Happy one year anniversary to Secretary Wilbur Ross saying this about the impact of COVID for America: "I don't want to talk about a victory lap… but… I think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to North America."
pic.twitter.com/sKNhLHWlIX— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) January 30, 2021
Tracking the pandemic in the U.S. Here are the latest figures on COVID-19 cases, deaths and vaccinations across the country. https://t.co/yu1uTgjsfK
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 30, 2021
Look, there’s always too much pandemic news to keep up with. That’s why you should never miss @DrTomFrieden’s Friday recap of key developments and most important data signals. It’s crucial reading. https://t.co/Mrxbh4Gm3S
— Maryn McKenna (@marynmck) January 30, 2021
Thanks @NYTimes for working with @ResolveTSL to provide information on risk in every community. I’m horrified to see communities opening because things are “better” when risk is still very very high, as is the risk of new, more infectious variants. 3/ https://t.co/OJ7kiplUqH pic.twitter.com/kZ64kcvG4z
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) January 30, 2021
Vaccines work against strains circulating now. Get them out of freezers into arms. Complicated program, bumpy start. Neglected: Black, Latinx, Native American, poor…and primary care doctors. First-come, first-serve is a recipe to exacerbate inequality. https://t.co/kCfAQlsO1S 8/
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) January 30, 2021
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Just back from visit at Jinyintan hospital, that specialised in infectious diseases and was designated for treatment of the first cases in Wuhan. Stories quite similar to what I have heard from our ICU doctors.
— Marion Koopmans (@MarionKoopmans) January 30, 2021
https://t.co/BdxX5tg2dc No such thing as going under the radar….
— Marion Koopmans (@MarionKoopmans) January 30, 2021
VERY GOOD NEWS to start your day: Israel has vaccinated most of its population w/@pfizer #COVID19 vax. One dose — poor protection, only 30% in seniors. But after 2nd dose "just 0.04% of Israelis caught COVID-19," 92% effective.
SMILE (& get double-vax'ed)https://t.co/GlcJWnDlVH— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 30, 2021
Russia confirmed 18,359 new coronavirus cases and 485 deaths Sunday, bringing its totals to 3,850,439 cases and 73,182 deaths https://t.co/Uo7CpxSaUK
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 31, 2021
On this day in 2020, the Philippines announced its first coronavirus case.
A year after, the country has recorded over half a million confirmed cases, with at least 470,000 recoveries, and more than 10,000 deaths due to the disease. https://t.co/sDo55hwVGt pic.twitter.com/ioGau5Y2Gx
— CNN Philippines (@cnnphilippines) January 30, 2021
Yokosuka Naval Base said 23 people have tested positive for coronavirus since Tuesday with 47 recoveries, according to a Facebook post Friday. https://t.co/sv9KtFHWTu
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) January 30, 2021
Covid: Australian city of Perth goes into snap lockdown after guard tests positive https://t.co/Yv3Z0Pe8SU
— BBC News Australia (@BBCNewsAus) January 31, 2021
Covid: EU and UK 'reset' relations after NI vaccine row https://t.co/iq25nN2btC
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) January 31, 2021
EU offers guarantees for vaccine deliveries, says UK minister Truss https://t.co/OixUHEtVFb pic.twitter.com/XQ55vbi74K
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 31, 2021
South Africa to receive extra 20 million COVID-19 vaccines, paper says https://t.co/QUHQtN9D15 pic.twitter.com/Zsyes1E6cA
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 31, 2021
One-third of Africa will be vaccinated this year, according to the World Health Organization. It's estimated Africa will need 1.5 billion vaccine doses to immunize 60% of its 1.3 billion inhabitants, the threshold for herd immunity https://t.co/1pmdshcDLw pic.twitter.com/WJucQprkby
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 30, 2021
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He had just attended a meeting w/health experts, and they had asked one another what they would tell their spouses to do if they could get J&J vaccine tomorrow, or had to wait 3 weeks for Pfizer/Moderna’s. “All of us said, ‘Get the one tomorrow,’” he said https://t.co/Le9vqxiAIs
— Virginia Hughes (@virginiahughes) January 30, 2021
Hallelujah. The "new" @CDCgov is putting out a fantastic daily summary of the latest #COVID19 scientific publications, noting which have been peer-reviewed. Check this out:
CDC Science Agenda for COVID-19
https://t.co/C6QKF5V2Ix— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 30, 2021
I am going to echo Lawrence Corey's (UW)'s sentiment “Do you want a vaccine that prevents coughs or do you want a vaccine that prevents death?”
We need to see the full data but I will take 85% reduction in severe disease & 100% reduction in deaths. https://t.co/HGTMd1mRLZ
— Dr. Nahid Bhadelia (@BhadeliaMD) January 29, 2021
Anybody confused about all the vaccine results against 'regular' and 'variant' SARS-CoV-2? You are not alone. We need an independent side-by-side cross-comparison of neutralization titers (and impact of variants) and of data, since case definitions were different between trials.
— Florian Krammer (@florian_krammer) January 29, 2021
cooks have the single highest death rate by profession. https://t.co/xGffS4GfDJ
— confront your racist uncle ???? (@ellouelle) January 29, 2021
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"We want people vaccinated based on priority, not privilege." Investigations are underway around the U.S. after hospital board members, their trustees and donors have gotten early access to scarce COVID-19 shots, while millions of everyday Americans wait. https://t.co/ZlKObHL2VE
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 30, 2021
South Dakota COVID deaths have more than tripled since this tweet on Nov. 10: https://t.co/llAzeWBmOj
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) January 30, 2021
Vermont has a similar sized population to South Dakota, higher population density and about *1/7th the deaths per capita.*
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) January 30, 2021
California has reported 40,000 coronavirus deaths as the state's steepest surge of cases begins to taper. Now only New York has more deaths but at this pace California will eclipse that too. https://t.co/vAiJZC5KO1
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) January 30, 2021
"In Los Angeles County, there is little mystery to the heaviest spread of the virus. Where the crowding is worst, the pandemic hits hardest: the Eastside. Southeast L.A. South L.A."
Heartbreaking story by @brittny_mejia https://t.co/NgGhjxj16L pic.twitter.com/1emATerhL3
— Liam Dillon (@dillonliam) January 29, 2021
Protesters in L.A. temporarily blocked one of the largest COVID-19 vaccination sites in the nation, stalling hundreds of motorists who had been waiting in line for hours. Anti-vaccine and far-right groups were among the protesters. https://t.co/RCiSOP2ZZm
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 31, 2021
Some anti-vax protesters shut down Covid vaccination site at #DodgerStadium for about an hour. Firefighter tells me they were blocking cars and screaming at people in line to get vaccinated, most of whom are elderly. LAPD made them get on sidewalk. No arrests. @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/xmyQOIx9Rs
— Emily Valdez, KNX 1070 (@EmilyValdezKNX) January 31, 2021
Very illuminating little detail from this LA Times story about a grab bag of local dickweeds blockading the vaccination site at Dodger Stadium. https://t.co/cCQXBE0yba pic.twitter.com/gF7p0txZbM
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) January 31, 2021
PeakVT
Of course, it did the opposite. Because Trumpolini fucked up, the domestic service sector has been battered, and people who have stayed home have bought more stuff from China, where the factories are free to operate at full capacity in most of the country.
OzarkHillbilly
Wow, a 200% recovery rate. How dey do dat??
rikyrah
Why the phuck were they not arrested in LA?.???
PeakVT
Leadership and a non-stupid population has helped. Phil (not Rick, or any other) Scott has not sucked during this crisis, which is why he got about the same percentage of the vote as Biden did in the state.
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly: The 47 recoveries were infected over two weeks ago. Not the same group as this week’s positive tests.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: It was a horribly worded tweet and I am making fun of it. It’s what I do.
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
Um, yeah, I knew that. (he said hastily.)
YY_Sima Qian
On 1/30 China reported 73 new domestic confirmed, 5 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Beijing Municipality did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 community (at Daxing District) remains at High Risk.
Hebei Province:
Hebei Provincial Health Commission reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. 98 domestic confirmed case recovered & 8 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are currently 437 domestic confirmed cases (10 serious, 344 moderate and 83 mild) & 40 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province:
Heilongjiang Province
Heilongjiang Province reported 9 new domestic confirmed & 4 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 8 confirmed cases recovered & 3 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There are currently 500 domestic confirmed (2 critical, 21 serious, 328 moderate and 149 mild) & 539 domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.:
Jilin Province
Jilin Province reported 63 new domestic confirmed cases (57 previously asymptomatic) & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases. 14 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases recovered. There are currently 349 confirmed (10 critical, 27 serious, 221 moderate and 91 mild), 21 asymptomatic & 1 suspect cases there.:
Shanghai Municipality did not report new domestic positive cases. Currently there are 18 confirmed cases in the city. 2 residential compounds, 1 residential area and 1 hotel are currently at Medium Risk.
Imported Cases:
On 1/30, China reported 19 new imported confirmed cases, 14 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 125 confirmed cases recovered, 27 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation and 58 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 1,469 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,668 active confirmed cases in the country (309 imported), 76 are in critical/serious condition (5 imported), 910 asymptomatic cases (296 imported), 2 suspect cases (1 imported). 38,859 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
On 1/31, Hong Kong reported 53 new cases, 9 imported and 44 domestic (17 of whom do not have sources of infection identified).
NotMax
FYI.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY yesterday:
268 new cases. 634 hospitalized, 134 in the ICU.
Still at 937 reported deaths. 34% of hospital beds available, 25% of ICU beds available. 3.8% positivity.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: ;-)
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax:
Seems a bit much to me.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: Sounds similar to what New Zealand and Australia have done, and both those countries have kept the virus under pretty good control.
terben
As mentioned in the post above, there was a new case in Western Australia today. This case was a security guard at a quarantine hotel in Perth.
We were hoping for better news today as it was 14 days since the last local case in NSW and the news was supposed to be all about lifting of restrictions in that state.
The news from WA shows how difficult it is to run a returning traveller quarantine system. The guard worked in a part of a hotel where people had tested positive to at least two of the Covid variants that have been concerning medical authorities lately. It is not yet known which variant he is infected with. What is worrying is the large number of people that he has been in contact with away from work. The greater Perth area will go into a very severe lockdown for 5 days. The lockdown conditions are:
The lockdown means the following businesses, venues and locations need to close for the next five days:
The school year in WA was scheduled to start tomorrow. That will not happen.
The numbers for Australia today are 5 new cases, 4 in quarantine, 1 local and 0 deaths. This brings the total to 28,811 cases and 909 deaths.
rikyrah
@satby:
Do you see the pictures from the Australian Open?
Fans in the stands
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: 24 total days in 2 separate quarantines? Sounds even more over the top when I write it that way.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 numbers. Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 5,298 new cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 214,959 cases. He also reports 14 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 760 deaths — 0.35% of the cumulative reported total, 0.46% of resolved cases.
There are currently 48,150 active and contagious cases; 313 are in ICU, 127 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 4,522 patients recovered and were discharged, for a cumulative total of 166,049 patients recovered – 77.3% of the cumulative reported total.
Dr Noor Hisham attributed the high numbers of new cases this week, over 5,000 on three days, partly to ongoing targeted workplace testing in several atates, and partly to late reporting to the Health Ministry’s Covid-19 Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC). These late reports included positive tests from 2020. He added that private hospitals and clinics were still slow to report their test results, a problem the Ministry has faced from the beginning.
10 new clusters were reported today: Jalan Rami Tiga, Jalan Mega, Sri Plentong, and Jalan Ithnin in Johor; Jalan Kewajipan and Persiaran Sabak in Selangor; Raja Chulan building site in KL; Jalan Masjid Tanah in Melaka; and Bercham Raya and Jalan Tronoh in Perak.
Jalan Ithnin and Bercham Raya at high-risk gtoup clusters. Jalan Tronoh is a community cluster. The rest are all workplace clusters.
5,295 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 2,459 local cases: 262 in older clusters, 159 in Jalan Kewajipan and Persiaran Sabak clusters, 1,486 close-contact screenings, and 552 other screenings. Johor reports 1,019 local cases: 326 in older clusters; 156 in Jalan Rami Tiga, Jalan Mega, Sri Plentong, and Jalan Ithnin clusters; 175 close-contact screenings; and 362 other screenings. KL reports 782 local cases: 254 in older clusters, 151 in Raja Chulan building site cluster, 159 close-contact screenings, and 218 other screenings. Sabah reports 298 cases: 11 in existing clusters, 225 close-contact screenings, and 62 other screenings.
Melaka reports 153 cases: 58 in older clusters, 68 in Jalan Masjid Tanah cluster, 21 close-contact screenings, and six other screenings. Sarawak reports 135 cases: 61 in existing clusters, 23 close-contact screenings, and 51 other screenings.
Terengganu reports 83 cases: six in existing clusters, 42 close-contact screenings, and 35 other screenings. Pahang reports 74 cases: 30 in existing clusters, 26 close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings. Penang reports 69 cases: 22 in existing clusters, 16 close-contact screenings, and 31 other screenings. Perak reports 63 cases: 22 in older clusters, nine in Bercham Raya and Jalan Tronoh clusters, 21 close-contact screenings, and 11 other screenings. Kedah reports 53 cases: nine in existing clusters, 23 close-contact screenings, and 21 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 42 cases: three in existing clusters, 23 close-contact screenings, and 16 other screenings. Kelantan reports 30 cases: two in existing clusters, 18 close-contact screenings, and 10 other screenings.
Labuan reports 24 cases: 14 in existing clusters, two close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings. Putrajaya reports six cases: five close-contact screenings, and one other screening. And Perlis reports five casesm all found in other screening.
Three new cases are imported. Selangor, KL, and Johor reported one each.
The 14 deaths reported today, all but two in Selangor, are a 64-year-old woman with diabetes and hypertension; a 65-year-old man with hypertension and chronic kidney disease; a 74-year-old man in KL with hypertension and dyslipidaemia; an 83-year-old man with diabetes and colon cancer; a 40-year-old woman with meningioma and epilepsy; a 60-year-old man with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia; an 87-year-old man with dementia; a 58-year-old woman with diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, heart disease, and rheumatoid arthritis; a 74-year-old man with heart disease; a 36-year-old man with diabetes; a 76-year-old woman with diabetes; a 58-year-old man with diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease; a 41-year-old woman, DOA with chronic kidney disease; and a 73-year-old man in Sarawak with diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: They can be exposed in transit. The first quarantine is to eliminate false negatives, I would assume. It is pretty severe, but I have no idea what kind of hospital capacity is available in American Samoa in case of a bad outbreak.
mrmoshpotato
Assholes.
debbie
@rikyrah:
NO arrests = White! ?
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: They also weren’t put on a barge and shoved out into the Pacific.
debbie
@mrmoshpotato:
Five bucks says this becomes a national trend.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: What else do these talking deer predict?
Btw, what the fuck has Dr. Jenny McCarthy, MD been up to these days?
The Moar You Know
And in two weeks you’ll see another and worse explosion of cases, at least here in San Diego.
Newsom “opened up” the state Thursday even though the the entire state is in “purple” tier. My wife and I decided to take a drive down the coast on Saturday. Within a mile we’d both put our N95s on and set the car A/C to “recirculate”. Every single restaurant on the coast was open, so were all of the bars, and people were crammed inside and outside to well beyond capacity and not a goddamn mask to be seen. From North County down to Chula Vista, we had the biggest and deadliest party this state will ever see.
So.
The next surge, which should start in 10-12 days, is 100% on Gavin Newsom’s doorstep. All the deaths. All the people crippled for life. He did not have to do this.
But he did
Understand Cuomo is thinking about doing the same thing for Valentine’s Day.
Dems had a massive PR advantage as the party of safety and sanity. We are about to lose that forever, and you can thank the governors of CA and NY when that happens. What we are doing in CA is no different that what Noem did in SD, or DeSantis is doing in Florida.
TS (the original)
@terben:
We seem to treat this so differently to the US/UK etc. One case & a state is in lockdown. Queensland did the same a few weeks ago. It sure seems to keep covid-19 under control but is not so good for making any sort of travel plans outside of your own state.
I’ve had to travel NSW/Qld recently and you have to keep watching the news in case a fast trip home is needed to avoid a border shut down.
The Moar You Know
@rikyrah: they have money. I’d frankly have preferred they all be shot on the spot. They killed people.
TS (the original)
@OzarkHillbilly:
Seems much as is done in Australia – designed to keep an isolated community covid-free. Limits on travel and quarantine/isolation seem to be the best weapons we have to stop the spread until the vaccine option takes over.
The Moar You Know
@OzarkHillbilly: One mistake, one positive gets through and most everyone on that small set of islands, a very susceptible population, dies. That clear it up for you?
COVIDs incubation period is widely considered to be 10-14 days. That’s an average. Observed incubation can be from 2-46 days. I don’t think what they’re doing is irrational at all.
Sloane Ranger
Yesterday in the UK we had 23,275 new cases. This is a decrease of around 5,800 from the day before and a reduction of 31.3% in the rolling 7-day average. Normal weekend warning applies to this and subsequent figures. New cases by nation,
England – 21,089 (down @5,700)
Northern Ireland – 466 (down @200)
Scotland – 994 (down @150)
Wales – 737 (up @200).
Deaths – There were 1200 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a reduction of 5.7% in the rolling 7-day average. Deaths by nation, England – 1098, Northern Ireland – 17, Scotland – 60 and Wales – 25.
Testing – not updated.
Hospitalisations – 34,783 people were in hospital on Thursday, 28th January and 3832 were on ventilators on Friday, 29th. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions is down by 16.6.%.
Vaccinations – As of 29th January, 8,378,940 people had received their 1st dose of a vaccine and 480,432, their 2nd.
namekarB
My email to Placer County Health in California
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I am writing regarding the difficulty in getting my 92 year old mother vaccinated. The facts are as follows:
1) My mother lives in Roseville Commons Senior Living (behind Roseville Square), a communal living facility.
2) Senior Living facilities are not considered in the same category as Nursing Homes or Assisted Living and thus are not part of Phase 1A mobile pharmacy vaccination program.
3) Thus all of the aged residents in my mother’s communal living facility are Phase 1B Tier 1 and have to somehow find their own method of getting vaccinated. This has been difficult as most of these residents lack transportation, are computer illiterate and get their information from television.
4) Calls to Placer County Health for information have long wait times and thus after one hour I hung up and left you a voicemail and am following up with this email. (I understand the reasons for long wait times.)
5) I am 72 in age and have managed to snag an appointment for me but when I inquired about giving up my own appointment for my mother was informed I could only cancel and the pharmacy (Safeway) would determine who would get the dose. So I kept my own appointment and got Dose #1
6) I had previously signed up for text alerts from Placer County Health for covid vaccine and have been logging into their web site each morning and evening looking for an appointment for my mother. When I do get an alert I have logged on immediately only to find that no a[ppointments are available. I have been trying for 2 weeks to get her scheduled.
So here are my requests.
1) Can you please look into having Senior Communal Living facilities be included in the mobile pharmacy vaccination program the same as Phase 1A facilities?
2) Absent resolution to my Request #1 can Placer County Health look into a way to handle aged residents living in senior communal living facilities that are not covered by Phase 1A?
Thank you for any help you can provide
Platonicspoof
Thanks for links Anne Laurie (and that John Cole guy, too)!
18th of 29 (!) blockquotes for CDC Library: Science Updates looks very helpful.
Update for Jan. 29 has a link to a meta-analysis from China of asymptomatic infections. One finding:
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greenergood
A little, chilling article from the UK Telegraph – a silver lining to Covid, so to speak: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/government-saves-600m-state-pension-payments-covid-deaths-surge/
Effing tossers …
Malovich
They should be ordered to do community service in the funeral homes and morgues.
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
There have been cases reported where the incubation period is over 21 days.
Because people are being repatriated on the basis of clean tests, the Hawaii quarantine bubble group will probably be a different group by the second quarantine, and will have flown on a plane with others.