Coronavirus

[jimnyc]

This isn't very promising sounding if you live in NY!

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Coronavirus killing more than a person an hour in NYC

The coronavirus killed city residents at a rate of more than one per hour on Friday.

Between just 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., 14 people in New York City died from the virus, pushing the Big Apple’s total death toll to 43.

The toll had been 29 prior to Friday’s jump in deaths.

It was the first time that the city’s single-day toll had hit double digits.

And the city’s Health Commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, warned New Yorkers that double-digit daily deaths may well become the new normal, at least for a time.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if we get to a day when we have double-digits new people dying every day,” she said at a City Hall press conference Friday afternoon.

During that eight-hour period Friday the city’s positive cases also climbed from 5,151 to 5,683.

At 1,750 Brooklyn has the most COVID-19 cases followed by 1,514 in Queens, 1,402 in Manhattan, 736 in the Bronx, and 285 in Staten Island.

Rest - https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/corona...n-hour-in-nyc/

[Abbey Marie]

Wow. This is so incredibly awful.

[jimnyc]

So my wife's headquarters in NYC is 3 floors in her building. Someone she works with got the virus, but due to privacy reasons they aren't telling anyone who. Then my brother John in NJ, he works at an insurance company and needs to dial in daily for information. The latest is a recording that someone there has it! Only one floor, but much wider/longer type buildings. Also won't say who. So that adds some level of nervousness to things.

[jimnyc]

Damn, next is the Olympics.

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The latest on the pandemic

• The number of coronavirus deaths around the world has surpassed 11,000, with more than 280,000 people infected with the disease.

* Italy and Span both reported hundreds of new deaths.

• Mainland China reported zero locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus for a third day running. However, the number of imported cases involving travelers arriving from other countries continued to rise.

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Coronavirus in New York: 'Deluge' of Cases Begins Hitting Hospitals

NEW YORK — New York state’s long-feared surge of coronavirus cases has begun, thrusting the medical system toward a crisis point.

In a startlingly quick ascent, officials reported Friday that the state was closing in on 8,000 positive tests, about half the cases in the country. The number was 10 times higher than what was reported earlier in the week.

In the Bronx, doctors at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center say they have only a few remaining ventilators for patients who need them to breathe. In Brooklyn, doctors at Kings County Hospital Center say they are so low on supplies that they are reusing masks for up to a week, slathering them with hand sanitizer between shifts.

Some of the jump in New York’s cases can be traced to significantly increased testing, which the state began this week. But the escalation, and the response, could offer other states a glimpse of what might be in store if the virus continues to spread. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday urged residents to stay indoors and ordered nonessential businesses to keep workers home.

State officials have projected that the number of coronavirus cases in New York will peak in early May. Both the governor and Mayor Bill de Blasio have used wartime metaphors and analogies to paint a grim picture of what to expect. Officials have said the state would need to double its available hospital beds to 100,000 and could be short as many as 25,000 ventilators.

Rest - https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-y...142242444.html

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USA Track & Field joins the push to postpone the Olympics amid coronavirus pandemic

USA Track & Field on Saturday morning joined USA Swimming in calling for the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics amid widespread disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

In a letter addressed to U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland, USATF CEO Max Siegel argued that it is not possible for athletes to prioritize everyone’s health and safety and still properly train for the Olympics. As a result, Siegel urged the USOPC to advocate to the International Olympic Committee for the postponement of the 2020 Olympics.

“While our world class athletes are willing to push themselves to their athletic limits in pursuit of Olympic success, the likelihood that they will be able to properly train in a safe and adequate environment and replicate the excellence that we have all come to expect does not appear likely in the midst of this global crisis,” Siegel’s letter reads. “As we have learned, our athletes are under tremendous pressure, stress and anxiety and their mental health and wellness is among our highest priorities.

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Trump keeps promoting chloroquine for coronavirus treatment

In a pair of tweets Saturday morning, President Trump continued to push the antimalarial drug chloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus. This came one day after Dr. Anthony Fauci tempered expectations on the certainly of the drug working at a White House briefing. Fauci was asked whether there was any evidence to suggest that taking the drug would help prevent a person from coming down with COVID-19.

“The answer is no. And the evidence that you’re talking about, John [Roberts, Fox News correspondent], is anecdotal evidence, so as the commissioner of FDA and the president mentioned yesterday, we’re trying to strike a balance between making something with a potential of an effect to the American people available, at the same time we do it under the auspices of a protocol that would give us information to determine if it’s truly safe and truly effective,” Fauci said. “But the information that you’re referring to specifically is anecdotal; it was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can’t make any definitive statement about it.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavir...120246923.html

[jimnyc]

Was more than just them. About every person on the left once again labeled him a racist, and claims that he was ruining what America stands for. And now every country has mostly done the same, and then some. It's called protecting your borders and protecting the health of your citizens - even if it means making tough shitty decisions. No one wants to see quarantines, but ultimately someone has to make those tough decisions. In those cases it has been the governors.

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Dr. Fauci Applauds Flight Cancellations That World Health Organization Discouraged

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), reiterated on Friday that cutting off flights from China early on during what has become a worldwide pandemic was key to slowing the spread of the Chinese coronavirus in the United States.

President Donald Trump restricted entry to the United States from China beginning January 31 and imposed bans on individuals who had traveled from a third country, but recently visited or transited through China. The pandemic began in central Wuhan, a major Chinese transport hub, in mid-November, but the Communist Party did not reveal the existence of the outbreak until January, silencing doctors and others spreading health information online.

As the pandemic expanded, Trump also imposed restrictions of flights from Europe and recently limited travel across the north and southern American borders.

The World Health Organization (WHO), following Trump’s initial move to ground flights from China, urged countries not to close their borders to foreigners traveling from China, out of concern it would harm Chinese trade.

Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/health/202...n-discouraged/


GOP Rep. DesJarlais: Trump ‘Ahead of the Curve’ on China — Economy Should Bounce Back ‘Sooner Rather Than Later’

Representative Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) gave President Donald Trump high marks regarding his handling of China and the regaining control of the American economy as the nation is grappling with the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.

During an interview that aired on Huntsville, AL radio’s WVNN on Friday, the Tennessee Republican congressman argued a lesson learned from Mainland China’s handling of the coronavirus was how unstable and unreliable the communist nation is, which should warrant a “different attitude” toward it in the future.

“There’s one guy that was talking about that during his campaign, and that’s President Trump,” he said. “He talked about how unfair China was being in terms of trade, stealing our secrets and all kinds of unfair practices. He took initial steps to work out fair trade agreements and work out different kinds of relationships. And we’ve learned how our global economy depending on China, is unstable at best. They’re not reliable. They’re communists. They don’t have to report. They’re not as accountable as we are in this country. So, I think if nothing else — we’ve learned a great lesson.”

“And you know, the president stepped up early on when the Democratic House was still trying to impeach him and impose travel bans from China that was limiting about 10,000 people from coming into our country a day,” DesJarlais continued. “He got criticized for being a racist for doing that. And then when there started cropping up a few illnesses, they criticized that he wasn’t doing enough. I think the president has been ahead of the curve on this one, and he is trying to reset our relations with China. I think moving forward, we need to have a different attitude about how we do business, and not be so reliant on them in terms of the global economy.”

Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020...urve-on-china/

[jimnyc]

Dr. Fauci Applauds Flight Cancellations That World Health Organization Discouraged

Back then the MSM was still in the midst of calling this the "Wuhan virus" or also "Chinese virus". They downplayed much of the virus and hammered Trump for some decisions.

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FLASHBACK: Let’s Take A Look At How The Press Covered Trump’s China Travel Ban

Media outlets bashed President Donald Trump back in January after he implemented a travel ban from China because of the novel coronavirus – a move that many other countries have now followed.

The Trump administration first made the announcement Jan. 31, 2020, announcing they would restrict foreign nationals recently in China from entering the U.S. They also announced that some Americans who recently traveled to the country would be put into quarantine for a time upon their arrival back to the U.S. The novel coronavirus first originated in Wuhan, China.

Trump’s announcement sparked severe backlash from media outlets who rushed to find experts willing to bash the decision, Lyndsey Fifield, social media manager for The Heritage Foundation, noted on Twitter.

The New York Times wrote that the decision “sent shocks through the stock market and rattled industries that depend on the flow of goods and people between the world’s two largest economies” in its Jan. 31 article. The publication added that “some public health and policy experts” believed the restrictions would do nearly nothing to help contain the virus.

“At this point, sharply curtailing air travel to and from China is more of an emotional or political reaction, said Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota,” according to the NYT article.

Today, numerous countries have followed Trump’s directive by issuing their own respective travel restrictions on various parts of the world. The European Union ordered a month-long ban on nonessential travel to at least 26 countries in Europe, and Canada mutually agreed to close its borders with the U.S. Meanwhile, Italy and Spain are on a country-wide lockdown.

STAT News also echoed the anti-travel ban rhetoric, writing that “public health experts have warned that travel bans are not effective at stemming the spread of a virus and can make responding to an outbreak more challenging.” The publication put the blame on “conservative lawmakers and far-right supporters of the president.”

“The World Health Organization [WHO], which declared the outbreak a global health emergency this week, has recommended against any travel or trade restrictions in response to the outbreak. Member countries, however, do not have to comply with that guidance,” STAT reported.

STAT quoted Catherine Worsnop, “who studies international cooperation during global health emergencies at the University of Maryland,” to back up the idea that Trump’s China travel ban was bad news.

“From a public health perspective, there is limited effectiveness. And then there are a host of other reasons why they can actually be counterproductive,” according to Worsnop.

The Verge quoted WHO’s recommendation against travel restrictions as well. WHO, meanwhile, has been found echoing false reporting from China, where the outbreak began.

“They’re political theater, not good public health policy,” an article from Vox claimed. This article also appeared to originally name the virus “Wuhan coronavirus,” according to Fifield. Referring to the novel coronavirus as the “Wuhan Virus” has now been deemed racist by many reporters.

The Washington Post also bashed Trump’s travel ban using a Chinese ministry spokesman. The article includes a quote from the spokesman criticizing the travel ban and noting that it is against WHO’s recommendations.



https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/20/f...na-travel-ban/

[jimnyc]

Alrighty, whatever, so she wants to condemn folks she thinks are being racist with the terms Chinese or Wuhan. And I may even understand if she directed this as an emergency and directed things in general for now, but of course it's one sided and not a peep about folks like CNN or Msnbc using it forever before Trump.

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Communist China Thanks Hillary Clinton For Her Support After She Accuses Trump of Using “Racist Rhetoric” For Saying “Chinese Virus”

Communist China thanked China puppet Hillary Clinton for her support after she accused President Trump of turning to “racist rhetoric” because he used the phrase “China Coronavirus.”

Hillary Clinton fired off a tweet earlier this week accusing Trump of using “racist rhetoric” because he dared call a virus outbreak from China… the Chinese Coronavirus.

HILLARY CLINTON: The president is turning to racist rhetoric to distract from his failures to take the coronavirus seriously early on, make tests widely available, and adequately prepare the country for a period of crisis.

Don’t fall for it. Don’t let your friends and family fall for it.

Rest - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...chinese-virus/

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Learn to love your lockdown, experts say — because it may not end anytime soon.

The coronavirus threat will continue to loom for months or even years before mass vaccinations or natural immunities will eliminate its dangers, according to the BBC.

“We do have a big problem in what the exit strategy is and how we get out of this,” said epidemiologist Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh. “No country has an exit strategy.”

President Trump has refused to say how long policies of social distancing will have to last.

Rest - https://nypost.com/2020/03/21/corona...or-years-away/

Hmmm... and here I thought I just read somewhere that China claims to have a new drug that cures it... does Mark Woolhouse think the chicoms are lying?

[Drummond]

Way back in 1975, the BBC came up with a fictional serial called 'Survivors'. It depicted a world where a virus escapes a lab in China.

It then proceeds to spread, worldwide, killing populations.

In the BBC version, we gradually see society itself break down, with only small percentages of populations surviving. It became a tale of how people survive regardless, and the long, and very gradual, crawl back to something people once called 'civilisation' ... !!

I've checked YouTube, and apparently all 24 episodes are there. I've posted a link to the introductory episode .. I suggest that the opening sequence, highly dramatic as it is, will seem remarkably 'eerie' ...

Comments under the link, on the YouTube page .. an excerpt (names removed) ...

1 month ago
Instantly thought of this series when hearing of the virus in China at the moment. Hope it doesn't turn out like this!

42

1 month ago
The Good Life with shotguns.

10

1 week ago
This scared the crap out of me as a kid.
And now it's 2020
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I don't know if this'll play in America. If so .... you've another 23 episodes available of it .....

Here goes .... er'm ... enjoy !! .....

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Well, we got our first case in the county just east of me, and I mean right on the edge of our town is where that county starts.

So, it's at my front door now...

[hjmick]

[Drummond]

What's happening in London is becoming more of an issue. Specifically ... the availability of Tube trains, following a reduction in services, ordered by our Leftie London mayor ....

Sadiq Khan is his name (our first Muslim London mayor, for whatever that's worth, in this debate ..).

Sadiq Khan has not been an attendee at the Government's security 'Cobra' meetings, which has met several times to discuss and agree anti-Covid measures. He wondered why ... rather vocally, too, not least on James O'Brien's LBC programmes, where he has a regular slot to speak to Londoners.

A week ago, he was invited to attend a meeting. He did so -- and clashed with Boris Johnson on methodology.

Over these past couple of days, following (a) Khan's decision to reduce public transport frequency, and (b) also following new 'lockdown' rules, which only permit travel to work for 'essential' workers ... these past days, we've seen packed Tube trains, typical of normal, ordinary rush-hour travel under normal conditions. Distancing is a complete impossibility on the Tube.

Sadiq Khan's taken a lot of criticism, and he remains unrepentant. He's actually been ORDERED, now, to add more Tube trains, to give distancing a chance of happening ! Khan argues that staff illness makes that next to impossible.

So, the argument continues, and until today, at any rate, packed Tube carriages remained the norm. Courtesy of Mr Khan.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...t-loggerheads/

London Underground carriages remain crowded despite the coronavirus pandemic amid a row between the Government and Mayor Sadiq Khan over service levels.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has claimed there is "no good reason" why timetables have been cut to the extent they have.

But Mr Khan's spokesman insisted ministers were told "countless times" that Tube frequencies reflect high levels of staff sickness and self-isolation.

Shortly before 7am on Wednesday, a senior nurse named Danny posted on Twitter: "Another busy tube. Can we not stagger people's start times so we aren't all squashed on the same tube! This is unsafe and not fair!"

Barry Trimble, who said his work involves ensuring cancer patients receive chemotherapy, posted: "The Tube is packed, with social distancing impossible. We need more people to stay at home and more trains running in morning and evening peak."

It's surely little wonder that London's infection rates are so high.

I've been unable to add the photo the article carries (format problem). But see the article ... view the photo ... see how packed the train carriage is -- AND -- as I've said about the UK approach to mask-wearing, note their absence ....

[Kathianne]

What's happening in London is becoming more of an issue. Specifically ... the availability of Tube trains, following a reduction in services, ordered by our Leftie London mayor ....

Sadiq Khan is his name (our first Muslim London mayor, for whatever that's worth, in this debate ..).

Sadiq Khan has not been an attendee at the Government's security 'Cobra' meetings, which has met several times to discuss and agree anti-Covid measures. He wondered why ... rather vocally, too, not least on James O'Brien's LBC programmes, where he has a regular slot to speak to Londoners.

A week ago, he was invited to attend a meeting. He did so -- and clashed with Boris Johnson on methodology.

Over these past couple of days, following (a) Khan's decision to reduce public transport frequency, and (b) also following new 'lockdown' rules, which only permit travel to work for 'essential' workers ... these past days, we've seen packed Tube trains, typical of normal, ordinary rush-hour travel under normal conditions. Distancing is a complete impossibility on the Tube.

Sadiq Khan's taken a lot of criticism, and he remains unrepentant. He's actually been ORDERED, now, to add more Tube trains, to give distancing a chance of happening ! Khan argues that staff illness makes that next to impossible.

So, the argument continues, and until today, at any rate, packed Tube carriages remained the norm. Courtesy of Mr Khan.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...t-loggerheads/



It's surely little wonder that London's infection rates are so high.

I've been unable to add the photo the article carries (format problem). But see the article ... view the photo ... see how packed the train carriage is -- AND -- as I've said about the UK approach to mask-wearing, note their absence ....

So wrong. Too many people being considered 'essential?'

[Drummond]

So wrong. Too many people being considered 'essential?'

Perhaps so.

'Essential' staff would, of course, include health workers. Those working in construction industries (being rethought, it seems) have until now been counted as essential. Presumably office workers would be seen as essential, especially if they're Civil Servants, and their offices can't make home-working arrangements.

Security personnel would be essential.

The Civil Servant matter is a significant one. Under normal conditions, I've travelled on the Tube during Civil Service strikes .. and the effect they've made on the numbers travelling is substantial .. a better than 50% reduction in rush-hour travel. Note also that the picture in the Telegraph article was taken on a Central Line carriage, and that's (literally) centrally placed as a necessary line for them to travel.

Khan has tried to argue that people are travelling unnecessarily, that it's 'all their fault' for being 'selfish'. Then again ... many will need to work, to get money they need, to live. If that's 'selfish' ... it's understandably so.

Khan's showed no sign of taking responsibility for those travel conditions, conditions he ordered in the first place ...

[Kathianne]

Perhaps so.

'Essential' staff would, of course, include health workers. Those working in construction industries (being rethought, it seems) have until now been counted as essential. Presumably office workers would be seen as essential, especially if they're Civil Servants, and their offices can't make home-working arrangements.

Security personnel would be essential.

The Civil Servant matter is a significant one. Under normal conditions, I've travelled on the Tube during Civil Service strikes .. and the effect they've made on the numbers travelling is substantial .. a better than 50% reduction in rush-hour travel. Note also that the picture in the Telegraph article was taken on a Central Line carriage, and that's (literally) centrally placed as a necessary line for them to travel.

Khan has tried to argue that people are travelling unnecessarily, that it's 'all their fault' for being 'selfish'. Then again ... many will need to work, to get money they need, to live. If that's 'selfish' ... it's understandably so.

Khan's showed no sign of taking responsibility for those travel conditions, conditions he ordered in the first place ...

Well that is one way to reduce numbers. If everyone is 'essential' then there isn't a real pause.