COVID-19 Briefing for 12-02-2020

Here is an update for this morning 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.



COVID-19 Numbers from Macon County Public Health

Here are the latest COVID-19 Numbers and Demographics Report from Macon Public Health, along with a couple of charts by Macon Media to show you the long-term trends since May 30, 2020, when the health department started releasing numbers to Macon Media.

Cases

953 Detected
(+11 from Monday and +39 from last Tuesday and +172 in four weeks)

71 Active
(+5 from Monday and +17 from last Tuesday and +35 in four weeks)

873 Recovered
(+6 from Monday and +22 from last Tuesday and +135 in four weeks)

9 Deaths
(+170 from Monday and unchanged from last Tuesday and +2 in four weeks)


Testing

7053 by MCPH
(+170 from Monday and +170 from last Tuesday and +565 in four weeks)

3976 by Others
(unchanged from Monday and +228 from last Tuesday and +796 in four weeks)

11029 total
(+170 from Monday and +398 from last Tuesday and +1361 in four weeks)

98 tests pending results
(-10 from Monday and +27 from last Tuesday and +12 in four weeks)

Videos





Dr John Campbell: Vaccine approvel and rollout (12-01-2020)





Iceland Scienced The Crap Outta COVID; Here's What We Learned





"Post-acute COVID-19 Syndrome": COVID "long-haulers" suffering symptoms months after initial diagnosis



Congress gets back to work as COVID-19 federal assistance set to expire



An Impossible Choice: Teachers Resign Amid Lack Of Covid Protections | NBC News



Will COVID-19 Vaccine Passport Be Required By Businesses? Experts Discuss | TODAY



CDC panel votes on who will get Covid vaccine first — 12/1/2020






CDC Advisory Panel Votes On Who Should Get Covid Vaccine First | NBC Nightly News







Stories About Vaccines



Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Announces Advisory Committee Meeting to Discuss Second COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate [LINK]

A single-dose live-attenuated YF17D-vectored SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate [LINK]

EMA receives application for conditional marketing authorisation of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine BNT162b2 (Press Release) [LINK]

Design of a multi-epitope vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 using immunoinformatics approach [LINK]

Most U.S. states expect to vaccinate healthcare workers within three weeks: CDC meeting [LINK]

Don't want the COVID-19 vaccine? You could lose access to normal life, says U.K. minister [LINK]

Americans Are More Willing to Take a Coronavirus Vaccine, Poll Suggests [LINK]

Pfizer, BioNTech apply for Covid vaccine approval in Europe [LINK]




Research Papers, Clinical Trials, Vaccines, and News About Testing



COVID-19 Indoor Safety Guideline (MIT Application) [LINK]

Second versus first wave of COVID-19 deaths: shifts in age distribution and in nursing home fatalities [LINK]

Nutrition, immunity and COVID-19 [LINK]

Virus strain from a mild COVID-19 patient in Hangzhou represents a new trend in SARS-CoV-2 evolution potentially related to Furin cleavage site [LINK]

Remdesivir (Veklury) Approval for the Treatment of COVID-19—The Evidence for Safety and Efficacy [LINK]

A model to identify individuals with a high probability of a SARS-CoV-2 infection [LINK]

Coronaviruses: Innate Immunity, Inflammasome Activation, Inflammatory Cell Death, and Cytokines [LINK]

A psychrometric model to predict the biological decay of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in aerosols [LINK]

The health, economic and social effects of COVID-19 and the tiered approach (UK) [LINK]

Interventions for treatment of COVID-19: second edition of a living systematic review with meta-analyses and trial sequential analyses (The LIVING Project) [LINK]

Analysis of genomic distributions of SARS-CoV-2 reveals a dominant strain type with strong allelic associations [LINK]

Prospective mapping of viral mutations that escape antibodies used to treat COVID-19 [LINK]


On the anti-correlation between COVID-19 infection rate and natural UV light in the UK [LINK]

SARS-CoV-2 spike produced in insect cells elicits high neutralization titres in non-human primates [LINK]

Antipsychotic-induced immune dysfunction: A consideration for COVID-19 risk [LINK]

New Study Reveals SARS-CoV-2 Can Invade The Brain Through The Nose [LINK]

Validation of home oxygen saturations as a marker of clinical deterioration in patients with suspected COVID-19 [LINK]



Medical Professions and the Medical System



Investigations Underway After 28 Veterans Die in Coronavirus Outbreak at Illinois VA Home – NBC Chicago [LINK]

Hospitals becoming overwhelmed by the worsening COVID-19 crisis [LINK]

COVID-19 breaking point: Northern California hospitals, ICUs filling up with virus patients [LINK]

New Mexico hospitals maxing out, only 16 ICU beds remain [LINK]

The health, economic and social effects of COVID-19 and the tiered approach (UK) [LINK]



COVID-19 in the USA

Fauci: U.S. could hit herd immunity by end of summer 2021 if Americans embrace virus vaccines [LINK]

Why We Can’t Comprehend 250,000 Covid Deaths
We’ve become numb and disoriented by the sheer quantity of statistics that describe mass death and suffering. [LINK]

U.S. is heading for 100,000 COVID-19 patients in hospitals as experts worry about a coming Thanksgiving travel spike [LINK]

Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator.
Eleven states let school districts decide whether students and staff must wear masks. One Georgia middle school where masks were optional became the center of an outbreak. [LINK]

Nearly the entire U.S. has become a COVID hot spot, government map shows [LINK]

'We're Drowning': COVID Cases Flood Hospitals in America's Heartland [LINK]

Arizona coronavirus patient's story goes viral: 'I'm 23 years old and I just had a stroke' [LINK]

'Very dark couple of weeks': Morgues and hospitals overflow [LINK]

States with few Coronavirus restrictions are spreading the virus beyond their borders [LINK]

U.S. averaging one COVID-related death every minute, CDC says [LINK]

Church leaders ask Gov. Noem to implement statewide mask mandate (South Dakota) [LINK]

Nearly 10 Million People Flew Over Thanksgiving, According to TSA [LINK]

Comedian began chronicling his COVID-19 ‘journey’ online. He died two days later [LINK]

For the last week, South Dakota saw more COVID deaths than New York City [LINK]


Ice-T's Father-in-Law Is Now 'on Oxygen Indefinitely' After Spending 40 Days in ICU for COVID-19 [LINK]

S.F. Mayor London Breed had her own French Laundry party - the night after Gavin Newsom's [LINK]

After swingers convention held in New Orleans, 41 test positive for coronavirus, organizer says [LINK]

DeSantis says no new lockdowns, mask mandates or any other anti-COVID-19 measure in Florida [LINK]

DeWine calls out COVID-19 deniers: 'This foolishness has got to stop' (Ohio) [LINK]

Florida surpasses 1 million coronavirus cases [LINK]

Surging Virus Exposes California’s Weak Spot: A Lack of Hospital Beds and Staff [LINK]

The Ripple Effect Of One Rural Colorado Doctor Catching The Coronavirus [LINK]

A quarter of North Dakotans know someone who has died of COVID-19 [LINK]

Data for Native Americans in S.D. says COVID-19 worse in the population [LINK]

The She's All That Reboot Shut Down A Busy COVID Testing Site In L.A. And People Were Furious [LINK]

Tucson sets nightly curfew until Dec. 23 to fight surge in COVID-19 cases (Arizona) [LINK]

In Mississippi, more counties see mask requirement, but no statewide mandate [LINK]



COVID-19 Around the World

Canada PM Trudeau indicates U.S. border restrictions to last a long time [LINK]

Tuesday marks one year anniversary of COVID-19 symptom discovery [LINK]

Japan approves bill to offer all residents free COVID-19 vaccines [LINK]

Canada unveils largest economic relief package since WW2 [LINK]

"Mommy's not coming back. It's over": the moving testimony of Karim, who lost his wife of 35 years (care assistant) of Covid-19 in a few days. (France) [FRENCH]

Over $180K in fines issued in Manitoba for not following COVID-19 public health orders last week | CBC News (Canada) [LINK]

For first time since spring, more than half of Sweden's ICU patients have Covid-19 [LINK]

Coronavirus: why is eastern Europe's second wave so much worse than its first? [LINK]

Ottawa to spend $300 million preventing COVID's spread among the homeless (Canada) [LINK]




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Published at 4:00am on Wednesday, December 2, 2020