Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said that President Trump's coronavirus diagnosis shows the importance of taking the pandemic seriously, telling Americans that wearing masks is more important than being a ‘tough guy’ https://t.co/eJmEtgf4QV pic.twitter.com/m5kPJX7mDv
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 3, 2020
U.S. COVID-19 survivors to honor dead Sunday, rally online for effective pandemic response https://t.co/9PLt4LFaEJ pic.twitter.com/qxnpG2ymlC
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 3, 2020
The president has treatment options for his coronavirus infection. None are very good. By @Laurie_Garrett https://t.co/0Tkw8lk4Qc
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 2, 2020
Chernobyl, but the entire Politburo goes on a public tour of Pripyat. https://t.co/SPc81O50XK
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) October 3, 2020
When will we know how serious Trump's #Covid19 experience will be? The key period is still a week or so down the road. With help from @meganranney & @laxswamy. https://t.co/xUsxuvjIv0
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 2, 2020
This answers many of your questions.
The next ten days will determine President Trump's future.
Realize the percentages on that red line are LOT higher (worse) among older men with obesity.@kutrinet pic.twitter.com/E7qCUnrQjI
— Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician) (@jeremyfaust) October 2, 2020
As of September 28, national forecasts predict from 2,700 to 8,600 new #COVID19 deaths will be reported during the week ending October 24. These forecasts predict 219,000 to 232,000 total COVID-19 deaths in the US by October 24. More: https://t.co/Ft6cglTbrn. pic.twitter.com/XgPcJixeaX
— CDC (@CDCgov) October 2, 2020
% who say they personally know someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19:
??: 30%
??: 49%
??: 63%
(data thru Sept 27)
more: https://t.co/FcFgKp3BU5 pic.twitter.com/24kbamCPw5— Laura Wronski (@laurawronski) October 2, 2020
The US had +51,403 new confirmed coronavirus cases today, bringing the total to over 7.5 million. The 7-day moving average has been very gradually rising again to over 42k/day. pic.twitter.com/yiN7wjABqK
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) October 3, 2020
As of September 28, national forecasts predict from 2,700 to 8,600 new #COVID19 deaths will be reported during the week ending October 24. These forecasts predict 219,000 to 232,000 total COVID-19 deaths in the US by October 24. More: https://t.co/Ft6cglTbrn. pic.twitter.com/XgPcJixeaX
— CDC (@CDCgov) October 2, 2020
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⚡ Russia confirmed 9,859 new Covid-19 cases Saturday, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 1,204,502 and marking the highest one-day increase since May 14 https://t.co/tdkby9FsYQ
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 3, 2020
Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 2,563 to 296,958: RKI https://t.co/VfiDxrnmOG pic.twitter.com/czW5BHqhTO
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 3, 2020
Coronavirus: Spain imposes partial lockdown on defiant Madrid https://t.co/78ml2bdCIL
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 2, 2020
BREAKING: India's Health Ministry says confirmed coronavirus deaths have surpassed 100,000, third behind the U.S. and Brazil. https://t.co/BFU2nuwe0y
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 3, 2020
In India’s northeastern Assam state, one man has been braving the risk of contamination and social stigma to conduct the funeral rites of COVID-19 victims. https://t.co/OdHsXum9QP
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 3, 2020
Garuda Indonesia airline released a video on social media showcasing how it painted a face mask on its aircraft to encourage people to wear their own pic.twitter.com/HYmmXW63za
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 3, 2020
Police increase patrolling in Australia's COVID-19 hotspot https://t.co/y2kllKvne9 pic.twitter.com/0Ru8LrQ3Tz
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 3, 2020
Brazil registers 708 coronavirus deaths on Friday https://t.co/oBTrrn4J4y pic.twitter.com/sgwRlzKQmY
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 3, 2020
Mexico's confirmed coronavirus cases up to 753,090, authorities say https://t.co/0B51E5aWkf pic.twitter.com/BsrY734AQF
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 3, 2020
Canada to keep U.S. border curbs until pandemic is much less serious https://t.co/Zb2DRZIXlC pic.twitter.com/4Lv5pYspc8
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 2, 2020
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The treatment given to President Trump is a promising but unproven antibody drug that tries to help the body fight off a coronavirus infection. By @MMarchioneAP https://t.co/z8geH9LKZ7
— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) October 2, 2020
U.S. advisory panel has outlined who should get a COVID-19 vaccine first, with a plea to get the shots to low-income minorities.https://t.co/eWMMV4F3Xc
— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) October 2, 2020
Adults can sometimes suffer from dangerous symptoms that resemble a coronavirus-linked syndrome in children, researchers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say https://t.co/3QVpKxM2eY
— CNN (@CNN) October 3, 2020
Medical professionals agree: Temperature checks alone are an insufficient way to suss out and minimize COVID-19 risk. https://t.co/TrfugsUlYb
— NPR (@NPR) October 3, 2020
COVID-19 vaccine roll-out expected in less than 3 months in UK – The Times https://t.co/eGWFajPHZW pic.twitter.com/8mELtG7Hew
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 3, 2020
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Florida hit this milestone this week; South Carolina could hit it any day; USA could hit it in a week or two.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) October 2, 2020
More than 19,000 or 1.44% of Amazon’s U.S. frontline workers contracted COVID-19 this year https://t.co/2rue1r1ZeS pic.twitter.com/1sQeDCOCwF
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 2, 2020
Notre Dame launched a site for students to snitch on each other for COVID-19 violations.
Instead, they awesomely have used it to report the university president for shaking hands and not wearing a mask at the White House, demanding his resignation.
— Andrew Goldstein DEEP CANVASSING GETS VOTES (@AndrewMakeTweet) October 2, 2020
GOP legislative leaders file motion in court today seeking to block mask mandate, arguing the governor doesn't have authority.
Move comes after more than 17,000 people in Wisconsin tested positive in the last 7 days and some hospitals in NE WI are on brink of being overwhelmed.
— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) October 2, 2020
Star Tribune: Minnesota's three Republican congressmen flew home on a @Delta flight from Washington, D.C., Friday night, despite airline restrictions on passengers recently exposed to COVID-19-positive people such as President Donald Trump.https://t.co/ixvcwOwOPh
— Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) October 3, 2020
Unfortunately, I have come to the conclusion that I need to resume publishing weekly excess mortality reports for Massachusetts.
I‘ve been monitoring this all summer but stopped publishing when we had many weeks without excess deaths.
Today, I see signs that our streak ended.
— Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician) (@jeremyfaust) September 30, 2020
Wednesday:
THEY SANG KARAOKE AT THE TRUMP FUNDRAISER https://t.co/9PItIwdhVm
— David Brauer (@dbrauer) October 2, 2020
J.
My husband thinks this is the end for Trump (as in he dies or is incapacitated). I say Teflon Don will be fine. What say all of you?
Cermet
No idea but his treatment goes beyond the state-of-the-art; that is, he gets the best experimental drugs/treatment. So, his odds are vastly better than everyone else who gets sick.
Sebastian
@J.:
77, morbidly obese, got a huge dose of virus, deteriorated quickly, and is a stroke survivor. If I had to bet? Toast.
joel hanes
@J.:
Too soon to tell.
But there’s a substantial chance that he’ll feel terrible for the next eight days, then have a crisis which he survives, but only with long-lasting physical and/or mental deficits.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Sebastian: We don’t actually know he had a stroke(yeah, the lack of transparency is a big problem), and he’s 74.
Nina
Thank you for that Jeremy Faust tweet – I have been looking for a graphic like that.
piratedan
what I find notable is here we are, roughly 9 months into this shambling state of being half-open, half-infected, not getting the benefit of being either all the way open or all the way shut down and the GOP nationally, is still fighting common sense locally by insisting that “we stay open” even though its opening up millions to infection and not even allowing us to protect ourselves rudimentarily with mask mandates.
what in the ever loving fuck is wrong with these people where they deem a capricious personal right is greater than the public health.
Amir Khalid
@J.:
The odds may not be currently in his favour.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 10 new imported confirmed cases and 11 imported asymptomatic cases:
Today, the city reported 4 new cases, 1 from local infection, source of infection not yet identified.
JPL
The president is getting the best care, so he should be able to hang on until election day. Although I’m not a doctor I did sleep close to nine hours. wahoo!
Nicole
I clicked through to read the article about the GOP congresspersons flying home and of course Delta defended the company allowing it. I’m very disappointed; Delta made a big deal of publicizing lifetime bans for passengers who wouldn’t wear masks. What these 3 Congresspersons did was worse, but, as always, IOKIYAR.
Sab
@YY_Sima Qian: Shanghai 4 new cases. Isn’t Shanghai the largest city in the world? My small city in Ohio has that many new cases, and we are doing well by US standards.
Sloane Ranger
Trump looked fine when he walked to Marine 1. His history shows he’s not the brave warrior Eric Trump tweeted about, he’s a physical coward and bully.
My guess, he’s either asymptomatic or has mild symptoms but he’s insisted on going to Walter Reed because he’s scared to death and bullied his doctors into giving him the experimental treatment because it’s the best option out there.
If there’s political fallout, he’ll worry about that later. His cult followers will believe anything he tells them after all.
snoey
@Sebastian: We don’t know why they hospitalized him. Non-zero chance his disease isn’t that bad, but it’s the only way to keep him isolated and compliant.
eta or what Sloane Ranger says.
JPL
Trump could be fearful, and looking for sympathy votes, and still be quite ill. He didn’t tweet yesterday at all.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. 317 new cases, breaking the new cases record for the second day in a row. The cumulative reported total is up to 12, 088 cases.
All 317 cases are from local infection. 303 cases are Malaysians, concentrated in Sabah and Kedah; the other 14 are non-Malaysians. (A state-by-state new-case breakdown will follow.)
121 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 10,216 patients recovered — 84.52% of the cumulative reported total. 1,735 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 29 are in ICU, of whom four are on respirators.
One new Covid-19 death was reported today, for a total of 137 deaths — 1.13% of the cumulative reported total, 1.32% of resolved cases.
hells littlest angel
@J.: @J.: I say, prepare yourselves for the tackiest, most poorly attended state funeral of all time!
prostratedragon
@hells littlest angel: Good enough reason to hope it doesn’t happen soon. We’ve had quite enough burlesque.
Jeffrey
The idea that Donald is now the guinea pig for experimental drugs is pleasing.
I expect he will survive. My hope is the after effect fatigue hangs on and on.
Platonicspoof
If you click the Faust twitter link with the typical progression chart, and then click on the chart, there are comments on the side that point out that the chart is from April, that there is far more info on the long haulers now. that progression is far different for children than for a morbid character like Trump, etc. But as always, I appreciate all of the links.
Sab
@Jeffrey: Me too. I don’t much like the me that myself is seeing lately.
Barbara
@Cermet: Agree that he won’t die because of poor medical care, but the drug he is receiving is meant to boost his own immune response. These drugs are helpful at the margins, but the disease could still wreak havoc. I am pretty sure I did have a mild case back in the spring (started with a dry cough) and there were days when I just couldn’t get out of bed.
Sab
Kelly Anne Conway’s daughter says her mom tested positive, then trotted around the house all day maskless and DID NOT TELL HER CHILDREN. This is the difference between quarantine and isolate.
I had issues with my mother over the years, but I always knew she put our best interests first. Imagine having a psychopath for a mother.
Sebastian
@snoey:
All true but I offer this: they don’t give you Remdisivir just so, he deteriorated quickly, and he didn’t look well at all when he recorded his video.
OzarkHillbilly
@J.: If wishes were horses beggars would ride. So I say nothing but “We’ll see when we see.”
Amir Khalid
The new case breakdown: 35 cases are among people returning to other states from Sabah, including one non-Malaysian. Of the reat, 155 cases are in Sabah, comprising 100 symptomatic persons (including four non-Malaysians), 35 cases from the Bangau-Bangau cluster (including two non-Malaysians), 10 cases from the Benteng Lahad Datu police lockup cluster, four cases detected in community screening, three cases from the Laut cluster, two from the Joo Hwa cluster, and one case from the Buang Sayang cluster. 100 cases in Kedah comprising 97 cases from the Tembok Prison cluster (including four non-Malaysians), two cases from the new Bah Lunas cluster, and one case from the new Bah Ketil cluster.
17 cases in Selangor, comprising 12 from the Jalan Meru cluster, three from the new Jelok cluster, and two close contacts of other cases. Two cases in Terengganu, one close contact of another case and one person screened at a domestic/international port of entry. Two cases in Kelantan, both close contacts of another case. One new case in Penang state, from the new Bah Rose cluster. One case in Johor, from the Jalan Maru cluster in Selangor. Two cases in KL, one from the Jalan Meru cluster and one from the Jelok cluster.
The one death reported today was a 57-year-old man in Sabah with a history of diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidæmia (abnormal blood lipids level).
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: It is what it is
Lapassionara
@J.: I sure don’t think he dies or is permanently incapacitated. I just hope he doesn’t get more popular, which is what happened to Boris Johnson when he got COVID-19.
good morning
Brachiator
@J.:
No way to know, and any speculation I might offer would be heavily weighted by my bias against the Orange Beast.
Baud
@JPL:
Of COVID does get him, I think his grave marker should say “He was what he was.”
Which is probably the most diplomatic thing you could day about him anyway.
Baud
@Lapassionara:
Some people yesterday were saying that’s a myth.
Lapassionara
@Baud: I hope so.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Hey, wait a minute. That’s what my marker is gonna say. Either that or, “I’m not waiting for any of you fucks this time.”
Amir Khalid
@Sloane Ranger:
I suppose it’s possible that Trump is malingering to fish for public sympathy. But if he is, and he gets exposed, he’s going to have hell to pay.
J.
@hells littlest angel: I am looking forward to it.
TS (the original)
@Lapassionara:
Very different circumstances. The UK General Election was in December 2019 – pre covid.
Boris caught covid-19 in late March 2020 – at the beginning of the pandemic when he was doing mainly the right thing to steer the UK through the virus situation.
Trump is facing an election, 8 months after a failed attempt to stem a pandemic (well no attempt in reality).
J.
@Lapassionara: Agree. (That is my concern, too.)
Princess
I don’t think what drugs they are giving him tells us much about his condition. He has been briefed on all the new treatments and I am sure he is demanding they give him everything.
His chances are above average for his age group because of the level of care he is going to get, lowered because of obesity, lowered if he does have heart/stroke problems, and lowered again depending on his blood type.
lowtechcyclist
Fucking death cult.
Here in the U.S.A., every day’s another Jonestown, and they’re fighting to keep it that way.
Aleta
@Baud: Pay a nurse to whisper “Your gravestone will be left blank forever. Pence signed executive order. Live broadcast. Ratings were huge.”
RSA
@Sebastian:
As someone elsewhere observed, now that we’ve learned about Trump’s tax returns, we can add poverty to his co-morbidities.
Edith
@Sab:
I replied to your comment about your kitty and your worries about having to give him daily meds.
I have a kitty with IBD who needs daily prednisolone (corticosteroid). My vet offers a transdermal option for cats that are especially difficult to pill.
They send the prescription to a compounding pharmacy, who then send me a pen with cream that dispenses the correct dose with a click. I rub it on the hairless part of his ear. It’s easy.
It’s not as good as a pill produced in a controlled manufacturing plant. Compounding pharmacies are a poorly regulated part of the medical system, and are more likely to have qualify-control issues. He also probably doesn’t get exactly the dose he’s been prescribed every time.
My vet has a specific compounding pharmacy they use that they’re comfortable with. They have a lot of cats on daily medication who use it because it really does preserve quality of life for cats who get really stressed when being given meds, so if it didn’t work medically they would know by now.
The pharmacy is called Roadrunner. They’re out west somewhere. If your vet is open to the idea, but wants more info, I can ask if he’s willing to talk to your vet. This is a pretty traditional practice, not a lot of forays into alternative medicine. Let me know. I hope your kitty feels better soon.
YY_Sima Qian
@Sab: Metropolitan Shanghai has > 20M residents, urban area alone is probably 15M. The 4 cases reported by the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission yesterday are all imported. Interestingly, Shanghai has not reported any imported asymptomatic cases over the past several months, though they do have the category, not sure why.
Mainland China has not reported any domestic transmission since the outbreak at Ürumqi in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region was snuffed out several weeks ago. The two asymptomatic cases reported by Qingdao in Shandong Province are strongly suspected to be infected by contaminated frozen seafood off a Russian fishing trawler, though they were counted as domestic cases.
Of course, eradication here does not mean that COVID-19 is completely gone from the population, just at a level that cannot be detected by currently leve of surveillance testing. I would say the level of surveillance testing in China is extremely strong. Everyone working in positions of elevated risk (health care, law enforcement, customs and immigration, ports and cold chain logistics, produce markets, etc.) are all tested regularly, at least bi-weekly. Many large scale factories still require visitors to furnish a negative RT-PCR report to gain entry (they cannot afford a shut down over even a single case), though office parks no longer require them. Last week, I went to a hospital in Wuhan to take yet another RT-PCR test (my 7th) for a business trip, there was a steady trickle of people before and after me taking the test.
Things in China have relaxed quite substantially over the past several weeks. The number of places checking temperature and health codes have dropped significantly. The outdoor parks and the more spacious shopping centers in Wuhan do not bother with them, anymore. Masking rate has fallen to ~ 70% outdoors in Wuhan, though still 90% indoors, both are much lower elsewhere in China.
I went to Shanghai last week for a business trip, and for the first time after landing at the airport, we were not required to furnish updated local health code. Likewise when checking into hotels. The health code APPs in China do not collect nearly as much granular information as the contact tracing APPs used in South Korea, Singapore, or Germany. The red/yellow/green code is determined by self-declared health status (which no one bothers to update, any more) and location tracking via cell phone tower triangulation. If one has travelled through an area (even if just transiting) at Medium or High Risk, the health code status is automatic changed to Yellow. Only people who has tested positive or diagnosed as suspect have Red codes, and those who are traced as close contacts are Yellow. Contact tracing is still largely done by traditional manual methods via telephone, WeChat, and face to face interviews, supplemented by the ubiquitous CCTV cameras, as well as passenger manifests for trains and flights. Chinese authorities made a deliberate decision to avoid accessing the much more accurate GPS and Bluetooth information, so far, due to privacy concerns. Since all of Mainland China is currently Low Risk, is isn’t any expectation that anyone’s health code is anything but Green.
This week is the week long China National Day holiday, and it seems the entire country is on revenge travel, domestically. Shopping malls are uncharacteristically empty even during a weekend, but the tourist attractions are jam packed. The total number of flight passengers during the holiday so far declined by 16% compared to last year, but domestic passengers are about even. Foreign travel has collapsed to nearly zero.
Of course, if any city in China detects a cluster, with risk of undetected transmission in the community, I expect all of the containment measures to snap back immediately. Neighborhoods, districts and cities will be re-designated to Medium or High Risk, with freedom of movements severely curtailed. Units, residential towers and compounds with cases will go under total lock down. Rigorous and frenzied contact tracing will be kicked off, with Tier 1 & Tier 2 close contacts quarantined in centralized locations. Mass screening of residents will start, expanding to entire cities and repeated multiple times, if deemed necessary. By now, China is quite practiced at this game of whack-a-mole.
Sloane Ranger
Yesterday’s figures from the UK.
There were 6968 new cases, this is slightly more than the the previous day but not by much. Broken down by home nation the cases are as follows,
England – 4797 (down by @700)
Northern Ireland – 934 (up by @700)
Scotland – 775 (up by @100)
Wales – 462 (up by @50)
According to experts, there is evidence that the rate of increase is slowing but we wait to see if we eventually plateau out at the current high rate, or begin to see a decrease.
Deaths – There were 66 new deaths, 58 in England, 1 in Northern Ireland, 4 in Scotland and 3 in Wales.
Testing – 264,979 tests were processed yesterday out of a capacity of 310,288.
Hospitalisations – There were 2376 people in hospital on 30 September and 341 on ventilators as of Thursday, 1 October.
The big story here before COVIDTrump was a Scottish National Party (SNP) MP, Margaret Ferrier, who developed symptoms but spoke in the House of Commons and allegedly visited a gym and beauty salon while awaiting her test result. This turned out to be positive. Instead to telling anyone, she travelled back to Scotland, by train.
The Speaker is very angry at her putting other members at risk and Nicola Sturgeon is apoplectic at her flagrant disregard of both England and Scottish COVID control regulations plus reputational damage to SNP. She has been suspended from the SNP and urged to stand down as an MP by …actually almost everybody but has refused. Her actions are currently under investigation by the Metropolitan Police.
VOR
It was reported Trump was running a fever, had fatigue, and was short of breath. So symptomatic. I saw on another blog someone say they read he was moved to Walter Reed earlier than needed. They wanted to show him walking on his own power to the helicopter and worried he would be unable to walk if COVID progressed. Don’t know if true, but it rings true for a White House so obsessed with optics.
Morfydd
@Edith: thank you so much for this information! My kitty is doing fine so far with my crushing the prednisolone pill and then mixing it into his raw meat, but getting any other pill into him is a horror. I’ll look into this for the future.