Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) (SARS-CoV-2) [2020]

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I saw that earlier today but did not get a chance to dive into it. I assume they absolutely ruled out false positives and had multiple positive tests conducted? Did they do any contact tracing to determine where these two different strains came from? Was it merely mutated over time through local infections or did some silly American tourist bring in a new strain?

The second link has snippets of the paper, but he was returning from Spain via the UK to Hong Kong on the second infection; they didn't say where he might have been when he contracted the virus the first time . He tested positive at the HK airport (PCR test).

He was then tested three times for IgG while he was asymptomatic (first two were negative for IgG antibodies). He finally tested positive on the 3rd serum sample on day 5 after hospitalization.

The first strain was apparently similar to the one from the March/April USA/England strain while the second strain appeared similar to ones from Switzerland/England July-August (during 2nd wave?).

They speculate on why the IgG was undetected after the first infection (limited sampling or biological reasons).

 

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2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) for Dallas County Texas
https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/dchhs/2019-novel-coronavirus.php
https://www.dallascounty.org/Assets/uploads/docs/covid-19/press-releases/august/082420-PressRelease-DallasCountyReports182AdditionalPositiveCOVID-19Cases.pdf

August 24, 2020 - 69,086 confirmed cases - 857 deaths
69,086 confirmed cases up 182 and no new deaths
those 182 new cases represent a 0.3% increase over the last day

“Today we have 182 cases; however, 84 of those are from March, April and May, meaning that there are only 98 cases from the month of August in today’s total. This is the first time we’ve been under 100 cases on any day since April 27th.

Increases (by percent) since March 27, 2020 :
21.0%, 19.6%, 11.1%, 12.5%, 14.9%
-- Month of April 2020 --
15.8%, 13.7%, 10.8%, 10.2%, 9.6%, 3.9%, 9.2%, 5.0%, 8.2%, 7.3%, 7.0%, 4.8%, 3.8%, 5.0%, 5.8%,
4.0%, 6.0%, 6.1%, 4.5%, 3.5%, 3.6%, 3.1%, 3.0%, 2.6%, 2.6%, 3.6%, 3.0%, 4.3%, 3.5%, 5.3%
-- Month of May 2020 --
5.3%, 4.9%, 6.0%, 5.7%, 5.9%, 5.3%, 5.2%, 4.9%, 4.7%, 4.5%, 4.3%, 3.9%, 3.8%, 3.6%, 2.9%, 3.0%,
2.8%, 3.0%, 2.9%, 2.4%, 2.3%, 2.5%, 2.0%, 2.1%, 1.9%, 2.1%, 2.1%, 2.2%, 2.1%, 2.2%, 2.3%
-- Month of June 2020 --
2.2%, 2.5%, 2.2%, 2.6%, 2.7%, 2.5%, 2.2%, 2.1%, 2.4%, 2.4%, 2.4%, 2.5%, 2.5%, 2.2%, 2.1%,
2.1%, 2.8%, 2.6%, 2.4%, 2.5%, 2.5%, 2.7%, 2.6%, 2.2%, 2.2%, 2.7%, 2.9%, 2.9%, 2.8%, 2.9%
-- Month of July 2020 --
2.5%, 3.2%, 4.8%, 4.7%, 4.3%, 4.7%, 4.0%, 3.7%, 4.1%, 3.8%, 3.5%, 3.6%, 3.3%, 2.9%, 2.9%, 2.8%,
3.1%, 2.6%, 2.6%, 2.5%, 1.7%, 1.0%, 1.5%, 1.5%, 2.8%, 1.7%, 0.9%, 1.7%, 1.5%, 1.1%, 1.4%
-- Month of August 2020 --
1.2%, 1.0%, 0.7%, 1.2%, 1.0%, 0.4%, 0.8%, 1.0%, 1.6%, 1.1%, 0.5%, 0.4%, 1.1%, 1.6%, 1.3%, 9.2%,
2.9%, 1.2%, 0.6%, 0.5%, 1.1%, 1.6%, 0.5% and now 0.3%

Increases (by count) since March 27, 2020 :
+64, +72, +49, +61, +82
-- Month of April 2020 --
+100, +100, +90, +94, +97. +43, +106, +63, +108, +105, +107, +79, +65, +89, +109,
+80, +124, +134, +104, +84, +90, +81, +80, +71, +75, +105, +91, +135, +112, +179
-- Month of May 2020 --
+187, +181, +234, +237, +253, +246, +251, +249, +250, +251, +253, +236, +243, +235, +199, +214,
+205, +224, +225, +186, +183, +204, +172, +178, +171, +190, +197, +202, +200, +219, +228
-- Month of June 2020 --
+228, +257, +239, +285, +298, +289, +263, +254, +298, +300, +312, +328, +345, +302, +305,
+306, +413, +392, +394, +395, +408, +454, +445, +391, +403, +496, +561, +570, +572, +601
-- Month of July 2020 --
+544, +708, +1,085, +1,103, +1,062, +1,214, +1,077, +1,029, +1,201, +1,164, +1,101, +1,174, +1,114, +1,000, +1,055, +1,027,
+1,195, +1,031, +1,044, +1,026, +734, +413, +648, +659, +1,267, +800, +426, +789, +704, +537, +707
-- Month of August 2020 --
+614, +518, +382, +641, +508, +230, +422, +540, +843, +581, +298, +234, +641, +885, +754, +5,361,
+1,850, +787, +399, +308, +714, +1,086, +332 and now +182

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 24, 2020

DALLAS -- As of 2:00 pm August 24, 2020, Dallas County Health and Human Services is s reporting 182 additional confirmed cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total confirmed case count in Dallas County to 69,086, including 857 confirmed deaths. The total number of probable cases in Dallas County is 2,576, including 8 probable deaths from COVID-19. No additional deaths are being reported today. Of the 182 new cases we are reporting today, 84 came through the Texas Department of State Health Services’ (DSHS) electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) system and are from the months of March, April, and May.

Please see a provisional breakdown below of these newly reported cases by date of collection:

March: 18
April: 43
May: 23

From August 1st to 14th, 531 school-aged children between 5 to 18 years of age were reported to have been diagnosed with confirmed COVID-19. About 50% of these cases were high school age. By zip code of residence, 302 (57%) of these children were projected to have been enrolled in Dallas ISD schools. Of all confirmed cases requiring hospitalization to date, more than two-thirds have been under 65 years of age. Diabetes has been an underlying high-risk health condition reported in about a third of all hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The 7-day average daily new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases (by date of test collection) for CDC week 33 was 256.

The percentage of respiratory specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 has been declining but remains high, with about 12.5% of symptomatic patients presenting to area hospitals testing positive in week 33. Of the total confirmed deaths reported to date, about 26% have been associated with long-term care facilities.

“Today we have 182 cases; however, 84 of those are from March, April and May, meaning that there are only 98 cases from the month of August in today’s total. This is the first time we’ve been under 100 cases on any day since April 27th. While this is great news, it is the result of much hard work on your part: wearing your mask, maintaining six-foot distancing, washing your hands regularly, forgoing unnecessary trips, and staying away from anyone outside you family or any indoor activity outside your family where people cannot wear a mask one hundred percent of the time. We must continue to make these smart decisions for this trend to continue. That’s the best way for less people to get sick, more businesses to stay open and our children to get back to school sooner rather than later,” said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.

 

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State of Texas complete COVID-19 data breakdown

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83
https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/0d8bdf9be927459d9cb11b9eaef6101

Data as of 8/24/2020 @5:35 PM:

Total Molecular Viral Tests: 4,668,028 (Up +0)

Quote: Testing numbers will not be updated Monday, Aug. 24. A network outage affecting multiple state agencies means not all labs were able to report their test results through the electronic lab reporting system, and DSHS was not able to run quality checks on the testing data.

Just another in the long list of screw-ups that Texas is known for.

Cases Reported: 580,384 (Up +2,754)

Fatalities: 11,395 (Up +25)

Texas tests per 1M population are 174,631 which places Texas as the 13th worst State.

Click this link: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us and on the page click the Tests / 1M pop column twice to sort from worst to first

They are using roughly 28.996 million as the population of Texas.

Texas is still mixing Viral and Antibody Tests in the worldometers report on total test numbers which reports 5,063,576 tests which is inflated by 395,548 Antibody Tests.

As of today the real number of Total Viral Tests for Texas is 4,668,028 which works out to be 160,989 per 1M population so Texas is really the 9th worst state in testing

 

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Here's the first few paragraphs on this story, the full story can be read at https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...-requiring-schools-to-reopen-unconstitutional

Florida Judge Rules State Order Requiring Schools To Reopen 'Unconstitutional'

A Florida judge on Monday ruled against the state's order requiring schools to open for in-person instruction by the end of August, calling parts of it "unconstitutional." He granted a temporary injunction, putting the decision-making power in the hands of individual districts.

The emergency order was issued by Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran in early July as the state's coronavirus cases surged, and mandated that all districts open "brick and mortar schools" at least five days a week for families who want to send their students back, or else risk losing already-allocated funding.

Along with teachers and parents, the Florida Education Association — the state's largest teachers' union — quickly filed a lawsuit, alleging the order violated a provision in Florida's constitution requiring the state to ensure schools operate safely. They were joined by the NAACP and the NAACP Florida State Conference last week.

"Schools should reopen when the local decision makers determine upon advice of medical experts that it is safe to do so," he wrote

On Monday evening, a spokesperson for the Florida Department of Education told NPR that the department had appealed the decision. This automatically placed a stay on the judge's order, blocking it from taking effect until the appeal is over or unless the court rules otherwise. An FEA spokesperson said the union will return to court on Tuesday to ask the judge to reinstate his order.

In a statement shared with NPR, Corcoran said he is "100% confident" the state will win the lawsuit.

 

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Starbucks Branch Linked To At Least 66 COVID-19 Cases — But Employees Were Spared

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/starbucks-branch-linked-to-at-least-66-covid-19-cases-but-employees-were-spared/ar-BB18mfxx

While Pumpkin Spice Lattes are officially back in the U.S. and Canada today for the 17th year in a row, a Starbucks in South Korea has been making headlines for a very different reason. To date, at least 66 COVID-19 cases have been linked to a single Starbucks branch in Paju, a city north of Seoul, including secondary and tertiary infections. According to South Korean news reports, most customers weren’t wearing masks inside the store. But none of the four employees working at the time — all of whom were wearing masks — have tested positive.

It may be surprising that close to 70 people may have caught the coronavirus from a single Starbucks, but health officials suspect that the ceiling-mounted air conditioning inside the store contributed to the rapid airborne spread. The Starbucks infections have been traced to a woman who sat on the second floor of the Paju branch on August 8th for around two hours. South Korean news also reports that the employees were wearing KF-94 masks, which are almost as effective as N95 masks.

Coffee shops have repeatedly been a source of infection during South Korea’s recent surge of COVID-19 cases, speaking to the nation’s attachment to taking a coffee break. Seoul boasts more coffee shops per capita than either Seattle or San Francisco, and its per capita coffee consumption is almost three times the world average. In order to curb the spread of cases, Starbucks in Korea is reducing seating capacity by at least 30% and is asking customers to use their mobile ordering system. The Paju Starbucks remains closed for the time being.

The fact that the employees of the Paju Starbucks were uninfected is a testament to how effective masks can be, even when those around you aren’t wearing them. Though South Korea is undergoing a surge in new infections now, with most of them linked to a megachurch, the country’s ability to contain its first wave of cases back in March has in part been attributed to the widespread adoption of face masks, as well as quick testing and rigorous contact tracing. The country has currently imposed Level 2 COVID-19 safety rules, which includes closures of certain businesses like bars, nightclubs, buffets, and gyms. It also restricts indoor gatherings of more than 50 people. The Starbucks spread shows how contagious the coronavirus can be, especially in indoor spaces and especially without a mask. It’s also a good reminder to get your coffee to go for the time being.

 

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https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/08/24...-poison-center-warns-stop-it-wont-cure-covid/

Almost 50 North Texans Drank Bleach This Month, Poison Center Warns ‘Stop, It Won’t Cure COVID’

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Following 46 cases of bleach ingestions in the North Texas Poison Center region since the start of August, experts are again warning people that drinking the chemical won’t prevent COVID-19.

The organization pointed to “misleading and inaccurate information circulating online about how to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” for an uptick in poisonings.

The FDA has long warned that drinking chlorine dioxide products can lead to “severe vomiting, severe diarrhea, life-threatening low blood pressure caused by dehydration and acute liver failure.”

 

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Ohio is at 23.6K new tests.
Ohio is at +844 new cases, with Cuyahoga County at +56 new cases.
Test Positivity rate is around 3.58% for these new tests.

Ohio's numbers are following the pattern where numbers seem lowest on the weekend and start climbing higher during the week. Even at the low point from the weekend, they're still 2x higher than a few months ago when daily new cases were in the 300s to 400s range.

Here is the trends which is using reported date and not arbitrary and incorrectly identified user reported onset date taken from https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards/current-trends



Here is the raw data for the last few days:

Spoiler: Raw Data

Date; Total Tests; New Tests; Tests per 1M Population; Total Cases; Cuyahoga County Cases; Hospitalizations; Total Deaths; New Cases; New Hospitalizations; New Deaths
2020-08-05 1,569,479 18,732 134,270 96,305 13,011 11,231 3,596 1,199 112 26
2020-08-06 1,592,841 23,362 136,268 97,471 13,141 11,366 3,618 1,166 135 22
2020-08-07 1,617,822 24,981 138,406 98,675 13,269 11,447 3,652 1,204 81 34
2020-08-08 1,639,195 21,373 140,234 99,969 13,414 11,516 3,668 1,294 69 16
2020-08-09 1,663,196 24,001 142,287 100,848 13,514 11,565 3,669 879 49 1
2020-08-10 1,682,271 19,075 143,919 101,731 13,640 11,629 3,673 883 64 4
2020-08-11 1,702,317 20,046 145,634 102,826 13,734 11,760 3,708 1,095 131 35
2020-08-12 1,722,857 20,540 147,391 104,248 13,869 11,901 3,734 1,422 141 26
2020-08-13 1,747,737 24,880 149,520 105,426 13,999 12,023 3,755 1,178 122 21
2020-08-14 1,773,797 26,060 151,749 106,557 14,120 12,128 3,784 1,131 105 29
2020-08-15 1,796,692 22,895 153,708 107,674 14,278 12,210 3,824 1,117 82 40
2020-08-16 1,823,935 27,243 156,039 108,287 14,335 12,236 3,826 613 26 2
2020-08-17 1,843,274 19,339 157,693 109,062 14,418 12,319 3,832 775 83 6
2020-08-18 1,863,180 19,906 159,396 109,923 14,487 12,436 3,871 861 117 39
2020-08-19 1,882,588 19,408 161,056 110,881 14,585 12,529 3,907 958 93 36
2020-08-20 1,905,419 22,831 163,010 112,003 14,673 12,615 3,929 1,122 86 22
2020-08-21 1,930,913 25,494 165,191 113,046 14,774 12,719 3,955 1,043 104 26
2020-08-22 1,954,596 23,683 167,217 114,165 14,881 12,778 3,975 1,119 59 20
2020-08-23 1,977,822 23,226 169,204 114,802 14,955 12,800 3,978 637 22 3
2020-08-24 1,998,115 20,293 170,940 115,651 15,032 12,859 3,986 849 59 8
2020-08-25 2,021,722 23,607 172,959 116,495 15,088 12,956 3,996 844 97 10

 

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Snippets from Ars article... https://arstechnica.com/science/202...numbers-when-talking-about-post-covid-plasma/

FDA’s promotion of post-COVID plasma treatment was as bad as it appeared
FDA was selective with its numbers, and it used the wrong risk measure

On Monday night, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn acknowledged that he had made a significant error in presenting the benefits of the treatment, and he followed that statement with an apology on Tuesday. But Hahn pushed back against indications that the approval of the treatment on the eve of the Republican National Convention was motivated by political pressure.

...
Wrong kind of risk

With Hahn's acknowledgement, things are now a bit more clear. Hahn was talking about a figure called the relative risk, which—as its name implies—compares the risks faced by two different groups. He then discussed that risk as if it were absolute risk to produce his 35 of 100 figure—a very basic statistical error, and one science journalists are often cautioned against making.

To see why this is a problem, imagine a case where only three out of 100 people are affected, and an experimental condition changes that number to one out of 100. The relative risk is different by a factor of three—a 300 percent difference. But the absolute risk is the minor change of going from three percent to one percent.

The actual difference in absolute risk seen in the study was 4.8 percent, not 35 percent. That means an additional 4.8 lives per 100 COVID-19 patients might be saved with the treatment.

 

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2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) for Dallas County Texas
https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/dchhs/2019-novel-coronavirus.php

August 25, 2020 - 69,303 confirmed cases - 881 deaths
69,303 confirmed cases up 217 and twenty four new deaths
those 217 new cases represent a 0.3% increase over the last day

Increases (by percent) since March 27, 2020 :
21.0%, 19.6%, 11.1%, 12.5%, 14.9%
-- Month of April 2020 --
15.8%, 13.7%, 10.8%, 10.2%, 9.6%, 3.9%, 9.2%, 5.0%, 8.2%, 7.3%, 7.0%, 4.8%, 3.8%, 5.0%, 5.8%,
4.0%, 6.0%, 6.1%, 4.5%, 3.5%, 3.6%, 3.1%, 3.0%, 2.6%, 2.6%, 3.6%, 3.0%, 4.3%, 3.5%, 5.3%
-- Month of May 2020 --
5.3%, 4.9%, 6.0%, 5.7%, 5.9%, 5.3%, 5.2%, 4.9%, 4.7%, 4.5%, 4.3%, 3.9%, 3.8%, 3.6%, 2.9%, 3.0%,
2.8%, 3.0%, 2.9%, 2.4%, 2.3%, 2.5%, 2.0%, 2.1%, 1.9%, 2.1%, 2.1%, 2.2%, 2.1%, 2.2%, 2.3%
-- Month of June 2020 --
2.2%, 2.5%, 2.2%, 2.6%, 2.7%, 2.5%, 2.2%, 2.1%, 2.4%, 2.4%, 2.4%, 2.5%, 2.5%, 2.2%, 2.1%,
2.1%, 2.8%, 2.6%, 2.4%, 2.5%, 2.5%, 2.7%, 2.6%, 2.2%, 2.2%, 2.7%, 2.9%, 2.9%, 2.8%, 2.9%
-- Month of July 2020 --
2.5%, 3.2%, 4.8%, 4.7%, 4.3%, 4.7%, 4.0%, 3.7%, 4.1%, 3.8%, 3.5%, 3.6%, 3.3%, 2.9%, 2.9%, 2.8%,
3.1%, 2.6%, 2.6%, 2.5%, 1.7%, 1.0%, 1.5%, 1.5%, 2.8%, 1.7%, 0.9%, 1.7%, 1.5%, 1.1%, 1.4%
-- Month of August 2020 --
1.2%, 1.0%, 0.7%, 1.2%, 1.0%, 0.4%, 0.8%, 1.0%, 1.6%, 1.1%, 0.5%, 0.4%, 1.1%, 1.6%, 1.3%, 9.2%,
2.9%, 1.2%, 0.6%, 0.5%, 1.1%, 1.6%, 0.5%, 0.3% and now 0.3%

Increases (by count) since March 27, 2020 :
+64, +72, +49, +61, +82
-- Month of April 2020 --
+100, +100, +90, +94, +97. +43, +106, +63, +108, +105, +107, +79, +65, +89, +109,
+80, +124, +134, +104, +84, +90, +81, +80, +71, +75, +105, +91, +135, +112, +179
-- Month of May 2020 --
+187, +181, +234, +237, +253, +246, +251, +249, +250, +251, +253, +236, +243, +235, +199, +214,
+205, +224, +225, +186, +183, +204, +172, +178, +171, +190, +197, +202, +200, +219, +228
-- Month of June 2020 --
+228, +257, +239, +285, +298, +289, +263, +254, +298, +300, +312, +328, +345, +302, +305,
+306, +413, +392, +394, +395, +408, +454, +445, +391, +403, +496, +561, +570, +572, +601
-- Month of July 2020 --
+544, +708, +1,085, +1,103, +1,062, +1,214, +1,077, +1,029, +1,201, +1,164, +1,101, +1,174, +1,114, +1,000, +1,055, +1,027,
+1,195, +1,031, +1,044, +1,026, +734, +413, +648, +659, +1,267, +800, +426, +789, +704, +537, +707
-- Month of August 2020 --
+614, +518, +382, +641, +508, +230, +422, +540, +843, +581, +298, +234, +641, +885, +754, +5,361,
+1,850, +787, +399, +308, +714, +1,086, +332, +182 and now +217

As of 2:00 pm August 25, 2020, Dallas County Health and Human Services is reporting 217 additional confirmed cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total confirmed case count in Dallas County to 69,303, including 881 confirmed deaths. The total number of probable cases in Dallas County is 2,740, including 8 probable deaths from COVID-19. None of these cases we are reporting today are from the State’s electronic laboratory system.

The additional 24 deaths being reported today include the following:

• A man in his 30’s who was a resident of the City of Mesquite. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and did not have underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 30’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been hospitalized, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 40’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. She expired in an area hospital ED, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 50’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 50’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 60’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. She had been critically ill in an area hospital.
• A man in his 60’s who was a resident of the City of Balch Springs. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 60’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. She had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 60’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and did not have underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 60’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 60’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 60’s who was a resident of the City of Garland. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 70’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 70’s who was a resident of the City of DeSoto. She had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 70’s who was a resident of the City of Duncanville. She had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 70’s who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Dallas. He expired in an area hospital ED.
• A man in his 70’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been hospitalized.
• A woman in her 70’s who was a resident of the City of DeSoto. She had been hospitalized, and did not have underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 70’s who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Dallas. She had been critically ill in an area hospital.
• A woman in her 70’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. She had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 80’s who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Lancaster. She had been hospitalized, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 80’s who was a resident of the City of Mesquite. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and did not have underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 80’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been hospitalized, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 90’s who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Dallas. She had been hospitalized, and had underlying high risk health conditions.

From August 1st to 14th, 531 school-aged children between 5 to 18 years of age were reported to have been diagnosed with confirmed COVID-19. About 50% of these cases were high school age. By zip code of residence, 302 (57%) of these children were projected to have been enrolled in Dallas ISD schools.

Of all confirmed cases requiring hospitalization to date, more than two-thirds have been under 65 years of age.

Diabetes has been an underlying high-risk health condition reported in about a third of all hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

The 7-day average daily new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases (by date of test collection) for CDC week 33 was 295. The percentage of respiratory specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 has been declining but remains high, with about 12.8% of symptomatic patients presenting to area hospitals testing positive in week 33.

Of the total confirmed deaths reported to date, about 26% have been associated with long-term care facilities.

 

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State of Texas complete COVID-19 data breakdown

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83
https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/0d8bdf9be927459d9cb11b9eaef6101

Data as of 8/25/2020 @4:50 PM:

Total Molecular Viral Tests: 4,724,559 (Up +56,531)

Cases Reported: 586,730 (Up +6,091)

Fatalities: 11,576 (Up +181)

Texas tests per 1M population are 177,107 which places Texas as the 12th worst State.

Click this link: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us and on the page click the Tests / 1M pop column twice to sort from worst to first

They are using roughly 28.996 million as the population of Texas.

Texas is still mixing Viral and Antibody Tests in the worldometers report on total test numbers which reports 5,135,385 tests which is inflated by 410,826 Antibody Tests.

As of today the real number of Total Viral Tests for Texas is 4,724,559 which works out to be 162,938 per 1M population so Texas is really the 8th worst state in testing

 

[orangpelupa]

What the...
What?

CDC loses its mind, says people exposed to COVID-19 do not need testing
https://arstechnica.com/science/202...ople-exposed-to-covid-19-do-not-need-testing/

Are CDC being threatened by higher ups?

 

[Gerry]

What the...
What?

CDC loses its mind, says people exposed to COVID-19 do not need testing
https://arstechnica.com/science/202...ople-exposed-to-covid-19-do-not-need-testing/

Are CDC being threatened by higher ups?

To put it bluntly. Yes.

 

[BRiT]

What the...
What?

CDC loses its mind, says people exposed to COVID-19 do not need testing
https://arstechnica.com/science/202...ople-exposed-to-covid-19-do-not-need-testing/

Are CDC being threatened by higher ups?

Yes. By Individual Number One.

They story was updated with the following:

Update 8/26/2020 1:15pm: An unnamed official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told CNN that the change to the agency's testing recommendations occurred under pressure from the upper ranks of the Trump Administration. "It's coming from the top down," the official said.

This post will be updated later today after Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Brett Giroir gives a briefing at 2pm ET.​

 

[BRiT]

Ohio is at 19.9K new tests.
Ohio is at +1089 new cases, with Cuyahoga County at +104 new cases.
Test Positivity rate is around 5.46% for these new tests.

Ohio's numbers are following the pattern where numbers seem lowest on the weekend and start climbing higher during the week. And there's the weekly uptick in number of new cases, approaching 1.1K.

Here is the trends which is using reported date and not arbitrary and incorrectly identified user reported onset date taken from https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards/current-trends



Here is the raw data for the last few days:

Spoiler: Raw Data

Date; Total Tests; New Tests; Tests per 1M Population; Total Cases; Cuyahoga County Cases; Hospitalizations; Total Deaths; New Cases; New Hospitalizations; New Deaths
2020-08-07 1,617,822 24,981 138,406 98,675 13,269 11,447 3,652 1,204 81 34
2020-08-08 1,639,195 21,373 140,234 99,969 13,414 11,516 3,668 1,294 69 16
2020-08-09 1,663,196 24,001 142,287 100,848 13,514 11,565 3,669 879 49 1
2020-08-10 1,682,271 19,075 143,919 101,731 13,640 11,629 3,673 883 64 4
2020-08-11 1,702,317 20,046 145,634 102,826 13,734 11,760 3,708 1,095 131 35
2020-08-12 1,722,857 20,540 147,391 104,248 13,869 11,901 3,734 1,422 141 26
2020-08-13 1,747,737 24,880 149,520 105,426 13,999 12,023 3,755 1,178 122 21
2020-08-14 1,773,797 26,060 151,749 106,557 14,120 12,128 3,784 1,131 105 29
2020-08-15 1,796,692 22,895 153,708 107,674 14,278 12,210 3,824 1,117 82 40
2020-08-16 1,823,935 27,243 156,039 108,287 14,335 12,236 3,826 613 26 2
2020-08-17 1,843,274 19,339 157,693 109,062 14,418 12,319 3,832 775 83 6
2020-08-18 1,863,180 19,906 159,396 109,923 14,487 12,436 3,871 861 117 39
2020-08-19 1,882,588 19,408 161,056 110,881 14,585 12,529 3,907 958 93 36
2020-08-20 1,905,419 22,831 163,010 112,003 14,673 12,615 3,929 1,122 86 22
2020-08-21 1,930,913 25,494 165,191 113,046 14,774 12,719 3,955 1,043 104 26
2020-08-22 1,954,596 23,683 167,217 114,165 14,881 12,778 3,975 1,119 59 20
2020-08-23 1,977,822 23,226 169,204 114,802 14,955 12,800 3,978 637 22 3
2020-08-24 1,998,115 20,293 170,940 115,651 15,032 12,859 3,986 849 59 8
2020-08-25 2,021,722 23,607 172,959 116,495 15,088 12,956 3,996 844 97 10
2020-08-26 2,041,653 19,931 174,664 117,584 15,192 13,043 4,044 1,089 87 48

 

[digitalwanderer]

No stats, just another interesting incidental from the land straddling the people who believe covid is dangerous and those who believe it's a qanon theory to steal our freedoms and hurt god.

Took my daughter to a neurologist, (no panics, just trying to figure out what's wrong..nothing life threatening ), and they were from Chicago and I asked them how people up there were dealing with it. She explained that almost EVERYONE is wearing a mask and keeping distance and everyone is being friendly/cool about it. If you're not wearing a mask people give you the eye and will tell you to put one on.

I asked what she thought of the practices around here and she just started laughing and said, "What practices? The security guards have to kick one person out at least an hour for not wearing a mask and refusing to wear one or get their temperature taken. No one out and about has a mask on, and even the employees in places are wearing their masks under their noses so they can breath easier. I hope you guys are taking it seriously at least, you seem to".

I assured her I was and we were just as horrified. Schools opened last week around here, IN PERSON CLASSES! And fucking Trump made a presidential decree that teachers are essential workers, so even if they're exposed to infected people they can't quarantine unless the show symptoms or test positive.

We're literally killing thousands here, it just ain't happened yet. I am truly terrified what the numbers will start looking like when the CDC starts getting all the data again and all the vectors do their magic.

Please stay safe people! This isn't over, it's not even halftime! Wear a mask when you go out, don't go out if you don't have to, and please wash your hands.

I don't wanna lose any of you. PLEASE be careful!

 

[digitalwanderer]

Oh, people give you dirty looks here for wearing masks btw. They also drive jacked up pick up trucks with a full sized American flag on one side and a Trump flag on the other and they all "roll coal" on libtard coward mask breathers.

And I'm probably gonna get in to an accident because if I'm ever alone in my car when one does that I'm gonna just punch the accelerator and ram the fuckers. When the cops come I'll quite honestly tell them I couldn't see anything when the big truck made all the smoke, I need a new front end anyway so why not make a mouth-breather pay for it?

I can't do it when my family is in the car, too risky. Me it's ok, I'm kind of stuck with this immortality thing and I'm getting a bit bored with it already.

 

[A1xLLcqAgt0qc2RyMz0y]

2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) for Dallas County Texas
https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/dchhs/2019-novel-coronavirus.php

August 26, 2020 - 69,881 confirmed cases - 890 deaths
69,881 confirmed cases up 578 and nine new deaths
those 578 new cases represent a 0.8% increase over the last day

Of the 578 new cases we are reporting today, 424 came through the Texas Department of State Health Services’ (DSHS) electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) system and the majority are from the months of April and May.

Increases (by percent) since March 27, 2020 :
21.0%, 19.6%, 11.1%, 12.5%, 14.9%
-- Month of April 2020 --
15.8%, 13.7%, 10.8%, 10.2%, 9.6%, 3.9%, 9.2%, 5.0%, 8.2%, 7.3%, 7.0%, 4.8%, 3.8%, 5.0%, 5.8%,
4.0%, 6.0%, 6.1%, 4.5%, 3.5%, 3.6%, 3.1%, 3.0%, 2.6%, 2.6%, 3.6%, 3.0%, 4.3%, 3.5%, 5.3%
-- Month of May 2020 --
5.3%, 4.9%, 6.0%, 5.7%, 5.9%, 5.3%, 5.2%, 4.9%, 4.7%, 4.5%, 4.3%, 3.9%, 3.8%, 3.6%, 2.9%, 3.0%,
2.8%, 3.0%, 2.9%, 2.4%, 2.3%, 2.5%, 2.0%, 2.1%, 1.9%, 2.1%, 2.1%, 2.2%, 2.1%, 2.2%, 2.3%
-- Month of June 2020 --
2.2%, 2.5%, 2.2%, 2.6%, 2.7%, 2.5%, 2.2%, 2.1%, 2.4%, 2.4%, 2.4%, 2.5%, 2.5%, 2.2%, 2.1%,
2.1%, 2.8%, 2.6%, 2.4%, 2.5%, 2.5%, 2.7%, 2.6%, 2.2%, 2.2%, 2.7%, 2.9%, 2.9%, 2.8%, 2.9%
-- Month of July 2020 --
2.5%, 3.2%, 4.8%, 4.7%, 4.3%, 4.7%, 4.0%, 3.7%, 4.1%, 3.8%, 3.5%, 3.6%, 3.3%, 2.9%, 2.9%, 2.8%,
3.1%, 2.6%, 2.6%, 2.5%, 1.7%, 1.0%, 1.5%, 1.5%, 2.8%, 1.7%, 0.9%, 1.7%, 1.5%, 1.1%, 1.4%
-- Month of August 2020 --
1.2%, 1.0%, 0.7%, 1.2%, 1.0%, 0.4%, 0.8%, 1.0%, 1.6%, 1.1%, 0.5%, 0.4%, 1.1%, 1.6%, 1.3%, 9.2%,
2.9%, 1.2%, 0.6%, 0.5%, 1.1%, 1.6%, 0.5%, 0.3%, 0.3% and now 0.8%

Increases (by count) since March 27, 2020 :
+64, +72, +49, +61, +82
-- Month of April 2020 --
+100, +100, +90, +94, +97. +43, +106, +63, +108, +105, +107, +79, +65, +89, +109,
+80, +124, +134, +104, +84, +90, +81, +80, +71, +75, +105, +91, +135, +112, +179
-- Month of May 2020 --
+187, +181, +234, +237, +253, +246, +251, +249, +250, +251, +253, +236, +243, +235, +199, +214,
+205, +224, +225, +186, +183, +204, +172, +178, +171, +190, +197, +202, +200, +219, +228
-- Month of June 2020 --
+228, +257, +239, +285, +298, +289, +263, +254, +298, +300, +312, +328, +345, +302, +305,
+306, +413, +392, +394, +395, +408, +454, +445, +391, +403, +496, +561, +570, +572, +601
-- Month of July 2020 --
+544, +708, +1,085, +1,103, +1,062, +1,214, +1,077, +1,029, +1,201, +1,164, +1,101, +1,174, +1,114, +1,000, +1,055, +1,027,
+1,195, +1,031, +1,044, +1,026, +734, +413, +648, +659, +1,267, +800, +426, +789, +704, +537, +707
-- Month of August 2020 --
+614, +518, +382, +641, +508, +230, +422, +540, +843, +581, +298, +234, +641, +885, +754, +5,361,
+1,850, +787, +399, +308, +714, +1,086, +332, +182, +217 and now +578

As of 1:00 pm August 26, 2020, Dallas County Health and Human Services is reporting 578 additional confirmed cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total confirmed case count in Dallas County to 69,881, including 890 confirmed deaths. The total number of probable cases in Dallas County is 2,746, including 8 probable deaths from COVID-19. Of the 578 new cases we are reporting today, 424 came through the Texas Department of State Health Services’ (DSHS) electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) system and the majority are from the months of April and May. Please see a provisional breakdown below of these newly reported cases by date of collection:

March: 6
April: 116
May: 271
June: 31

The additional 9 deaths being reported today include the following:

• A man in his 40’s who was a resident of the City of Wilmer. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and did not have underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 40’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 50’s who was a resident of the City of Irving. She had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 60’s who was a resident of the City of Richardson. He had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 60’s who was a resident of the City of Farmers Branch. She was found deceased at home, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 60’s who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Lancaster. She had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A man in his 60’s who was a resident of the City of Mesquite. He expired in an area hospital ED, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 70’s who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Lancaster. She had been hospitalized, and had underlying high risk health conditions.
• A woman in her 80’s who was a resident of the City of Dallas. She had been critically ill in an area hospital, and had underlying high risk health conditions.

From August 1st to 14th, 531 school-aged children between 5 to 18 years of age were reported to have been diagnosed with confirmed COVID-19. About 50% of these cases were high school age. By zip code of residence, 302 (57%) of these children were projected to have been enrolled in Dallas ISD schools.

Of all confirmed cases requiring hospitalization to date, more than two-thirds have been under 65 years of age. Diabetes has been an underlying high-risk health condition reported in about a third of all hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The 7-day average daily new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases (by date of test collection) for CDC week 33 was 295.

The percentage of respiratory specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 has been declining but remains high, with about 12.8% of symptomatic patients presenting to area hospitals testing positive in week 33. Of the total confirmed deaths reported to date, about 26% have been associated with long-term care facilities.

 

[A1xLLcqAgt0qc2RyMz0y]

State of Texas complete COVID-19 data breakdown

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83
https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/0d8bdf9be927459d9cb11b9eaef6101

Data as of 8/26/2020 @5:20 PM:

Total Molecular Viral Tests: 4,764,640 (Up +40,081)

Cases Reported: 592,137 (Up +5,313)

Fatalities: 11,805 (Up +229)

Texas tests per 1M population are 178,258 which places Texas as the 11th worst State.

Click this link: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us and on the page click the Tests / 1M pop column twice to sort from worst to first

They are using roughly 28.996 million as the population of Texas.

Texas is still mixing Viral and Antibody Tests in the worldometers report on total test numbers which reports 5,168,745 tests which is inflated by 404,105 Antibody Tests.

As of today the real number of Total Viral Tests for Texas is 4,764,640 which works out to be 164,321 per 1M population so Texas is really the 8th worst state in testing

 

[BRiT]

https://www.ibtimes.com/florida-see...9-cases-among-children-schools-reopen-3035168

Florida Sees Nearly 9,000 New COVID-19 Cases Among Children As Schools Reopen

As schools begin to reopen in Florida, the state has confirmed that nearly 9,000 children had contracted COVID-19 over a 15-day period in August, according to data from the Florida Department of Health.

The report from the agency indicated that of the 8,995 confirmed cases reported through Aug. 24, 80% or 7,282 cases were discovered among children aged 5 to 17. Before the report, the agency had confirmed that 78.5% of positive cases of the virus were shared among children aged 5 to 17.

As of Monday, Florida had reported 17,311 positive cases for those aged 14 to 17 and 8,248 cases for those aged 11 to 13. A total of 12,946 positive cases were confirmed for those aged 5 to 10 and 7,616 cases for those aged 1 to 4. A total of 2,609 cases were reported among children under 1 year old.

In addition to the increase in COVID-19 cases in children, the state saw hospitalizations rise from 436 to 602 among children as well. Overall, there was one child death, bring the total death count to eight children in the state.

 

[BRiT]

Ohio is at 68.2K new tests.
Ohio is at +1244 new cases, with Cuyahoga County at +124 new cases.
Test Positivity rate is around 1.82% for these new tests.

Ohio's numbers are following the pattern where numbers seem lowest on the weekend and start climbing higher during the week. No explanation on how they hit 68.2K tests.

Here is the trends which is using reported date and not arbitrary and incorrectly identified user reported onset date taken from https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards/current-trends



Here is the raw data for the last few days:

Spoiler: Raw Data

Date; Total Tests; New Tests; Tests per 1M Population; Total Cases; Cuyahoga County Cases; Hospitalizations; Total Deaths; New Cases; New Hospitalizations; New Deaths
2020-08-07 1,617,822 24,981 138,406 98,675 13,269 11,447 3,652 1,204 81 34
2020-08-08 1,639,195 21,373 140,234 99,969 13,414 11,516 3,668 1,294 69 16
2020-08-09 1,663,196 24,001 142,287 100,848 13,514 11,565 3,669 879 49 1
2020-08-10 1,682,271 19,075 143,919 101,731 13,640 11,629 3,673 883 64 4
2020-08-11 1,702,317 20,046 145,634 102,826 13,734 11,760 3,708 1,095 131 35
2020-08-12 1,722,857 20,540 147,391 104,248 13,869 11,901 3,734 1,422 141 26
2020-08-13 1,747,737 24,880 149,520 105,426 13,999 12,023 3,755 1,178 122 21
2020-08-14 1,773,797 26,060 151,749 106,557 14,120 12,128 3,784 1,131 105 29
2020-08-15 1,796,692 22,895 153,708 107,674 14,278 12,210 3,824 1,117 82 40
2020-08-16 1,823,935 27,243 156,039 108,287 14,335 12,236 3,826 613 26 2
2020-08-17 1,843,274 19,339 157,693 109,062 14,418 12,319 3,832 775 83 6
2020-08-18 1,863,180 19,906 159,396 109,923 14,487 12,436 3,871 861 117 39
2020-08-19 1,882,588 19,408 161,056 110,881 14,585 12,529 3,907 958 93 36
2020-08-20 1,905,419 22,831 163,010 112,003 14,673 12,615 3,929 1,122 86 22
2020-08-21 1,930,913 25,494 165,191 113,046 14,774 12,719 3,955 1,043 104 26
2020-08-22 1,954,596 23,683 167,217 114,165 14,881 12,778 3,975 1,119 59 20
2020-08-23 1,977,822 23,226 169,204 114,802 14,955 12,800 3,978 637 22 3
2020-08-24 1,998,115 20,293 170,940 115,651 15,032 12,859 3,986 849 59 8
2020-08-25 2,021,722 23,607 172,959 116,495 15,088 12,956 3,996 844 97 10
2020-08-26 2,041,653 19,931 174,664 117,584 15,192 13,043 4,044 1,089 87 48
2020-08-27 2,109,950 68,297 180,507 118,828 15,316 13,150 4,076 1,244 107 32

Governor is happy about number of counties that are no longer under level 3, however the number of new cases is 3x to 4x what they were 2.5 months ago. Their guidance wrongly assumes the imaginary and invisible boundaries between counties somehow has an impact on the pandemic. They need some sort of weighted guidance based on actual user flow between them.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1299046402518122498

https://twitter.com/x/status/1299046832715202560