# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [February 11, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758 "2020-02-11T01:16:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 196
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3915 "2020-07-23T04:18:09Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > The CDC is still “getting” data. Yes, I’ve been pulling excess death data (which comes directly from County coroner reporting) and I was glad to see it updated yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3916 "2020-07-24T04:18:41Z")
15,654,649 total cases 636,479 dead 9,535,641 recovered In the US: 4,169,991 total cases 147,333 dead 1,979,617 recovered Yesterday’s numbers for comparison: > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 15,374,482 total cases > 630,214 dead > 9,349,375 recovered > > In the US: > > 4,100,875 total cases > 146,183 dead > 1,942,637 recovered ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3917 "2020-07-24T14:52:57Z")
So Mel Gibson’ rep tells Daily Telegraph Australia and other media that he was hospitalized for a week back in April with COVID-19 in Los Angeles and treated with Remdesivir. Fuck him for not saying anything 3 months ago when he could have influenced more people to take it seriously. He is probably the most prominent star to have come down with it (along with Tom Hanks) and could have had influence with conservatives. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3918 "2020-07-24T15:55:53Z")
A minor point, to be sure, but I’m curious: why nobody is talking about the effect of all this on sex in America. Nobody going to bars hoping to get lucky? America, masturbating like a motherfuck? ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3919 "2020-07-24T16:14:06Z")
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene [issued these guidelines](https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-sex-guidance.pdf?referringSource=articleShare). ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3920 "2020-07-24T17:16:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > America, masturbating like a motherfuck? I plead the fifth. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3921 "2020-07-24T17:40:07Z")
I guess we need a [sexual activity]-to-steps conversion so you can log it in your Fitbit. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3922 "2020-07-24T17:42:10Z")
Just put your fitbit on the hand you masturbate with! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3923 "2020-07-24T17:45:55Z")
Does that record strokes or just total distance? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3924 "2020-07-24T17:49:11Z")
If it records both, we could calculate total distance divided by number of strokes… ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3925 "2020-07-24T18:33:50Z")
This is something I’ve been wondering for awhile. What are the criteria for “recovered”? Are those suffering significant long-term health effects considered recovered? Do you know? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3926 "2020-07-24T19:32:16Z")
AFAIK “recovered” just means no longer testing positive and/or being dead. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3927 "2020-07-24T19:46:05Z")
Silliness aside it is a serious subject, not a minor point. [STD screenings are way off while sexual risk-taking continues.](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-covid-std-screenings-sexual-health.html) > [@](#): > > Across the country, a survey by the National Coalition of STD Directors found that 83% of STD programs have paused services and community visits, and 66% of clinics reported a decrease in sexual health screening and testing due to COVID-19. > > But the stay-at-home order has not stopped people from having sex, noted Eric Paulukonis, prevention services director at the Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia’s largest LGBT health-care provider. The Mazzoni Center stopped in-person HIV testing and sexually transmitted infection screenings on March 16. > > “We know from hookup apps and conversations with patients that people are still sexually active with partners they are not quarantined with,” Paulukonis said. “That means there’s a demographic out there that doesn’t know their status in terms of STIs.” Therapists I’ve spoken with report similarly among their young adult clients. Clients who are paranoid about COVID-19 risks are at the same time still taking sexual health risks. And likely there is some overlap between the set of those willing to be risky in their sexual behaviors and those willing to be relatively risky regarding social distancing due to COVID-19. It will be surprising to not see a big spike in reported STD rates once screening services are back to full functionality on the other side of this pandemic. Partnered people quarantining together though may just be sick of each other! ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3928 "2020-07-24T20:35:46Z")
So what behaviors are sexually risky but still COVID-19 safe? Maybe I just lack imagination… Or is there some other way that people can be paranoid about COVID-19 risks while taking sexual health risks? (Other than living in a gigantic disconnect, I guess?) ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3929 "2020-07-24T20:38:42Z")
I suppose they wear gimp masks ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3930 "2020-07-24T20:59:33Z")
Or use glory holes. That’s implicit in the NY health dept. memo ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3931 "2020-07-24T21:04:05Z")
Salad tossing? You’d at least have them breathing heavy in another direction and 3’ higher. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3932 "2020-07-24T21:10:32Z")
Sorry to have been confusing. They ignore all safety when it comes to sexual behaviors. They may quarantine their mail but not their males … ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3933 "2020-07-24T23:41:00Z")
[Trump’s son’s school will not fully reopen](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/barron-trump-school-coronavirus.html) > The school attended by President Trump’s son will not fully reopen in September out of concern over the coronavirus pandemic [despite the president’s insistence](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/politics/trump-schools-coronavirus.html) that students across the country be brought back to classrooms in the fall. > > St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, a private school in Washington’s Maryland suburbs, said in [a letter to parents](https://www.saes.org/covid-19-information) that it was still deciding whether to adopt a hybrid model for the fall that would allow limited in-person education or to resume holding all classes completely online as was done in the spring. The school will decide early next month which option to follow. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/3934 "2020-07-25T00:06:18Z")
Our school board has come up with a definite Maybe. “Committees are now working on reopening plans” including a) everybody at school, b) nobody at school, and c) the hybrid model. Glad my kids are out of school. (Daughter will be doing all of her college classes on-line.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=195) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=197)