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.
Here is an index to assist you in moving from section to section within the article.
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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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Data from Macon County Public Health as of today and graph by Macon Media of data from May 30th to today [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.
480 Detected Cases (+1 in one day)
57 Active Positive (-6 in one day)
420 Recovered (+7 in one day since Friday)
4 Deaths (unchanged)
Testing Data for Macon County
4344 MCPH Tests (unchanged in one day)
1548 Tests by Others (unchanged in one day)
5892 Total Tests (unchanged in one day)
249 Pending Tests (unchanged 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.
CDC [LINK]
136,218 Detected Infections
2,168 Reported Deaths
NCDHHS [LINK]
136,218 Detected Infections
2,001,919 Total Tests
1,111 Reported Current Hospitalizations
2,172 Reported Deaths
Johns Hopkins Dashboard [LINK]
137,562 Detected Infections
2,199 Reported Deaths
Resources for Reliable Information about the Corona Virus (COVID-19) [LINK]
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Videos
(repeat from yesterday for those who missed this section)
Dr John Campbell
Update and Infection in Children
Trump ushered out of White House briefing after nearby shooting
Sick With COVID, She Gave Birth on a Ventilator. This Teacher Took Her Newborn In | FRONTLINE
Zully was around eight months pregnant when she began to cough and wheeze. Then came the hospitalization, the COVID-19 diagnosis — and word that because the baby’s oxygen levels were dropping, he’d have to be delivered weeks early.
Subscribe to PBS Frontline on YouTube: [LINK]
For Zully and her family, who emigrated to Stamford, Connecticut from Guatemala, it was a crisis moment: Her husband, Marvin, and seven-year-old son, Junior, were also believed to be infected with the coronavirus — meaning that once the baby was born, it wouldn’t be safe for him to go home to them.
“I would’ve turned into my son’s assassin,” Marvin says.
Zully (above, left) had nowhere else to turn. In early April, just before giving birth on a ventilator and being put into a coma that would last for nearly three weeks, she made a desperate phone call to her older son’s English as a Second Language teacher, Luciana Lira (above, right) — an immigrant herself — saying that Marvin and Junior needed help.
Lira didn’t hesitate. Ultimately, she would go on to take the baby, Neysel, into her home to keep him safe from the virus as his mother, father and brother recovered from it.
“I am willing to help, 100 percent,” the teacher recalls saying.
Watch the full story - "Love, Life & the Virus" - starting Tues., Aug. 11: [LINK]
U.S. governors cringe at cost of Trump's virus aid
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Pandemic Heroes
Exclusive: Over 900 Health Workers Have Died of COVID-19. And the Toll Is Rising. [LINK]
'I Remember Him With That Smile': Beloved Phoenix Doctor Dies Of COVID-19 At 99 [LINK]
Dying young: the healthcare workers in their 20s killed by Covid-19 [LINK]
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Things That Don't Fit Anywhere Else
Knowledge is Power: Learning More About COVID-19 Can Reduce Your Pandemic Stress [LINK]
When is the return to normalcy? Chicago infectious disease expert discusses future with COVID-19 [LINK]
The Pandemic May Be Changing Your Personality, Psychologists SayAnd not necessarily in bad ways. [LINK]
How Covid Sends Some Bodies to War With Themselves [LINK] [LINK]
First look in Wuhan COVID lab that is central to search for the coronavirus' origin [LINK]
Hospital Closures, Cuts Mean Fewer Options for Rural Patients [LINK]
When It Comes to Covid-19, Density Doesn't Kill - Sprawl Does [LINK]
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Research Papers, Clinical Trials, and News About Such
WHO Says Studies Put Coronavirus Mortality Rate at 0.6% [LINK]
Russia clears virus vaccine despite scientific skepticism [LINK]
Antiviral Treatment for COVID-19 Could Come Much Sooner Thanks to Malaria Breakthrough [LINK]
Your Right to Know: Let public see COVID-19 data [LINK]
Inducing hypothermia can help get ICU patients with COVID-19 off ventilators, doctors find [LINK]
Vitamin D deficiency as a predictor of poor prognosis in patients with acute respiratory failure due to COVID-19 [LINK]
SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody responses in New York City [LINK]
Strong link found between abnormal liver tests and poor COVID-19 outcomes [LINK]
SARS-CoV-2 Titers in Wastewater Are Higher than Expected from Clinically Confirmed Cases [LINK]
22 Case Studies Where Phase 2 and Phase 3 Trials had Divergent Results ( Includes 4 Vaccine Trials) [LINK]
Mouthwashes could reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission [LINK]
Decreasing mortality rates in ICU during the COVID‐19 pandemic [LINK]
Immunogenicity and Safety of a SARS-CoV-2 Inactivated Vaccine in Healthy Adults Aged 18-59 years: Report of the Randomized, Double-blind, and Placebo-controlled Phase 2 Clinical Trial [LINK]
COVID-19 Seasons Unlikely: WHO Says Virus Unaffected by Seasonal Changes [LINK]
Modeling the role of asymptomatics in infection spread with application to SARS-CoV-2 [LINK]
Potential of Flavonoid-Inspired Phytomedicines against COVID-19 [LINK]
The University of Costa Rica produced a Serum with proteins that inhibit Covid-19 from multiplying. Human testing is about to start. [LINK]
Russia names new COVID-19 vaccine 'Sputnik V' in reference to Cold War space race
Read more at: [LINK]
Houston Methodist reports rapid recovery of critically ill COVID-19 patients with drug (Aviptadil) [LINK]
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Masks, Masks, Masks
Masks Do More Than Protect Others During COVID-19: Reducing the Inoculum of SARS-CoV-2 to Protect the Wearer [LINK]
Fleece neck gaiters and bandanas are least effective at stopping COVID-19 droplets, study finds [LINK]
Man Punches Teen Sesame Place Worker Who Reminded Him to Wear Mask, Police Say — The teen suffered a jaw injury and a damaged tooth [LINK]
Assaulting a worker who's enforcing masks is now a felony under a new Illinois law [LINK]
Tennessee COVID-19 hospitalizations up 200% in areas without mask mandates [LINK]
Universal wearing of masks essential to combat coronavirus: Fauci [LINK]
Transport Canada says if you can't wear a mask for medical reasons, prove it — or don't fly [LINK]
Masks Worn Amid COVID-19 May Lead To Form Of Immunity [LINK]
UPDATE: Lansing man dies a month after being stabbed during Quality Dairy mask dispute [LINK]
Wearing a Neck Gaiter Instead of a Mask? It May Be Doing More Harm Than Good [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]
WCU FACULTY SENATE VOTES AGAINST IN-PERSON INSTRUCTION [LINK]
Coronavirus surging among children, teenagers in California [LINK]
The No-Win School Reopening: One Superintendent’s Dilemma [LINK]
DeSantis on reopening schools: ‘Nothing’s risk-free in life’ [LINK]
Texas coronavirus testing plummets as schools plan reopening [LINK]
Confirmed Coronavirus Cases in U.S. Children Rose by 40% in Two Weeks This July, Bringing the Total to Almost 340,000 [LINK]
More Than 800 Students In Cherokee County Must Quarantine Due To COVID-19 (Georgia) [LINK]
Gov. Beshear asks Kentucky school districts to delay classroom learning until Sept. 28 [LINK]
DeKalb Schools: 80 students, employees recently test positive for COVID-19 (Georgia) [LINK]
More than 150 school employees have tested positive for COVID-19 in Central Texas [LINK]
UNC professor moves to virtual classes after concerning videos of students on campus [LINK]
Sixty-three incoming WVU students test positive for COVID-19 [LINK]
Students shown without masks at Rhea County High School (Tennessee) [LINK]
Mom whose son succumbed to COVID-19 dies; third death tied to Fort Braden School [LINK]
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COVID-19 in the USA
Gallup Poll Shows One in Three Americans Would Not Get COVID-19 Vaccine, Even For Free [LINK]
New U.S. Coronavirus Cases Decreased by Nearly 20% Over Past 2 Weeks [LINK]
'A Homeless Pandemic' Looms As 30 Million Are At Risk Of Eviction [LINK]
CDC: Nearly 600 children hospitalized in US with inflammatory condition linked to COVID-19 [LINK]
Texas COVID hospitalizations drop to lowest levels since early July [LINK]
‘Economic tsunami’: US cities and states hit by Covid-19 face dire budget cuts [LINK]
UT model predicts Texas to see sharp increase in COVID-19 deaths for the month of August [LINK]
Arizona reports lower COVID-19 numbers as hospitalizations continue 4 weeks of declines [LINK]
Experts: COVID-19 is spreading in Hawaii at a faster rate than anywhere else in the nation [LINK]
Top California health official resigns abruptly amid revelation of giant coronavirus record backlog [LINK]
Trump Considers Banning Re-Entry by Citizens Who May Have Coronavirus [LINK]
Florida reports 4,155 new Covid-19 cases — its lowest daily increase since late June [LINK]
L.A. County COVID-19 Death Toll Nears 5,000 Not Counting Backlogged Data [LINK]
How many people died of COVID-19 contracted in New York nursing homes? We don’t know. [LINK]
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COVID-19 Around the World
'How to make COVID vaccine at home' was the second most searched Google query last month! [LINK]
Coronavirus: Auckland moves to Level 3, rest of NZ to Level 2, as four Covid-19 cases confirmed in community [LINK]
Doctors in India ask for support as 196 physicians die due to COVID-19 [LINK]
More than 180 workers at this Toronto bakery got COVID-19 — but the public wasn’t informed. Why aren’t we being told about workplace outbreaks? [LINK]
3 new mutated COVID-19 strains detected in South Korea [LINK]
Coronavirus found on frozen seafood in China [LINK]
How China Controlled the Coronavirus [LINK]
Philippines' Duterte volunteers to be Putin's Russian coronavirus vaccine guinea pig [LINK]
Anti-mask group in Tokyo slammed for 'cluster festival' [LINK]
Oxford University coronavirus vaccine: Australia in talks to secure doses [LINK]
Spain reports 8,618 new Covid-19 cases since Friday [LINK]
Russia receives request for 1 bln COVID-19 vaccine doses from 20 states [LINK]
Singapore reports lowest number of daily COVID-19 cases in more than 4 months, with 61 infections [LINK]
Mexico to conduct late-stage trials for China, US COVID-19 vaccines [LINK]
Israel overtakes China with over 85,000 coronavirus cases [LINK]
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Sports, Entertainment, Public Transportation, and Other Crowded Venues
Southwest Airlines no longer sanitizing armrests and seatbelts between flights, memo says [LINK]
NHL reports second straight week of zero positiive COVID-19 tests [LINK]
Power 5 athletes found to have post-coronavirus heart issues [LINK]
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Published at 12:30pm on Tuesday, August 11, 2020
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