COVID-19 day 175: 📈 3,363,056 (58,114 new) cases and 135,605 (312 new) deaths: 13 July 2020
Governors in CA, NM and OR announce new restrictions; Trump Administration invested $500M for syringes that haven't been approved; 37-year-old woman has struggled with COVID-19 since March
It’s day 175 since the first case of coronavirus disease was announced in the United States. Sunday, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported its largest daily case numbers and today global cases passed 13 million. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said:
The virus remains public enemy number one, but the actions of many governments and people do not reflect this.
Last week, Ghebreyesus announced a new panel charged with evaluating the global response to COVID-19.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response will be co-chaired by former prime minister of New Zealand Helen Clark and former president of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. He said the co-chairs will independently select members of the panel.
The panel will present an interim report in November.
UPDATE: context on President Trump’s tweet about K-12 schools opening in Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden.
Sections (no jump links, sorry!)
1, One big thing; 2, Key metrics; 3, Recommendations; 4, Politics, economics & COVID, 5, Case counts and resources
⓵ One big thing: shutdowns
Gross or raw numbers get attention due to the shock factor, but what more accurately reflects system stress and risk are per capita data. These somewhat smooth lines result from using 7-day averages.
The actions of governors do not match the risks posed to their citizens by this pandemic. Which state …
Just allowed The Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom parks at Walt Disney World to re-open?
Expanded rules on masks and restricted indoor gatherings to 10 people or less, today?
Had a 30-year-old die this weekend after attending a COVID-19 party because he “thought [coronavirus] was a hoax” and allows churches to conduct services?
Closed all indoor bars and wineries, indoor eating establishments, movie theaters, theme parks and festivals, today?
Allows indoor restaurants to remain open with reduced seating and has counties that are requesting refrigerated trucks to supplement morgues?
Closed all indoor restaurants, reduced indoor seating in breweries and limited state park visitors to state residents, today?
“I was gripped not only by grief, but by anger and rage, that his life didn't seem to matter to the people in charge,” Urquiza said. “They have blood on their hands. People are dying.”
In a gesture that has gone viral, the family wrote an obituary in the Arizona Republic, the state's largest newspaper, calling out “the carelessness of the politicians who continue to jeopardize the health of brown bodies through a clear lack of leadership, refusal to acknowledge the severity of the crisis, and inability and unwillingness to give clear and decisive direction on how to minimize risk.”
Answers to the matching questions:
1, FL; 2, OR; 3,TX; 4, CA; 5, AZ; 6, NM
⓶ Key metrics
🦠 Monday, Johns Hopkins reported 3,363,056 (58,114 new) cases and 135,605 (312 new) deaths, an increase of 1.76% and 0.30%, respectively, since Sunday. A week ago, the daily numbers increased by 1.64% and 0.28%, respectively.
Today
- seven-day average: 59,303 cases and 707 deaths
- 4.03% cases leading to death
- case rate, 1,016.02 per 100,000; death rate, 40.97 per 100,000One week ago
- seven-day average: 48,385 cases and 563 deaths
- 4.44% cases leading to death
- case rate, 887.03 per 100,000; death rate, 39.36 per 100,000
Note: the seven-day average is important because dailies vary due to factors other than actual case numbers, particularly over a weekend.
⓷ Recommendations
🤓 Recommended reading
[W]ith no effective vaccine or drug therapies, communities across the country instituted a host of public health measures to slow the spread of a deadly influenza epidemic: They closed schools and businesses, banned public gatherings and isolated and quarantined those who were infected. Many communities recommended or required that citizens wear face masks in public – and this, not the onerous lockdowns, drew the most ire.
Mask resistance during a pandemic isn’t new – in 1918 many Americans were ‘slackers’. The Conversation, 13 July 2020.
🔬 Research and medical news
A 37-year-old Oregon woman has had to deal with being sick with coronavirus for more than four months.
Oregon woman has battled coronavirus symptoms since March. CNN, 09 July 2020.
A glimmer for patients who have to be on mechanical ventilators. Patients that have received a drug designed for rheumatoid arthritis are associated with (correlation not causation) lower death rates.
Rheumatoid arthritis drug tied to fewer deaths in COVID patients. CIDRAP, 13 July 2020.
⓸ Politics, economics and COVID-19
💉Vaccine news (boondoggle with syringes?):
[T]he Trump administration has agreed to invest more than half a billion in tax dollars in ApiJect Systems America, a young company whose injector is not approved by federal health authorities and that hasn’t yet set up a factory to manufacture the devices….
These amounts are more than double the per-syringe cost the government is paying other companies for the work.
✈️ Although more than 1,000 TSA employees have tested positive for COVID-19, Hydrick Thomas, president of the union representing them, told the Washington Post:
“Right now they’re bringing people back to work and the social distance is not in total effect,” Thomas said. “Employees are still complaining there’s too many of them in one area.”
CDC, Johns Hopkins, states, WHO
🇺🇸 13 July
CDC: 3,296,599 (60,469 new) cases and 134,884 (312 new) deaths
Johns Hopkins*: 3,363,056 (58,114 new) cases and 135,605 (312 new) deaths
State data*: 3,351,906 (58,139 new) cases and 127,977 (286 new) deaths
KS reports only M-W-F; CT and RI report only M-FWHO Situation report, 175
3 225 950 cases (62 369 new) with 134 392 deaths (906 new)
🌎 13 July
Johns Hopkins interactive dashboard (11.00 pm Pacific)
Global cases: 13,103,290 (192,962 new)
Total deaths: 573,042 (4,501 new)
Global: 12 768 307 cases (215 539) 566 654 deaths (5 037)
The Americas: 6 669 879 cases (129 657) 286 577 deaths (3 220)
* Johns Hopkins data, ~11.00 pm Pacific.
State data include DC, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
The virus was not created in a lab and the weight of evidence is it was not released intentionally. Although early reports tied the outbreak to a market in Wuhan, China, analyses of genomic data in January suggested that the virus might have developed elsewhere.
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