Worldwide stats provided by worldometers put the global COVID-19 number of reported cases today at 35,734,814. (Deaths: 1,046,528 and Recovered: 26,894,597)
I emphasize reported because there is a wide variance in testing and manner of reporting from country to country and place to place.
As of 6:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday October 6, 2020:
Health Canada reported 168,960 confirmed cases of COVID-19, to date. 17,122 cases are active, there have been 9,501 deaths and 142,334 people have recovered.
The official Province of Ontario website is reporting 54,814 total confirmed cases and 2,980 total deaths. 5,474 are active. Currently, there are 176 people are in hospital with 43 of those in ICU. 46,360 cases have been resolved. (Hospitalizations in Ontario are steadily rising and of note, the total capacity number for ICU beds is 350. ICU bed utilization is the number to watch, not the total cases.)
Quebec continues to have the highest reported cases in the country with 79,650. (7,586 are active) Quebec case numbers continue to rise at the highest rate in Canada.
The Region of Durham reported 2,250 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The site reports 0 current outbreaks (Hospitals, LTCF's and Retirement Homes) with 40 outbreaks having been "concluded." Clarington rose to 142 cases. (7 are in isolation, 127 are resolved and 7 people have passed away. Hospitalized in Clarington currently: "1")
School and Child Care Center outbreaks are currently at "2." (A public school and a day care centre.)
In international news,
(I'm sure it's safe...) China in talks with WHO over assessing its COVID-19 vaccines for global use. China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said on Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of essential workers and other groups considered at high risk in China have been given locally-developed vaccines even as clinical trials had not been fully completed, raising safety concerns among experts. Socorro Escalate, WHO’s coordinator for essential medicines and health technologies in the Western Pacific region, told a news conference conducted online that China had held preliminary discussions with WHO to have its vaccines included in a list for emergency use.
(It's because they care...) Mid-recovery, coronavirus spreading, global central bankers take stock. The world’s top central bankers have opened the taps with trillions of dollars in promised credit to prevent a global pandemic from causing a global economic depression. On Tuesday they will update their plans in presentations that could begin to signal just how much more they feel they can do in response to a once-in-a-century economic shock triggered by the spread of the coronavirus. Despite the efforts made so far, the global economy is not out of the woods given the unique risks posed by the health crisis, and top officials from the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan are likely to acknowledge as much when they speak Tuesday at a virtual meeting of the National Association for Business Economics. “We know monetary policy is pedal to the metal,” Chris Varvares, co-head of U.S. economics for IHS Markit’s Macroeconomic Advisers, said at a NABE panel on the global economy on Monday. But “the disease is the boss...We are really having trouble tamping this down to low levels that will allow the economy to fully recover.”
In national news,
Canada 'going in the wrong direction' on COVID-19, Trudeau says as cases rise through most of country. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said if Canada is heading in the wrong direction on COVID-19, it is Trudeau’s responsibility to change course. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted Monday that efforts to prepare Canada for a second wave of COVID-19 have fallen short and Canadians need to take matters into their own hands to help reduce cases. Monday brought another grim tally with nearly 1,800 new cases in Ontario and Quebec. Hospitalizations are also starting to rise in both provinces and outside of Atlantic Canada, all parts of the country are seeing rising levels of new cases. Predictions of a second wave of the virus in the fall have been made for months, and the federal government gave provinces $19 billion in June to try and get ready, increasing contact tracing and testing resources. At the time, governments at all levels said testing and contact tracing would be essential to keeping the virus in check. The Liberals also launched the COVID-19 Alert app, which was meant to make it easier to follow cases. Trudeau said it is clear these efforts did not dent a second wave the way they had hoped.
Oilers captain Connor McDavid diagnosed with COVID-19. Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid has tested positive for COVID-19. The Oilers announced Monday evening, McDavid was tested and returned positive for the coronavirus. COVID-19 has infected over 35-million people worldwide resulting in over 1-million deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. According to the Oilers, McDavid, 23, is experiencing mild symptoms but otherwise feeling well and is currently in self-quarantine at his home in Ontario. He will continue to be monitored and will follow all associated health protocols as he recovers.
In Ontario,
Toronto accounts for almost half of Ontario's 615 new COVID-19 cases. Ontario confirmed 615 more cases of COVID-19 Monday with 47% of the cases reported in the City of Toronto. Toronto had 289 new cases to report, Peel 88, Ottawa 81, York 47, Halton 26, Waterloo 15 and Durham 10. Health Minister Christine Elliott said in a tweet that 58% of Monday’s new cases were in people under the age of 40 years-old. There were five newly-reported deaths, for a pandemic total of 2,975, but they were described as a data correction from the spring and summer. The number of new cases — and the Ontario government’s reaction to a second wave of coronavirus — sparked a debate Monday between Elliott and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath in the legislature. (Some people get angry at Andrea, but let's not forget, the opposition has a sworn duty to oppose. It's one of our democratic checks and balances.)
Meanwhile, Toronto's top doctor dodges questions on inflated COVID-19 numbers. Toronto’s top doctor had little to say about inflated COVID-19 data released by Toronto Public Health. Speaking Monday at a press briefing, Dr. Eileen de Villa declined to answer direct questions about how and why unreported case data from earlier this year was included in daily new infection numbers late last week — instead describing the process that lead to the correction of months-old errors. Shortly after Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott tweeted Friday’s purportedly record-breaking 732 new COVID-19 cases on Oct. 2, she included a note describing cases “that occured in the spring or summer are being reported today.” Elliott tweeted 323 of those cases came from Toronto — and the Toronto Sunreported Friday that tally included 73 previously-unreported cases.
In local news,
On-campus Durham College student tests positive for COVID-19. There’s another case of COVID-19 at Durham College and the school says the infected student was in class at their Oshawa campus. The student went to class in the F-Wing of the Gordon Willey building on September 23. The school is working with the health department on contact tracing and they will directly contact anyone who may be at risk.
Durham opens support hub in Cannington for those at-risk. Durham region is announcing a new support hub in Cannington for people who are either homeless or at risk of homelessness. The hub is at Allan’s Place at 100 McKay Street. Allan’s Place is part of the Durham Region Non-Profit Housing Corporation. The hub will be open on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Walk-ins will be welcome. Among the services offered are employment support, counselling, housing outreach, and help navigating services.
Musing,
“All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.” (WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART)
A buddy, will laugh at you when you fall down. A friend, will be there to help you up.
Winter's coming...........................
Have you ever....drank Moose Milk?
Did you know.....the only two countries that have formally legalized marijuana are Canada and Uruguay? (Some American states have legalized it, but technically it is still illegal on a federal basis. I know, first-hand, from walking around San Francisco the usage is prevalent.)
On this day in history, The Reno brothers carry out the first train robbery in U.S. history.
On October 6, 1866, the brothers John and Simeon Reno stage the first train robbery in American history, making off with $13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson County, Indiana. Of course, trains had been robbed before the Reno brothers’ holdup. But these previous crimes had all been burglaries of stationary trains sitting in depots or freight yards. The Reno brothers’ contribution to criminal history was to stop a moving train in a sparsely populated region where they could carry out their crime without risking interference from the law or curious bystanders.
In 1683, the first Mennonites arrive in America.
Encouraged by William Penn’s offer of 5,000 acres of land in the colony of Pennsylvania and the freedom to practice their religion, the first Mennonites arrive in America aboard the Concord. They were among the first Germans to settle in the American colonies. The Mennonites, members of a Christian sect founded by Menno Simons in the 16th century, were widely persecuted in Europe. Seeking religious freedom, Mennonite Francis Daniel Pastorious led a group from Krefeld, Germany, to Pennsylvania in 1683 and founded Germantown, the pioneer German settlement in America and now part of the city of Philadelphia. Numerous other German groups followed, and by the American Revolution there were 100,000 Germans in William Penn’s former colony, more than a third of Pennsylvania’s total population at the time.
Today is - NATIONAL GERMAN-AMERICAN DAY, NATIONAL MAD HATTER DAY, NATIONAL NOODLE DAY, NATIONAL PLUS SIZE APPRECIATION DAY, NATIONAL ORANGE WINE DAY, NATIONAL FRUIT AT WORK DAY, NATIONAL COACHES DAY
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