COVID-19 Update for Sunday, July 12, 2020 Daily Includes Numbers from Macon County Public Health

Here is an abbreviated 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 2nd and graph by Macon Media of data from May 30th to July 7th [LINK]

310 Detected Cases (+16 in one day)
112 Active Positive (-1 in one day)
197 Recovered (+15 in one day)
1 Death (unchanged)

Testing Data for Macon County

3265 MCPH Tests (+105 in one day)
933 Tests by Others (unchanged)
4198 Total Tests (+105 in one day)
339 Tests Pending Results (+22 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 74,529 people in North Carolina are infected, 1,396 have died, and infections are widespread, the NCDHHS website [LINK] reports 75,875 confirmed cases from 1,071,290 targeted tests, and 989 hospitalized and 1,420 deaths in the state. The Johns Hopkins Dashboard [LINK] reports 75,457 people infected and 1,436 deaths.

North Carolina Coronavirus Map and Case Count [LINK] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/north-carolina-coronavirus-cases.html

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

Research Papers, Clinical Trials and News About Such

COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios [LINK]

Your Mask Cuts Own Risk by 65 Percent [LINK]

Pathophysiology, Transmission, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) A Review [LINK]

Addition of Tocilizumab to the standard of care reduces mortality in severe COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis [LINK]

COVID-19 in the USA

Family gathering infects 41 people with the coronavirus, NC health official says [LINK]

Risk of never fully recovering after coronavirus ‘very real,’ scientists say [LINK]

‘The US state of Arizona, is currently registering as many new cases of coronavirus as the entire European Union, which has a population 60 times greater.’ [LINK]

New York reaches lowest coronavirus numbers since March [LINK]

President Trump wears mask in public for the first time during visit to Walter Reed Medical Center [LINK]

Fauci is sidelined by the White House as he steps up blunt talk on pandemic [LINK]

CDC documents warned full reopening of schools, colleges would be ‘highest risk’ for spreading coronavirus [LINK] 

Virus spread, not politics should guide schools, doctors say [LINK]

U.S. sending 580 military medical personnel to Texas to assist with taking care of COVID-19 patients at civilian hospitals – ABC [LINK]

Florida woman took dishwashing job so she could visit husband with Alzheimer’s during pandemic [LINK]

‘Blood on his hands’: In scathing obituary, woman blames governor for her father’s covid-19 death [LINK]

Asymptomatic and presymptomatic people transmit most COVID-19 infections: Study [LINK]

‘We are no longer in a Plateau’: Upward trend in COVID-19 cases continues in Kentucky [LINK]

Some Americans refuse to mask up. Rules, fines and free masks will change that, experts say. [LINK]

Utah group organizes ‘flash mobs’ at grocery stores to oppose face masks [LINK] 

Twitter data ranks Florida 3rd for anti-mask activity on social platform [LINK]

Anti-maskers are taking advantage of loose language by wearing useless mesh masks. [LINK]

Yolo County businesses face $10,000 fines for ignoring coronavirus safety rules [LINK]

Filling middle seats nearly doubles airline passenger risk of catching COVID-19, says MIT researcher [LINK]

Public bus driver who felt Miami-Dade didn’t care about transit workers dies of COVID-19 [LINK]

Not wearing a mask? Ohio starts hotline to report people who refuse [LINK]

Military’s COVID-19 cases growing at twice the nationwide rate [LINK]

New coronavirus cluster emerges at Charlotte daycare, 11 children test positive [LINK]

100-Percent of Riverside County (CA) ICU Beds In Use as Officials Work to Convert Regular Beds For Patient Care [LINK]

Top HHS official says ‘simple’ behavior changes would curb pandemic [LINK] 

Louisiana mandates mask wearing as it reports over 2,100 new COVID-19 cases [LINK]

COVID-19 Around the World

Japan furious after dozens of US Marines stationed in country diagnosed with coronavirus in massive outbreak [LINK]

Europe suppressed the coronavirus. The U.S. has not. [LINK] 

The faster a country required masks, the fewer coronavirus deaths it had: study – [LINK]

Britain is the worst-hit country outside of the US and Brazil. It STILL won’t wear masks [LINK]

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