Depending upon what website you use, we may have just passed 90k new cases in a single day. Passing the old high by 9k cases. Which was set the day before.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Scathing article on the approval of Remdesivir by the FDA and EU: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020...-covid-19-drug
"The EU and U.S. decisions pave the way for Gilead’s drug into two major markets, both with soaring COVID-19 cases.
But both decisions baffled scientists who have closely watched the clinical trials of remdesivir unfold over the past 6 months—and who have many questions about remdesivir’s worth. At best, one large, well-designed study found remdesivir modestly reduced the time to recover from COVID-19 in hospitalized patients with severe illness. A few smaller studies found no impact of treatment on the disease whatsoever. Then, on 15 October—in this month’s decidedly unfavorable news for Gilead—the fourth and largest controlled study delivered what some believed was a coup de grâce: The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Solidarity trial showed that remdesivir does not reduce mortality or the time COVID-19 patients take to recover."
Just checked international stats again. France is doing poorly; the outlier is Belgium -- which is several times worse than either the US or France.
Adjusted for population:
USA 331.6 million
France 65.3 million
Belgium 11.6 million
France has a seven-day average of new cases of 40,500. Adjusting for differences in population (US = 5x), that equates to 206,000 cases in the US, which is itself averaging 77,100. Seven-day average for deaths is 248, equivalent to 1,260 in the US, which is averaging 825.
Belgium has a new-case average of 16,400. But Belgium only has 11.6 million people. Adjusting that number yields a US equivalent of 469,000 -- six times the US average. On average deaths, Belgium is experiencing 90 per day, equivalent to 2,573 in the US -- three times our average.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
Worldometers says the US had 101,461 new cases yesterday.
Too much winning.
In an apparent display of solidarity, North and South Dakota have reported an equal amount of cases today at 1,433. Winning in new ways now...
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Boris and the Brits lock it down for a month:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54763956
No ales at the Coal Hole for you, mates...
My wife met her first hard core virus denier this past Friday. A funeral home director of all people. I guess it makes sense. The counties that funeral home serve have had a total of 36 deaths.