51,243,488 total cases
1,269,319 dead
36,053,021 recovered
In the US:
10,421,956 total cases
244,448 dead
6,552,610 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
One concern I have with this theory is that the reaction of children all over the world seems pretty consistent. Is the frequency of cold-causing coronavirus the same all over the world? Is the tendency for children to get them much more frequently than adults the same all over the world? If not, do places where everyone has the same level of exposure see the difference in infection rates between kids and adults disappear?
To the best of my knowledge yes it is the same all over the world. Why would you suspect otherwise? Kids are kids everywhere.
Sure, but not every culture segregates kids from adults into all-kid environments as much as we do.
Yeah, but kids live very different lives in different countries!
I spray every spring and fall.
thanks, I needed this.
Today’s MIT lecture in the SARS CoV-2 class is about the development of the Moderna vaccine. I just watched it live, but it a recording will be available on-line in a couple of days. It’s fascinating.
It’s also very encouraging. The early phases of studies found that their candidate vaccine produced immunity comparable to the top quartile of immunity from natural infection. But still, the proof is in the pudding. Dr. Corbett said she cried (for joy) when she heard that the Pfizer vaccine looked to have 90% efficacy.
Just for a downer, these states have recorded a record high in the seven-day average listing of new cases in the past two or three days. Lots of new ones here
Maine
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Ohio
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Utah
Nevada
Idaho
Alaska
Washington (state)
Oregon
That’s 33 out of fifty states. Puerto Rico has hit a seven-day average high, too. It’;s just not a state. And in most of the others, it’s rising rapidly. It just hasn’t hit previously reported highs. It’s still going up rapidly in several other countries, as well.
Well, NY, NJ, CT, and MA had really high rates in the spring. Their numbers are all high and rising, just not as high as their previous peak. So… not actually good news there.
California just shuffled several counties, moving them back to more restrictive levels than they had been.
Indeed, in New Jersey we just hit our highest level in a long time. I’m glad I got my haircut & dental work out of the way today. By next week I might be afraid to go. 3,877 new case. worst since April 24th.
NC moving back to indoor limit of 10 people
Yeah, I usually have my annual physical in late November. I pushed it up to September this year. I also lobbied for a dental cleaning in September. Those were a good calls.
I’ve restarted dental work myself in Florida, not because I feel safe, but because it doesn’t look like it will be getting safer any time soon.
We had invited our cleaning lady back, but we are going to ask her not to come again for a while.
Can someone reassure me this isn’t as terrifying as it sounds?
Basically, Healthcare workers who are COVID positive but without symptoms will be allowed to continue working in North Dakota. I guess they will only be working with COVID positive patients but it seems a huge risk to the rest of the health care system since ethey can still spread the disease.
And obviously healthcare workers brought in from outside the area to help with the pandemic.
That was one possible explanation for the data. The other explanation was that children have less ACE2 receptors in their respiratory tracts. However, the differences in ACE2 receptors in the paper they cite doesn’t seem that large to me. I’m not from that field, so I have no idea whether or not the findings are physiologically relevant.