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When the globe hits 300K deaths, I'm closing this COVID-19 Dashboard tab
It's the one from Johns Hopkins University, for anyone who wants a good site to check in with. There's also good detailed graphs -- scroll down for links to all the options -- on this page by Worldometers.org. Other options: Links to a variety of COVID-19 maps & visuals.
Happy/reassuring/uplifting links:
Lockdown Omens, written by GNeil and performed by Sheen and Tennant -- in which Crowley isn't setting a bad example and Aziraphale is catching up on his reading.
April 22: What masks don't help with, what they're very good at, and why it makes a difference if you wear them: a lengthy and detailed breakdown.
May 4: "Staff working in a care home in France have kept their residents safe by locking down with them for 47 days and nights to wait out the coronavirus storm." And it worked -- not one of them died.
All the other virus links:
April 10: "A doctor who has been testing the homeless in downtown Miami for COVID-19, the deadly infection associated with the coronavirus, said he was handcuffed by police outside his Miami home Friday morning — for no reason that he can discern — while he was placing old boxes on the curbside for pickup."
April 24: Virus sweeps through Bible Belt evangelicals who won't stay home. "Bishop Gerald Glenn, founder and leader since 1995 of the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Chesterfield, Virginia, was the first black chaplain of the town's police. He had vowed to continue preaching 'unless I'm in jail or the hospital' before his death from coronavirus earlier this month."
April 28: "These numbers are preliminary because death certificates take time to be processed and collected, [...] In Connecticut, for example, where reported coronavirus deaths are high, the C.D.C. statistics include zero reported deaths from any cause since Feb. 1, because of reporting lags." And even with that -- the death counts are way up in places that are (a) hard-hit and (b) have numbers starting to come in. Like 120% of normal in MA, and 325% of normal in NYC.
May 7: "It’s not that the bathroom poses a more serious coronavirus risk than anything else you’re doing. (Workplace consultants believe the bottleneck on the return to downtown offices will be elevators.) But it does serve as a reminder that what we’re really talking about, when we talk about density as a factor in disease transmission, is particular spaces that a number of people have to share."
May 8: "I ended up in an isolation room in the antechamber of the intensive care department. You’re tired, so you’re resigned to your fate. You completely surrender to the nursing staff. You live in a routine from syringe to infusion and you hope you make it. I am usually quite proactive in the way I operate, but here I was 100% patient." A virologist's infection story.
May 9 (NYT): "Dr. Bright was largely sidelined by personal disputes with Dr. Kadlec and his aides, some of which long predated the coronavirus, the documents suggest. By the time the pandemic arrived in force, the relationship between them had become toxic, with Dr. Bright increasingly left out of key decisions. His ideas about battling the threat 'were met with skepticism,' the complaint says, 'and were clearly not welcome.'" Hey look, it's the scientist from the first act of Every Disaster Movie Ever.
May 10: "People disregarded a rule to order an hour before pickup and demanded their ice cream anyway, he wrote on [the Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour's' Facebook page. Customers took out their anger at delays on overwhelmed employees, including a teenage girl who quit, he said."
Happy/reassuring/uplifting links:
Lockdown Omens, written by GNeil and performed by Sheen and Tennant -- in which Crowley isn't setting a bad example and Aziraphale is catching up on his reading.
April 22: What masks don't help with, what they're very good at, and why it makes a difference if you wear them: a lengthy and detailed breakdown.
May 4: "Staff working in a care home in France have kept their residents safe by locking down with them for 47 days and nights to wait out the coronavirus storm." And it worked -- not one of them died.
All the other virus links:
April 10: "A doctor who has been testing the homeless in downtown Miami for COVID-19, the deadly infection associated with the coronavirus, said he was handcuffed by police outside his Miami home Friday morning — for no reason that he can discern — while he was placing old boxes on the curbside for pickup."
April 24: Virus sweeps through Bible Belt evangelicals who won't stay home. "Bishop Gerald Glenn, founder and leader since 1995 of the New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Chesterfield, Virginia, was the first black chaplain of the town's police. He had vowed to continue preaching 'unless I'm in jail or the hospital' before his death from coronavirus earlier this month."
April 28: "These numbers are preliminary because death certificates take time to be processed and collected, [...] In Connecticut, for example, where reported coronavirus deaths are high, the C.D.C. statistics include zero reported deaths from any cause since Feb. 1, because of reporting lags." And even with that -- the death counts are way up in places that are (a) hard-hit and (b) have numbers starting to come in. Like 120% of normal in MA, and 325% of normal in NYC.
May 7: "It’s not that the bathroom poses a more serious coronavirus risk than anything else you’re doing. (Workplace consultants believe the bottleneck on the return to downtown offices will be elevators.) But it does serve as a reminder that what we’re really talking about, when we talk about density as a factor in disease transmission, is particular spaces that a number of people have to share."
May 8: "I ended up in an isolation room in the antechamber of the intensive care department. You’re tired, so you’re resigned to your fate. You completely surrender to the nursing staff. You live in a routine from syringe to infusion and you hope you make it. I am usually quite proactive in the way I operate, but here I was 100% patient." A virologist's infection story.
May 9 (NYT): "Dr. Bright was largely sidelined by personal disputes with Dr. Kadlec and his aides, some of which long predated the coronavirus, the documents suggest. By the time the pandemic arrived in force, the relationship between them had become toxic, with Dr. Bright increasingly left out of key decisions. His ideas about battling the threat 'were met with skepticism,' the complaint says, 'and were clearly not welcome.'" Hey look, it's the scientist from the first act of Every Disaster Movie Ever.
May 10: "People disregarded a rule to order an hour before pickup and demanded their ice cream anyway, he wrote on [the Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour's' Facebook page. Customers took out their anger at delays on overwhelmed employees, including a teenage girl who quit, he said."