Coronavirus Freakout 36 - April is the Cruellest Month

Link to previous thread

Use this one instead of the other, very basic one with no poll and an irrelevant title.

Not until the Fat Lady sings.

Fuck off R2. What a fucking baby.

Shut the fuck up, ugly dumb cunt at R4. No idea how to create a poll or even a relevant title.

Thank you for spelling "Cruellest" properly, OP.

🎵🎶 THIS IS WHERE WE DO IT 🕺 DO IT .........

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 17 - 9:30 PM EST

🦇 BAT APPRECIATION DAY

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 2,250,119

DEATHS: 154,241

CRITICAL: 59,963

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 709,735

DEATHS: 37,154

CRITICAL: 13,509

✋: 🦇 BAT APPROVED

🦈 Beaches in Jacksonville Florida reopened this afternoon.

From the last thread, the Corona Poll Troll has been outed:

Damn, those of you saying the Corona poll troll is a Republican aren't kidding.

Block him and you'll see he posted a bunch in the DNC debate threads and bashes every major candidate - Biden, Sanders, Warren, and makes RNC talking point comments about each (Native American, sleepy, age).

And he seems to have a habit of upcoming every single post he makes, some obscenely. I was wondering why one of his posts had so many upvotes after an hour and now I know why.

I don't know if he's gay or not, but he's definitely not a Democrat.

Yes, Miss ...... you've already posted the same message on three other threads.

This thread is for the grownups.

Please return to your [italic] Mistress of Evil Thread.

CPT you are not welcome on datalounge. Go back to free republic

What an erudite thread title. Really classes the joint up.

Politely, I request that the thread title disputants kill themselves immediately.

I don't dispute the title. It's been snowing on and off here for the past three days, enough accumulation to shovel and clean off my car.

Should I go ahead and open the three 37 threads now? You know to get a head start if the two 36s fill fast.

R13 I think it is mostly one insane person who may have been behind all the Meghan and Harry threads being deleted. So I say don’t let her win she may want to get the coronavirus threads deleted also suspect she may be Muriel because it seems no one is moderating. If you read the DL’s fine print it says people who post a lot are allowed to moderate.

How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus

Fiscal restraints imposed by Republicans in Congress in the early years of the Obama administration left the U.S. less prepared to respond to the coronavirus pandemic today.

by Yeganeh Torbati and Isaac Arnsdorf April 3, 10:42 a.m. EDT

This virus has killed vastly more Democrats than Republicans.

well Jacksonville just reopened its beaches. The mayor is repub and obviously so is Florida's governor. Will there be a rise in cases there the next month? time will tell

I am Watching Rachel right now she is truly an angel of God. I love her to death.

I live in a small town and travel to eat at a nearby bigger town and both places I hear a lot more sirens then I usually. I wonder if it is a because of the virus.

Anyone who says to me Democrat’s are just like Repigs I think I might slap them.

Singapore now has more than 5,000 coronavirus cases

The total number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Singapore has reached 5,000, according to the country's Ministry of Health, after another 623 cases were reported on Friday.

Singapore has experienced a rapid rise in cases after a second wave of infections brought back from other parts of the world.

There are now at least 5,050 infections and 11 deaths from the virus, according to the government.

Just one of the new cases on Friday was an imported infection, showing the disease is now being spread through the community.

"We are particularly concerned that it is increasingly difficult to link the new cases and identify the source of infection," the Ministry of Health said in the press release.

"In fact, the number of unlinked cases in the community has increased slightly, from an average of 19 cases per day in the week before, to an average of 22 per day in the past week."

Among the new cases reported, 558 are foreign workers residing in dormitories, the ministry said.

Last week, Singapore announced it would move foreign workers into alternative living arrangements such as military camps and vacant government apartments amid a spike in cases.

From next week, Walmart – the largest retailer in the US – will require all of its workers to wear face coverings.

In a message from the CEOs of Walmart and its Sam’s Club wholesale stores, the company said, “We will begin requiring that associates wear masks or other face coverings at work. This includes our stores, clubs, distribution and fulfillment centers, as well as in our corporate offices.”

The statement says customers will also be encouraged to cover their faces, although it will not be mandatory.

Walmart says it will provide all employees with a face covering, or they can provide their own. The new policy goes into effect Monday.

"We hope this step will promote safety and consistency across all of our facilities and be of comfort to our customers and members. However, it’s important to remember that face coverings are simply an additional health precaution. They do not guarantee against the spread of this virus," the statement said.

Chief of staff to Nigerian president dies after contracting coronavirus

From CNN’s Stephanie Busari in Lagos and Leona Siaw in Atlanta.

Abba Kyari, chief of staff to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, died Friday after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, according to a statement from the office of the presidency.

According to Johns Hopkins University, Nigeria has 493 reported coronavirus cases and 17 deaths. However testing for the virus has not been widespread.

All airline passengers will have to wear masks or face coverings at Canadian airports

Canada’s Minister of Transport Marc Garneau announced new measures Friday requiring all airline passengers in the country to have a non-medical mask or face covering over their mouth and nose during travel from Monday.

Travelers will be asked to cover their mouth and nose at Canadian airport screening checkpoints, as well as when they cannot physically distance from others, when directed by airline employees, and when directed by public health officials, according to a release from Transport Canada.

Passengers who fail to show that they have a face covering during the boarding process will not be allowed to fly.

The measures go into effect on Monday.

My state and my neighboring (where I work) had protests about going back to work. The deplorables are going to kill us all.

These assholes dont care about who is going to die they just dont like to do be told what to do.

The other 36 thread is a mess of people posting about deplorables and attacking the nice Corona Updates poster, so I think we should stick to this one.

UK Coronavirus Stats Friday 17/4 🇬🇧

108,692 cases, up 5,599 from 16/4

14,576 deaths up 847 from 16/4

The UK is paying the price for locking down so late. This time last month, foolish Brits were enjoying Cheltenham Races and all hospitality and entertainment venues were still open.

That other thread is rightfully sick of deplorables. Who needs it.

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 18 - 9:55 AM EST

👬 HUSBAND APPRECIATION DAY

🦁🤡🦒 WORLD CIRCUS DAY

🌐GLOBAL

CASES: 2,275,782

DEATHS: 156,104

CRITICAL: 57,495

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES : 710,272

DEATHS: 37,175

CRITICAL: 13,509

✋ : 🤡 BE A CLOWN !

BBC-The number of coronavirus victims in Britain's care homes could be as high as 7,500, five times more than the official estimate, the sector's main charity has warned. "Without testing, it is very difficult to give an absolute figure," Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, told The Daily Telegraph. "However, if we look at some of the death rates since April 1 and compare them with previous years' rates, we estimate a figure of about 7,500 people may have died as a result of Covid-19." The figure is more than five times higher than the estimate of 1,400 suggested by the government earlier this week.

CNN-A total of 15,464 people in the United Kingdom have died after contracting coronavirus, the UK Department of Health and Social Care confirmed Saturday, marking an increase of 888 from Friday's confirmed total of 14,576. The number of confirmed cases has also increased in the past day, with 5,525 people diagnosed in the past 24 hours. Currently there are 114,217 confirmed Covid-19 patients in the UK.

It's really sad to think that this is the best we can do for our elderly. It's not exclusive to your country, either. It's also huge problem in the US, and certainly in many other countries. Governments need to do better.

Interesting idea

Brussels Times -International companies have begun to show an interest in an armband developed for workers which helps enforce social distancing rules. The armband was developed by Rombit, an Antwerp company that specialises in digital applications for maritime services, port terminals and petrochemical plants. It consists of a bracelet based on an existing safety armband, which gives off a signal when it comes within a certain distance of another bracelet. Calibrated to a distance of 1.5m, the Covid Radius bracelet ensures no breach of social distancing rules in the workplace, even inadvertently. The bracelet works without an internet connection. The only requirement is that every worker must wear one.

Forget the fines. Throw his ass in jail!

Brussels Times- A 19-year-old Brussels man is to appear in court next month accused of ignoring the rules of confinement, after receiving his 14th police fine since the measures were introduced just over a month ago.In the latest incident, the youth was spotted by police sitting with a friend on the steps of the Muntpunt public library in the centre of Brussels, in clear breach of the rules on staying at home and social distancing. When the identities of the two were checked, both were found to be previous offenders, and when they were taken to the nearby police headquarters by the Grand Place, one was found to have been fined 13 times already

45 NYC doormen and janitors dead from coronavirus, union says

Ten hotels are currently being used by regional authorities to provide shelter to homeless and migrant populations in Brussels during the coronavirus lockdown. Located in municipalities across Brussels, the hotels bring relief to public and NGO-ran shelters and have made it possible to provide shelter to nearly 1,000 people so far. The use of hotels amid the pandemic has added some 726 beds to the region’s housing capacities, which currently stand roughly around 1,500 beds

The "infect everybody, let God sort 'em out" strategy that Trump and co. are pushing (and that Boris and co. are pushing in the UK) is flat out genocide. But what else could you expect from white supremacists?

R-36 here. More about the bracelet from a company representative.

"In the past 48 hours, we have received orders from more than 25 companies from Europe, the US and the Middle East,” said Baekelmans. “Some want 500, others 1,000. One immediately wanted 2,000.”

Antibody study suggests coronavirus rate much higher than previously believed

Many more people may have been infected by the coronavirus than previously believed, a new study shows.

A recent study tested the blood of 3,300 volunteers in Santa Clara County, Calif., and found that between 2.5 and 4 percent of them had the antibodies that show they’ve recovered from COVID-19.

In a county the size of Santa Clara, where the population numbers 2 million, that rate of infection would mean between 48,000 and 81,000 people have fought off the virus — far more than the 1,000 who have officially tested positive there.

“Our findings suggest that there is somewhere between 50- and 80-fold more infections in our county than what’s known by the number of cases than are reported by our department of public health,” Dr. Eran Bendavid, the associate professor of medicine at Stanford University who led the study, said in an interview with ABC News.

Antibody blood tests, also known as serology tests, analyze blood from a finger prick. The process differs from coronavirus tests that swab the nose and throat.

The results, while limited, back a popular belief among health experts that significantly more people have been infected than testing shows — due to some people being asymptomatic and to the country’s limited testing capacity.

Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist and ABC News contributor, cautioned that the results for the California county are not necessarily representative of the country’s population — but he said the study is “adding to this confirmation of what we’ve expected, which is a much larger number of cases than we ever anticipated.”

A sweeping COVID-19 testing initiative on the Navy’s coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, found that 60 percent of its sailors who tested positive were asymptomatic.

But the link between a positive coronavirus antibody test and immunity is not yet clear.

The World Health Organization cautioned Friday that it’s not yet known whether having survived the deadly virus brings a universal immunity to reinfection.

“These antibody tests will be able to measure that level of serology presence, that level of antibodies, but that does not mean that somebody with antibodies” is immune, said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the head of the WHO’s emerging diseases unit.

Many stores are now denying entrance to anyone not wearing a face mask.

I know they're not always the most comfortable thing to wear, but consider it a life saving component of your daily outdoor attire.

Feel bad for the workers but they chose to work for this asshole in the first place. Also, glad to hear that Trump and family will not receive any bailout money.

CNN-Two Trump properties in Florida have furloughed a total of 713 workers due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to documents the Trump Organization filed with the Florida Department of Labor and local officials. There are 560 employees furloughed at Trump National Doral Miami and 153 employees were furloughed at the Mar-A-Lago club. The organization said the furloughs are of non-essential employees at both properties.

Off to meet Jeebus. Bye, dumbass!

10 min ago 540 people died in New York over the past 24 hours from coronavirus

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that 540 people in New York died Friday from coronavirus, he said moments ago during a news conference.

The state also recorded 2,000 new admissions to a hospital or new Covid-19 diagnoses yesterday, he said.

"And if you notice, 2,000 we're not at the peak, but this is where we were just about in late March, when it started to go up. So we're not at the plateau anymore, but we're still not in a good position. And the worse news is still tragic news, number of deaths, 540. It's not as high as it was. It's still 540 people died yesterday. 540 people. 540 families. 504 in hospitals, 36 in nursing homes. Nursing homes are the single biggest fear in all of this. Vulnerable people in one place, it is the feeding frenzy for this virus," Cuomo said.

ICU admissions and intubation numbers down in New York, Cuomo added.

A vaccine might take longer than originally expected.

If that happens, then people who are more at-risk will want to continue to shelter in place even though the shutdown will be ended for most people.

New York City residents can now report people who are not social distancing

From CNN's Elise Hammond

New York City residents can now report other people for not social distancing.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new service that encourages New Yorkers to take a photo of a crowded place, or a group of people who are not following social distancing guidelines, and text it to a phone number that alerts authorities.

"We still know there's some people that need to get the message and that means sometimes making sure the enforcement is there to educate people and make clear we've got to have social distancing," de Blasio said in a tweet today. "When you see a crowd, when you see a line that's distanced, when you see a supermarket that too crowded, anything, you can report it right away so we can get help there to fix the problem."

De Blasio said that once New Yorkers send the photo, "we will make sure enforcement comes right away."

He said the new reporting system is about saving lives and making sure social distancing is continuing in the city.

Some context: There has been 13,202 deaths due to the coronavirus so far in New York City, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.

Coronavirus death toll in the United Kingdom climbs to more than 15,000

From CNN's Nada Bashir

A total of 15,464 people in the United Kingdom have died after contracting coronavirus, the UK Department of Health and Social Care confirmed Saturday, marking an increase of 888 from Friday's confirmed total of 14,576.

"As of 5pm on 17 April, of those hospitalized in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus, 15,464 have sadly died," the DHSC said in a tweet.

The number of confirmed cases has also increased in the past day, with 5,525 people diagnosed in the past 24 hours. Currently there are 114,217 confirmed Covid-19 patients in the UK.

R47. Indeed, we may be forced to chose this option but it won't be easy for sure.

Guardian-France will try to avoid setting different rules for elderly people once the government starts easing its coronavirus confinement measures, the president’s office has said, amid criticism at the impact of the lockdown on the older generation. It comes as president Emmanuel Macron sparked a backlash in recent days, after he said on Monday that older people, who are considered more vulnerable to the deadly virus, would be asked to stay home for longer.

It definitely seems that NY has passed the peak, For sure, they will continue to report big numbers for weeks to come but probably not as bad as the high point. So which state (or country) is next? Any thoughts?

For me , the UK is still a wildcard. Their numbers have been up and down. Lots of reporting delays and mixed messages regarding social distancing and they are still not reporting deaths in nursing homes. Not a single person so far. And then there is India....

CNN @CNN · 20m Covid-19 has infected more than 2.25 million people and killed at least 156,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University

SkyNews @SkyNews · 15m #Coronavirus: Some NHS hospitals will run out of fully protective gowns 'within 24 hours'

I really don't understand Trump's remarks saying the equipment is being wasted, or not really needed at all. I still think Kushner, under Trump's direct orders has it stashed away, while health care workers are dying in alarming numbers.

Until Ghoul Kushner can make money off of it, nothing will be released, i.e. sold, with he and his heinous cronies making a profit.

Travel and hospitality industry-centric Hawaii has unemployment rate now close to 40%.

~Aloha~

CNN @CNN · 7m Miami's police chief Jorge Colina has tested positive for coronavirus, CNN affiliates report

The irresponsible mayors who are opening up the floodgates, what will they do when a mass wave of health care workers, police officers, or firefighters/first responders walk off the job? Sooner or later it's bound to happen, especially if we get a second round of Corona.

The Sunday Times @thesundaytimes Boris Johnson skipped five Cobra meetings on the virus, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears

Failings in February may have cost thousands of lives

The Sunday Times @thesundaytimes · 1h Replying to @thesundaytimes It would not be until March 2 that Johnson would attend a Cobra meeting about the coronavirus. But by then it was almost certainly too late.

Britain was on course for one of the worst infections of the most deadly virus in more than a century

R48 I’d like to text di Blasio photos of the crowded NYC bars the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day when the city should have been enforcing strict social distancing guidelines.

Like Trump, Boris Johnson is the fucking devil.

The live stream for Lady Gaga's One World is up and running.

The difference between Germany and the UK is startling.

Germany -- Total cases: 142,872 .. Total deaths: 4426 .. Total tests: 1,728,357

UK -- Total cases: 114,217 .. Total deaths: 15,464 .. Total tests: 460,437

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 18 - 3: 05 PM EST

.👬 HUSBAND APPRECIATION DAY

🦁🤡🦒 WORLD CIRCUS DAY

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 23,102,069

DEATHS: 58,885

CRITICAL: 55,269

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 728,293

DEATHS: 38,244

CRITICAL: 13,544

✋: 🦁 GRRRRRR !

the despicable right wing media is pushing this. Early on of course they were calling this a hoax, then it was real but exaggerated and now it's "why should our religious and civil liberties be so easily suspended?"

they are creating this narrative that Democrats and liberals enjoy preventing them from going to church, going to work, going out and having the quality of life they are used to. They blame "faulty models" on why we even have to social distance because the death amount "isn't that high".

These pieces of shit really have absolutely no shame. They know dumb deplorable poor and middle class whites will come out and protest and possibly even get violet at some point due to a perceived grievance

R64. Both Germany and the UK are playing with their numbers. Germany is playing with the cause of death for people with coronavirus. Lots of deaths due to heart attacks, pnemonia, etc. The UK has not reported a SINGLE death outside of hospitals. In Belgium alone, 50% of the reported deaths are outside of hospitals. For sure, the true infections and deaths across Europe are most likely very similar due to the open borders and travel. Unfortunately, the truth will only be revealed many years later after careful analysis of the data.

This is the correct thread with a new poll and official updates for the UK/US.

This thread is just for people who want to rant about Trump in every other post and aren't interested in the global situation.

UK Coronavirus Update Saturday 18 April

114,217 cases - up 5,525

15,464 deaths - up 888

Second highest death count after the US, which has five times the population.

🙊 CORRECTION .........

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 2,313,897 !

World Coronavirus Cases: 2,312,044

World Deaths: 158,884

USA Cases: 728,293 +18,558

USA Deaths: 38,244 +1,090

The UK death rate is truly horrendous. Only a couple of hundred deaths less than the US today, with about a fifth of the cases.

Florida has to be under reporting its numbers

how are they having so few deaths? makes no sense

I can’t stop watching this video. We have a moronic woman who is “covered in Jesus’ blood”, as she says. She can’t get sick because of that, and can’t understand or care that she might infect others. So, she goes to the grocery store [italic] every day, [/italic] and Home Depot and Walmart. Someone like this ought to be locked up as a threat to herself and others.

[quote] They know dumb deplorable poor and middle class whites will come out and protest and possibly even get violet at some point due to a perceived grievance

I'm so angry, I'm turning purple!

Health care systems that neglected to stock up on N95 protective gear and run out are now expecting their frontline staff to keep working like good little soldiers until they drop from viral overloads.

r47, yes, a vaccine may take longer than expected. Think HIV.

In early April, two more cruise ships with corona infected passengers docked in Florida. I haven't heard anything else about the ships since then. Anyone know if they're still there?

That certainly can't be good for Florida if they are.

the 18 month idea of a vaccine is likely a pipe dream

most vaccines take years

That woman in r74 may be on to something:

“Officer, you can’t give me a speeding ticket, I’m covered in Jesus’ blood.“

“You can’t fire me, ... I’m covered in Jesus’ blood.“

I suspect this excuse has utility in many situations.

🤔 [italic] Viral Loads . . . . . .

This...

some businesses in Vermont will reopen on Monday

Can we find a way for those people protesting to have things reopen, to sign a waiver in which they decline medical services for Coronavirus symptoms? Just asking for this would tampon down this nonsense.

CBS News @CBSNews · 5m 49-year-old recovers from coronavirus after 32 days on life support

People in Texas protesting a vaccine for the coronavirus that hasn't even been developed yet.

From the WP:

[quote]At the steps of the Texas Capitol, people chanted “fire Fauci” at a demonstration hosted by Infowars on Saturday “to protest the authoritarian lockdown orders being imposed by petty tyrants at the local level,” according to its website.

[quote] Jax Weaver and her 7-year-old daughter at the Austin rally: “I’m not worried about catching the virus. If we did catch the virus, I feel that we’re healthy enough to fight it.”

[quote] "Bill Gates can keep his poison... I'm Homeschooled! No Mandatory Vaccines!!"

People @people · 30m Broadway Star Nick Cordero to Have His Right Leg Amputated Due to Coronavirus Complications

That's horrible, R87.

Give the fine folks in r86's picture a week or two, and we'll be seeing a picture of one or both on ventilators, fighting for their lives.

Provided there is a ventilator available.

THIS IS JUST TERRIBLE!!!!!!!! FUCK CHINA AND CORONAVIRUS!!

Coronavirus crisis delays cancer surgeries for over 1,000 NYC patients

More than 1,000 cancer surgeries have been delayed in New York City and other treatments put on hold as hospitals are treating coronavirus cases.

Gov. Cuomo’s order last month that hospitals cancel elective surgeries forced cancer centers to determine what could safely be put off.

Doctors generally use a risk-benefit analysis based on guidelines put out by the governing societies of their individual specialities, said Dr. Arnold Baskies, chairman of the Global Cancer Control Advisory Council for the American Cancer Society.

“If we delay the surgery a few weeks will this make a difference?” Baskies said. “Often times it won’t.”

At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on the Upper East Side that meant at least 1,000 surgeries have been postponed as its operating rooms were converted to ICUs for COVID-19 patients.

The hospital treated hundreds of people already under its care who fell ill with the bug as well as staff members, said Dr. Jeffrey Drebin, chairman of surgery.

It also took in several dozen patients from other city hospitals including a woman from the overwhelmed Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx who needed a cancer operation.

“We tried to be good citizens and to the extent that we have had a little less of an overwhelming experience as some, we’ve tried to share the burden,” Drebin said.

Drebin said the hospital was now ready to begin scheduling delayed operations although some patients were hesitant, preferring to wait a bit longer.

“I think there’s balance between the fear of cancer and the fear of covid, which is not incorrect,” he said. “And actually we’re doing a number of things to try to make this as safe for our patients as we can.”

All patients will be tested for COVID-19 before surgery and it will be delayed again if they have the virus, he said.

At NYU Langone Medical Center, in addition to delaying surgeries, patient visits were done remotely through telemedicine to determine if it was necessary for an in-person trip. The number of people participating in clinical trials has dropped by half, said Dr. Benjamin Neel, the director of the Perlmutter Cancer Center.

“We’re going to start some surgeries next week under very carefully controlled conditions,” Neel said. “We’re trying to aim for the procedures that are really ripe to be done and also don’t require long hospitalizations.”

Neel said the hospital was seeing fewer cases of leukemia and lymphoma than it normally would, perhaps because people were afraid of getting the cornavirus in the hospital.

“We are very confident that no one is dying from cancer because they’re not getting treated,” he said. “We’re more concerned about people not coming in and getting to the point where we can’t help them.”

Illinois blows $17M on shoddy face masks from China

Illinois, in its desperate search for masks to protect its medical workers and first responders, laid out $17 million for KN95 masks from China.

The state did so after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said earlier this month these types of masks were an acceptable alternative to the United States approved N95 masks.

They were wrong.

On Thursday, similar masks were recalled by multiple states — including Missouri, whose Department of Health and Senior Services director Sandy Kartsen said the masks did not meet their standards.

The Illinois Department of Public Health sent out an alert saying that the KN95 masks might not meet performance standards and advised agencies to remove them, according to local WGNTV.

R51: I don't understand Cuomo's reasoning that NY has reached its peak. 540 yesterday, but 1025 the day before. We need to see consistent low numbers across several days...

The above are death numbers. Maybe he is referring to critcal cases?

Turkey passes Iran with highest number of confirmed cases in the Middle East From CNN’s Gul Tuysuz

Turkey has passed Iran for the highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the Middle East region with a total of 82,329 confirmed cases.

A total of 3,783 positives were confirmed over the last 24 hours, according to the latest Turkish health ministry figures, a slight decrease from the previous week in which daily positives hovered around the 4,000 mark.

The daily number of deaths from the virus is 121, bringing the total number of fatalities to 1,890.

At least 1,894 people are receiving treatment in intensive care units, and 1,054 of those are intubated, the ministry said.

The total number of patients who have recovered is 10,453 with 1,890 people discharged from the hospital Saturday after testing negative, according to the ministry figures.

Turkey is under a weekend curfew that ends at midnight local time Sunday.

The interior ministry announced a 15-day extension of travel restrictions in place across 31 provinces which covers nearly two-thirds of the Turkish population.

At least 40% of New Jersey coronavirus deaths are linked to long-term care facilities

From CNN's Kristina Sgueglia

At least 40% of coronavirus deaths in New Jersey are connected to long-term care facilities, according to Health Commissioner Judy M. Persichilli.

There has been 1,655 coronavirus deaths associated with long term care so far, Persichilli said.

This figure includes “Covid positive deaths, deaths in persons with pending test results, and respiratory illness deaths for which Covid testing was not performed," she said.

Persichilli said long term care facilities were associated with 125 of the deaths reported Friday.

Contamination at CDC lab may have caused delays in rolling out coronavirus testing early on

From CNN's Sara Murray, Nick Valenica and Wesley Bruer

Contamination in manufacturing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's test for coronavirus caused weeks of delays that slowed the US response to the pandemic, multiple health officials told CNN.

The problem stemmed in part from the CDC not adhering to its own protocols, a Food and Drug Administration spokesperson said on Saturday.

“[The] CDC made its test in one of its laboratories, rather than in its manufacturing facilities. CDC did not manufacture its test consistent with its own protocol," the spokesperson said.

Some background: In mid-February, the CDC was uncertain whether its test was malfunctioning due to a design issue or a manufacturing issue, two FDA officials said.

That was concerning to the FDA. On Feb. 22, an FDA official traveled to Atlanta and spent the following days visiting CDC labs to try to sort out the testing problem.

According to an administration official, the FDA determined contamination was most likely occurring during the manufacturing process and that the CDC had appeared to violate its own manufacturing protocols.

By Feb. 27 the FDA and the CDC worked together to shift the manufacturing of the CDC test kits to IDT, an outside manufacturer, two FDA officials said. Those test kits functioned correctly and were shipped to public health labs.

“The test manufactured by IDT was distributed and has encountered no issues, thus supporting the conclusion that it was a manufacturing issue,” the FDA spokesperson said in the statement.

The inspector general also announced that it is doing its own investigation of the test creation and expects to complete the review by 2021.

The Washington Post was first to report the issue of contamination.

The United States isn't even remotely prepared to " Open For Business."

That’s because Vermont has a Republican governor, R83.

Lolz

[Quote] Now that I’ve lived during the time of plague, I totally get why most Italian Renaissance paintings are just people layin around with their tits out.

Is anyone else going from feeling scared to feeling normal it’s ok to being inconvenienced and feeling guilty about that to being crazy mad about the politics and the futility of it all then feeling pass the fucking vodka blase and back again? Every day?

R100 Substitute gin & xanax for vodka and I'm right there on the rollercoaster of doom with you. How the HELL do we have a President in office literally inciting violence and nobody drags him out in cuffs?! Then there's the daily fear that I'll lose my job. But then there are the mornings where I hope this lasts indefinitely because I'll NEVAH go back working in an office again.

It's exhausting.

I just don’t get why someone can’t slip something into his Diet Coke before he goes into the briefings.

Just in case he accidentally spills his Diet Coke, slip a little extra something into the "special sauce" on his Big Mac.

When I was out grocery shopping today, I couldn't help but notice that face masks are becoming quite the fashion statement. My favorites so far are the smiling skeleton face with a full set of teeth, and a grinning Cheshire Cat.

This was inevitable. The true story of what’s been going on in the White House behind the scenes.

Hitler: I went to Reichmart and had to fight someone for toilet paper with a baguette!

Eva Braun to crying woman: don’t sniff, people will think you have the virus!

I'm waiting for people to start bringing back ancient Carthaginian masks

I’m curious if anybody thinks they’ve had it and not diagnosed. I’m staying with my parents for the time being, and both my mother and I had a sore throat and light cough for about a week and then nothing.

She is in her 60’s so I was kind of freaking out but we seem to be fine. Could have been a cold of course, and neither one of us wanted to go to the doctor if we didn’t have to.

I'm sure the antibody test will be available soon...R107

R92, intubations and hospitalizations in NY are down. So I’m guessing the deaths that are being reported are existing cases of people that have been on a ventilator for some time, or have died at home or at a nursing home.

After several weeks on a ventilator, in the past it’s been the policy that if the person is not improving, they tell the family either the person has to be removed to a nursing home or a hospice. They don’t usually leave people on a ventilator indefinitely in the hospital even in regular times. They need the bed for someone that can be helped.

My dad went to hospice, and his nurse told me she had previously worked at some sort of facility where a lot of patients were in comas or otherwise on some sort of life support. It sounded really horrible. She said she’d rather work in a hospice, where at least people weren’t covered in tubes and basically the living dead being artificially sustained forever. In hospice they stop all that and let you die naturally.

CNNis obsessing about this “Contamination At The CDC Lab Caused Delay In Testing” story of theirs. What the fuck does “CONTAMINATION AT THE CDC LAB” even mean?

Mikey Pence gave the commencement speech today at the Air Force Academy in Colorado.

He WAS NOT wearing a face mask.

Dr. Vin Gupta is handsome

'Florida has to be under reporting its numbers how are they having so few deaths? makes no sense'

Temps in the mid 80s and early 90s with 12 hours of hot sunshine a day. This kills the virus when it lands on any surface exposed to the heat and sun.

And by hear and sun what is important is UV rays.

Corona is one sneaky bitch.

Heat and sun

Not hear and sun

Sorry I am a little tipsy.

This Washington post article talking about how this virus can damage the heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver. This virus is monstrous.

r117 would you please post the story. I can't get into it. thanks

For a second I thought r74 was a update from America’s sweetheart and DL Fave Susan Richardson. Wonder how she is holding up in these dark times.

Hey, Susan Richardson troll are you out there?

Interactive Map of the Coronavirus Cases in NYC by Zip Code

I live in manhattan and cases are increasing in all the zip codes here.

Reuters @Reuters · 26m South Korea reports single digit new coronavirus cases for the first time in two months

[quote] Mikey Pence gave the commencement speech today at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. He WAS NOT wearing a face mask.

How on earth could Pencey be expected to give blowjobs to all of those strapping young cadets while wearing a face mask?

Mikey was just trying to determine the appropriate number of loads that can be taken during this pandemic. He definitely did not enjoy it!

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What I don't understand is why India's numbers so far are so low. How is that, in such a large country, teaming with people living on top of each other, many in sub-optimal conditions with spotty healthcare and healthcare access. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see they aren't living through a COVID deluge, I just don't comprehend how the US has 37k+ dead and India a fraction of that.

Also the African countries seem to either be doing a great job of containment, or there is something else in play that is keeping their populations from suffering a widespread breakout. Can anyone explain how this is?

Well, ‘rona is nothin’ compared to Ebola!

Indians eat a lot of tumeric!

It has to be the temperature. That's why I'm optimistic that the coronavirus might die in the U.S. by summer.

R125, did we ever find out what happened to this man?

It just hasn't taken off yet in the Southern Hemisphere. Wait. International travel brings it in. It's going to take longer in areas that don't have as much international travel but once it gets a foothold it's going to devastate the rest of the world, too.

I wonder if malaria antibodies are in some way protective against Covid19.

R128. First, there is a big testing problem in India so the true number of infections and deaths is unknown. So far, they have only conducted 270 test per one million people. By comparison, Italy has conducted 21K and the US 11K per Worldometer. According to Forbes, they finally received a long awaited shipment of 650K testing kits from China this week which will help. Second, the entire country has been under extreme lockdown for many weeks. Not a Florida type of lockdown but a total one with basically no moment. Some people actually died trying to walk back to their homes once the public transportation was halted. For sure, there is a growing problem there as the virus has been detected throughout the country

India and Africa are much bigger continents, more room for people to spread out in.

R131 How do you explain Louisiana and Florida?

That would have been true for the US at the time if the 1918 pandemic, had it not been for the thousands crowded together in bunkers, trenches and ships at the end of WWI.

They brought it back home to spread (like TRump rallies are doing now).

I'm praying for the first Rump Rally. Soon. I'm probably going to hell for typing this

I wish instead of the crappy press briefing today rump would have big rally and give a big wet kiss to everyone who attended.

Nobody believes those numbers in Louisiana or Florida.

R136 India is not a continent and India also has a very high population density. There's not much space for people to spread out, especially in the big cities. But the average population of India is also very young that could be a reason for lower deaths and most of the population also doesn't travel internationally. I think, however, that the lack of testing is the reason for their low reported infection rates at the moment.

India is a subcontinent.

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DEATHS: 161,921

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R140 My point is that infections are through the roof there despite that fact that it's hot and humid as hell. This virus isn't going to be phased by summer like R131 implies.

Listening to Mikey Pence spinning his BS this morning ......

All the lies and double talk. He truly in Trump's [italic] Mini Me.

[quote]It has to be the temperature. That's why I'm optimistic that the coronavirus might die in the U.S. by summer.

The novel COVID-19, despite previous suspicions, is capable of surviving prolonged exposure to high temperatures, according to a study by the University of Aix-Marseille in France, led by Professor Remi Charrel and Boris Pastorino.

In the experiment, scientists found that typically hot temperatures of 60° Celsius (140° Fahrenheit) used to disinfect research labs are ineffective against the coronavirus. Instead, the pathogen may only be killed in a maintained temperature of 92° C for 15 minutes.

The team noted that in samples with smaller loads of the virus, the 60° C should be enough to deactivate it, but in cases with larger loads of infection, the near-boiling point is necessary. The researchers concluded that using chemicals rather than heat to disinfect would be the best way to go.

R142 India is also not a subcontinent (which is irrelevant to the comment above anyway because the comment said that India was a continent like Africa). There is the term "Indian subcontinent" that describes a region many countries belong to. For example Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India and some more countries all belong to the Indian subcontinent

The only way we'll ever get any quick, positive, and decisive action is when Trump or a member of his family test positive for Corona.

Mike Pence is despicable. He lies in such a sleazy, evasive way. Chuck Toad tried as well as he could to pin the little weasel down, but to no avail. No matter what the question, he just spit out his scripted talking points in that annoying tone where he can’t believe that you are unable to comprehend how reasonable he is. To top it off, he overtalks in order to run out the clock. He’s not interested in doing anything but appearing to spew his falsehoods. I despise these vile bastards.

That other thread is full of losers. I accidentally posted on it. I got confused.

It’s because r143 is showing up in this one and it threw me off. He was supposed to kicked out of here.

R143, get lost. You are not welcome here.

Go back to the other thread.

FF r143. I’m so sick of unwanted deplorables spreading their stupid propaganda everywhere. Fuck off!!!!

I’m sad to announce that my Husbear, Corona Poll Troll, committed suicide this morning. Thanks for the bullying Datalounge.

CPT is not some hapless victim. It’s a dangerous, hateful piece of garbage. It constantly disrupts the site and is adversarial to us viewers. Show it no mercy.

🤣 [italic] Rest Assured, My Loves, The Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated.

We do , however, extend our deepest sympathy to the Deranged Mistress of Evil on the loss of what remained of her miniscule brain. The overwhelming sadness she experienced at the limited response to her premature thread was, alas, too great a burden to bear !

People are still saying the coronavirus is no worse than the flu. But the fact is flu season lasts for about 6 months from October through March, and sometimes even into May. During those months the flu will kill between 12,000 in a good year and 56,000 in the worst years. Covid-19 has killed almost 39,000 people since community spread really started around the first of March. We've already blown past a good flu year and aren't far from surpassing the worst flu years.

r156, people think it's the flu because Trump told them that's what it was.

r139, all those lockdown protests last week were Trump rallies.

“People are still saying the coronavirus is no worse than the flu“

No, people are not saying that. Right wing trash is saying that.

CPT is not welcome in this thread. Even through she is trying to throw HER OWN SOCK PUPPET under the bus.

Fuck off.

Block The Corona Troll and move on r160

Whew, you queens, it's Lord of the Flies around here.

My United Airlines flight was cancelled last week. At first, they offered a voucher which I can not use due to limited remaining vacation time. After complaining, they finally offered a refund by February 2021! FUCK United and their nickel and dime attitude! I will gladly sacrifice my refund to see them go under. They suck!

The governors who are declaring their owns state safe to reopen should be required to go out and circulate among large crowds and shake hands on a daily basis, without the benefit of gloves or a mask.

Love this.

R165: She better not get too close to that low rail or trip...

R118 You may be able to get the article from the WP. They are allowing covid articles free for everyone. the name of the article is

Coronavirus destroys lungs. But doctors are finding its damage in kidneys, hearts and elsewhere.

What was the name of that Chinese bat lady virologist - saw her on twitter the other day, people were saying she'd been researching ways to make human infection bat viruses - any of you know who I'm talking bout?

we'll see in 2 weeks if Jacksonville suddenly becomes a hotspot

That Bat Lady was Sum Ting Wong, r168.

🧟The other thread, Mistress of Evil, is for posters ages 12 and under.

Omg if N.Y. is opening up we are doomed! Especially us older, fat and unhealthy people!

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Suck it, deplorables.

Well, it’s a beautiful day here in NYC so of course Central Park is packed. The ones who sunbathe, while thousands are dead and dying in this city, are worse than Hitler. And so are the joggers not wearing masks.

Are you serious r174? I thought it was just the marinas.

The governors open the door a crack and half the citizens blow it off the hinges. And they're not wearing masks!

R148. Unfortunately, many people will only start to take this seriously when children and young adults start to die. Sadly, the world is filled with ungrateful bitches who won't think twice about locking up their parents and/or grandparents in a retirement or nursing home. Where I live, most children spend a significant amount of time with their grandparents who help to look after them while their parents work. Once the kids graduate from high school, the contact with the grandparents becomes less and less. They are only concerned about themselves. Ditto for their parents who start to see mom and dad as a burden and as an opportunity for inheritance to help ease the burden of their mundane existence. Sadly, no one gives a shit about old people anymore. It is what it is.

R177, the film Tokyo Story depicts that brilliantly. No wonder it’s number one on critics’ lists of all time great films.

Shi Zhengli R168?

Lolz

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 19 - 6:25 PM EST

🥃 NATIONAL AMARETTO DAY !

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 2,402,980

DEATHS: 165,641

CRITICAL: 54,215

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 762,496

DEATHS: 40,478

CRITICAL: 13,566

✋ : [italic] LA SALUTE PRIMO DI TUTTO !

[quote]India and Africa are much bigger continents, more room for people to spread out in.

India in many parts is one of the most densely populated nation on Earth. So the original question persists: how is their COVID death rate so low (so far?). They may be lagging behind the US and Europe, but not that much.

R174 [bold]MARY

Americans are mostly concerned with our own situation and maybe that of Europe to an extent, but not India or Africa.

R182: India also has a VERY strict quarantine in place (unlike USA and Europe). Africa - prob. not enough tests.

how dare you take away our right to be selfish and stupid!! Liberal authoritarianism!!!!!

Coronavirus Has Now Killed More People in US than 2018-2019 Flu Season

The death rate probably won't be as high as 5% once it's all over, but Covid-19 definitely a lot deadlier than the flu.

But we have a shot that helps bring some form of defense against the flu. We didn't have shit to help fight that bitch, coronavirus.

So we passed 40K mark, will we be at 60K by May 1st? I thought they revised those death projections down???

R189: Probably. With approx. 2K deaths per day, that is about right. Then, there's May....They should've left it at 100K+ deaths. USA will still hit that target, just slower.

Is India even counting the "untouchables"? Do they have access to health care of any kind?

NY numbers may be going down but in Manhattan, the number of cases keep going up...stay safe NYers!

More about the antibody test

Amazing how the number of US cases has surged from back in the early days when it was nothing more than a few cases, a hoax that would miraculously disappear in a few days, like a miracle. Like it was never even here.

People stayed home for the first few weeks but this last week people are out in droves.

This is just going to spike back up again and prolong this thing.

They should have kept it going until it was under control. It would have forced the feds to get their act together and for their to finally be enough testing and supplies.

The pressure is off for now.

Until this explosion of cases comes back in two weeks.

Expect another lockdown in May and maybe this time people will listen.

It’s not like the virus went anywhere.

Thirty one states and Washington DC have officially locked the doors and ended the school year.

My only regret is that the Internet didn’t crash out more. It would have made using Facebook and Instagram, tick tack, grindr and the whole lot of junk apps having to shut down to make room for emergency communication only.

That is what this country really needs. Is a lockdown from the Internet and a return to using their own brain and having to think critically.

Think critically? What's that?

'India also has a VERY strict quarantine in place (unlike USA and Europe).l

|Sure it does, with everyone living crushed into tiny apartments. 30 people in a space meant for four. Time and again we've seen that the virus only spread in a limited way in countries with consistently high day and night time temperatures and 12 plus hours of strong sunlight a day. If you look at the countries with the least cases, it's always the Caribbean, Africa, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka. It's been like that since their first cases in February. Far less in countries too poor too afford air con like India and the Maldives,

'That is what this country really needs. Is a lockdown from the Internet and a return to using their own brain and having to think critically.'

Only a person with no friends whatsoever would say this at a time like this. Maybe all books and movies should be banned too, grandad.

R200 Africa isn't a country.

Imposter !

It's : 🚶 Darfur O ......... Hipper and Cooler!

If anyone's in the neighborhood, Tuesday night is Locust Casserole Night. Plenty for everyone !

[italic] Please call ahead, and prepay with Credit/Debit Cards only.

Must pick up, no delivery.

No Mask, No Gloves, No Service !

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R199, they're Trump supporters. They'd look more like this.

I suspect that a lot of people erroneously that being “past peak” with a “flattened curve” means that the virus has past by and there is no further risk of contagion. That isn’t true, of course. We will still have new cases and deaths.

If you think about a bell-curve, you will recall that three days after peak is just about as bad as three days before peak.

The President should be explaining this to the public, but since Trump is even stupider than most people, he doesn’t understand it either. That, and his selfish political agenda, are what is driving him, not public health.

R196

Do you like it here better, Miss ?

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 19 - 11:10PM EST

🥃 NATIONAL AMARETTO DAY !

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 2,407,339

DEATHS: 165,609

CRITICAL: 54,218

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 764,265

DEATHS: 40,565

CRITICAL: NOT UPDATED @ 13,566

✋: BUONA NÓTTE

[quote] I suspect that a lot of people erroneously that being “past peak” with a “flattened curve” means that the virus has past by and there is no further risk of contagion. That isn’t true, of course. We will still have new cases and deaths.

Exactly. The past week has been horrible, with about 2,000 new deaths and 20,000-30,000 new cases in the US almost every day. We may have passed the peak, but we're now in the plateau at the top of the curve, which is a bad place to be. That's why it would be ridiculous to not wait at least several more weeks until we're truly on the downward slope to start reopening things. Yet so many fools seem to think, "We've passed the peak. It's over. I survived the COVID outbreak. Reopen everything today." It's this foolish attitude that's probably going to give us a nasty Round 2.

BBC- Thyrocare, a private diagnostic laboratory in India, had just started testing for Covid-19, when the Supreme Court ordered all tests to be carried out free. At 4,500 rupees ($59; £47), it’s not a cheap test. But the court did not clarify if and how private labs would be reimbursed. Panic stricken, some, including Thyrocare, put testing on hold. An anxious federal government petitioned the court to reconsider - which it did. According to the new order, issued on 13 April, the government will reimburse private labs for testing the 500 million people covered by a flagship public health insurance scheme. The rest would have to pay. But the volte-face sparked a bigger question: can India scale up testing for Covid-19 if it’s not free?

it's also the right wing media agitating to end social distancing that is making some people think "ok this thing has gone on long enough and should be over"

Bitch MccCuntell fans shall die.

The sheep-like nature of these protesting idiots is astonishing. Not surprising, but astonishing.

Guardian-India has recorded its biggest single-day rise in coronavirus cases, the Associated Press reports. as the government eased one of the world’s strictest lockdowns. An additional 1,553 cases were reported over the past 24 hours, raising the total past 17,000. At least 543 people have died and epidemiologists forecast the peak may not be reached before June.

Despite what the Maldives troll keeps posting, the virus is already widespread in hot as fuck India. The true scope will be revealed as more testing is done.

India has 1.3b people so it has barely spread at all.

R216. Are you mentally challenged? What part of lack of testing do you not understand?

Plus, the unwashed drop like flies all the time in a lot of these countries. Who's going to notice a few thousand more? Of course the numbers are completely wrong in rural China, India, Africa, etc.

BBC-Singapore has confirmed 1,426 new Covid-19 cases - its biggest daily jump yet.With just over 8,000 cases, the country has the most number of infections in Southeast Asia, surpassing figures in Indonesia and the Philippines.Officials said that the majority of the new cases were foreign workers while 16 of the new cases are Singaporeans or those with permanent residency. Once praised for its success in containing the virus, Singapore is now facing a surge of infections linked to industrial work sites and tightly packed worker dormitories. Around 300,000 low-wage workers, mostly from South Asia, work in Singapore in construction and maintenance.

R216, the doom and gloom conspiracy trolls always find some excuse for why things are far worse than anyone knows.

R179

Yeah, that's her. I saw this ludicrous piece on her, which is mostly a glowing profile of how accomplished she is, with this little unsubstantiated exoneration nestled in.

And: 'none of the sequences matched' her samples yet ... 'it was a 96 percent match of one of their samples' ... what? !

At the Annapolis Lockdown protest this weekend. Pls scroll down to read the thread comments, definitely worthwhile.

The moment that finally broke me:

I was walking home from parking my car. I had my white coat on, because it desperately need to be disinfected. A little old lady saw me and asked if I was a doctor, and I said yes.

"When is there going to be a vaccine?" she asked in a very small, scared voice.

"I don't know, ma'am, but I sure hope soon." Which is really the only answer I have.

And I got home, stripped, and jumped into the shower and started crying. Because all she wants is her life to go back to normal. And even if things are starting to slow down, we're a long, long way from better.

I'll get back to angry soon. But for right now, all I am is sad that this lady can't go see her friends, can't see her grandchildren, and has to live in fear every day of getting sick. And that's not fair to her. It's not fair.

r223, that's a good point, the elderly don't have many years left to enjoy life so this is really hurting them.

R223 You're a real doctor like I am..

[quote]...the show must go on.

Why don't you play the song instead, Kellyanne?

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⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 20 - 10:15AM EST

🍟 NATIONAL CHEESE FRIES DAY

㊙️ CHINESE LANGUAGE DAY

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 2,428,314

DEATHS: 166,126

CRITICAL: 636,907

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 765,613

DEATHS: 40,620

CRITICAL: NOT UPDATED @ 13,566

🍜 KUNG PAO !

I had a similar experience R223. Except I was wearing a leather jacket and some bear asked me in a baritone voice when The Eagle was going to reopen. I cried in the shower as well.

VoTN , Why didn't you remove your coat and place it in a red biohazard bag or a blue soiled laundry/linen bag before you left, instead of bringing those germs and God knows what else into your car? I bring jeans and a tee, or extra scrubs, and change and bag my soiled scrubs before I leave the hospital. You're also tracking all of that into your house. Gotta be proactive in these times.

[quote]I cried in the shower as well.

Pics please.

😭 Me, too ...........

I cried in my beer when I ran out of French onion dip for my kettle chips.

You bitches are harsh.

😂 [italic]#MakingAmericaLaughAgain

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^^^Again !

❤️ Feel The Love .......

365 Ways To Cook Ratburger by Sum Ting Wong.

I make bread yesterday, and I ate too much of it.

After seeing I could no longer 'suck it in' in the bathroom mirror, I cried in the shower.

I cried because I had no sandals.

And then I saw a man who had no feet.

I wondered what he did with his old sandals, but it didn't seem like a good time to ask.

Thanks VOTN r223. Great story. health care workers' heads must be fried, after a shift. Jesus.

Those of us sheltering in place, so as not to have to go to hospitals like yours, have no idea. Hope you are able to get restorative sleep.

The only person I talk to from the outside world I realized for the 1000th time he is not my friend.

Were any of you shower-criers eating pie at the time? Did you also laugh maniacally?

The Examiner:

'It's going to backfire': Fauci says anti-quarantine protesters could prolong shutdown

Does anyone else have the feeling that Trump and Fauci are playing good cop bad cop? Trump says crazy shit for his supporters while using Fauci to actually speak the truth to them and to the nation? Fauci says the things that Trump would like to actually say but can not for obvious political reasons.

[quote]Does anyone else have the feeling that Trump and Fauci are playing good cop bad cop?

Waaaaay beyond the mental capacities of Our Idiot President.

I want Fauci to tell us how much Trump & $ons have added to their bank accounts while the rest of the population is depleting their rainy day funds.

From the UK government press conference. More lies!!!. In Belgium, deaths outside of hospitals account for over 40% of all deaths. France has also reported a significant % of deaths outside of hospitals. Last week, one of the main operators of rest homes in the UK estimated that 7500 people had already died due to the virus based on year over year comparisons. Take the UK numbers with a grain of salt. They are totally false!

BBC-......But there was renewed concern that the death rate was being underestimated, as the numbers only include deaths in hospitals. Prof Doyle said she could not say how many had died outside hospital, but estimated hospital settings probably accounted for nine in every 10 deaths

That would be a good thing for Rump to do and he doesn’t have a good bone in his body.

I’m starting to like Dr Tony again.

ABC:

Treasury says economic impact paper checks are being sent out

Please explain. Are these checks for small business owners?

AP:

WHO head warns worst of virus is still ahead

R251. The warning signs were there in January despite what China and others were saying at the time. Many countries, including the US, wilfully ignored these signs and sadly they are doing it again now out of desperation. For sure, the measures and semi lockdowns are not nearly enough. A second more deadly wave is coming. Hold on!

The knives are out for Boris Johnson now that he is out of the hospital (or out of hospital). The worst of it makes him appear very Trump-like.

From the WP:

[quote] Over the weekend, the most-talked-about article was a Sunday Times report, headlined “38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster,” which revealed that Johnson failed to attend five high-level emergency meetings called to prepare for the outbreak in January and February.

[quote] The most damning, most tweetable quote came from an anonymous source, described as a “senior adviser to Downing Street,” who complained that Johnson “didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends. . . . There was a real sense that he didn’t do urgent crisis planning. It was exactly like people feared he would be.”

Last week: Rally round BoJo!

This week: We remembered BoJo was always a massive twat.

Two months ago, on February 20, neither US nor South Korea had yet recorded a death from the virus.

On March 20, South Korea had 100 total covid deaths, and US had 150.

Today, April 20, South Korea has had a total of 236 deaths. The US has passed 40,000.

The US has 6+ times as many people as South Korea, but more than 160 times as many deaths.

This is what Trump defines as "doing an incredible job."

No NYC Gay Pride

An explanation about the high numbers in Belgium. Short article. Please read

The escort business is booming in Belgium

Pets still safe for now according to a French study .

Cases of domestic animal infections "remain sporadic and isolated in view of the high circulation of the virus in humans." There is still “no evidence” that the few pets who were infected with the new coronavirus (Covid-19) can infect humans, despite new studies, said French health agency Anses. Since the appearance of the coronavirus, a few cases of pets testing positive for the virus have turned up, including two dogs and a cat in Hong Kong, and a cat in Belgium, which raised some concerns about whether or not animals could infect humans. Cases of domestic animal infections “remain sporadic and isolated in view of the high circulation of the virus in humans,” said Anses, which has reviewed developments since its last report in early March. Pigs and poultry were not susceptible to the virus under the conditions of two trials conducted in China and Germany, according to Anses. But cats, especially young ones, are susceptible to infection, as are ferrets and hamsters, which also develop clinical signs. However, “no case of infection of humans by a pet has been reported to date” and “there is currently no scientific evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted from an infected domestic animal to humans,” the health agency said.

As I do not have children, my four Bichon Malteses are my saving grace during the lockdown. They show me love when I need it most. They are happy to have more time with me and more walks than usual. I love them dearly

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 20 - 3:45PM EST

🍟 NATIONAL CHEESE FRIES DAY

㊙️ CHINESE LANGUAGE DAY

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 2,466,305

DEATHS: 169,388

CRITICAL: 56,385

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 782,987

DEATHS: 41,777

CRITICAL: 13,576

㊙️ NÎ HÀO !

Fantastic

[quote] For all your wild histrionics and your raw-throated rally cries and your garment-rending sermons and all your impassioned social media posts about the sanctity of life—here you are in the middle of a raging pandemic, packed together like lemmings, ignoring distancing of any kind, harassing essential workers, and demanding to be allowed to infect yourselves and others—while without a trace of irony, screaming “My body, my choice!”

R256 I love gay pride events as much as anyone. But I am willing to sacrifice the bump and grind floats this year for the sake of humanity. It's the least that we can do OP.

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All it takes is one employee... Is now really the time to reopen the economy?

BBC-The number of employees infected with coronavirus at a giant pork processing plant in the US state of South Dakota continues to rise. According to the state's health department, 748 Smithfield Foods employees have tested positive, as have 143 people who came into contact with them. That brings the total number of cases linked to the plant to 891. Last week, the plant became the largest coronavirus hotspot in the US. We spoke to workers, their families and union representatives who say the company put employees' health at risk in a bid to keep the plant open.

After the past couple of years, I think it is good that Pride take a year off to think about what it has become.

R266. The past couple of years? I think we can go back a bit further than that op

Plenty of room at the Hilton Garden Inn

Any time of year, you can find us here

So come on in, and check right in.

[italic] You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

r265, yes, yes, but what does putting a few hundred lives at risk matter compared to keeping Smithfield's shareholders happy? MAGA

Paula Dean used to be the face of Smithfield Hams.

Then she made that little racial faux pas.

He needs to be eliminated. He is a clear and present danger, like some others...

CNN-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro defended his participation in a weekend rally, where protesters called for an end to quarantine measures and urged military intervention to shut down Congress and the Supreme Court. Bolsonaro told reporters Monday he personally did not call for shutting down any branch of the government, adding that Brazil is a democracy and referring to the Supreme Court and Congress as “open and transparent.” He also lashed out at the media, saying he will not “accept provocations by the press.”National and local governments in Brazil have issued mixed messages on how to behave during the pandemic. While Bolsonaro has been pushing against strict restrictions, state and local governments in some of the country's hardest-hit areas have closed schools and nonessential businesses, with firefighters and police in the streets urging people to stay indoors. Brazil has the most confirmed coronavirus cases in Latin America. As of Sunday, Brazil reported 38,654 cases and 2,462 deaths, according to health officials.

If there's a better thread to post a situation like this, please give me the thread title or post a link. Or tell me to get a blog.

A good friend of many decades is driving me crazy with her tone deaf coronavirus behavior. She is "stubborn" and doesn't like being told what to do, so she is volunteering for extra hours at her nonessential job. She recently enjoyed the work get together for employees, the purpose of which I could not ascertain. She couldn't wait to get her stimulus check (she has a good pension, and Social Security, in addition to her part-time job; she is not hurting for money) so she could enjoy spending that extra money. She invited herself to my place (different states), and I guess it doesn't even occur to her that while I'm sheltering in place she's not welcome to visit.

Not a word about understanding the reasons for staying at home to avoid spreading the virus to vulnerable people. Or giving to the community or even being concerned or seemingly aware that people are suffering and dying from this.

I've always known and thought her to be a caring, aware person, but right now I feel like I'm living in a different world from her, and I really don't get it.

Anyone having similar experiences?

Pastor defends asking congregants to donate stimulus checks

Still surging in Ohio, apparently from highly infected prison populations.

Confirmed: 12,919 +2,697

Deaths: 509 +58

If that many Smithfield workers got infected, then it just shows how unclean and unsanitary the plant is. Their pork is dirty.

Paula Deen was hit in the face with a Smithfield ham.

🐷 Dirty Pigs !

Daily Beast:

Georgia Governor Allows Gyms, Salons, and Bowling Alleys to Reopen Friday as Coronavirus Cases Climb

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a stupid cunt with rubella breaks quarantine in order to meet her favorite star, who happens to be pregnant, infecting her and causing the child to be born with severe disabilities.

I'd say it truly is a zombie apocalypse, but zombies want brains.

[quote] A good friend of many decades is driving me crazy with her tone deaf coronavirus behavior. . . . I've always known and thought her to be a caring, aware person, but right now I feel like I'm living in a different world from her, and I really don't get it.

My observation is that we are going to be in this for the long-haul because too many people are selfish, inconsiderate idiots. They make up their own rules, which just happen satisfy their desire to workout with their bros or get together with friends, because “you’re supposed to have close-knit quarantine buds to hang out with for your mental sanity.” 🙄 Then there are the jerks in the grocery stores who haven’t got a clue as to what social distancing means. Hell, they can’t follow the directional signals on the floor telling you what direction to traverse the store as you buy items. I would say that America’s compliance has been sporadic and intermittent at best.

Let’s hope they find a vaccine very quickly.

The irony: had we had a real countrywide lockdown for two weeks, this probably would have been on the decline by now. Instead, . . . .

☀️ Happy Summer ?

Thank you, r280. This has been eating at me far more than it should, exacerbated by the isolation.

r272

R278: that was the Gene Tierney Tragedy.

[quote]A good friend of many decades is driving me crazy with her tone deaf coronavirus behavior. . . . I've always known and thought her to be a caring, aware person, but right now I feel like I'm living in a different world from her, and I really don't get it

Yes, a friend suggested since fares were so low that she could fly up for a long weekend this summer and stay with us. I nixed that idea in a hurry.

One of the many problems with these idiotic Repug governors opening up their states is that even when the cases spike again, they'll just lie and cover them up. I really wonder if they are trying to kill off a lot of their black population in the South. Chicago's numbers show a huge death factor in the black population. Not sure what explains it since I would think that if it was access to health care and poverty, the Latino community would also be equally affected but that's not what happening. I wouldn't put it past any of those racist fuckers in the South to have run the numbers and seen that it will kill more black voters than anyone else.

Bottom line, is it going to get worse or better in the US in the next month?

R260 that’s great! I am sure your little pack is a joy to be around. In case you were not aware there is a plague dog thread also.

R277 This too:

[quote]Governor Kemp is reopening restaurants and theaters on MONDAY APRIL 27.

Party on, Georgia!

Atlanta is the United States latest hotspot.

[quote] Party on, Georgia!

Let the party begin! .. Georgia went from 316 new cases yesterday to 1242 new cases today!

"king of ventilators"

Did you hear about this guy?

CNN's Anderson Cooper started coughing several times during his segment.

Hope's he's ok.

That guy was just on CNN, R292. Pretty amazing story. He said he still gets winded very easily — just bouncing a soccer ball against a wall is enough to tire him out. He also said he can’t sing. But he said the psychological toll has been worse than the physical after effects.

[quote] Hell, they can’t follow the directional signals on the floor telling you what direction to traverse the store as you buy items.

Oh, I can follow them all right. But I refuse to, because those directional signals taped to the floor are infringing on MY LIBERTY!

If they can ever find the testing kits that Trump and Kuschner have hidden, we might find out what our real situation is. We've only tested 1% of the US populace (by Trump's choice or ignorance). Until we get up to a decent number, maybe 20%, we'll never know what shape were in, until we really get overwhelmed by the virus.

Anderson Cooper has been coughing for two or three days.

The Los Angeles County antibodies test. Some findings ...

[quote] A new study that tested adults for antibodies to COVID-19 indicates it's much more widespread in Los Angeles County than previously thought — but it's also less deadly.

[quote] Researchers from USC and L.A. County Public Health estimate that approximately 4% of the county's adult population have antibodies to the virus, which means they’ve already been infected. Factoring in the margin of error, that's somewhere between 221,000 and 442,000 people.

[quiote] As of today, there are just under 14,000 confirmed cases in the county.

To add a bit more to what I posted at R280, one of the reasons that we will have a difficult time continuing to flatten the curve once they start reopening the economy is that people are going to go overboard and try and speed things back to where we were prior to March 1, 2020. It’s clear, because most people couldn’t do the current stay-at-home shutdown properly. They surely won’t be doing a better job of it when beaches, stores, restaurants, and bars are back in business.

In addition, many people don’t seem to comprehend that the goal of flattening the curve in the way we’ve gone about it is to give medical professionals and hospitals a chance to treat those critically ill patients over the course of months instead of days and weeks. Just because the numbers go down doesn’t mean that the virus is no longer a threat.

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 20 - 10:15PM EST

🍟 NATIONAL CHEESE FRIES DAY

㊙️ CHINESE LANGUAGE DAY

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 2,481,287

DEATHS: 170,436

CRITICAL: 56,766

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 792,759

DEATHS: 42,514

CRITICAL: 13,951

㊙️ ZÀI JIÀN !

Trump’s 'Sinister Whirlwind Of Doubletalk' Backfires In Coronavirus Briefing | MSNBC

[quote]If they can ever find the testing kits that Trump and Kuschner have hidden, we might find out what our real situation is.

Pritzker explained this today in his press conference. The federal government is flying supplies in from China and giving them to for-profit distribution companies to then sell to the states, or whomever will pay the most, including overseas customers. It's all profiteering during a deadly epidemic with Trump Co. as the top grifters. So, basically, the taxpayers are paying the cost to get the supplies out of China and then Trump's friends are profiting. These fuckers need to be dead, painfully dead.

#TeamMaeve.

I stayed in that Hilton Garden Inn in times square once!

R302, I watch this when I need a bit of cheer...

Hot mic in the press room reveals TPTB have already been vaccinated. Explains why obese, geriatric, germaphobe Trump has never worried about the virus.

Vaccinated with what? The blood of recovered people? I bet that doesn’t last long.

It would be hilarious if Trump thought he was immune and got it anyway.

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5 year old girl in Michigan dies after sheltering in place for three weeks. Neither of her parents tested positive.

Probably got it from school, R309. And Considering how lousy the tests are, maybe they’ll turn up positive later.

Hopefully there were no bats.

CNN-People living under coronavirus lockdown measures are adapting as best they can -- but six foreign tourists took an unusual approach by hiding out in a cave in India. The group lived in a cave near Rishikesh, a town in Uttarakhand state in northern India made famous by The Beatles, for nearly a month before they were found and quarantined by the police on Sunday, according to a police official. The tourists -- four men and two women from France, Turkey, Ukraine, the US and Nepal -- were initially staying at a hotel, but ran out of money and took refuge in the cave, said Mukesh Chand, spokesperson for Uttarakhand police.

Her parents are both first responders. Hard to believe she didn’t catch it from them

The problem with all the talk of a "peak" is that some seen to believe it's like a roller coaster - you reach the peak and then inevitably go downward, as if we're passive participants on some ride.

We control the roller coaster. We are active participants - we've only reached a "peak" because of our actions of distancing.

I really wish they'd use some other terminology.

Guardian-The German state of Bavaria has cancelled its annual folk festival, Oktoberfest. As Bloomberg journalist Oliver Sachgau notes, this will have a huge effect on Munich’s economy. Over 6 million people visit the city for the festival every year and it brings in around €1bn.

I couldn’t find this one for a time. Please don’t go away.

Troubling news from Spain

Guardian-Coronavirus deaths in Spain are up slightly at 430, compared to 399 yesterday. Fatalities from the virus now stand at 21,282, with 204,178 reported cases and 82,514 recovered.... Over 30,000 medical staff have tested positive for the virus in Spain, more than 15% of the total, and 26 have died. Widespread testing has been set back by the discovery that the latest batch of tests are inaccurate. A study by Barcelona city council revealed that only 11% of people presenting with coronavirus symptoms have been tested.

This video shows you what it's like battling covid19 in Milan.

CNN-The true number of deaths from Covid-19 in England and Wales was significantly higher in the period up to April 10 than had been previously reported by the government, new figures show. At the time, the official figures stated that 9,288 people had died from Covid-19. But figures released Tuesday by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) found the real number was 13,121. That's 41% more. The discrepancy is because the initial government figures only record those who died in hospital after testing positive for Covid-19. The more complete ONS numbers reflect everyone whose death certificate records a case of Covid-19 -- even if it is only suspected, and whether or not they died in hospital.

I'm trying to think ahead, reading the news and interesting reorting here on DL. It seems that in looking at the antibody tests done on tiny portions of people in both LA, CA and Santa Clara, CA, that maybe 3-5% of everyone may have antibodies that I thought repelled further infection from covid-19. Now I'm reading that antibodies may not protect??? If this is true, how can we ever un-hibernate until a vaccine? We will be screwed. Say, in the whole world, there are 100 people and say, every day each typically goes into the same store for 8 hours. Week 1 - One of those people got the virus from a bat. He then infected 10 people at the store. So 90 people were not infected yet. Let's do some math.

Week 2 - Each of those first 10 people infected 5 more making a total of 60 infected, 40 healthy.

Week 3 - 60 people were infected with 10 getting sick and 3 dying, leaving 97 people alive.

Week 4 - The first 7 recovered fine and came back. 2 more got sick from the previous week. 1 died, leaving 96 alive.

Week 5 - you figure the rest....

Trump was vaccinated with the blood of a vampire.

Does the new 450 billion dollar package include that $2000 a month the Dems wanted to give to the lowly American? Or is this round just for small businesses again? Are all we getting is the measly $1200?

R306 don’t you think a link is in order for such a claim?

It's difficult to link to the voices in one's head, R322.

R320 Peter Theil is passing out his blood now?

This article backs up what that cute Dr. cameron has been saying on YouTube for the past couple of weeks.

[quote] To my amazement, most patients I saw said they had been sick for a week or so with fever, cough, upset stomach and fatigue, but they only became short of breath the day they came to the hospital. Their pneumonia had clearly been going on for days, but by the time they felt they had to go to the hospital, they were often already in critical condition.

In emergency departments we insert breathing tubes in critically ill patients for a variety of reasons. In my 30 years of practice, however, most patients requiring emergency intubation are in shock, have altered mental status or are grunting to breathe. Patients requiring intubation because of acute hypoxia are often unconscious or using every muscle they can to take a breath. They are in extreme duress. Covid pneumonia cases are very different.

[quote] A vast majority of Covid pneumonia patients I met had remarkably low oxygen saturations at triage — seemingly incompatible with life — but they were using their cellphones as we put them on monitors. Although breathing fast, they had relatively minimal apparent distress, despite dangerously low oxygen levels and terrible pneumonia on chest X-rays.

[quote] We are only just beginning to understand why this is so. The coronavirus attacks lung cells that make surfactant. This substance helps keep the air sacs in the lungs stay open between breaths and is critical to normal lung function. As the inflammation from Covid pneumonia starts, it causes the air sacs to collapse, and oxygen levels fall. Yet the lungs initially remain “compliant,” not yet stiff or heavy with fluid. This means patients can still expel carbon dioxide — and without a buildup of carbon dioxide, patients do not feel short of breath.

I’m surprised that no one has yet identified the hot Denver healthcare worker who took a stand against the brigade of deplorables. (He somewhat looks like Ryan Eggold of NBC’s “New Amsterdam.”)

I suspect that they may want to keep their identities secret to avoid the inevitable harassment from the reich-wing.

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None of this had to happen. Every one of these deaths was unnecessary.

R326 Why do all female Trumtards look like moi?

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⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 21 - 11:15AM EST

👵 NATIONAL LIBRARY WORKERS DAY

🥜 CHOCOLATE COVERED CASHEW DAY

👑 QUEEN ELIZABETH'S 94TH BIRTHDAY !

🌐 GLOBAL:

CASES: 2,505,858

DEATHS: 172,406

CRITICAL: 57,530

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 794,330

DEATHS: 42,634

CRITICAL: 13,951

📚: READ A BOOK !

Everybody is still in shock. But what is going to happen when it sinks in that the president killed tens of thousands of innocent people by doing nothing to score political points.

It’s not going to be pretty.

Are we even getting the $1200.00, r321? I haven't gotten mine.

R332, hopefully it won't be pretty for him of his Republican defenders from the senate down to the voters.

Lots of people never got the 1200. Probably never will.

It probably ended up in a Swiss bank account for you know who.

Unless you’re a farmer. In that case you’ve cleaned up.

I read that millionaires got 1.2 million from the last stimulus. They will be able to claim unlimited shit...I can't remember but it was a lot!

[quote] UV light could kill coronavirus

That's great news!

Is this the “winning” we were promised? The best people?

These poor people taking their last breaths because of the president and the administration are doing NOTHING to help them.

+828 deaths in the UK. Yet the official numbers are -45 compared to the reported sum of each country. Hmmm..... The UK is definitely massaging their numbers in a variety of ways. But the truth is slowly starting to get out. No one in the current government wants to admit that they fucked up but that is exactly what they did, especially Boris.

Polling

R338, I caught a bit of an interview on NPR yesterday. They were saying they have new higher frequency UV lamps that are safe for humans.

Check out the hair @ r341.

Airbrushed to perfection. With just the right amount of back combing, finished with a generous mist of AquaNet.

WaPo poll today showed Trump's approval at 46% for handling the "hoax." No matter happens, 4 out of 10 (or more) are willing die for their cult leader.

R341. Encouraging news. Probably why he is pushing this new ban on immigrants. He is definitely rattled and hopes to stir up his base. If he could, he would throw them to the lions and make them fight to the death in arenas all over America to please the masses.

It seems like just yesterday Trump was telling us that medical professionals everywhere were in absolute awe of his amazing understanding of medicine.

" I get this stuff, I really get it" ................

What happened to former RNC chairman Michael Steele? I mean, I know he's a NeverTrumper, but this is something else...

Let's give credit where credit is due, R324...

Where are the Millions of tests that Pence promised?

Did they just make that up out of thin air?

There hasn’t even been a million test to date. That was a month ago.

R350 As Trump said many weeks ago,: “Anybody that wants a test can get a test.”

We are doomed!

The JFK graph at R341 made me sad.

R349, I almost breathed in the apple I was eating, what a shocker. It's like "Children of the Corn: The Whitehouse Years."

Is it possible that they confiscated all the supplies because they don’t want people to take the test or go to the hospital?

They want to keep the numbers down?

No, it's purely a money-making shakedown of the state governments. They seized all the supplies and gave them to a (Kushnir controlled, I think) corporation founded a month ago, which puts the supplies up for auction to the highest bidder.

Chinese doctors’ skin turns dark after coronavirus recovery

Two Chinese doctors who were infected with the coronavirus while treating patients in the epicenter city of Wuhan survived the deadly illness – but their skin turned very dark after they were placed on life support, according to a report.

Dr. Yi Fan and Dr. Hu Weifeng, both 42, were both diagnosed with COVID-19 on Jan. 18 while working at the Wuhan Central Hospital, the UK’s Metro reported.

The gravely ill physicians were taken to the Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital and then transferred twice, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

The two men’s changed skin color was attributed to a hormonal imbalance after their livers were damaged by the bug, Chinese state media reported.

But one doctor suspected that their skin turned dark due to a specific drug they received at the beginning of their treatment.

Yi, a cardiologist, was hooked up to an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) life support machine for 39 days.

The machine, which is similar to the heart-lung bypass machine used in open-heart surgery, pumps and oxygenates a patient’s blood outside the body.

“When I first gained consciousness, especially after I got to know about my condition, I felt scared. I had nightmares often,” Yi told CCTV from his hospital bed.

Hu, a urologist, has been bedridden for 99 days and is still very weak after undergoing ECMO therapy from Feb. 7 to March 22, according to his physician, Dr. Li Shusheng.

He only regained his ability to speak on April 11, said Li, who added that the doctors’ normal color is expected to return when their liver functions improve.

Yi and Hu both worked with whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang, who was punished for sounding the alarm over the coronavirus and died of the illness on Feb. 7.

Both men are receiving mental health support as a result of their traumatic experiences.

They're having a "Private, By Invitation Only, $ale" featuring the confiscated supplies.

RIP. so sad.

Holocaust survivor who escaped Nazi death march dies of coronavirus

A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor who escaped a Nazi death march — and lived on to meet Pope Francis — died of the coronavirus, according to a new report.

Eliezer (Lolek) Grynfeld died last week, according to the Times of Israel, citing the Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance center.

Grynfeld, born in 1923 in Lodz, Poland, died last week and is survived by his wife, Rachel, two children, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, according to the report.

In 1940, Grynfeld, along with his mother and grandparents, were forced to move into the Lodz Ghetto, according to the remembrance center. Both of his grandparents died and were buried there.

When the ghetto closed in 1944, Eliezer was taken with his mother to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the center said. He was then separated from his mother, who was sent to another camp.

“Eliezer was later taken on a death march and along with other inmates escaped before joining up with Soviet forces and helping as a translator,” the center said.

After the war, Grynfeld returned to Lodz, where he was reunited with his mother. He decided to immigrate to Israel, but was stopped in Germany by the Allies, who put him in a displaced persons camp, where he and Rachel first met.

Eliezer fell ill in the camp, and his mother came and brought him back to Poland, the center said. Rachel joined him a year later.

In 1956, he and Rachel immigrated to Israel, where he worked in the military industry.

Grynfeld was among the six Holocaust survivors who greeted Pope Francis during a May 2014 visit to the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem.

Seems like something the media would like to get documented and reported. Come one now media. We’re counting on you.

Don’t let us down.

This country is being picked over by vultures. We’re not dead yet.

CNN anchor Richard Quest reveals coronavirus diagnosis on live TV

CNN anchor Richard Quest revealed on live TV that he tested positive for the coronavirus, but said he’s “grateful” so far that his symptoms have not been “horrific.”

Quest, who hosts the program “Quest Means Business,” made the announcement Monday.

“Over the weekend, I’ve been tested, and I’ve been diagnosed as having the coronavirus,” Quest said on the program. “Yep, I’ve got a positive diagnosis for COVID-19. I am grateful and thankful that I don’t seem to have any of the horrific symptoms of the others.”

“I just have a nasty cough, which, thankfully tonight because of our excellent technical staff, there won’t be too much spluttering away,” he added. “Nope, I don’t have too much of the awful breathlessness or fatigue or anything else, night sweats that some of my colleagues have suffered.”

Quest revealed that despite his diagnosis, he plans to stay on the air unless “of course it all gets too much.”

“I’m not a fool nor am I a hero,” he said. “But at the moment, I feel fine, I feel good, but there are important things that you and I need to talk about every night, such as negative oil and the way the markets are still going down and what still needs to be done — which is why as long as I can — I don’t see why not, you and I will still get together at this time and have a good chat about the economic side of what’s going on.”

In a tweet, Quest said he is “saving [his] prayers and thoughts for those less fortunate” and urged the public to stay at home.

Fellow CNN anchors Chris Cuomo — who just released a video of his “official re-entry” from his quarantine — and Brooke Baldwin have also tested positive for the virus.

It's God's plan to turn white Deplorables who recover from COVID-19 into African-Americans.

What??? There are still over 107K people who are currently infected as per official testing. Who knows how many people are actually infected. How can they even consider opening things back up on 4 May?

Guardian-Italy reported 534 new deaths from coronavirus on Tuesday, 80 more than on Monday, bringing the death toll to 24,648, Angela Giuffrida reports. However, the number of people currently infected with the virus fell by 528 to 107,709 - the first significant fall since the outbreak began. Italy’s total cases to date, including victims and survivors, rose by 2,727 to 183,957. Italy has been under lockdown since 9 March, with only some businesses, such as bookshops, and factories reopening over the past week. The quarantine is due to end on 3 May, after which restrictions will be eased. Prime minister Giuseppe Conte said on Tuesday a plan would be announced by the end of this week. “A reasonable forecast is that we will apply it from May 4,” he said.

Quest has no idea what course his exposure will take at this early stage. He should not be working.

Will this protest get as much media attention?

I’m starting to seriously think that republicans want people to die. I just can’t figure out the angle.

Maybe they want to loot the estates of the dead? Real estate bargains?

I don’t get why they want to kill half their constituents. Many of them would be presumably voters for them.

R354 that is a real protest.

The Simpsons are the first tv show to depict the virus crisis. At the opening credits it shows an angry eagle with a sign that says Canada or Bust. Also the chalkboard that Bart is usually being punished for writing things over and over simply says online.

For sure, their reported figures are a mess but at least they call a spade a spade unlike some other countries.

CNN-Iraj Harirchi, Iran's deputy health minister, said on Iranian state television today. “We have not contained the pandemic and we cannot predict any deadline for it,” he said.

Chris Cuomo just released a video showing himself coming up out of his basement. He said he and his wife are CDC confirmed virus free.

[quote] Two Chinese doctors who were infected with the coronavirus while treating patients in the epicenter city of Wuhan survived the deadly illness – but their skin turned very dark after they were placed on life support, according to a report.

OMG! Coronavirus will turn me into a Negro???!!! I take back everything I said. Please keep the lockdown in place!

Please, lord, make all the deplorables turn black. I will become a religious man. I will testify on the mount! I will have witnessed a Fatima miracle.

AP: A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported.

That would be so hilarious they get the disease and turn black I would laugh myself to death.

R372 Rump would still spin that info in his favor.

So even more people died because of this asshole that were already dying because of this asshole?

Then again he did always brag about getting away with murder.

R356, thank God I died.

you know you want one!

You gotta be shitting me.

I really hope reporters ask a million questions about hydroxychloroquine tonighta at the briefing

fucking Trump, Hannity, Ingraham etc hyping this drug up for 3 weeks acting like it's a proven cure even though no evidence existed. Now we have evidence that it does not help.

in the last 3 weeks millions of repub voters have been convinced though

r365 they don't seem to think in the long term. Only about how much money they can put in their pockets today.

Yes, r373, that would certainly be hysterical.

Corporate America seeks legal protection for when coronavirus lockdowns lift

Rejoice, smokers. It is confirmed :

"Conclusions and relevance: Our cross sectional study in both COVID-19 out- and inpatients strongly suggests that daily smokers have a very much lower probability of developing symptomatic or severe SARS-CoV-2 infection as compared to the general population."

Study at link

The Hill @thehill · 6m NEW POLL: 43 percent of Americans have lost jobs or wages due to coronavirus outbreak

The Hill @thehill · 6m NEW POLL: 43 percent of Americans have lost jobs or wages due to coronavirus outbreak

R382 R382 Read this little detail the first commenter pointed out:

"I understand that the new paper finds current smoking much lower than expected (gross figure 5.1% daily, and another 5.1% occasional, compared with 25.4% and 6.6% in general population, see Figure 1. On the other hand, the gross *former* smoking rate looks much higher than general population 54.2% compared with 36.6%. While, gross never smoker figure looks similar 35.6% compared with 36.6%. These are unadjusted for sex and age and just reported directly from manuscripts. Is it possible to make equivalent adjustments and comparison for former smoking with general population?"

VICE News @vicenews · 1m Students in Japan made their way back to school after a month-long hiatus to control the coronavirus. But after cases spiked, schools were closed down a week after they opened.

Reuters @Reuters · 10m Austria plans to reopen bars and restaurants in easing of coronavirus lockdown

So frustrating! The solution to the problem is not to keep handing out money. Everyone is trying to score points with voters while driving the nation closer and closer to the edge of the cliff.

Guardian-In Washington, an agreement has been reached on major elements of a near-$500bn (£406bn) aid package for small businesses, including additional help for hospitals and virus testing. A Tuesday afternoon Senate session could provide an opportunity to quickly vote if the final deal comes together, the Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has said. “We have a deal and I think we’ll pass it today,” Schumer told CNN. He cautioned staff were still “dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s”. The president, Donald Trump, has urged congressional leaders to pass it quickly before beginning discussions on another deal. The House of Representatives is due to vote on it later in the week; most likely on Thursday.

First case Wuhan Nov 17 2019 Walter Read Trump Visit Nov 16 2019

Hot mic

Has he ever even offered one condolence for the 43k+ victims

GOP where’s the outrage?

Prolife soooo silent or rather screaming my body my choice

That smoker study is crap. The representative group of out-patients was predominantly younger and female. The in-patient group was predominantly older and male. And, they forgot to check the morgue.

I’m beginning to see the word “manslaughter” being used a lot. It certainly fits.

BREAKING: COVID-19 found in Rhino poop. Please social distance from all Rhinoceri.

I think things are way more worse in Edinburgh than the authorities are letting on. Whenever I go outside to get some groceries I see either a hearse or an ambulance whizzing by.

Where is the outrage GOP? Who will stop this menace?

Is this how the Germans felt with Hitler at the wheel?? 43k deaths in a month?

R388, it might be a dumb question but is this man a New Yorker? Doesn’t matter this is why I love New Yorkers and people like him who speak the God’s truth. I worry about his health.

+2100 deaths in the US today with many hours still to go. Glad to see that the situation in NY is getting better but it seems that other places are getting worse. One of my friends in Texas is complaining about the lockdown based on the relatively low number of deaths there so far. He is totally oblivious to the danger and can not connect the dots between China, Europe, NY and where he lives. I am tired of warning people about the threat. FUCK them all!

LOL!

Flu Klux Klan

SkyNews @SkyNews · 15m Scientists in China have discovered more than 30 mutations of the new #coronavirus, which they say may partly explain why it has been more deadly in certain parts of the world

So, California got the weaker strain. New York got the bad strain. The rest of the country is a crap shoot depending on where their infection originated. We know Florida is filled with fleeing New Yorkers. New York should have been locked down, travel-wise, right away.

Concerts and other events will be held. Recurrence will surge back.

Not at Janet Jackson's concert.

r400, not so fast. We have no idea if this is fact. It also may be multiple independent mutations hitting different locales. It could be that infections go back and forth between people and mutates where controls were not in place. Antibodies don't stop it. Imagine that the heavy dense population caused the virus to circulate among people until it mutated. In rural areas or places where the populations are smaller, that kind of synergy cannot occur.

It could also be, as with the Spanish flu, that in the young it mutates because it can incubate in the same area where it's treated in the old and weak. We're already seeing people with antibodies getting sick again, especially younger people. The old and weak we've been trying to save by various different methods, which could also have different effects on the nasty fucker. But in the young, just wait. It's mutating.

Ugh, Alicia Keys is debuting her new "song" at the CNN Town Hall on Thursday. They played 20 seconds of it. It's awful and cheesy.

Banksy Transforms His Own Bathroom Into an Art Installation While in Quarantine:

REMEMBER: Americans wore masks in 1918:

What if there is no great increase in cases when these states open up? Will that mean they were right?

I love how when the first theory of L and S mutations it was quickly discredited. Now 30 different strains ? No one knows a goddamned thing about this fucked up lab leaked virus.

Also what does DL think?

Have you noticed that every time someone tries something, there's a spike? Like Hong Kong? Like Singapore?

Look at the spike in cases when this idiots go out and protest the need to be on lockdown.

De Blasio’s social distancing tip line flooded with penis photos, Hitler memes

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s critics let him know how they really felt about him ordering New Yorkers to snitch on each other for violating social-distancing rules — by flooding his new tip line with crank complaints including “dick pics” and people flipping the bird, The Post has learned.

Photos of extended middle fingers, the mayor dropping the Staten Island groundhog and news coverage of him going to the gym have all been texted to a special tip line that de Blasio announced Saturday, according to screenshots posted on Twitter.

One user sent the message “We will fight this tyrannical overreach!” to the service and got an automated message that in part said, “Hello, and thank you for texting NYC311.”

“F–k you!” replied @MorganLSchmidt1, along with a meme showing Adolf Hitler and the words “TO THOSE TURNING IN YOUR NEIGHBORS AND LOCAL BUSINESSES — YOU DID THE REICH THING.”

“Start flooding their reporting text numbers with this pics!” the tweet added.

Other profane messages included a photo of a bowl of gummy candies in the shape of male genitalia and a sign saying “EAT A BAG OF D–KS.”

It was not immediately clear whether any of the posters actually lived in New York City.

An NYPD source said that “dick pic” photos of real penises have also been texted to 311, and a caller phoned in a tip that de Blasio was seen performing oral sex on someone “in an alleyway behind a 7-11” early Sunday.

“He looked at me…and coofed in my direction,” the caller said, according to a photo of the 311 operator’s computer screen provided to The Post.

“Coof” is a newly coined term for coughing while infected with the coronavirus, according to the Urban Dictionary website.

The inundation of off-color texts was so large the city had to temporarily shut down the service.

“The city has begun vetting everything before dispersing the information to precincts,” the NYPD source said.

NYC sees surge in coronavirus deaths with 744 reported in one day

New York City reported another 744 new coronavirus deaths between Monday and Tuesday, a major spike that followed days of declines.

The terrifying pandemic has now claimed the lives of 14,427 New Yorkers who either tested positive for COVID-19 or exhibited many of its symptoms before their deaths, according to data released by the city’s Health Department.

The data showed that victims with positive tests accounted for 461 of the fatalities, just shy of two-thirds of Tuesday’s overall death toll.

The spike in fatalities came a day after the city recorded just 443 additional fatalities over 24 hours on Monday, the first time the figure had dropped below 500 in weeks.

On Sunday there were 528 new deaths, on Saturday there were 513 and on Friday there were 722, Health Department data shows.

By Tuesday 134,874 people across the five boroughs had tested positive for the coronavirus, up from 132,467 Monday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said at his daily press briefing Tuesday that the pandemic is still “raging” across the city.

“We know we’re not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination. We’ve got a lot more to do. And we also know that the impact of this disease is being felt right now,” he said.

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 21 - 5:30PM EST

👵 NATIONAL LIBRARY WORKERS DAY

🥜 CHOCOLATE COVERED CASHEW DAY

👑 QUEEN ELIZABETH'S 94TH BIRTHDAY !

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 2,550,006

DEATHS: 177,106

CRITICAL: 57,254

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 815,491

DEATHS: 45,097

CRITICAL: 14,016

😷 DON'T FORGET YOUR MASK !

Chelsea helps out!

Chelsea helps out!

The US figures continue to climb at an alarming rate.

I don't think we're quite yet ready for picnics and parades.

Stay Home & Stay Alive.

Reuters:

U.S. Senate passes nearly $500 bln coronavirus bill aiding small business

so what are the bills like? for those who have recovered? Are they gonna have to declare bankruptcy ?

Dallas County, Texas extended its stay in place order until May 15 today.

Where's that spazzy catastrophe queen who says heat makes no difference? Scorching Australia still has onlu 74 deaths - meanwhile, chilly UK has 16k

Strange. I do a search everyday to see how many deaths and cases in my state and our neighbors and it isn’t there today.

Aren't they supposed to be the pro-life party?

How much more money are they going to give to $10 cupcake boutiques that are never going to spring back from this anyway?

R422 These people are scaring me. Psychopaths.

Australia and the rest of the southern hemisphere will get hit as their summer ends. Just watch.

[quote]Instead, the pathogen may only be killed in a maintained temperature of 92° C for 15 minutes.

So does this mean, if you order takeout and put it in the oven (per expert advice) prior to eating, that you need to leave it in the oven at least 15 minutes?

Los Angeles is supposed to have about three days of 90°+ weather starting Thursday. In some of the valley and desert regions, I imagine it could be well over that.

Is that Ivanka holding the sign?

Over 2500 deaths today

NY issues do-not-resuscitate guideline for cardiac patients amid coronavirus

New York state just issued a drastic new guideline urging emergency-services workers not to bother trying to revive anyone without a pulse when they get to a scene, amid an overload of coronavirus patients.

While paramedics were previously told to spend up to 20 minutes trying to revive people found in cardiac arrest, the change is “necessary during the COVID-19 response to protect the health and safety of EMS providers by limiting their exposure, conserve resources, and ensure optimal use of equipment to save the greatest number of lives,’’ according to a state Health Department memo issued last week.

First-responders were outraged over the move.

“They’re not giving people a second chance to live anymore,’’ Oren Barzilay, head of the city union whose members include uniformed EMTs and paramedics, fumed of state officials.

“Our job is to bring patients back to life. This guideline takes that away from us,” he said.

Earlier this month, the Regional Emergency Services Council of New York, which oversees the city’s ambulance service, issued a new guideline that said cardiac-arrest patients whose hearts can’t be restarted at the scene should no longer be taken to the hospital for further life-saving attempts.

City hospitals have been inundated with dying coronavirus patients to the point where there are frequently no ICU beds.

But under the regional council’s directive, emergency workers were still told to work on cardiac-arrest patients on scene for up to 20 minutes.

The new state Health Department guideline wipes out the 20-minute effort.

“Now you don’t get 20 minutes of CPR if you have no rhythm,” a veteran FDNY Emergency Medical Services worker told The Post, referring to cardiac-arrest patients who have no heart beat when paramedics arrive at the scene. “They simply let you die.”

The paramedic acknowledged that only about three or four out of every 100 patients with no pulse — “a small percentage” — are actually brought back to life through CPR and other aggressive intervention such as drugs and hospitalization.

But “for those 3 or 4 people, it’s a big deal,” the worker said.

The FDNY swiftly issued a letter Friday, the day after the state’s recommendation, telling city emergency-services workers that “the NYC 911 system will continue to maintain a higher level of care,” meaning attempted revivals at scenes would continue.

The state Health Department insists that its new guideline has been in use “in many areas of the US as well as other locations throughout the world” — even pre-COVID-19.

“These changes are based on standards widely agreed upon by the physician leaders of EMS Regional Medical Control Systems across NYS and the Medical Standards Committee of the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council,” a department rep told The Post in a statement.

r285, it's affecting people of color more because they're less likely to have access to quality health care and so suffer disproportionately from treatable conditions. But of course white supremacists think that they'll be spared because they're physically perfect. There were rumors going around last winter that the virus only affected Asians so that probably mutated through the rumor mill into it only affecting nonwhites.

r422, according to Christian morality the only form of human life that's untainted by original sin is the unborn. Thus the cult of the fetus, which must be protected at all costs. The born are dirty and cursed so they can go ahead and die.

Wait until the annual Southern Family Reunions begin in a few weeks. Those hoedowns can be huge and people drive in from all over the country.

👬 Speaking of which, it pains me greatly to think that we will most certainly have to cancel the DataLounge Annual Summer Picnic. We may be able to arrange a virtual online picnic. I'm just concerned with everyone getting antsy over "Stay At Home" we may have a major upheaval between a handful of highly opinionated Loungers, and blow up the Internet

But what about the DL office Christmas party this year???

I'm not saying the parties been cancelled, but I wouldn't be in a big hurry to buy your festive Christmas party outfit any time soon.

Don’t worry Svetlana. Your Christmas party is the only one that will go on as planned as a DL Social Distancing Party. The rest of us will stay home and post about it.

lmfao

Trump org asks Trump admin for rent relief during this period

r438, of course

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 21 - 11:00 PM EST

👵 NATIONAL LIBRARY WORKERS DAY

🥜 CHOCOLATE COVERED CASHEW DAY

👑 QUEEN ELIZABETH'S 94TH BIRTHDAY !

🌐GLOBAL

CASES: 2,557,181

DEATHS: 177,641

CRITICAL: 57,245

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 819,164

DEATHS: 45,340

CRITICAL: NOT UPDATED@ 14,016

🌜 GOODNIGHT LOUNGERS EVERYWHERE !

'Los Angeles is supposed to have about three days of 90°+ weather starting Thursday.'

Aye and that's 90f in the shade. Much much higher in the sun. Just keep sunbathing, and keep your aircon off.

'it's affecting people of color more because they're less likely to have access to quality health care and so suffer disproportionately from treatable conditions.'

They are far more likely to be overweight and nearly all the ones who have died were.

[quote]They are far more likely to be overweight and nearly all the ones who have died were.

Because of poverty, food deserts and lack of medical care.

I didn't know that the Surgeon General was himself at high risk if infected with the coronavirus.

[quote] “I grew up poor, I grew up black in a majority white area, and I grew up with asthma. I have heart disease. I have prediabetes right now, and so even though I look healthy, even though I look thin, I actually am at higher risk for coronavirus.”

[quote] “We know communities of color are particularly at risk for being impacted, because there's a higher incidence of chronic disease, of diabetes, of heart disease and lung disease, but also because of what we call the social determinants of health, the opportunities that people have to be healthy."

[quote] "We know 1 in 5 African Americans, 1 in 6 Latinos have the ability to telework, so the very things we’re telling people to do, many communities can't do. We know they are also more likely to live in multigenerational housing or in densely packed urban areas, so again, that makes it harder to social distance."

(from a FoxNews interview)

According to Norwegian news experts say the pandemic might be over by summer. I think they were talking about Norway though, don't know if this is true for all countries. But things are slowly changing. They are starting to re-open stores and schools here. We will see if we get more cases, or if the re-opening of society has been successful.

Well, well, well. ... Please note, the article is from a few days ago. Since then 58 additional cases have been reported to bring the total to 86.

CNA (17 April)- Authorities in the resort islands of the Maldives placed the capital Male under a 14-day lockdown after eight people tested positive over the last three days, taking the total to 28. The government had earlier stopped all travel to and from the tropical islands and shut down businesses. But on Friday, the Health Protection Agency issued strict stay-at-home orders for Male, home to 40 per cent of the country's population of 450,000, fearing a big outbreak in the congested city.

Yikes. LA just had an earthquake. That's all we need on top of all this.

R447, I am in LA and felt nothing?

Really? It was short but intense. about 12:03am

[quote]...it's affecting people of color more because they're less likely to have access to quality health care and so suffer disproportionately from treatable conditions.

But it's not affecting people of color more, it's only affecting black people disproportionately. The poor Latinos that also make up a huge proportion of the larger cities are not being disproportionately affected in the same way even though they are also less healthy, have less access to good healthcare, live in food deserts, are over weight, etc. I think there's something else going on. Maybe there is some genetic component. If there is, Africa is fucked.

Earlier and earlier...

The County of Santa Clara Medical Examiner-Coroner has identified three individuals who died with COVID-19 in Santa Clara County before the COVID-19 associated death on March 9, 2020, originally thought to be the first death associated with COVID-19 in the county.

The Medical Examiner-Coroner performed autopsies on two individuals who died at home on [bold]February 6, 2020 and February 17, 2020.[/bold] Samples from the two individuals were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today, the Medical Examiner-Coroner received confirmation from the CDC that tissue samples from both cases are positive for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19).

Additionally, the Medical Examiner-Coroner has also confirmed that an individual who died in the county on March 6 died of COVID-19.

These three individuals died at home during a time when very limited testing was available only through the CDC. Testing criteria set by the CDC at the time restricted testing to only individuals with a known travel history and who sought medical care for specific symptoms. As the Medical Examiner-Coroner continues to carefully investigate deaths throughout the county, we anticipate additional deaths from COVID-19 will be identified.

Scary news

Guardian-Chinese doctors in Wuhan, where the coronavirus first emerged in December, say a growing number of cases in which people recover from the virus, but continue to test positive without showing symptoms, is one of their biggest challenges as the country moves into a new phase of its containment battle. Those patients all tested negative for the virus at some point after recovering, but then tested positive again, some up to 70 days later, the doctors said. Many have done so over 50-60 days. The prospect of people remaining positive for the virus, and therefore potentially infectious, is of international concern, as many countries seek to end lockdowns and resume economic activity as the spread of the virus slows.

[QUOTE] Because of poverty, food deserts and lack of medical care

Nope...it costs far less to eat frozen veg and plain lean meat than it does to stuff your face with fried everything. Poverty as an excuse for obesity? You are ridiculous.

Maybe covid19 is like malaria or herpes and sticks around, ready to flare up.

Nice!

BBC-Healthcare workers in the Netherlands are to receive a cash bonus to recognise their efforts in fighting Covid-19, Dutch finance minister Wopke Hoekstra revealed on Tuesday.

BBC-In Brazil, tributes are being paid to 32-year-old doctor Frederic Jota Lima who died on Monday. Mass graves are being excavated for coronavirus victims in Manaus, which has reported 193 deaths and a collapsing health system. The number of infections in the country reached more than 43,000 on Tuesday, but some governors are easing social distancing measures

Of course they are! They came from China!

CNN-The Indian Council of Medical Research has advised all states to discontinue the usage of rapid test kits for the next two days after some of them were revealed to be defective.

Everyone should get a pulse oximeter to check blood/oxygen levels. If the oxygen level starts falling then you've got the covid and need to go to hospital.

[quote]According to Norwegian news experts say the pandemic might be over by summer.

How would this be possible?

Yikes! Only 1100 intensive care beds and little testing. I understand why the WHO feels that the worst may be yet to come.

Guardian-Bangladesh has reported 390 new confirmed cases of coronavirus and 10 more deaths from in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll in the country to 120. The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research said that it had recorded a total of 3,772 cases so far. With a population of 160 million, including close to 1 million Rohingya refugees, but with reportedly just 1,100 intensive care beds, Bangladesh is apparently ill-prepared for the Covid-19 outbreak. According to an Associated Press report on Wednesday, there has been little, if any, testing in Cox’s Bazar, the district where the worlds largest refugee camp houses Rohingya who have fled Myanmar

R458 I ordered one on eBay yesterday. But at what point do you call the doctor? What level is low enough to be of concern?

African Americans who are descended from slaves have disproportionately high rates of high blood pressure, but not sub-saharan Africans in general. There are various theories, some of them controversial.

Middle passage founder effect theory

Is anyone else super excited about Far UV? Thank you to the poster who provided the information.

Guardian-Donald Trump’s botched handling of the Covid-19 crisis has left the US looking like a third world country and on course for a second Great Depression, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has said. In an interview with Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott, Stiglitz said millions of people were turning to food banks, turning up for work due to a lack of sick pay and dying because of health inequalities. Stiglitz said:

"The numbers turning to food banks are just enormous and beyond the capacity of them to supply. It is like a third world country. The public social safety net is not working."

Stiglitz, a long-term critic of Trump, said 14% of the population were dependent on food stamps and predicted the social infrastructure could not cope with an unemployment rate that could hit 30% in the coming months.

"We have a safety net that is inadequate. The inequality in the US is so large. This disease has targeted those with the poorest health. In the advanced world, the US is one of the countries with the poorest health overall and the greatest health inequality."

[quote]Poverty as an excuse for obesity? You are ridiculous.

You're the ridiculous one, OP, constantly calling others "retard" and "spaz" and "cunt" for no reason at all, and obsessing like a child over whether your thread is the official one or not.

Now you're posting stupid, ignorant shit that is completely made up. The link between poverty and obesity has been known since the 1970s, you utter turnip.

Ignorant blowhards with massive insecurity issues like you are spreading misinformation because your ego can't handle simply staying quiet or admitting you don't know something when a topic is raised.

For anyone interested in actual information about how those in poverty are being disproportionately affected by CV19, I suggest a Google search. There are good articles in the Guardian, NYT, LA Times, even Scientific American. Don't listen to and WW the dipshit OP who repeats something he heard some bitch on a reality show say, thinking it's scientific fact.

We're barely scratching the surface of this virus. There is so much yet to learn. It's going to take time & patience, trial & error.

We need to remember this.

R449, I felt the quake.

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 22 - 10:35AM EST

✡️ HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

🌱 EARTH DAY

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 2,585,358

DEATHS: 179,854

CRITICAL: 57,204

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 819,321

DEATHS: 45,356

CRITICAL: NOT UPDATED @ 14,016

🙉 BE NICE !

I didn't feel the quake. I'm in Indio, CA. There have been a few quakes in the last couple of weeks, is this typical?

😜 I felt the Earth move.

I'm in Virginia.

Happy Earth day, Earth

We looked for an Earthday present for you but ... stores closed ... deliveries delayed ... no traffic ... less pollution ...

You bitch, thanks a lot for SARS-CoV-2.

[quote] Happy Earth day, Earth. You bitch, thanks a lot for SARS-CoV-2.

We humans are searching furiously for an antiviral drug to stop the ravages of the coronavirus infection. Earth apparently has already found one for its own infestation.

Germany, UK approve human trials for coronavirus vaccine

Germany and the United Kingdom are forging ahead with plans for clinical trials using human volunteers in the race for a vaccine against COVID-19, according to reports.

The Paul Ehrlich Institute in Germany on Wednesday green-lighted the trials for a vaccine developed by local firm BioNTech and US pharma giant Pfizer, according to Agence France-Presse.

“The Paul-Ehrlich-Institute … has authorized the first clinical trial of a vaccine against COVID-19 in Germany,” PEI, the federal institute for vaccines, said in a statement.

Tests of the vaccine candidate — named BNT162 — also are planned in the US, once regulatory approval for testing on humans is secured in the country, according to Reuters.

The trials will include “200 healthy volunteers aged between 18 and 55 years” who will be vaccinated with variants of the RNA vaccine. A second phase could include volunteers from high-risk groups.

Neither PEI nor the developers specified when the trial will begin, though Biontech said in a statement that it would be “soon” and “ahead of our expectations.”

The trial is only the fourth worldwide of a preventive agent targeting the coronavirus, which has so far killed more than 177,000 people and infected about 2.5 million, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

In the UK, meanwhile, scientists will soon start recruiting volunteers for clinical trials on a second vaccine that are set to start in June with Imperial College London, according to the Sun.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged 22.5 million pounds sterling — almost $28 million — for the effort.

Project leader Dr. Robin Shattock acknowledged there was “absolutely no guarantee they will work,” but that recent animal trials have been successful, according to the news outlet.

Healthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 55 are being sought for the trials, which are expected to last six months.

Hancock also announced that scientists at Oxford University will begin testing a vaccine on humans on Thursday after the British government pledged the equivalent of almost $25 million.

Oxford hopes to boost the immune system using a common cold virus derived from chimps, while Imperial scientists are using a liquid to carry genetic material into the bloodstream, according to the Sun.

Oxford team leader Prof. Sarah Gilbert last week said a vaccine could be available for use by the general public by autumn.

“Personally, I have a high degree of confidence. And, I think, it has a very strong chance of working,” she said.

Romania makes millions from handing out strict coronavirus fines

Romania has made millions in handing out strict fines over the past month to people who failed to comply with coronavirus restrictions.

Citizens of the southeastern European country must fill out an official form before they leave home explaining why they have gone out, which has to be presented with an identification card if stopped by police or military.

Anyone caught breaking these restrictions can face fines ranging from 2,000 Romanian lei (about $450) up to 20,000 (about $4,500), according to the BBC.

In the period between March 24 and April 19, some 200,000 fines were issued, amounting to takings of $85 million. The amount was equal to the money collected in February from corporate tax, according to Romania-insider.com.

Robert Negoita, mayor of Bucharest’s Sector Three, was fined the equivalent of $2,200 when he was caught cycling in a public park, which was closed.

As of Wednesday morning, Romania has had 9,242 confirmed covid-19 cases, with 507 deaths, according to a tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

A state of emergency was first imposed on the country of 20 million on March 16 and was recently extended to the middle of May.

Last month, Cosmin Andreica, leader of the policemen’s union Europol told Digi24.ro that Romanians were being very creative when it came to using loopholes in leaving their house.

Romanians are allowed out to walk their pets, but in this case Andreica explained: “We’ve had situations where citizens were holding a fish in the bag and they said they had taken their pet out for a walk. It’s a real story. Or we’ve had a situation where someone took the cat for a ride 30 kilometers from home, on the back seat of the car.”

Some recovered South Korean Covid-19 patients re-tested positive, but likely aren’t contagious

From Jake Kwon and Gina Yu

South Korean officials say analysis of samples from recovered Covid-19 patients show all had formed neutralizing antibodies, but almost half still showed viral genetic material, Korean Centers for Disease Control (KCDC) Director Dr. Jung Eun-kyeong said at a press briefing Wednesday.

About the analysis: The KCDC conducted analysis on 25 recovered patients to determine whether the Covid-19 virus could be detected. 25 patients had formed neutralizing antibodies against the virus, and 12 patients tested positive for Covid-19. When the samples from the 12 patients were cultivated the results were negative, Jung said.

Samples were taken from 39 cases that retested positive and so far 6 samples did not cultivate the virus. Examination on 33 other samples is ongoing.

She added that these patients are likely not contagious.

“One can presume that depending on the patient, the virus can stay for different lengths of periods in the body without being completely removed even after neutralizing antibodies had formed. Additional study is underway,” Jung said.

WSJ: Russia, China, Iran working together to attack the West with disinformation around COVID-19, including using Facebook to disseminate dangerous health misinformation.

Singapore surpasses 10,000 total confirmed coronavirus cases

From CNN's Isaac Yee in Hong Kong

More than 10,000 people in Singapore have contracted the novel coronavirus, authorities in the city-state said Wednesday.

Singapore confirmed another 1,016 new cases as of 12 p.m. today local time, pushing the the total number of infections to 10,141, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.

The vast majority of those newly diagnosed are work permit holders who reside in dormitories for foreign workers, which are cramped. Fifteen of those diagnosed are Singaporean nationals or permanent residents.

Top infectious disease specialist believes a second wave of Covid-19 later this year is "likely"

From CNN's Jake Kwon in Seoul, South Korea

Jung Eun-kyeong, the director of South Korea's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, believes that it is likely the country will see a second wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic. ""Unless herd immunity is achieved through natural spread or through vaccines, come autumn or winter season, because most of the people do not have immunity, there is a likely possibility," Jung said."

South Korea's response to the pandemic has been hailed as one of the world's best, in large part due to a massive push by health officials to conduct widespread testing.

At least 10,694 people have contracted the virus in the country, killing 238, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Jung also revealed the preliminary results of a study on retesting positive cases. In the six tests completed so far, the virus did not separate during the cultivation study.

"We understand that the contagiousness is either zero or very low," Jung said.

R462: African-American vs African blacks are very different. The high blood pressure, obesity etc. differences are linked to their different cultures and diets.

I heard on NPR that racism contributes to African-Americans' high blood pressure.

The UK's handling of this crisis has been a complete disaster from the start. Even worse than the US. There are reports today that the actual death toll may already exceed 40K including non hospital deaths. Less spectacular, the official cause of death on death certificates due to corona virus exceeds the reported figures for each of the countries in the UK. For sure the true number is much higher than is reported and flights in and out are still ongoing. Crazy!

BBC-Dozens of doctors have raised questions about how long the UK advises those with Covid-19 symptoms to self-isolate. Government guidance says people should stay at home and avoid contact with others for seven days if they develop symptoms. That's a much shorter timeframe than that suggested by the World Health Organization. A group of 25 doctors have written to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock about their concerns

Covid-19 virus lingers longer in sicker patients, Chinese study finds

From CNN’s Maggie Fox

The novel coronavirus lingers for as long as three weeks in the bodies of patients with severe disease, Chinese researchers reported Tuesday.

The virus can be found deep in the lungs and in the stool of patients, and the sicker they are, the longer it stays, the team at a hospital in China’s Zhejiang province reported. But the virus was found in the urine of patients less than half the time, and rarely in the blood at first.

Their report provides another piece of evidence about the pattern of disease in Covid-19 patients. It was published in the BMJ. Unlike many recently released studies about the coronavirus, this one has gone through peer review, which means other experts have reviewed the findings.

The team tested 96 patients treated in their hospital for Covid-19 between January and March. They tested samples from the nose and throat, from deeper in the respiratory system, in the blood, stool and urine. They wanted to see how long people had virus in their systems and whether it was likely to spread in various ways. The findings support other studies showing that the virus could spread in stool from infected people.

In general, the sicker people were, the longer the virus could be detected. That could be important for doctors to know, so they can predict which patients will fare better, and, perhaps, how long they may remain infectious to others.

“The median duration of virus in respiratory samples was 18 days,” they wrote.

More on this: An earlier Chinese study showed that people without symptoms had just as much virus in their noses as people who had Covid-19 symptoms -- something that indicated people who are not sick could be just as likely to spread virus as people who are.

The team in Zhejiang found that sicker people had more virus deeper in their respiratory tracts, however.

They also found differences between men and women with Covid-19. “In this study, we found that the duration of virus was significantly longer in men than in women,” they wrote.

“Our results shed light on the causes of disease severity in men in terms of the duration of the virus. In addition to differences in immune status between men and women, it has also been reported to be related to differences in hormone levels,” the team wrote.

Despite poverty, I've managed to maintain my boyish figure thanks to a steady diet of stone soup and plantains, combined with an exercise program that I refer to as "Walking Every Damned Place I Go."

I hope to someday be the owner on an African SNAP card.

ICU admissions in France continue to decline, health official says

From CNN's Barbara Wojazer and Benjamin Berteau in Paris

The number of patients admitted to intensive care in France has declined for the 13th consecutive day, Jerome Salomon, the director of France's health agency, announced on Tuesday.

Salomon, speaking at his daily news conference in Paris, gave an overview of where things stand now:

There have so far been at least 117,324 confirmed coronavirus cases in France, including deaths and recoveries. At least 30,106 patients are currently hospitalized. At least 5,433 patients are in intensive care units.

Now that the US is a non factor, the WHO can finally speak the truth. But, is anyone listening?

Guardian-The director general of the World Health Organization has said that there is still “a long way to go” in tackling the coronavirus crisis around the world. Speaking at the WHO’s thrice-weekly press conference, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that while most national epidemics in western Europe had appeared to have stabilised or were declining, outbreaks appeared to be growing in Africa, central and south America, and eastern Europe.And he warned against complacency, insisting that lockdown measures had no doubt helped curb the spread of the virus. Most countries are still in the early stages of their epidemics and some that were affected early in the pandemic are now starting to see a resurgence in cases. Make no mistake, we have a long way to go. This virus will be with us for a long time. There is no question that stay-at-home orders and other physical distancing measures have successfully suppressed transmission in many countries. But this virus remains extremely dangerous.6

Sigh.. . Is anyone going to get this right outside of Belgium and France?

Guardian-On Wednesday afternoon, the regional government of Madrid said that 11,852 people in the area had died from the coronavirus, or while showing symptoms consistent with the disease, since 8 March, reports Sam Jones, the Guardian’s Madrid correspondent. The figures, which include deaths at home and in care homes, are far higher than the 7,577 deaths it has reported to the central government, which compiles the nationwide toll in Spain. This is because Spain’s health ministry logs only the deaths of people who have died in hospital after testing positive for Covid-19. According to the regional government, 5,558 people have died in care homes in and around Madrid since 8 March.

Does this thread use any American media sources or cover American Covid news?

CNN is American source!

NY, NJ airports have highest number of TSA employees testing positive for coronavirus

Pelosi Pleased With Senate, Gives Trump An 'F' For Preparedness | Morning Joe | MSNBC

more layoffs coming...

AT&T signals layoffs as it takes $430 million coronavirus hit

Donald G. McNeill Jr, health and science journalist at the NY Times, said on a UK radio show earlier today that the virus could very likely spread to red states and bump off the elderly and obese, who tend to vote for Trump. And He hinted that a result of this could be Trump could very well face defeat in November. One can only hope.

Of course the US government and the CDC were aware of the threat from the beginning. As Trump was talking about opening up before Easter, he already knew the truth about the situation in China (extreme lockdown, welding people in their homes, blocking roads with massive amounts of dirt, etc.;) and in Iran (massive grave sights dug in the middle of the night covered by lime based on satellite images). If CN fucking N knew , so did the government led by Trump. He can blame the WHO as much as he wants but the truth is what it is.

Guardian-One of the main themes at today’s World Health Organization press conference is the major role that US experts and officials play inside the WHO, writes Julian Borger, the Guardian’s world affairs editor. This follows multiple accusations from Donald Trump and his officials that the WHO was privy to information about Covid-19 that it hid from the US. The Guardian reported on Saturday that there were more than a dozen officials from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) embedded in the WHO in January and February.. Today, the head of the WHO health emergencies programme, Michael Ryan, said there were 31 US nationals on his team and pointed to Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO technical lead on Covid-19 also sitting on the podium, who is a US epidemiologist. The WHO director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the close association with CDC and having CDC staff at WHO headquarters in Geneva meant there was “nothing hidden from the US, from day one, because these are Americans who are working with us, and it just comes naturally.

Love Nance, but that thumbnail at r491 is terrifying!

The Wall Street Journal @WSJ · 11h The majority of Singapore’s cases now comes from crowded dormitories where the workers who build the city’s gleaming office towers live—often 10 to 20 people to one room

Thee guardian gives me the creeps.

Mike Bloomberg to help New York State develop coronavirus tracing program

A familiar face help will design and bankroll the Empire State’s coronavirus tracing program: Michael Bloomberg.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the former New York City mayor, failed Democratic presidential candidate and media billionaire would step in to ramp up the initiative in the span of weeks — as deaths statewide eclipsed 15,000.

“Mayor Bloomberg will help coordinate the entire effort,” Cuomo said during an Albany press briefing. “He has tremendous insight, both governmentally and from a private-sector business perspective.”

The tracing initiative will start with a person who has tested positive for the coronavirus, and painstakingly identify those with whom they’ve crossed paths, to find previously unknown cases.

“This has to happen,” said Cuomo. “You don’t have a month to plan and do this. You have weeks to get this up and running.”

Bloomberg will help make it happen, both through a contribution which Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa said was “upwards of $10 million,” and through the Bloomberg-backed public-health program at Johns Hopkins University.

“He’s helping us to design the … operational and technological components of our contract-tracing program,” said DeRosa. “And they, in partnership with us, are creating an online curriculum to train the tracers, to recruit them, to interview, to perform the background checks.”

Cuomo revealed Bloomberg’s role hours after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city’s own expanded tracing initiative, set to launch in May.

The governor could not provide an exact timeline for when the effort — which will be coordinated with New Jersey and Connecticut — would be fully operational.

The next step was announced as another 474 deaths were announced in the 24-hour period ending at midnight Wednesday, bringing the overall state death toll to 15,302.

Total hospitalizations, however, continued their gradual decline, now down to 15,508 from 16,044 on Tuesday.

While the battle continued to trend in the right direction, Cuomo urged caution.

“I get the pressure but we can’t make a bad decision,” he said, asked specifically about calls to re-open New York’s economy. “Frankly this is no time to act stupidly.”

VA Secretary: 'We're Doing A Pretty Good Job' Handling Coronavirus | Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC

Not trying to bring you down but there is no quick end to this as admitted by the UK during today's press conference

BBC-...Prof Chris Whitty, the UK government’s chief medical adviser, said the matter was a "commercial question". But he said the UK would want to get any vaccine, whether it is developed in the UK or overseas, "as fast as we can". He cautioned, though, that the chances of a vaccine or "highly effective" drug treatments arriving within a calendar year were "incredibly small".

CNN Boss Jeff Zucker tells staffers that the vast majority of them will "not be returning to the office in any significant way" before early September. "To be clear, production of our programs will continue from home, as is it is now, until the end of summer.”

Missing Wuhan citizen journalist reappears after two months

A whistleblowing citizen journalist who went missing while reporting on the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the outbreak emerged in December, finally resurfaced Wednesday — saying he’d been forcibly quarantined by police.

Li Zehua was last seen on Feb. 26 when he live-streamed what he said were security agents entering his temporary apartment in Wuhan, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

The video sparked serious concerns for the citizen journalist, who first went to Wuhan to investigate the disappearance of another journalist covering the crisis, Chen Qiushi, according to CPJ.

The YouTuber — known online as Kcriss Li — finally reappeared on Wednesday, calmly telling his story in a video posted to numerous social media feeds.

He claimed that the three men he’d filmed confronting him at his apartment then took him to a police station, where he was investigated for disrupting public order, according to a translation by The Guardian.

But police said they would not charge him — instead forcing him into closely monitored quarantine because he had visited “sensitive epidemic areas,” he claimed, The Guardian said.

“Throughout the whole time, the police acted civilly and legally, making sure I had rest and food. They really cared about me,” he said in his video, according to UK paper’s report.

He had been forced to give all his electronics to a friend and was monitored by security guards in quarantine, he reportedly said.

Despite concerns for his safety, Li claimed that he had been released on March 28 and then spending time with his family.

“May God bless China and the people of the world unite,” he proclaimed in the video.

The Guardian noted that his “neutral and patriotic” tone was “markedly different” from his previous videos — in which he proudly said he wanted to “stand up” against any cover-ups involving the pandemic.

“I don’t want to remain silent, or shut my eyes and ears,” he had said in earlier videos, according to the report.

R107, that's why being tested is so important. One doesn't know if they're a carrier or not until they have test results that tell them what their status is. Testing and a vaccine is what we most need. The vaccine is not coming anytime soon, and trying to get tested is hit and miss in many places. Good luck.

R502....

Mayor Blindsided By Georgia Governor's Order To Reopen Businesses | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC

Is anyone watching Anderson interviewing the macadamia that is the mayor of Las Vegas? It's getting a bit heated.

Good luck, Governor, nice knowin ya !

R506 what happened?

CDC Director Issues Warning About Second Wave Of Virus | Morning Joe | MSNBC

R502 What did they do to him? This is so fucking creepy.

A doctor says he was removed from his federal post after pressing for rigorous vetting of treatments embraced by Trump.

Now blood-clotting abnormalities have been shown to be a major factor on Covid-19 deaths:

Based on early reports, covid-19 appeared to be a standard variety respiratory virus, albeit a contagious and lethal one with no vaccine and no treatment. They’ve since seen how covid-19 attacks not only the lungs, but also the kidneys, heart, intestines, liver and brain.

Increasingly, doctors also are reporting bizarre, unsettling cases that don’t seem to follow any of the textbooks they’ve trained on. Some patients who by all conventional measures seem to have mild disease are deteriorating within minutes and dying at home.

Autopsies have shown some people’s lungs fill with hundreds of microclots. Errant blood clots of a larger size can break off and travel to the brain or heart, causing a stroke or heart attack. On Saturday, Broadway actor Nick Cordero, 41, had his right leg amputated after being infected with the novel coronavirus and suffering from clots that blocked blood from getting to his toes.

Although acute respiratory distress syndrome still appears to be the leading cause of death in covid-19 patients, blood complications are not far behind, said Behnood Bikdeli, a fourth-year fellow at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, who helped anchor a paper about the blood clots in the Journal of The American College of Cardiology.

“My guess is it’s one of the top three causes of demise and deterioration in covid-19 patients,” he said.

Yes, I saw the interview...she is a fucking stupid cunt.

NBC News @NBCNews · 2m Coronavirus cases in US now surpass 815,000, with 45,107 deaths.

Highest reported state case totals:

• New York: 257,216

• New Jersey: 92,387

• Massachusetts: 41,199

• California: 35,817

• Pennsylvania: 35,684

• Illinois: 33,059

(As of 3:05 p.m. ET, April 22)

Also Covid-19 patients are dying of strokes:

The novel coronavirus appears to be causing sudden strokes in adults in their 30s and 40s who are not otherwise terribly ill, doctors reported Wednesday.

They said patients may be unwilling to call 911 because they have heard hospitals are overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.

There’s growing evidence that Covid-19 infection can cause the blood to clot unnaturally, and stroke would be an expected consequence of that.

Dr. Thomas Oxley, a neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, and colleagues gave details of five people they treated. All were under the age of 50, and all had either mild symptoms of Covid-19 infection or no symptoms at all.

“The virus seems to be causing increased clotting in the large arteries, leading to severe stroke,” Oxley told CNN.

“Our report shows a seven-fold increase in incidence of sudden stroke in young patients during the past two weeks. Most of these patients have no past medical history and were at home with either mild symptoms (or in two cases, no symptoms) of Covid,” he added.

The New York Times @nytimes · 5m Bennie G. Adkins was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014 for bravery in the Vietnam War, and aided veterans in his later years. He died April 27 of the coronavirus. He was 86.

BBC News (World) @BBCWorld · 20m "Looking back I think we declared the emergency at the right time and when the world had enough time to respond"

World Health Organization (WHO) defends response to coronavirus outbreak

BBC News (World) @BBCWorld · 20m "Looking back I think we declared the emergency at the right time and when the world had enough time to respond"

World Health Organization (WHO) defends response to coronavirus outbreak

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 22 - 4:35PM EST

✡️ HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

🌱 EARTH DAY

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 2,621,449

DEATHS: 182,991

CRITICAL: 56,678

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 837,719

DEATHS: 46,771

CRITICAL: 14,014

🤲 SANITIZE & MOISTURIZE !

I wonder if older people being on blood-thinners helps them survive or not get as sick if clotting is a factor in dying? Anti-inflammatories might be helpful, too, since inflammation plays a big role in the breakdown of the lung function.

Also, I wonder if we should all start taking a small dose aspirin daily?

^ Also, POC who live in colder climates are deficient in vitamin D. Dark skin can't absorb it easily from the sun. In areas where it is hot and sunny year round they are able to produce enough. But in NYC and London?......Not so much.

R516 is posting from the future. Watch your back, Bennie G. Adkins.

MIT researchers find cells targeted by coronavirus in breakthrough for cure

Researchers have pinpointed the specific cells targeted by the coronavirus — a development they hope could be helpful in the search for a cure, MIT announced Wednesday.

The team of scientists used an existing data set on the RNA found in different types of cells to locate those with two proteins known to allow the virus to enter human cells, MIT said in a news release.

Soon after the pandemic began, scientists learned that a viral “spike” protein binds to a certain receptor on human cells called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, or ACE2.

Another protein, an enzyme called TMPRSS2, aids to activate the coronavirus spike protein, allowing it to enter the cell.

The combined binding and activation allows the virus to get into host cells, MIT explained. Now, scientists just needed to find the specific cells that express these proteins which make them more susceptible to infection.

“As soon as we realized that the role of these proteins had been biochemically confirmed, we started looking to see where those genes were in our existing datasets,” Jose Ordovas-Montanes, a senior author of the study who runs a lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, said in the statement.

“We were really in a good position to start to investigate which are the cells that this virus might actually target.”

The datasets that the researchers used for the study included hundreds of cell types from the lungs, nasal passages, and intestine — all organs targeted by the virus.

The researchers found that Type II pneumocytes in the lungs, absorptive enterocytes in the intestines, and goblet secretory cells in the nasal passages were possible targets for the virus, the release said.

The Type II pneumocytes keep the lungs open; the absorptive enterocytes are responsible for the absorption of some nutrients; and the goblet secretory cells produce mucus.

“This may not be the full story, but it definitely paints a much more precise picture than where the field stood before,” Ordovas-Montanes said.

“Now we can say with some level of confidence that these receptors are expressed on these specific cells in these tissues.”

The researchers hope their findings will be helpful to scientists working on developing treatments, or to those testing existing drugs that could be repurposed for COVID-19.

“Our goal is to get information out to the community and to share data as soon as is humanly possible, so that we can help accelerate ongoing efforts in the scientific and medical communities,” said Alex K. Shalek, an associate chemistry professor at MIT.

The study, published in the journal Cell, was a collaboration of researchers from MIT; the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard; and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with “colleagues from around the world.”

TEST

Independent Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, in what can graciously be called an utterly insane performance, frustrated and flummoxed CNN anchor Anderson Cooper during a marathon Wednesday afternoon interview that featured her calling for casinos and hotels to be completely opened up—despite having no plan to do so safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I’d love everything open because I think we’ve had viruses for years that have been here,” she exclaimed after Cooper asked if she wanted casinos, hotels, and stadiums immediately opened up.

Elsewhere in the jaw-dropping interview, when Cooper attempted to show her research from Chinese scientists revealing how the virus spreads in confined spaces, Goodman interrupted to declare that “this isn’t China, this is Las Vegas.”

“Okay, that’s really ignorant,” a clearly exasperated Cooper retorted.

“That’s ignorant to say that?” Goodman laughed.

Now at least 20 cases of coronavirus have been linked to Wisconsin election

Now at least 20 cases of coronavirus have been linked to Wisconsin election

Las Vegas offered as a control group by this bitch!

[quote]Elsewhere in the jaw-dropping interview, when Cooper attempted to show her research from Chinese scientists revealing how the virus spreads in confined spaces, Goodman interrupted to declare that “this isn’t China, this is Las Vegas.”

There are no enclosed, crowded spaces in Las Vegas? Bitch, please!

R515 This sudden stroke thing is really freaking me out.

I would prefer a sudden stroke to a well thought-out, planned one.

Who is saying that books thinners don’t work? They thin the blood. They prevent clotting. Of course they work.

Maybe not perfectly but they work, no?

I'd prefer a stroke of luck, myself.

If you don't have a medical condition that requires the use of blood thinners, you don't just prescribe them to anyone who requests a rainy day supply. It's not like taking a daily low dose aspirin.

If you don't have a medical condition that requires the use of blood thinners, you don't just prescribe them to anyone who requests a rainy day supply. It's not like taking a daily low dose aspirin.

R532 From the article at R512, the Covid patients were developing clots despite being on anti-coagulants (blood thinners:)

[quote]Craig Coopersmith was up early that morning as usual and typed his daily inquiry into his phone. “Good morning, Team Covid,” he wrote, asking for updates from the ICU team leaders working across 10 hospitals in the Emory University health system in Atlanta.

[quote]One doctor replied that one of his patients had a strange blood problem. Despite being put on anticoagulants, the patient was still developing clots. A second said she’d seen something similar. And a third. Soon, every person on the text chat had reported the same thing.

[quote]“That’s when we knew we had a huge problem,” said Coopersmith, a critical-care surgeon. As he checked with his counterparts at other medical centers, he became increasingly alarmed: “It was in as many as 20, 30 or 40 percent of their patients.”

[quote]With no clear patterns in terms of age or chronic conditions, some scientists hypothesize that at least some of these abnormalities may be explained by severe changes in patients’ blood.

[quote]Lewis Kaplan, a University of Pennsylvania physician and head of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, said every year doctors treat people with clotting complications, from those with cancer to victims of severe trauma, “and they don’t clot like this.”

[quote]”The problem we are having is that while we understand that there is a clot, we don’t yet understand why there is a clot,” Kaplan said. “We don’t know. And therefore, we are scared.”

Blood clotting is a complex process that involves many different pathways and biological factors. It sounds like doctors treating Covid patients don’t yet understand why or how the abnormal clotting occurs in these cases.

I'm not a doctor, and I don't play one on TV, but those of you who have cruises planned for this year, or any other year in the near future, I suggest you cancel them STAT !

Ahem, r535....

Another day with over 2000 deaths...

And your point is r538 ?

We've read the reports, and we understood what we read.

yes yes yes!

the ousted doctor story is blowing up! it needs to be the top story

that Trump would sideline someone because the doctor would not lie about the effectiveness of a drug

I tuned in to Trump's Daily "Update" when it was in progress. He was blaming Pelosi for everything and anything, so I tuned out.

Trump can't stand the fact that an eighty year old is smarter than him. And, she's a woman, too!

Actually, a four year old is smarter than Trump.

Donnie doesn't know how to 🐝 Bee Best!

The Las Vegas mayor embodies everything that is wrong with the US.

Mayor Goodman is fucking crazy. Thank god for Governor Sisolak. He’s a Democrat, she’s a Republican. I saw on the twitter account, @Las Vegas Locally, which is kind of a cheerleader account for Las Vegas, they tweeted, looks like it’s time for a new mayor. I didn’t know why until I saw that interview with Anderson. Jesus Christ, she sounds like she’s insane, senile and heartless all at the same time.

I campaigned for Sisolak in 2018. Thank god. I’ve heard a lot of Republicans here are throwing a fit about him keeping it shut down and screaming about throwing him out. Thank god he’s sticking to his guns. I hope they don’t get rid of him, they are blowing their tops.

I can’t understand why these people aren’t applying for unemployment, instead Goodman is claiming they’re starving to death. if they are, they’re idiots. Casino jobs pay well. Why didn’t they save anything? Housing is fairly cheap.

I hope Goodman gets thrown out on her ass. The Culinary Union lost 11 members. They issued a statement saying Goodman’s comments were “outrageous“ and they didn’t want to work in a petri dish. Good for them.

Is there a recall mechanism for mayors?

[Quote] The protestors aren't demanding to go back to work. They're demanding that YOU go back to work so they can go to restaurants, get haircuts, go to the movies, and shop at the mall. They're angry because social distancing makes their lives terribly inconvenient and now they're demanding to speak to the manager.

My first thought was to feel sorry for anyone heading to the casinos, putting their lives at risk. But upon further though, I don't feel sorry at all. There's not a person on this planet who doesn't know about Corona and how the virus spreads. If you're dumb enough to enter a casino, you do do at your own risk. Don't blame the governor, your just as foolish as she is. Maybe even more so.

Some good news - the Himalayas can be seen from parts of India for the first time in 30 years due to their lockdown. The pollution is fading.

Are Vegas casinos going to wipe down the slot machines between users? How are they going to disinfect all the chips and cards and dice, etc.? How are the cocktail waitresses going to prevent spreading the virus around the casino floors and in the bars? Have Siegfried & Roy's white tigers been test for the virus?

Here is thread 37, with apt quotation and a new poll.

Carolyn Goodman could be a Roger Smith persona

NEW: Seven more big cats test positive for coronavirus at @BronxZoo

The zoo confirms that four more tigers & three lions have the virus. This comes the same day as two pet cats in NY become the first in the U.S. to test positive

R552, I think someone explained that they don't do nasal swabs, they do genital or anal swabs, or something like that.

None of the animals have actually gotten really sick, though, right? Dogs even less than cats. I read a study that they tested it on a litter of puppies by infecting one and seeing what happened. (I assume this was in China or Singapore, or something, but I don't remember.) The infected puppy didn't get sick and none of his litter mates became infected. Cats are more vulnerable but if they could easily get it and get sick and die, we would have heard of a lot of dead kitties in Italy. There are whole towns there overrun with cats.

Bats can sure get it.

I didn't see this posted but LA currently has the best air quality in the entire world.

The lionhead rabbits who tested positive didn't get sick either. Weird that tiny creatures like that with lungs the size of grapes can just shake it off.

If Corona is such a non threatening presence in Vegas, the mayor and her staff should be stationed at the entrance of every casino, taking temperatures without the benefit of masks and gloves. This will surely instill confidence in casino patrons.

Here is thread 37 guys

Already an interesting discussion on 37. People are tired of the way threads clunk along when they're in the 500s.

The whole millennial/Gen Z culture based on being ultra tactile and super sociable has taken a permanent hit. Their age of innocence is over, just as the casual sex of the 1970s enjoyed by Boomers was killed by AIDS. And former extroverts who headed to the bars and pubs after work are now getting a taste for the at home life, and might not go back.

⏳ CORONA TIME - APRIL 22 - 11:00 PM EST

✡️ HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

🌱 EARTH DAY

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 2,637,790

DEATHS: 184,230

CRITICAL: 56,769

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 848,944

DEATHS: 47,676

CRITICAL: 14,016

😔 GOOD NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT !

Only 392 new cases in Ohio yesterday. It looks like the curve might finally be starting to flatten here.

One of our local Rite Aid stores opened a do-it-yourself testing sitevtoday

The pharmacist will guide you as you stick the giant swab up into deeply into the nasal cavity.

Don’t you think Ohio is just testing less?

I think a lot of areas in this country are going to slowly slack off. Public pressure, lack of supplies, boredom & frustration are setting in. Combine this with a weak, childish President whose more concerned about his personal CA$H flow, and you have a volatile and lethal combination.

Thread 37, already moving along.

🙉 We heard you the first time, r566.

Are you getting paid to pimp your thread r550, r568, r559,r566?

Is there something you'd like to share with us.

We're fine here, move along.

“Public pressure“. Don’t be spreading that lie around here.

Don’t you mean pressure that has been artificially drummed up Devos, right wing think tanks and Koch money? That is where the pressure is coming from.

^^^ Whatever you say, Miss.

R564 That may well be, with Trump trying to close down testing sites, and that is only confirmed, not probable, cases.

Nobody said Bajour yet.

Why is it such an ordeal when a new thread starts. why cant we finish this one first?

Someone needs to go to AA.

BAJOUR!!!

Let's

Close

What happened? Did the loon have a stroke halfway through flooding the thread?

I love you, Bajour Troll! I always look forward to the closing of these threads just to read your "Bajour!" It makes me smile.

This

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Thread

Bajour Troll Groupie, there’s not just one Bajour! poster here, there are multitudes.

BAJOUR!

No problem r584. Everyone knows the Bajour Troll Groupie is a whore.

Sock puppets are not the same as “multiple posters”

The OP of the April #36 thread is also the same over anxious troll who started Plague #37 thread.

Maybe we should all boycott Thread #37.

Maybe we should all not give a fuck.

Maybe it's time start Chapter 1 of a brand new series.

Sounds good to me 589

I hate hate control freaks

Let's talk rationing.

Let's

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Oh, fuckin' Bajour already!