June 12, 2020/
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Hard LockDown…
Summary:
- Houston weighs reimposing stay at home order
- Oregon reports new record jump in cases
- NJ reports latest daily figures
- WHO issues another warning on Africa as cases top 200k
- Phoenix Mayor says city is not recovering from the coronavirus
- Larry Kudlow plays down second wave
- NY to allow some regions to reopen indoor dining Friday
- Italy reports latest batch of encouraging numbers
- NY reports just 36 deaths, down from 53
- Florida reports another jump in new cases as Miami bans chokeholds
- Moderna releases latest vaccine update
- Regeneron starts human testing of antiviral cocktail
- Scott Gottlieb explains the problem with Texas’ response
- Epidemiologists warn about threat of ‘second wave’
- Mumbai hospitals overwhelmed
- Russia cases top 500k
- Latin America death toll tops 80k
- US projects nearly 200k COVID deaths by October
- LA County still seeing ~1,300 new cases a day as reopening continues
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Update (1645ET): As Houston vies for LA and Phoenix to succeed NYC as America’s biggest COVID-19 hot spot, the Houston Chronicle reports that health officials may reopen a COVID-19 hospital at a football stadium while officials weigh whether to reimpose a stay at home order. Such a move would undoubtedly rattle stocks, even after Thursday’s massive dive. One local official described the situation as placing the city “on the precipice of disaster.”
The move to reopen a designated COVID-19 hospital comes as hospitalizations due to the virus have reached their highest levels since the outbreak began.
Crazy statement by Arizona health department: “we are not going to be able to stop this spread, so we can’t stop living as well”
➡️ Arizona DHS is basically saying – ‘Screw it, it is impossible, so let’s just bring on the epidemic – come what may’? pic.twitter.com/VAbaDDmbVH
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 12, 2020
Meanwhile, the number of newly reported infections has also climbed to new highs.
Meanwhile, Oregon just reported a new one day record jump in new cases – 178 to be exact – with 43 of them in Multnomah County, where Portland is located. Both the state- and county-wide figures appear to be one-day records. The figures were released right before Ore. Gov Kate Brown was expected to announce that Multnomah County and Portland could enter the first phase of reopening, joining the rest of the state. Oregon is one of the nearly 2 dozens states where cases have been rising.
Source: BBG
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Update (1315ET): New Jersey just released another batch of largely encouraging daily numbers as Gov Phil Murphy claimed his state had the slowest transmission rate in the country.Governor Phil Murphy✔@GovMurphy
NEW: We’ve received 539 new positive #COVID19 test results, bringing our statewide total to 165,816.
The spot positivity rate for tests from June 7th was 3.8%.
60Twitter Ads info and privacy37 people are talking about thisGovernor Phil Murphy✔@GovMurphy
We continue to work hard to push down the curve of newly identified #COVID19 cases at our long-term care facilities, and to stem the loss of residents to COVID-19 related causes.
46Twitter Ads info and privacy24 people are talking about thisGovernor Phil Murphy✔@GovMurphy
LOOK: Our hospitals currently have 1,512 patients being treated for #COVID19.
Our Field Medical Stations reported 9 patients.
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NJ also declared 70 new deaths.Governor Phil Murphy✔@GovMurphy
Sadly, we’ve lost another 70 members of our New Jersey family to #COVID19.
We’ve now lost 12,433 New Jerseyans in the 100 days since our first positive test result. For them, and for everyone we have lost, our flags remain at half-staff.
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With NY, NJ has been one of the worst-hit states in the country.
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Update (1255ET): The Mayor of Phoenix just acknowledged during a roundtable discussion with other mayors hosted by a Washington think tank that her city “opened much too early” and is now facing a serious crisis, per CNN.
During a panel discussion with other mayors across the country hosted by the Center for American Progress, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said that the city and state of Arizona is not recovering from Covid-19.
“We have had so many of the records you don’t want to be hitting for Covid-19 from my perspective. We opened too much too early and so our hospitals are really struggling,” Gallego said.
She also said that the increase of positive cases is primarily due to the lifting of the stay-at-home order as well as challenges in long-term care facilities. Arizona lifted the stay-at-home order on May 15.
The city’s hospitals in particular are “really struggling,” per CNN.
Meanwhile, during his latest interview with Fox on Thursday, Larry Kudlow said Thursday had been a “rough day” for markets, but that talk of a second wave of the virus had been seriously overblown.
“Go talk to Deborah Birx about that, she doesn’t seem to think so,” Kudlow said of a second wave, before acknowledging that he “isn’t a medical expert.” Steve Mnuchin said earlier that a second shutdown wouldn’t be necessary even if new cases surge.
New York Gov Cuomo announced on Thursday that five regions in central and western NY would resume indoor dining Friday as ‘Phase 3’ of the state’s reopening begins.
The WHO also issued another warning about the spread of the coronavirus in Africa, with total cases reaching 200,000 less than three weeks after reaching 100,000, though the continent still accounts for less than 5% of global cases.
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Update (1200ET): Italy reported another encouraging set of numbers with just 379 new cases and 53 new deaths, bringing the total to 236,142 and total deaths to 34,167. The number of patients in intensive care across Italy has also fallen below 250, according to the latest numbers reported by the Italian press and Civil Protection Service.
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Update (1140ET): As new cases and deaths creep higher in most other regions of the US, New York State just confirmed 36 deaths were reported over the last day (down from 53 the day prior), the lowest number of deaths reported in nearly 3 months. Gov Cuomo claimed that New York isn’t among the 21 states where new cases are increasing because “New Yorkers have been smart.”
Watch the rest of Cuomo’s briefing below:Andrew Cuomo✔@NYGovCuomo
Giving my daily press briefing now. Watch Live: https://www.pscp.tv/w/cbD0lDIyNjcxMDN8MXlvSk1YdlJRemRHUTKn-tkwVPkrmV6AxX5xddMtors6frZblfTq48agyTlI …Andrew Cuomo @NYGovCuomoGiving my daily press briefing now. Watch Live:pscp.tv716Twitter Ads info and privacy368 people are talking about this
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Update (1100ET): Police in Miami have become the latest to bar the use of the controversial chokehold (a move that led to the death of Eric Garner) while the number of new COVID-19 cases reported in the state has continued to climb on Thursday. New cases climbed by 2.5% day over day (compared with a 7-day average of 2%) bringing Florida’s total to just shy of 70k.Beth Williams Liou✔@BWilliLiou
Florida:
*Cases up 2.5% from Wed, higher than the 2% average increase in the previous 7 days.
*Deaths reached 2,848, an increase of 1.7%.
*Hospitalizations jumped by 226, the biggest single-day increase since May 21.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-10/second-wave-in-u-s-who-warns-on-latin-america-virus-update …Second Wave in U.S.; WHO Warns on Latin America: Virus UpdateA jump in virus cases and hospitalizations in some U.S. states has sparked concern of a second wave, as America’s total infections neared 2 million. The World Health Organization warned that a…bloomberg.com1Twitter Ads info and privacySee Beth Williams Liou’s other Tweets
Here’s more from local TV news station WINK:
As of Thursday at 11 a.m., there have been 69,069 positive cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Florida. The case count includes 67,456 Florida residents and 1,613 non-Florida residents. There are 2,848 deaths reported and 11,571 hospitalizations, according to the Florida Department of Health.
There have been 1,307,728 tests administered in Florida. A total of 69,069 tests have come back positive, and 1,237,679 tests have come back negative. The remainder are still pending, according to the FDOH website.
Numbers are released by the DOH daily at approximately 11 a.m.
STATEWIDE NUMBERS
Total number of cases: 69,069 (up from 67,371) Deaths: 2,848 (up from 2,801)
1,698 total new cases reported Thursday
47 total new deaths reported Thursday
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA NUMBERS
Total in SWFL: 6,307 (up from 6,140) Deaths: 289 (up from 283)
167 total new cases reported Thursday
6 total new deaths reported Thursday
Lee County: 2,500 (up from 2,422) – 128 deaths (2 new deaths)
Collier County: 2,291 (up from 2,230) – 59 deaths (2 new deaths)
Charlotte County: 515 (up from 505) – 72 deaths
DeSoto County: 304 (up from 299) – 10 deaths (2 new deaths)
Glades County: 107 (up from 104) – 1 death
Hendry County: 590 (up from 580) – 19 deaths
