People are radically underestimating the seriousness of COVID-19 for "survivors." https://t.co/J4IyycVM0W
— Jeff Hauser (@jeffhauser) August 1, 2020
US counts 61,262 new #coronavirus cases in 24 hours leading up to 8:30 pm Saturday (0030 GMT Sunday) and 1,051 deaths, the fifth consecutive day with over 60,000 infections recorded, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University pic.twitter.com/b9Vsy1UsYw
— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 2, 2020
1/10 Epi review of the week. Bottom line: some decreases in case rates in some states, deaths increasing, but even with case decreases, rates in much of the US are very high. We’re a long way from safety. Close bars or open schools safely? Lots of states chose to keep bars open.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) July 31, 2020
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The novel coronavirus has killed at least 680,014 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Saturdayhttps://t.co/hbpiiEwWhM pic.twitter.com/6BzbLQUPNO
— AFP news agency (@AFP) August 1, 2020
Mexico now in 3rd-place in #COVID19 pandemic deaths, ranking below Brazil, which is 2nd & the US, still the global leader in cases & deaths. Mexico moved ahead of the UK, reporting 46,204 deaths; Brazil: 92,475, & the US topping the list with 153,320 https://t.co/oCDTKdxzuB
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 1, 2020
6 months into the worst pandemic in 102 years, the World Health Organization now predicts that effects from the crisis will be felt for decades. WHO's global emergency committee made the assessment Friday a half-year into a crisis that has killed ~675k & infected ~17.3 million pic.twitter.com/gt271OEKmB
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) July 31, 2020
Mainland China reports 49 new coronavirus cases for Aug 1 https://t.co/N5wjlmo0Fm pic.twitter.com/6iPC4f7Dnf
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 2, 2020
Indonesia reports 1,519 new coronavirus infections, 43 deaths https://t.co/m7CpvRZ5yc pic.twitter.com/RfDnjd1Tc5
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 2, 2020
BREAKING: Philippines' coronavirus infections breach 100,000-mark https://t.co/vArm2cmZtU
— ABS-CBN News Channel (@ANCALERTS) August 2, 2020
Tokyo confirms 292 new coronavirus cases on Sunday: NHK https://t.co/QBAMDlmRSS pic.twitter.com/B0o0u4zwi7
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 2, 2020
Interesting, *if* true…
The #UAE has successfully trained police dogs to detect cases of #COVID19 #coronavirus in passengers arriving at its airports, making the country the first in the world to do successfully do so, Emirates News Agency reports.https://t.co/FftfhvhV4H
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) August 2, 2020
(Not that I don’t believe dogs might be able to sniff out people shedding the virus, but training is not an exact science. It can be tragically easy for dogs to learn to respond to their handlers’ unconscious cues — That looks like an infected person to me — rather than to scent cues. I’m especially dubious because many Muslims consider dogs ‘unclean’, and will react to the sniffer dogs in ways that might further ‘cue’ the dogs that those persons are SUSPICIOUS!)
And speaking of suspicious…
Russia plans to roll out a Covid-19 vaccine to the general population starting in October, hoping to be the first country to start mass vaccinations against a virus that has killed more than 679,000 people world-wide https://t.co/ICXrZoVn3c
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 1, 2020
Please hand over your health insurance card on your way out, thanks! https://t.co/3KtqVWMeH1
— Björn Meyer (@_b_meyer) August 1, 2020
France starts testing travelers from 16 nations upon arrival for coronavirus, including French citizens returning from the U.S. or Brazil. https://t.co/IQanTpAUAY
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) August 1, 2020
UK puts lockdown-easing on hold as #coronavirus spread accelerates https://t.co/aN3vSQP9HG via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 1, 2020
‘The government’s £10bn contact-tracing programme failed to reach almost half the contacts named by infected patients in “non-complex” cases — including people living under the same roof.’
This isn’t exactly ‘world beating’… https://t.co/HcUEMLuiDh
— Jonathan Ashworth ? (@JonAshworth) August 2, 2020
Coronavirus: Victoria declares state of disaster after spike in cases https://t.co/Gygeg0Luy8
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 2, 2020
South Africa on Saturday surpassed 500,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, representing more than 50% of all reported coronavirus infections in Africa’s 54 countries. https://t.co/WAJ2cCaBTd
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 1, 2020
Latin America coronavirus death toll surges past 200,000 https://t.co/ZiXph3Y4JX pic.twitter.com/CxdlGazAA9
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 2, 2020
Crew members weren't showing #COVID19 symptoms, showing again how easily this could be spread through a ship before anyone was sick enough to notice. https://t.co/vnOeCNAfHp
— Dr. Tara C. Smith (@aetiology) August 1, 2020
The Diamond Princess’ outbreak is perhaps the most valuable case study available of coronavirus transmission — an experiment-in-a-bottle, rich in data, as well as a dark warning for what was to come in much of the world https://t.co/G1uMEE1pwL
— NYT Health (@NYTHealth) August 2, 2020
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Study reveals #COVID19 transmission rate on trains https://t.co/7GDtdLLyWF via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 2, 2020
We urgently need to focus on ventilation. Six months into a respiratory pandemic, we're still not given sensible and practical guidance against short-range aerosol—airborne—transmission of COVID. I wrote about the science & what it means we should do now. https://t.co/1j4KnrCugU pic.twitter.com/3W2NOs85tN
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) July 30, 2020
We should incentivize labs to improve test turnaround time. If a Covid test comes back more than 72 hours later, it's useless and the lab shouldn't get paid. https://t.co/tqPy1nyg07
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) August 1, 2020
Test positivity rate: How this one figure explains that the US isn't doing enough testing yet https://t.co/iELZXJZ9L5 via @medical_xpress pic.twitter.com/2GHI1blnbD
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 1, 2020
Cashing in on the pandemic: Billionaires in India are betting big in #coronavirus vaccine race https://t.co/p6YbS3VZhm
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 1, 2020
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You can only ask the public to go into lockdown again if they are convinced that the government will take advantage of that time to control the virus. Unfortunately, the US government has no interest in doing this, and so the public will understandably resist another lockdown https://t.co/PLk1R0vq6t
— Moshik Temkin (@moshik_temkin) August 2, 2020
Some 260 cases of the coronavirus have been tied to attendees and staff at a North Georgia children’s camp in June, according to a report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the largest known superspreading events… https://t.co/C0v2ZWvdUn
— Atlanta News (@AtlNewsNow) July 31, 2020
At least 260 campers out of 597 at an overnight camp in Georgia got COVID19 for an "attack rate" of about 44%. It was 51% for those aged 6–10 years, 44% among those aged 11–17 years, & 33% among those aged 18–21 years. (Campers not required to wear masks)https://t.co/wkq9dIDonP
— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) July 31, 2020
In hard-hit Arizona, tens of thousands of COVID-19 test kits went unused during a testing blitz in heavily Latino areas of Phoenix. Community leaders say officials are failing to get the message out to a community that's distrustful of government. https://t.co/tpPeAkn8XC
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 1, 2020
Student and staffer test positive for coronavirus at Indiana schools, first state in U.S. to reopen https://t.co/ik8tBN3K9B
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 2, 2020
Nationwide, Latinx people are hospitalized for COVID-19 at four times the rate of white people.
To help in his community, one pastor is using his Spanish-language radio station to share info about the virus — and how to stay safe.https://t.co/8RIDvFvx9F
— NPR (@NPR) August 2, 2020
President Donald Trump insists that schools reopen so students can go back to their classrooms, but the Maryland private school where his son Barron is enrolled is among those under county orders to stay closed. https://t.co/q2pNWZt3dg
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 2, 2020
Response to this video has been absolutely insane! Cannot thank everyone enough! 4.5 Million views on TikTok! #COVID19 #covid #corona pic.twitter.com/8i8F8ktJvD
— Blake Pavey (@BlakePavey) July 30, 2020
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