The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard for Monday, October 5, at 5:23 a.m.:

Worldwide cases:  35,252,679    Worldwide deaths: 1,038,307

U.S. cases: 7,423,328   U.S. deaths:  209,857

According to the Dashboard, the reported worldwide case report increased by 277,086 in the last 24 hours.  Deaths worldwide increased by 3,904.

According to the Johns Hopkins Dashboard, the United States has added 31,043 cases in the last 24 hours.  In that time,  the number of reported deaths from  COVID-19 increased by 294.

President Donald Trump’s doctors at Walter Reed Medical Center said in a Sunday morning press briefing that he is doing well.  He’s now on both remdesivir and dexamethasone, and when he first tested positive, also had an injection of an experimental mix of monoclonal antibodies created by the drug maker Regeneron.

On Sunday,  according to The Guardian, Trump got a rebuke from doctors after he left the Presidential suite at Walter Reed to go on a short drive, with at least two Secret Service agents, in a tightly sealed vehicle.  The story says that one Walter Reed attending physician said, “Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days.  They might get sick.”

Several other people who had been close to the President have also tested positive for COVID-19–the first was Hope Hicks, a close aide, who announced her positive test last Wednesday.  Melania Trump has COVID-19, and this morning, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced she has it, too.  A few U.S. Senators also have tested positive, among others.

In Hawaii on Sunday, the case count grew by 70, 15 of which were on the Big Island, 2 in Maui County, and 53 on O’ahu.  The state 12,804 total cases, and has around 2,199 active.  The Big Island has 810 total cases, with around 147 active.  Over the weekend the Big Island’s cases increased by 58.  Mayor Harry Kim said the most recent cases are at Life Care Center of Hilo and at University of the Nations in Kona (26 cases) which is now on a lockdown with nobody other than “essential personnel” allowed to come and go.  Kim said having the cases in large clusters is actually easier than if the cases were scattered throughout the island, because he can get facilities to isolate people.

The Big Island has lost 32 people to COVID-19, as of late Sunday.

The Mayor is urging people to get tested for COVID-19.  He has set up a schedule for free, around-the-island testing.