by ezs | Nov 3, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – US setting the pace for a million new cases per week. Shocking, sad, not unexpected. Washington State – big spike in numbers. The White House continues to spread coronavirus. Melbourne relaxes the lockdown (which seems to have worked).
From The Seattle Times – the regular weekly status. That spike is going to be brutal. Hospital capacity is still good – but the spike in testing is the early indicator.
Friday – while most of the news continues to focus on election counts, the infections keep coming. US setting records for daily new cases. I would not be surprised to see some huge spikes in 5-14 days from long lines waiting to vote.
Thursday – the steadily increasing number of global cases, followed by the lagging hospitalisation, followed by the deaths. Europe, USA, Brazil.
Wednesday – post election. Record breaking local Washington State coronavirus cases. England lockdown starts tomorrow, panic buying and last minute socialising.
Tuesday – election day in the US. COVID related news intertwined with election news. Mask wearing while voting is now a partisan issue :\
Monday – Argentina importing 10M Russian vaccines.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
by ezs | Oct 30, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – Numbers and reports from around the US and Europe continue to show a massive rise in positive tests, associated hospitalisation and the final lagging indicator, death.
Washington State numbers from The Seattle Times. Daily cases up, 800+ per day – that’s approaching the July peak. Hospitalisation and death are still relatively stable.
Friday – 91k US cases in the last 24 hours. 24k UK cases. This is the “new normal” as we head deeper into this phase of infection. “Save Christmas” lockdown.
Thursday – EU moving patients across borders to keep hospitals going.
Wednesday – France, Germany, Greece.
Tuesday – Talk of a new England-wide lockdown.
Monday – There is a risk this becomes a list of countries with record breaking infection. Portugal, Czechia, Belgium, Italy, UK, most of the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
by ezs | Oct 19, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Slightly changing the title of the post to reflect this is week 32 of working from home; week 43 of 2020.
Weekend – Victoria, Australia flaring up again. UK urging “fresh air”, and this in the Seattle Times about Friluftsliv.
Weekly graph for Washington State, from the Seattle Times.
Friday – “3M cases in Spain” – 3x reported number. Multiple lockdowns across Europe. 80k + daily cases in the US.
That UK curve.
Thursday – Curfew and lockdown orders across Europe. US State numbers growing.
Wednesday – So many European countries in escalating cases. UK, Spain, France, Germany, Italy.
Tuesday – Manchester/NW England facing lockdown enforcement.
Monday – 40M global cases. “Tsunami” of cases in Belgium and across Europe. 48 US States with increasing cases.
I found this too: https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live
by ezs | Oct 12, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – misleading Tweets from Trump removed. US cases up in 48 States. Early voting continues despite distancing.
Weekly summary of Washington State cases:
Friday – local outbreak of COVID-19 at Harborview Hospital in Seattle. Continued reporting of massive European case surges. US Thanksgiving could be another superspreader weekend. 8M cases in the US. 220k deaths. 400k new global cases today.
Thursday – Remdesivir doesn’t prevent COVID deaths. UK lockdowns continuing amidst much confusion and pushback.
Wednesday – multiple WA counties improve – and start opening back up. 38M global cases. Watched Totally Under Control last night.
Tuesday – this looks a lot like March – with rapidly climbing positive cases across the globe. The only difference being rather than 30k cases per day it’s 300k cases per day. US daily cases is a classic fast, slow, fast pattern.
Monday – continued mixed behaviour from Senators – masks, positive tests, no masks, video attendance. French declare second wave is here. J&J vaccine trial paused.
by ezs | Oct 5, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – “Trump immune to Covid” claim; Twitter removes tweet. Midwest cases climb. UK cases huge rise. UK at “tipping point”
Weekly update from Washington State via The Seattle Times.
Friday – 350k new cases globally. New cases accelerating – similar to the spring.
Thursday – record global rise in new cases, clearly we are in the midst of a new wave. Serious hospital cases are the lagging indicator – and ICUs are filling rapidly across Europe and the US.
Wednesday – very much the two sides of the coronavirus story. Europe and US with increasing cases, lockdown and protests. White House coronavirus spreading and the (mis)information being spread about that. Scotland cancels 2021 exams. BBC summary.
Tuesday – the slow moving second wave continues to break over Europe. French ICU, Ireland Level 5, UK lockdowns.
Monday – more cases in the WH. Continued confusion over Trump’s health and care regime. Ireland heading for total lockdown. Cases rising across the US.
by ezs | Sep 29, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – truly incredible the speed that “Trump has COVID” to “Trump is in Walter Reed” progressed. More of the WH and Senate are positive. Record COVID case increases across the midwest and west US.
Here in Washington State, cases are picking up again. Visuals from the Seattle Times.
Friday – Trump has COVID, as have many in the WH. Masks and distancing work.
Thursday – fare collection starts back up on public transport in Seattle/King County after six months.
Wednesday – Italian Senate closes as multiple senators test positive. Most of Europe in the grip of rising cases.
Tuesday – AFP reports “60M Indians with COVID”
Monday – Week 30. 1M deaths globally from COVID-19. Over 200K in the US. Refresh of the milestones since January from the BBC. BBC daily summaries removed.
by ezs | Sep 24, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Another re-certification.
Back in 2007 I earned the ITIL v2 Manager exam – two weeks of in-classroom learning and two long, handwritten exams!
I took the v2 – v3 Manager Bridge in Brisbane back in the summer (winter!) of 2008
This week I studied for and just passed the ITIL v4 Managing Professional transition.
No in-person training this time because of COVID – so online training and four long books to read.
by ezs | Sep 21, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – a quarter of the UK under new lockdowns. R >1 and the numbers are really alarming again. Continued protests globally about masks and restrictions.
Usual data from The Seattle Times. Small uptick in cases last week.
Friday – “1 in 500 in UK has Covid”
Thursday – coronavirus continues to mutate, become more transmissible. France, Spain, Portugal – record rise. 5% increases since last week across TX and much of mid-west US. Increasingly become a rural virus.
Wednesday – Second wave continues to sweep Europe. UK political fallout around unclear advice.
Tuesday – Flu vaccine awareness needed in the US. Looks like the BBC daily summary is back.
Monday – UK told to prepare for “50,000 new cases per day”, Boots pausing flu shots for under 65s. US around 200k deaths. WA State cases are dropping. Bleach being sold on Amazon again as cure for Covid.
by ezs | Sep 15, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – UK heading back to country wide lockdown. WA State rate of positive tests is dropping from around 5.5% to around 3.1% – which is a good sign. Not enough test capacity in the UK.
Friday – Pandemic means less European election monitors for US vote. Canadian border restrictions in place until end of October.
Thursday – Continued confusion around CDC advice and guidance.
Wednesday – many “back to school” virus outbreaks. No widespread vaccine for a year.
Tuesday – more restrictions in UK to break transmission chains. This is back to “the hammer and the dance”
Monday – another new week of school at home. Cases on the rise everywhere. UK testing chaos. Removing the BBC from the daily updates next week.
PC rebuild – so late getting this started.
by ezs | Sep 7, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – UK vaccine trials resume. Fall/autumn flu combined with Covid will be really devastating. Brazil deaths >132k.
Weekend numbers from The Seattle Times:
Friday – Fauci says “vaccine in late 2021”. UK continuing towards huge uptick in cases. R>1 in many cities.
Thursday – Record cases in Europe. Same story repeating in UK, France, Spain, Portugal.. long list. Trump “misled public” about severity of Covid.
Wednesday – US numbers declined, plateaued, now rising again.
Tuesday – England heading rapidly towards a second nationwide lockdown. Week 2 of “back to school, online and at home”.
Monday – Labor Day – and the end of a hot extended weekend. Generally in western WA I see masks being worn, there are plenty of folk who will not. The BBC live coverage is back.
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