# 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:** 211
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4219 "2020-08-13T04:15:21Z")
20,806,965 total cases 747,258 dead 13,706,688 recovered In the US: 5,360,302 total cases 169,131 dead 2,812,603 recovered Yesterday’s numbers for comparison: > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 20,522,191 total cases > 745,927 dead > 13,441,913 recovered > > In the US: > > 5,305,957 total cases > 167,749 dead > 2,755,348 recovered Yesterday marked 5 months since I started posting the daily numbers. I had intended to post the numbers from a month prior to offer some perspective, but I was tired and I forgot. Instead, tonight I’ll post the numbers from one month ago today: > [@Snowboarder\_Bo on 12 July 2020](#): > > 13,039,853 total cases > 571,659 dead > 7,587,716 recovered > > In the US: > > 3,413,995 total cases > 137,782 dead > 1,517,084 recovered ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4220 "2020-08-13T04:37:40Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Apparently Austria is over Covid. Im watching Borussia Dortmunds friendly at SC Rheindorf Altach and the crowd isnt distanced and mask wearing seems spotty. I just checked out the recap video. It’s crazy, there may be a couple of hundred people there in the stands? They could’ve spread way the heck out, instead they’re all sitting closer to each other. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4221 "2020-08-13T06:38:41Z")
So, basically, 30k a month for deaths. Lovely. 😷 ---
**Author:** ![PackerMan2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/packerman2/32/2894_2.png) [@PackerMan2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PackerMan2)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4222 "2020-08-13T15:18:07Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Dinsdale](#): > > > > Thousands (including my daughter’s family) remain out of power. > > We got lucky (we’re in the near western suburbs), and the lights just flickered a bit during the derecho (the storm that spawned the tornadoes). But, I have several friends and co-workers (all of whom have been working at home) who lost power, and are being told by ComEd they may not get it back until Saturday. It sounds like the issue is that there were so many instances of trees coming down and knocking out power to a block, or just to a single house, and so, there are a huge number of individual repairs which need to be made. I know a senior exec at ComEd. He said there are about 160K customers out as of yesterday afternoon. Power should be restored to everyone by tomorrow night. Complicating matters was that they sent 400 employees and contractors to the East Coast for mutual aid from the hurricane damage. So they had to get them back to Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4223 "2020-08-13T16:13:38Z")
“He represented the best of what we try to do in the news business and he did it with humor. David was not someone who hurled thunderbolts at people. He hurled jokes, if you will, about them - not to demean them —but to leaven the situation. Yet he was a serious journalist” Sam Donaldson on David Brinkley > **[David Brinkley in His Own Words](https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=132533&page=1)** “Times have changed in television newscasting. When Chet Huntley and David Brinkley first attracted attention during the 1956 political convention with their jokes and banter on the National Broadcasting Company, they severely rattled the Columbia Broadcasting System with its heavier and more serious mien. The chemistry between the two men carried the day.” Jack Gould for the NYT, 8/3/1970 > **[TV: Changing News Face (Published 1970)](https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/03/archives/tv-changing-news-face-light-touch-of-early-huntleybrinkley-is.html)** > > J Gould comments on 1st 2 programs of show ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4224 "2020-08-13T16:38:45Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > British Columbia closing in on 200 deaths. We need to shut down the god-damned bars. That’s where many of the spreading events are happening. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4225 "2020-08-13T16:39:04Z")
UK finds a way to remove over 5000 deaths from the figures - and here I was accusing Florida of dodgy accounting, which I still suspect. Not great company for Brits to be joining > **[UK coronavirus death toll revised down by 5,000](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/uk-coronavirus-death-toll-public-health-england-covid-a9667451.html)** > > Official UK death toll cut from 46,706 to 41,329 after review launched amid concerns about flaw in counting data ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4226 "2020-08-13T16:39:41Z")
I don’t doubt it, but do you have any evidence? ---
**Author:** ![SayTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@SayTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SayTwo)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4227 "2020-08-13T16:44:22Z")
I’ve been fascinated to follow the New Zealand drama. Unless I’m missing something, they appear to be indicating that asymptomatic victims are not infectious. Huh. [https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300081975/coronavirus-covid19-cases-at-two-auckland-schools-preschool-mit](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300081975/coronavirus-covid19-cases-at-two-auckland-schools-preschool-mit) ---
**Author:** ![Pheonix1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pheonix1/32/4236_2.png) [@Pheonix1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pheonix1)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4228 "2020-08-13T16:45:08Z")
I doubt he does. The BC government isn’t taking this lightly and evidence that bars were a major source of outbreaks would likely get them shutdown pretty quickly. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4229 "2020-08-13T20:20:26Z")
I think that’s a bit of an overstatement of the journalists’ interpretation that there is a much lower risk of transmission if you are asymptomatic. Two massive concerns for us - - where did this come from? - how far has it spread. If, after “killing ourselves” with the severe lockdown, this gets out and about anyway and we have to go back to home confinement it won’t be pretty. If - as our rather moronic Deputy PM has announced it is due to a quarantine breach I hope the fucker who spread it is locked up the meanest nastiest dungeon we can find - or better still, charged with sedition and have their citizenship stripped. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4230 "2020-08-13T20:38:57Z")
Check out the lede on this AP story: > **[The Latest: S Korea concerned as new cases spike above 100](https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ap-top-news-busan-health-south-korea-4d3742b49bfae5961597b93bc322bf4f)** > > SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea is reporting 103 new coronavirus cases. It is one of the country’s biggest daily jumps in months, and officials are expressing concern that infections are getting out of control in the capital of Seoul and other major... > [@](#): > > The rate of positive virus cases in Texas has soared to the highest levels of the pandemic and state officials are still unable to fully explain why. Um… because it’s _Texas_. Which is full of _Texans_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4231 "2020-08-13T20:40:35Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Apparently Austria is over Covid. Do you mean “the country of Austria has beaten coronavirus, and is comfortable gathering once more,” or “Austrian citizens seem to have gotten tired of restrictions and have decided to gather in ways that defy best practices for where they are as a nation”? I ask because all over the internet, there seems to be a sense of “the world has beaten coronavirus, except for the US, Brazil, and a few other places” from the average internet user, and this might give me a better sense of what really is the case. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4232 "2020-08-13T21:09:10Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Um… because it’s _Texas_ . Which is full of _Texans_ . Am Texan. Can confirm ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4233 "2020-08-13T22:58:19Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > Sure. But if a student in my class has it, I have to take 14 days of leave, or get two negative test. Same thing if I have any symptoms of anything. You have to take personal sick leave if a student tests positive? that doesn’t seem fair. Because with just a few kids being positive at different times a teach could end up taking sick leave for most of the semester. Aren’t special allowances being made for this unique situation? ---
**Author:** ![Monocracy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monocracy/32/4493_2.png) [@Monocracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monocracy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4234 "2020-08-13T23:20:21Z")
Sturgis has live webcams where you can view some of the action of the bike rally. I was enthralled watching some of it. I saw only one mask and the guy was wearing it on his chin. [Webcams in and around Sturgis](https://www.sturgis-sd.gov/webcams-in-and-around-sturgis) ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4235 "2020-08-13T23:22:54Z")
It’s still really unclear. Today the school board said we could use the 10 days funded by the CARES act. But what happens the second time? And if its leave, do we work remotely? ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4236 "2020-08-14T00:33:01Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > Today the school board said we could use the 10 days funded by the CARES act. But what happens the second time? And if its leave, do we work remotely? I would think if you’re on leave then by definition you are not working. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4237 "2020-08-14T01:39:56Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Since 2020 has been like a badly written B-movie so far, I predict the Russian vaccine will turn people into zombies. [https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/zombie/novel.htm](https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/zombie/novel.htm) ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/4238 "2020-08-14T02:08:36Z")
Well, I can teach remotely. What I am worried about is an expectation that I use leave time but still do my job. Which will annoy me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=210) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=212)