At least 7 states are setting new single day records as the U.S. averages nearly 50,000 positive cases a day. https://t.co/VaGX8oWW44
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 13, 2020
The US has been worse than every other developed country, including high mortality countries, in responding to the pandemic. That has produced tens of thousands, if not 100,000 deaths from #COVID19.
More on my @JAMA_current report in @business:https://t.co/XCAVwL314j
— Zeke Emanuel (@ZekeEmanuel) October 12, 2020
Regardless of how Trump's campaign is trying to use Fauci in defense of the administration's handling of the pandemic, the doctor's actual view of the situation is obvious — and not positive. https://t.co/MVZDbcbWpC
— Philip Bump (@pbump) October 13, 2020
The contempt for masking indoors is wildly out of step w public opinion. But it persists even after a massive outbreak infected the president, first lady, party chair, campaign manager, press sec and more. https://t.co/UHMdPb6q8V
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) October 12, 2020
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A grim #coronavirus milestone quietly occurred on Friday & didn't make headlines. 350,000 new positive cases were reported to the World Health Organization. It was a new daily record. Things are heating up. https://t.co/kMnOqotxbw via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 12, 2020
Second coronavirus wave in Europe is leading to new restrictions but no national lockdowns https://t.co/6QuVv6TiTt pic.twitter.com/w3NkI5Ur7h
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 12, 2020
UK puts northern English city of Liverpool in the highest virus risk category as it unveils a new 3-tier lockdown system to fight surging infections. https://t.co/0kUiV4EH6l
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) October 12, 2020
From the London Symphony to Liverpool's Cavern Club, British arts groups are welcoming a $335 million infusion of government funds to help them survive the pandemic — though some are still wary of the government's attitude to culture. https://t.co/VzsW55JB01
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) October 12, 2020
One for fans of Sweden's COVID non-lockdown (via @tortoise) pic.twitter.com/K6cbKuJxq8
— Martin Barrow (@MartinBarrow) October 9, 2020
Czech government closes bars, schools in what PM calls 'one shot' to curb COVID-19 surge https://t.co/WZoPCCAk2T pic.twitter.com/SKFm91SsGy
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 13, 2020
⚡ Russia confirmed 13,868 new Covid-19 cases Tuesday, bringing its official number of cases to 1,326,178 and setting a new record for daily infections https://t.co/egdZSYBlPz
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) October 13, 2020
BREAKING: For the second day in a row, Iran announces highest single-day death toll from the coronavirus with 272 people killed. https://t.co/iKl0WVYEAs
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 12, 2020
India sees fewest new coronavirus cases in nearly two months https://t.co/YSZYJiFelx pic.twitter.com/iVUdovrKZg
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) October 13, 2020
South Korea reports first triple-digit rise in coronavirus cases in six days: KDCA https://t.co/kBmIOGPFln pic.twitter.com/YoWi5K7oBz
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 13, 2020
Mainland China reports first local COVID-19 infections in nearly two months https://t.co/DnvN560Cab pic.twitter.com/gzI6TODNaQ
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 13, 2020
Authorities in the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao said they have completed coronavirus tests on more than 3 million people following the country’s first reported local outbreak of the virus in nearly two months. https://t.co/M16EEgtORN
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 13, 2020
Vaccine diplomacy. https://t.co/OVYLwRHrsy
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 12, 2020
Brazil registers 201 coronavirus deaths over 24 hours: Health ministry https://t.co/C3wzso1hlR pic.twitter.com/KJgmlnDgvm
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 13, 2020
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WHO's chief says the distorted definition of herd immunity is simply unethical. "Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it," said Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO's director gen'l. Vaccination boosts herd immunity https://t.co/7fjeY8qMfK
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 12, 2020
China has joined COVAX coronavirus vaccine alliance. The country signed an agreement with Gavi, a co-leader of the project w/ WHO. A key aim is global vaccine distribution. China's initially didn't join COVAX. The Trump administration isn't participating https://t.co/OxFcVrG1vD
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 13, 2020
Remarkable: Regeneron said it has enough doses to treat 50,000 patients. On Saturday alone, there were more than 51,000 new #COVID19 infections reported in the United States.https://t.co/GzUKnwxw6n
— Caroline Chen (@CarolineYLChen) October 12, 2020
Most patients hospitalized with Covid-19 have neurological symptoms, a new study suggests https://t.co/gkqoJ0o7fH
— CNN (@CNN) October 12, 2020
Gilead Sciences' remdesivir cuts COVID-19 death risk in patients on low-flow oxygen https://t.co/ihOEO9hv1t
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 12, 2020
The 1st generation monoclonal antibodies to #SARSCoV2 are just at the starting gate. More to come, lasting longer (e.g. 6 months) and nanobodies that can address scalability and cost issues https://t.co/6RYw50Wou5 by @apoorva_nyc
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 12, 2020
Johnson & Johnson pauses Covid-19 vaccine trial after 'unexplained illness'https://t.co/GxDZtiw9N2
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 13, 2020
Thread:
We @LizGoldbergMD & I created this app with @BrownDigiHealth in response to the q's we were getting every day from friends:
Is it safe to do xxx?
What if I wear a mask?
What if it's indoors?(Huge thx to all the scientists who shared infexn models w/us!)https://t.co/SVdof7Kfn8 https://t.co/ddAEuK6MxM
— Megan Ranney MD MPH ? (@meganranney) October 12, 2020
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As COVID19 cases rise again, how will the US respond? Here's what states have learned so far https://t.co/jBRgKGyqks via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 12, 2020
First confirmed case of COVID-19 re-infection in the US https://t.co/Y1QpPxBDFf
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) October 13, 2020
Worrying about the #Covid19 reinfection report? Read this thread. ?? https://t.co/vVDE4qGmpE
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) October 13, 2020
Blue states were hit with COVID.
Red state governors invited it.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 12, 2020
Graphic credit apparently rightfully belongs to:https://t.co/ZlBkfn0CFf
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 12, 2020
For the love of Murphy the Unsubtle Scripter, how is this dude’s last name pronounced? Feckt? Fukt?
A police officer escorting me out tonight said he estimated 9000-10,000 worshippers filled the courthouse steps in downtown Nashville!
We had THREE venue changes and so much resistance BUT THE CHURCH WILL NOT BE SILENCED! ??????#LetUsWorship pic.twitter.com/E1r26Z07tl
— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) October 12, 2020
the pollyanna from hell
Feucht I’m guessing auf deutsch f[oi]cht with an ich-laut
Ryan
i really appreciate you compiling all this every day
Uncle Cosmo
Dunno how he pronounces his last name, but feucht is German for “moist” or “damp,” in which language it’s pronounced “foycht” (with “ch” as in ich). It sounds vile (rhymes with “clearing the throat preparatory to spitting”) but it’s a perfect one-word weather-report for the US Atlantic Coast in August.
jl
I’m 2 unskilled 2 post links from phone, sorry… Thanks 4 Rasmussen tweet. Reinfections do happen very rarely w viral diseases, chickenpox is one example. I don’t think stories on Czech R explain that they blew their reopening, acted as if covid was eradicated, threw away masks, etc. I think European situation is sloppily reported. No general resurgence in W Europe yet. Besides Spain and France, the real European resurgence is from Czech R south through the Balkans. Very important to look there 4 lessons. Do reporters know what the Balkans are? Seems not.
mrmoshpotato
Bro, go read your Bible – particularly what’s said about calling attention to yourself.
ETA – and who’s silencing the Church? ?
jl
Thanks 4 tweet on Sweden. The herd immunity crowd is peddling its wares again. The fundamental incoherence is that they say ‘eff it, can’t control this shit, it goes everywhere, so let it rip.’ But then they say somehow we can magically keep it from old and other vulnerable.
I think they R also wrong if they point to Japan or Sweden as examples of a herd immunity policy. Both countries have statutory and constitutional barriers to strict lockdowns. Tegnell strikes me as a nut or an ass, but unclear the country could have done much different w a better person
Herd immunity people are wrong about everything and confused about the rest.
Derelict
@mrmoshpotato:
Who is silencing the church? Why, liberals, of course! You see, every liberal who does not believe is, in effect, committing genocide. That’s why having a liberal disagree with a conservative is worse than the Holocaust. Go ahead and ask any conservative–they’ll tell you that people not agreeing with them is by far the worst form of oppression.
I have to admit that seeing all those people crammed together, yelling and shouting and doing their best to bring fluids from deep in their lungs out into the surrounding atmosphere, makes me think that the ghost of Darwin is moving through the crowd.
OzarkHillbilly
Pikers.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 6 new domestic confirmed cases and 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases, all at Qingdao in Shandong Province. I have discussed the cases in detail in yesterday’s daily update, so I will not repeat them here. All cases are patients staying at the Pulmonology hospital in the city, or their caretakers or families. Across the city, 180,867 individuals among the staff, patients and caretakers at medical facilities have been samples, all 163,006 results obtained so far are negative. The mass screening at Qingdao continues apace – as of 8 AM on 10/13, samples have been collected from 3,078,528 residents. Of the 1,107,883 results obtained, all are negative. Apparently the city is testing in batches of 10, compared to batches of 5 at Wuhan, Beijing and Ürumqi, and batches of 3 at Dalian. The neighborhood that the Pulmonology hospital is located at has been designated as Medium Risk, all other areas of Qingdao are still Low Risk.
Yesterday, China reported 7 new imported confirmed cases and 12 imported asymptomatic cases:
Today, Hong Kong reported 8 new cases, 4 from local infection, 2 of whom do not have sources of infection identified.
jl
I think press has turned covid coverage into doom porn
Ever since the first wave subsided, many major outbreaks have been initially reported as doomsdays that will undo everything, but in retrospect they were outbreaks that were controlled at a level an order of magnitude less than initial wave. There are outbreaks of every infectious disease. Too much dooming and glooming breeds despair, people may look to GOP or herd immunity nonsense if they think it’s all futile.
NeenerNeener
I was going to guess it was pronounced “Fewkt”, but a better pronunciation is “Idiot”.
beth
One of the responses to the Feucht tweet gives me my new name for anti-maskers: Spreadnecks. Thank you Twitter.
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: @Derelict:
God has a plan… To sicken and kill his followers.
OzarkHillbilly
U.S. Virus-Death Rate Is World’s Worst Among Developed Nations
Anne Laurie
@the pollyanna from hell: Thanks, but I’ll always think of him as “F*cked”, as in ‘f*cked up & f*cked over his idiot followers’.
Princess
@jl: One of the hardest hit countries in the world right now in terms of new daily cases is the Netherlands (way more per capita than, say, the US), so it’s not just the Balkans.
They have been very anti-mask fwiw.
Tony Jay
Of course the UK Government’s decision to put Liverpool under the harshest form of ill-defined Lockdown has nothing (nothing I tells ya) to do with maximising the base-stroking PR frottage they get from sticking it to those bolshy, stubbornly Labour-voting Scouse whiners. The Media will pretend it’s all just about the numbers, but in reality it comes down to pretending to ‘do something’ about the outbreak they encouraged while ostentatiously not doing anything to discomfort areas that have Tory representatives lobbying for them. The Tier 3 faux-Lockdown doesn’t even kick in until Wednesday, leaving a couple of days for the Tory Press to get all the pictures they want of drunken mobs clogging Liverpool Town Centre with their reckless hedonism.
Hard for Johnson’s regime to claim it’s all about the numbers when it’s emerged that the Government’s own scientific advisors were calling for a national Lockdown in September but were ignored and their recomendations buried. Even harder when their policy of closing pubs and restaurants has a gaping hole shit in it by the excemption carved out for ‘pub restaurants’, so small family pubs and craft beer bars get shafted while the major franchises (like, frex, the Brextremist-owned Wetherspoons chain) gets to suck up the custom. Drive all the drinkers to chains owned by Tory donors, force them to buy overpriced crap food in order to get drinks, what could possibly go wrong there?
We are ruled by the stupidest henchmen in the world, with no hope of anything getting better and every expectation of it getting much, much worse.
You colonials better start saving the world come November. Really, it’s needful. Otherwise we’re going to be sold off for pennies to the Trumpists and I’ll die working 25 hour shifts sewing cheap diamante baubles onto blouses in one of Ivanka’s ‘Fashion for the Masses’ workcamps.
I’d rather not.
jl
@Princess: I don’t think uniformly anti mask. But been a long running hissy fight among their experts over masks, so has stalled strong policy. After reviewing country policies, Europe usually much weaker on masks than I expected. Weaker mask policy seems to work in some countries, but only when other social distancing rules are strong, precise, and strictly enforced… and masks are mandatory where distancing impossible. Sloppy control policy leads to problems
One big difference from US is that European countries test and cotact trace well enough to ID problems and fix them. We are blind fools stepping on rakes and wondering what just hit us.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 660 new cases today, for a cumulative reported total of 16,880 cases. He also reports six new infection clusters.
658 new cases are from local infection, including 40 non-Malaysians. 22 are Malaysians who had recently been in Sabah. Of the rest, Sabah has 443 new cases: 162 close-contact screenings, 38 from existing clusters, 13 from the New Semarak cluster, 10 from the new Bina cluster, four from the new Sabindo cluster, two from the new Bestari cluster, and 214 from miscellaneous Covid-19 screenings. Kedah has 60 cases, all from the Tembok cluster. Selangor has 67 cases: 45 from existing clusters, 16 close-contact screenings, five symptomatic screenings, one from the new Bah Kenangan cluster. KL has three cases: two from existing clusters, and one close-contact screening. Perak has 16 cases, all from the Tembok cluster.
Penang has 23 cases: 18 from the remand prison cluster, three from the new Jawi prison cluster, and two voluntary screenings. Labuan has 12 cases: nine healthcare workers, two from existing clusters, and one close-contact screening. Johor has nine cases: five close-contact screenings, and four from existing clusters. Negeri Sembilan has two cases, both from existing clusters. And Pahang has one case from the Jalan Meru cluster in Selangor.
The two imported cases are non-Malaysians, arriving from India and Nepal.
350 more patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 11,372 patients recovered — 67.37% of the cumulative reported total. 5,345 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 101 are in ICU, of whom 32 are on respirators.
Four new Covid-19 deaths are reported today, all in Sabah: an 84 year old woman with hypertension and hyperlipidæmia; an 83 year old man with diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidæmia; a 36 year old woman with TB; and a 59 year old man with chronic kidney disease. This brings the total to 163 deaths — 0.97% of the cumulative reported total, 1.41% of resolved cases.
Sloane Ranger
Yesterday’s figures from the UK. There were 13,972 new cases reported, an increase of about 1000 from the day before but the figures are probably still being affected by the, by now, well known, weekend reporting slowdown. Broken down by home nation –
England – 11,647 (up @1300)
Northern Ireland – 877 (down @200)
Scotland – 961 (down by 5)
Wales – 487 (up by 20)
Deaths – 50 in total. 43 in England, 3 in Northern Ireland, 4 in Wales and 0 in Scotland for the 2nd day running.
Testing – 258,955 tests processed out of a capacity of 309,921.
Hospitalisations – The bulk of hospitalisations are, naturally in England. The latest figures there are
515 people were admitted to hospital on 10 October
3665 people were in hospital on 12 October of whom 426 were on ventilators.
All above increases on previous figures.
General – If you click through to the bit about the lockdown in Annie’s post, it covers the main points. What I found amazing was Chris Whitty openly saying that the new restrictions weren’t enough, there, during the press conference, right in front of Boris and Rishi Sunak. The Advisory Committee clearly aren’t too chuffed either, otherwise they wouldn’t have released their report. Tony Jay has captured the anger of the people of Liverpool about being singled out, but, to be fair, their Mayor is onboard and other areas are expected to follow.
Also, the First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour Party) has given Boris one last chance to act, if he doesn’t the First Minister has threatened to close the Welsh border to English tourists from high incidence COVID areas. The issue is that Boris has urged people living in the highest tier areas not to travel out of it, but not prohibited it. Mr Drakeford says that there is evidence such tourists are spreading the virus in areas of Wales that previously had a low incidence.
The issue is that Boris and gang wanted their cake and to eat it. We have the natural advantage of being an island. If we had kept the initial lockdown in place for longer and put stronger restrictions in place on people travelling in or out of the country, we could be in a position like China or New Zealand, with a new normal in place and the economy back to relative normal. Instead, all the business types acted with complete short-sightedness and wanted everything open NOW!
Oh well, at least Boris ruled out the herd immunity option!
YY_Sima Qian
Update on the mass screening at Qingdao: as of 3:30 PM on 10/13, swab samples have been collected from 4,235,438 residents. Of the 1,945,252 results obtained so far, all are negative. So far, none of the medical staff seem to have tested positive. Really makes one wonder what was the source for the cluster at the Pulmonology hospital. The authorities have not shared if the positive cases were staying in the same ward/wing.
YY_Sima Qian
Chinese authorities is starting to roll out SinoPharm’s inactivated virus vaccines to the general population, start with trial operation (not to be confused with clinical trials) at Beijing and Wuhan. A mini-APP has been created so people can sign up, with priority given to students who going overseas to study, and people going on expatriate assignments (presumably private enterprises and self-employed, state owned enterprises have already been vaccinating their employees going overseas). Apparently more than 70K people have already signed up. This being China, and the CCP regime being habitually opaque and paternalistic, very little effort has been done to educate the public on taking a vaccine that has yet go through full clinical trials (expedited as it is) and fully approved. I would not say most people who signed up are making fully informed choices. I get the senses that most people in China are willing to trust the regime not to screw up something that is of the highest priority to the regime, and directly affect its legitimacy. Going on post-1979 history, they are probably right.
At least inactivated virus vaccine is a mature technology, and thus have less unknowns than the new viral vector and m-RNA vaccines. The disadvantage of inactivated virus vaccines is difficulty and cost of ramping up mass production. Probably less of an issue for China, with its mass manufacturing prowess, and this being a national priority. (China’s ability to consistently collect swab samples and process tests at a massive scale is truly jaw dropping, for example). The big advantage is ease of storage and transport (4 deg. C refrigeration), does not require -20 deg. C (Moderna) and -76 deg. C (BioNTech) environments to stay viable, therefore much less challenging for logistics and deployment.
My wife’s uncle, who is a police officer assigned to ride passenger trains, and thus considered a high risk occupation, has already been vaccinated. My MiL asked if I will make a reservation, I said I will wait until the Phase III results are published, and at least the one done at the United Arab Emirates are due to be published by the end of Nov. (other trials are ongoing at Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, etc.). COVID-19 currently has negligible presence in Mainland China, and I feel the local and central authorities are now being fairly transparent with each new outbreak, and very effective in quickly isolating and eradicating each new outbreak. I have also cut my business travels in China to < 50% of 2019 levels, with no plans to travel internationally, so I do not see the urgency. One other potential complication is that inactivated virus vaccines can also cause one to test positive on the RT-PCR for a period of time.
However, if my company, for whatever reason, recalls me to the States, I will have to give it serious consideration.
Uncle Cosmo
Needful or not, my good Mr Jay, as massively as we might vote to “start saving the world” (our own arses included) in November, we will have no statutory power to begin the job until the following January, when the new Congress (3 January) and Executive (20 January) are sworn in. Mother England and the rest of the planet will just have to bide their time. (But it could be worse – until the 20th Amendment was ratified in 1933, the new POTUS and VPOTUS did not”march forth” to take up their duties until March 4.)
Robert Sneddon
Boris and co. are well aware a complete lockdown of the sort that was imposed back in April wouldn’t be acceptable to the Great British Public now hence the staggered tiering system and attempts to let areas with lower numbers stay more open than the rest of the country rather than even a “circuit breaker” style short but complete lockdown. What the scientists want and what the Government can deliver are two quite different things, sadly.
I recall the early Imperial College epidemiological modelling from back in the spring, the one that caused the Government to actually start doing something about the train wreck hurtling down the tracks at us. It explicitly predicted this second wave of new cases and infection spread and the social fatigue that would drive it, with folks willing to sacrifice the first time but very reluctant to continue doing so, especially after some of the original restrictions were loosened. Shutting the pubs for a second time is actually more difficult than doing it the first time, basically.
The bad news is that the large numbers of new infections every day will swamp the Test and Trace system that was put in place, and until vaccines are available quantity ten million that’s all we’ve got to slow down the spread of this disease apart from calls for social distancing and fig-leaf masking requirements.
I’ve just been out shopping, stocking up for a week or more indoors. Edinburgh city centre is noticeably quieter than it has been over the past few weeks and the buses and trams are a lot less crowded although the dreich weather today is perhaps partly to blame. All the pubs are closed up and dark but takeaways and small cafes are still open for business.
Tony Jay
@Uncle Cosmo:
To quote another short guy with a learned dislike of wealth-hoarding reptiles, the longest journey begins with but a single step.
And hey, we might all get lucky. Tang the Solipsistic goes Mango-Tonto-Loco as the results start coming in, mainlines a metric shit-ton of Dexy cut with his other stimulants of choice, enters a paranoid mania and, with eyes popping out and greasy foam bubbling out of his mouth, orders Blank-Eyed Mike to fight to the death with Cueball Kapo and Jared Bin Griftin’, loser takes the blame for the looming disaster. Bob’s your Uncle, we all get two and a bit months of President Nancy to steady the ship and Make America Great Again.
Could happen. Should happen.
Tony Jay
@Uncle Cosmo:
To quote another short guy with a learned dislike of wealth-hoarding reptiles, the longest journey begins with but a single step.
And hey, we might all get lucky. Tang the Solipsistic goes Mango-Tonto-Loco as the results start coming in, mainlines a metric shit-ton of Dexy cut with his other stimulants of choice, enters a paranoid mania and, with eyes popping out and greasy foam bubbling out of his mouth, orders Blank-Eyed Mike to fight to the death with Cueball Kapo and Jared Bin Griftin’, loser takes the blame for the looming disaster. Bob’s your Uncle, we all get two and a bit months of President Nancy to steady the ship and Make America Great Again.
Could happen. Should happen.
laura
@mrmoshpotato: – and who’s silencing the Church?
Who’s stopping the Church from fleecing the faithful, who’s stopping the sweet sweet money train, who’s not getting a new jet, a Rolex, a fancy car? Look at it from a tax free cash flow – there’s the unacceptable silence mr.m.
Mike in Pasadena
Thank you, Anne.
Sebastian
Like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kxSs6rq_3o8
in German the H is strong. Google “feucht aussprache” and you’ll get google’s pronunciation tool.
careful, FeuchtE Aussprache means spraytalking, you know people who have spittle flying while talking
Miss Bianca
@beth: That is priceless, wow!