @eLife by @JonCEmery @Rein_Houben @LSHTM @cmmid_LSHTM @LSHTM_TB and colleagues pic.twitter.com/kCECeeAB47— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 26, 2020
Moderna said its experimental COVID-19 vaccine induced immune responses in older adults that were similar to younger participants https://t.co/laiuhop8GO pic.twitter.com/90X5x9Vdna
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
J&J adds Chile, Argentina and Peru to Latin America COVID-19 vaccine trials https://t.co/hKP1vKjr4m pic.twitter.com/7sbBCGQCDk
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
“The coronavirus may infect anyone, young or old, but older men are up to twice as likely to become severely sick and to die as women of the same age. Why? Men produce a weaker immune response to the virus than do women.” https://t.co/XwxuaTDvPm
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) August 26, 2020
US Coronavirus: Covid-19 child cases have increased by 21% since early August, new data shows – CNN @AmerAcadPeds https://t.co/7b9FepX3j8
— Mark Del Monte, JD (@AAPDelMonte) August 26, 2020
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My university is testing all students and staff 2x/wk.
So it processed 17,000 coronavirus tests yesterday.
That is 2.7 percent of all testing done across the entire United States.
That is not a typo.
— Alfred L Roca (@AlfredLRoca) August 25, 2020
U.S. Justice Department weighs probe of blue states over COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes https://t.co/nNkdenMluy pic.twitter.com/ytWMAA1nbP
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday said it may investigate whether four states led by Democratic governors violated the civil rights of the elderly by requiring nursing homes to admit coronavirus patients, a practice which critics say led to thousands of deaths.
The department said it was seeking COVID-19 data related to nursing homes from four states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan…
Two of the four targeted states, Michigan and Pennsylvania, are among the most hotly contested in the Nov. 3 presidential election.
All four states have been hit hard by the pandemic, reporting among the highest number of COVID-related cases and deaths associated with nursing homes, according to figures reported by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The Justice Department did not issue data requests to other states that have reported comparable caseloads at nursing home facilities, such as Texas, Florida and California.
Tremendous @AP piece dissects how attempts by the Governor & leaders of #Florida politics to muzzle and cut public health, downplaying the #COVID19 threat, exploded in their faces.
Cautionary tale: Public Health matters.https://t.co/ff7Iuv8ytX— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 25, 2020
Maine summer camps successfully stem spread of COVID-19: CDC https://t.co/xRzcPtBD8x pic.twitter.com/YlZC78D92g
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 27, 2020
Steeplejack (phone)
Hard to believe there have been no comments in the hour since this post went up.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers. Five new cases. Three cases from local infection, all Malaysians, and all at the Armed Forces Hospital in Camp Terendak, Melaka: two patients in pre-surgery screening, one hospital worker screened because of symptoms. DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says the hospital is not yet seen as a cluster site, but his ministry is monitoring the situation. Two imported cases, both Malaysians, returning from Egypt and the Philippines. The cumulative reported total is 9,296 cases.
16 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 8,994 patients recovered — 96.8% of the cumulative reported total. This brings active and contagious cases currently being isolated/treated in hospital down to 177 patients; eight are in ICU, six of them on respirators.
No new deaths since 31st July, which makes this 27-day stretch without Covid-19 fatalities Malaysia’s longest since the outbreak began. The total remains at 125 deats, 1.34% of the cumulative reported total, 1.37% of resolved cases.
In other news, an enhanced movement control order zone has been declared in Kedah, around the Tawar cluster site, effective midnight tonight local time, for an indefinite period. The Ministry is also investigating whether there is a connection between that cluster and the Sivagangga cluster; in both clusters, the strain of the virus involved carried the mutation designated D614G.
OzarkHillbilly
It would seem that humans on an individual basis are incapable of consistent responsible behavior and that when they get together in groups, it magnifies.
This is silly talk. There is no 1 single peak.
Feature, not a bug.
STFU tom.
OzarkHillbilly
@Steeplejack (phone): It only showed up on my screen about 15 mins ago.
Steeplejack
@OzarkHillbilly:
It doesn’t show up on a “next post” wing on the previous post unless you press the “Seriously, really do a page refresh” button (“click here to refresh” link under “Leave a comment”).
OzarkHillbilly
@Steeplejack: In the early AM, I always have a window open to the front page of BJ and refresh it every 5 or 10 minutes (unless I am engrossed in a story elsewhere), dialed to in between the OTR post and the last of last nights because as Anne explained, she thinks the OTR post should be at the top of the page. I never depend on those “next post” wings. They have lied to me too many times.
This is not the first time this has happened to me. I have no idea why or how it does.
TS (the original)
@OzarkHillbilly:
This is why
People are still lying, we only hear about the ones who are caught out or the ones who seek medical attention because they think they have COVID-19.
Geminid
Men being hit harder by Covid-19 is a physical effect of XCDD (X Chromosome Defiency Disorder). Usually the effects of XCDD are mental.
WereBear
It would be different if zombies roamed the streets eating people’s unmasked faces and leaving the masked ones alone…
OzarkHillbilly
@TS (the original):My point was more directed at the fact that all those early *success story* countries are now having difficulties after a relaxation of vigilance, because people everywhere are still basically people, with all the same faults and foibles (including a tendency to lie about inconvenient facts). Culture can make a difference, but it’s not a cure for the human condition.
** I consider NZ to be the exception that proves the rule. They remained vigilant and as such when it inevitably returned to their shores they caught it early and appear (I have read nothing of them lately, which I take to mean there is no story there) to have stopped it in it’s tracks. Of course, being an island nation helps.
Matt McIrvin
@OzarkHillbilly: These outbreaks that are so alarming to them are TINY compared to ours. Their “oh my God, shut down the whole country” is a situation that we’d read as “mission accomplished, open the bars!”
Ken
@WereBear: We could try drones. China used them to scold and fine people who were outside. I’m sure they could be fitted with face-eating attachments.
Baud
@WereBear:
The RNC has taught me that’s what will happen if Biden wins.
OzarkHillbilly
@Matt McIrvin: To belabor the obvious…
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly:
Perhaps the navigation arrows are run by this guy!
P.S. “Oogle! Oogle!”
Mary G
The OC ticked up on a couple of categories, but not enough to fall off the state list of “keep these numbers for 14 days and you can reopen” counties. We’re on day 4. In other news, the college kids of my next door neighbor had another huge party today. I just want to put on a mask, face shield, and gloves and go over there and slap somebody.
WereBear
@Baud: An online friend reported, “People in my neighborhood are saying that Biden would make them wear a mask so they aren’t voting for him.”
Of course, they’d never vote for him ANYWAY but Trump buried that thought in their heads and his half-hearted attempts to change it meant nothing.
mrmoshpotato
@WereBear: “I never thought zombies would eat my unmasked face!” snobbed the woman who attended a Zombies Eating Unmasked Faces party.
Quick question: Where did these zombies come from?
ETA – also too, it’s a shame your comment is too long for the rotating tag. :(
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato:
I remember him!
That makes me….really old.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Another capitulation to Barr.
One would think the lawyers would have insisted on Barr adding one of the states the Trump Administration likes just to add a veneer of legitimacy. I suppose he’ll be mean to them if they speak up.
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: Hazmat suit. Sign on front “Free Slaps – Upside Your Head!”
Kay
I guess the thinking is Barr goes away at some point and the institution’s credibility is magically restored now that the bad, scary man has left the building.
That isn’t how credibility works.
Steeplejack
Blast from the past (February):
SFAW
Since it’s probably too late for the House to impeach The Traitor Barr, would it be considered uncivil or shrill of me to hope that — assuming a Biden win — Barr swings from the yardarm? Literally, not figuratively.
Part of me wants a Biden Administration to spend the first six months doing to Rethug officials (etc.) exactly what this maladministration has done to Blue states. The Red screams and whines would reach the heavens.
TS (the original)
@OzarkHillbilly:
NZ still has new cases. It is not easy to stop & they still haven’t determined where the new cluster started.
Probably some poetic license from the media here
mrmoshpotato
@Steeplejack: How about dumbasses start destroying champagne and French’s mustard again? Would that show the virus?
Obdurodon
@WereBear: It would probably be different only in the sense that the mask-haters would interpret “herd immunity” as ripping the masks off of wearers and shoving them in front of the zombies to be eaten first.
SFAW
@Kay:
Not to put too fine a point on it, but: I’m reasonably confident that Traitor Barr doesn’t care. He’s got the power, he’s going to use it.
mrmoshpotato
@SFAW: I want Biden’s administration to charge all this criminal trash. Ya know, the opposite of Obama letting the war criminals in the Bush regime skate.
Kay
@SFAW:
Trump ordered them to go after his political enemies and they hopped right to it. We’re told they have to or they’ll lose their jobs. Why we want them in their jobs if their jobs include launching political prosecutions of the Trump Family is never explained.
Steeplejack
Yamiche Alcindor reporting on Morning Joe that 1,000-1,500 people will be attending Trump’s speech at the White House tonight. No masks required, unknown if any testing will be done.
Super spreader event? ?
Steeplejack
Redacted. FYWP.
OzarkHillbilly
China, of course. SATSQ.
@Kay: My first thought ran to AZ.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Memo to self: replenish strategic alcohol reserve.
SFAW
@mrmoshpotato:
That was my main “objection” to Kamala Harris as VP: I want(ed) her as AG, so a REAL DoJ would prosecute every last one of those traitorous, evil motherfuckers.
mrmoshpotato
@Steeplejack: Is there a drinking game going on in the RNC threads? And is it called “WTF?! Bottoms up!”
SFAW
@Kay:
I think it would be good humor if a Biden DOJ (FSM-willing) goes after Moscow Mitch. And when he whines (or whatever it is turtles do), they respond “Where were YOU when Trump’s DOJ was doing FAR WORSE, you traitorous asshole?”
ETA: I can’t believe how much I hate all these treasonous/traitorous mofos
Sloane Ranger
The UK Dashboard was experiencing technical difficulties yesterday (again) so here are the delayed figures from the UK (minus Scotland as usual)
There were 1,048 positive tests reported yesterday. Positive tests remain stabilised at about this level. Don’t know how many were tests were processed since that section of the Dashboard hasn’t been updated since the 20th.
875 of the positive tests were in England, 72 in Northern Ireland and 34 in Wales. The North of England remains the most heavily affected area.
There were 16 deaths nationwide. The 2 in Scotland reported by Robert Sneddon a few days ago have now appeared in the UK Dashboard. The remaining 14 deaths are divided between England with 13 and Wales with 1.
UK Government made a U turn about wearing masks in school. They will now be mandatory outside of classrooms in high incidence areas and up to Head Teacher’s discretion elsewhere. Also, the Government is trialing quarantine payments of £185 pw for low income workers in high incidence areas.
Kay
The Chamber hedges their bet on Republicans.
I love how “a split in the business community” is portrayed as a disaster. The “business community” must apparently be 100% far Right with no dissenters. Cancel culture!
Steeplejack
@mrmoshpotato:
Canceled after the first night because of epidemic alcohol poisoning.
Kay
@SFAW:
I’m old fashioned. I don’t think the DOJ should go after Trumps or Bidens enemies. I think they’ve tragically lost their way and will find it very difficult to find their way back. They can’t just call a time out on acting ethically due to extreme circumstances. The whole point of the ethical rules is they’re used when there’s a threat to prosecutorial independence. If no leader ever behaved badly and there was never a threat we wouldn’t need them. They’re FOR when it’s bad. When it’s good you don’t have any reason to call on them.
trnc
The thinking is that Barr helps DT win again by smearing democrats. That gives Barr the option to stay on and start operating with zero limits.
mrmoshpotato
@SFAW: Someone might have an interest in that.
mrmoshpotato
@Steeplejack: Is MomSense ok? ?
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 68 new cases, no deaths of confirmed cases. Test positivity rate is 0.4%. Hospital numbers are up slightly again. The outbreak at the 2 Sisters food processing plant in Coupar Angus may be continuing to spread but slowly, with 10 of the new cases overnight linked to the plant.
Testing numbers for children between the ages of 2 and 17 has increased 7-fold over the past couple of months as schools prepared to open. The test positivity rate in this group is currently about 0.3%. At the moment the evidence is that these cases are not due to spread within schools but via outside social contacts. This may change.
Obdurodon
@Kay: The DOJ should not go after Trump or Biden’s enemies *because they are enemies*. They should pursue the cases of greatest wrongdoing and need for redress … which means darn near the same outcome because those people *really are* corrupt and have done great harm. Being a Trump accomplice shouldn’t be a shield under a Democrat president any more than it should under a Republican one.
SFAW
@Kay:
I know you’re right. But I’m so angry and frustrated over the enabling by the Rethugs and Barr of Trumps quasi-dictatorial desires, that I want to see some retribution. My perception is: what the DOJ (and various other Trump sycophants/idolaters) is/are doing is what fascist dictators do to their political opponents, in order to maintain their hold on power. What I’m looking for is: making all those evil bastards pay for what they have DONE, not for what we think they might do. Of course, they would paint it as “political payback,” when in reality it would be “this is so that y’all won’t be tempted to try that shit again, ever.”
I see this as a legitimate and ethical, use of the DOJ — they’d be going after crimes, not opponents/ideology.
Bostondreams
Duval County Schools in Florida, which is Jacksonville (as fans of the Good Place would know!), has been ordered to stop updating its website that posts COVID-19 numbers. One wonders why…
Steeplejack (phone)
@mrmoshpotato:
She was on seltzer and gummy bears.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic case, for the 6th day in a row.
In Ürumqi, there are currently 107 confirmed and 38 asymptomatic cases, with no cases in serious condition. 17 confirmed cases recovered yesterday and were released from hospitals, 6 asymptomatic cases were released from medical quarantine, 4 serious cases improved to moderate conditions. There are 2,506 close contacts remaining under quarantine and medical observation.
At Dalian in Liaoning Province, 4 cases are currently in the hospital. There are 78 close contacts remaining under quarantine.
Yesterday, China reported 8 new imported confirmed cases, 19 imported asymptomatic cases, 1 imported suspect case:
Today, Hong Kong reported 21 new cases, 18 from local transmission, 4 of whom do not have clear source of transmission. Another 10 cases are preliminarily confirmed.
Sloane Ranger
They’ve clearly sorted out the technical issues with the Government website because they’ve updated the figures.
On Wednesday, there were 186,500 tests. This is a bit down from the last figure I saw, which was over 190,000.
Nationwide there were 1,522 positive tests recorded today. Robert Sneddon has already reported Scotland’s number. Of the remaining new cases, England had 1,350 (largest number reported for some time), Northern Ireland had 69 and Wales 35 (about the usual number).
There were 12 new deaths, 10 in England and 1 each in Northern Ireland and Wales.
As of Tuesday, there were 767 people hospitalised across the nation, 64 of whom were on ventilators.
Also, the Government’s Test and Trace programme has failed to meet it targets of reaching 80% of people with positive tests with only 75.5% contacted.