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[Rob Randall]

Why are so many states doing better than Canada? Could it be that for some reason they were not by the same nursing home disaster that befell Quebec, Ontario and BC? Or are those "lucky" states just late to the party and their time will come? Or did those states do better with early lockdowns and guidelines? Or some other reason?

[amor de cosmos]

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A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic.

The number of deaths per day from the virus had been falling for months, and even remained down as states like Florida and Texas saw explosions in cases and hospitalizations—and reported daily U.S. infections broke records several times in recent days.

Scientists warned it wouldn't last. A coronavirus death, when it occurs, typically comes several weeks after a person is first infected. And experts predicted states that saw increases in cases and hospitalizations would, at some point, see deaths rise too. Now that's happening.

"It's consistently picking up. And it's picking up at the time you'd expect it to," said William Hanage, a Harvard University infectious diseases researcher.

According to an Associated Press analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University, the seven-day rolling average for daily reported deaths in the U.S. has increased from 578 two weeks ago to 664 on July 10—still well below the heights hit in April. Daily reported deaths increased in 27 states over that time period, but the majority of those states are averaging under 15 new deaths per day. A smaller group of states has been driving the nationwide increase in deaths.

https://medicalxpres...cted-worse.html
 

As experts feared would happen, COVID-19 deaths in the US have started to rise, following a surge in newly diagnosed cases beginning in the middle of June.

The new spikes in deaths are largest in the two most populous states, California and Texas. And while infectious disease specialists are hopeful that the number of deaths won’t grow to match the carnage seen in New York State back in April, where the death toll peaked at around 1,000 per day, it’s unclear how quickly deaths may rise in the worst affected states in the coming weeks.

“I am worried, given how rapidly things are accelerating here,” Peter Hotez, a vaccine researcher at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, told BuzzFeed News. Ominously, the Texas Tribune reported on Saturday that some counties in the state have requested refrigerated trucks, anticipating that morgues may soon be filled to capacity.

The number of new COVID-19 cases began surging in June, especially in the South and West, weeks after many states started to reopen their economies. But through the rest of the month, daily deaths continued to decline. “I believe that at this point in the course of the pandemic, we can still take some comfort in the fact that fatalities are declining all across the country,” Vice President Mike Pence, chair of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said on June 26.

But experts warned BuzzFeed News in late June that any rise in deaths would lag behind the rise in cases by several weeks, given the delay between infection and serious illness, and the fact that many people being infected were relatively young. Also, deaths might not start to rise until the virus had spread to more vulnerable older people.

“We just reopened too fast and these are the consequences of it,” Cedric Dark, an emergency room physician at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who has been treating COVID-19 patients, told BuzzFeed News.

deaths by date reported


https://www.buzzfeed...rida-california

Disney World reopens as U.S. virus death toll surges
https://www.rappler....ath-toll-surges

Hundreds Of Los Angeles Apparel Factory Workers Have Contracted The Coronavirus And Four Have Died
Public health officials said the company initially refused to cooperate with an investigation into an outbreak at the factory, and at one point tried to prevent officials from entering
https://www.buzzfeed...navirus-workers

Dozens of COVID-19 cases have been detected at U.S. military bases in Okinawa Prefecture, Gov. Denny Tamaki said Saturday, with the military later confirming two cluster infections
https://taskandpurpo...s-cases-okinawa
 

Texas hospital executive Dr. Jane Appleby is telling local media that a young coronavirus patient who had attended a “covid party” told his nurse, shortly before his death, “I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.”

Dr. Appleby, Chief Medical Officer of Methodist Healthcare in San Antonio, sounded the alarm about the “covid parties” in several local interviews. She told WOAI that a patient in their thirties — whom she identified to another station, KSAT, as a “young man” — became critically ill after attending one of the parties.

“This is a party held by somebody diagnosed by the COVID virus and the thought is to see if the virus is real and to see if anyone gets infected,” she told WOAI, and told KSAT that “Someone will be diagnosed with the disease and they’ll have a party to invite their friends over to see if they can beat the disease.”

https://www.mediaite...his-was-a-hoax/

Russia's Sechenov University Successfully Completes Trials of World's 1st COVID-19 Vaccine
https://sputniknews....vid-19-vaccine/
 

Over the past month, the Yemeni rial has declined against foreign currencies to the lowest rate since the war began in March 2015, registering 800 rials to the US dollar, amid international warnings of further declines.

This was clearly expressed by Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock in his briefing to the United Nations Security Council on Yemen June 24, warning of Yemen "falling off the cliff."

“We have never before seen in Yemen a situation where such a severe acute domestic economic crisis overlaps with a sharp drop in remittances and major cuts to donor support for humanitarian aid — and this, of course, is all happening in the middle of a devastating pandemic,” Lowcock said, noting that the value of the rial has plummeted and food prices have risen between 10% and 20% in some areas just in the last two weeks.

https://www.al-monit...houthi-war.html

Montreal public health officials want everyone who has visited or worked at a bar in the city since the beginning of the month to get a COVID-19 test. Officials announced Saturday evening that at least eight cases have now been tied to five Montreal bars.
https://www.cbc.ca/n...ested-1.5646542

[Victoria Watcher]

and they declined to name the bars. that’s the problem. 8 cases 5 bars.

out of probably 500 in the city.

[Greg]

these are all the us states that have lower death rates than canada.  29 of the 50 states are doing better than canada.

 

 

 

Several of those States (like Florida and Texas) have had more new cases and more deaths in the last couple of days than Canada has in the last several weeks. It is pretty silly to site those as States that are "doing better than Canada."

[Victoria Watcher]

I didn’t. I cited them instead.

Florida and Texas have a lot more freedom than us though. so it’s not really a fair comparison.

seriously though. general hospital healthcare is better in the USA. for example they have several COVID treatments and we have none. so they cope better with infections.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 July 2020 - 02:43 PM.

[tanker]

Yeah but we didn't listen to blumpf talk about those treatments so that's good. Take that blumpf!

[exc911ence]

Saw a parked car in Sidney yesterday with Massachusetts plates.... should I have tracked down the owner(s) to shame them for being here?

 

Perhaps they just got lost on their way to Alaska. It happens.

[SimonH]

OK so just opposite where we live is an Airbnb. On Thursday a Washington state car pulls up and enters. Saturday they are still there and not in isolation, I've seen them in and out a couple of times. Saturday evening they're still their BUT the car now has BC plates !!!!

 

Anyone try and figure that out for me ?

[Victoria Watcher]

they self isolated weeks ago. elsewhere in the city or province.

now they got around to getting the bc insurance.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 July 2020 - 03:37 PM.

[todd]

....

now they got around to getting the bc insurance.

neighbor got a new car delivered from the us possibly not "airbnb"

[todd]

one time saw car with new york plates turns out movie being filmed

[shoeflack]

one time saw car with new york plates turns out movie being filmed

I’ve seen about two dozen or so Nevada and Louisiana plates on Oak Bay Avenue in the past week. Really getting out of hand.

[Szeven]

Florida plates at Broadmead this weekend too.

[Victoria Watcher]

news flash.  tens of thousands of amercans summer here.  a hundred thousand of them live here.    does not mean they are bringing the virus.  very few people in the world have the virus.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 July 2020 - 05:08 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

CANADA:

 

 

our recovery rate has hit 89.06%.

 

USA:

 

 

the usa recovery rates passed 89.06% back on june 21st.  but now has gone to 91.67%.

 

so as you can see you are better off to get the virus in the usa and have treatment there.  we die more often.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 July 2020 - 06:28 AM.

[amor de cosmos]

Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to President Donald Trump, claimed that Dr Anthony Fauci is "wrong about everything" as the White House steps up its bid to discredit its own top infectious diseases expert.

"Dr. Fauci has a good bedside manner with the public but he has been wrong about everything I have ever interacted with him on," Navarro said in a statement to The Washington Post for a story about Fauci being sidelined.

He continued: "Now Fauci is saying that a falling mortality rate doesn't matter when it is the single most important statistic to help guide the pace of our economic reopening. So when you ask me if I listen to Dr. Fauci's advice, my answer is only with caution."

The president has claimed that a continuing decline in the proportion of the US population dying from the coronavirus is proof that his strategy has worked, despite an alarming increase in infections.

https://www.business...erything-2020-7

A total of 720 supermarkets, 1,354 wet markets, five aquatic products import and export trading companies, 15 medical institutions, 36 sewage treatment plants, and 706 public toilets were sampled and tested, and all 80,130 environmental samples tested negative.
http://www.ecns.cn/n...zt5331544.shtml

Florida reported more than 15,000 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, setting a national record for the biggest single-day increase in positive cases in any state since the pandemic began.
https://www.buzzfeed...ord-covid-cases
 

In mid-October of 1918, amidst a raging epidemic in the Northeast and rapidly growing outbreaks nationwide, the United States Public Health Service circulated leaflets recommending that all citizens wear a mask. The Red Cross took out newspaper ads encouraging their use and offered instructions on how to construct masks at home using gauze and cotton string. Some state health departments launched their own initiatives, most notably California, Utah and Washington.

Nationwide, posters presented mask-wearing as a civic duty – social responsibility had been embedded into the social fabric by a massive wartime federal propaganda campaign launched in early 1917 when the U.S. entered the Great War. San Francisco Mayor James Rolph announced that “conscience, patriotism and self-protection demand immediate and rigid compliance” with mask wearing. In nearby Oakland, Mayor John Davie stated that “it is sensible and patriotic, no matter what our personal beliefs may be, to safeguard our fellow citizens by joining in this practice” of wearing a mask.

Health officials understood that radically changing public behavior was a difficult undertaking, especially since many found masks uncomfortable to wear. Appeals to patriotism could go only so far. As one Sacramento official noted, people “must be forced to do the things that are for their best interests.” The Red Cross bluntly stated that “the man or woman or child who will not wear a mask now is a dangerous slacker.” Numerous communities, particularly across the West, imposed mandatory ordinances. Some sentenced scofflaws to short jail terms, and fines ranged from US$5 to $200.

Passing these ordinances was frequently a contentious affair. For example, it took several attempts for Sacramento’s health officer to convince city officials to enact the order. In Los Angeles, it was scuttled. A draft resolution in Portland, Oregon led to heated city council debate, with one official declaring the measure “autocratic and unconstitutional,” adding that “under no circumstances will I be muzzled like a hydrophobic dog.” It was voted down.

etc
https://theconversat...slackers-141687
 

At age 94, Mae Krier is back on the front lines — hard at work, helping her country.

One of the nation's original "Rosie the Riveters" employed by Boeing in Seattle during World War II, she built B-17 and B-29 bombers to help support the war effort decades ago.

Now she's fighting a different war, as her still nimble fingers turn out face masks to prevent spread of the deadly coronavirus.

"People say to me, "You helped win WWII and now you are helping our country win this battle over this virus. These are nice things to hear," Krier said.

She makes the mask like the red polka dot bandanas she also makes to remind people of the Rosies, those women who toiled in manufacturing plants with their heads wrapped in bandanas so their hair wouldn't get tangled in the machinery they used to make supplies for the military serving overseas.

They were depicted by a World War II era poster of "Rosie the Riveter" created by J. Howard Miller in 1943.

 

via task & purpose
https://www.buckscou...honor-wwii-work

[shoeflack]

news flash. tens of thousands of amercans summer here. a hundred thousand of them live here. does not mean they are bringing the virus. very few people in the world have the virus.

The ones I saw on Oak Bay Ave have it for sure. You could tell just by looking at them. They also have a “let’s party” attitude that can’t be satisfied no matter what time of day. Really disturbing.

[Victoria Watcher]

The ones I saw on Oak Bay Ave have it for sure. You could tell just by looking at them. They also have a “let’s party” attitude that can’t be satisfied no matter what time of day. Really disturbing.

 

 

that's bad for sure.  sounds like the same people turning ob ave. into mardi gras by noon daily.

[Mike K.]

It’s got more of a Vegas Vibe ™ now.

[spanky123]

So with half the country focused on wiping down every surface to stall the spread of Covid, perhaps you can't get Covid from touching a surface after all!  Seems like experiments in the lab don't always translate to the real world. Go figure.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...ounds-1.5645602

 

Any bets whether Dr. Bonnie lets up on some of the rules now?

Edited by spanky123, 13 July 2020 - 07:37 AM.