Update with US concerns

US

Leadership by example

British PM

The scientific evidence of face coverings, and the importance of stopping aerosol droplets; that’s been growing

So I do think that in shops it is very important to wear a face covering

Heat wave

White house task force, (Brett Giroir)

Deaths expected to go up

Turning around in the next 2 or 3 weeks

90% of people in hotspots need to wear masks or we will not get control of the virus

White house Fauci debate

Florida

Cases, + 15,300

Tests, + 140,000

Masks not always used

Beaches and businesses open

Whitehouse task force, wearing masks is essential

Miami, ITU capacity, 6 full already

Disney world, reduced capacity

Masks over age of 3

Texas

Cases, + 6,000

Refrigerator trucks

Gregg Abbott

May need a lockdown

Death toll will rise

Reporting inconsistencies between states

Texas is one of 24 states that publicly reports only confirmed COVID-19 deaths, not probables

(19% of deaths reported in New York City, was reported as a probable)

Rampant testing shortages

Many patients likely died without being screened

Surge of cases, health care providers in Houston overwhelmed

12 hours or more for emergency room care or ICU beds with respiratory distress

What we’re seeing now in states like Texas is comparable to what we saw in New York City (CDC)

Death data lag

Incubation

Symptomatic

Complications

Death collation

Reporting

The steep rise in cases that started about mid-June in many states will likely be seen in rising deaths very soon

It is hard to see how they won’t come

Death rates increasing by 50% in past month

Arizona

Texas

Arkansas

Tennessee

South Carolina

Arizona

Refrigerator trucks

Michigan

July 4th Parties

Packed parties made contact tracing impossible

Louisiana

Bars closed

Mandatory mask order

61 Marines

It is extremely regrettable that the infections are rapidly spreading among US personnel when we Okinawans are doing our utmost to contain the infections (Okinawa's governor, Denny Tamaki)

Okinawans are shocked by what we were told

We now have strong doubts that the US military has taken adequate disease prevention measures.

Two experimental vaccines

German biotech firm BioNTech and Pfizer

Fast track designation from the U.S. drug regulator

Trial with up to 30,000 participants as soon as later this month

100 million doses by the end of this year

1.2 billion doses by 2021-end.

South America

Death toll higher than North America

Japan

I want to host them as a symbol of the world coming together to overcome this tough situation and of strengthened bonds among humankind (Koike)