by ezs | Aug 10, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – Weekend continues to report European second waves, US deaths.
The update from The Seattle Times for the week. Case count is trending down. Deaths still at low double digits. Too high for reopening.
Friday – UK quarantine chaos. Europe second wave. 167k deaths in the US, 5.3M cases.
Thursday – US death toll highest since May.
Wednesday – New Zealand outbreak in Auckland. Will be interesting to see how the track and trace works for this – and how the cases emerged.
Tuesday – BBC have the daily updates on the front page again. Clearly second wave rolling through. Russia has a vaccine ready for test; unknown what the initial testing looks like.
Monday – work from home is going to be the normal for at least six months – so this is really a COVID news tracking page for me now. Week 23, it’s August, summer is passing, back to school is all virtual. I’ll keep aggregating the news stories – and try to remain above the political fray. As we approach six months I will try and reflect on what 2020 has looked like. BBC summary returned.
by ezs | Aug 3, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – long read on the VIC, Australia outbreak. MLS season is restarting. Long read on Vietnam success and second wave. BBC summary is missing again (Saturday and Sunday). 5 million US cases; that’s 1.5% of the population confirmed with a positive test.
Weekly summary of Washington State from The Seattle Times.
Friday – good read on the US failure to contain and control coronavirus. Tests are down statewide and US wide. More UK lockdowns as a second wave rolls through.
Thursday – much discussion about track and trace, use of phone apps, national vs state. What a mess. US travel restrictions are lifted – but no one will let US travelers in.
Wednesday –
Tuesday – one bright spot – that the local positive test results are trending in the right direction. King County Public Health shows 1.6% positive cases in Issaquah between 13-27 July.
Monday – pretty much everyone I know who thought this would be over by “early summer” is now thing “early 2021 at the best”. Massive borrowing globally to prop up economies and keep people going. WHO say there may “never be a silver bullet” against COVID. As noted several weeks ago, this is going to become part of the annual flu/COVID shot discipline. UK lockdowns return. 18.2 MM cases confirmed, 691k deaths. US numbers may not be trustworthy.
by ezs | Jul 27, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – Russia planning mass vaccinations. FA Cup with no crowd. Hong Kong delays elections. India as the newest hotspot. European cases continue to pick up. Looks like a second wave is really rolling in now across Europe.
A fresh look for the data from The Seattle Times; maybe six months of data needs it. The 14 day average death rate has picked up; cases are still climbing.
Friday – UK pauses coming out of lockdown/quarantine. 300k new cases globally today. UK beaches are “packed” – look for another bump in numbers from this mid-August. Good read on numbers in Europe.
Thursday – almost 4.5MM US cases; 152k deaths. I know more and more people who have “had” COVID-19 and are completely wiped out afterwards. Staying home, staying safe. England worst excess deaths in Europe between Feb – June. Shocking. Spain heading back to lockdown. US economy crashed 32% in Q2.
Wednesday – WA State positive cases still running >5%; target is 2% which shows measures are working. Graphic from The Seattle Times.
Tuesday – US daily cases – as reported by JHU dashboard – seems to have flattened. Whether this is because cases have flattened, or a result of the changes in reporting (CDC to HHS) remains to be seen. Pandemic economic costs are vast – including $320B for tourism alone. I do wonder what will be left after this. Spain, Iran, Italy – all reporting renewed surge of cases.
Monday – heading into August this week. US is still struggling with 4.2M cases; almost 150k deaths. Good “how to control it” thread from Andy Slavitt – unpopular, political U turns, acknowledgement and humility that it’s not a hoax. I don’t see any of this happening. WHO: ‘most severe health emergency WHO has faced’. New travel restrictions in Europe. More positive cases in the White House.
by ezs | Jul 20, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – European talk of second wave; is this poor isolation/masks or mutation? Quarantine measures being reintroduced. Seattle Times has a longer form article on “six months since the first US case”.
Usual Sunday graphic. WA in the steady, steady growth in number of cases. Must be close to going back to absolute lockdown.
Friday – US back above 1000 daily deaths. 15 days to go from 3 to 4 million cases. COVID isn’t going away. My guess is a combined flu/COVID shot every year going forward.
Thursday – Trump starts to realise COVID is real; cancels GOP convention. UK planning in the Spring was “complete failure”. US hits 4M cases. 915,000 new cases in last two weeks in US.
Wednesday – 15M global cases. Hotspots returning in Europe. More school districts in the area go online only.
Tuesday – schools are starting to move to online only for September. Less than six weeks away – and cases are still increasing. Trump says “wear a mask”..
Monday – yes – twenty weeks. Past the middle of July. Summer is passing. Projects I initiated in the early part of the year are coming to fruition and close.
Potential good news on a vaccine. 3.7MM cases in the US, 140k deaths. I know more and more people who have had COVID-19.
by ezs | Jul 18, 2020 | evilzenscientist
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