US
Leadership by example
British PM
The scientific evidence of face coverings, and the importance of stopping aerosol droplets; that’s been growing
So I do think that in shops it is very important to wear a face covering
Heat wave
White house task force, (Brett Giroir)
Deaths expected to go up
Turning around in the next 2 or 3 weeks
90% of people in hotspots need to wear masks or we will not get control of the virus
White house Fauci debate
Florida
Cases, + 15,300
Tests, + 140,000
Masks not always used
Beaches and businesses open
Whitehouse task force, wearing masks is essential
Miami, ITU capacity, 6 full already
Disney world, reduced capacity
Masks over age of 3
Texas
Cases, + 6,000
Refrigerator trucks
Gregg Abbott
May need a lockdown
Death toll will rise
Reporting inconsistencies between states
Texas is one of 24 states that publicly reports only confirmed COVID-19 deaths, not probables
(19% of deaths reported in New York City, was reported as a probable)
Rampant testing shortages
Many patients likely died without being screened
Surge of cases, health care providers in Houston overwhelmed
12 hours or more for emergency room care or ICU beds with respiratory distress
What we’re seeing now in states like Texas is comparable to what we saw in New York City (CDC)
Death data lag
Incubation
Symptomatic
Complications
Death collation
Reporting
The steep rise in cases that started about mid-June in many states will likely be seen in rising deaths very soon
It is hard to see how they won’t come
Death rates increasing by 50% in past month
Arizona
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
South Carolina
Arizona
Refrigerator trucks
Michigan
July 4th Parties
Packed parties made contact tracing impossible
Louisiana
Bars closed
Mandatory mask order
61 Marines
It is extremely regrettable that the infections are rapidly spreading among US personnel when we Okinawans are doing our utmost to contain the infections (Okinawa’s governor, Denny Tamaki)
Okinawans are shocked by what we were told
We now have strong doubts that the US military has taken adequate disease prevention measures.
Two experimental vaccines
German biotech firm BioNTech and Pfizer
Fast track designation from the U.S. drug regulator
Trial with up to 30,000 participants as soon as later this month
100 million doses by the end of this year
1.2 billion doses by 2021-end.
South America
Death toll higher than North America
Japan
I want to host them as a symbol of the world coming together to overcome this tough situation and of strengthened bonds among humankind (Koike)
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