Hawaii this morning reported eight deaths for the previous 24-hour period, the highest to date in the pandemic.
On Maui, visitors and tourists are being asked voluntarily not to leave their homes or hotel grounds for three weeks. I think I know how that will work out.
214,766,838 total cases
4,477,144 dead
192,099,987 recovered
In the US:
39,157,249 total cases
649,680 dead
30,678,283 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Thirty more people have died of COVID-19 in Bexar County, the Metropolitan Health District reported Wednesday.
That number, which brings Bexar County’s COVID death toll to 3,802, marks the most fatalities reported on a single day since 64 deaths were reported on Aug. 11, 2020.
Since last year, no other day’s report has reached 30 deaths, and only a few have exceeded 20.
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As of Wednesday, San Antonio-area hospitals are treating 1,371 COVID-19-positive patients, including 25 children. Of those hospitalized, 391 are in intensive care units and 238 are relying on ventilators to breathe.
About 85 percent of these hospitalized patients have not received the COVID-19 vaccine. According to Metro Health’s July epidemiology report, only 1 percent of reported deaths since Jan. 1 have been among fully vaccinated people.
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We’re back to most of the states on the Johns Hopkins site being in the red. Florida is a notable exception, and I don’t believe it for a minute – they’re clearly just witholding data. Some other states have hit new record highs in seven-day-averaged daily reported cases
Kentucky (4518)
Georgia (10,234)
South Carolina (5309 – technically not the highest, since they hit 5338 on January 6, but I’m going to give it to them because it’s still going up)
Oregon (2547)
Several other states are high and still shooting up, poised to soon set new records – North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alaska, Washington (state). And I’m keeping my eye on South Dakota, eve though it’s not high yet, on account of Sturgis. Lots of other states have their rates shooting up rapidly, but aren’t yet near their previous record highs.
This is a sad and worrying statistic:
And yet in some states, they’re being sent to school unmasked.
I saw this on Reddit (reportedly a Texas high school):
The hospital in Coeur d’Alene, ID is converting a classroom into a Covid unit adding 22 beds. They don’t think that will be enough increase in capacity. Hospitals in this region are running out of beds. Don’t get hurt and require hospital treatment!
Jesus Christ, that better not be in Bexar County!
Oregon announced that requiring employees to be vaccinated is a “reasonable policy,” so employees would generally not be eligible for unemployment benefits if they are fired for refusing to get the shot. It’s guidance, not a strict policy, but still a positive step.
Sounds about right. Patients at our practice have reported that about one in five kids at the local high school are under quarantine. (Masks are not required at these schools)
~Max
Apparently, in their announcement they use the official name of the variant and not the colloquial “Delta” name.
This is scary and weird (inasmuch as you would not think a lack of oxygen could happen on this planet…I understand the issue so no need to educate me on this point):
This sounds somewhat promising: https://scitechdaily.com/inescapable-covid-19-antibody-discovery-neutralizes-all-known-sars-cov-2-strains/amp/
There’s been a lot of research into the antibody treatment side of things, which might ultimately, in tandem, be the way to make the virus a lot less scary.
God, finally some good news!
215,503,180 total cases
4,489,019 dead
192,690,946 recovered
In the US:
39,342,153 total cases
651,956 dead
30,732,120 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
I forgot to add this item yesterday:
…meanwhile, in New Zealand:
LOL.
It looks like we have hopefully ringfenced the outbreak. Absence any big events over the weekend most of New Zealand will drop to Alert Level 3 next week, with Auckland and Northland remaining at Level 4 probably for another couple of weeks. (Lockdown Level 3 is “with KFC”, Lockdown Level 4 is “without KFC”)
New seven-day-averaged reported new cases record highs of COVID
Kentucky (5851)
Georgia (12,940)
North Carolina (9074)
South Carolina (6444)
Alaska (766)
Washington (4567)
Oregon (3058)
Mississippi (4338)
Louisiana (6613)
Florida, almost certainly, but they haven’t reported yet.
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Tennessee is almost setting a new record. It’s almost there and rising rapidly
Indiana, too
West Virginia, too
Oklahoma, too
Most other states are rising rapidly (all are in various stages of red on the Johns Hopkins site, except Hawaii and, misleadingly, Florida)