Deadly Wuhan Coronavirus

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Standingstones said:
With the Corona virus and talk of bubonic plague in China, it reminded me of the Georgia guidestones. One of the things carved into the granite was a wish to lower the population to 500 million. Granted the world’s population is around 7.8 billion give or take. Is this possibility the beginning of a de-population of the planet? The situation isn’t looking too good right now. Disease and strife are everywhere. I don’t normally go in for the global elite talk but something is negatively impacting the planet. Who knows, we made need those grain seeds Bill Gates has stored in the Arctic.
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China and Mongolia have minor outbreaks of bubonic plague every few years. According to the Wikipedia page on bubonic plague:
Globally between 2010 and 2015 there were 3248 documented cases, which resulted in 584 deaths.
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And there's this from last November:

2 in China being treated for pneumonic plague; same strain caused the Black Death

So the incidence of a case in Chinese Inner Mongolia (where the infection is endemic to the wildlife) doesn't mean anything.
 
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Covid-19 pandemic is 'getting worse' as number of cases has DOUBLED to nearly 12 million in just six weeks, warns World Health Organization boss

The World Health Organization has warned the coronavirus pandemic has still not reached its peak – as lockdown measures are relaxed to make international travel easier.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the UN agency, said the virus is not under control 'in most of the world' and is 'getting worse'. He revealed the total number of cases of coronavirus worldwide has doubled in the last six weeks, with almost 12million confirmed infections since the pandemic first began in China. The pandemic - which has seen 550,000 people die worldwide - is now being driven by outbreaks in the US, Brazil and India.

There are now concerns that Africa - which was spared from the first six months of the crisis - is seeing rocketing numbers of cases. Infections there have risen by 24 per cent in a week to more than half a million, with almost half in South Africa.

It took four months for the first one million cases to be declared worldwide - the milestone was hit on April 3 after the pandemic began in late December in the city of Wuhan. But since then it has taken only three months for another 11million cases to be confirmed, showing the breakneck speed at which the virus spread worldwide.

Dr Ghebreyesus's stark message comes as quarantine rules for people returning to or visiting the UK from certain countries are relaxed from today. The British Government has published a list of 76 countries and territories from which people arriving into England will no longer need to self-isolate for 14 days.

And it comes as Chinese officials have warned of a fatal 'unknown pneumonia' with a death rate far higher than that of coronavirus in Kazakhstan.

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Chinese health official now admits 'unknown pneumonia more deadly than coronavirus' that is 'sweeping' Kazakhstan is actually 'likely to be Covid-19'

A Beijing health official has admitted that the 'unknown pneumonia' said to be sweeping across Kazakhstan is actually 'likely to be Covid-19'. The Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan had claimed the pneumonia outbreak 'is more deadly than the novel coronavirus' before the leading disease-control expert challenged the country's own warning on state TV.

A British expert has also told MailOnline that the cases from Kazakhstan are likely to be undetected Covid-19 infections. Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist of China's CDC, said tonight that he believed the 'unknown pneumonia' was highly likely to be Covid-19 'from an epidemiological perspective'. He said he had noticed the news and read through relevant information online.

Wu noted that it would be unlikely for a new infectious respiratory disease to break out in summer. He also said that the available mortality rate of the 'unknown pneumonia' was similar to that of Covid-19. The expert suspected that the coronavirus outbreak had put great pressure on the local medical workers, leading them to unable to diagnose many patients in time. Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist and oncologist at University of Warwick, told MailOnline it was 'difficult to believe' the pneumonia is not related to Covid-19.

Kazakhstan's Health Ministry said it has recorded more than 32,000 cases of pneumonia between June 29 and July 5 alone, along with 451 deaths. By comparison, the official number of coronavirus cases in Kazakhstan stands at 53,021, with 296 confirmed deaths from the disease. Pictures and video showed people queuing outside a morgue in the largest city Almaty to collect the bodies of relatives.

Some 28,000 pneumonia patients with negative coronavirus tests are hospitalised in Kazakhstan, deputy health minister Azhar Giniyat said. The Kazakh health ministry insisted on Friday the Chinese pneumonia claim was 'not true' despite an apparent surge in cases not confirmed as coronavirus. And the ex-Soviet state has gone back into lockdown with the president issuing a 'don't panic' message while also demanding strict adherence to lockdown rules.

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Dr. Fauci slams federal government's COVID-19 response and says it's 'not doing great' as Texas, Arizona and Florida post record daily fatalities and experts predict another 15,000 people will lose their lives before August

Dr Anthony Fauci slammed the federal government's response to COVID-19 on Thursday, saying the country is not doing great after Texas, Arizona and Florida posted record daily fatalities as experts predict that another 15,000 people will lose their lives before August.

During an interview with FiveThirtyEight, Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert and leader of the White House coronavirus task force, said of the country: 'I don't think you can say we're doing great.'

He then explained what he meant by that statement: 'Well, let me say there are parts of the United States, like where you live right now [in New York], that are doing really well, that you've been through something really bad and you have things under control. 'And you have a governor and mayor in the city who understand what it means to go by the guidelines for the gateway: phase one, phase two, phase three. So you're doing well,' Fauci said, referring to Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov Andrew Cuomo.

'Other cities are doing well,' Fauci continued. 'But as a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don't think you can say we're doing great. I mean, we're just not.'

Fauci then went on to talk about the government's approach to suppress the deadly virus. 'We live, I mean, you have to be having blindfolds on and covering your ears to think that we don't live in a very divisive society now, from a political standpoint,' Fauci admitted. 'So I think you'd have to make the assumption that if there wasn't such divisiveness, that we would have a more coordinated approach.'

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The US has run out of time and excuses. Now we'll be forced to watch thousands die of the coronavirus.

At this point, the numbers speak for themselves.

The coronavirus killed nearly 1,000 Americans on Tuesday, another 950 on Wednesday, and 842 on Thursday— the highest daily death counts reported in a month. Nearly 44,000 Americans have been hospitalized with severe COVID-19 cases, up from 31,000 four weeks ago. The country broke its own record for daily infections yet again on Tuesday, with more than 60,000 new cases reported.

This is not, as President Donald Trump continues to claim, simply a reflection of increased testing — that would not explain the rising hospitalizations and deaths.

Instead, this is a moment of reckoning: The deadly consequences of reopening too early, eschewing masks, and being too slow to ramp up testing and contact tracing are revealing themselves. Expert after expert warned about this a couple of months ago, and now it's too late.

New projections from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation suggest that 80,000 more people in the US are expected to die of COVID-19 from now until November — more than a 60% increase from where our death toll stood on Friday, at 132,000.

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Over 70,000 new cases today, many more states are over a 1000 a day...

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In Florida, over 40 hospitals max out ICU capacity amid coronavirus surge

  • More than 40 Florida hospitals in multiple counties across the state have maxed out their ICU capacity or are close to running out of intensive care beds, according to the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration.
  • As of Tuesday, more than 5,000 Florida patients were using roughly 83% of the state’s more than 6,000 ICU beds.
  • ICU beds are running out at several hospitals in some of the state’s most-populated counties, including Miami-Dade County, Orange County, Hillsborough County and Broward County.

Overall, the state’s hospitals are now running at 78% capacity, according to AHCA. ICU beds are running out at several hospitals in some of the state’s most-populated counties, including Miami-Dade County, Orange County, Hillsborough County and Broward County, which are respectively home to Miami, Orlando, Tampa and Fort Lauderdale.

Florida, which has more than 213,700 confirmed cases so far, is struggling with the third-worst outbreak in the country after New York and California.

Florida reported an average of 8,587 new cases based on a seven-day moving average on Tuesday, a 30% surge from the previous week and a new record, according to data analyzed by CNBC and compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Florida tracks only the number of people who have been hospitalized since the beginning of the outbreak and not those currently in the hospital with Covid-19, according to the Covid Tracking Project.

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Texas Gov. warns the state is near another LOCKDOWN with Houston ICUs full, while Florida's daily new virus cases have risen 1,237 percent since reopening and experts predict end of year US death toll will be 250,000

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'Things will get worse, and let me explain why,' he told KLBK TV in Lubbock.

'The deaths that we're seeing announced today and yesterday — which are now over 100 — those are people who likely contracted COVID-19 in late May.

'The worst is yet to come as we work our way through that massive increase in people testing positive.' Texans will also likely see an increase in cases next week, Abbott said. He said people respecting his face mask requirement might be the only thing standing between businesses remaining open and another shutdown. 'The public needs to understand this was a very tough decision for me to make,' he said of his face mask mandate.

Under his ruling - an abrupt U-turn for him - Texans in counties with more than 20 cases must wear masks in public. Nearly 80 Texas counties have opted out of the order order, while others are refusing to enforce it.

'I made clear that I made this tough decision for one reason: It was our last best effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. 'If we do not slow the spread of COVID-19, the next step would have to be a lockdown.'

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Expert warns the US is approaching 'one of the most unstable times in the history of our country'

With rising Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations sending many states backward in their reopening plans, one health expert warns that if the US continues on its current path it will reach "one of the most unstable times in the history of our country."

"We will have hospitals overwhelmed and not only in terms of ICU beds and hospitals -- and that's bad -- but exhausted hospital staff and hospital staff that's getting ill themselves," Dr. Peter Hotez, the dean of tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN Friday night. "So, we won't have enough manpower, human power, to manage all of this."

Only five states saw a decrease of at least 10% in average new daily cases over the past week. And the US set a record for the highest single day of new cases for the second time this week with 66,627 cases on Friday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The resurgence has many local leaders returning to actions taken in March and April to slow the spread of the virus.

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Another day of over 60,00 new cases in the US and deaths have remained above 700 for days, spiking to over a 1000 one day earlier, still no plan of action from our federal government...

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Scientists from Wuhan virus lab have 'defected' to the West, Steve Bannon claims - as FBI gathers evidence that coronavirus pandemic was caused by an accidental leak

Steve Bannon, 66, right, who worked as a naval officer, investment banker and film producer before becoming chief executive officer of Trump's presidential campaign, describes himself as an 'ultra-hawk' on China, arguing that Western countries should work together to bring down the 'brutal, authoritarian' regime. His incendiary claims about the source of the virus, which has so far claimed more than 560,000 lives worldwide, came as Western governments gather growing evidence to challenge Beijing's original claim that the infection first spread from a market. Even the Chinese government's own Centre for Disease Control and Prevention recently admitted that the virus had been brought in to the market, rather than originating there.

Mr Bannon, who has been tipped by the US media for a return to Trump's inner circle to shore up his faltering campaign for re-election, said: 'I know that certain defectors are working with the FBI here to try to knit together what happened' in the Wuhan institute, which he said was 'horribly run and terribly mismanaged'. He claimed: 'They are not talking to the media yet, but there are people out of the Wuhan lab and other labs that have come to the West and are turning over evidence of the culpability of the Chinese Communist Party. I think people are going to be shocked'. Mr Bannon, who sat on the US National Security Council during his time in the White House, says spies are trying to assemble a case that the virus spread as the result of an accident involving experiments to develop vaccines and therapeutic drugs to deal with Sars-style viruses.

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Army is to be sent into three towns as two areas of Kent are added to list of top 20 places facing a new coronavirus lockdown

Folkestone and Ashford have been identified as two of 20 areas of concern for the UK government, based on leaked official documents. Three of the twenty councils - Kirklees, Bradford and Sheffield - will have army units deployed to facilitate mobile testing, the documents revealed. The list is said to have been based on a document compiled by Public Health England, ranking the 20 councils with the highest current rate of positive infections. Leicester, where the country's first local lockdown was rolled out, is still at the top of the list, with 5.7 per cent of people being tested testing positive.

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The rise and rise of COVID-19: Florida sets ominous record of 15,300 new infections - the highest single-day total for any state - while three Arizona teachers who shared classroom catch the virus and one dies as its morgues hit 97% capacity

Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd, 61, who worked at the Hayden Winkelman School District for 38 years, died on June 26. She had been hospitalized a little less than two weeks before her death. Arizona health officials have reported more than 119,000 cases of the virus with at least 2,151 deaths.

Two other teachers, Jena Martinez and Angela Skillings, were also diagnosed with the virus last month. They both shared a summer classroom with Byrd and said they are still struggling with the effects of COVID-19. All three teachers wore PPE, which included masks and gloves. They also used hand sanitizer and made sure to social distance, but they still ended up getting sick. Morgues in Arizona have hit 97 per cent capacity, according to the Maricopa Office of the Medical Examiner.

Meanwhile, more than 61,000 Americans tested positive for the virus on Saturday. Five states and territories set a record for coronavirus-related hospitalizations: Puerto Rico, North Carolina, Alaska, Florida and California. Florida also set a grim record of nearly 500 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 this week.

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Thousands pack Nice's famous promenade for dance music concert sparking fury over lack of social distancing as the mayor vows to make masks mandatory at future events

Prominent French electro house music producer The Avener hosted the set organised by the municipality late Saturday in his home city, with crowds massing on central Nice's famous Promenade des Anglais esplanade. The density of the crowd as people danced the night away provoked fury on social media at a time when France is wary of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. 'We regret that these rules have not been sufficiently respected,' mayor Christian Estrosi wrote on Twitter.

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Shango the gorilla is given a CORONAVIRUS TEST after being found to have a fever following a fight with his little brother Barney at Zoo Miami

A 433-pound gorilla named Shango at Zoo Miami was tested for the coronavirus (left) after he had a low-grade fever and was wounded in a fight with his younger brother Barney. The 31-year-old Shango's test came up negative when he was treated (right) at the Zoo Miami hospital on Wednesday after the confrontation with Barney, 26, say zoo officials. The brothers have lived at Zoo Miami since they were transferred from the San Francisco Zoo in May 2017. The deadly flu-like virus is believed to have originated in animals, however, the risk of COVID-19 passing from animals to humans is considered low.

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