Reports are that no outbreaks occurred in Missouri after the Ozarks partying Memorial Day weekend.
Actually - Michigan did have 284 new cases AND 4900+ cases that were added to past totals. As I understand it, those 4900+ cases are probable cases (not confirmed.) I haven’t looked up the definition of “probable case” though.
Bummer. I mean, I understand that they’re trying to paint a more accurate picture of the coronavirus status, but it moves Michigan back up in the worldometer ranks!
So far we haven’t seen outbreaks in K-6 schools, but this is not the first outbreak I’ve read about in a school with older students.
Always click the link. The Worldometers site, I believe, gets its data by scraping. Notice if you click the [3] on the Michigan line on Worldometers, where you were supposed to see the page that reports covid data, it’s a broken link. The broken link suggests there’s some issue with the data reporting.
Schools and day camps in California can open next Friday. So, summer school?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/coronavirus-latest-at-a-glance-5-june-2020
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Sweden records third consecutive day of over 1,000 new cases Sweden has reported another large rise in new cases of coronavirus on Friday, with the 1,056 positive tests reported by the public health agency marking the third day the country’s caseload had increased by more than a thousand.
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While a report of 2,214 cases on Wednesday was partly explained by a lab releasing a backlog of results, on Thursday, after another 1,084 cases were reported, the public health agency said the rise in cases could not wholly be explained by increased testing.
The agency’s chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, said the increases in new cases was seen primarily in Western Sweden and among younger people.>>>
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77 deaths were reported on Friday - not all of which will have occurred within the past 24 hours due to reporting delays from local areas. <<
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I was up in the Milwaukee suburbs today for a small backyard cocktail & appetizer party with some ex-coworkers.
I was late. I had mis-judged how busy the grocery store was in Kenosha. I stopped to get some New Glarus beer. Masks? 70%?
Wildly mis-judged traffic. There were a lot of vehicles on the highway headed north.
Completely different feel than NE Illinois.
My son’s soccer club will be open soon . The boys will start training 4 days a week from June 22, with mask on. Of course, the club sells their own logo masks and recommended each boy should have 5-10 masks lol, $10 each. Of course the parents will order the same maskS. Who wouldn’t want to have your team logo right? Idk why but I am cracking up seeing emails parents order up to 20 masks each family. W t f lol. We are a bunch of suckers.
Gave a real hug to my public health expert today. 
Phase 1 1/2 here we go!!
The kids are going to play soccer (outdoors, I presume?) with masks on? Hows that even possible or effective?
These custom masks will not be surgical (will be cloth) so you are paying $10 for an ineffective mask to be misused (how can it stay on while running around)? Insanity.
Agree on the suckers comment!
How could they breath well while wearing a mask. I have a hard time breathing while wearing a mask if I was doing a fast walk. I hope the coach and other adults will pay attention to the kids in case they should pass out due to lack of air.
The kids may touch their faces more while adjusting their masks. They probably would be better off without masks.
Or maybe they shouldn’t be playing soccer at all at this time.
Lol at kids playing soccer with masks. More COVID Theatre.
DD & I spent 6+ hours at the DMV yesterday to get her driver’s license. Only 50 people were allowed in the building at a time, but even that seemed high given the space. Parents weren’t allowed inside or in the car for the road test with the new drivers, and it was a strange sensation sending DD in alone to face bureaucracy at its worst with all the important paperwork and my car keys. She was inside for almost two hours without me. They didn’t collect any payment. I assume we’ll be billed later.
Anyway… hundreds of people in line, two parallel lines on one side of the building and a third going the other direction. Social distancing was poor, maybe 4’ instead of 6’. Employees were trying to remind people to stay 6’ apart, but there were no markings outside, and there’s only so much they can do to back up a 1/2 mile long line. No one wore masks outside (it was 87 degrees out, and masks aren’t required outside), but folks put them on before entering the building. Everyone was chatting with their neighbors in line and being social. Contact tracing would be impossible. Employees would try and create new lines to sort people by the nature of their business. Lines were shifting and moving at different paces. Almost everyone spent a considerable amount of time there. Their website said they were only open for new drivers and drivers license related issues, but, once there, we found they were taking all customers for all services. The website is what led us to believe it would be safer there than it actually was.
I wish the DMV would offer appointments, but they don’t. Our schedules are getting busier, so coming back later would have been inconvenient and I don’t think folks are going to get any more adept at social distancing over the next month than they are now.
Our state, as of yesterday, is opening up testing to everyone, symptomatic or not, front line worker or not. They’re suggesting anyone who attended a protest should get tested. I found it curious that they aren’t suggesting the same of anyone who has been to the DMV!
There is a possible summer business opportunity for teens: selling food and beverages outside of the DMV.
At least your DMV is open. Ours isn’t…except for two smaller sites where kids can go get their permits at age 16. I hate to say it…but I don’t view that as essential.
Replacing a lost driver’s license…essential.
Changing registration and getting an instate drivers license when relocating here from another state…essential.
Getting a permit? Why is that viewed as essential and these other services are not.
I’ve reached out to our state senator asking that when the DMV opens, that appointments be scheduled only for things that can’t be done online. I further suggested setting up computer kiosks so that this can be done at a DMV for those without computer access at home.
I know getting a permit is an exciting thing for 16 year olds. But really, in my opinion, there are far more essential DMV services that are not being offered here.
I would get a test immediately before a procedure, or visiting someone in frail health who is quarantine for that reason. The test is only good for that moment, and unless results are instantaneous, they really are not useful. All of those protesters…they should quarantine for 14 days if it’s important they be virus free for something, like the examples I cited. I know folks in that New Rochelle cluster who tested negative and then came down with COVID19 shortly afterwards, testing positive on the heels of the first negative test.
I want to get an antibody test, though have to research accuracy, and really, I doubt I have that antibody at this point because my exposure has been very limited.
We’ll know within the month or so what the effects of the demonstrating and opening up things, as those who get CIVID19 as a result, infect someone fragile , or enough people get adverse signs of the virus. The West Point testing that revealed about 1.5% of seemingly virus free young people were actually harboring the virus tells me that it’s still very much out there. Younger, healthy folks without certain underlying conditions are far more likely not to show adverse symptoms and therefore not get tested. But if they can spread the virus to others, and are in contact with Elderly grandma who has health issues,well, it’s going to take a while for the outcomes of that. Hopefully these people who were out crammed with others during the protests, do be very very careful for 2 weeks. Yes, quarantining would be ideal, but that’s not going to happen on the wide scale, IMO, Those who get symptoms, should , of course, get tested.
Im going out for an early dinner tonight, along the water at a just reopened establishment. Limited menu, limited seating. Outside dining. First time in months, since I’ve eaten out. I can’t even remember when and where the last place was. I’m in an area that has been very compliant of the anti COVID19 spread policies, that has had very few cases, has a very low population density, and very little demonstrating, so I feel risks are minimal.
Not good.
‘Amid reopenings and street protests, coronavirus transmission remains high in much of the U.S.’
“The coronavirus appears to be in retreat in regions that moved decisively to contain it after being hit hard, including New York and New Jersey. But the virus is persisting — and, in some places, spreading aggressively — in parts of the South, Midwest and West, including in states that were among the last to impose shutdowns and the first to lift them.
Data compiled by The Washington Post shows that 23 states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have seen an increase in the rolling seven-day average of coronavirus cases compared with the previous week. Most have registered an increase of 10 percent or more.
Now, public health officials across the nation are warily eyeing caseloads and hospitalizations to see if there is a spike in infections resulting from mass protests against racism and police violence.”
“But a briefing document prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and distributed Thursday to senior federal officials captured the scale of the challenges remaining. FEMA tracks how many days in a row a state records a decline in new daily coronavirus cases. Thirteen states — Arizona, California, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin — had not shown a sustained daily decrease as of Tuesday, according to the document, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.”
“Michael D. Sweat, director of the Center for Global Health at the Medical University of South Carolina, has been maintaining models tracking the virus’s spread and calls the localized hot spots a series of “microepidemics.” His research shows that, as the state has lifted restrictions, people have begun to move around nearly as much as they did before the coronavirus arrived.”
He said anecdotal evidence suggests that people are no longer taking the risk of infection seriously. He attributes that to misconceptions about the nature of epidemics, not knowing someone who has been sickened by the virus, and the mixed messaging from federal and state governments.
“All those things are adding up to a bit of a muddled situation,” Sweat said. “It would be much better if we had consistent guidelines, consistent recommendations and if everyone were on the same page about the dire nature of this epidemic.”
I am not going to debate how essential her driver’s license is. We wanted her to have one. We are now able to obtain one. She got one. I had no say whatsoever in the decision to reopen the DMV, although DD and I are both glad it is now open, and evidently open to all services.
Hopefully your DMV will open soon too.
I understand Virginia is offering appointments, and that seems like a better way to handle things in a safer manner. Although I had the choice to leave the line and we chose not to. Hundreds of others made the same decision. I wasn’t so much surprised at that, but it does represent a social shift from what might have happened a month ago.
About the issues facing schools districts to keep teachers and support staff safe when reopening.
Ok I read the email message again and the boys will play with no mask. But masks are required when they are indoor. They train and play outdoor, no mask and no 6 feet apart, it’s a contact sport. We will be trained on covid safety, don’t send your kid If they have cough/fever…We have to see how this goes. Typically July is off season, they only have 4 weeks in July and 4 weeks from Christmas off. But now they are training through the entire summer…until there is an outbreak I assume.
Good thing I schedule my son for covid antibody test, I hope he is positive. He was sick in Jan with fever and he is NEVER sick!