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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

COVID-19 Update for Wddnesday, August 12, 2020
Latest Numbers from Macon County Public Health Included





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Videos
Pandemic Heroes
Things That Don't Fit Anywhere Else
Research
Masks
Schools
COVID-19 in the USA
COVID-19 Around the World
Sports, Entertainment, and Other Crowded Venues
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Here is an update for this afternoon on how humanity is dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic that is caused by SARS CoV-2. The story is told through links to news outlets, research papers, and videos. They are presented without comment.

Data from Macon County Public Health as of July 20th and graph by Macon Media of data from May 30th to July 20th [LINK

Please note there is a gap for Saturdays and Sundays starting this past weekend since the health department will no longer be reporting numbers on those days.





484 Detected Cases (+3 in one day)
59 Active Positive (+2 in one day)
421 Recovered (+1 in one day)
4 Deaths (unchanged)

Testing Data for Macon County

4383 MCPH Tests (+39 in one day)
1633 Tests by Others (+85 in one day)
6016 Total Tests (+124 in one day)
252 Tests Pending Results (+3 in one day)






Here are some numbers from the CDC, the NCDHHS, and the Johns Hopkins Dashboard. Macon Media prefers the Johns Hopkins Dashboard because the counts include those non-residents that are left out of the CDC and NCDHHS numbers.

The CDC website [LINK] reports 97,958 people in North Carolina are infected, 1,629 have died, and infections are widespread, the NCDHHS website [LINK] reports 99,778 confirmed cases from 1,394,864 targeted tests, and 1,115 hospitalized and 1,634 deaths in the state. The Johns Hopkins Dashboard [LINK] reports 99,803 people infected and 1,652 deaths.

North Carolina Coronavirus Map and Case Count [LINK]

Infographic from Johns Hopkins University [LINK] https://bao.arcgis.com/covid-19/jhu/county/37113.html




Resources for Reliable Information about the Corona Virus (COVID-19) [LINK]



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Videos

Dr John Campbell

International Update, Vaccines and motorcycles







Medcram Video

COVID-19 Rapid Tests Demo & Q/A with E25Bio Co-Founder Dr. Herrera (At Home Antigen Tests)




Could asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers hold key to ending the pandemic?




Would you volunteer to get Covid-19?




Coronavirus Q&A With Anthony Fauci





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Using Humor to Cope


COVID Mask (Monster mash)




Take This Mask And Shove It! - Steve Stewart




Hello (from the Inside) An Adele Parody by Chris Mann




Coronavirus Rhapsody (based on Bohemian Rhapsody) - Covid19









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Pandemic Heroes

Father and son doctors die of coronavirus after treating COVID-19 patients on Florida front lines [LINK]

More than 900 US healthcare workers have died of Covid-19 – and the toll is rising [LINK]





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Research Papers, Clinical Trials, and News About Such


Early Spread of COVID-19 Appears Far Greater Than Initially Reported [LINK]

Four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden’s prized herd immunity is nowhere in sight - Eric J W Orlowski, David J A Goldsmith, 2020 [LINK]

COVID‐19 and Vitamin D: A lesson from the skin [LINK]

Phase 1/2 study of COVID-19 RNA vaccine BNT162b1 in adults [LINK]

Research exposes new vulnerability in SARS-CoV-2 (Press Release) [LINK]

Rapid endothelialitis and vascular inflammation characterise SARS-CoV-2 infection in a human lung-on-chip model [LINK]

Predicting novel drugs for SARS-CoV-2 using machine learning from a >10 million chemical space [LINK]

Janus Kinase-Inhibitor and Type I Interferon Ability to Produce Favorable Clinical Outcomes in COVID-19 Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [LINK]

Enhanced Binding of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein to Receptor by Distal Polybasic Cleavage Sites [LINK]

LamPORE: rapid, accurate and highly scalable molecular screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection, based on nanopore sequencing [LINK]

Association Between Youth Smoking, Electronic Cigarette Use, and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Press Release) [LINK]

Sputnik Vaccine - Clinical Trials [LINK]

Virus is airborne - clinical study in the US (Chicago Tribune) [LINK]

Coronavirus may spread much farther than 6 feet in indoor spaces with poor ventilation (CBS News) [LINK]





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Masks, Masks, Masks
(Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!)

‘This is no longer a debate’: Florida sheriff bans deputies, visitors from wearing masks [LINK]

New Hampshire issues new mask mandate ahead of motorcycle rally: "Sturgis was a clear warning sign to us" [LINK]

No Masks, No Social Distancing: Two Men Charged After Large Pool Party in Sicklerville New Jersey [LINK]

Man Carried From Store By His Son While Threatening to Beat Customers Over Masks: ‘A Bunch of P***ies Wearing Masks!’ [LINK]




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Back to School


Download a PDF of "LIGHTING OUR WAY FORWARD: North Carolina's Guidebook for Re-opening Schools" [LINK]

NCSHAA Releases Calendar for High School Sports (North Carolina) [LINK]

Franklin High School Students to Attend One Day a Week until Labor Day [LINK]

COVID-19 study confirms low transmission in educational settings [LINK]

925 Quarantined for Covid. Is This a Successful School Reopening? [LINK]

Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Why I am not sending my kids back to school [LINK]

'Leaving us behind': High-risk students ask, why can't all college courses be offered online? [LINK]





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COVID-19 in the USA


Fauci said he thinks it's 'inconceivable' that he's received death threats 'when you are trying to promote public health principles to save people's lives' [LINK]

Ousted expert on Florida's Covid plan: 'They're not listening to the scientists' [LINK]

Fauci says he has serious doubts Russia's COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective [LINK]

North Carolina dog that died after 'acute' illness tests positive for coronavirus [LINK]

NC sees data delays, lowest coronavirus numbers in two months [LINK]





COVID-19 Around the World

Canadians are vandalising cars with US plates in anger over border crossings to escape coronavirus [LINK]

WHO Calls for Delaying Dental Routine Check-Ups Until COVID-19 Transmission Rates Drop [LINK]

Indigenous Mexicans turn inward to survive COVID-19, barricading villages and growing their own food [LINK]

Lebanon Records Horrific Spike In COVID-19 Cases Post Beirut Blasts [LINK]





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Sports, Entertainment, Public Transportation, and Other Crowded Venues

Smash Mouth singer mocks coronavirus pandemic at packed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally concert
Videos and photos on social media showed many in the crowd flouting social distancing guidelines and not wearing masks [LINK]

Town votes to rescind license of N.J. gym whose owners repeatedly defied coronavirus restrictions. [LINK]





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