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Morris, Max From: Morris, Max Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 11:40 PM To: Morris, Max Subject: 10/08/2020 Coronavirus Daily Update These updates are being shared to multiple organizations, individuals and lists who/which are bcc’d. Best effort we are sending Daily updates during the business week, typically in the late afternoon or early evening, a Weekend Recap on Monday mornings, and any significant breaking news events provided anytime and on weekends. Please note some numbers included in the Statistics and news stories come from various sources and so can vary as they are constantly changing and not reported at the same time. All communications are TLP GREEN and can be shared freely. Know someone who might want to be added to our Updates? Of course ask them first, and then have them send us an email to [email protected]. Live the message, share the message: Be safe – Stay home and limit travel as much as possible, self-quarantine if you or any members of your family are or may be sick, if you go out wear your mask – the right way, ensure safe social distancing, and practice good hygiene – wash your hands, avoid touching your face, and sanitize used items and surfaces. Hello and a good Thursday (late night) Everyone! See, you thought I had forgotten you. Not going to happen. Apologies for the delayed send. Hope you all had a great day and looking forward to the last day of the week tomorrow. Following is the Daily Update with Highlights, the “Good Stuff”, Expanded Stories, statistics, trends and items of interest related to the novel coronavirus pandemic. A short but simple set of inspirational words from Neil Barringham for you this evening: The grass is greener where you water it. We all know that grass doesn’t grow without help. You need to continuously pay attention to how it is doing and know when to turn that sprinkler on. To watch the weather forecast. See if it is going to rain. Be sure not to overwater. A lot to keep up with. And … a lot like our lives these days. We have to remember to keep track and be aware of how we are doing. How our loved ones and friends are doing. Remember that we all need care and nurturing. We need to watch “our” forecast – where are the outbreaks, what are the restrictions, what is the availability of toilet paper. We need to recognize when we need to get, or give, that shower of hope from or to someone. When we have had too much and just need to step back, rest, recharge and allow ourselves to breath. But, just like the grass, we have and will continue to grow, weathering the storm that may be on our horizon and holding onto to that little bit of moisture that our hopes give us. As Kermit the Frog sang on Sesame Street, It’s not easy bein’ green. But just like Kermit eventually figured out, let’s embrace our “greenness” and look for the water and sunshine that is there to help us overcome what is thrown at us and make it to the end of our journey back to normal . CVOB Website US State, US County, Global Trending Charts and Data as well as our Communications Archive can be found at https://www.sunknighty.net/. Highlights The United States and its territories now have over 2,999,000 people who have recovered, more than 7,589,000 confirmed infections and 212,000 deaths, with Texas, California, Florida, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, New York, Virginia and Iowa reporting the top 10 most new daily infections. At least 25,295,000 people have now recovered worldwide, with more than 36,353,000 infections and 1,058,000 deaths reported in more than 188 countries and regions, with India, the US, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Spain, Russia, Colombia and the Netherlands recording the top 10 highest number of new cases in the last 24 hours. There were 50,341 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the US on Wednesday, according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University, with the latest daily tally up by nearly 10,000 from the previous day but still under the country’s record set on July 16, when there were 77,255 new cases in a 24-hour-reporting period. 1 The seven-day average of new cases in the US has now surpassed 43,000, the highest it has been since August 22, and regionally, new infections are on the rise across the Northeast, the Midwest, the South and the West. An ABC News analysis of COVID-19 trends across all 50 U.S. states as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico found there were increases in newly confirmed cases over the past two weeks in 32 states, with an increase in the daily positivity rate of tests in 25 states, increases in COVID-19 hospitalizations in 35 states and increases in daily COVID- 19 death tolls in 19 states. Cases are growing by 5% or more, based on a weekly average to smooth out daily reporting, in 31 states as well as the District of Columbia as of Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University data. A Federal Emergency Management Agency memo reports that 306,965 new cases were confirmed from September 30 to October 6, a 4.8% increase from the previous week, 4,860 coronavirus-related deaths were recorded during the same period, a 4.6% decrease compared with the week prior, and 23% of hospitals have more than 80% of beds full in their intensive care units, which compares with 17 to 18% during the pandemic’s summer peak. Four states - Wisconsin, North Dakota, Wyoming and Utah - reported record numbers of new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, according to The COVID Tracking Project, with Wisconsin, North Dakota and Wyoming seeing a record number of current hospitalizations, and Montana confirming a record number of hospitalizations just a day after it saw a record for new cases. President Trump and at least 34 White House staff members and other contacts have now tested positive, and two epidemiologists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are assisting tin tracking down people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. An ensemble forecast published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now projects there will be 224,000 to 233,000 coronavirus deaths in the US by October 31, updated from the September 30 projection of up to 232,0000 by October 24. Coronavirus cases in England have increased by 56% in a week, according the latest figures from the United Kingdom government’s NHS Test and Trace, with positive figures rising steeply over the past 5 weeks with over 7 times as many positive cases identified in the most recent week compared to the end of August. Canadian public health officials are warning residents to stay home as much as possible, saying the next few weeks will be critical to the country's efforts to contain a second wave of Covid-19 that was already underway in most of the country. Germany recorded a 43% in new coronavirus infections on Thursday, the highest level since April, as a country once lauded for its measured response to the pandemic struggles to curb a rise in cases. A number of European countries, including Austria, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia, all posted record new infections on Thursday, with local authorities being pushed to take the lead in limiting late-night activity as national politicians fear that more wide-ranging measures could result in another collapse in economic activity. Coronavirus killed three times more people in England and Wales than pneumonia and influenza combined in the first eight months of this year, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics. A Covid-19 vaccine for specific groups will likely be available by the end of December, Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, predicted Wednesday, and of the 10 in late-stage clinical trials the one that has the best chance of crossing the finish line first is from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer with its partner BioNTech. US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar projects that the US will have enough vaccines for “every American” who wants one by March or April of 2021, and that the White House’s Operation Warp Speed program expects to have up to 100 million doses by the end of the year as they continue to manufacture vaccines in more than 23 manufacturing facilities. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said Thursday he’s “not comfortable” with the level of new US Covid-19 cases as the nation enters its cooler seasons, and that the country needs to get the number of infections per day down to at least 10,000 instead of the 40,000 currently being reported. Rick Bright, the ousted director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority which was involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine and who filed a whistleblower complaint this spring alleging that his early warnings about coronavirus were ignored and that his caution at hydroxychloroquine led to his removal, said today that President Trump’s message to not be afraid of coronavirus is “reckless and deadly.” Negotiations on Capitol Hill over a stimulus deal remain deadlocked despite optimism earlier in the day, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying there won’t be aid for airlines without a broader package, quashing hopes of a stand- 2 alone bill that could garner bipartisan support, however, Pelosi and the White House have apparently renewed talks on a broader package.