COVID-19 aka 2019 (and 2020) Novel Coronavirus

[cwerdna]

US breaks daily record of new coronavirus infections, topping 114,000 cases
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html

Thursday saw at least 114,876 new cases nationwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were also at least 1,159 reported deaths, a near 20% increase from the same day last week.

 

[Oilpan4]

I'm glad I'm not hearing round the clock coverage of how many caught and supposedly died from trumpvirus.

Well I can say you can definitely catch trump virus twice. I wasn't going to comment on it because I couldn't say for sure. But There was a trump virus flare up at work, next thing I know I get hit with a really high fever from about 4 am till noon, after the fever broke felt like I had been in a car crash, worse part of it was dehydration from the high fever.
Some one I work with tested positive back in June and got 2 weeks off with pay then tested + again a few days ago.

 

[cwerdna]

Ozarks public health workers feel 'hated' in Covid-19 spike
Covid-19 is on the rise in rural America. CNN's Elle Reeve visits Carter County, Missouri, to speak with public health officials who have become unlikely villains to the town's residents
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020/10/31/rural-america-covid-spike-ozarks-missouri-orig.cnn - video is about 3.5 minutes long

Morons! Seems like the most of the residents in that region are anti-maskers Gee... I wonder why their test positivity rate is past 30%?

Counties with worst virus surges overwhelmingly voted for Trump
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/05/counties-with-worst-virus-surges-overwhelmingly-voted-for-trump.html

In places where the virus is most rampant now, Trump enjoyed enormous support.
An Associated Press analysis reveals that in 376 counties with the highest number of new cases per capita, the overwhelming majority — 93% of those counties — went for Trump, a rate above other less severely hit areas
The AP’s analysis was limited to counties in which at least 95% of precincts had reported results, and grouped counties into six categories based on the rates of COVID-19 cases they’d experienced per 100,000 residents.

Gee... I wonder why.

Steve Bannon’s podcast barred from Twitter after he made beheading comment about Fauci, FBI Director Wray
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/05/steve-bannon-makes-beheading-comment-about-fauci-on-war-room-podcast-.html

Former top Trump aide Steve Bannon’s podcast was permanently suspended by Twitter and had an episode yanked from YouTube.
He implied that FBI Director Christopher Wray and government infectious-diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded and have their heads put on pikes outside the White House.
Those comments came while Bannon is free on bond in a federal criminal case in which he is accused of defrauding donors to a nonprofit group purportedly dedicated to building a wall on the southern border of the United States.

University of Iowa hospitals enacts first stage of surge plan as COVID-19 cases skyrocket
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/university-of-iowa-hospitals-report-patient-worker-changes-as-coronavirus-cases-skyrocket-20201105

IOWA CITY — On a day when Iowa shattered its record for new COVID-19 cases — reporting 4,706 in 24 hours and a highest-ever 44-percent positivity rate — the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics announced it is officially activating the first stage of its coronavirus surge plan.

That involves, among other things, adding 16 intensive care unit beds to its current 100; expanding testing capacity; and doubling staffing at its influenza-like-illness clinic, which on Wednesday reported 1,089 visits — its highest to date.

[Iowa] Doctors warn hospitals could be overrun by coronavirus soon
https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/doctors-warn-hospitals-could-be-overrun-by-covid-soon/524-e486b82c-8597-451c-918e-6d90911d754f

DES MOINES, Iowa — Social media users have spread misinformation that said once the election is over Covid-19 would disappear.

Doctors at UnityPoint and MercyOne told Local 5 cases are higher than ever before.

“For those that thought this was a political farce, I hope that we all see the truth now that it’s getting much much worse," said Austin Baeth, a physician at UnityPoint.

 

[cwerdna]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html

Friday saw at least 125,596 new coronavirus cases -- the highest single day reporting since the pandemic began. It also marked the third straight day the country has surpassed 100,000 daily coronavirus cases.

Besides the new case numbers, by Friday evening there had been at least 1,137 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Additionally, more than 54,000 Americans are hospitalized with Covid-19, with about 11,000 of them in intensive care, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows tests positive for COVID-19
https://abc7.com/politics/wh-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-positive-for-covid-19/7721271/

 

[cwerdna]

Ben Carson tests positive for COVID-19, days after White House election party
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ben-carson-tests-positive-covid-19/

Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development (HUD), has tested positive for the coronavirus, a HUD spokesperson said Monday, making him the second senior official who attended an election night event at the White House to contract the virus.

David Bossie, who was named to lead Trump effort to challenge election results, tests positive for coronavirus
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/09/covid-19-trump-campaign-official-david-bossie-has-coronavirus.html

New daily COVID-19 cases in the United States hit a record 128,000 on Saturday as multiple states reported the highest number of positive infections since the pandemic began, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/number-covid-19-infections-reaches-daily-record-us/story?id=74090045

The latest data released on Sunday evening offered no signs that the virus is easing up. Sunday marked the fifth straight day new COVID-19 cases surpassed 100,000 in the country, according to the data.

At least 105,000 new COVID-19 cases were reported on Sunday, down slightly from the daily record set a day earlier. In just the past week, more than 715,000 people nationwide have tested positive for the virus, the data shows.

 

[cwerdna]

60 Minutes on Sunday had a decent piece on US COVID-19 vaccine distribution and touched a bit on manufacturing and bottling. It's at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-distribution-60-minutes-2020-11-08/ and about 13.5 minutes long. It's not yet behind the CBS All Access paywall.

 

[LeftieBiker]

Given the extremely cold temps the vaccine has to be stored at, I'm now expecting a 'rush to vaccination' next Spring.

 

[Nubo]

Given the extremely cold temps the vaccine has to be stored at, I'm now expecting a 'rush to vaccination' next Spring.

Yet another administration fail: the pharmaceutical companies have KNOWN about the need for cold storage/transport for decades. Distribution system should have been ready for this.

Has anything needed to be THIS cold before? 5F is logistically different from -103F

 

[cwerdna]

El Paso, Texas, is asking for 4 more mobile morgues as Covid-19 deaths spike
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/us/el-paso-covid-mobile-morgues/index.html

El Paso hospitals 'near breaking point', healthcare workers feel this too
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-hospitals-near-breaking-point-healthcare-workers-feel-this-too

Really "rounding the corner" and "going away" after November 3rd... :roll:

 

[gncndad]

Given the extremely cold temps the vaccine has to be stored at, I'm now expecting a 'rush to vaccination' next Spring.

Yet another administration fail: the pharmaceutical companies have KNOWN about the need for cold storage/transport for decades. Distribution system should have been ready for this.

Has anything needed to be THIS cold before? 5F is logistically different from -103F

Your question is a good one. I've deleted my post as irrelevant. The cold (frozen) storage requirements for this new vaccine border on the absurd.

 

[WetEV]

The cold (frozen) storage requirements for this new vaccine border on the absurd.

First RNA vaccine ever. Perhaps someday someone can figure out how to stabilize long term other than by dry ice temperatures... But not for at least months.

 

[cwerdna]

Two more people from Trump’s Election Night party at White House test positive for coronavirus
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/11/covid-19-new-coronavirus-case-from-trump-white-house-election-party.html

US healthcare on brink as COVID-19 hospitalizations hit all-time high
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/us-healthcare-on-brink-as-covid-19-hospitalizations-hit-all-time-high/

L.A. megachurch pastor mocks pandemic health orders, even as church members fall ill
https://news.yahoo.com/l-megachurch-pastor-mocks-pandemic-041640132.html - I've only skimmed this, so far.

 

[WetEV]

Even more from the White House.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/trump-advisor-corey-lewandowski-tests-positive-for-coronavirus.html

Also Richard Walters, chief of staff for the Republican National Committee.

 

[WetEV]

Musk might have COVID. Rapid test has high false negative rate.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/13/musk-says-took-four-covid-19-tests-two-were-positive-two-negative.html

 

[gncndad]

I sincerely hope that those that recover from the virus won't boast about it being easily survivable. It might be, for some.

For 240,000 (and counting), it clearly wasn't. (annual flu deaths, 12,000-60,000...so much for THAT comparison.)

 

[goldbrick]

Amen to that. A co-worker says his daughter had it and still hasn't gotten her sense of smell back. Who knows if it will ever come back or what other effects the virus may have. It's amazing how cavalier people are about this thing just because it's not 100% fatal.

 

[LeftieBiker]

Part of this is simple - and I do mean simple - human nature. The rest, though, appears to be the development of a huge subculture that is based on the politicization of reality itself. This is Jonestown territory...

On the rural road where I do most of my bicycle riding, and where I'm leaving food for an abandoned cat daily, there is a little one lane railroad underpass. It used to be the convention that you honked your horn as you approached it, to prevent two vehicles from meeting in a catastrophic manner underneath it. I still do honk, but this morning I was almost front-ended by one of the numerous locals who have decided that, since it's their road, they don't have to practice even the kind of common courtesy that protects them as much as other people. Sound familiar?

 

[cwerdna]

https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1327299859804729345?s=20

Marjorie Taylor Greene @mtgreenee ·7h

US House candidate, GA-14
Our first session of New Member Orientation covered COVID in Congress.

Masks, masks, masks....

I proudly told my freshman class that masks are oppressive.

In GA, we work out, shop, go to restaurants, go to work, and school without masks.

My body, my choice.

#FreeYourFace

Sigh.... this future Congress-critter is a supporter of QAnon conspiracy "theory", as well.

 

[LeftieBiker]

Reading the replies offers a glimmer of hope. Twenty thinking people for every mouth breather.

 

[user 24513]

Make that 21..... I choose mask over entubation, which I hear is REALLY uncomfortable.