From CNN;

Coronavirus cases in the US are on the decline, but experts say the new reality may be "rolling hot spots," where parts of the country are affected by outbreaks while others trend down. Schools are turning into hot spots as well: The University of Alabama reported more than 500 Covid-19 cases less than a week after classes started. At Ohio State, more than 220 students were suspended for violating pandemic precautions before the school year even began. Here's another worrying statistic: More than 70,000 new Covid-19 cases in children have been reported across the US since early August, marking a 21% increase in just two weeks. On the international front, India has reported more than 1.5 million new cases in August alone, and Jamaican Olympic great Usain Bolt is the latest big name to have contracted the virus.


20,000

That's how many Covid-19 cases researchers say may be connected to a single "superspreading event." A biotech conference attended by 200 people in late February is now well known as a source of coronavirus spread very early in the pandemic. The spread began with about 90 cases among conference attendees and their direct contacts.

Looking at possible long term immunity:

https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/lasting-immunity-against-covid-19-uarizona-professors-helps-in-research

Reinfections and limited immunity are shown;

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=covid-19+reinfectations&atb=v234-7&ia=web

It just gets worse and worse. 

My daughter lives in Texas and she has three sons. Youngest got sick Fri. Daughter works at the school and she was told to go home with son until it could be proved he is CV-19 Neg. She took him to the Doc and was told NO CV1-19 tests available in this town (pop 17,000). She had to  drive to next town 45 minutes away. She had to pay for Fast test: $210!! Test costs $5.00

What a freaking mess. Of course Texas is a Trump state so of course it is in a mess. Thank fully son is Neg.

Positive cases are growing here fast.  Our Governor won't require anything.  3 big weddings in this little town last weekend....one with 800 invited guests!   Oh, that sounds safe!

School opened on the 24th.  Entire 3rd grade at one school quarantined as well as 7 teachers.  I bet finding subs is even harder than it usually is. 

 

Jane...
... re, your post of " 800 invited guests "....so much for the well-known idiom of..." there is safety in numbers.."
...as my late father often would have said..." they need their brains testing..."

Isn't that the truth, V-J!  I can't imagine having 800 people invited...I don't think I know that many people!    

There is an old curse said to be a translation from a traditional Chinese language that states, "May you live in interesting times." Somebody wasn't happy with us!  🤒   

I see the first death from the Sturgis Rally has been reported.  Neighbors two doors down were there, of course, as they do every year....and she has a new grandbaby.


First coronavirus death traced to Sturgis Motorcyle Rally that drew 400,000 people
The case involving a man in his 60s is among at least 260 coronavirus infections in 11 states that have been documented from the event in South Dakota, according to a survey of health departments by The Washington Post.

Many participants at the rally, which ran from Aug. 7 through Aug. 16, declined to wear masks or maintain social distancing in bars, restaurants and tattoo parlors, which health officials cited as among the likely transmission points.

People aren't going to listen, Jane, and they get weird about it. It's already been noted that there are several hundred virus cases in churches, schools, and colleges. In Anchorage, a city in Alaska, cases are steadily rising yet they keep attempting to reopen bars, restaurants, gyms, etc. and when they don't, people have fits about "liberties"and respond violently again.

It took three months to go from one million cases to five million and less than a month to go from five million to six million cases of COVID-19.


From CNN,

The US will not participate in a global effort led by the World Health Organization to develop and distribute a coronavirus vaccine. Even though the US leads the world in coronavirus cases, with more than 6 million overall, the Trump administration has been critical of the WHO and said it will not be constrained by the "corrupt" organization. More than 170 other countries are involved.

Now, what will we do when a vaccine is actually approved? An independent committee has recommended a four-phase allocation plan for the US, starting with first responders and high-risk workers in health care facilities, then high-risk adults. Meanwhile, scientists are learning more about the effects of the virus, and it isn't good: New research suggests coronavirus symptoms can last for months in some patients.

Ready for a CV-19 vaccine on 1 Nov?

http://my.earthlink.net/channel/news/article/top?guid=20200902/c5ac01c9-c0b2-4502-8dc5-ec585379705d

Social distancing:

 https://apple.news/Aj6l2nLLYQ9yUr7t0-oWQqg

Number 7....i would always keep one cow apart, whether C-Virus distancing or not..

My husband likes the idea of carrying a hockey stick,  just so it has the San Jose Sharks logo on it!   I'd like the idea of mannequins seated at a table next to me. They would be very quiet and mannerly.     

I just just looking at Gutenberg's new self-publishing site and found this for those interested in the actual laws in place governing quarantine both at the state and federal level.  http://self.gutenberg.org/eBooks/WPLBN0100302317-Federal-and-State-Quarantine-Law-by-Jack-D-C-.aspx? It is in .pdf form. The self-publishing site seems to have a number of what look like papers and dissertations along with policy papers and such, not just self-published books.  There are links to the individual state laws at the back. I had to open the book in pdf to get the links to work. Double-click on the pdf icon rather that read the online text to get to it. BTW, the table of contents is not linked to individual chapters, so you will find the state links beginning on page 136. If you just want to read on-line, mouse-over the cover.

Giving out our today's BBC news....warning ( UK )" start taking C - Virus seriously or face a bumpy ride ahead " this is our warning from England's deputy chief medical officer, after UK'S daily total of C - V cases reached nearly 3,000 for 2 consecutive days, our highest jump since May...It had previously jumped by 1,000 from 1 day to the next last weekend...Told we must follow hygiene and social distancing...many are flouting these of course, guess they think it will never happen to them, they feel they are immune to this...Well this is one virus that does not discriminate..

So, true, V-J.  Our numbers here continue to rise, too.  And fall is now upon us...54 F today for our high. 

 
jane

Jane...
... hard to remember this time last year..oh how oblivious we all were to what was soon to hit us...As Barbra Streisand sang..." what a difference a day makes.."

UK's restrictions keep changing, gets too complicated..another set of new measures are taking place here in UK as from next Monday, ( fines will be in force, ) to reduce social contact - social distancing, no more than a group of six people will be coming into force, as our " new cases " are rising...This feels like a " here we go again...that "one step forwards, two steps back.."

"Anyone with a brain could tell that putting on the gigantic Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this year would be a bad idea. Now we have a scientific study to affirm this was a worst-case scenario, an event that appears to be accountable for 250,000 cases of COVID-19 at a public cost of $12 billion."

"The paper concludes that its cost estimate is based on nobody even dying from their positive cases. We know that's overly optimistic, as the first Sturgis-linked death was already reported last week. Even assuming no deaths, though, our country could have saved money by paying everyone arriving at Sturgis $26,000 to turn right back around:"

"If we conservatively assume that all of these cases were non-fatal, then these cases represent a cost of over $12.2 billion, based on the statistical cost of a COVID-19 case of $46,000 estimated by Kniesner and Sullivan (2020). This is enough to have paid each of the estimated 462,182 rally attendees $26,553.64 not to attend."

https://tinyurl.com/y2qzdcgp

Needed supplies still short for mask making:

http://politics.earthlink.net/channel/politics/article?guid=20200910/206daaf4-0bca-4b4a-b31f-d024921cead8

Just this minute listening to our BBC 6.pm news and the first thing they mentions is..." our ( UK )
C Virus is on the rise.." our new cases are going up..
Cases are doubling every seven days, so a spokeswoman says...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/emails-detail-effort-to-silence-cdc-and-question-its-science/ar-BB19bCM0?ocid=NL_ENUS_A1_20200920_3_2&bep_ref=1&bep_csid=22410

Emails detail efforts to silence CDC and question its science.

WHO warns of 'serious' COVID-19 surge in Europe as global cases pass 30 million

https://tinyurl.com/y2shj4dl

And for the US,
Cases
6,782,083
Deaths
199,411
Last updated: September 20, 2020 at 1:45 p.m. ET
Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering

UK BBC news headline..." the strongest warning yet, we are heading for another form of lockdown, and that a second wave " could " see 50 thousand cases a day, unless we act urgently."
Note the word " could, " yet a frightening reality all the same..

That's beyond frightening!

Scientists say the US will see an estimated 200,000 cases by January, but because of politics, that number will be far higher other scientists have said privately. Across the world, as it stands now, expect to see 30 to 40 million new cases by the end of the year, and that's a conservative estimate.

America has topped 200,000 cases and its not even January!

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus quietly surpassed 200,000 on Tuesday, less than eight months after the first American fatality.

The U.S. reached 100,000 deaths in May. Now, some experts estimate the death toll could almost double by year's end.

Fatigue for social distancing and the push to get back into offices and schools could fuel new cases – and deaths – in the coming weeks and months. Experts at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington predict 378,321 deaths by January.

https://tinyurl.com/y6myjzv7

Reopening Colleges Likely Fueled Covid-19 Significantly, Study Finds
Research suggests in-person classes led to thousands of additional cases each day in the U.S.

https://tinyurl.com/y3yqpz4r

"Colleges and universities that reopened for face-to-face instruction might have caused tens of thousands of additional cases of Covid-19 in recent weeks, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Indiana University, the University of Washington and Davidson College.

The researchers estimated that an extra 3,200 cases a day occurred in the U.S. that likely wouldn't have happened had schools kept classes online.

The team behind the report, slated to be posted online Tuesday on the preprint server medRxiv, included professors of epidemiology, health economics and higher education. The manuscript has yet to be peer-reviewed.

Sen Pei, an infectious-disease modeler and associate research scientist at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, called the study "well-designed." Dr. Pei wasn't involved in the research."