From Worldometer, COVID-19 new deaths:
DAY USA WORLD Brazil India South Africa
28 1223 4612 1067 177 25
29 1212 4873 1180 269 34
30 1015 4084 890 205 32
June 1 638 3189 480 223 40
2 730 3053 732 200 22
3 1134 4669 1232 221 50
4 1083 4928 1269 259 37
5 1031 5511 1492 275 56
6 975 4906 1008 286 60
7 706 4253 910 297 44
8 586 3157 813 266 82
9 1093 4732 1185 246 82
10 982 5163 1300 388 48
11 904 4951 1261 394 74
12 791 4603 843 389 70
13 702 4229 890 309 69
14 331 3263 598 321 57
15 425 3415 729 395 88
16 849 6592 1338 2006? 57
17 809 5264 1209 341 49
18 747 5123 1204 342 63
Summary:
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29 1212 4873 1180 269 34
30 1015 4084 890 205 32
June 1 638 3189 480 223 40
2 730 3053 732 200 22
3 1134 4669 1232 221 50
4 1083 4928 1269 259 37
5 1031 5511 1492 275 56
6 975 4906 1008 286 60
7 706 4253 910 297 44
8 586 3157 813 266 82
9 1093 4732 1185 246 82
10 982 5163 1300 388 48
11 904 4951 1261 394 74
12 791 4603 843 389 70
13 702 4229 890 309 69
14 331 3263 598 321 57
15 425 3415 729 395 88
16 849 6592 1338 2006? 57
17 809 5264 1209 341 49
18 747 5123 1204 342 63
Summary:
- Not shown above, but yesterday, the World had its highest new cases figure ever! Our World in Data showed 176,426 cases. Of course, more tests are being taken worldwide, and that's part of the reason, but the past three days of new deaths are also as high as the peak in early May. New deaths were higher in mid-April.
- The latest news about how long an infected person has immunity is discouraging:
- if you were asymptomatic, this immunity is almost negligible
- if you experienced symptoms, the immunity might only be a few months
- these antibodies seem to disappear relatively quickly relative to other coronavirus ailments like SARS and MERS
- the key to immunity might rest with your T and B immune cells: it's possible that even though the concentration of antibodies drops close to nothing, if the body is invaded with COVID-19 viruses, these cells will remember and react to produce new antibodies
- The latest figure for asymptomatic cases is 45%. Almost half showed no symptoms. However a scan of cruise ship passengers indicated that 54% of the those 76 asymptomatic showed lung damage.
Yesterday, Dame Vera Lynn passed away in England at the age of 103. In 1939 she was ranked as the favorite musical artist by British servicemen. She toured Europe, Egypt, India and Burma during World War II and had the most popular radio show called Sincerely Yours, which was beamed by BBC throughout the world. This was a half-hour show on Sunday night following the news. She joked that Winston Churchill was her opening act.
Born Vera Margaret Welch in a London borough in 1917, she was the daughter of a plumber and dressmaker. She almost died at the age of two from diphtheria. She began performing at the age of 7 and adopted her grandmother Margaret Lynn's maiden name. In 1937 one of her hits was Red Sails in the Sunset. Her most popular was We'll Meet Again, recorded in 1939. Then came her radio show in 1941. After the fall of Singapore in 1942 she was taken off the air for 18 months because her program was too sentimental, and martial classical music was substituted. Her other great wartime hit was The White Cliffs of Dover.
In 1943 she was in two films, We'll Meet Again and Rhythm Serenade. In 1952 her Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart became the first record by a British performer to top the Billboard charts in the USA. Auf Wiederseh'n, of course, means goodbye in German. She was knighted in 1975 and passed away as Dame Vera Lynn, the lady who helped Great Britain survive her darkest days.
Getting close to today, I'm now into the year 2018:
- China announces first two cloned monkeys, Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua.
- Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. North and South Korea marched as one.
- China approved a constitutional change making Xi Jinping President for Life. Hmmm...wonder what Donald Trump is thinking about this.
- Vladimir Putin elected for fourth term.
- Last northern white rhinoceros dies in Kenya, making this subspecies functionally extinct.
- 900 cities worldwide participate in demonstrations against gun violence.
- Kim Jong-un walked into South Korea to meet with Moon Jae-in, becoming the first North Korean leader to cross the Demilitarized Zone since its creation in 1953.
- Lower Puna eruption on the Big Island of Hawaii.
- Trump announces withdrawal of the U.S. from the Iranian nuclear agreement.
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wed to global audience of 1.9 billion.
- At G7 meeting in Canada, President Trump pushes for the reinstatement of Russia.
- Trump meets Kim in Singapore.
- FIFA announces that the 2026 World Cup will be jointly hosted by Mexico, Canada and the USA.
- U.S. withdraws from the United Nations Human Rights Council. See a pattern here?
- Canada becomes the first major industrialized country to legalize marijuana.
- Saudi Arabia allows women to drive.
- Japan hangs seven Aum Shinrikyo members for 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.
- 12 boys and soccer coach successfuly rescued from flooded cave in Thailand after a 17-day ordeal.
- Facebook value drops by $109 billion, greatest single day loss in corporate history.
- Ebola outbreak in the Congo.
- Apple becomes first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion.
- Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered in Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
- Brett Kavanaugh confirmed as next Supreme Court justice.
- China opens longest bridge (34 miles) connecting Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau.
- California wildfire causes 88 deaths, destroying 18,804 buildings.
- Chinese scientist He Jiankui announces cloning human twins. Reportedly, Lulu and Nana are immune from HIV/AIDS and should have enhanced brains. Had U.S. training at Rice and Stanford. I believe he is in prison today.
- Half of world population now use the internet.
- U.S. government on longest shutdown in history on a dispute regarding Trump's Mexican wall.
#1 hits of 2018 in two minutes. Oh, let me end with:
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