Fauci: Restrictions likely won't be reversed before Christmas https://t.co/1iVwbjJARP
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 29, 2020
Public health officials are growing increasingly concerned about the spread of the coronavirus after millions of Americans defied warnings and gathered in large numbers for the Thanksgiving holiday pic.twitter.com/WZ9TZGET2Q
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 30, 2020
The Thanksgiving effect: What will all that travel & all those gatherings that people were urged not to do but did anyway do to #Covid19 cases & deaths? We'll know more around the next travel period — Christmas, @michaelmina_lab told @DrewQJoseph. https://t.co/ZrC7sv0G1J
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) November 29, 2020
"Close the bars and keep the schools open," says Fauci on @ThisWeekABC. "The default position should be to try… to keep the children in school or to get them back to school. … If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not really very big at all."
— Will Saletan (@saletan) November 29, 2020
For those who want to see the full context, here is Fauci's extended answer, via ABC's transcription. https://t.co/C1MSmevxBf pic.twitter.com/mgccb2OnSu
— Will Saletan (@saletan) November 29, 2020
Birx emphasizes masks, not closures. "What we do know works is mask mandates," she says in response to the question about bars. In states, cities, and counties that mandated masks, "We can see a really significant difference in not only cases but hospitalizations and fatalities."
— Will Saletan (@saletan) November 29, 2020
Note the author of this tweet — Miss Sunk Costs herself:
The president credits himself with vaccine development. Moderna timeline shows it began working on a vaccine while the president was still denying the virus was spreading in the US.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 29, 2020
Market analysis for vaccine distribution is starting to differ a little but all put general population starting aggressively in Q2. Goldman Sachs is bullish while Morgan Stanley extends through much of 2021, etc.
If this is helpful, I just made vacation plans in August 2021.— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) November 28, 2020
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No one is safe until everyone is safe. #COVID19 @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/myjnuVWTRi
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 29, 2020
Turkey has changed the way it reports daily COVID-19 infections, confirming what medical groups and opposition parties have long suspected — the country is faced with an alarming surge of cases and is now one of the worst-hit places in Europe. https://t.co/kEobUI5KKF
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) November 29, 2020
Russia confirmed 26,683 coronavirus cases and 459 deaths Sunday, bringing the total number of cases to 2,269,316 https://t.co/V48mk0VK8v
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 29, 2020
I remember reading, earlier in this pandemic, that Putin was (rightly) terrified of catching COVID-19. What changed? Does he really believe in the Russian vaccine to that extent? Or — like Trump & Bolsonaro — has he survived a bout with the virus, to consider himself now immune?
Putin’s handshaking ways have left Russians shaking their heads. https://t.co/pW0PhE29rj
— Meduza in English (@meduza_en) November 27, 2020
Critics fear Russia is using the WHO’s structural weaknesses to validate its coronavirus approach, @PjotrSauer and @JakeCordell reporthttps://t.co/1yHPcOGfSL
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) November 28, 2020
India COVID-19 cases top 9.4 million https://t.co/x5psRdZX1p pic.twitter.com/wjDtJOoXsd
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 30, 2020
South Korea considers more vaccine buys as coronavirus cases spike https://t.co/KrqnRj5PI7 pic.twitter.com/f6G9K7yttV
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 30, 2020
Cambodian officials say a family of six and another man tested positive for the coronavirus in a rare case of local infection, and Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed concern the woman believed to be the source had traveled extensively in the country. https://t.co/S9O6suECtI
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 29, 2020
Thailand tracking 200 people as infected returnees skip COVID-19 quarantine https://t.co/ila3wjvelw pic.twitter.com/IoyV4H25rf
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 30, 2020
German ministers warn on pandemic's economic impact https://t.co/AWXB41DDF3 pic.twitter.com/ceu61UUdoK
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 30, 2020
Italy's Calabria has two pandemics: Covid and the Mafia https://t.co/Z0InHpGyL6
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 30, 2020
England's COVID-19 infections down 30% during national lockdown: survey https://t.co/ewcjRuOmes pic.twitter.com/0tbcS1LKPy
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 30, 2020
Up to 100 Conservative MPs are unhappy with Prime Minister Boris Johnson's COVID-19 tiered lockdown measures so the government may have to rely on the Labour Party to get it through parliament, Environment Secretary George Eustice said https://t.co/nc3xVN3CkE
— Reuters UK (@ReutersUK) November 30, 2020
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Singapore studies effect of COVID on mother and foetus after baby born with antibodies https://t.co/dKfj3bJIVd pic.twitter.com/LAHHbFaSgf
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 30, 2020
United Airlines has begun operating charter flights to position doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for quick distribution if the shots are approved by regulators– one link in a global supply chain being assembled: https://t.co/paaHBBXJ9Q via @WSJ
— megan twohey (@mega2e) November 29, 2020
Narcolepsy fiasco a decade ago is spurring Covid vaccine fears in Sweden https://t.co/aPMTWsUAin via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 29, 2020
Horrible business: As coronavirus infections surged in people, the virus also is spreading in minks. Oregon reported its first cases at a fur farm with 10 infected animals but no deaths. Fur farms in Utah, Michigan & Wisconsin have also reported infections https://t.co/Wc6vQ45cQa pic.twitter.com/P2F4pNDy4b
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 30, 2020
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Mass vaccinations against Covid19 will be a ‘mind-blowing’ challenge for Alabama & other poor, rural states https://t.co/YFxNNLKhsu pic.twitter.com/207JalSyhv
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) November 29, 2020
New York City public schools will begin to reopen for in-person learning with weekly COVID-19 testing https://t.co/jEoOpUTRCx pic.twitter.com/sq6zZqjXEG
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 30, 2020
A Pennsylvania state senator abruptly left a West Wing meeting with President Trump after being informed he had tested positive for the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the meeting told The Associated Press. https://t.co/PFWixu4QHV
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 29, 2020
How the hell did we end up here? Dystopian that this warning is even necessary, yet here we are.
Stay safe everyone, please. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/Fub1baJ9qS
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) November 29, 2020
this isn't even right about Christianity, where Easter is far holier than Christmas. https://t.co/iENif1i7mn
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) November 29, 2020
"You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go 'according to plan.' Even if the plan is horrifying."
–The Joker https://t.co/TA15uZSJMY— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) November 29, 2020
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 3 new domestic confirmed (1 previously asymptomatic) cases and 3 new asymptomatic case. All of the new cases reported by Manzhouli of Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region. The authorities did not share whether these cases are discovered from close contacts under quarantine, or from the 2nd round of mass screening completed yesterday. Currently there are 14 confirmed cases, 4 asymptomatic cases and 2 suspect cases. 940 Tiers 1 & 2 close contacts are under quarantine.
With respect to the asymptomatic case exported to South Korea, Chongqing Municipality has not yet found any additional positive cases from the close contacts or employees of the SK Hynix flash memory packaging plant or the hotel. As the case flew to South Korea via Chengdu in Sichuan Province, Chengdu authorities have traced 103 contacts and collected 13 environmental samples, all are negative. The driver that took the case from Chongqing to Chengdu has also been placed under quarantine, currently negative. He had stayed at a hotel on the way back from Chengdu, 14 hotel employees have been tested, and 4 environmental samples collected, all negative.
Yesterday, China reported 15 new imported confirmed cases and 14 imported asymptomatic cases:
Yesterday, Hong Kong reported 76 new cases, all local (9 of whom with out clear sources of infection, 40 are related to dance clubs). There are another 50 preliminarily positive cases. The dance clubs outbreak has accumulated 519 cases so far, across 28 establishments. The city’s government has announced that all schools will switch to remote learning from 12/2, until Christmas break. All restaurants and cafeterias are to close by 10 PM, gatherings limited to 2.
OzarkHillbilly
Kristi Noem should be riding a pale horse.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY stats from yesterday:
511 new cases, 341 people hospitalized, 62 in the ICU, still at 317 reported deaths.
Sm*t Cl*de
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s never too early for a Rev 6:8 reference.
NotMax
First day of of November:
Number of reported cases worldwide ~45 million
Number of countries reporting cumulative cases of 500k of more: 16
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Last day of November:
Number of reported cases worldwide ~63 million
Number of countries reporting cumulative cases of 500k of more: 24
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 1,212 new cases today at his media briefing, for a cumulative reported total of 65,697 cases. Dr Noor Hisham also reports three new deaths for a total of 360 deaths — 0.55% of the cumulative reported total, 0.65% of resolved cases.
10,578 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 113 are in ICU, 42 of them on respirators. Meanwhile, 2,112 patients recovered and were discharged, for a total of 54,759 patients recovered — 83.4% of the cumulative reported total.
Three new clusters were reported today: Jalan Lapan in Selangor and KL, Batu Sembilan in Selangor, and Nibong in Johor.
1,203 new cases today are local infections. Selangor has the most, 398 cases: 204 in older clusters, nine in Jalan Lapan and Batu Sembilan clusters, 95 close-contact screenings, and 90 other screenings. Sabah has 326 cases: 111 in existing clusters, 146 close-contact screenings, and 69 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan has 141 cases: 125 in existing clusters, six close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings. KL has 114 cases: 84 in older clusters, 10 in Jalan Lapan cluster, six close-contact screenings, and 14 other screenings.
Penang has 60 cases: 52 in existing clusters, six close-contact screenings, and two other screenings. Johor has 54 cases: 28 in older clusters,seven in Nibong cluster, 11 close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings. Perak has 43 cases: 42 in existing clusters, and one close-contact screening. Kedah has 31 cases: 24 in existing clusters, four close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Labuan has 30 cases: five in existing clusters, 10 close-contact screenings, and 15 other screenings. Sarawak has two cases, found in other screenings. Pahang also has two cases, found in other screenings. Kelantan has one case, in an existing cluster. And Putrajaya has one case, in an existing cluster.
Melaka, Terengganu, and Perlis reported no new cases today.
Nine new cases are imported. Five were reported in KL, four in Selangor. They are arrivals from Egypt (three), Nepal (two), Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates.
The three deaths today are a 66-year-old man in Kedah with blood-borne disease and low immune response; a 58-year-old man in Labuan with hypertension and gout; and a 22-year-old man in Sabah with hypertension and chronic kidney disease.
In other news, the enhanced movement control order at the worker dormitories at Top Glove’s site in Selangor is extended by two weeks to 14th December.
NotMax
FYI (emphasis mine).
Amir Khalid
I suppose no one in America had the heart to order a mink cull, like they did in Europe.
Matt McIrvin
The only thing in that list analogous enough to a church that the argument makes sense is the strip clubs. And, yeah, they probably shouldn’t be open. (Which logically means we should be subsidizing strip clubs to stay closed, but I know that’s politically a hard lift.)
Matt McIrvin
In much of this country, “reversing restrictions” would mean putting them in place.
daveNYC
Nice touch having Christmas as part of the Judeo-Christian in the same sentence. I’m pretty sure that when you’re talking about Christmas the ‘Judeo’ stops entering into the equation.
charon
@daveNYC:
@daveNYC:
It’s habitual with that sort of phony to say “judeo-Christian” when the clear meaning in context is simply “Christian.”
Not that there even is such a thing as a “Jude-Christian calender.”
Zzyzx
Hey! Hanukkah is an exceedingly important holiday, marking the time where we completely misestimated how much oil we had left, a miracle up there with, “The low fuel light light came on in my car but I made it to the gas station!”
I’m very curious to see what numbers will be like in the next few days.
NotMax
@Zzyzx
Had Moses had hung a right upon hitting the Sinai there would have been oil aplenty.
Men. Never stop to ask for directions.
:)
mrmoshpotato
How about some negligent homicide charges for Governor Noem?
mrmoshpotato
@Matt McIrvin:
Get your booty to the poll.Keep your booty the fuck at home.ETA – though Georgia, stand in line one more time. Flip those seats! Flip the Senate!
YY_Sima Qian
The chosen date(s) for Christmas itself owe much to pagan influences in the Late Antiquity. The Roman Catholic Church ultimately chose the winter solstice (December 25th of the Roman Calendar) to fix the date. So the Catholics and Protestants celebrate on Dec. 25 of Gregorian calendar. However, the Eastern Orthodox Churches often celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 of Julian calendar, or Jan. 7 of Gregorian calendar. The Hebrew calendar is yet different still. So what is this “Judeo-Christian” calendar being referenced? (Rhetorical question, of course. Zealots and fundamentalists often hold tight to beliefs that are actually ahistorical, and anti-traditional in the truest sense of the word.)
lowtechcyclist
That horse better have plenty of room on its back, because just about the entire Republican Party should be up there with her.
And what Sm*t Cl*de said.
lowtechcyclist
Not only is there no ‘Judeo-Christian’ calendar, and not only is Christmas not the holiest time in the Christian calendar, but this behavior is repugnant from a strictly Christian perspective. The selfishness here astounds me.
As Jesus said, “if anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all.” Jesus gave up his life to save us; we can worship via Zoom for a few months to save the lives of our fellow men and women.
Sloane Ranger
Forgot to post Saturday’s numbers yesterday as I was busy preparing for our U3A AGM on Wednesday. We made a decision to delay it for 3 months in the summer in the hope we could have an in-person component. Not to be, and we have a Constitutional obligation not to delay further so we are going ahead on Zoom. I have been fielding worried phone calls and emails from the Chair, the Treasurer and the Membership Secretary about various practical issues involved.
Anyway, enough of my problems, here are Sunday’s figures. Please remember that they will be artificially depressed due to weekend delays in processing and reporting.
On Sunday there were 12,155 new cases. As AL has reported new cases are genuinely down as a result of the current lockdown, which is due to end tomorrow with re-opening under Tier restrictions on Wednesday. Cases by nation,
England – 10,054
Northern Ireland – 351
Scotland – 746
Wales – 1004.
Deaths – There were 215 deaths reported on Sunday (weekend warning applies). 194 deaths were in England, 3 in Northern Ireland, 2 in Scotland and 16 in Wales.
Testing – Not updated at weekends.
Hospitalisations – 15,712 people were in hospital on Thursday, 26 November and 1417 were on ventilators on Friday, 27th. Both beginning to go down. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions is down 11%.
General – Despite case incidence falling in 3 of the home nations, Wales has seen an increase and the Welsh First Minister has just announced a series of new restrictions in an attempt to deal with this. These include, pubs and restaurants banned from serving alcohol and required to close at 6pm and closure of cinemas, bingo halls, museums etc. The First Minister is putting a support package of £340m in place to assist affected businesses.
As AL has noted, up to 100 Tory MP’s are threatening to revolt when the new Tiers are debated in the House of Commons. Their main complaint seems to be, that their nice, white rural Constituencies filled with professionals are being subjected to the same restrictions as the nearby towns and cities full of “oiks”, although some try to justify it by talking about an increase in suicides and domestic violence during the lockdowns. Boris has tried to pacify them by offering a new vote on the restrictions in January, but it doesn’t seem to be working. My own MP, who actually represents a town as well as some of the surrounding villages has said he is “undecided” on how he will vote. I look forward to checking his vote out in due course.
marklar
@daveNYC:
Not so fast, Dave. After all, Christianity is just one of the many Messianic sects of Judaism.
Personally, I’ve formed my own denomination for Jewish Atheists (we also accept Agnostics). I call it Jewnitarian Jewniversalist.
lowtechcyclist
Unless you’re way older than I am, you didn’t form it – I grew up in a neighborhood where Jewnitarians were abundant. And that was 50-60 years ago.
I always thought it was spelled Junitarians, but whatever.
marklar
@lowtechcyclist:
Ah, but I’m the first to declare myself a tax-exempt entity– and now I have the Supreme Court composition to back me up!
robmassing
#Actually, Yom Kippur is the holiest time in the Judeo calendar. Never heard of this Judeo/Christian calendar you speak of.
Just One More Canuck
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on @WNAX, about the record-breaking surge of new COVID-19 cases in the state: “I don’t think people should be alarmed. We’re where we expected to be.” https://hubcityradio.com/noem-shares-thoughts-on-covid-19-cases/
Jeebus, she’s just an off brand Dr. Evil (along with being an off brand Sarah Palin
Robert Sneddon
@robmassing: The holiest day of the year is the 1st of May, superseding the most holy days of all other so-called ‘religions’.
Oh, do not tell the Priest our plight,
Or he would call it a sin;
But—we have been out in the woods all night,
A-conjuring Summer in!
And we bring you news by word of mouth—
Good news for cattle and corn—
Now is the Sun come up from the South,
With Oak and Ash and Thorn!
rattle mullet
What true leadership looks like. America has completely failed and its leaders should be charged with manslaughter. This no joke. The first true test of the Biden administration will be holding those responsible for the crimes they have committed. When access to the top secret servers are given to Biden he needs to speak up. Failure to do so will forever perpetuate the cancerous malfeasance of government for the benefit of self and the forsaking of the common good of the nation. Republicans need to be held criminally accountable for supporting the failed ,hopefully, coup attempt. They are not leaders but grifters of the 10th magnitude.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/17/how-covid19-has-been-curtailed-in-cherokee-nation/