Florida had ~11,500 cases today so far..... another record high.

Thats so close to New Yorks 11506 peak. Florida is going to look really bad late July.

Updates run for today: #Florida surpassed 200,000 positive for #COVID today (11,458 new cases). Most testing centers closed for today, so we'll see a dip sometime next week, but these numbers are very serious. https://t.co/82kNK8a3QC

— Rebekah Jones (@GeoRebekah) July 4, 2020

Supposedly they check the list for double positives, ei. people tested or noted down twice.
However they dont do the same for the negative tests (ei people who go get tested often, and then are negative twice).

A person on twitter is claiming the "real" positivity rate isnt the reported 14,1% listed, but actually 17,58% (because of this).

Also some tests can take upto 14days to get results back.
What is even the point of testing people, if you have to wait 14 days to get results?
Like if you cant give people results faster than that, dont even bother testing them.

Hell even the 5days max to get results back is too long.
Honestly people that get tested should have results within 1-2 days, so they can try to avoid spreading it to others, if they know they have it.

Florida is screwed.

Remember flordia fired Rebekah Jones, a scientist that refused to fudge numbers (and thus got fired? in florida).
She claims florida DoH removes deaths from time to time, so it appears less than it is.
That they dont count "non-residence" that die in hospitals, in florida.
If your a illegal, or from out of flordia (another state) and get deathly sick and die (in florida), you just arnt counted.

..Something I would do. I mean, what?

Another way to fudge the numbers, simply don't report.

Here in Canada it's now 3 provinces that don't report in the weekend, Alberta (which is dealing with a resurgence), BC and Saskatchewan. In Europe Spain, France and Bosnia Herzegovina joined Sweden and Denmark in not reporting for the weekend, while The Netherlands remains silent until Tuesday. So Europe numbers took a bigger dip than normal for a Saturday.

USA had 4th of the July which likely slowed down testing as well but at least most reporting continued (6 states didn't update)



In Canada immunity testing is underway while slamming the poor accuracy of immunity testing less than a week ago.

The national immunity task force has started testing thousands of blood samples for COVID-19 antibodies and should be able to produce a more detailed picture of how many Canadians have been infected with the novel coronavirus within a couple of weeks.

And won't be useful for those getting tested

Most of the people whose blood is being tested will not be informed of the results because of how the blood is being collected for testing.


It will be a biased study as well...

There are multiple prongs to the task force's plan to figure out the true infection rate here, starting with running antibody tests on 40,000 samples collected from people who donated blood to Canadian Blood Services and Hema Quebec since May. Evans said about 1,600 of those samples are being run through the test kits every day now, and analyses are already under way on the results.

Another testing program is now beginning on 25,000 blood samples taken from pregnant women, using blood routinely drawn during the first trimester to screen for sexually transmitted infections and check for immunity to other illnesses like rubella. COVID-19 antibody testing will be added to that list for all pregnant women in Canada, going back all the way to December. The women will be informed if they test positive for COVID-19 antibodies, said Evans.

Evans said there are also about 30,000 blood samples held in provincial labs that are being tested for antibodies.


Yet at least they are planning for the long haul

The task force also has a two-year mandate to try to look at what kind of protection someone has from having antibodies, as well as how long the levels of antibodies last in a person's blood. Evans said those studies are just getting underway and will take time, including looking to see whether people who have the antibodies get infected during a second or third wave of the pandemic.

I think at this point it is pretty much proven that the US has the best health system in the world. Their cases keep increasing, yet their deaths go down every week. It's almost magical.

The commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Sunday declined to defend U.S. President Donald Trump's unfounded claim that 99 per cent of coronavirus cases are "totally harmless" and repeatedly refused to say whether Trump's remark is true or false. "I'm not going to get into who is right and who is wrong," Dr. Stephen Hahn, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." During his remarks Saturday at the White House Independence Day event, Trump claimed without evidence that 99 per cent of coronavirus cases "are totally harmless."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/fda-head-refuses-to-defend-trump-claim-that-99-per-cent-of-covid-19-cases-are-harmless-1.5011568

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 35 per cent of cases are asymptomatic, but even people with mild or no symptoms can spread the virus to others. While the World Health Organization has said the global fatality rate is likely less than 1 per cent, the WHO also said about 20 per cent of all people who are diagnosed with coronavirus are sick enough to need oxygen or hospital care.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/04/politics/trump-july-fourth-remarks/index.html

"Now we have tested almost 40 million people. By so doing, we show cases — 99% of which are totally harmless — results that no other country can show because no other country has testing that we have. Not in terms of the numbers, or in terms of the quality," he said, once again also falsely claiming that rising cases are caused by increased testing.

USA is #36 when it comes to tests per million, China has tested more than 90 million people.
USA is at 7.9% positivity rate (2.9 million cases, 37 million tests)
Russia is at 3.2 % positivity rate and 1.3x more tests per million despite starting much later
Luxembourg is at 2.0% positivity rate.



Two more Americans charged with breaking quarantine rules

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/two-americans-charged-with-breaking-canada-s-quarantine-rules-1.5011388

Two Americans have been fined for breaking Canada's COVID-19 quarantine rules after being spotted multiple times in an Ontario town, police say. Police report that the visitors were told to drive straight to their Canadian destination and stay there for 14 days.

"Both individuals failed to comply with the … Quarantine Act and were observed making stops in the Town of Fort Frances," police said Saturday in a news release. As a result of the charge, the man and woman, who police say live in Excelsior, Minn., have each been fined $1,000.

Far too little imo.

Too late for Nick :(
https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/canadian-broadway-star-nick-cordero-dies-at-41-following-complications-from-covid-19-1.5011901



The Tony Award-nominated actor, singer and musician first entered hospital in L.A. at the beginning of April with what was seemingly a case of pneumonia, said Kloots. Doctors suspected it was the novel coronavirus and administered three tests for it. The first two tests came back negative and the third was positive for COVID-19.

The disease ravaged his body, according to Kloots, who kept the world updated on his situation daily with posts on her Instagram account. She said doctors described his lungs as being riddled with holes and looking as if he'd been smoking for 50 years, even though he wasn't a smoker. He had a lingering lung infection and major complications from the disease, including blood pressure problems and clotting issues that led to the amputation of his right leg. Cordero was in an intensive care unit on various machines to help support his heart, lungs and kidneys. He was in a medically-induced coma but had come out of it before his death.

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She said they struck up a relationship while they were performing on the Great White Way in "Bullets Over Broadway," which earned him the Tony nomination. Cordero grew up in Hamilton's west end and attended Ryerson University for acting. He was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his role in the musical "A Bronx Tale." His other stage credits included "Rock of Ages."



Better news:

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-hospital-s-icu-has-no-covid-19-patients-for-first-time-in-months-1.5011881

Humber River Hospital celebrated a big victory on Friday, announcing that its intensive care unit has zero COVID-19 patients for the first time since March.

"Wow!! Today is the first day since Mar 14th that our Intensive Care Unit are #COVIDー19 patient free! Thank you to the 6th-floor staff and physicians that have bonded together and provided exceptional care in this pandemic. Today is a day to celebrate at #HRH," the hospital posted on Twitter.

That's one hospital though (As of Sunday, there were 139 people in the hospital due to COVID-19. Thirty-nine of those patients are in the intensive care unit and 23 of them are breathing using ventilators.) 1839 active cases left in Ontario. It's getting better.

Thats a straigt up Lie.

Apparently its quite common to lose Smell & taste, when your developeing symptoms.
Around 10% of people that get this, NEVER get their sense of smell or taste back.

Long term damage:

Heart Damage:
One study published in March found that out of 416 hospitalized Covid-19 patients, 19% showed signs of heart damage.
Another study from Wuhan published in January found 12% of Covid-19 patients showed signs of cardiovascular damage.
Other studies have since found evidence of myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle that can cause scarring, and heart failure in Covid-19 patients.

Lung Damage:
Physicians have also found evidence of scarring in Covid-19 patients' lungs. "ground-glass opacities," which don't always heal.
One Chinese study found the patches in 77% of patients.
Research shows that about one third of survivors of similar coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS had long-term lung damage.


Its linked to increased diabetees, ei. people that have gotten covid19, afterwards have higher chances of diabetees.
Theres all kinds of organ damages, kidney, heart, liver, brain... ect.  Alot of it is permanent damage.