Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #72

[CharlestonGal]

Tennessee won't collect, release data on coronavirus cases in schools

A day after a top official in Gov. Bill Lee's administration said Tennessee plans to withhold the number of COVID-19 cases in schools from the public, a spokesperson said the information will not even be collected by the state.

When Lee announced guidance for school reopenings on Tuesday, state Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey said Tennessee had no plans to provide the public with data on the number of coronavirus cases and deaths at schools as many return to in-person classes.

Instead, Piercey said such data sharing would be left up to individual school districts.

 

[CSIDreamer]

Details of the strategic UK lockdowns.

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Due to a rise of #COVID19 cases in Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and West Yorkshire, new restrictions on gatherings have been introduced. Households in these regions MUST NOT:

Invite others to their homes

Meet anyone from another household in their home or garden

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Our COVID-19 statistics website has been updated. View the full UK dataset online:

Coronavirus cases in the UK: daily updated statistics Data on deaths has been temporarily paused while an urgent review into

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Coronavirus cases in the UK: daily updated statistics

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Do you have any idea when the death count review should be complete?

 

[JerseyGirl]

Fauci testifies on US coronavirus response: Live updates

The House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis is holding a hybrid hearing this morning at 9:00 a.m ET titled "The Urgent Need For A National Plan To Contain The Coronavirus.”

The hearing comes as the US reports more than 1,000 people died in the country yesterday from Covid-19, the highest number of daily coronavirus deaths in more than a month, a statement posted on the hearing's website says.

Witnesses include:

• Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health
• Dr. Robert Redfield, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Admiral Dr. Brett Giroir, US Department of Health and Human Services

The three witnesses last appeared before Congress on June 30.

According to the House subcommittee's website, after the Trump administration "initially declined" to make witnesses requested by the subcommittee available, Chair Rep. James Clyburn wrote to the vice president and the secretary of health and human services on July 14 saying:

"It is imperative that Congress and the American people hear directly from the federal government’s top health experts about how the administration intends to address this dire situation.”

Safety precautions: Face coverings are required in the hearing room, and entry will not be permitted without a face covering, the subcommittee's website said.

In addition, seating arrangements will be “in accordance with social distancing guidelines” and “every effort should be made [to] adhere to six-foot social distancing guidelines.”

 

[JerseyGirl]

Subcommittee chair: "We need to identify and correct past failures"

The House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis is holding a hearing this morning on "The Urgent Need For A National Plan To Contain The Coronavirus.” The panel just began.

"My goal today is simple. To hear from our nation's top public health experts on what steps we need to take to stop the unnecessary deaths of more Americans, " Chair James Clyburn, said in his opening remarks.

"Regrettably, nearly six months after this virus claimed its first American life, the federal government has still not yet developed and implemented a national strategy to protect the American people," Clyburn said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, is testifying in person.

The other witnesses include Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Admiral Dr. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at the US Department of Health and Human Services. They are also testifying in person.

The health experts are expected to be grilled on Covid-19 testing, school reopenings and the development of a vaccine.

 

[tresir2012]

Do you have any idea when the death count review should be complete?

Sorry no I don't. I will have a look at this new Gov.uk website that will be in use from 4 Aug. I think it is already operational before they take the other one down that I just linked in the previous post.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK

I will try and pull some English regional death counts from that link and edit to show them below.

Area Deaths
East Midlands 3,347
East of England 4,619
London 6,871
North East 2,416
*North West 6,901
South East 5,673
South West 2,131
*West Midlands 5,188
Yorkshire and The Humber 4,032

The areas I have asterisked are the ones that have the additional restrictions recently announced.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Why has Europe better contained the virus than the US? Here's what Fauci says.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked why Europe has been able to largely contain the virus while the US has seen a rise in new cases.

Fauci said it was a complex question, but described some of the contributing factors. He first pointed out that many European countries locked down more wholly than the US.

"If you look at what happened in Europe, when they shut down or locked down or went to shelter in place — however you want to describe it — they really did it to the tune of about 95% plus of the country did that," Fauci said.

However, "when you actually look at what we did, even though we shut down, even though it created a great deal of difficulty, we really functionally shut down only about 50% in the sense of the totality of the country," Fauci added.

He also noted that some states had better success at following reopening guidelines than others.

"Some were followed very carefully and some were not," he said.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Redfield: "It's in the public health best interest" of students to get back in schools

As the start of the school year creeps closer and some states continue to see surges in cases, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reiterated his stance that schools should reopen this fall.

"I think it's important to realize that it's in the public health best interest of K-through-12 students to get back in face-to-face learning. There's really very significant public health consequences of the school closure," Redfield said.

Redfield outlined some of these consequences, including student access to mental health services.

"Clearly we're seeing less reporting of it, and again, I think it's a direct consequence of the school closures. 7.1 million kids get their mental health services at school, they get nutritional support as we've mentioned from schools," he said.

"It's really important to realize it's not public health versus the economy about school opening, it's public health versus public health of the K-through-12 to get the schools open. We've got to do it safely and we have to be able to accommodate," Redfield added.

Dr. Anthony Fauci echoed Redfield's comments later on in the hearing, saying that a "default position despite the fact that we have to have flexibility" would be to try "as best as we possibly can in the context of the safety of the children and the teachers" to reopen the schools.

Fauci pointed to the psychological consequences on children and "downstream unintended consequences on families" as important reasons for aiming to open educational establishments.

 

[CharlestonGal]

Coronavirus Kills One American Every 60 Seconds

The latest U.S. daily death toll on July 30 was 1,465, according to data compiled by Worldometer. That means one American died nearly every 60 seconds (about every 58.9 seconds) on Thursday.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Fauci asked about Trump's falsehood that US has more cases because of more testing

House subcommittee Chair James Clyburn, from South Carolina, addressed President Trump's tweet that seemed to reference a chart Clyburn showed earlier in the hearing about US cases largely outpacing European countries.

In his tweet, Trump claimed that the US is leading Europe in cases due to testing. The President has repeatedly argued that more testing is leading to more cases in the US. That is comprehensively inaccurate.

"Somebody please tell Congressman Clyburn, who doesn’t have a clue, that the chart he put up indicating more CASES for the U.S. than Europe, is because we do MUCH MORE testing than any other country in the World. If we had no testing, or bad testing, we would show very few CASES, " Trump tweeted in part.

Clyburn asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, if he agreed with Trump's statement. Clyburn pointed to Fauci's earlier comments from the hearing where the public health official said the difference in cases is due to multiple factors, including how states reopened.

"I stand by my previous statement that the increase in cases was due to a number of factors, one of which was that in the attempt to reopen, that in some situations, states did not abide strictly by the guidelines that the task force and the White House had put out and others that even did abide by it, the people in the state actually were congregating in crowds and not wearing masks," Fauci said.

Fact's first: CNN’s fact check team has reported that Trump's officials and his Republican allies have acknowledged it's not true that a rising number of tests is the reason the number of cases has skyrocketed over the last month.

One telling piece of evidence that the spike is genuine: the percentage of people testing positive, a key measure of the true spread of the virus, has also spiked. As for his assertion regarding other countries — Countries like Germany have needed to do less testing over time because they were more successful at containing their outbreaks in the first place — by employing a strategy that involved aggressive early testing.

 

[musicaljoke]

Coronavirus Kills One American Every 60 Seconds

The latest U.S. daily death toll on July 30 was 1,465, according to data compiled by Worldometer. That means one American died nearly every 60 seconds (about every 58.9 seconds) on Thursday.

Oh my. This is so heartbreaking. Flags ought to be lowered until this is over, or black ribbons draped over doors.

 

[CharlestonGal]

Fauci asked about Trump's falsehood that US has more cases because of more testing

House subcommittee Chair James Clyburn, from South Carolina, addressed President Trump's tweet that seemed to reference a chart Clyburn showed earlier in the hearing about US cases largely outpacing European countries.

In his tweet, Trump claimed that the US is leading Europe in cases due to testing. The President has repeatedly argued that more testing is leading to more cases in the US. That is comprehensively inaccurate.

"Somebody please tell Congressman Clyburn, who doesn’t have a clue, that the chart he put up indicating more CASES for the U.S. than Europe, is because we do MUCH MORE testing than any other country in the World. If we had no testing, or bad testing, we would show very few CASES, " Trump tweeted in part.

Clyburn asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, if he agreed with Trump's statement. Clyburn pointed to Fauci's earlier comments from the hearing where the public health official said the difference in cases is due to multiple factors, including how states reopened.

"I stand by my previous statement that the increase in cases was due to a number of factors, one of which was that in the attempt to reopen, that in some situations, states did not abide strictly by the guidelines that the task force and the White House had put out and others that even did abide by it, the people in the state actually were congregating in crowds and not wearing masks," Fauci said.

Fact's first: CNN’s fact check team has reported that Trump's officials and his Republican allies have acknowledged it's not true that a rising number of tests is the reason the number of cases has skyrocketed over the last month.

One telling piece of evidence that the spike is genuine: the percentage of people testing positive, a key measure of the true spread of the virus, has also spiked. As for his assertion regarding other countries — Countries like Germany have needed to do less testing over time because they were more successful at containing their outbreaks in the first place — by employing a strategy that involved aggressive early testing.

I wonder if Twitter will censor that bit of corona misinformation?

 

[Alice253]

Tennessee won't collect, release data on coronavirus cases in schools

A day after a top official in Gov. Bill Lee's administration said Tennessee plans to withhold the number of COVID-19 cases in schools from the public, a spokesperson said the information will not even be collected by the state.

When Lee announced guidance for school reopenings on Tuesday, state Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey said Tennessee had no plans to provide the public with data on the number of coronavirus cases and deaths at schools as many return to in-person classes.

Instead, Piercey said such data sharing would be left up to individual school districts.

I am ashamed to have to say this is the state I was born and raised in and have lived here all my 67 years. We have no leadership. MOO

 

[Cool Cats]

Millions brace for financial anguish in August as COVID lifelines expire

Voluteers distribute food to recipients at the Giving Hope Food Pantry during a food giveaway in New Orleans, July 21, 2020, to assist people who have lost income during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why some people who haven't had Covid-19 might already have some immunity - CNN

'Almost every person in the world has had some encounter with a coronavirus'

Adalja added that he was not surprised to see this T cell cross-reactivity in the study participants who had not been exposed to the novel coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2.
"SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh human coronavirus that has been discovered, and four of the human coronaviruses are what we call community-acquired coronaviruses, and together those four are responsible for 25% of our common colds," Adalja said. "Almost every person in the world has had some encounter with a coronavirus, and since they are all part of the same family, there is some cross reactive immunity that develops."

 

[CharlestonGal]

Oh my. This is so heartbreaking. Flags ought to be lowered until this is over, or black ribbons draped over doors.

It should be the headline every. single. day. Until people get it.

I give it two weeks until that headline reads that one American is dying every 30 seconds. jmo

 

[tabitha111]

Well, we might have a Cat 1 or 2 Hurricane brushing our area. ( Virginia Beach) Still not a concise track.

Went to Aldi today to get the week's groceries.

I always buy a few extra cans of this or that or napkins, etc. to put in the pantry.

Was in the produce section when two youngish (maybe late 20's) guys walked in, no masks, they headed right for me, no distance at all...I backed up and went "whoa" out loud, the guy goes "what?" I say "no masks" he starts "do you know that masks...." I cut him off "I don't want to hear it, I have a medical background so don't waste your breathe" then he says under his breath "uneducated" and walks off...of course me being me...sometimes hard for me to keep my mouth shut says "hey, I am more educated than you are" ...the end. No he didn't curse me, or come at me...but yes, I realize that these situations are not ideal. sigh.
Just call me frustrated.
p.s masks are mandated in Virginia

Car is gassed up. Plenty of food and water in the house. Its wait and see right now.

 

[SoCalDavidS]

the guy goes "what?" I say "no masks" he starts "do you know that masks...." I cut him off "I don't want to hear it, I have a medical background so don't waste your breathe" then he says under his breath "uneducated" and walks off...of course me being me...sometimes hard for me to keep my mouth shut says "hey, I am more educated than you are" ...the end. No he didn't curse me, or come at me...but yes, I realize that these situations are not ideal. sigh.

When he called you Uneducated, he was Projecting. It's a common technique used often by their cult leader.

 

[CharlestonGal]

UPDATE: Washington Mayor in the hospital on a ventilator for COVID-19

WASHINGTON, N.C. (WITN) - Washington Mayor Mac Hodges is in the hospital on a ventilator as he continues to battle COVID-19.

It was on July 16th Hodges says he was tested for COVID-19 after not feeling well. He got the positive results the next day.

In a Facebook post Wednesday, the mayor’s daughter, Beth Hodges Fickling wrote, “Today brought changes to Mac Hodges’s treatment. The doctors and Mac decided it was time to intubate. His body needs to focus on fighting this virus. He also needed nutrition that he was unable to get before. We are praying that this procedure will allow him to heal and fight the virus. Please join us as we pray for his full recovery. We also pray for those who are caring for him and for my mom who is navigating this apart from him.”

 

[Tony1902]

Yes, it was announced this week that the United States Military would be in charge of distributing/vaccine administration/ shots when it rolls out.

We'll see, as there has been so many statements that haven't been followed through/happened that were promised. MOO

If it’s USAMRID I’m there.

 

[SoCalDavidS]

UPDATE: Washington Mayor in the hospital on a ventilator for COVID-19

WASHINGTON, N.C. (WITN) - Washington Mayor Mac Hodges is in the hospital on a ventilator as he continues to battle COVID-19.

It was on July 16th Hodges says he was tested for COVID-19 after not feeling well. He got the positive results the next day.

In a Facebook post Wednesday, the mayor’s daughter, Beth Hodges Fickling wrote, “Today brought changes to Mac Hodges’s treatment. The doctors and Mac decided it was time to intubate. His body needs to focus on fighting this virus. He also needed nutrition that he was unable to get before. We are praying that this procedure will allow him to heal and fight the virus. Please join us as we pray for his full recovery. We also pray for those who are caring for him and for my mom who is navigating this apart from him.”

This does not sound good at all.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Hong Kong postpones legislative elections for a year over coronavirus fears

Hong Kong will postpone legislative elections due to be held in September by one year because of the coronavirus outbreak, the city's leader said Friday.

In a news conference, Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam said the move to postpone the Legislative Council elections, slated for September 6, was the most difficult decision she had made in the last seven months. She added that she had the support of the Chinese central government in making this decision.