Deadly Wuhan Coronavirus

nivek

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High numbers again today over 70k new cases and almost a thousand deaths, when will our government stop being in denial?...

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Standingstones

Celestial
When government representatives are attacking Dr. Fauci and other medical officials it tells me that an election is soon upon us and the politicians only want good news delivered to the populace. The problem is anyone with half a brain can see right through this coverup nonsense.

It galls me that we are being lied to (I realize politicians are basically liars) and our intelligence is being insulted.
 

nivek

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Tougher lockdown restrictions have been put into place in Germany in an attempt to prevent a second wave.

The lockdown measures are meant to contain local outbreaks to prevent them from spreading rapidly, according to AFP. The new restrictions put in place include a travel ban that prohibits people from going in and out of the affected areas. The country is also looking at ways to respond to new clusters using hyper-local lockdowns and rapid contact tracing and testing. Lockdown restrictions were shown to be needed after a coronavirus outbreak occurred at a slaughterhouse in the western part of Germany, but local courts ruled the lockdown put into place from that event was too broad. Anyone wanting to leave the affected areas will now have to be able to show a negative coronavirus test less than 48 hours old.

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AlienView

Noble
Not going well is it?

Remember the second wave of the the Spanish Flu of 1918 was much deadlier than the first, with a newer mutation that killed faster and killed many - Estimated World total was
50 million!

I still keep asking, but can not find, a really good answer as to why it ended, more or less
suddenly - Or were they just lucky?

We might not be so lucky and this current pandemic could be an apocalyptic catastrophe
that brings about the end civilization.

Remember a few months ago I was arguing that we were closing down the economy too fast?

Events are showing maybe we did not close it down fast enough and in fact acted too slowly.

As things now are going the only intelligent thing to do is react with vigor and try to transfer
both the economy and schooling to online - Most necessary business can be transferred to
online commerce - Postal, and other delivery drivers should probably be the only ones
who have to go out to make deliveries.

Sure people don't like it - But without a vaccine or a cure - We are indeed facing
apocalypse now !!!
 

AD1184

Celestial
White House vows not to 'let the science stand in the way' of reopening schools as poll shows nearly two-thirds of parents DON'T back Trump's reopening demands

Kayleigh McEnany asserted Thursday that President Donald Trump will not let 'science stand in the way' of his push to reopen schools in the fall in the midst of the coroanvirus pandemic. The White House press secretary claimed during her press briefing that science is on the side of reopening schools amid a massive spike in cases and said the U.S. is the 'outlier' of Western societies in not moving to get students back in the classroom. 'The science is on our side here,' McEnany told reporters gathered in the James S. Brady Briefing Room Thursday afternoon.
The US is also the outlier in Western societies in terms of how rampant the virus still is.
 

nivek

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Texas reported 14,780 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday

...sending the total number of confirmed cases in the state past 300,000. Texas now has now reported more cases than the U.k. (294,803), Spain (260,255) or Italy (243,967), according to Johns Hopkins University. All bars across the Lone Star State have been closed to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, especially among younger people, NBC News said. Texas is also giving school districts more flexibility on their decisions to reopen in the fall to ensure that students receive the education they need while also keeping all of the teachers, students and their families safe and healthy.

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nivek

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British Airways has retired all of its 747s due to the financial issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

In an announcement made on Friday, the company said all 31 of its Boeing 747 planes would be retired due to ongoing challenges in the travel industry. The fleet was originally scheduled to be retired in 2024, according to UPI. The airline has also cut as many as 12,000 jobs and suspended 36,000 employees as a result of the pandemic. Other airlines around the world have been phasing out the 747 for years for more fuel efficient airplanes. United Airlines and Delta both retired the 747 back in 2017.

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nivek

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Seventy-two NFL players have tested positive for the coronavirus.

The NFL Players Association announced that 'dozens' of players had tested positive as of July 10 but confirmed the exact number Thursday after the tally was revealed in a database, according to AFP. Out of roughly 2,900 players, it is currently unknown how many have been tested and how often. Players have requested the league to cancel all pre-season games in order to address fitness concerns. Recently, the NFL rejected a 48-day training camp recommendation in favor of a 23-day session. Many players have grown frustrated over uncertainty about the season, including Houston Texans star J.J. Watt, who expressed in a Tweet that they, "Don't know if there are preseason games or not, we don't know if there will be daily testing, semi-daily testing etc."

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nivek

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New cases in the United States since this started...

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nivek

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It's too late for masks alone to turn the tide on coronavirus. Why the U.S. needs to lock down hot spots right away.

Masks are necessary to combat America’s resurgent coronavirus pandemic. But at this point, they may no longer be enough.

Patterns that have emerged in countries that are faring much better than the United States suggest we won’t bring the virus to heel until we start locking down hot spots as well.

On Wednesday, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tweeted: “I believe if everyone, including #Millenials and #GenZ, wears a cloth face covering for the next 4 to 6 weeks, we can get the #COVID19 epidemic under control.”

Redfield’s comments went viral. See? the signal boosters seemed to say. If the rest of you would just behave yourselves, this thing could be over by Labor Day.

In response, Carl Bergstrom, a professor of biology at the University of Washington who has become one of the nation’s top experts on the coronavirus, tweeted back: “I believe that Space Aliens flew many light years across the galaxy to communicate with us by flattening crops in circular patterns.”

Bergstrom’s tweet was cheeky, but his message was clear: While officials like Redfield should absolutely continue to “advocate wearing masks during a global pandemic,” as Bergstrom put it in a follow-up tweet, the idea that masks alone could, in the next four to six weeks, “control” a virus that is currently spreading at a rate of 65,000 new cases per day and killing nearly 1,000 Americans every 24 hours is as fanciful as the plot of M. Night Shyamalan’s “Signs.”

Again, masks are crucial. Scientists say they should be mandatory nationwide. On Friday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, urged “local political and other leaders ... to be as forceful as possible in getting your citizenry to wear masks,” adding that “masks are really important, and we should be using them — everyone.”

Still, as Bergstrom concluded, telling or even requiring people to wear masks offers “only a partial solution” to America’s raging COVID-19 problem.

The question now is what the rest of that solution should look like. And the answer is that it should probably look more like Europe’s.

That means serious local lockdowns, now.

At the start of April, the curves of new daily COVID-19 cases in France, Germany and the United Kingdom closely resembled the United States’. In Italy and Spain, the curves were even worse. Yet today, those countries are recording fewer than 15 cases per million residents each day. Italy is accumulating three cases per million daily, while the U.S. is adding 192. The European Union, with a population of 446 million, is adding about 4,000 new cases a day. The U.S., with a population of 328 million, is adding 15 times that number.

So why is life returning to normal in Europe but not in America?

It’s not because of masks. Britons have, by and large, been reluctant to hide their stiff upper lips behind masks; it wasn’t until Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally ended months of equivocation and mandated that people wear masks inside shops and supermarkets. In France, masks won’t be required in enclosed spaces until Aug. 1. And while masking up is now more widespread in Spain and Italy than in the U.S. — 84 percent of Spaniards and 83 percent of Italians say they always cover their faces in public, versus 59 percent of Americans — it wasn’t that way back in April, when the pandemic was peaking there. Even now, fewer people say they always wear masks in the U.K. (19 percent), France (53 percent), Sweden (2 percent), Denmark (2 percent) and Norway (4 percent) than in the U.S.

Germany and America are roughly tied at about 60 percent.

Rather, the difference is that Europe’s springtime lockdowns worked and America’s, broadly speaking, did not.
This isn’t to say the U.S. should have locked down longer. There’s no one-size-fits-all model for a lockdown, as the vastly different measures implemented across the EU demonstrate. Finland, for example, never really locked down at all, with authorities advising against, but not banning, nonessential trips while allowing shops to remain open. Residents of Spain and Italy, however, were barely allowed to leave home for more than a month. The U.K. locked down for 83 days.

Yet there was a common thread: making sure the virus had been suppressed to a level low enough that containment was theoretically possible once business as usual resumed. This meant different things in, say, Germany and Denmark, but the goal was the same.

So how low did the virus have to go? It turns out that when you compare reopening dates and test-positivity rates, an interesting pattern emerges. In Spain, indoor spaces largely reopened on May 26; at that point, 1.4 percent of COVID-19 tests were coming back positive. In Italy, indoor spaces mostly reopened on May 18; at that point, 1.5 percent of COVID-19 tests were positive. Same goes for the positivity rates in Germany (1.4 percent), France (1.5 percent) and the U.K. (1 percent) upon indoor reopening.

The point isn’t that 1.5 percent is an ironclad guarantee of long-term success. Cases could rise again across Europe, especially when cold weather returns and indoor activity increases this fall. It’s also important to consider how a country manages the virus after reopening. In Israel, the positivity rate fell to 0.3 percent in May. But a rapid reopening complete with massive weddings and in-person schooling has produced another big wave of infections.

Even so, if you want to reopen your country, a positivity rate of 1.5 percent (or lower) seems to be a good starting point — a benchmark to aim for. Ukraine, for instance, reopened when its positivity rate was about 2 percentage points higher than that. Cases soon climbed again.

Unfortunately, America’s positivity rate has never been anywhere near 1.5 percent. In fact, it has not fallen below 4.6 percent since the start of the pandemic. On May 15, positivity stood at 4.2 percent in Florida, 6.5 percent in Texas and Arizona, and 4.8 percent in California — three to four times Europe’s lockdown-ending level. As a result, it didn’t matter how long U.S. stay-at-home orders lasted. They were lifted when there was too much virus still circulating in the population to contain.


(more on the link)

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nivek

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Military medics sent to California, Texas amid scaling coronavirus cases

Military doctors, nurses and specialists have been sent to help overwhelmed hospitals in California and Texas as coronavirus cases continue spike.

A reported 580 Army and Navy medical support staff have been called in to assist Texas hospitals grappling with the record number of coronavirus cases, according to the military’s health news website, Health.mil.

Texas reported nearly 22,000 new daily cases over the last 48 hours along with 239 deaths, the highest number of cases and deaths reported since the pandemic started.

"COVID-19 is spreading in workplaces, it's spreading in families, in parties and gatherings,” Texas Health Commissioner John Hellerstedt said Friday.

An additional 85-person Army medical team was sent to assist in taking over an medical wing in a Houston hospital.

"I am grateful to our federal partners at the Department of Defense for sending these teams to the Valley and working within the community to protect public health and combat this virus,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement earlier this week.

The Republican governor established a mask mandate earlier this month -- a policy at odds with other GOP governors and President Trump, faced backlash this week for refusing to re-instate lockdown measures.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo have urged the governor to enforce lockdown measures in Houston, the city with this highest coronavirus case count in the state.

“Listen, there’s no lockdown coming right now,” Abott said Tuesday on a local WBAP radio show.

Texas, along with another Sunbelt state, Arizona, have also had to call in refrigerator trucks to help with the morgue overflow.

The state of California requested that 160 Air Force medical staff be placed in different intensive care units around the state, as the number of new patients and deaths have broken records over the last few weeks.

(more on the link)


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nivek

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Today again over 70,000 new cases of infection and deaths just under a 1000...At least the military is helping out, according to the above post...

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pepe

Celestial
Not going well is it?

Remember the second wave of the the Spanish Flu of 1918 was much deadlier than the first, with a newer mutation that killed faster and killed many - Estimated World total was
50 million!

I still keep asking, but can not find, a really good answer as to why it ended, more or less
suddenly - Or were they just lucky?

We might not be so lucky and this current pandemic could be an apocalyptic catastrophe
that brings about the end civilization.

Remember a few months ago I was arguing that we were closing down the economy too fast?

Events are showing maybe we did not close it down fast enough and in fact acted too slowly.

As things now are going the only intelligent thing to do is react with vigor and try to transfer
both the economy and schooling to online - Most necessary business can be transferred to
online commerce - Postal, and other delivery drivers should probably be the only ones
who have to go out to make deliveries.

Sure people don't like it - But without a vaccine or a cure - We are indeed facing
apocalypse now !!!

I think the Spanish flu did knock a round for some time and hasn't completely left us today. Nothing lasts forever and Im guessing the longer it hangs around the weaker it will become and the more resistant we become. That combo action, I hope will see it back seated in a few years and along the way we will be able to offer life saving answers.

So fluid.
 

nivek

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New coronavirus cases are rising in Canada, and they are being linked to young people gathering in bars and other social settings.

“When we examine recent trends in case reporting, there is some cause for concern. After a period of steady decline, daily case counts have started to rise,” Howard Njoo, the deputy chief public health officer, said. On Thursday, over 400 new cases were reported. The daily case count rose to an average of 350, which is up from 300 a day earlier, according to Reuters. “Singing, mingling and dancing in close contact with others in closed spaces and crowded places is not the way to party this summer. These are ideal conditions for the spread of COVID-19,” Njoo said.

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nivek

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Israel has announced it will be shut down on weekends after a new surge of coronavirus cases have struck the country.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been exploring "interim steps" to avoid another general lockdown, according to the Associated Press. Many businesses, beaches, gyms and exercise studios will be closed on weekends as well as limiting of restaurants to takeout and delivery. The government said restaurants have until early Tuesday to switch to takeout and delivery only. Stores, malls, barber shops, beauty salons, and tourist sites will also be closed on weekends. Public gatherings will lower to 10 people indoors and 20 outdoors. The Israeli weekend is Friday to Saturday.

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nivek

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REVEALED: Millions of children will finally return to school in August - but only PART-TIME with just a handful of states delaying the start of the academic year as coronavirus cases surge

A state-by-state map shows millions of American schoolchildren will be back in the classroom when the 2020-2021 academic year commences. Almost all students have been learning from home since the coronavirus pandemic forced schools to shutter across the country in mid-March. But many are set to reopen their doors from next month, despite the fact that cases of COVID-19 continue to surge.

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nivek

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Higher numbers for many states, it seems to be spreading faster in other areas now, noticed the deaths in Arizona rising...ugh

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AlienView

Noble
Higher numbers for many states, it seems to be spreading faster in other areas now, noticed the deaths in Arizona rising...ugh
Another 'sun belt' state - Most of the current rise is in Southern states, states that are warmer;

Remember a few months ago they were predicting the virus would subside when the weather got warmer and come back in the fall?

They guessed wrong again - And apparently they don't understand Covid 19 at all do they?

If the pandemic started in cold weather and got worse in warm weather
- Apparently it is resident to temperature.

So the plot thickens and the level of danger increases!
 
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