COVID-19 Briefing for 12-11-2020

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 April 17, 2020.

Cases

1040 Detected
(+6 from Wednesday and +84 from last Thursday and +229 in four weeks)

90 Active
(-2 from Wednesday and +16 from last Thursday and +50 in four weeks)

941 Recovered
(+6 from Wednesday and +68 from last Thursday and +178 in four weeks)

9 Deaths
(unchanged from Wednesday and unchanged from last Thursday and +1 in four weeks)


Testing

7352 by MCPH
(unchanged from Wednesday and +299 from last Thursday and +705 in four weeks)

4396 by Others
(unchanged from Wednesday and +420 from last Thursday and +1089 in four weeks)

11748 total
(+83 from Wednesday and +719 from last Thursday and +1794 in four weeks)

132 tests pending results
(-13 from Wednesday and -19 from last Thursday and +45 in four weeks)

Videos





Dr John Campbell: Thursday Update





TWiV 691: SciArt with Laura Splan (This Week in Virology)





MedCram: Vitamin D and COVID 19: The Evidence for Prevention and Treatment of Coronavirus (SARS CoV 2)



Vincent Racaniello: My at-home SARS-CoV-2 antibody test result



JAMA Network: The COVID Tracking Project



Vaccine Watch: Getting the vaccine to Americans




FDA Advisory Committee reviews Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine — (Recorded on 12-10-2020)


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Arizona ICU Beds Reach 90 Percent Capacity As Covid Cases And Deaths Surge | NBC News NOW







Stories About Vaccines



ICU Doctor On Why Health Workers Shouldn't Be Prioritized In Coronavirus Vaccination [LINK]

Fact check: Clarifying claims around Pfizer vaccine deaths and side effects [LINK]

Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine [LINK]

Oxford vaccine could be 59% effective against asymptomatic infections, analysis shows [LINK]

Moderna Announces First Participants Dosed in Phase 2/3 Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate in Adolescents [LINK]

SFDA Approves Registration of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine (Saudi Arabia) [LINK]

Update on The University of Queensland COVID-19 vaccine (Australia) [LINK]

Australian COVID vaccine terminated due to HIV ‘false positives’ [LINK]

Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline announce COVID vaccine delay | DW | 11.12.2020 [LINK]

47 workers test positive for Covid in Uganda despite Chinese vaccine | Taiwan News [LINK]





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



Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions | Nature Human Behaviour [LINK]

Evaluation of Cloth Masks and Modified Procedure Masks as Personal Protective Equipment [LINK]

Hydroxychloroquine as Postexposure Prophylaxis to Prevent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection [LINK]

Older adults lack SARS CoV-2 cross-reactive T lymphocytes directed to human coronaviruses OC43 and NL63 [LINK]

COVID-19 may also invade the central nervous system, cause neurological illnesses [LINK]

Loss of smell in patients with COVID-19 MRI data reveal a transient edema of the olfactory clefts [LINK]

Can Melatonin Be a Potential “Silver Bullet” in Treating COVID-19 Patients? [LINK]



Medical Professions and the Medical System Impact of COVID-19



'A slap in the face': Yuma hospital fires ER doctor for talking about COVID-19 in Arizona [LINK]

U.S. surpasses 3,300 deaths in a day, a record [LINK]

Scientist-turned-TikTok star works to convince people vaccines are safe [LINK]

L.A. health director nearly breaks down in tears at coronavirus briefing: ‘Deaths are an incalculable loss’ [LINK]

Ohio nurse and mother-of-seven dies from COVID weeks after giving birth [LINK]

Google and Apple jointly created a coronavirus contact tracer [LINK]

Crisis worsens in hospitals across California as COVID-19 patients fill ICUs [LINK]

Trump coronavirus official Birx seeks to join Fauci in Biden administration [LINK]

'We are talking about people’s lives': Dire warnings of public health crisis as COVID-19 vaccine misinformation rages [LINK]




COVID-19 in the USA

More Americans Have Died From Coronavirus Than in Combat During WWII [LINK]

New CDC coronavirus forecast: 362,000 dead by Jan. 2 [LINK]

Wealthy and connected get antibody COVID treatments unavailable to most Americans [LINK]

Popularity of working from home will be vaccine-resistant, poll suggests [LINK]

Cherokee Nation set to receive first doses of COVID-19 vaccine next week [LINK]

Eastern Band of Cherokee to Receive Vaccine next week [LINK]

It may not have started here, but the novel coronavirus became a U.S. tragedy [LINK]

Massachusetts superspreader: Biogen conference tied to 300,000 coronavirus cases [LINK]

Walmart prepares to administer Covid vaccines at stores across the U.S. [LINK]

How a simple smell test could curb COVID-19 and help reopen the economy [LINK]

2 weeks after Thanksgiving, L.A. County sees another record-breaking day of new COVID-19 cases [LINK]


Exposure feared after New Hampshire speaker dies of COVID-19 [LINK]

N.H. House Speaker Dick Hinch died from COVID-19, medical examiner finds [LINK]

'Morgues are full': Governor urges Idahoans, 'Please make the right choices' on COVID-19 [LINK]

California set to receive nearly 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this month, with 1st delivery in coming days [LINK]

'When do we have our freedom back?': San Francisco restaurant patrons dine outside despite stay-at-home order [LINK]

Giuliani reveals COVID treatment included Regeneron [LINK]



COVID-19 Around the World

World carbon dioxide emissions drop 7% in pandemic-hit 2020 [LINK]

Buried mink may have contaminated groundwater in Denmark, scientists warn [LINK]

As COVID deaths rise, Sweden pulls a U-turn and proposes a lockdown law [LINK]

One in three Slovaks believes Covid-19 is a hoax, one in five believes the vaccine will microchip them [SLOVAK] [TRANSLATION]

One year on, Wuhan market at epicentre of virus outbreak remains barricaded and empty [LINK]

Australia passes 1 week of zero local cases for the first time since February, with just 1 active local case left in the country. [LINK]

South Korea expanding virus testing, tracing [LINK]

Egypt receives first batch of Sinopharm coronavirus vaccines [LINK]

TraceTogether take-up rate reaches ‘more than 60%’, moving closer to target set by Govt (Singapore) [LINK]


Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 29,875 - RKI [LINK]

Israel said considering restrictions on those who refuse COVID vaccine [LINK]

Argentina Signs Deal With Russia To Acquire COVID-19 Vaccines [LINK]

South Korea mobilises military in Seoul as coronavirus cases surge, deaths rise [LINK]

Brazil: In Manaus, the Incidence of Covid-19 is 76%, According to a Study; Rate in SP is 29% [LINK]

COVID-19 limits demand for Santa Claus to appear at malls, events (Singapore) [LINK]



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Published at 7:00am on Friday, December 11, 2020