August 10, 2021

Texas had 16,801 new cases today . California had 12,871

Georgia-6, 968

Louisiana- 6, 088


No numbers from Florida yet.


https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

August 10, 2021

Big day tomorrow in Poland concerning whether it will retain it's democracy

https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1425155078567116814?s=20

Big day tomorrow here in Poland. The parliament will vote on whether the one remaining independent television news station is allowed to remain on the air. If the government wins - they are begging, bribing MPs right now - Poland can no longer be considered a democracy.

https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1425157756047200257?s=20


But the ruling party is offering huge cash rewards/ jobs at state companies for MPs who vote for the law that bans free media.


Also jobs for your friends, your family - big money is on offer


It's not that often you see a raw battle for the souls of politicians play out in public. Which will it be: lots of money for you and your family - or a free press and a democracy? Which do you want more?

August 10, 2021

South Florida hospital reality. Garage ward, cafeteria ward, auditorium ward

https://twitter.com/SolNataMD/status/1424600786982604802?s=20



South FL hospital reality: Garage ward, Cafeteria ward, Auditorium ward. Not enough staff to watch if oxygen tanks run dry, if telemetry monitors get disconnected, if ..... we do the best we can! #WeDoTheBestWeCan

August 10, 2021

GOP donors have soured on DeSantis & are pushing Tim Scott for 2024 Great thread by Rick Wilson

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1425054985239339072?s=20

Thread:
1/ Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea.

Let's review the bidding: the governors of two of the largest states are letting COVID burn because muh freedumb plays to an audience of a network owned by a crank Aussie billionaire.

2/ Yesterday, one member of the US Senate said it was just fine for a President of the United States to plot an overthrow of the election with his claque of skells, mooks, jabrones, degenerate fops, soulless harpies, wannabe Leninists, and natpop snake-human hybrids.

3/ Another U.S. Senator is the leading antivaxxer in American public life, again lying that muh freedumb is at stake if we all just try to work together to defeat COVID.

There's a reason he's a consistent finalist on America's Most Punchable.

4/ The largest and most important GOP fundraising tool has been shown to be a giant interlocking set of quasi-lawless griftmachines bleeding granny of her social security checks due to dark pattern UI designs on their email floods -- and that story isn't even NEARLY told yet.

5/ Donald Trump is running for President again, and all the major donors flooding Tim Scott (the new hotness) after abandoning Ron DeSantis (old and busted) can't do a damn thing about it.

6/ Danny Bongdildo is launching a new payment service (FashBux? NazPay? Qelle? DickCoin?) at the same moment he's in a nuclear slap fight with Team Trump for censoring the latest Big Lie muh-stolen-election effluvium to trickle out of Trump's blubbery lie hole.


7/ Ted Cruz is grunting about muh mandates because, once again, it's all about 2024. He's the perfect slurry of oleaginous, delusional, and cynical.

Words heralding the Apocaplyse: "President Ted Cruz."

8/ The old GOP model of "the best government is local" and "muh 10th Admt" is gone and now telling local school districts and local health departments what to do.

Nothing but trolling, all the way down.

Because muh freedumb.

9/ People who absolutely know better assert the response to COVID is some nefarious Marxist plot to control Murica and impose gay sharia marriage or whatever nightmare closet hoo-ha fills their agitprop spank bank.

10/ 2028 GOP presidential nominee Tucker Carlson spent a week politically fellating the dictator of Hungary yet is somehow still on the air and considered an intellectual light of the party.

11/ This is how the world ends, not with bang but with a Fox News hit followed by a fundraising email.

12/ Done for now.

August 10, 2021

The CDC needs to issue a travel advisory to Florida and Louisiana

Coronavirus: CDC urges Americans to avoid travel to France, Israel and Thailand

https://www.ft.com/content/11117011-442e-43b4-b7d8-dcd31867ed09


https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1424934533539921923?s=20


An update
Highest cases/capita in the world, state or country, with population ? 1 million
1. Florida 127/100,000
2. Louisiana 116/100,000
3. Botswana 96/100,000

Sources @nytimes and @BNOdesk

August 10, 2021

This is encouraging. 1st early look at whether booster shots are effective in people over 60

https://twitter.com/erlichya/status/1424857057149263873?s=20


Quite early but encouraging.
Cases per 100k in 60+ as a function of time.
Purple: Boosted SyringeSyringeSyringe
Green: twice vaccinated SyringeSyringe
Red: unvaccinated

Booster effect? Mere correlation between boosted and being more cautious? I hope for the former!
H/t
@GazitDoron

https://twitter.com/erlichya/status/1424973905178079233?s=20


My friend
@_lewisy
found an issue in this graph by the Israeli National Security Council. The issues affects only the *red* line (unvaccinated) and they should appear at a higher rate of cases. It doesn't affect the deviation of booster from 2nd dose.

August 10, 2021

So, now the Florida Dept of Health is attacking the CDC saying their numbers are wrong

without providing the correct numbers , of course.

https://twitter.com/HealthyFla/status/1424902635749101571?s=20

Wrong again. The number of cases
@CDCgov
released for Florida today is incorrect. They combined MULTIPLE days into one. We anticipate CDC will correct the record.

August 9, 2021

This interview w/ Eric Topol of Scripps isn't optimistic. He doesn't like what he sees.

Too many people are dying right now- interview with scientist Eric Topol of Scripps



These numbers are disorientingly grim to me. How are you thinking about what’s going on?


Well, I’m trying to use the other countries that have been through this already, or are concurrently going through it as a reference or an anchor. And I think our rate of rise of hospitalizations is really alarming. We saw quite a bit of hospitalization increase in the U.K. But this is so far worse than that. And many of those people are going to die.

Just looking at the U.K. and Israel, which had been our guideposts, I thought we would keep the hospitalizations pretty darn low — maybe a fourth of where we’d been in prior waves. And deaths 10 percent of prior waves. But we’re not doing that at all. If you look at the log charts of the U.S. and the U.K, you’re starting to see some real separation for death. It’s certainly going in the wrong direction, and it had been tracking incredibly closely, until recently. Now, we are under-testing, too, compared with those other countries. That might be giving us a distorted picture of what’s happening here. But I just don’t know where we’re headed.


Most people aren’t being that careful.
The vaccinated — who are now a very slight majority — those people just think the pandemic’s over. There’s still this sense that if you’re vaccinated, you’re good to go. I mean, I’ve even seen on television, you know, some of our leading health experts, tell people it’s perfectly okay to have indoor gatherings among vaccinated people. Well, it’s not true. So we’re getting bad advice.

This booster thing is yet another issue, because we don’t even know if they’re going to protect against a Delta. I mean, everybody’s assuming it, but there’s no data. You know, there’s some neutralizing antibodies from the Pfizer report in 23 people and there’s an Israeli pre-print, it says there’s waning immunity without any neutralizing antibodies. So we’ll see. But these are just classic spike-protein boosters. There’s nothing special about them to handle Delta. So I don’t know. I mean, I suspect they’re going to provide some protection, but I’m not sure I’m so confident it’s going to be great.


https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/too-many-people-are-dying-of-covid-19-right-now.html?utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1

For copyright reasons I could only post a couple questions but the whole interview is worth a read.

Topol said that people with breakthrough cases are getting very, very sick and that the people getting extremely ill are the ones that got vaccinated the earliest. He thinks we need a vaccine targeted specifically at Delta because he's not sure another shot of the original vaccine will be very effective.

Topol also said that San Francisco's surge in hospitalizations shouldn't be happening in a city that's 70% fully vaccinated.



This is encouraging. 1st early look at booster shots in people over 60

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215720477

August 8, 2021

Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who declined vaccine with Cubs, tests positive for COVID-19

https://twitter.com/usatodaysports/status/1424392204618018817?s=20

Anthony Rizzo, who previously said he chose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine because he wanted to see more data, has tested positive for the coronavirus.


Anthony Rizzo, who as a Chicago Cub said he chose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine because he was “taking some more time to see the data,” tested positive for the coronavirus, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Sunday.

Rizzo, a cancer survivor who is celebrating his 32nd birthday Sunday, was traded from the Cubs to the Yankees on July 29, providing an almost immediate lift to the Bronx Bombers. They have won eight of nine games since his acquisition, moving within 1 ½ games of a playoff spot, and he's hit three home runs with a .963 OPS in nine games with the Yankees.

Boone said on a call with reporters that Rizzo was experiencing light symptoms.

August 8, 2021

In Australia, the Senate is calling Murdoch in for a grilling on his anti- vax nonsense

Right now, Fox is busy deleting every anti- vaccination post and video on the web over there. Our reps need to do the same thing over here.


https://twitter.com/mrkrudd/status/1424272095958036480?s=21


Murdoch is quietly scrubbing incriminating Covid-19 misinformation videos from websites ahead of a grilling by the Senate on Friday. Dozens of videos have vanished with no correction or apology for spreading dangerous lies. But don’t worry; we have copies. #MurdochRoyalCommission