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Coronavirus 411 - 082120
This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots… Just the facts… for Friday August 21st, 2020.
Remember how there was a change where COVID numbers should be reported to Health and Human Services instead of the CDC? Never mind. The Department is turning responsibility for data collection back to the CDC.
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana confirmed yesterday he tested positive, and he’s a doctor. At least 15 other members of the House and Senate have tested positive or are presumed to have had COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
South Dakota health officials warned several who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally have indeed come down with COVID-19. The Health Department didn’t give the exact number of positive cases but did say it was under 25.
NYC released the results of about 1.5M antibody tests that appear to confirm lower income communities were deeply affected. Hardest-hit was Corona, Queens and Borough Park, Brooklyn. Wealthier neighborhoods fared much better, no ZIP code below 96th Street in Manhattan had positive antibody results over 20%.
India counted another record number of new infections as it ramped up testing to more than 900,000 a day. The country also reported 977 fatalities in 24 hours. India has the world's second-highest population of 1.4B people.
The World Health Organization has apparently started talking with Russia to learn more about their experimental vaccine that country approved. It has not passed advanced trials to prove it works before being licensed, which is a breach of scientific protocol.
The locations of hotspots and U.S and Country diagnoses in a moment.
Hotspots displaying faster rates of growth as of August 21st, according to The New York Times: Top 10 U.S. counties: Lafayette and Suwannee Counties Florida. Chicot, Lincoln and Lee Counties, Arkansas. Phillips, Montana. Pawnee, Kansas. Stephens, Texas. Haywood, Tennessee. And Chattahoochee, GA. Globally, the current hotspots are: Aruba, Sint Maarten, Turks and Caicos Islands, Peru, Bahrain, Maldives, Panama, Brazil, Colombia, and the Bahamas.
There’ve been 5,573,501 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States and 174,248 deaths. There were 46,436 new cases reported yesterday. The 10 states with highest case counts: California with 652,183. Florida 588,602. Texas 579,892. New York 427,803. Georgia 246,741. Illinois 215,052. Arizona 196,280. New Jersey 188,527. North Carolina 149,904. And Louisiana with 140,821 confirmed cases.
The 5 Countries with the largest daily increases for August 21st: India 68,507. United States 45,341. Brazil 44,684, Colombia 11,541. Peru 8,639.
The 10 Countries with highest overall case counts:
The United States 5,573,501
Brazil 3,501,975
India 2,836,925
Russia 939,833
South Africa 599,940
Peru 558,420
Mexico 543,806
Colombia 502,178
Chile 391,849
And Spain with 377,906
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Coronavirus 411 - 082120
This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots… Just the facts… for Friday August 21st, 2020.
Remember how there was a change where COVID numbers should be reported to Health and Human Services instead of the CDC? Never mind. The Department is turning responsibility for data collection back to the CDC.
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana confirmed yesterday he tested positive, and he’s a doctor. At least 15 other members of the House and Senate have tested positive or are presumed to have had COVID-19 since the pandemic began.
South Dakota health officials warned several who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally have indeed come down with COVID-19. The Health Department didn’t give the exact number of positive cases but did say it was under 25.
NYC released the results of about 1.5M antibody tests that appear to confirm lower income communities were deeply affected. Hardest-hit was Corona, Queens and Borough Park, Brooklyn. Wealthier neighborhoods fared much better, no ZIP code below 96th Street in Manhattan had positive antibody results over 20%.
India counted another record number of new infections as it ramped up testing to more than 900,000 a day. The country also reported 977 fatalities in 24 hours. India has the world's second-highest population of 1.4B people.
The World Health Organization has apparently started talking with Russia to learn more about their experimental vaccine that country approved. It has not passed advanced trials to prove it works before being licensed, which is a breach of scientific protocol.
The locations of hotspots and U.S and Country diagnoses in a moment.
Hotspots displaying faster rates of growth as of August 21st, according to The New York Times: Top 10 U.S. counties: Lafayette and Suwannee Counties Florida. Chicot, Lincoln and Lee Counties, Arkansas. Phillips, Montana. Pawnee, Kansas. Stephens, Texas. Haywood, Tennessee. And Chattahoochee, GA. Globally, the current hotspots are: Aruba, Sint Maarten, Turks and Caicos Islands, Peru, Bahrain, Maldives, Panama, Brazil, Colombia, and the Bahamas.
There’ve been 5,573,501 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States and 174,248 deaths. There were 46,436 new cases reported yesterday. The 10 states with highest case counts: California with 652,183. Florida 588,602. Texas 579,892. New York 427,803. Georgia 246,741. Illinois 215,052. Arizona 196,280. New Jersey 188,527. North Carolina 149,904. And Louisiana with 140,821 confirmed cases.
The 5 Countries with the largest daily increases for August 21st: India 68,507. United States 45,341. Brazil 44,684, Colombia 11,541. Peru 8,639.
The 10 Countries with highest overall case counts:
The United States 5,573,501
Brazil 3,501,975
India 2,836,925
Russia 939,833
South Africa 599,940
Peru 558,420
Mexico 543,806
Colombia 502,178
Chile 391,849
And Spain with 377,906
For the latest updates, subscribe for free to Coronavirus 411 on your podcast app or ask your smart speaker to play the Coronavirus 411 podcast.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.