17,201,277 total cases
670,454 dead
10,716,271 recovered
In the US:
4,568,375 total cases
153,845 dead
2,245,521 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
I’m a bit late with the numbers tonight folks; sorry about that. I was distracted by something pleasant: celebrating a dear friend’s birthday via modern communication devices.
Colibri, thank you for the update on Panama. I’m sorry to hear that things went downhill so quickly and so much.
Thanks to ThelmaLou and Melbourne for the updates on Vietnam and Australia too.
I don’t think we’ve heard from psychonaut about Austria in awhile. I see from the numbers that things aren’t as good as they have been but are still nowhere near as bad as they’ve been. Hopefully we’ll get an update about things there soon too.
This is old news (July 13th), but this is an FDA list of hand sanitizers containing methanol. I copied the list from MarketWatch.com which had better formatting than the FDA.
Blumen Clear Advanced Hand Sanitizer with 70% Alcohol
Blumen Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Clear Ethyl Alcohol 70%
BLUMEN Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Clear
KLAR AND DANVER Instant Hand Sanitizer (labeled with Greenbrier International Inc.)
MODESA Instant Hand Sanitizer Moisturizers and Vitamin E
BLUMEN Advanced Hand Sanitizer
BLUMEN Advanced Hand Sanitizer Aloe
BLUMEN Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Lavender
BLUMEN Clear LEAR Advanced Hand Sanitizer
BLUEMEN Clear Advanced Hand Sanitizer
The Honeykeeper Hand Sanitizer
BLUMEN Advanced Hand Sanitizer Clear
BLUMEN Clear Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer
BLUMEN Clear Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Aloe
BLUMEN Clear Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer Lavender
BLUMEN Aloe Advanced Hand Sanitizer, with 70 Alcohol
Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer Lavender, with 70% alcohol
Blumen Advanced Hand Sanitizer Aloe, with 70% alcohol
Blumen Antibacterial Fresh Citrus Hand Sanitizer
Blumen Hand Sanitizer Fresh Citrus
KLAR and DANVER INSTANT HAND SANTIZER
Hello Kitty by Sanrio Hand Sanitizer
Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer (Vitamin E and Aloe)
Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer (Aloe and Moisturizers)
Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer Vitamin E and Aloe
Assured Instant Hand Sanitizer Aloe and Moisturizers
BLUMEN Instant Hand Sanitizer Fragrance Free
BLUMEN Instant Hand Sanitizer Aloe Vera
Assured Aloe
bio aaa Advance Hand Sanitizer
LumiSkin Advance Hand Sanitizer 4 oz
LumiSkin Advance Hand Sanitizer 16 oz
QualitaMed Hand Sanitizer
Earths Amenities Instant Unscented Hand Sanitizer with Aloe Vera Advanced
Hand Sanitizer Agavespa Skincare
Vidanos Easy Cleaning Rentals Hand Sanitizer Agavespa Skincare
All-Clean Hand Sanitizer
Esk Biochem Hand Sanitizer
Lavar 70 Gel Hand Sanitizer
The Good Gel Antibacterial Gel Hand Sanitizer
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% Alcohol
CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol
Saniderm Advanced Hand Sanitizer
Hand sanitizer Gel Unscented 70% Alcohol
Andy’s Best
Andy’s
Gelclor
NeoNatural
Plus Advanced
Optimus Lubricants Instant Hand Sanitizer
Shine and Clean Hand Sanitizer
Selecto Hand Sanitizer
Mystic Shield Protection hand sanitizer
Bersih Hand Sanitizer Gel Fragrance Free
Antiseptic Alcohol 70% Topical Solution hand sanitizer
Hand sanitizer (labeled with Wet Look Janitorial and Gardening Corp.)
Britz Hand Sanitizer Ethyl Alcohol 70%
DAESI hand sanitizer
You gotta love modern marketing. “Mystic Shield Protection,” indeed.
There are regular news stories about how the police arrested hundreds of people in the past week for violating restrictions or curfew. I think these are mostly gatherings or parties rather than just individuals who are out when they are not supposed to be. I haven’t heard of businesses being closed. At this point, it’s only supermarkets, pharmacies, and hardware stores that are allowed to be open. Restaurants are only for takeout or delivery.
I have never seen a cop ask someone for their ID number to check if they’re out at their allotted time, and while there are traffic checks at this point they are mostly just waving people through. But that’s really as it should be, since single people going about their business are not what’s driving new cases.
In general, compliance with masks and social distancing is very good in my middle to upper class neighborhood. Friends who live in or shop in poorer neighborhoods say its not so good.
The big increase in cases started when the government started opening up a few blocks of the economy, but I can’t say what behavior has driven the increase in cases.
Haven’t update situation in Slovenia for some time, so here it is. There were only six cases all together at some point in May, then “second” wave struck, as borders opened. This time not from Italy’s skiing resorts but from Balkan diaspora. Measures were back quickly and now some insights:
Masks mandatory in all closed public spaces and transports.
All business as usual if masked or social distanced. One or another. Both at the same time not usually necessary.
No public gatherings over 10. 50 with manifesto. More if “plague committee” permits. For example, you can go to church services using masks and leaving your phone number by the doors. Some outdoor mass gathering alowed, if properly organized and supervised.
Tourist vouchers distributed for all over 18 yo (200€ per person, can be transferred among close relatives) that can only be usable for B&B services are used to help the situation (tourism is about 15% of the BDP here.)
Somewhat strict border regime with strict quarantine enforcing for all blacklisted counties. List changes daily.
At the moment situation looks like stabilizing at 10 - 15 new cases / million / a day. Main problem is, there are no centralized outbraks, they just pop up randomly. That shit is relatively rare here, but it is everywhere. Just heard over news, half of new cases were work related.
Of course the rally was the most likely source. How sad that Trump announced Cain’s death by using the racist slur he thought was so clever: "“He was a very special person … and unfortunately he passed away from a thing called the China virus,”
Earlier this month, when the Trump administration told hospitals to send crucial data about coronavirus cases and intensive care capacity to a new online system, it promised the change would be worth it. The data would be more complete, transparent, and an improvement over the old platform run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, administration officials said.
Instead, the public data hub created under the new system is updated erratically and is rife with inconsistencies and errors, data analysts say.
Lawmakers plan to grill members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force about the reporting change, and what’s being done to ensure the data remains public and reliable, in a Friday morning hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus. Several House subcommittees have already launched an investigation into to the data change.
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Grilling of the perps by committees-- that’s the ticket.
Incredible Vanity Fair article here that claims that Jared Kushner led a team to create a comprehensive national Covid testing plan, but the plan was scrapped because it was not politically expedient (i.e. at the time, mostly people in blue states were dying and their governors would be blamed). Every time I think this administration cannot sink any lower, they prove me wrong. The article says they have a copy of the plan and all the WhatsApp texts used by the team to create it.
In a statement Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott said local health authorities can shut down schools if there’s evidence of an outbreak after students have already returned to campus — but cannot shut them down weeks before schools open.
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Oops! There go dem horsies! Time to lock the barn doors!
But Abbott, who issued the statement with top education officials, said school districts could apply for waivers to keep their buildings closed beyond the state’s eight-week maximum if they believe they need one. The Texas Education Agency will review those requests on a “case-by-case basis,” according to the statement.
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I’m sure this will be accomplished at warp speed (as it were) in an exceedingly timely fashion. On time in time for school to start. Or not.
