Coronavirus 411 - 081820

This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots… Just the facts… for Tuesday August 18th, 2020.

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York City’s museums and other cultural institutions will be allowed to reopen Aug. 24.

In Iowa, thousands of recent cases may have been falsely reported as happening in March, April, May and June according to a nurse practitioner in Iowa City who analyzed discrepancies in the state’s figures.

UNC Chapel Hill is switching to remote learning for all undergrad classes starting tomorrow after a number of cases emerged.

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine tells Reuters that in patients with mild COVID-19, immune responses last months, maybe even longer. Three months after recovery, patients still had antibodies, B cells, and T cells. They say this supports CDC advice patients don’t need to be retested within three months after infection.

Facebook says it took down 7M posts with covid-19 misinformation from Facebook and Instagram between April and June. They also put warnings on 98M posts, saying they were misleading but not harmful enough to remove.

Bus drivers in Sydney are talking about striking unless masks are required for passengers on crowded buses and social distancing on public transport is strictly enforced.

A week after that blast that devastated Beirut, they’ve reported a record number of new cases — 300 — as well as seven related deaths.

The locations of hotspots and U.S and Country diagnoses in a moment.

Hotspots displaying faster rates of growth as of August 18th, according to The New York Times: Top 10 U.S. counties: Lafayette, Suwannee, and Union Counties Florida. Chicot, Lincoln and Lee Counties, Arkansas. Phillips, Montana. Scott, Kansas. And Stephens and Bee Counties, Texas. Globally, the current hotspots are: Aruba, Sint Maarten, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahrain, Panama, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Maldives, and Faroe Islands.

There’ve been 5,437,969 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States and 170,491 deaths. There were 42,048 new cases reported yesterday. The 10 states with highest case counts: California with 629,415. Florida 576,094. Texas 561,110. New York 425,916. Georgia 238,861. Illinois 209,185. Arizona 194,005. New Jersey 187,767. North Carolina 145,516. And Louisiana with 138,485 confirmed cases.

The 5 Countries with the largest daily increases for August 18th: India 54,288. United States 40,612. Brazil 23,038. Colombia 8,328. Russia 4,892.

The 10 Countries with highest overall case counts:

The United States 5,437,969

Brazil 3,359,570

India 2,647,663

Russia 925,558

South Africa 589,886

Peru 535,946

Mexico 525,733

Colombia 468,332

Chile 387,502

And Spain with 359,082

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