Covid-19 hospitalizations in the United States hit an all-time high of 61,964 on Tuesday, as the raging pandemic continued to shatter record after record and strain medical facilities. https://t.co/bbxEFvPaJz
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) November 11, 2020
Hospitals overwhelmed as coronavirus cases surge across the nation https://t.co/8olWoCim93
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 11, 2020
COVID Speed in the US
First 1 million cases = ~100 days
Last 1 million cases = 10 days!!!!!It’s not due to testing. You can test all you want in Vietnam, Taiwan, S. Korea and you find anywhere near this burden of disease
It’s due to not testing, not believing, not acting
— Faheem Younus, MD (@FaheemYounus) November 10, 2020
Record #COVID day in the wrong ways.
Cases up to 130k today. Given Tuesdays are typically ~50% of Fridays, it's not unreasonable to expect a 200k day this week.
Currently Hospitalized at the highest point yet recorded – and North Dakota didn't even report today. pic.twitter.com/Yt0nDKN4Vh
— Peter Walker (@PeterJ_Walker) November 11, 2020
The number of active cases in the US rose to over 3.7 million. pic.twitter.com/zwa6Rrklek
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) November 11, 2020
I think some americans believe all this carnage was unavoidable. that's untrue. the vast majority of it absolutely was. but instead of, you know, avoiding it, the u.s. government denied the virus was a problem and did nothing https://t.co/lC6v6LlsV1
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) November 11, 2020
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Two-thirds of Britons would get COVID-19 jab; less among the young: poll https://t.co/rLYl8SMQAD pic.twitter.com/fGCHLR8ZSD
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 11, 2020
Coronavirus: Northern England 'worst hit' by pandemic https://t.co/MsFt1Ui5Wn
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) November 11, 2020
Coronavirus latest:
– Spain adds 411 deaths to official toll, the highest single-day figure since April
– Number of new cases at 17,395, one of the lowest in recent weeks
– Authorities say infections are "stabilizing," but incidence rate remains high
https://t.co/xcyIancWWX— El País English Edition (@elpaisinenglish) November 11, 2020
Russia confirmed 19,851 new coronavirus cases and a record 432 deaths on Wednesday, marking the end of a five-day streak of new cases surpassing 20,000 https://t.co/9NN1bLsEXQ
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 11, 2020
Russia resists Covid-19 lockdown and pins hopes on Sputnik V vaccine https://t.co/9KJkROQBk1
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 10, 2020
At least three medics who received Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine have contracted the coronavirus in Siberia, regional authorities announced Tuesday https://t.co/8N2xUN1vV7
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 11, 2020
Tehran's massive Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery is struggling to keep up with the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic ravaging Iran. Double the usual number of bodies arrive each day, and grave diggers have excavated thousands of new plots. https://t.co/BEgwwfqqWj
— AP Middle East (@APMiddleEast) November 11, 2020
Lebanon to impose new Covid lockdown despite economic cost https://t.co/el2HpRTgLL
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 10, 2020
A travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore will begin on Nov. 22, the two cities announced as they moved to re-establish overseas travel links and lift the hurdle of quarantine for visiting foreigners https://t.co/pjEHXz4pPA pic.twitter.com/cBZzkkzmhZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 11, 2020
Bolsonaro, today: "I am sorry about the (Covid) deaths. I am …. But we are all going to die someday … We have to stop being a country of sissies." https://t.co/SxLnw6kc8o
— David Luhnow (@davidluhnow) November 10, 2020
Mexico reports 5,746 new coronavirus cases, 617 new deaths https://t.co/qypy3I3QW3 pic.twitter.com/Ba32t8G79n
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 11, 2020
#COVID19 is spreading at an alarming rate in TO. That's why I'm taking action now to reduce virus spread in our city, save lives, preserve our health system for those who need it most & mitigate broader health, social & economic impacts: https://t.co/Oy5jJ9H0Ta
— Dr. Eileen de Villa (@epdevilla) November 10, 2020
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A new type of test can detect a person’s immune response to the coronavirus better than a widely used antibody test, according to research released on Tuesday. The test detects the response of T cells — an arm of the immune system — to the virus.https://t.co/J9ekBwypM7
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 11, 2020
New @statnews & @HarrisPoll suggests Americans' willingness to be vaccinated against #Covid19 will depend on how well vaccines work. https://t.co/n67KnUxZGa
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) November 10, 2020
New airflow research shows why masks with exhalation valves do not slow the spread of the #coronavirus https://t.co/J1mqhIqGO9
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 11, 2020
Research team creates a computer model that can predict how COVID19 spreads in cities https://t.co/wPyjOYosjs via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 10, 2020
To follow up on the big Pfizer vaccine news, @katie_thomas and I have written a Q/A that may answer some of your outstanding questions. https://t.co/ipkwFbAbed
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) November 10, 2020
Nearly $2 trillion traded on COVID-19 vaccine news https://t.co/QWrGdx3BRf pic.twitter.com/t8JUakUgAl
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 10, 2020
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Cellphone data shows where Americans were getting infected in the early days of the #Covid19 pandemic — restaurants, gyms, cafes, hotels, and houses of worship, aka indoor spaces. @cooney_liz explains. https://t.co/iPmt2acLNX
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) November 10, 2020
Dire warnings from health officials as #COVID9 runs wild in Washington: ‘Any in-person gathering is risky’ https://t.co/x0TS8b4hub via @seattletimes
— Crawford Kilian (@Crof) November 11, 2020
The ten worst states in terms of COVID positivity rates all voted for Trump. https://t.co/BO9dxGbk4n
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 10, 2020
In Iowa, more than 100 long-term care facilities have COVID-19 outbreaks, and the statewide positivity rate is 20.7% over the past 2 weeks https://t.co/uXdX9VRuz9
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) November 10, 2020
don't worry our bars are still open! https://t.co/XWFHwVuDGL
— Marissa R. Moss (@MarissaRMoss) November 9, 2020
A Connecticut doctor charged patients $1,944 for drive-through coronavirus tests.
He told patients it was a "Super COVID test" that necessitated a $480 follow-up phone call.https://t.co/KVQHJuKet2
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) November 10, 2020
Harvard's president said in March that he and his wife had "completely isolated" for 10 days before they contracted COVID.
Via @thecrimson, that's not so. Two housekeepers were cleaning his house for 4 hours a day, 2 days a week. One of them got COVID.https://t.co/wvpffv1py6 pic.twitter.com/aZPTGdDqHV
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) November 9, 2020
Anyway, kudos to all those student journalists covering his story, as this recent @AJNierenberg piece pointed out https://t.co/Q8xTpxQzsU
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) November 9, 2020
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, a luggage handler Shanghai Pudong International Airport, who had traveled back home to Fuyang in Anhui Province in early Nov. I had reported the details in yesterday’s post. The residential compound where the case resides in under lock down.
Yesterday China reported 2 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 case is a cold chain logistics worker at Tianjin Binhai Port, discovered via mass screening of all cold chain logistics workers. 14 close contacts have been traced and quarantined. The city has completed mass screening of all residents in the subdistrict with the initial asymptomatic case, all results negative. The other asymptomatic case is a Burmese national residing in Mengding Township of Gengma County, Lincang City in Yunnan Province, a close contact of the asymptomatic cases imported from Myanmar reported yesterday. Three affected sub-districts in Mengding Township are placed under lock down for 14 days, with schools closed. However, these areas have not been designated as Medium Risk. The reason for the tough response is likely because the imported cases were illegal migrants smuggled into China, and have been out and about the community before being discovered.
Kashgar and Kizilsu Prefectures in Xinjiang “Autonomous” Region again did not report any new cases yesterday, the 3rd day in a row since the start of the outbreak in late Oct. 2 serious case improved to moderate, 5 cases recovered and 6 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are currently 52 confirmed cases (including 4 in serious condition), all in Kashgar, and 292 asymptomatic cases in Xinjiang (272 in Kashgar and 20 in Kizilsu). Shufu County has completed 6 rounds of mass screening.
Yesterday, China reported 16 new imported confirmed cases and 13 imported asymptomatic cases:
Yesterday, Hong Kong reported 18 new cases, 15 imported cases, 3 from local transmission (none have sources of transmission identified). More worryingly, Hong Kong reported 20 cases who are preliminarily positive, including 5 taxi or bus drivers.
TS (the original)
Found it sad to learn that Vanuatu recently had its first case of covid – a citizen who was repatriated from the United States tested positive while in quarantine.
Exclusion and quarantine are going to be around for a long time to keep down the spread of covid-19.
OzarkHillbilly
Predictable.
satby
Front page news yesterday, a local doctor died of covid at the hospital where he had been working. Same hospital where a group of nurses had to quarantine because they all attended a wedding that turned out to be a superspreader event. And Notre Dame beat Clemson Sunday, the crowd rushed the field and the coach was pictured wearing a mesh mask. Education doesn’t seem to help motivate people to reduce risk.
VOR
This will be a hard winter in the US. COVID did not go away after the election. But I haven’t heard of any public realizations that perhaps COVID was not actually just a hoax intended to damage Donald Trump politically.
NeenerNeener
217 new infections yesterday in my little corner of NYS, but no new deaths yet. We’re still going in the wrong direction and I want to cancel all those annual checkups that I put off in the spring.
OzarkHillbilly
Read this Harvard Crimson article referenced above for proof that an education is not an impediment to stupidity.
But they don’t count, right?
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. DG of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 822 new cases today for a cumulative reported total of 42,872 cases, which indicates the nationwide R0 continues to trend below 1.0. He also reports two new deaths for a total of 302 deaths — 0.7% of the cumulative reported total, 0.96% of resolved cases.
Meanwhile, 769 patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 31,073 patients recovered — 72.47% of the cumulative reported total.
Three new clusters were reported today: Haven, Karamunting and Saga, all in Sabah.
815 new cases are local infections. Sabah has 258 cases: 44 in older clusters, 12 in Haven, Karamunting and Saga clusters, 91 close-contact screenings, and 111 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan has 225 cases: 221 kluster in existing clusters, one SARI screening, and three other screenings. Selangor has 176 cases: 102 in existing clusters, 38 close-contact screenings, and 36 other screenings. KL has 17 cases: 14 in existing clusters, two close-contact screenings, and one other screening. Kedah has 17 cases: 16 in existing clusters, and 1 close-contact screening.
Sarawak has 14 cases: 8 in existing clusters, four close-contact screenings, and two other screenings. Perak has 14 cases, all in existing clusters. Johore has 10 cases: seven in existing clusters, one close-contact screening, and two close-contact screenings. Melaka has six cases, all in existing clusters. Putrajaya has three cases, all in existing clusters. Perlis has two cases, both in existing clusters. And Kelantan has one case, in an existing cluster.
Terengganu and Pahang reported no new cases today.
Seven new cases are imported, involving one Malaysian and six non-Malaysians. Four were reported in KL, two in Selangor, and one in Sabah. They arrived from India, Canada, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
11,497 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 86 are in ICU, 30 of them on respirators.
The two deaths today, both reported in Sabah, are a 22-year-old non-Malaysian woman with a history of rheumatic heart disease and atrial fibrillation; and a 67-year-old non-Malaysian woman with a history of osteoarthritis and gastritis.
OzarkHillbilly
Got a little dusty in here: Wherefore art thou? Italian man serenades wife of 47 years at hospital window
Rusty
The positive test percentages are mind blowing. My family is in upstate NY and their county just went into a yellow zone because the test positive rate has exceeded 2% on a 7 day rolling average. Yellow brings more restrictions and lasts at least 14 days. What a difference across the states.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: I gotta stop hanging out with you. I have more insomnia and I leak tears more.
Immanentize
@Rusty: My Mom is upstate too. Same thing. If we don’t get this down to 1, we are not going to be able to do very much for very long stretches.
WereBear
They lied at the RNC. The worst is yet to come.
Mary G
California is rising again overall and 11 counties were demoted to the most restricted tier 1. We in Orange County are still in tier 2, but it’s hard to see how we can stay there. New cases a day per 100k ppl dropped to 5.1 from 6 and percent positive dropped from 3.6 to 3.1, but hospitalizations rose substantially. Maybe we are taking overflow from LA County. It looks very bleak. My housemate B is flying to Guatemala today to say goodbye to a beloved aunt dying of cancer and had to get tested and was negative.
WereBear
You have to believe what you are told. They are, as usual, trusting all the wrong people.
There’s also, (via an excellent podcast, In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt,) a recent breakdown of all that has been done wrong. What I believe is deliberate misinformation about “masks are bad” has lodged in their little heads and now can’t be pulled out.
Right Wingers never admit a mistake. That’s their Stupid-SuperPower.
Sloane Ranger
@OzarkHillbilly: Dorothy L Sayers made this same point in one of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels, where she gets Lord Peter to observe that an elderly woman will insist she lives alone when there’s a live in cook, maid and possibly a butler. To the servant employing classes, servants are extensions of themselves, not people in their own right. Clearly it’s not just a British problem.
Anyway, now I’m here, I’ll post the latest from the UK. Yesterday, we had 20,412 new cases nationwide. This is about 1000 less than the day before. The trend remains flat but at a high level. Cases by home nation,
England – 18622 (down @400)
Northern Ireland – 514 (up @40)
Scotland – 832 (down @80)
Wales – 444 (down @500).
This is, overall, good, but the weekend reporting delay may still be affecting the figures.
Deaths – Bad news here. It looks like there was a delay in reporting these over the weekend. The number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test has jumped to 532, 460 in England, 11 in Northern Ireland, 39 in Scotland and 22 in Wales.
Testing – 234,079 tests were processed out of a capacity of 504,491.Tests processed during the week ending 2 November have increased by 4% from the week before.
Hospitalisations – As of Sunday, 8th November, there were 13,617 people in hospital and 1268 were on ventilators on Monday, 9th. The trend for both continues upwards, primarily powered by English and Welsh hospital admissions.
Nothing else to add not already covered by AL.
TS (the original)
@OzarkHillbilly:
Most of the new cases in Australia/NZ are now from citizens coming home from other countries. We are not usually told where they have come from.
JeanneT
I’m glad you included the article about the masks with air valves not being useful for community Covid suppression. They’re Just not the right tool for the times!
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: I had read that this morning. Cleaners, wait staff, retail workers: all invisible people to a certain kind of entitled ass.
But the larger problem this society has is that about half of them don’t give a shit about anything that doesn’t personally affect them. And won’t, until they get sick (not family members or friends, they themselves). Because they’re such special people, regular rules don’t apply. Darwin rules might, we’ll see.
satby
@WereBear: And the head of Notre Dame was a guest who got sick at Amy Covid (NoRelation!!!)’s superspreader announcement. Ideology trumps (ha) everything in their world.
stinger
Anne Laurie, I can’t thank you enough for the yeoman’s work you do in compiling these links, day after day. I’d never be able to seek them out for myself.
MagdaInBlack
My manager, who was all about it being a hoax, will go away after the election, has changed his tune now that his grandmother has it, and is “pretty sick.”
Our upper management folk have not been in the shops since last spring ( not that I miss them ) but lo and behold, our senior VP has it. I’ve known him since he as a lowly ( ass-kissing) parts manager, so I’ve no doubt he was in the hoax segment of the population, and has been bar hopping.
Meanwhile, those of us on the front line just keep wearing our masks and hosing down the office with some industrial grade “stuff” corp sent out. I’ve had no problem with customers, they all wear masks, altho I’ve sent a few back to their cars because they ” forgot it in the car”….” That’s fine, its 20 ft away, go get it”
I’ve come to assume I’ll eventually get it, and that’s not a good feeling. But, we’re the infantry, we’re expendable, profits are not.
WereBear
@MagdaInBlack: This is the good side of me losing my job. It keeps my chronically ill husband far safer. Hanging in there for the Biden Administration to really kick in.
Robert Sneddon
The a bit early on in Kipling’s novel “The Man Who Would Be King” where the un-named narrator, a newspaper man in India mentions a trip he made where one night he would dine with Maharajahs and drink from crystal and the next night he would sleep at the side of the road, sharing a blanket with his servant.
As for the Sayers reference, a single elderly lady (probably a widow) would almost certainly not employ a butler but definitely a maid and maybe a cook/housekeeper.
I live in a flat here in Edinburgh that was set up for servants in the 1850s — the bathroom/toilet used to be the live-in girl’s room (aka the slavey, as they were called). She would do a lot of the coal-fetching, chamberpot emptying, cleaning etc. The other servants such as cooks and valets for the well-to-do professionals who inhabited this block of flats lived in the dormer attics and were shared between the families as needed but it was also expected the women of the households would assist them with laundry and cooking and cleaning.
Round the corner from where I live are crescents of “town houses” for much wealthier families which each had a downstairs establishment of full-time servants. They would have a butler who managed the staff and the women of the household would not be obliged to work, other than perhaps doing some dressmaking or the like.
rikyrah
Went to take the test yesterday
Couldn’t sleep last night
Won’t be able to sleep until I get results ??
I am ready to go back to working from home.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@OzarkHillbilly: Are they white? If no, then no.
It’s mystery how that couple got ill, total mystery.
jonas
We’ve simply just given up on trying to control this thing. People are either resigned to getting infected and just hope for the best if they do, or they think the seriousness of the illness is overblown. Sure, they say, doctors are going on and on about how hospitals are “approaching” capacity, but bodies aren’t piling up in hallways. The death rate is way lower than last spring in NYC, so wev. Plus there will totally be a vaccine in a few months.
We’ve become a nation of utterly narcissistic, existentialist nihilists. It’s as if Camus and Ayn Rand collaborated on a rewrite of The Plague. I
Alex
That word Bolsonaro used is a lot more offensive and homophobic than “sissy,” as it was translated. And sissy is pretty offensive.
Alex
@OzarkHillbilly: I used to work in Peru near a foreign-owned copper mine. The mine engineers and execs were all European or North American, and they built themselves a little walled village with its own water and sewer system, paved streets, streetlights, trash collection, security, and irrigated shade trees. But they still kept getting typhoid and cholera because their cooks and maids lived in the worker shantytown. You can’t build a wall high enough.
mrmoshpotato
COVID-19: That’s right. Listen to this wise man, and let me infect your lungs.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@WereBear: I work in service and repair my entire life and the sheer amount of self destructive stupidity I’ve seen out of well educated people who should know better is amazing.
The thing that stands out to me is I work in the electronics Biz and we have wear a special smock and ground straps, not drink any coffee or soda at our benches to avoid damaging the products were are working. I can’t count number of times in career my direct managers have walked up to my bench, with no ESD gear, on, because they don’t believe in ESD, and then spilled a cup of coffee on my bench. None of this anti-masking surprises or the Harvard president getting COVID because of maids.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Alex: On the other hand Bolsanaro does provide the good service of someone even we Americans can laugh at.
opiejeanne
A friend I met online 20 years ago and have met in Real Life, has it. She and her parents (in their 70s) live in El Paso, and her dad has Alzheimers. Her mom was diagnosed with Covid-19 2 weeks ago and was in the ER, waiting for a bed. Her dad was sick with a bad “cold” and his blood oxygen level was below 90, so she had him taken to the hospital. He was diagnosed with it the day after he arrived but much less sick than his wife; they were in the ER together for a couple of days before both were moved to a field hospital because that hospital was full. The mom was released because she was insisting she was fine, but they kept the dad and he’s being a difficult patient but he’s doing well.
On Friday my friend was diagnosed with double pneumonia, and sent to the ER on Saturday morning, while they waited for test results. She has Covid-19 and is really sick, but the hospitals in the El Paso area are all full so they put her on a twin engine prop plane and flew her to Corpus Christie on Sunday night. She feels well enough, or bored enough, to post updates where her friends can see them.
She worked from home but was helping her parents with shopping and other tasks, but I think her mom was going out without a mask sometimes, didn’t take it seriously enough, and there was no way to keep a mask on her dad, and he wandered around the neighborhood a couple of times.
I’m convinced her parents gave it to her.